Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 Doesn’t Have to Look Far for the Perfect Green Goblin Blueprint (2024)

Marvel’s Spider-Man only narrowly beats out Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in terms of how many bosses are fought, which is partly due to its DLC bosses. But the original undoubtedly pales in comparison when the quality of each is assessed because whereas Marvel’s Spider-Man relied heavily on set-pieces and QTEs Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 allowed players to fight bosses with the same combat they dole out on mobs and made each boss intricate with attacks players could parry.

Insomniac’s next Spider-Man game should now have its own spectacular boss fights and it’s going to have a lot of expectations to satisfy when it comes to its design of Green Goblin as an antagonist. Out of all the antagonists in the series and their boss fight designs thus far, it seems clear that the final boss fight in the sequel against Venom has the greatest chance of inspiring Marvel’s Spider-Man 3’s Green Goblin.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s First Venom Fight is Unique to the Symbiote’s Strengths

Venom appears in two boss fights—one for each Spider-Man. Each of these boss fights is different, too, and showcases a unique Venom design. The first, against a Peter Parker who’s now equipped with a curative Anti-Venom symbiote, is the hulking brute Venom is classically known as, throwing his mass and tendrils around with big AoEs between parryable command grabs.

Moreover, this boss features intermittent spawns of symbiote enemies fighting alongside Venom, though they can be disintegrated instantly by web-yanking suspended police cruisers and emitting a frequency that stuns symbiotes. This boss fight is a comprehensive and wholesale interpretation of what Venom classically brings to the table as a villain.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s Second Venom Fight Represents Two Possible Green Goblin Designs

Meanwhile, Venom’s second boss fight, though similar in intervals, includes a form with winged flight and explosive projectiles he can launch at Miles Morales. This form is neat, but for a boss who was already expertly crafted for a previous fight it seems superfluous to give him flight and projectiles. Perhaps Insomniac wanted to give him two distinct boss forms so that both Spider-Men could have their own unique boss fight against him, with Miles getting to tackle the winged Venom by himself before both wall-crawlers beat on him in a QTE-laden cutscene.

Rather, another logical reason why Venom was given this form could be so Insomniac could experiment and prepare for how it plans to design Green Goblin in one or multiple boss fights. It’s still unclear how Marvel’s Spider-Man 3’s Green Goblin will take shape despite the series heavily suggesting he’ll be an armored Emerald Elf astride a glider, which could sap the same boss attacks and moves Venom possesses in his second boss fight.

That said, there’s a chance he also mutates into a muscle-bound brute with pointy ears and can throw fireballs, like in the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book run and video game adaptation, which could scalp from Venom across both of the antagonist’s boss fights in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. No matter which path Insomniac takes with Green Goblin, Venom may have been purposefully designed to lay the brickwork for their climactic boss fight.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

The sequel to 2018's Spider-Man and its Miles Morales spin-off, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a PS5 console exclusive. Insomniac's open-world game features Peter Parker and Miles Morales as dual protagonists, with the two heroes going up against the likes of Kraven, Venom, and Lizard.

Franchise

Spider-Man

Platform(s)

PS5

Released

October 20, 2023

Developer(s)

Insomniac Games

Publisher(s)

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Genre(s)

Open-World , Action-Adventure

ESRB

T For Teen Due To Blood, Drug Reference, Mild Language, Violence

How Long To Beat

20 Hours

Metascore

90

PS Plus Availability

N/A

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