Norman Osborn (SSM) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fatheroftheyear) wrote2012-09-06 08:35 pm
fatheroftheyear) wrote2012-09-06 08:35 pm
appity app app
Player name: Kates
Journal: cherrybomb
AIM/Plurk: kamikazescot @ plurk
Email: radioactivetedishot@gmail.com
Other characters: Oh please don't make me list them all. D:
Character name: Norman Osborn
Age: Early 40s: old enough to have a son in high school, but young enough to go toe to toe with Spider-Man.
Canon: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Canon point: Post Season 1
Totem: His watch. During a fissure, the weight will change, making it heavier. Also, the metal will rub green on his skin, kind of like a cheap ring but mostly for symbolism.
Weapons: 1 pumpkin bomb. Pumpkin bombs, when thrown and activated, let out a loud shriek. They explode green for some reason. Their strength honestly depends on what episode they're used in (which either means they have inconsistent writers or there are pumpkin bombs with different strengths). Spider-Man once took around ten of them to the body, with no visible signs of scarring or damage (except to his costume) but one can blow a hole in the wall. For purposes of FR, I'm going to say that if a normal human got a pumpkin bomb to the face, then it would hurt and burn them but not kill them.
Keep in mind that Norman will be EXTREMELY unwilling to use the pumpkin bomb because he doesn't want anybody to connect him to the Green Goblin and it's the only one he's got.
2 weird pumpkin themed razor throwy things. It's like a Batarang, but it's got a pumpkin on it. I don't know what it's technical name is.
2 smoke bombs (that produces green smoke).
This isn't really weapons, but he's going to have the Green Goblin suit hidden in his room, complete with voice changer that makes him swap voice actors. Juuuust in case he ever goes batshit enough to use it. Also, I'm totally fine swapping out weapons if needed. I just want some weapons if Norman ever loses it and decides to supervillain it up (which, unfortunately is a valid possibility in this game).
Abilities/powers: Norman Osborn has no powers in canon: all of his powers come from Globulin Green, a performance enhancing drug manufactured by Oscorp. Unlike his son, Norman takes the Green in a gaseous form-he basically submerges himself in that stuff. The Green makes him stronger and faster than the average man, with quicker reflexes. It also makes him batshit crazy. (Seriously, he speaks in rhyme for an episodebecause Greg Weisman loves him some parallelism because he can. He gets batshit.) The powers naturally wear off after a while.
Aside from that, Norman Osborn is a skilled businessman who runs a multimillion dollar corporation by day and tries to kill Spider-Man by night. He has business smarts and has some knowledge of weapons design (because how else could he make pumpkin bombs and the goblin glider). He's a good chemist-it's implied that he made the Globulin Green (or at least contributed heavy to its design process).
Location: Norman will bring the main living area of his apartment. The first thing you notice is that there are a ton of masks on the walls. A lot of masks. Masks out the wazoo. Tribal masks, ancient masks, a buttload of masks. The apartment itself is very open-there's glass in the doors and on the ceiling. There's a secret door that leads to the wine cellar. A rug and a couple of couches are the main features of the living area (aside from the ridic amount of masks). The doors lead out to a balcony as well as the rest of the house.
Personality: OH MY LORD, HE IS A HORRIBLE PERSON.
Let's start with the most obvious point: Norman Osborn is a terrible parent. He is the textbook example of 'how not to parent'. Despite the fact that he rarely in in Harry's life, he constantly pushes Harry (his son) to the limit and constantly berates him for not being good enough. It doesn't matter if Harry is a super popular quarterback with a hot girlfriend, Norman just will not give him the light of day. He's so pushing and so demanding that his son turns to drugs and steroids to deal with the pressures given by Norman. He's not compassionate at all towards Harry. When confronting him about the Green, he yells at the kid and asks why he's "so stupid". He outwardly tells Peter that he prefers him to Harry-right when Harry's in the room.
However, he does care for Harry. It's just that his care is warped, twisted and seriously messed up. Norman wants Harry to man up and be the best that he can be. It's just that his methods of doing it are seriously, seriously fucked. He frames Harry for being the Green Goblin, twisting his son's ankle in the process, just to complete the illusion. All this he does so that Harry can 'man up' and be the son Norman wants him to be. According to Norman's warped logic, he was protecting Harry. If he went to prison 'then who would make a man out of him?' It's obvious that his child-raising tactics are seriously screwed up. Still, he can be a good parent...sometimes. He definitely is shocked and surprised by Harry's drug use and gets him the help he needs. He does eventually tell Harry that he's proud of him, when Harry gets a role in the school play.
