—Spider-Man (Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker")I underestimated Thor. I saw him as nothing more than an arrogant, brutish fool. And thought that's all true... He was willing to sacrifice himself for the people he protects. What am I willing to do? The day will come and when I have to ask myself that question. How far am I willing to go... to get what I want?
Appearing in 1st story
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- Sandman (Flint Marko) (Cameo)
- Sinister Six (Referenced)
- Avengers (Referenced)
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- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York State
- New York City
- Queens
- Manhattan
- Battery Park
- Doctor Octopus' Underwater Lab
- McManus' Irish Pub (First appearance)
- New York City
- New York State
- United States of America
- North America
- Asgard (Mentioned)
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Appearing in "Emotional Triggers"
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- Peter Parker's consciousness
- Anna Maria Marconi (First appearance)
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- Massacre (Marcus Lyman) (Death)
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- Miranda Pullman (First appearance)
- Norah Winters (Mentioned)
- Horizon Labs
- Uatu Jackson
- Max Modell (Mentioned)
- Mary Octavius (Mentioned)
- Reed Richards (Mentioned)
- NYPD
- Chief Pratchett (Behind the scenes)
- Numerous unnamed officers
- MTA (Mentioned)
- J. Jonah Jameson
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Synopsis for "Emotional Triggers"
While watching the news reports of the "Burger Town Massacre", Phizzy Cola's manager Miranda Pullman avoids a call from the Daily Bugle and tries to fix the corporate image of Phizzy Cola. Suddenly Massacre appears to her and proposes that in order to fix her corporate image, he'll continue his killing spree while wearing her rival's logo, something to which she reluctantly agrees.
Meanwhile, Otto and Uatu program the face mapping program into the Spider-Bots Patrol App to interconnect his HUD with them and keep track on Massacre. Uatu worries that it's too much power for one man, but Otto replies that this is part of a "Friendly Neighborhood Watch", while Peter believes that Otto will destroy his reputation and leave him nothing to recover once he gets his body back.
Once the task is complete, Otto leaves to the apartment of Anna Maria Marconi, a little woman who is becoming Otto's tutor for his physics class. Otto impresses Anna with his knowledge and after he leaves, his Patrol App alerts him of Massacre who appeared at the Grand Central Station so Otto calls Chief Pratchett to send back-up there and keep him distracted while he arrives, something Peter thinks is clever.
Before Otto decides to confront Massacre, he searches for radio waves to signal Massacre's bomb detonators, knowing from Peter's memories that Massacre takes hostages and ties them to explosives as backup for his plans. Otto finds them in a bottling plant, belonging to Miranda's rival, which he takes note of, and proceeds to save them, reflecting on how before he tried to murder them all and now he's saving lives.
The NYPD confronts Massacre who starts another slaughter, revealing that the station's doors are also rigged with explosives, worrying the officers and even Mayor Jameson. Otto enters the station through the upper windows and attacks Massacre, revealing his position while saving a kid. Otto takes down Massacre who tries to activate his bombs, but Otto reveals that he already took care of that, takes Massacre's gun and shoots him in the shoulder, shocking Peter. Otto reflects on how he's taken so many lives over the years and considers firearms as below him, but believes that the finality to use it is proper, while Peter tries to convince Otto to stop him.
Otto menacingly confronts Massacre while pointing his gun at his head, asking him if he should kill him or spare him, causing Massacre to cry, making him feel emotions once again. Peter tries to tell Otto that he can still be saved since there's still hope, but Otto replies that it doesn't matter since he's still a mass murderer on the inside so there's only one solution. Afterwards, Otto pulls the trigger to Massacre's gun to kill him.
The news reports on the Grand Central Station shooting and Miranda watches as there was no mention of her competition, but people are no longer mentioning the previous shooting, making her believe that her end of the deal is over. However, she's suddenly surrounded by Otto's Spiderbots while he's confronting her through her television screens that she was paying Massacre instead of reporting him to the authorities and threatens her to report herself or confront him, assuring that it's his Power and Responsibility to watch over the city and judge everyone.Appearing in "Endless Night"
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Spider-Man is shocked to find a lobotomized Robbie Robertson, and plans to help the other captured black prisoners to escape.
Doctor Octavius is very angered to hear from Crime Master that he and his benefactors of the Friends of New Germany are abandoning his entire research and plans to destroy everything, which includes killing the prisoners, from being caught by the authorities. After the Crime Master forces Octavius to contact Joseph Ansell through telephone, Ansell confirms to him that his experiments are needed to end. But, Ansell privately tells Octavius that he can eliminate Crime Master for being a liability after everything is dealt with.
Crime Master then orders his men to kill the prisoners. Fortunately, Spider-Man attacks and takes their guns away, leaving them at the hands of the escaped prisoners. Crime Master quickly spots Robbie and held him hostage, and demands Spider-Man to back off, while offhandedly stating that he killed Felicia Hardy. Then one of Crime Master's men urgently informs his boss that FBI agents have arrived and are already raiding the jetty. Crime Master orders his men to hold off the agents, but Spider-Man tells him and his goons that it is pointless as anyone who shoots back will be serving time on death-row with their boss, given to his atrocities on Ellis Island. Spider-Man's threats work, as Crime Master's men flee in panic and abandoning their boss. As Crime Master still holds Robbie, Dr. Octavius arrives and informs Crime Master that there is nowhere for him to escape even from Spider-Man and suddenly attacks him with his scalpel arms, leaving Robbie to escape from harm. After Spider-Man had Robbie escape with the other prisoners, Octavius impales Crime Master and mercilessly eviscerate him, as the dying crime boss begs for help from Spider-Man, who only coldly watches on.
After killing Crime Master, Octavius offer his hope to Spider-Man that killing the crime boss would offered good word in the end on his trial if captured. But Spider-Man is unsway and, still angry for what Octavius had done to Robbie, violently subdues the doctor. Just as Spider-Man is about to strangle Octavius, Agent Jean De Wolfe arrives and stop him. De Wolfe then reveals to Spider-Man that Felicia Hardy, who is reveal to be alive, called him about the island's experiments which raises Spider-Man's hope.
Spider-Man and everyone leave Ellis Island, with all culprits connecting to Octavius' experiments captured. Upon arriving on Manhattan, Spider-Man leaves to see Felicia. Arriving At Felicia's apartment, Spider-Man finds her bodyguard Lippy, who informs him that Felicia is being taken care in a private clinic and had decided not to see Spider-Man ever again because it was his fault that caused her condition.
A month later, Peter, Aunt May and Mary Jane Watson visit the Robertson's residence where Robbie is being taken care by his family. Robbie's physical condition is fine, but his brain damage couldn't be medically repair. Carver informs Peter that Agent De Wolfe had called and informed him that Dr. Octavius cannot be held at trial as he had previously worked on government projects that would publicly expose state secrets, and is instead being deported to Germany. Peter is sicken to hear this and regretfully apologizes to Robbie. Mary Jane take Peter outside and talk him through from blaming himself for losing the people he loves, and assures that she will always be with him.
Meanwhile, Dr. Octavius arrives in Berlin and being awaited by German officials lead by Heinrich Himmler. Just as Octavius meets Himmler, the man then notice the doctor's congenital disability and contemptibly insults him, stating that Octavius is "useless" in accordance to the Nazis' eugenicist ideology and refuses to see otherwise. Himmler then coldly leaves and showing no support for Octavius, as the doctor is left alone and deeply dejected.
In the end, Spider-Man narrates that Felicia has recover but hasn't leave her apartment and never had any visitor apart from Lippy. Though Felecia stated that she never wanted to see Spider-Man, he has been respecting her privacy and had been watching her on her balcony, while looking out over the city. Lippy had told Spider-Man that after Felicia had called De Wolfe, she had never told him nor anyone about her injuries, which left her walking with a stick. At the last page, Felicia is shown wearing a white mask completely obscuring her scarred face.Notes
- This is a UK title that features reprints of American Spider-Man titles.