No Way Home's Green Goblin Change Was As Important As Maguire & Garfield
Making Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin the main villain of Spider-Man: No Way Home was secretly the best choice in the movie. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Multiverse-based Spider-Man story sees numerous villains ofPeter Parker from other universes pulled into the MCU, alongside original Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. Among the villains brought over is Wilem Dafoe's Norman Osborn from Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man movie, but his role was almost quite different.
Spider-Man: No Way Home's co-writer Chris McKenna revealed that Norman wasn't originally the main antagonist for the film, with McKenna stating, "So we were evolving the script as we were writing it and shooting it, and it was, 'Oh, Goblin/Norman has to be the villain. How do we do that?'" While Norman's upgrade to Spider-Man: No Way Home's primary villain seemingly had some overlap with principal photography, the menace he provided and Dafoe's innate skill at showing it greatly helped Spider-Man: No Way Home as much as Maguire, Garfield, and Holland's Spider-Men teaming up did.
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Despite having an assortment of Spider-Man villains from past movies brought into No Way Home, none of them are inherently evil within the film and the three Spider-Men give them all a path to redemption. Norman Osborn is more of a unique case among the villains, due to having a distinct dissociation between his identities as Norman Osborne and as Green Goblin. Unlike Norman, the Goblin is a genuinely evil, murderous sociopath, and having him in the movie made the situation far more dangerous for all involved.
The Green Goblin persona taking over Norman's mind and killing Peter's Aunt May
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