Harold "Harry" Osborn is a best friend of Peter Parker.
In the first season of Marvel's Spider-Man a former student at Midtown High Horizon High and Osborn Academy as well as being the son of Norman Osborn.
He took up the superhero identity of Hobgoblin until having to fill his father's shoes as the head of Oscorp. During season 2 and season 3 Harry appears less frequently due to his responsibilities as the current owner of Oscorp.
History[]
Early Years[]
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Harry is the charismatic son of Oscorp Industries CEO, Norman Osborn and his wife, Emily. Emily died giving birth to Harry. Because of this, Norman disdains his son unless he can prove to him that he, Harry, is worthy to keep up the Osborn Legacy. Since then, Harry has done everything to win his father's approval.
When Harry started attending Midtown High, he met and befriended Peter Parker. The two remained friends even after Harry started attending Horizon High.
Field Trip to Oscorp[]
Harry was present when students from Midtown High, including his friend, Peter. What Harry and the others didn't know was that an experimental radioactive spider bit Peter, giving Peter spider-like abilities. Worried for his friend, Harry goes after Peter in the bathroom. But he couldn't find him. What he didn't know was that Pete was sticking to the bathroom ceiling.
Suspension[]
Harry, with his classmates, Anya Corazon and Miles Morales, along with Max Modell, the director and founder of Horizon High, came to Midtown High for a special lecture. Harry believed that Peter should enroll at Horizon High and tried to convince him to do so. During the lecture, one of the machines the Horizon High students brought malfunctioned. What no one knew was that the machine was sabotaged by Spencer Smythe in revenge against Max Modell. Spencer Smythe also took a picture that made it look like the machine was sabotaged by Harry. Because of this, Harry is suspended until an investigation could be done. Harry noticed that Spider-Man happened to appear and stopped machine and blamed Spider-Man for what happened to him.
Osborn Academy for Geniuses[]
In response to Harry being suspended, his father, Norman, created a school for Harry to attend. He warned his son not to disappoint him this time. When the investigation proved Harry's innocent of the crime, he was allowed to return to Horizon High. However, Norman encourages Harry to continue attending Osborn Academy. He agrees to do so.
Appearance[]
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Harry is a teenager with black hair and blue eyes.
His regular attire consists of grey shirt under dark grayish blue sweater, black pants, and shoes.
Civilian Attire[]
as the Hobgoblin Harry wears a suit of Armor
Personality[]
Harry is quite cheerful most times. He can be very sociable. He is also a very loyal friend, especially to Peter. Harry also has a devotion to his father and will do what he can to win his approval, even choosing to continue attending Osborn Academy instead of returning to Horizon High. Harry can also have anger issues, especially towards Spider-Man who he sees as the source of everything that has gone wrong in his life.
Relationships[]
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Peter Parker/Spider-Man[]
Harry and Peter have been friends since they attended Midtown High together. Their friendship remained strong even after Harry started going to Horizon High. Harry, v that Peter can do great things, convinced him to enroll in the same school. The part of the day they look forward to is when they meet at their favorite cafe.
Harry has a hatred of Spider-Man as he believes that Spider-Man is the one who got him suspended from Horizon High. Since then, he believes Spider-Man is the source of all his problems. Harry proved instrumental in curing the entire population from the Jackal's Spider virus but discovers Peter's identity as Spider-Man in the process which fractures their friendship as he still blames Spider-Man for his various misfortunes.
In the two-part season one finale, he takes the guise of the Hobgoblin identity (similar to his Ultimate Marvel counterpart) after being convinced by his father that Spider-Man needs to be stopped when Spider-Man starts working with the Sinister Six. After finding out Spider-Man was under mind control, he rescues Peter and becomes his crime-fighting partner after the two make amends. However, Hobgoblin starts showing up randomly without Harry realizing it, theorizing it's a combination of his subconscious hate of Spider-Man that he hasn't fully pushed out and experiments he was testing on himself to cure his father. He and Spider-Man eventually discover that the second Hobgoblin is Norman, who attempted to kill Spider-Man so Harry could become a popular hero and carry on the Osborn name. After Harry rescues Spider-Man, Norman seemingly perishes from an explosion caused by a green chemical. Harry inherits his father's position as the new CEO of Oscorp.
May Parker[]
May Walking With Peter and Harry on the Way to Horzion High
Norman Osborn[]
Norman "convincing" Harry to stay in Osborn Academy.
Harry loves his father and tries to win his approval to show he is worthy of the Osborn name. Even though he shows some disdain for Harry over the death of Emily, Norman often tries to push his son to succeed and to always obey him. When Harry was suspended, Norman created the Osborn Academy for Geniuses so Harry can attend it. Even after Harry was allowed to return to Horizon High, he convinced his son to continue attending Osborn Academy. He claims he would move mountains for Harry. In "Hobgoblin", Norman entrusts the Hobgoblin equipment to Harry Osborn in trust that he would destroy Spider-Man, but when Harry refused, Norman donned the Hobgoblin Armour, and tried to destroy Spider-Man himself, and again supposedly died in the process. When Harry resumed control of Oscorp (Not Osborn Academy, because it was destroyed in Spider-Island), Norman was revealed to be alive (in some sort), and reveals a new, deadly project to his son.
