Green Goblin's Last Stand
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| The Green Goblin's Last Stand | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dan Poole |
| Produced by | Dan Poole |
| Written by | Comic Book: Stan Lee Steve Ditko Screenplay: Dan Poole |
| Starring | Dan Poole Jimi Kinstle Allison Adams Bob Tull |
| Distributed by | Alpha Dog Productions |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Running time | 46 min . |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500 (estimated) |
| IMDb profile | |
Green Goblin's Last Stand is a 1992 fan film based on the Marvel Comics superhero, Spider-Man and his Arch nemesis, The Green Goblin. It is directed, produced, written and starring Dan Poole.
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[edit] Plot
The film starts off at night with Spider-Man jumping from building to building, following a stolen car by two crooks and is angry that he has to do this because he has a date with his girlfriend Gwen Stacy. Spider-Man finally catches up with the vehicle and lands on it, as he keeps on complaining that he is being late for his date, causing the crooks to drive into a private place of New York and the criminals try to flee from the superhero, but he easily overpowers them and defeats them by knocking them unconscious and tying them up with his web shooters in an alley. A woman passes by and notices Spider-Man with the caught crooks and he tells her to call the police for them to arrest the crooks. The woman agrees to do so but asks Spider-Man why he won't do it himself. Spider-Man answers he has a date and swings off, with the woman looking at him and thinking that the girl he's dating with must be one lucky lady.
Gwen Stacy is picking the pecks off of a rose in a restaurant, wondering if her date, Peter Parker, will come and even saves his dinner table seat. She finally picks the last peck and finally believes Peter won't come, just when he arrives with roses and he apoligizes for being late. They share a small kiss and the waiter asks them if they would like something. In a humerous scene, Peter says in distraction for his love to Gwen that he doesn't want anything and he's all right, when Gwen snaps him back to reality and tells him the waiter was talking about food. Peter then gives the waiter his order and after their server leaves, Gwen asks Peter why he was late. Peter tells her that he was taking pictures of Spider-Man for The Daily Bugle but before he can continue, Gwen bursts out in anger that she is sick of hearing Spider-Man's name all over again (this is because she blames her father's death on Spider-Man. Gwen's father's death was an infamous storyline in the comics that had Gwen's dad killed between a battle between Spider-Man and Dr. Octopus). Peter tries to protect his alter ego (since he is really Spider-Man, unbeknownst to anyone, not even to Gwen herself. Otherwise, they wouldn't be dating right now) but before he can continue again, he is caught in shocking distraction when he sees Norman Osborn riding in a taxi. Gwen asks him what's wrong and Peter answers he saw Osborn. Gwen gets to the memory that Osborn was in the amniseac institution for millionaires (in another comic book storyline, Osborn, who was the villain known as The Green Goblin, fought Spider-Man, figured out the superhero's secret identity, lost and got amnisea in the ensuing battle, and was taken into an amniseac insitution for millionaires for his memories to come back). Peter tells her he was and his amnisea must have disappeared. Gwen is pleased at this news but Peter is worried that Osborn may know he is really Spider-Man.
Norman Osborn returns to his apartment home from the taxi he was riding in and calls out through his apartment for his son, Harry (but ever since Norman got amnisea, Harry had left New York out of stress). Osborn gets to his room and looks at an old newspaper after sitting down in his desk that has a picture taken of a battle between Spider-Man and a villain known as The Green Goblin. It involved the explosion of one of Osborn's factories and Spider-Man, with Osborn's unconscious body, returned to the police and Spider-Man said that The Goblin seemingly perished in the explosion. Osborn finishes reading the newspaper and realizes he knows The Goblin rings a bell to him but has trouble remembering the figure. But before he can continue trying to remember, he hears his apartment door open and believes Harry came back. He rushes to the door in happiness, even saying his son's name and exclaiming he's happy his son returned home, but when he gets to the entrance, his happiness turns into anger when he sees Peter Parker come in and expresses his hatred for him. Peter remains calm and tries to tell Osborn he was trying to find Harry. Just when Osborn believes Parker to be a real liar because Peter is supposed to be Harry's best friend, Peter tells him calmly again he will have Harry returned to him as soon as they get in contact with each other and to take it easy. Norman calms down and agrees with Peter's point of view. Peter leaves the apartment and Osborn returns to his room.
