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Quotes by Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

If he doesn't know already, Beast will learn soon enough. The girl has the mind of a newborn because she was most likely born yesterday. She's a clone.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Now, watch me trap a spider in a web of my own -- a web made of my new-found arms! Your strength is merely that of a spider, but mine is the energy of an atom, born of a nuclear accident!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

But, I shall tolerate no further meddling by Spider-Man! Even he has not the power to stop me! Though he and I have met before, if he crosses my path again, our next encounter will be his last!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

... The final stage is complete. All readings are good, gentlemen... It's time... Time to implement my master plan... my last master plan.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

We can't lose. This is our day, gentlemen... the day the Sinister Six reigns supreme!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

People of Earth, please forgive this interruption, but this is the utmost importance! I have proof that terrorists are attacking my planetary defense factories! And so I must make one last request. That all nations put aside their differences and unite against this common foe! The world must come together as one to hunt down... THE GLOBAL MENACE CALLED SPIDER-MAN!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

No. This time I will happily admit-- you were right. And I can prove it with the flicking of one button. You see in the end, I am a creature of spite. Of hate. Of Rage. It is my nature--I won't deny it. Oh, and how I roiled and rankled at the thought of my life--my light--my genius coming to an end--while the mundane and the mediocre lived on! No! It is unacceptable! If I must enter Oblivion, I will not go alone! If Otto Octavius must perish, so shall you all! We all die toge---.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Farewell, Peter Parker. Know this, I will carry on in your name. You may be leaving this world, but you are not leaving it to a villain. I swear. I will be Spider-Man. Better yet, with my unparalleled genius-- --and my boundless ambition-- --I'll be a better Spider-Man than you ever were. From this day forth, I shall become... ...The Superior Spider-Man!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Doctor Octopus is dead. Long live the superior Spider-Man!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Doctor Octopus is dead. Long live the superior Spider-Man!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

The X-Men... an always posing collection of self-styled mutant heroes. The next step in evolution, they say... Homo Superior. Genetic freaks, far more likely. I've never bothered myself with their ilk before... but Parker knows them. He's fought beside them. He's fought them, too. Good lord... they nearly destroyed everything in their recent battle against the Avengers. Homo Superior...? Please.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

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?

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

And you, Blaze, are the only true threat in this collection of idiots.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

You are a worse nuisance than that accursed Spider-Man -- and I will not brook nuisances.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

The Sweet air of freedom is once again mine to breathe. It shall not be taken from me again!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

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Ladies and gentlemen, I propose that while the heroes are occupied elsewhere... we invade Avengers Mansion!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

You will treat them with respect, and follow their commands to the letter. Today, they are your superiors. And mine.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Honor is for fools.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I couldn't help but feel responsible for Mary Alice. Even though I hadn't seen her in years, the poor woman couldn't escape the curse of knowing me.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I didn't really comprehend what I was in for. I was arrogant... No. It's more than that. We've both been in each other's heads. We know the truth. I'm arrogant, yes, but it's because I know... Underneath it... That I'm not the best. I'm flawed. So I overcompensate. But you... You're guilt-ridden because, deep down, you know you are smarter than others. Better. But it came at a painful price. So you sabotage yourself. That won't happen today. You said it yourself. When lives are at stake, you don't hesitate. Today, you will own up to it. Today you must accept that you... Are superior. The superior hero. That is what we all need. That, and nothing less.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Ah, not The Raft, Mr. Mayor. From this point on, it shall be called... Spider-Island... Two.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Hate. Heh. Splendid.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I lived for 17 years under the hard gaze of my father. He taught me nothing but the hateful ignorance of the lower class. Had you no room for that anecdote in today's litany?

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Hnnn...Mother, I think there might be something wrong with me. I...I hurt that girl today...I know I did. I hurt her and-- --and Mother? I think I liked it.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

You-- You-- You punched me?! You're one of them!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Hmmmm...and together... ...together we could touch millions. An octopus, after all, has so many arms... And spiders... Spiders have so many eyes...

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

It does not feel right, does it? To stand before each other, stripped of our inventions, naked in our humanity. We are hideous, are we not?

