Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man Films)

Use more tritium in his fusion reactor in order to prove that he can control over the enormous power of the sun (all formerly and failed).
Destroy the fusion reactor as a final act of redemption for his crimes and the death of his wife Rosie (succeeded).
Find the original Peter Parker in the new universe he has just entered.
Regain control over his mind back from his tentacles.
Help all the three Spidermen's cure the rest of his former allies and return back to his homeworld (all succeeded).

### Crimes

Manslaughter
Assault and battery
Bank robbery
Unethical experimentation
Kidnapping
Public endangerment
Blackmail
Conspiracy
Mass property damage
Terrorism
Extortion
Attempted populicide

### Type of MB

Tragic Scientist

**Otto Octavius**, also known as **Doctor Octopus**, is the main antagonist of the 2004 film *Spider-Man 2* and returns as a supporting protagonist in 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film *Spider-Man: No Way Home*.

He was a scientist who became possessed by his malevolent mechanical arms after an experiment with his fusion reactor funded by Harry Osborn went horribly wrong. From there, Otto turned into a dangerous supervillain and the former second archenemy of Spider-Man.

He's played by Alfred Molina, who also voiced Viggo Grimborn in *Dragons: Race to the Edge* and Mister Freeze from *Harley Quinn*.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He's tragic due to being a genuinely good man before the accident happened, having a wife named Rosie who he really loves, and wanting to create enough renewable energy for the entire world.
* He has a sarcastic sense of humor, like when he makes a joke about a money roll and a rubber band or when he says "butterfingers" while dropping Aunt May.
* He singlehandedly robs a bank without getting caught.
* He defeats Spider-Man in their second-to-last fight and then delivers him to Harry in exchange for more tritium fuel, showing that he honors bargains.
* He redeems himself by dragging his fusion reactor down to the bottom of the river before it destroys at least half of New York, sacrificing his own life in the process.
* Once freed from his tenicals he thanks the MCU Peter for saving him and offers to help him.
* In *No Way Home*, he tricks Electro into believing he's on his side, and ends up helping the three Spider-Men defeat the villains, personally curing Electro. He also obtains the Arc Reactor to help achieve his dream of near-limitless energy after reconciling with his universe's Peter Parker.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* He robbed a bank to gain the money used to rebuild the fusion reactor.
* He takes Aunt May hostage in order to escape the police, even dropping her to her near-death when Spider-Man corners him.
* He threatened Harry Osborn into telling him where Peter Parker is.
* Upon meeting Peter, he almost killed him for not telling where Spider-Man is, not aware of the fact they're the same person.
* He kidnaps Mary Jane, threatening to kill her if Spider-Man doesn't meet him at 3 PM.
* He throws two hostages at Spider-Man during their second-to-last fight in the movie. Then, once that plan fails, he removes the brakes on a speeding train full of people, which certainly would've crashed and thus killed everyone onboard if Spider-Man didn't manage to stop it in time.
	+ He told MCU Spider-Man that he should've killed his little girlfriend when he had the chance, making the hero very angry because he thought he was talking about his MJ (Michelle Jones), not MJ (Mary Jane).
* He was willing to have the fusion reactor destroy half of New York before Spider-Man ends up convincing him to redeem.
* Before he was cured in *No Way Home*, he tried to kill the MCU Spider-Man and was very rude and cynical to the thought of being "healed".

## Trivia

* This is one of two versions of Doctor Octopus to be an MB, the other being the Spectacular Spider-Man version.
* He is the first of four Spider-Man movie villains to be an MB, followed by Vulture and Prowler.
* An early script for *Spider-Man 2* titled *Amazing Spider-Man* featured a version of Dr. Octopus who had none of the tragedy and redeeming qualities that he had in the final script and committed much more disgusting crimes. Had this version been the one to be published, he would've been too heinous to qualify as MB.
* Doctor Octopus is currently, the only MB to be Pure Good as well as Inconsistently Heinous.
* Ironically, an unpublished version of this character was written to be a a Hate Sink/Pure Evil.
* He, Buer and Oliver Grayson are the only Magnificent Baddies to also be Pure Good.

## External Links

* Doctor Octopus at the Villains wiki
* Doctor Octopus at the Heroes wiki
* Doctor Octopus at the Inconsistently Heinous wiki
* Doctor Octopus at the Pure Good wiki
* Doctor Octopus at the Shonen Rivals wiki

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