Doctor Octopus

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character and is not canon

**Dr. Otto Octavius** is a highly intelligent and prideful scientist, better known as the criminal mastermind **Doctor Octopus**. During an atomic research project, Octavius' body was fused to four mechanical, tentacle-like arms, also causing him severe brain damage that turned him into a criminal. He clashed with Spider-Man and went to become one of his greatest enemies. After multiple battles, Otto's body started to fail and decay itself. In one last attempt to survive, Otto swapped brains with his nemesis, leaving Spider-Man to die in his fragile body. However, residual memories caused Otto to understand the responsibility of being a hero and strove to become the **Superior Spider-Man**, a better crime-fighter than his nemesis ever was. Despite his best efforts, Otto's ruthless method of justice was futile in stopping the return of Green Goblin, forcing Otto to cede control of his body back to Peter Parker, understanding him to be the one worthy of being called Spider-Man. He was voiced by Tom Kenny in Ultimate Spider-Man and Peter MacNicol in Spectacular Spider-Man.

## Doctor Octopus

### Occupation

Scientist

A digital backup of Otto's mind survived and housed himself in the robotic body of the **Living Brain**. Using the cloning technology of the new Jackal at his disposal, Otto transferred his digital mind to a new body made from his and Spider-Man's genes, assuming the alias of the **Superior Octopus** while working with Hydra. Creating the identity of "Elliot Tolliver," Otto moved to San Francisco, where he resumed his activities as the Superior Spider-Man. Despite all the good he had done, Otto was forced to make a deal with Mephisto to return to his Doctor Octopus body and mind to defeat another criminal mastermind.

However Otto slowly started to spiral into depression over the loss of information that helped him find what he called "The Great Equation", a culmination of all his life's work. Otto grew miserable and redirected this frustration towards the now-reformed Norman Osborn for being responsible for dismantling the heroic life he made during Otto's first time as the Superior Spider-Man and possibly for his alternate reality counterpart putting Otto in a position where he had to once again relinquish his desire to be a hero and become his original villainous self. Realizing that the only way for him to be at peace is to regain his lost memories, Otto sets out to once again become the Superior Spider-Man.

## Featured Versions

### Ultimate Spider-Man

Dr. Otto Octavius was friends with Dr. Curt Connors at college, then started working for Oscorp. Dr. Octavius was later involved in a lab accident which caused him to be paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own. Fortunately, Norman Osborn funded technology to let Dr. Octavius breathe through a harness equipped with mechanical tentacles that gave him mobility and Dr. Octavius started serving Norman since that day. He was put into an underwater lab under the Hudson River where no one can find him.

### Spectacular Spider-Man

**Otto Octavius** was a brilliant scientist and inventor before an accident bonded him to four mechanical tentacles driving him to extreme criminal activities. Taking the name **Doctor Octopus**, **Doc Ock** for short, he became one of Spider-Man's most formidable opponents, founded the Sinister Six, and took over the criminal underground as **Master Planner**. Octavius conveys to his boss his concerns that Spider-Man may track Sandman and Rhino back to OsCorp, and particularly to himself. Osborn starts berating and belittling the overly timid and shy doctor, who pictures himself standing up to his verbally abusive employer. However, he doesn't have the nerve to act on his desire. Osborn orders him to keep running his experiments and "like a good 'Doctor Octopus.'" Octavius timidly asks him not to call him that. After Osborn leaves, Octavius resumes his work. He takes the safety key off and steps inside the experimentation chamber. While he is adjusting some machine with his mechanical arms, a shadowy figure approaches the console and puts the safety key back on and activates the generator. Octavius cries for help, claiming he had been compliant. The radiation fuses his mechanical arms with his spinal column as he yells in anguish.

## Personality

Doctor Octopus is a mad scientist that experiments with dangerous subjects, as shown when he created the symbiote. Although Doctor Octavius is always in his lab, after his first time of chasing and capturing someone, he enjoyed it and stated that he should have done it more often and that the thrill excites him.

Octavius has shown to have no fear of being killed, shown to still chase after Spider-Man even as large amounts of water leaks into his lab. Although being insane, he feels sadness after his accident, which caused him to change physically. Like a real octopus, Doctor Octopus is always hiding in the shadows, concealed in the cracks of his lab.

Doctor Octopus hates being told what to do even by other villains like Loki or Armin Zola or the former Green Goblin. His inferiority complex is the cause of this. It is revealed that Doc Ock has a vendetta against HYDRA for some reason on keeping Ock in even worst slavery treatment than in Oscorp, and soon he removed one of its main leaders, Arnim Zola, to cover his status as a traitor.

His ideology is to be respected by the world, by utilizing fear since no one would respect him for his brilliance alone. He believed that "with great power, comes great fear and with great fear, comes great respect". This obsession ended up nearly destroying him when he, out of intense anger and denial, injected himself with a serum that causes him to mutate into a giant mutant octopus with limited intelligence. After Spider-Man saves him by curing him, Spider-Man makes him realize the error of his ideology of using fear as an anchor to gaining respect and recognition.

Realizing the wisdom in Spider-Man's words, he takes it upon himself to help Spider-Man save the heroes and willingly turns himself in, thus possibly beginning his redemption.