Peter and Gwen then confront each other in Peter's apartment, The Darkroom, and are discussing about Norman Osborn's return from the amniseac institutional clinic. Peter express his worries about Osborn's return and Gwen asks him why he is so worried (she even ironically states that Peter acts like Osborn can destroy the world). Peter can't directly tell Gwen about that if Osborn completely remembers everything, including his alter ego of The Green Goblin and his awareness of Parker being Spider-Man, but Peter does tell her that Osborn is dangerous in some ways if he remembers everything about his past. And Parker also gets the feeling Osborn didn't leave that instituion with doctor's permission.
As Osborn still glares at the old newspaper with the battle between Spider-Man and The Green Goblin, Norman remembers the explosion of that factory of his must have caused his amnisea. Osborn realizes that's it but is then wondering where Harry is and gets upset when he is wondering how long he has been gone and the photo of Spider-Man and The Goblin battling were taken by Peter Parker. Osborn gets mad at both of them and has a hallucination of Spider-Man at his exit of his room. He yells at the hallucination, which just stares at him, that he is the one to blame for taking away his factory, his hopes, his dreams. He charges up to the hallucination but just hits the door. He repeatedly tries to attack the hallucination, hitting walls until he slids down the stairs. Osborn then follows the hallucination out into the streets of New York and chases it all the way to a destroyed area where three low-lives tease him. Osborn literally sees the hallucination one of the low-lives and attacks him, slowly killing him. The other two try to save their friend, but Osborn just fends them back until one of the low-lives finally knocks Osborn out unconscious with an empty beer bottle and they all run away in fear. Osborn just lies there with his hatred of Spider-Man still intact.
As Peter and Gwen are still confronting each other in The Darkroom, Peter brings up Spider-Man in the plot to Norman Osborn's amnisea and Gwen expresses her full hatred of the superhero at full blast, even mentioning she believes it was Spider-Man and the other freak (referring to Dr. Octopus, but can't say his name) who killed her father. She then walks out on Peter but he tries to calm her down and get her to come back and just when the phone rings. Peter fails to have Gwen stay and the phone has the message of Harry Osborn's voice, telling Peter he will return to New York. When Peter rushes to the phone and picks it up to talk to Harry, he already hang up and Peter slams the phone back to the receiver in anger.
The next day, Norman Osborn wakes up in the destroyed area he was left knocked unconscious in and realizes the destroyed area he was lying in was his warehouse they last fought in, even screaming into the air, pretending he was actually talking to Spider-Man, even throwing a tiny destroyed part of the factory away from him. Osborn gets into one of the other parts of the factory and sees The Green Goblin equipment. He then complains it was Spider-Man who ruined his life but Osborn's voice becomes more squeaky and sinister, telling himself that Spider-Man also tried to make him forget that he was The Goblin as he puts on the suit. And he screams throughout the warehouse he is The Green Goblin once he is fully suited, vowing revenge on Spider-Man and will kill the superhero, even if it's the last thing he does, as he laughs throughout the destroyed warehouse.
Peter goes back to Norman Osborn's apartment and arrives in his room, looking for Osborn but is shocked to see an old newspaper of a battle between Spider-Man and The Green Goblin. Parker becomes worried when he believes Osborn must have read this newspaper and might have remembered he was The Green Goblin. Just when he is walking out of the apartment, he bumps into Harry Osborn and they are both shocked to see each other. After their shocking reunition, Peter asks Harry if he saw his father. Harry says he didn't and still believes his dad is at the amniseac institution for millionaires. Peter tells him he saw Harry's dad the night before and Harry believes it impossible, because he would know if the doctor would tell him. He then tries to find the doctor's number at his father's desk to find out but Peter rushes out of the apartment because his spider sense tells him danger will happen in The Darkroom. Harry notices this but says this is typical.
