Originally Posted by
Lukmendes
Stock price falling is one of the reasons, not the only one, since Norman was blaming Peter for what was happening to Harry, and then he was paranoid that everyone was an enemy, and hallucinations of Spidey made his memory magically return, and then he just wanted to hurt Peter.
Not saying that your point of his characterization is bad being wrong mind you, but unfortunately, that's how he was written, whenever Green Goblin showed up, any other characterization Norman had was thrown in the garbage can and he became a lunatic with a revenge boner for Spidey, Conway was unfortunately just following what Lee/Romita had established already instead of doing something more complex, all he did was just change Green Goblin's revenge methods, so now he does what Spidey feared what would happen if someone found out his secret identity, actually go after his loved ones.
There was the "Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine#2" (Not the same as the usual Spectacular comics) that had Norman's memory returning, and he invited Peter, Gwen and MJ to a dinner in his house, or something like that, and ASM did occasionally reference it, so at least in that they've met.
Him caring about Harry is something ASM#40 established, he's just a guy who isn't fit to be a parent, but he did try to make Harry's life good with money, he was just bad at showing love, something Harry needed more.
The weird thing is how after this he became better at showing love for no reason lol.
Well, if Conway's clone saga is any hint, Peter managed to move on by that time, and Spectacular only started way after that, so by that point, Gwen had little reason to be reminded as more than "Oh man, she died, it's my fault", and MTU is less about Peter's character than the rest, as far as I remember, at best he just gets stressed over what was currently happening with him, though if no MTU issue around the time Gwen's death happened made even a mention of that, then yeah, they screwed up lol.
I mean, if you go by context, Gwen's death can somewhat be considered fridging, since fridging is the writer's intention of killing the character to make other characters be sad for a while, and that's why it can be considered somewhat fridging, since Conway only killed Gwen so he could ship Peter with some redhead character he liked, he was just better than a lot other fridging cases since Gwen's death fucked over everyone who knew her emotionally for a while, felt more organic than half assed fridgings we have around.