Hobgoblin

The only son of industrialist Norman Osborn, Harry was secretly subjected to hypnotherapy from age 11 so that his father could better control him; aside from this, Norman mostly ignored Harry, as did Harry's alcoholic mother. He instead found emotional support at school, where he was friends with Peter Parker and dated Mary Watson. When Norman grew more secretive after the incident that, unknown to Harry, mutated Peter Parker, Harry investigated and discovered his father undergoing an experimental mutation process. Caught in a lab explosion, Harry, like his father, was mutated, though in his case the transformation was initially suppressed. Later, Norman, driven insane following his mutation into a montrous goblin, murdered his wife before Harry's eyes, then sent out to attack Peter Parker, now the costumed Spider-Man. In the wake of the goblin's assault, the distraught Harry revealed the goblin's identity.

Sent to his uncle in Colorado, Norman's employee Dr. Warren stepped up his hypnotherapy, erasing Harry's memories of his father's transformation and murder of his mother. Harry was then reunited with his father, unaware of the madman's continued designs on his friend Peter. Returning to Midtown High, Harry recanted his earlier claims, unaware that Norman had threatened Peter's family unless the youth agreed to enter his service. Later, Spider-Man confronted the goblin, who responded by abducting Mary Jane right in front of Harry's appalled eyes. Minutes later, when the fight between Spider-Man and the Goblin brought them back to the Osborn home, Harry walked in on the battle; recognizing Spider-Man's unmasked face, the desperate Harry ended the fight by impaling his father, who was taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody; S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury also took the by now near-catatonic Harry into custody, hoping to deprogram Osborn's hypnotherapy.

Months later, when Norman led superhuman criminals to attack the White House, Harry, informed of the situation, volunteered to confront his father in the hope of talking sense to him. However, as a result of Harry's distraction, Osborn was defeated by the Ultimates and Spider-Man, and Harry believed him dead; deeply distraught, Harry vowed vengeance on all involved. Nevertheless, Fury eventually deemed Harry's treatment successful and released him from custody. But Harry was far from recovered. He began hallucinating that his father's old henchman Shaw had returned; "Shaw" proceeded to poison Harry's mind against Spider-Man, whom he claimed had murdered Osborn. Unnerving Peter with a second reappearance at school, Harry soon confronted him at the Osborn penthouse where he transformed into his own mutated form and attacked. A prolonged battle erupted until Harry, despondent at what his father had done to him, begged Spider-Man to end his suffering. The hero could not kill his friend, but Fury intervened, bringing Harry down using extreme force and nearly killing him. After the enraged hero departed, Fury had Harry taken into custody.

Harry Osborn, the Boy underneath the Goblin