Gwen returns to The Darkroom, where it is empty, and calls out through the room, as if she were talking to Peter, that she is sorry for outbursting, walking out on him and that she loves him. But that is all in the distraction when she sees a newspaper of Spider-Man that has the question if Spider-Man is really a friend or foe to New York. Gwen is then angry about this and sits down on the couch as she still looks at the paper. She says outloud for her wish to come true if Spider-Man would just disappear from the world. Shockingly, The Green Goblin appears and Gwen stands up in shock of looking at the approaching villain, telling her it is a coincedence that they both want Spider-Man dead. The Goblin gets Gwen to the wall and knocks her unconscious with some knock-out gas from his palm. He laughs at Gwen's unconscious body.
Peter goes into an alley and slips into his Spider-Man suit, swinging from rooftop to rooftop all the way back to The Darkroom but finds a pumpkin bomb of The Green Goblin's as a calling card to tell Spider-Man that he kidnapped Gwen. Spider-Man looks up to The Darkroom's rooftop and sees The Green Goblin taunting him as he holds in Gwen's unconscious body and after Spider-Man asks him what he wants, The Goblin answers him he wants him to leave this world forever. Spider-Man climbs to the rooftop, complaining to The Goblin that he, as Peter Parker, had been Harry's friend for years and Osborn, as The Goblin, repays Parker with revenge. The two finally meet at the rooftop and and The Goblin tries to charge in for Spider-Man with his glider, but knocks him out by tripping the glider with a spider web. This knocks out The Goblin and has him fly away from the glider. Spider-Man tries to return Gwen's body back to her home, telling her unconscious body everything will be better again with some sweet talk. But The Goblin gets conscious again, returns to his glider and knocks Gwen away from Spider-Man and off the roof. Spider-Man is in shock as he watches Gwen fall to the ground but he quickly spouts a web to Gwen. He successfully catches her and pulls her back up to the roof, "telling his spider powers he loves them" but then finds out Gwen is dead and cries over her dead body. The Goblin returns to Spider-Man and taunts him as a romantic idiot - a fall like the one Gwen was in could kill anyone - even before they land to the ground! Spider-Man vows he will kill The Goblin in cold blood for revenge on Gwen's death. But before he could attack, The Goblin throws a bomb at Spider-Man and it explodes, only sticking powder to the superhero. Spider-Man taunts his opponent about this and jumps at him, where The Goblin is floating on his glider near a billboard, but he easily avoids the jump and Spider-Man tries to stick to the billboard, but unfortunately slips off and, after wondering what the powder did to him, it is then revealed to Spider-Man that the powder strips Spider-Man of his stickiness to solid objects as long as the powder remains in affect and The Goblin laughs at Spider-Man's realization. But Spider-Man returns to the rooftop and webs The Goblin back into the rooftop by his glider where numerous pumpkin bombs roll away from him as he falls to his front. He then crawls up to one of the bombs but is then interrupted by Spider-Man when the superhero repeatedly, and angrily, pounds his face against the roof, having mounts of blood come out through The Goblin's face as he still tries to reach for the bomb. He successfully grabs it and the bomb, which is only a distraction bomb, is thrown into Spider-Man's face, having him rolling around on his back on the roof from the bomb. The Goblin, in agony after the blows Spider-Man sent him, escapes on his glider and flies off into the New York skies. After The Goblin left, the distraction bomb's affect on Spider-Man disappeared and he crawls up to Gwen's dead body, grieving about her death.
