Parker died in Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 160 in June during a fight with his bitter enemy, Green Goblin.

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The role of a villainous spider-woman named Arachne was scaled back and the Green Goblin's role was enhanced.

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As Spider-Man, Parker still didn't have it together, questioning himself even while dispatching such criminals as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus.

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In the starting area alone, I ran into Venom and Green Goblin, and Brevik says that many of the locations found in the comic books also appear in the game.

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In recent seasons he's done the dirty in "Cyrano de Bergerac, " "A Man for All Seasons" and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, " in which he played, of all things, the Green Goblin.

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As if those two weren't enough, Spidey must further contend with the on-again-off-again rage of his erstwhile friend Harry Osborn (James Franco), who holds our hero responsible for the death of Harry's father, the extravagantly crazed Green Goblin, and seeks revenge by transforming himself into the much less extravagant New Goblin.

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