Norman is a very determined and ruthless man. When he wants to get something done, he keeps plowing forward until it actually gets done. Whether this is 'turn someone into a supervillain' or 'kill Spider-Man', he attempts to do everything at one hundred percent. Norman is very egocentric. Not in a 'I'm better than everybody else' kind of way, but in the fact that he cannot accept when he is wrong. Norman's catchphrase is some kind of variation on 'I never apologize'. This failure to apologize has gotten his ass in trouble on multiple occasions (and is a large plot point later), but he still never changes.
Norman Osborn is completely unethical and unscrupulous. He has no problems experimenting on willing (or in the case of Doctor Octopus unwilling) subjects. He doesn't see any problem with conducting experiments to turn people into freaky sand monsters or things like that. He willingly works with gangsters and lunatics. Of course, all this is kept on the down-low and is done secretly. Still, it becomes obvious eventually. Though not as extreme when he's the Green Goblin, Norman Osborn himself has a low value for human life. A guy who had all his marbles in one basket wouldn't come up with 'let's make thugs into supervillain' experiments.
Despite all this, Norman Osborn hides his crazy pretty well. He comes off as stern and authoritarian, not a guy who dresses up in a purple and green suit for kicks. Granted, he does come off as overbearing and creepy sometimes (Peter explicitly notices this during a phone call). But, all in all, he comes off as mostly harmless: just stern. And creepy. And a shitty parent. Okay, so he doesn't come off as mostly harmless, but more harmless than you could imagine. At least, he doesn't come off as the type of guy who would dress up in a purple and green supervillain outfit and kill people.
It should be noted how he actson drugs on the Globulin Green. As the Green Goblin, Norman is bugnuts crazy. He's maniac, often breaking out into hysterical laughter. His disregard for human life is only amplified-he'll casually throw pumpkin bombs into a crowd of people to get Spider-Man's attention. He plays off of Spider-Man's altruism and takes full advantage of it. Aside from that, he is very theatrical. Not in the good kind of funny theatrical way, but in the talking to yourself and making jokes while you blow up buildings kind of way. Part of Goblin's insanity is definitely due to the drugs, but also just because, under a mask, Norman can do whatever the hell he wants whatever way he wants to do it. Norman is obsessed with masks and identity (his living room is covered in masks, for crying out loud) so coming up with a mask or a whole new identity would definitely be something he's interested in.
In Limbo, Norman will kind of purposeless for a while. After all, here there's no Spider-Man, no Oscorp, no Harry, no nothing. He's a man with set goals, and those goals won't be here. But eventually, he'll find something to do, after probably unintentionally pissing off almost everybody ingame. Limbo (thankfully) won't have to deal with the Green Goblin for a while but he will try to recreate Globulin Green. This won't work (thank God) until we want it to for plot reasons. When that happens, it sucks to be y'all and Tim and Cissie will probably get to superhero it up a bit.
History: Norman Osborn's backstory is pretty much nonexistent and really not needed for SSM (after all, the show isn't called The Homicidal Norman Osborn now is it). He is head of Oscorp, a large business corporation and has a wife (Emily) and a son (Harry). One day, Dr. Octavius (one of the head scientists at Oscorp) is accosted by Adrian Toomes, an old inventor who claimed Osborn stole his flight technology. Norman tells Toomes, in no uncertain terms, to piss off and gtfo. Toomes decides to use his flight tech to kidnap Norman and force him to apologize/admit that Toomes designed the tech. Eventually, Norman was rescued by Spider-Man and Toomes got arrested.
This, along with the appearance of Electro and the Lizard, convince Hammerhead (a local gang boss) to join up with Osborn in order to create supervillains. They transform a pair of low-life criminals into the Sandman and the Rhino. Around this time, Harry starts experimenting with the performance enhancing drug Globulin Green, after Norman told him to "man up" one too many times. Unfortunately, Globulin Green's side effects include 'crazy'.
