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by **john lewis hawk** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:30 pm

BubbaKanoosh wrote:Top Marvel thread:
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:07 am

Hobgoblin Thread:
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:55 am

Any chance these are related somehow?

If I pay you, can you make so Hobgoblin gets only one vote? :twisted:

by **Cat-Scratch** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:34 pm

Zechs wrote:Welcome..

Where's the Girlie Goblins?

by **Zechs** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:35 pm

Cat-Scratch wrote:Where's the Girlie Goblins?

There will be no Fury or Fembot Goblins.

There is only one Goblin to be seen in this thread and that's..

by **Zechs** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:36 pm

john lewis wrote:If I pay you, can you make so Hobgoblin gets only one vote?

Silencing THE TRUTH! SILENCING THE TRUTH!!

by **Cat-Scratch** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:45 pm

Which Hobby?

Also, this would be better as a Goblin thread...........great legacy of characters.

by **Zechs** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:54 pm

Cat-Scratch wrote:Which Hobby?

Also, this would be better as a Goblin thread...........great legacy of characters.

NEVER!! Ok fine.. I'll post one Green Goblin in this thread in the next post. Until then.. :twisted:

by **spidertour02** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:02 pm

Here's the problem with Hobgoblin coming back ... the writers fucked up Norman when they brought him back.

Hear me out on this. The difference between Roderick Kingsley and Norman Osborn is that Roddy is 100% sane. His sanity made him dangerous -- a killer instinct with the mind to execute. Norman was a crazy, amnesiac nut, which made him dangerous in a different way. When Marvel brought back Norman at the end of the Clone Saga (a retcon that still makes no sense), somebody didn't read up on back issues, because suddenly Norman Osborn was Roderick Kingsley!

The Norman Osborn in today's comics is essentially Roderick Kingsley with a shitty haircut -- cold, calculating, and seemingly devoid of his most noticeable character trait, his fragile mind. This makes Roderick, and thus the Hobgoblin, redundant and unnecessary.

And I hate it.

by **john lewis hawk** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:05 pm

Zechs wrote:Silencing THE TRUTH! SILENCING THE TRUTH!!

Aquaman >>>>>>>> Hobgoblin

by **Zechs** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:10 pm

spidertour02 wrote:Here's the problem with Hobgoblin coming back ... the writers fucked up Norman when they brought him back.

Hear me out on this. The difference between Roderick Kingsley and Norman Osborn is that Roddy is 100% sane. His sanity made him dangerous -- a killer instinct with the mind to execute. Norman was a crazy, amnesiac nut, which made him dangerous in a different way. When Marvel brought back Norman at the end of the Clone Saga (a retcon that still makes no sense), somebody didn't read up on back issues, because suddenly Norman Osborn was Roderick Kingsley!

The Norman Osborn in today's comics is essentially Roderick Kingsley with a shitty haircut -- cold, calculating, and seemingly devoid of his most noticeable character trait, his fragile mind. This makes Roderick, and thus the Hobgoblin, redundant and unnecessary.

And I hate it.

I agree. The fact that Norman continues to act like he's all sane in the head pisses me off. That's why I loved Ennis's version of him in T-Bolts. All it take's is some work and he'll crack.

However the fact that it still means he got away with his crimes aways puts a smile on my face. And the fact that he hasn't even appeared in ten years and STILL to this day Betty Brant still carries guns, shotguns, and looks to weapons just for the fear that one day he'll return.

But honestly Betty.. you should know better.. as I will soon post. In the meantime Cat have your other goblin:

by **john lewis hawk** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:41 pm

Phil Ulrich >>>> Hobgoblin

by **Zechs** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:43 pm

john lewis wrote:Phil Ulrich >>>> Hobgoblin

Yet who just got their ass kicked really bad? Yeah that's right. That was Phil Urich bitch! Hobgoblin showed him whose top Goblin and Phil is not!

by **john lewis hawk** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:49 pm

Zechs wrote:Yet who just got their ass kicked really bad? Yeah that's right. That was Phil Urich bitch! Hobgoblin showed him whose top Goblin and Phil is not!

Hobgoblin picks on not-existing-anymore kids. Ulrich = 1, Hobgoblin = 0.