harry osborn

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Amazing Spider-Man #121 (June 1973)

Harry’s relapse leads into the most famous (probably) Spider-Man story of all time: The Death of Gwen Stacy.

As time goes on, it’s going to become steadily more obvious what made Harry do it, because this is the beginning of Norman becoming the big bad of the Spideyverse. Also the beginning of Harry’s mental health issues – the doctor diagnoses him with schizophrenia, and that’s gonna be with him the rest of his life.

I don’t know whether the portrayal of Harry’s addiction and mental illness qualifies as sympathetic these days even if that’s what they were going for – Peter doesn’t seem entirely sympathetic, and he’s the one we’re ‘meant’ to listen to. I do think the writers were trying, but – I guess what we know about the nature of addiction has, luckily, moved on.

Also interesting, in the panel where the doctor says Harry’s been taking LSD: Gwen looks sad and worried. MJ looks furious.

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Some Raimi Spider-Man headcanons that no-one asked for:

  • Peter is autistic, and has selective mutism (that bit in the first movie where he just smiles at MJ instead of answering her made me think of this: I hope it’s accurate)
  • Harry is bisexual: he hides it well. His feelings about Peter have always been deeply confusing and contradictory.
  • Ursula and her father are Jewish (Mageina Tovah is, after all.)
  • Gwen is openly bisexual
  • Flash Thompson later got in touch with Peter and MJ and apologised for his behaviour in high school, which is why he can be seen in the background at Harry’s funeral.
  • MJ and Gwen sought each other out after the events of Spider-Man 3 and became friends. (Well, that’s semi-canon anyway I guess, the novelisation has them hugging at the funeral)
  • Gwen has three younger brothers, because that’s a bit of canon from ASM that I really like. (It always weirded me out that there were so many only children in the Spiderverse)
  • That little boy who is impressed at Peter’s car stunt is this universe’s Miles Morales.
  • May knows her nephew’s secret identity because she’s essentially his mother. Robbie knows too, because he’s much, much less self-obsessed and cynical than Jonah and quickly worked it out. Ursula also knows, because she lives next door to Peter after all and has witnessed his suspicious comings and goings. All three have sworn to themselves to never, ever tell anyone.

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I was screencapping Spider-Man in high resolution (as you do) and I came to this bit, and I realised…hey, someone actually wrote out the article! That’s pretty damn cool.

Obviously it was relevant to my Osborn Interests so I read it. The most interesting bit, annoyingly, barely made it onto camera, but…

Married only once, to the artist Caroline Mulder…divorced after ten years

  • Is that Harry’s mother, except not called Emily in this universe?!
  • Is that actually a tiny bit of almost-canon about Norman’s wife??
  • If she is/was an artist, that explains why the two most prominent pictures of her and Norman in the Osborn home are paintings: it was her who painted them.
  • Assuming that is Harry’s mother (and she isn’t Emily who Norman just didn’t marry) where did she go after the divorce? Did she leave Harry behind? I mean, I assume she’s still very much dead in this ‘verse…
  • Do I finally kinda have a Harry’s-mother’s-maiden-name to use for fanfic now?!
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