And then, the mysterious Green Goblin appears, causing havoc at a banquet hosted by L. Thompson Lincoln (aka the Big Man of Crime aka Hammerhead's boss aka Tombstone, Jesus Christ show). Spider-Man starts to suspect that Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin, due to the Goblin's use of Oscorp tech and hatred of Lincoln. On Halloween, the Green Goblin abducts Hammerhead and asks him to join his team and help rule Manhattan. Hammerhead says no. Spider-Man and Lincoln show up and defeat the Green Goblin, who gets wounded in the leg in the process, limping back to his Goblin Glider (which is basically a big flying glider thing that won't be in Limbo because I'm mean to Norman and nice to everyone else). He flies back to Oscorp, with Spider-Man back in tow.
At Oscorp, it's revealed that the Green Goblin is...Harry Osborn. His leg is wounded, like Goblin's was, and he's found on the floor of the Osborn pad, passed out in the costume. Plus, he's acting SUPER irrationally and is tripping balls thanks to the Globulin Green in his system. Norman tells Spider-Man to frame him and he'll take the blame, but Spider-Man says that the Goblin will just stop existing. Norman takes Harry to Europe in order for him to recover and get him off the drugs.
But wait Kates, if the Green Goblin was Harry Osborn, then why did you tell us all this crap about what Gobby was doing? Because that gets retconned in the final episode! It turns out that Norman Osborn was the Green Goblin all along! Unlike Harry, who had been drinking the Globulin Green, Norman was taking it in a gaseous form which made him less crazy (so he says (he was wrong)). During the fight on Halloween, he faked the limp to throw Spider-Man off his trail. When he returned to Oscorp, he found Harry passed out on the floor. Norman dressed Harry in the Green Goblin outfit and twisted Harry's ankle, just to complete the illusion. He knew that Spider-Man would let him and Harry go because a: Spider-Man's a big sucker and b: Harry had acted apologetic/terrified about what he had done as the Goblin.
tl;dr, DON'T DO DRUGS, KIDS.
For a ridiculously indepth wiki article on Norman, click here
3rd person sample: n/a
1st person sample: I can think of many more plausible theories than 'a dream'. And to be honest, if this is a dream-it's a boring one. Dreams are supposed to be escapism, not slice of life routines. If I was going to dream something, I'd dream something a bit more...exciting.
Famous last words, I know, but I've never been one to follow the dull daily routine.
Anyway, since we've gotten more people in, I should probably introduce myself again. Norman Osborn, head of Oscorp. Which, admittedly, means nothing here, but I'd like it to mean something eventually. After all, if I'm stuck here, why not build up what I once had?
Journal: cherrybomb
AIM/Plurk: kamikazescot @ plurk
Email: radioactivetedishot@gmail.com
Other characters: Oh please don't make me list them all. D:
Character name: Norman Osborn
Age: Early 40s: old enough to have a son in high school, but young enough to go toe to toe with Spider-Man.
Canon: The Spectacular Spider-Man
Canon point: Post Season 1
Totem: His watch. During a fissure, the weight will change, making it heavier. Also, the metal will rub green on his skin, kind of like a cheap ring but mostly for symbolism.
Weapons: 1 pumpkin bomb. Pumpkin bombs, when thrown and activated, let out a loud shriek. They explode green for some reason. Their strength honestly depends on what episode they're used in (which either means they have inconsistent writers or there are pumpkin bombs with different strengths). Spider-Man once took around ten of them to the body, with no visible signs of scarring or damage (except to his costume) but one can blow a hole in the wall. For purposes of FR, I'm going to say that if a normal human got a pumpkin bomb to the face, then it would hurt and burn them but not kill them.
Keep in mind that Norman will be EXTREMELY unwilling to use the pumpkin bomb because he doesn't want anybody to connect him to the Green Goblin and it's the only one he's got.
2 weird pumpkin themed razor throwy things. It's like a Batarang, but it's got a pumpkin on it. I don't know what it's technical name is.
2 smoke bombs (that produces green smoke).
This isn't really weapons, but he's going to have the Green Goblin suit hidden in his room, complete with voice changer that makes him swap voice actors. Juuuust in case he ever goes batshit enough to use it. Also, I'm totally fine swapping out weapons if needed. I just want some weapons if Norman ever loses it and decides to supervillain it up (which, unfortunately is a valid possibility in this game).
