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Yeah, I think one could do some tweaking here and there to make it fit. Maybe he was familiar with the Green Goblin prototype Oscorp was making for the military and he just deduced GG's identity. I guess the screenwriters didn't want to waste too much time on that regard, and they chose to move the plot forward and introduce the idea of villains who died in a faster way, which is a creative decision I can totally understand