When Harry saw the footage of his father's treatment through the Spider-Bot, he felt a mix of emotions and fear. He knew his dad often took certain medications, but he thought it was just his dad doping to maintain concentration. He never expected his dad to have a mental illness, specifically, multiple personality disorder.
Wait, multiple personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder seem to be two different illnesses.
But what made Harry even more anxious was something else: Norman Osborn was already a black-hearted capitalist consumed by greed, with dirty tactics, focused solely on money, yet Norman himself said that the other personality, which he called the Green Goblin, was an even more evil and violent entity.
Green Goblin? He remembered his family's AI butler was named Green Goblin!
"Green Goblin?"
[Hello, Young Master Harry. How may I assist you? Do you require me to conceal the fact that you were monitoring the Master?]
Harry: ???
"Wait, how did you know?"
[The Master has installed cameras in most rooms of the house. Please rest assured, your room and bathroom do not have them, but the hallway cameras can still see the Spider-Bot, which was likely given to you by Spider-Man, scurrying out of your room.]
"..." Harry was momentarily stunned before reacting: "Forget about that for a second. Do you know about Dad's multiple personality issue?"
[In fact, this is precisely the purpose of my creation. Master Norman wished for a genuinely existing Green Goblin to counteract the other Green Goblin personality in his brain. He treats me as his other personality, conversing and debating with me, thereby treating his psychological problem.]
?
Harry didn't immediately grasp the logic behind this.
"The idea is, if the Green Goblin truly exists, then he is not a part of my brain but an independent entity. Every time I talk to the Green Goblin, I feel like he's not inside my head."
Norman opened the door to his son's room. Harry was momentarily flustered, unsure what to do. Norman simply gestured for his son to come out, while the AI Green Goblin very ethically reminded Harry: [You did not instruct me not to notify the Master, Young Master Harry.]
"I know you and Peter are worried about me, Harry. It's normal. I'm not offended. In fact, I've been seeking a definitive solution to my mental problems, though progress has been slow so far. Of course, that's not what I came to talk to you about."
Norman sat down, looking at his son: "Tell me, what are you suspicious of."
"Oh, uh, we suspect... Peter discovered a strange explosion. He analyzed that the bomb casing was made of new Oscorp technology material, so he was worried..."
Norman nodded, then snapped his fingers. A cleaning robot approached, carrying a small metal sphere. As Harry looked on curiously, Norman placed his hand on the sphere. Then, a strange figure in armor appeared.
Harry looked at the armored person, who somewhat resembled Iron Man's armor, wondering where this thing came from.
"Norman Osborn, your destiny has been rewritten. In the original history, you were supposed to become the Green Goblin, a supervillain with superhuman strength and high-tech gear who fought Spider-Man, but the Avengers stopped your destiny, and you became completely unremarkable from then on..."
"If you are willing, open this device, and you will regain everything you were originally meant to have..."
"These... are the reasons for my deteriorating condition. A time traveler from the future, in order to make history conform to his desired state, or rather, the 'original' state, chose this path, sending this thing in bulk to people whom the Avengers are currently preventing from becoming villains. Inside this little sphere is all the gear they need to become a villain."
Harry suddenly realized that if the Avengers hadn't intervened, Norman indeed would have become a formidable supervillain, the Green Goblin, and his second personality would have gained the upper hand. But at least for now, Norman was in control and hadn't opened the sphere.
"I received this sphere last night. I originally planned to hand it over to the Avengers directly, but I was suspicious of one person, so I called him in and questioned him."
Norman was naturally referring to Dr. Barton Hamilton. This psychiatrist was skilled in psychological manipulation and suggestion. Norman even suspected that the incense the doctor brought contained some kind of hypnotic agent. Many New York politicians and wealthy businessmen the doctor served were giving his psychiatric clinic the green light, and Dr. Hamilton was the presence behind numerous psychiatric clinics across New York City.
Thus, Norman suspected that Hamilton might have also received a similar sphere, which was why he called him in and tested him. The result of the test was, without a doubt, that the doctor had indeed received the sphere.
"As for now, we should notify Peter. The Avengers will handle this."
Meanwhile, having left the Osborn residence, Dr. Hamilton made a very nervous phone call.
"Hello, it's me. Norman Osborn seems to have figured something out. Perhaps..."
"Irrelevant."
The voice on the other end of the line came from beneath Manhattan, in a spacious sewer converted into a laboratory. Several people were bound to beds, while a gray-skinned man was formulating a new Green Goblin serum.
"Norman Osborn may have been the first Green Goblin, but he is not the most important one. The future time traveler has given us everything we need, hasn't he? Even without Norman, we are still us."
The Green Goblin, the Hobgoblin, Jack O'Lantern.
These nearly 20 super-villains, who were supposed to be spawned in generations by the first Green Goblin, Norman Osborn, in the original timeline, no longer needed the help of the first Green Goblin. No, on the contrary, he wanted to kill Norman Osborn. He wanted to prove that the first Green Goblin was completely irrelevant.
One after another, people who were originally supposed to become these villains were forcefully injected with the Green Goblin serum. They would don the gifts from Kang, gain sufficient power, and soar through the sky on gliders.
"Let them come! Let them see our power!"
That particular "Hobgoblin" let out a sinister cackle: "When the Avengers catch the first Hobgoblin, they'll find the second, then the third, and the fourth!"
"They will discover that they are not facing a Hobgoblin, but a Hobgoblin Legion. They will face an entire army!"
"And I am the Fairy King!"
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