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There’s a reason Harry Osborn’s dialogue seems off in the 2002 Spider-Man video game (and it will change the way you look at the game forever)
Harry Osborn’s dialogue in the 2002 Spider-Man video game was originally recorded for another character
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If you ever played the 2002 Spider-Man movie tie-in game, you might notice that Harry Osborn seems out of character. Players who beat the game on hero difficulty get to replay the game as Harry Osborn using Goblin gear, but the dialogue is a bit off. Harry is supposed to be investigating the disappearance of his father, but he seems a bit jovial and too quippy. In other words, the character seems more like Spider-Man than the angsty Harry Osborn.
It turns out there’s a reason for that. Josh Keaton, who voices Harry Osborn in the video game, originally recorded the lines for Spider-Man. “I was cast as [Spider-Man] in the accompanying video game for the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man film,” Josh Keaton revaled during a panel at GalaxyCon Nashville 2026. “Then they got Tobey to do it after I had already finished recording the entire game. Which I can’t be mad about, that was his part. But they were actually really nice. They didn’t want to waste any of the audio that they did with me.”
“They put in this hidden mode of play where when you beat the game, you can play through it again as Harry Osborn in the Green Goblin suit, saying dialogue that is totally not Spider-Man dialogue in any way,” Keaton continued. “I actually had to go in and do another session after that to kind of add in some other dialogue that would basically say that.”
Josh Keaton would go on to voice Spider-Man for the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series. Thankfully they didn’t repurpose that dialogue for Harry Osborn, or it would’ve been a confusing series.
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