Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)

## Doctor Octopus

### Nicknames

Doc Ock, The Master Planner, The Living Brain, Slick, Gunther, Superior Spider-Man, The Good Doctor, Dr. Elliot Tolliver, Doc HYDRA.

## Biographical Information

### Affiliation

Oscorp (formerly), Octavius Industries (formerly), Sinister Six, Empire State University (formerly)

### Occupation

Scientist, criminal, terrorist, fugitive, professor, former CEO, vigilante, scientist, criminal mastermind, atomic researcher consultant

### Education

Ph.D. in Nuclear physics from M.I.T.; honorary doctorate in biochemistry

### Base Of Operations

Manhattan, New York City, New York, Hudson River, Hudson Channel, Ravencroft, beneath Battery Park.

## Additional Information

### Status

Deceased (a cloned version of him with his artifical intelligence uploaded to it still exists)

### Wiki Author

DuttPanda

**Otto Gunther Octavius**was an American supervillain known as **Doctor Octopus**, and one of the many dangerous foes of the hero named Spider-Man, often being labelled as his arch nemesis other than Norman Osborn. Otto was a brilliant, accomplished nuclear physicist, engineer and biochemist who had attended college with Norman Osborn. Osborn convinced Otto to join Oscorp. He left the company after Norman committed several safety and ethical violations regarding the dangerous GR-27 anti-serum, which ended up amounting to a deadly bioweapon, currently dubbed as the Devil's Breath. The mishaps Osborn had done without the consultation of Otto had led to the inadvertent creation of Mr. Negative, by granting Martin Li his supernatual powers. He created his own company, Octavius Industries after quitting from Oscorp.

Otto is a friend and mentor of Peter Parker and Peter serves as his lab assistant at Octavius Industries, which relies on grants. There, he and Peter are on the verge of perfecting advanced prosthetic limb technology, motivated by a neurological disorder Otto is developing while also working on a nuclear fusion project, both of which Otto thinks can benefit the world and his own research to get further grants. When his projects are on the verge of being shut down, he claims to have a breakthrough on his nuclear fusion project to sustain his operations. He tries to jumpstart the demonstration of the project, which results into a freak accident that kills his wife, Rosalie. In reality, Osborn had rigged their machinery to fail so that Oscorp could take over their project which actually yielded great potential, including their advanced prosthetic limb technology.

After their grant funding is shut down by Norman exploiting his position as Mayor and all his work assets are seized by Oscorp, Otto is inspired to seek revenge on him. He slowly unravels to be psychologically unstable and becomes deranged over time due to his neurodegenerative disease. Working on a set of mechanical appendages, Otto gradually loses control due to a defect with the neural implants affecting his mind and personality, and eventually transforms into the villainous Doctor Octopus under the influence of his AI that guides his mechanical tentacles, the Living Brain. As Doctor Octopus, he then forms the Sinister Six as part of his violent master plan to destroy Norman and his empire.

As Doctor Octopus, one of his first actions is to research the backgrounds of all the major supervillains locked inside the Raft so that he can offer them deals in order to work for him. After breaking them out, he forms the Sinister Six and puts his plan into motion: attack all of Osborn's holdings within the city, unleash the Devil's Breath on the populace, and make Osborn admit to his secrets.
Spider-Man foils most of this, though is powerless to stop the release of the Devil's Breath. Doctor Octopus fights him in his secret waterfront laboratory in the Hudson Baby where he was also working on his nuclear fusion reactor, after Osborn is saved. At this point, Otto's thought process has become absolutely inhumane, it's diassociation with reality amplified by the AI being hellbent on finishing it's previous projects while Otto's mental illnesses being tempted and influenced by the AI's actions. Otto plans to maluse the nuclear fusion reactor to blow up the city after he becomes fully unhinged and Osborn doesn't repent. Peter who is being beaten senseless by the mad doctor realizes that the AI in his inhibitor chip controlling his mechanical weaponized tentacles are influencing his actions.

He is able to reason with Otto, bringing out his human side, who snaps free from the Living Brain's control, horrified of his actions and revitalizing his previous set of ethics and morales. Otto decides that he will not die a monster, hands Peter over the anti-serum for the Devil's Breath and sacrifices himself in order to take down the nuclear fusion reactor which could have vaporized the entire city. Otto Octavius was dead, however, his legacy still lived on. While he was still under the full influence of the Living Brain before he snapped free from it's brainwashing, the AI made him upload their shared consciousness onto a digital network, onto one of his many secret bunkers.

That consciousness later contacted the Life Foundation through the dark web as it gained sentience through a running supercomputer, the organization later unearthing the lab and provided it an organic body, where it uploaded it's consciousness. Otto Octavius/The Living Brain once again lived on in the form of a cloning process/artificial intelligence, however, this version of Otto did not retain Otto's final moments of clarity or morale code and was even more vengeful to learn that Spider-Man had not only killed the real Otto but that there were multiple spider-powered people in existence now. This monstrous, horrifying artificial intelligence combination of a deranged Otto and a lunatic sentient intelligence became ever more vengeful and vowed to destroy every aspect of Spider-Man's life.