Doctor Octopus

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 Alignment | Neutral Evil

## Background

Born in Schenectady, New York, Otto Octavius had a turbulent upbringing due to his abusive father Torbert Octavius berating him for being constantly bullied at school. Due to his mother's insistence that he can solve anything with his mind rather than with brute force, Otto focused more on his education, becoming a brilliant and respected nuclear physicist who devoted his entire life to developing a fusion-based energy source. His work eventually led him to Oscorp under Norman Osborn. By the time Octavius finally finished his fusion reactor for Oscorp, having lost his mother and the woman he loved during that time frame, he unveiled a harness of highly advanced mechanical arms controlled via a brain–computer interface to assist him with his research into atomic physics. When the energy core became unstable, and in part due to being too stubborn to turn off the machine, the experiment turned into a complete disaster with only Spider-Man's arrival saving the day. But the damage was done as direct exposure to the energy core damaged Octavius mentally and physically, the latter in his ribs and legs being damaged by debris. The heat from the energy core also bonded the metal harness to his spine, forcing the hospital staff to build an iron lung around Octavius's body to save his life. But Octavius, driven mad by his refusal to accept that he was wrong, escaped soon after and turned to a life of crime under the name of "Doctor Octopus."

## Powers & Abilities

* **Genius Intelligence:** Otto Octavius is a multi-discipline scientist with expertise in various fields of science.
	+ **Radiation Specialist:** Doctor Octopus is one of the world's leading authorities on nuclear radiation and its effect on animal physiology.
	+ **Engineering:** Doctor Octopus is a brilliant engineer and inventor, due to his own ability and more recently due to having Peter's memories.

## Equipment

* **Doctor Octopus' Tentacles:** Doctor Octopus has possessed a total of three different harnesses during his career: the original titanium harness, a more powerful Adamantium harness, and the current harness, which was modified in 2004 to resemble the version seen in the movie *Spider-Man 2*. The original and Adamantium harnesses were both destroyed in the Lethal Foes of Spider-Man miniseries. The current harness has eight tentacles as opposed to four.
	+ **Original Harness:** With his titanium harness, Doc Ock was able to beat Daredevil, a seasoned combatant with superhuman senses, almost to death out of sheer power. It was also temporarily worn by Spider-Man after Octavius' death, until the Hobgoblin caused it to short-circuit via pumpkin bomb. Spider-Man than proceeded to rip them apart when he lost control.
	+ **Adamantium Harness:** Using Adamantium, Octavius created an entirely new indestructible harness, with all of the abilities he had before but with exponentially higher durability. Using this harness, he was able to best Iron Man in combat, tearing the hero's armor apart with a defeat so harsh that Tony Stark began to doubt his abilities almost enough to resort back to alcoholism. He knocked the Hulk unconscious and, by Spider-Man's own reckoning, was "holding his own" against the combined forces of himself, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Deathlok, Ghost Rider, and Solo, even after the rest of the Sinister Six were defeated or fled.
	+ **Cybernetic Tentacles:** Doctor Octopus' superhuman abilities derive from the four mentally-controlled, electronically-powered, telescoping, prehensile titanium-steel tentacles attached to a stainless steel harness encircling his body from lower chest to waist. Each tentacle, approximately five inches in diameter, terminates in three single-jointed pincers. The pincers are able to rotate in relation to the arm for 360 degrees, in a screwdriver-like twisting motion. Each tentacle segment contains four high-efficiency electric motors equipped with a clutched, helical-gear train, independently mounted on frictionless gimbals and housed in four thin, overlapping layers of titanium-niobium steel. The titanium-steel alloy is light, has high-tensile strength, a high melting point, and high thin-wall rigidity. The motors get their power from a small nuclear-powered thermo-electric generator, which can provide several hundred watts per hour for up to five years before needing to replace its U-239 core. The tentacles have been modified since the time of the original accident to include high-efficiency battery packs (enabling movement when cut off from the central power source) and individual micro-circuit control modules (enabling each arm to perform certain pre-programmed actions when Octopus loses conscious control). In the event that Octopus loses consciousness, the control module of each arm has enough pre-programmed conditional responses in its memory chip to enable it to perform a relatively complex sequence of actions, such as saving his life. The trauma of his arm or arms being separated from the harness causes a period of disorientation in which his arms flail about uncontrollably until the pre-programming takes over.
		- **Technopathic Tentacle Manipulation:** Octopus can control the actions of his artificial arms psionically, even when they have been severed from his body and are separated from him by vast distances (a distance of 900 miles has been recorded).
		- **Telescoping:** Each tentacle is approximately six feet long at full contraction, but can extend to a maximum of 24 feet in length.
		- **Superhuman Striking Force:** Each tentacle is capable of moving at a speed of ninety feet per second and strike with the force of a jackhammer.
		- **High-Wind Generation:** The tentacles can generate 50 mile per hour winds if spun like a giant fan.
		- **Wall-Climbing and Traveling:** By combining the intrinsic strength of both his tentacles and the pincers, Doctor Octopus can scale stone, brick, or concrete walls by rending "handholds" in the surface of the wall. Octopus is able to use his tentacles for traversing horizontal distances as well. At full extension, he can travel high above the ground as if on stilts, either using two tentacles, or for maximum speed (approximately 50 miles per hour), four tentacles.
		- **Sensation Feeling:** Although there are no nerve endings throughout the length of his artificial arms, Octopus can "feel" basic sensations with them. As a result of the mutagenic changes from exposure to radiation during the accident, electrical connections have been made from his chest harness to his spine. Thus, Doctor Octopus can mentally perceive "tactile" sensations by feeling the amount of electrical resistance that the pincer's electric motors feel when the pincers grasp an object.
		- **Superhuman Concentration:** Doctor Octopus possesses extraordinary mental abilities and concentration, and through years of practice is able to perform two complex and two simple independent actions, simultaneously, one with each arm.

