

It is closer to his original portrayal in the Lee-Romita run, where he was still a somewhat sympathetic character turned insane by a laboratory accident, before he threw someone off a bridge.

Adaptation Name Change: Norman's wife and Harry's mother is named Emily Osborn née Lyman in the comics (Martha in the Ultimate imprint).The line is, of course, mostly remembered from this film. When confronted by the film's director, he comments that "You and I, we're not so different", in almost the same tone as when the Goblin says it to Spider-Man. Another vampire-related one two years prior to the release of this film, Willem Dafoe starred in Shadow of the Vampire, where he played a vampiric version of Max Shreck.The little kid in it creeped me out." Kirsten Dunst, of course, was that little kid. The novelization features a part with Mary Jane and Harry discussing the book Interview with the Vampire, where MJ remarks that she "saw the movie.

It is later discussed in Spider-Man 3 that "he died by his own hand". Spider-Man dodges the attack, and the glider impales the Goblin instead.