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Who are you to co-opt another man's creations, you charlathan? You baboon? You're nothing but a menial thief--

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

You'll do vastly more good for the city as part of my personal Avengers... the Superior Avengers!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

You know why they say you can't fight City Hall? 'Cause City Hall fights back.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Wrecking Crew! Prepare to face justice at the hands of... The Superior Six!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I've embarked on a quest to raise an army of Spider-Men to fight this creature. Join me, or stay and die.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I will find out who is responsible. And what I do to them will make what I've done to you seem the most tender of mercies.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

They'll do fine, these young X-Men. They've got great aptitude for the hardest lesson of all: How to be a hero.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I require my own team. A superior team.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

If you had asked me a week ago if I thought I'd be strung up by a Spider-Slayer next to a Spider-Man from the future, I'm pretty sure my answer would've been "no!" In fact, when you boil it down, there are really just three moments in life that people try to visualize ahead of time: their twenty-first birthday, their wedding day and the day they're going to die. For me, however, there was another. The big question being, whether it's was actually a fourth image... or just a different image of the third? Because it's the day I knew I would stare into the eyes of Norman Osborn again. Someone once said the eyes are the portals to the soul. But in this case, there is no soul. So for me it makes his eyes just portals. Portals to another time.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Fulmina... What are you talking about? You can't just roll back the centuries. No one can.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Fulmina... wherever you are... you have made me... proud.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Wrecking Crew! Prepare to face justice at the hands of... The Superior Six!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

This city needs Spider-Man. No... Not Spider-Man... The Superior Spider-Man!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Write your stories, fools. Mark this day well. For today, I cast off the last of the chains Peter Parker saddled me with...and begin to craft my own legacy. I am no more bound by Parker's life than I am by my own former existence. I shall create something entirely new. Something wonderful. This shall be my legacy. A Brand New Day...No, A Brand New Age. The Age of the Superior Spider-Man... The Greatest Hero of them All. And Nothing will stand in my way.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

People of New York, this is Spider-Man, with the Avengers, and I need your help! I need you to be my heroes. I need you to be my eyes. A fugitive is on the loose in our city. Please help me find him. He's the villain... called Hobgoblin... and he's also this man: Phil Urich.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

We...are...the Superior Venom!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Going by all available data... I, Otto Octavius, the Superior Spider-Man, have achieved my goal. By targeting and destroying every major crime syndicate... I have effectively ended organized crime in New York. So why is the city laughing at me? This can't be happening! It's impossible! All five boroughs are under my surveillance, yet none of this is registering! I can hear the police sirens, screams, and gunfire. I'm not deaf, damn it! So how can I be so blind?! After months of tireless work... after crushing the only dissent within my own ranks... I should be done! Crime should be a statistical anomaly and yet... Police reports are coming in garbled. Links to the Daily Bugle's newsfeed are crashing. My Spider-Bot cameras are showing no emergencies. But the city's burning! I can see it! Spider-Island! Come in! Nothing. Then it happens. An entire grid in my citywide sweep shuts down. The area around the Brooklyn Bridge. I have to go. Have to see this with my own eyes. No. Until now I'd thought only two criminals had escaped my detection. The two Hobgoblins. Urich and Kingsley. The idiot and the coward. I could never account for that glitch in the system until now. I was chasing the wrong Goblin. Osborn. All this time it was you. And now you want me to know. Not just that's you... But that it's over and you've already won.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I see everything in this city! Everything! That is my power! And my responsibility -- to watch over and judge you all!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Ready my Equipment. I'm going to perform a Parker-Ectomy!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

He's gone. And I? I... Am... Free!

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Fulmina... wherever you are... you have made me... proud.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

So go ahead and run, Spider-Man--run away and hide. Sleep well in your secret lair. Because when you wake up tomorrow everything will have changed.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

No...your face! What have you done?

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

I know I am superior to my drunken, stupid failure of a father in every way. But the sight of him reduces Doctor Octopus to a sniveling child, living in fear of his belt, the ring on his finger. One of the most feared super villains on the planet, and it makes no difference. Not against him.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

--I say being a super hero is like being mad: one does the same thing time after time and expects differing results. Don't expect what happens in your life to change-- --unless you can completely change your context, your mode of working.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

They'll do fine, these young X-Men. They've got great aptitude for the hardest lesson of all: How to be a hero.

--Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Conversations with Otto Octavius (Earth-616)

Spider-Man

All right. We're alone. This what you wanted? You had something you wanted to say to me?

Doctor Octopus

Huhhh... P-P-P-P-Peter Parker...

Spider-Man

Yes. I'm Peter Parker.

Doctor Octopus

No... I'm Peter Parker.

Spider-Man

Not anymore, Spider-Man. From now on I am Peter Parker. I have all of your memories. I know everything you knew. I have your life and everything that comes with it. And you are now Otto Octavius. With what little time you have left... ...trapped in that broken body-- brought about by years of your brutal beatings. And like a good magician, I shall not reveal my secrets. You will die, never knowing how I performed my last and greatest trick.

Doctor Octopus

Hkk--

— Amazing Spider-Man #698

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius / "Peter Parker")

No! The time for "talking" is over!

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Whoa! Spider-Sense is going off. Why--?

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius / "Peter Parker")

Don't you get it? This is war! And from this point on-- I'm in charge!

— Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3 #10

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

All right. Show me your winning move. Kill me.

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius / "Peter Parker")

What? But you're an earlier point in my timeline. I can't--

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

We've already seen the Inheritors can't be killed. Killing's not the answer. It never is. We need to be better. And that's why I'm in charge.

— Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3 #11

Spider-Man

Fine. Whatever it takes. All right, spiders. This is it. The final push!

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius)

The die is cast!

Spider-Man

No, no, no. I'm running the show. I get the big line. Spider-Friends, Go for it!

Spider-Ham

Nailed it.

— Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3 #13

Superior Spider-Man

DEATH'S HEAD?!

Death's Head

You need to die now, yes? Nothing personal.

— Avenging Spider-Man #17

Spider-Man Noir

Where am I? What happened?

The Superior Spider-Man

You're still in New York. It's the future. The year 2099, to be precise. As to what happened... short version... The Nazis lost the war, television got really big, and then the homicidal maniac you just met decided to travel throughout time, space and the Multiverse to wipe out every last one of us. So I called a meeting.

— Edge of Spider-Verse #1

Doctor Octopus

Infernal miscreant!

Spider-Man

Please, no names in front of the children. Especially ones I don't understand.

— Spider-Man Doctor Octopus Out of Reach #1

Spider-Man

Brigham, let the machine go. You have to listen to me!

Doctor Octopus

Brigham, all your dreams are possible through me. And only me.

— Spider-Man Doctor Octopus Out of Reach #4

Punisher

Relax. You won this battle.

Spider-Man

But I might have just lost the war.

— Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #10

Sun Girl

Because of you, right? This is all because of you, isn't it?

Spider-Man

...yes.

Sun Girl

To think... I always wanted to be just like you. A hero.

— Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #7

Spider-Slayer

Not bad. But you still have Scorpion on his way to kill the mayor, and Vulture preparing to murder those innocent souls who came to watch me die. It's called Hobson's choice, Spider-Man. Who will you save?

Spider-Man

None of the above.

Spider-Slayer

What are you talking about? There are lives at stake! You have to save them!

Spider-Man

Wrong, Smythe. There's only one thing I "have" to do. Slay the Spider-Slayer!

— Superior Spider-Man #12

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius / "Peter Parker")

Really? Is that what you think? Let's put that to the test then.

Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara)

No. Let's not.

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius / "Peter Parker")

What?! Who dares?!

Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara)

That'd be me. The Spider-Man of tomorrow, here to save today... (and, as fate would have it, my own shocking grandfather!)

— Superior Spider-Man #17

Bella Fishbach

This all started when he first showed up.

Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara)

No. It didn't. Way before! Now shut up. There's a lot to DL and there's literally not enough time. I'm from the future. 2099. And I have foreknowledge. This place is about to blow! But if you listen to me and do everything I say... ...we'll all make it out of this alive and in one--

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker")

Ha! This is what you get for meddling in my affairs!

Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara)

Unh--

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker")

What?

— Superior Spider-Man #18

Spider-Man

My heart's racing. Hers is too. I can feel it. How--? Parker's memories! Oh. When I-- Good God! I have his feelings for her now. And more than anything, I want to be with her. I need to--

Mary Jane Watson

C'mere, Tiger.

