" He rang a gong to start a demonstration of the difference betweenreflexiveandvoluntarynerve impulses.After meeting many obstacles and making sacrifices, including her turning down a trip to Paris to marry him, she is diagnosed as terminally ill ("very sick") when she is tested for pregnancy and fertility ("She""s dying").It""s his.The sum total of all my work.Everything I did to stay alive.Maybe you can succeed where I failed.Not long after, a TV news report announced the passing of 63 year-old Norman Osborn, the legendary founder and CEO of Oscorp Industries, in the year 2014.Also in on the meeting was prejudiced anti-mutant Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison) who had supported the Mutant Registration Act that would eliminate peaceful co-existence.