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Tweak says, "CHOP CHOP CHOP U UP! "

cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-08 20:41:00

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char: green goblin/norman osborn, creator: mike deodato, creator: warren ellis, series: one perfect moment week, title: thunderbolts

Another Perfect Moment: The Green Goblin

This comes from Thunderbolts #121. I wasn't planning on posting it originally, but someone brought it up in my previous Goblin thread, so I figured it'd be worth sharing.

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psychop_rex
2009-06-09 03:07 am UTC (link)

True enough, but it's clearly implied that he's referring to Gwen - the immediate association in most people's minds is automatically going to be Gwen, if they know their Spider/Goblin history at all, given that she's the most prominent blonde in both their lives, and her killing immediately preceded Norman's death, so he's likely to have strong memories of her. And Peter isn't involved in this situation, so it being a nonsensical taunt aimed in his direction doesn't make sense.

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	taggerung301 2009-06-09 06:47 am UTC (link)
	eh, he's a psychopath who dresses like a goblin and fights a man with the proportional powers of a spider dunno if there is really much sense in Marvel in general plus, he could have upgraded the old suit, who knows (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-06-09 03:18 pm UTC (link)

Oh, he's upgraded the suit multiple times - but not THIS suit. He says as much himself - otherwise, it wouldn't smell the same, would it? Except that this is clearly NOT that suit, so either Norman is just free-associating or the artist got overly ambitious, and I'm tending to go for option number two.
And yes, he's a psycho, all right, but he's not a gibbering lunatic - his ravings generally make SENSE, they just aren't TRUE, in terms of, y'know, him being destined to rule and so forth. And in this case, I think he's almost at his sanest, because this suit MEANS something to him. While wearing it, he had (as he sees it) one of the great triumphs of his career, followed by one of the worst defeats. It'd be like setting aside the clothes you graduated in, then bringing them out years later and smelling your sweat and the mingled smells of the crowd - you wouldn't be going 'Hey, woo! This smells fuuuuuun-KEY!', you'd be going 'damn, this brings back memories.' (At least, I would.)

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