Abilities/powers: Norman Osborn has no powers in canon: all of his powers come from Globulin Green, a performance enhancing drug manufactured by Oscorp. Unlike his son, Norman takes the Green in a gaseous form-he basically submerges himself in that stuff. The Green makes him stronger and faster than the average man, with quicker reflexes. It also makes him batshit crazy. (Seriously, he speaks in rhyme for an episode
Aside from that, Norman Osborn is a skilled businessman who runs a multimillion dollar corporation by day and tries to kill Spider-Man by night. He has business smarts and has some knowledge of weapons design (because how else could he make pumpkin bombs and the goblin glider). He's a good chemist-it's implied that he made the Globulin Green (or at least contributed heavy to its design process).
Location: Norman will bring the main living area of his apartment. The first thing you notice is that there are a ton of masks on the walls. A lot of masks. Masks out the wazoo. Tribal masks, ancient masks, a buttload of masks. The apartment itself is very open-there's glass in the doors and on the ceiling. There's a secret door that leads to the wine cellar. A rug and a couple of couches are the main features of the living area (aside from the ridic amount of masks). The doors lead out to a balcony as well as the rest of the house.
Personality: OH MY LORD, HE IS A HORRIBLE PERSON.
Let's start with the most obvious point: Norman Osborn is a terrible parent. He is the textbook example of 'how not to parent'. Despite the fact that he rarely in in Harry's life, he constantly pushes Harry (his son) to the limit and constantly berates him for not being good enough. It doesn't matter if Harry is a super popular quarterback with a hot girlfriend, Norman just will not give him the light of day. He's so pushing and so demanding that his son turns to drugs and steroids to deal with the pressures given by Norman. He's not compassionate at all towards Harry. When confronting him about the Green, he yells at the kid and asks why he's "so stupid". He outwardly tells Peter that he prefers him to Harry-right when Harry's in the room.
However, he does care for Harry. It's just that his care is warped, twisted and seriously messed up. Norman wants Harry to man up and be the best that he can be. It's just that his methods of doing it are seriously, seriously fucked. He frames Harry for being the Green Goblin, twisting his son's ankle in the process, just to complete the illusion. All this he does so that Harry can 'man up' and be the son Norman wants him to be. According to Norman's warped logic, he was protecting Harry. If he went to prison 'then who would make a man out of him?' It's obvious that his child-raising tactics are seriously screwed up. Still, he can be a good parent...sometimes. He definitely is shocked and surprised by Harry's drug use and gets him the help he needs. He does eventually tell Harry that he's proud of him, when Harry gets a role in the school play.
Norman is a very determined and ruthless man. When he wants to get something done, he keeps plowing forward until it actually gets done. Whether this is 'turn someone into a supervillain' or 'kill Spider-Man', he attempts to do everything at one hundred percent. Norman is very egocentric. Not in a 'I'm better than everybody else' kind of way, but in the fact that he cannot accept when he is wrong. Norman's catchphrase is some kind of variation on 'I never apologize'. This failure to apologize has gotten his ass in trouble on multiple occasions (and is a large plot point later), but he still never changes.
Norman Osborn is completely unethical and unscrupulous. He has no problems experimenting on willing (or in the case of Doctor Octopus unwilling) subjects. He doesn't see any problem with conducting experiments to turn people into freaky sand monsters or things like that. He willingly works with gangsters and lunatics. Of course, all this is kept on the down-low and is done secretly. Still, it becomes obvious eventually. Though not as extreme when he's the Green Goblin, Norman Osborn himself has a low value for human life. A guy who had all his marbles in one basket wouldn't come up with 'let's make thugs into supervillain' experiments.
Despite all this, Norman Osborn hides his crazy pretty well. He comes off as stern and authoritarian, not a guy who dresses up in a purple and green suit for kicks. Granted, he does come off as overbearing and creepy sometimes (Peter explicitly notices this during a phone call). But, all in all, he comes off as mostly harmless: just stern. And creepy. And a shitty parent. Okay, so he doesn't come off as mostly harmless, but more harmless than you could imagine. At least, he doesn't come off as the type of guy who would dress up in a purple and green supervillain outfit and kill people.
