Olivia Octavius

**Overview**
Quotes

* Olivia Octavius
* Doctor Octopus

- ****Doctor Octopus****[src]

Dr. **Olivia "Liv" Octavius** is the head scientist at Alchemax studying the potential of accessing alternate dimensions. She was employed by the Kingpin to assemble a functioning Super-Collider that made the concept a reality while secretly working with him as the supervillain **Doctor Octopus**.

## Biography

### Early Life

Dr. Olivia Octavius is a scientist and the CEO of the science research & development company known as Alchemax, and used to be friends with Peter Parker's Aunt May. Olivia, at some point later on, became the supervillain and power-mad scientist known as Doctor Octopus, and is one of the many supervillains that Spider-Man has fought in his ten years as a superhero. At one point, Olivia would start working as the lead scientist at Alchemax to came to work closely with Wilson Fisk as his right hand, particularly on his Super-Collider project.

### Meeting another Spider-Men

After a battle between Spider-Man and the Kingpin's henchmen resulted in the Super-Collider exploding during one of their test runs, she began assessing the damage it did and what more it could cause. Despite her warnings about another attempt causing a black hole and a rupture in the space-time continuum, Fisk pressured her into getting it operational within 24 hours.

She is astonished to then meet an alternate version of Peter Parker who infiltrated her lab to make a override key. Liv informed Peter that staying in a different dimension too long was detrimental to him. She then revealed herself as Doc Ock to this Spider-Man and attacked him and his other companion, a young Spider-Man who could turn invisible and was running off with Peter and her computer, until she was stopped by another Spider-Person. The encounter confirmed her suspicions that her collider's last run somewhat worked and she confidently assured Fisk that the next one would as well.

When the Prowler called for them and told them the whereabouts of the group of Spider-People conspiring against their plans, Doc Ock joined the group that ambushed them.

That night at Fisk Tower, right below a gala hosted by Kingpin ostensibly in honor of the fallen Spider-Man, Doc Ock, Scorpion, and Fisk's men guarded the Super-Collider, lying in wait in anticipation of the Spider-Gang's arrival. She stopped and restrained Peter moments before he could insert his goober and was about to kill him before the new Spider-Man arrived. The Super-Collider continued to work in the background, and its unstable nature of the machine pulled large objects form other dimensions into the room, including a truck that ran her over, effectively ending her battle against the Spider-People.

## Personality

Olivia is slightly manic, can be sarcastic at times, brilliant, hardworking, twitchy, sometimes a bit snappy, a villain of course. She initially appears as a quirky and absent-minded scientist but is, in reality, a sadistic mad scientist. She enjoys inflicting pain on others, proven as she eagerly waits for alternate versions of Peter Parker to disintegrate out of existence. Olivia also shows little concern for others as she goes through with working on the collider despite knowing it could destroy the entire city.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Olivia is a highly-intelligent scientist, having led the project that explored the concept and eventual reality of alternate dimensions. Despite having no prior exposure to it, she was quick to deduce that beings from other dimensions, as in Peter Parker's case, suffer cellular decay and would "glitch" and eventually disintegrate if they stayed in a different dimension too long.
* **Impressive physical prowess**: Despite her slender frame, Olivia is capable of taking a immense amount of physical punishment from attacks and recovers within seconds. She is also very capable in physical confrontations against the Spider-Gang. She was able to send Peter stumbling into a chair with a tiny push and knocked Gwen back with a kick.
* **Expert combatant:** While usually relying on her tentacles or her fellow criminals to do the fighting, Olivia has some skill in combat and martial arts, as she used an effective roundhouse kick that stunned Spider-Woman.

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **AI-controlled mechanical tentacles**: Olivia is armed with four robotic tentacles made of a soft yet sturdy, inflatable material, meaning she can wear the harness under her clothing but inflate the device when she needs to.
	+ **Superhuman strength**: Her tentacles are strong enough to support Olivia's weight and carry her around where she wishes. They are capable of immense lifting strength and striking force.
	+ **High-speed traveling**: Her tentacles are capable of high-speed movement and mobility, allowing Olivia to keep up with the Spider-Gang in terms of speed. With them, she was able to keep up with Miles fleeing for dear life while cutting down trees in her way.
	+ **Superhuman concentration**: Olivia 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. She subdued Peter outside her line of sight and operated machinery without needing to see it.
	+ **Saw blades**: The ends of her tentacles can morph into saws for combat, with saw blades sharp and strong enough to even cut and slice through trees.

## Trivia

**In-universe**:

* She is implied to have been friends with May Parker at one point as May called her "Liv", In which many theorise it correlated to Otto Octavius and May Parker's marriage in the Marvel Comics, along with their Divorce.

**Behind the scenes**:

* In a deleted scene, Olivia's survival from being hit by the truck was shown. She jumped into the Super-Collider's portal just before it imploded, marveling at the possibility of having the "power of the multiverse".
* According to co-director Rodney Rothman, he does not consider Liv "gone gone from the story" and "our most powerful bad guy," "manipulating a lot of things to achieve her own grand ambitions,". Confirming her survival even with the original scene deleted, It is confirmed she \*is\* Alive, Implying that there is a possibility for Doc Ock to return in future installments of the franchise such as Beyond the Spiderverse.
* This Dock Ock is clearly a gender-bent version of Otto Octavius, the character she is based on.
	+ Earth 1610's Doctor Octopus also had metal arms permanently grafted to his body, had the ability to control electronics with his mind, and created Peter's clone Jessie Drew. Unlike in the film, he was murdered by Norman Osborn prior to the death of Peter Parker.
* Though originally intended to be male, making this version of Doc Ock a woman had been *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* co-director Bob Persichetti's idea. He was friends with Kathryn Hahn, who was eventually cast as Olivia.
* Olivia's hair resembles the shape of an octopus' body. Her glasses are also octagons as an allusion to Doctor Octopus' number 8 motif.
* Olivia telling Kingpin he can have all the families he wants could imply that she realizes any version of Richard and Vanessa which he brings from the multiverse will glitch out and eventually die, but is content with this fact.

## References

1. ↑ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*
3. ↑ *Alternate Universe Mode*
4. ↑ Spider-Verse Director Hints Doc Ock Is Franchise's Main Villain - Screen Rant
5. ↑ Rodney Rothman on Twitter: "Turning Doc Ock into a woman was a @bob\_persichetti idea. He and Katherine Hahn are friends through their kids. In earlier drafts she was a Big Lebowski type dude. #SpiderVerse #QuarantineWatchParty" / Twitter