Upon learning his father’s evil scheme to oust Max Mondell’s reputation from Horizon, and he is indeed alive, Harry finally saw the man who was once his father is no more, but a villainous monster.
Max Modell[]
Miles Morales/Spy-D[]
It appears that Harry figured out Miles was Spy-D/the second Spider-Man after the end of the Goblin Wars.
Gwen Stacy/Ghost-Spider[]
Gwen is anther one of Harry's friends from Horizon. While Gwen often didn't consider
Harry Start Knowing Gwen was Spider-Gwen Once Til He Knows Her identity as Ghost-Spider
Anya Corazon/Spider-Girl[]
It appears that Harry figured out Anya was Spider-Girl sometime after the end of Goblin Wars.
Liz Allan[]
Spencer Smythe[]
Spencer and his son, Alistaire, have a dislike for Harry. Mostly likely because of Norman
Alistaire Smythe[]
Oliver Ollie Osnick/Steel Spider[]
Harry With Peter Next To Oliver Osnick at Osborn Academy
Otto Octavious[]
After Otto betrayed Norman they became enemies. Otto Planned to use Harry in his Sinister Six but he escaped with Gwen before that could happen.
Harry still held resentment toward Otto as seen during the Goblin War and Otto claimed that Osborn couldn't be trusted just like his father Norman.in the aftermath Harry witness Otto's heroic sacrifice to stop Toomes Goblin Nation finally remorse for his fallen ally. Harry attends Otto's funeral to represent a
Hobgoblin's Secret identity[]
List of People who know Hobgoblins Secret identity
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
As Hobgoblin[]
- Sonic Scream
- High-Tech Finger Blaster
Abilities[]
- Genius Level Intelligence: Harry was intelligent enough to get accepted into Horizon High. He even constructed his own set of bombs and other equipment.
- Swordsmanship
Equipment[]
The Hobgoblin suit is equipped with Adrian Toomes sonic device Harry's flame sword an electrical glove a laser wrist mount and Oscorp bombs
Weapons[]
- Pumpkin Bombs
- Flame Sword
- Energy Sword Harry used replaces his flame with this in Generations.
Episode Appearance[]
Short Season[]
- Introduction
- Observation
Season 1[]
- Horizon High Part 1
- Horizon High Part 2
- Osborn Academy
- A Day in the Life
- Party Animals
- Sandman
- Symbiotic Relationship
- Stark Expo
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- Halloween Moon
- Spider-Man on Ice
- Screwball Live
- The Rise of Doc Ock Part 3
- The Rise of Doc Ock Part 4
- Spider Island Part 1
- Spider Island Part 3
- Spider Island Part 4
- Spider Island Part 5
- Hobgoblin Part 1 (First Show as Hobgoblin)
- Hobgoblin Part 2 (As Hobgoblin)
Season 2[]
- How I Thwipped My Summer Vacation (Mentioned)
- Take Two
- Rise Above it All
- Goblin War Part 1 (as Hobgoblin)
- Goblin War Part 2 (as Hobgoblin)
- Goblin War Part 3 (as Hobgoblin)
- Goblin War Part 4 (as Hobgoblin)
Season 3[]
- Web of Venom (Mentioned)
- Vengeance of Venom (As Hobgoblin)
- Generations (asHobgoblin)
- Maximum Venom (Episodes)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Harry was born on December 13th.
- This is the third animated series were Harry learns Peter is Spider-Man.
- The first two were the 1994 Spider-Man TV series and Ultimate Spider-Man.
- This series marks the second time Harry becomes the Hobgoblin, the first being in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.
- In the comics, Harry usually takes on the mantle of Green Goblin as a villain.
- Similar to the 2007 film Spider-Man 3, Harry becomes a heroic Goblin.
- Harry's Hobgoblin suit, as well as his flame-sword and sonic scream, are influenced by the Phil Urich version of Hobgoblin.
- For some unknown reason, promotional art and the Hasbro toyline based the Hobgoblin's design on the Robin Borne version seen in Marvel's Earth-2211 universe.
- Taking into account that season 2 begins the second school year, Harry is the CEO of Oscorp at fifteen/sixteen years old.
- This version of Harry is depicted with black hair, while in the comics and various other media, he's usually depicted with reddish-brown hair.
- Harry's voice actor, Max Mittelman, previously provided the voice for Rhino in the previous series Ultimate Spider-Man.
- Due to the strong focus of Peter and Harry's friendship on the show, specifically season 1, fans have created a ship (a pairing, usually romantic, between fictional characters) called Parksborn.
- Maximum Venom is the first time in any media that Harry and a Hobgoblin has been taken over by a symbiote.
- Harry skintone is tanned in season 3.
- This makes him resemble his counterpart from the 2016 comicbook Spidey.
- This is the first Spider-Man animated series were Harry has never met Mary Jane.
- This is the third animated series were Harry learns Peter is Spider-Man.