It should be noted how he acts
In Limbo, Norman will kind of purposeless for a while. After all, here there's no Spider-Man, no Oscorp, no Harry, no nothing. He's a man with set goals, and those goals won't be here. But eventually, he'll find something to do, after probably unintentionally pissing off almost everybody ingame. Limbo (thankfully) won't have to deal with the Green Goblin for a while but he will try to recreate Globulin Green. This won't work (thank God) until we want it to for plot reasons. When that happens, it sucks to be y'all and Tim and Cissie will probably get to superhero it up a bit.
History: Norman Osborn's backstory is pretty much nonexistent and really not needed for SSM (after all, the show isn't called The Homicidal Norman Osborn now is it). He is head of Oscorp, a large business corporation and has a wife (Emily) and a son (Harry). One day, Dr. Octavius (one of the head scientists at Oscorp) is accosted by Adrian Toomes, an old inventor who claimed Osborn stole his flight technology. Norman tells Toomes, in no uncertain terms, to piss off and gtfo. Toomes decides to use his flight tech to kidnap Norman and force him to apologize/admit that Toomes designed the tech. Eventually, Norman was rescued by Spider-Man and Toomes got arrested.
This, along with the appearance of Electro and the Lizard, convince Hammerhead (a local gang boss) to join up with Osborn in order to create supervillains. They transform a pair of low-life criminals into the Sandman and the Rhino. Around this time, Harry starts experimenting with the performance enhancing drug Globulin Green, after Norman told him to "man up" one too many times. Unfortunately, Globulin Green's side effects include 'crazy'.
And then, the mysterious Green Goblin appears, causing havoc at a banquet hosted by L. Thompson Lincoln (aka the Big Man of Crime aka Hammerhead's boss aka Tombstone, Jesus Christ show). Spider-Man starts to suspect that Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin, due to the Goblin's use of Oscorp tech and hatred of Lincoln. On Halloween, the Green Goblin abducts Hammerhead and asks him to join his team and help rule Manhattan. Hammerhead says no. Spider-Man and Lincoln show up and defeat the Green Goblin, who gets wounded in the leg in the process, limping back to his Goblin Glider (which is basically a big flying glider thing that won't be in Limbo because I'm mean to Norman and nice to everyone else). He flies back to Oscorp, with Spider-Man back in tow.
At Oscorp, it's revealed that the Green Goblin is...Harry Osborn. His leg is wounded, like Goblin's was, and he's found on the floor of the Osborn pad, passed out in the costume. Plus, he's acting SUPER irrationally and is tripping balls thanks to the Globulin Green in his system. Norman tells Spider-Man to frame him and he'll take the blame, but Spider-Man says that the Goblin will just stop existing. Norman takes Harry to Europe in order for him to recover and get him off the drugs.
But wait Kates, if the Green Goblin was Harry Osborn, then why did you tell us all this crap about what Gobby was doing? Because that gets retconned in the final episode! It turns out that Norman Osborn was the Green Goblin all along! Unlike Harry, who had been drinking the Globulin Green, Norman was taking it in a gaseous form which made him less crazy (so he says (he was wrong)). During the fight on Halloween, he faked the limp to throw Spider-Man off his trail. When he returned to Oscorp, he found Harry passed out on the floor. Norman dressed Harry in the Green Goblin outfit and twisted Harry's ankle, just to complete the illusion. He knew that Spider-Man would let him and Harry go because a: Spider-Man's a big sucker and b: Harry had acted apologetic/terrified about what he had done as the Goblin.
tl;dr, DON'T DO DRUGS, KIDS.
For a ridiculously indepth wiki article on Norman, click here
3rd person sample: n/a
1st person sample: I can think of many more plausible theories than 'a dream'. And to be honest, if this is a dream-it's a boring one. Dreams are supposed to be escapism, not slice of life routines. If I was going to dream something, I'd dream something a bit more...exciting.
Famous last words, I know, but I've never been one to follow the dull daily routine.
Anyway, since we've gotten more people in, I should probably introduce myself again. Norman Osborn, head of Oscorp. Which, admittedly, means nothing here, but I'd like it to mean something eventually. After all, if I'm stuck here, why not build up what I once had?