Later on in the film, Norman Osborn, with his Goblin equipment still on but his mask off, wipes blood from his forehead after being bashed by Spider-Man against the roof and vows he will kill those who underestimated Norman Osborn's intelligence. But before he can continue vowing, he realizes Spider-Man had tracked him down and is preparing to kill him after Gwen Stacy died. He puts on his mask and plans on attacking Spider-Man unexpectidely but Spider-Man gets into The Goblin's lair, telling him he heard about his new attack, but he is going to kill The Goblin first. After The Goblin throws a bomb to Spider-Man, which the superhero easily dodges and jumps into another part of the warehouse, and The Goblin follows him in, taunting him he doesn't have a chance of defeating him. This leads to a final showdown between the combatants where they all seem to have defeated each other, which also damages part of Spider-Man's mask and actual face, but it ends when Spider-Man finally makes The Goblin think the superhero had died and spouts a web at the back of the glider, having The Goblin fall off the glider and Spider-Man brakes the machine in anger. The Goblin, who is at a wall, is furious at Spider-Man for destroying his glider but Spider-Man attacks him in anger about what real pain is about, still blaming him for Gwen's death. The Goblin taunts Spider-Man that Gwen didn't matter and she was just another useless, pathetic woman in the world. Spider-Man attacks him even more, saying The Goblin doesn't know what it's like to lose somebody he loves and reminds him it was him who killed Gwen. Spider-Man repeatedly punches The Goblin as he pins him to the ground as even blood gets pounded out of the villain and finally he tries choking him to death. But Spider-Man stops himself and The Goblin appears to have passed out. Spider-Man walks away from The Goblin's body and reminds himself he was actually going to kill someone, even if it is a psychopath like The Green Goblin. The superhero the believes he might have and returns to the body, and The Goblin surprisingly wakes up, telling Spider-Man he should have killed him. The superhero tells him he's not going to kill him - no, he's going to rot in a prison cell with maniacs just like him. The Goblin then secretly activates his glider, which wasn't completely destroyed by Spider-Man, and Spider-Man pulls The Goblin back to his feet against the same wall as before and the glider is slowly coming in towards Spider-Man's back with knives pointing to him. The Goblin tells him he has more than enough money to keep him out of prison while Peter Parker only has a dime for his entire life and the villain might even reveal Spider-Man's secret identity. The superhero tells him he'll the chances and The Goblin asks him what the shock might do to Peter's dear old Aunt May and laughs. Spider-Man releases him from his grasp and they both stare at each other in anger and when The Goblin's glider is finally about to impale Spider-Man from behind, his spider sense tells him about the danger and quickly rolls out of the way. The glider instead impales The Goblin and the villain is pinned against the wall by the knives in his chest with unlimited amounts of blood shooting out and after a few moments, The Goblin dies off from the impalement and the glider is shut off. Spider-Man just looks at The Goblin's dead body.
We then go to a cemetary where we see Peter Parker, bandaged by one quarter of his face, at Gwen Stacy's grave and apoligizes to it, as if talking to Gwen herself as if she were still alive, that he never told her he was Spider-Man and that his life is nothing without her. And seeing The Goblin die only made his pain worse. Peter tells the grave he just wants to retire being Spider-Man all for Gwen, but he made a promise on his Uncle Ben's death that he would promise to keep being Spider-Man. The film is then finished off with Spider-Man jumping and swinging around at buildings at night.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Dan Poole | Peter Parker / Spider-Man |
| Jimi Kinstle | Norman Osborn / Green Goblin |
| Allison Adams | Gwen Stacy |
| Bob Tull | Harry Osborn |
[edit] Trivia
- Intended as a demo-reel for then Spider-Man (1994) director James Cameron.[citation needed]
- It is based on The Amazing Spider-Man storyline, The Night Gwen Stacy Died.
- Although they never appeared in the film, Mysterio, Bullseye and J. Jonah Jameson appeared in the trailer.
- Strangely, after the credits, there was a "The End" with a question mark at the end, which hints of a sequel but nothing happened so far. However, in the comics, The Goblin died the same death he suffered here in this fan-film but two decades later, it was revealed he survived the impalement due to a healing ability he never realized he had.
- J. Jonah Jameson's appearance in the trailer of the film was at the very begining where he was complaining as he threw pictures of Spider-Man away and he was complaining that the Spider-Man pictures pictures he could get.
- Mysterio's appearnace in the trailer was when he was fooling around with Spider-Man in his lair by giving him allusions he had to fight through, but Mysterio was defeated when Spider-Man landed on something, presumably that was the main source of the allusions.
- Bullseye's appearance in the trailer was when he was fighting against Spider-Man in a warehouse and Spider-Man escaped him by rolling outside of it when the door he was going through was closing. Bullseye's fate afterwards from that battle was unknown.
