Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home.

A new piece of Spider-Man: No Way Home art imagines a Green Goblin scene as the cover of a vintage Marvel comic. Since its release in theaters on December 17, No Way Home has already become one of the most profitable films of all time. In just a dozen days, it has grossed more than The Rise of Skywalker’s entire box office run. This is thanks in large part to the MCU’s multiverse theory and No Way Home’s promise of familiar faces from Sony’s past.

As the conclusion of Jon Watts’ Homecoming trilogy, No Way Home sees Peter Parker (Tom Holland) seek Doctor Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) help undoing Mysterio’s identity reveal in Far From Home’s credits scene. The pair’s multiversal melding resulting in villains from both Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man films entering into the MCU, including Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Electro (Jamie Foxx), Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Lizard (Rhys Ifans), and, of course, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s iterations of Spider-Man. While the latter pair steal the show upon their arrival, Green Goblin walks away from No Way Home as its best baddie.

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Artist Butcher Billy on Instagram recently shared a vintage comic book cover that takes inspiration from one of Green Goblin’s scenes in No Way Home. The fan-made, The Amazing Spider-Man cover, entitled “Green Goblin No More!” sees Norman Osborn walk away from his broken Goblin mask. The scene, both on the cover and depicted in No Way Home, is reminiscent of the scene in Spider-Man 2 (2004) when Peter Parker (Maguire) decides he’s “Spider-Man no more.” Check it out below:

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In Raimi’s original Spider-Man (2002) movie, Harry Osborn’s (James Franco) father, Norman, founder and owner of Oscorp Industries, experiments on himself with an unstable performance-enhancing chemical. This drives him insane and results in the dueling personalities of Norman and the Goblin. In No Way Home, the Goblin, in full garb, appears on the bridge where Spider-Man is fighting Doc Ock. The next time audiences see him, he argues with the Goblin before breaking his mask and running away (like the cover above). Peter then goes to F.E.A.S.T. and finds a frightened Norman, who has seemingly reclaimed control of himself from his split Goblin personality. Unfortunately for Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), the Goblin persona later takes control in devastating fashion.

The Green Goblin is at the center of Peter’s moral dilemma in No Way Home. While Dafoe’s portrayal in the first Spider-Man movie has always been revered, his character in No Way Home is arguably more sympathetic and multi-dimensional. On top of that, the fight scenes between Holland and Dafoe are some of the film’s best. As an ode to Spider-Man cinema, which alludes to comic book storylines like “One More Day,” it’s fitting that Spider-Man: No Way Home would bring back a vintage villain and make him better than ever.

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