Everybody knows he's the Green Goblin! Everyone saw him murdering uniformed police offers and young women live on national television! And thanks to Phil Urich's book, everyone knows that he killed Gwen Stacy, and yet, people LAUGH about his "thing for blondes," and JOKE about the fact that the window of his office deliberately faces the G.W. Bridge.
I mean, for fuck's sake, a Hispanic jurist gets a dozen angry white men crawling up her ass for making a "wise Latina" remark, when she's being considered for the Supreme Court, and yet, you're telling me that NOBODY in the MU would be saying HOLY SHIT NORMAN WTF over all the COUNTLESS things that he's ALREADY done, when he's gaining FAR greater powers?
If Jon Stewart existed in the MU, he could devote an entire spin-off show just to savaging Norman's reputation, with nothing more than what's already PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.
Quesada and company keep trying to sell this new status quo as "more realistic," and yet, it is inherently impossible to reconcile with any reality that even remotely resembles our own.