Rumor or Fact: Who’s appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home?

Willem Dafoe (Green Goblin) is in Spider-Man: No Way Home— Rumor

Perhaps the most interesting villain rumor out there is about Norman Osbourne, a.k.a. The Green Goblin. The Green Goblin is right up there with Doc Ock as one of Spider-Man’s most iconic villains. He’s already had three different iterations on the big screen: Willem Dafoe, who played the character as the main villain of Spider-Man (2002); James Franco, who played Norman’s son Harry in those movies and eventually took over the mantle in Spider-Man 3 (2007); and Dane DeHaan, who played a younger Harry Osborn who went on to become the Goblin in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).

This is a short way of saying the Spidey films have been saturated with Green Goblins over the years. But he has yet to appear in the MCU. According to Jeff Sneider over at Collider, Dafoe’s Goblin from Spider-Man is set to return as the main villain of No Way Home. Though Sneider acknowledges that everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt for now, he claims to know from his sources that it is the villains who will have “no way home” in the movie, getting stranded in Tom Holland’s MCU timeline.

Even more exciting is the rumor that Dafoe’s Goblin could start the Sinister Six, a group of villains with a serious grudge against Spider-Man. A large amount of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 revolved around setting the stage for that villainous super group’s eventual appearance, and while that never came to pass, the fact that we already know that Molina’s Doc Ock and Jamie Foxx’s Electro will be in this movie has our interest piqued. Both were founding members of the group in the comics, and while the Green Goblin was not, it’s hard to debate that Willem Dafoe’s turn as the psychotic Norman Osbourne made for one of the most terrifying Spidey villains ever seen on screen.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, please Marvel, let this one be true.