Spider-Man's latest villain turn goes to show that the Green Goblin cannot be destroyed - instead, it spreads like a disease, evading total eradication and always making an inevitable return. Norman Osborn may have officially reformed, but the literal sins of the Goblin still haunt the Marvel Universe – with Spider-Man being their most recent host.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Amazing Spider-Man #35 – by Zeb Wells, Patrick Gleason, Marcio Menyz, Erick Arciniega, and VC's Joe Caramagna – forces Norman to come face-to-face with his sins, as he collaborates with Kraven to get ahold of Peter, to excise his sins from the Webslinger.
While they successfully return Peter to normal, there's a strong hint near the end that those sins returned to Norman – or maybe they never left.You Can Never Truly Rid Yourself of the Goblin Norman Osborn's reform era has always been precarious, given its supernatural impetus. Rather than turning away from villIainy, Norman's sins were extracted from him and put into a spear, being pierced by which imparts the sins on the victim.
This may be because the Green Goblin is who Norman Osborn truly is – or perhaps the Goblin leaves a permanent trace inside anyone it takes hold of, leaving open the possibility that they could be Goblinized again at any time. Peter Parker is not the only person to don the Green Goblin pseudonym after Norman Osborn.