Normie Osborn
Normie Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man #800 (July 2018) Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Amazing Spider-Man #263 (April 1985)
Created by	Bill Mantlo (writer) Al Milgrom (artist)
In-story information
Full name	Norman Harold Osborn
Place of origin	Manhattan, New York
Team affiliations	MC2: New Warriors Prime Earth: Alchemax, Avengers Academy
Notable aliases	MC2: Green Goblin, Venom Prime Earth: Goblin Childe, Red Goblin
Abilities	As Green Goblin: Goblin-themed weapons and paraphernalia As Venom/Goblin Childe/Red Goblin: Possesses Spider-Man's powers Shapeshifting Immunity to Spider-Man's spider-sense

Normie Osborn is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the grandson of Norman Osborn and the eldest son of Harry Osborn. After gaining part of Carnage's power and giving birth to a symbiote, Rascal, Normie becomes the second Red Goblin.

In the alternate future continuities of Spider-Girl and The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Normie becomes the Green Goblin and romances Spider-Man's daughters Mayday Parker and Annie-May Parker, initially serving as a villain before being turned to the side of good and becoming Venom.

Normie Osborn first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #263 (April 1985), and was created by Bill Mantlo and Al Milgrom. He appeared in Green Goblin stories throughout the 1990s, generally portrayed as hating Spider-Man.

Normie Osborn is the son of Harry Osborn and the grandson of Norman Osborn.^[1] After Harry dies from the effects of the Goblin formula,^[2] Normie bonds with Peter Parker, who becomes a sort of surrogate uncle to him.^[3] A trio of robotic "Goblin women" (one of a number of failsafes prepared by Harry before death) kidnap Normie, intending to turn him into a new Green Goblin. Spider-Man and Molten Man (Normie's uncle) defeat them before he can be exposed to the Goblin formula.^[4]

Normie is seen in a Sensational Spider-Man issue playing baseball, being watched from the stands by Molten Man and Chameleon, while Electro is in the shadows. No harm comes to Normie, but Chameleon uses his safety as a bargaining chip to bring the Molten Man into his plan to attack Spider-Man after the hero's recent unmasking.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Normie reappears after the One More Day storyline. Now Normie hates his father for supposedly abandoning him when Harry was mistakenly believed dead while being high on the Goblin serum. His hatred for Spider-Man is also reignited.^[5]

After Norman Osborn re-establishes himself as a major crime lord called the Goblin King, undergoing plastic surgery to also establish himself as a businessman named Mason Banks, he claims this is to provide a suitable inheritance for his grandson Normie, with Normie's mother Liz Allan apparently helping Norman in this endeavor.^[6]

When Norman Osborn acquires the Carnage symbiote and transforms into the Red Goblin,^[7] Osborn attempts to gain his grandson Normie's aid by infusing a portion of the Carnage symbiote into Normie, turning into "Goblin Childe".^[8] Despite the symbiote amplifying Normie's jealousy of his half-brother Stanley, Normie throws off its influence when he witnesses his grandfather try to kill his parents, realizing in the process that the villain was actually his own grandfather and not Spider-Man. The symbiote fragment is subsequently separated from Normie while the main symbiote is apparently destroyed. However, it showed that some of the symbiote still remained in Normie's body.^[9]

In the storyline Dark Web, it is revealed that part of the Carnage symbiote remained in Normie. He spawns a new symbiote, Rascal, who he bonds with to become the second Red Goblin.^[10] Normie then secretly attends Avengers Academy without his family's notice, taking Miles Morales' invitation after Miles declines to attend the academy.^[11]

In the MC2 alternate future, Normie Osborn is an adult. A sensitive boy, he took his mother's remarrying hard, never getting along with his stepfather, Foggy Nelson (until after her death when the two finally bonded), and he held Peter Parker responsible for the death of his father and grandfather. When his mother became ill and died, Normie broke down, accepting his father's and grandfather's mantle as the Green Goblin. Normie kidnaps Mayday Parker, unmasked her, tied her up and taunted her with a knife, ranting about their 'destined' family history of opposition. May realized that Normie was hoping she would break free and kill him. At this time, May was able to convince him to go get help and to forsake the Goblin identity.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Élan DeJunae objects to Normie's marriage to Brenda Drago, also known as Raptor, and forcibly bonds the Venom symbiote to him as a "wedding gift." The new Venom went on a rampage until Normie with the help of Spider-Girl was able to gain control of the symbiote. May told him to cast it into the fire, but Normie could not bring himself to kill it.^{[volume & issue needed]} Normie goes on to use the Venom symbiote for good and joins Kaine's team of reformed supervillains on the condition that Raptor quits the team.^{[volume & issue needed]} Venom later sacrifices itself to protect Spider-Girl from the Brotherhood of the Scriers.^[12]

In the series The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, set on Earth-18119, Normie inherits Oscorp at the age of ten sometime after Harry Osborn's death. Due to Liz Allan being in charge of Allan Biotech, he is taken care of by his personal assistant, Miss January. Blaming the death of his father on Spider-Man, Normie constructs a giant Green Goblin mech to take Peter Parker and his family down. It is later revealed that Normie was manipulated by Miss January, who pilots the Goblin mech and coerced Normie into building it to avenge Harry. Normie assists Spiderling in destroying the mech from the inside.^[13]

Eight years later, Normie is determined to make the world a better place to redeem the Osborn name. However, he is unaware that his lead scientist is secretly Mister Sinister, who uses his resources to create various clones of the Spider family to attack the X-Men. Normie uses a smaller version of the Goblin mech to assist the Spider Family and the X-Men in defeating Mister Sinister, but his exposure to Sinister's chemicals causes him to grow four additional arms.^[14] During the Spider-Geddon storyline, Normie is restored to his human form.^[15]

• Normie's profile 616 Archived 2019-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Norman Harold Osborn on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Norman Harold Osborn (Earth-982) on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki