 After the incident, Spiderling becomes his first close friend, but as they grew up they saw each other less as Normie's life did get better and more normal despite him still running the company.Eight years later, he takes a more cautious approach for his latest experiments with gene therapy to avoid the incidents caused by his father and grandfather, though he is still a target of enemies as a result of their legacy (though Spiderling does assist in protecting him time to time).He is determined to make the world a better place to redeem the Osborn name, but is unaware that his lead scientist is secretly Mister Sinister, who uses his resources to create various clones of the Spider family to attack the X-Men.