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Tweak says, "You bought this palace."

cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-13 00:02:00

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char: green goblin/norman osborn, creator: mark buckingham, creator: paul jenkins, title: peter parker spider-man

Norman Osborn's Childhood

I figured with Norman's current status as Official Bastard of the Marvel Universe, it might be time to take a trip down memory lane...

This one comes from Peter Parker Spider-Man #25. I may post the larger story later as it's pretty good IMO.

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	kamikazescot 2009-09-14 05:33 am UTC (link)
	Freudian fail. On another note, he's telling this to Peter Parker, right? Imagine what Peter's thinking. Norman: And then spending the night in the creepy old house drove me BATSHIT. Peter: /slowly inches away (Reply to this) (Thread)

(Anonymous)
2009-09-14 11:39 am UTC (link)

To be fair, I don't think showing a villain having a crappy childhood is meant to "excuse" anything they do. It may humanize them, but it doesn't absolve them. If anything, it makes those heroes that have had crappy childhoods all the more heroic...they faced those same kinds of things (or worse) and overcame them, whereas the villains were too weak in some form or another and let it consume them.

Still, it's pretty clear Norman's shifted a good bit away from where he was originally conceived, from someone that was a ruthless businessman but not altogether evil to...well, someone that was (and bats**t crazy to boot).

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skalja
2009-09-14 04:52 pm UTC (link)

Don't take this as gospel, because it's been years, but I seem to recall Peter being zonked out on a combination of veeeery strange drugs and several weeks of torture-brainwashing by the time Norman told him this story. So it was a bit more like:

Norman: And then spending the night in the creepy old house drove me BATSHIT.
Peter: *terrified drooling*

Same sentiment, though.

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