Raise your hand if you’re actually quite excited about the Spider-Man reboot now, but simultaneously afraid about what ableist shit might happen to Harry Osborn (who is canonically schizophrenic, possibly bipolar, and an abuse survivor) if they decide to include him in there
Ok he’s only schizo and bipolar because he injected himself with the Goblin Serum.
And yes while his dad was a dick, he never beat Harry or even all that emotionally abusive. Just very distant and kinda neglectful until he went full wacko. (Unless Osborn did something recently in the comics)That still doesn’t give him an excuse to be a fucking asshole trying to kill Peter on MULTIPLE occasions.
Harry Osborn is not a broken little fragile bird. He is his father’s son in every capacity.
That’s…not entirely right. Harry was diagnosed with schizophrenia after his LSD overdose, before he became the second Goblin:
And Norman’s abuse of Harry was a part of their story at least since the 90s:
(that’s Peter seeing Harry’s memories through his eyes, hence the Spider-Man costume)
And while no, it’s not an excuse for some of the shit he did (most of what happened between Harry and Liz was pretty fucked up too) even Peter and MJ, who bore the brunt of most of Harry’s supervillainy, wanted to get him help more than anything:
And Harry’s mental state is almost always depicted as something more or less beyond his control (though I imagine the hate he has for Peter is real):
So there’s that. (There’s also this, which is all of the above gone into in more detail.) It’s not about making Harry a ‘broken little fragile bird’, it’s about ‘can Marvel please treat mental health issues, especially very stigmatized ones, with some respect if they end up using Harry, because at the moment the most famous mentally ill character in the comic book world is the fucking Joker.’