## Feats

### Strength

* Broke Spider-Man's webbing.
* Punched through the roof of a plane.
* Tore steel apart like paper.
* Tore through an armored truck.
* Leveled a building.
* Easily crushed a safe.
* One of his strikes bent steel bars.
* Arms can break through twelve feet of reinforced concrete.
* Crawled through six inches of titanium over time.
* Threw a train car along with stopping said train.
* Knocked Iron Man around.
* Knocked out Monica Rambeau.
* Crippled the Owl with a few strikes.
* His strikes knocked Angel unconscious.
* Struck Spider-Man "hard enough to kill".
* Almost broke Spider-Man's ribs.
* Threw the Black Cat at Spider-Man hard enough to daze him.
* Absolutely destroyed Daredevil.
* Briefly held down Thor.
* Knocked out Spider-Man in one hit.
* Ripped a car in two.
* Resisted a ultra gravitational field that could stop an elephant instantly.
* Ripped out a titanium door.
* Defeated the five members of the Sinister Six at once.
* Effortlessly ripped out Doc Ock's original titanium arms.
* Pummeled the Hulk.

### Speed

* Blocked webbing shot at him from Spider-Man.
* Blocked an arrow from Hawkeye.
* Blocked Daredevil's attacks easily.
* Blocked multiple blasts from Demogoblin,
* Can block bullets from automatic weapons.
* Disarmed a thug easily,
* Disarmmed a pistol at point blank range,
* Can spin his arm fast enough to remove tear gas,
* Caught the Owl,
* Reacted to attacks from Spider-Man easily.
* Claims he's as "Quick as lightning"
* Keeps up with Spider-Man casually.
* Effortlessly blitzed the Punisher twice.
* Can receive neural signals faster than a nanosecond.

### Durability

* Has taken hits from superhumans.
* Unfazed after being smashed through a wall.
* Has taken brutal beatings from Spider-Man on a daily basis.
* Survived falling several feet from the air after being knocked out of a Stark Tower window.

### Skills

* One of Spider-Man's deadliest foes.
* Survived several beatings as a child.
* Survived a deadly explosion full of radiation.
* Easily defeated Spider-Man in their first encounter.
* Easily defeated a weakened Spider-Man.
* Escaped prison regularly.
* Founding member of the Sinister Six.
* Hijacked a shipment of ISO-36.
* Erased Spider-Man's memory temporarily.
* Killed George Stacy.
* Was defeating the X-Men easily until Magneto showed up.
* Saved Spider-Man from a chemical virus.
* Has come up with several evil schemes.
* Planned the theft of the Zero Cannon.
* Managed to mind-control the Avengers.
* Has outsmarted Iron Man and Hank Pym.
* Manipulated Flash Thompson to capture the Venom symbiote.
* Killed Spider-Man and became Superior Spider-Man.
* Released the Devil's Breath across Times Square, infecting thousands of people including May Parker.
* Prepared his capture of Boomerang, Speed Demon, Shocker, Overdrive and the Beetle.
* Planned for when Carnage raided City Hall.

## Weaknesses

* **Arrogance:** On many occasions, Otto's pride has been a major factor in many of his defeats. Otto considers himself to be the smartest person on the planet and that he could never be wrong due to his massive intellect. This confidence in his own intelligence frequently causes him to ignore factors that could derail his plans leaving him unprepared for when these factors come into play. This also makes him at wits with other heroes, mostly the Avengers.