Spider-Man

No!

Peter Parker's consciousness

No?

Mary Jane Watson

But why?

Spider-Man

Because the two of us-- together-- it's insane. I can do the math. You love me as Peter and Spider-Man. But you can't be with me because I'm Peter and Spider-Man. It's a recursive loop. An equation that can never be solved.

Mary Jane Watson

What-- what are you saying?

Peter Parker's consciousness

Doc, please don't do this. I'm begging you.

Spider-Man

I promised to keep you safe. But our relationship is the greatest trap of all. And the only way to free you-- -- is to move on.

Peter Parker's consciousness

Whoa! I was wrong about you, Otto. There are things you can do that I never could.

— Superior Spider-Man #2

Agent Venom

Wait! Yeah. It's me... Flash but it's not what you think. I'm in control of the symbiote. Maybe I shoulda told you before, but what's important is, I'm on the side of the Angels. And you can trust me on this, cause... well... it's me. And you know me. Uh... right?

Spider-Man

Sorry, "Flash." You must have me confused... with someone who cares!

— Superior Spider-Man #22

Spider-Man (Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker")

If you think reactivating them will intimidate me--

Spider-Man (Miguel O'Hara)

N-no! I'm not doing this! How is Jameson--

Norman Osborn

Jameson? You poor saps. Surely you've figured out by now that Norman Osborn runs this city... and everything in it. Hahahahaha!

— Superior Spider-Man #29

Peter Parker

Just so you know, Otto, if this is some kind of trap... I'm ready for anything.

Otto Octavius

I believe you. That's why I'm doing this.

Peter Parker

Your childhood...?

Otto Octavius

Yes. It's vanishing. You must have no distractions. No confusion. I'm expunging all my memories... ...one after the other. My life as a villain must be erased... ...along with my heroic deeds. And... finally... what I've held on to... so passionately. But it must go as well. My Anna Maria.

Peter Parker

You...you really love her.

Otto Octavius

Yes. And to save her... I must give up every part of that love. For I know... only you can save her. Because you are the Superior Spider-Man.

— Superior Spider-Man #30

Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker"

I've embarked on a quest to raise an army of Spider-Men to fight this creature. Join me, or stay and die.

Paviitr Prabhakar

My Aunt Maya didn't raise any fools. Let's go!

Karn

Graaarrr! Hrr gone. I can feel it. I must find them or I will have proved the others right.

Paviitr Prabhakar

Thank you for saving me, sir. And I'm honored to be the first in what I hope will be a very large and powerful band of warriors

Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker"

First? Who said you were the first?

— Superior Spider-Man #32

The Superior Spider-Man

I've wanted to speak to the two of you privately. I feel we share a certain... perspective... that eludes our allies.

Assassin Spider-Man

Don't dance around it. We're killers.

The Superior Spider-Man

I wasn't dissembling. It's more than that. The others may have killed, in dire circumstances. I don't know. But it's clear to me that we three have seen things they have not. Brutality. Devastation. Darkness. The others think they have seen the worst life has to offer, because they've lost a loved one or two. But we... we have seen the face of true evil. And we understand what is required to stop it. These beings we fight belong to the same family. To end their threat ...we may have to commit genocide. And we may find our allies standing in our way.

Spider-Girl

If we're going to survive this, we'll do whatever we have to. Whether the others like it or not.

— Superior Spider-Man #33

Spider-Man

Come on clown! Laugh this off!

Peter Parker's consciousness

Doc? What's going on up here? Your brain's lit up like a Christmas Tree! I was getting dragged to a million memories of-- My God! Otto...

Spider-Man

Well?! This is your last chance! What do you have to say for yourselves?!

Screwball

G-G-Guh... G-Guess some people c-c-can't take a joke...

Peter Parker's consciousness

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

— Superior Spider-Man #6

Peter Parker's consciousness

Ohhh What I wouldn't give for some ghost-popcorn right now.

Thor

Whoever thou art, stand down! Or face the wrath of the Mighty Avengers!

Wolverine

What he said. But me? I'm hopin' you put up a fight. 'Cause I'd just love to carve you a new one!

Spider-Man

Very well. Do your worst!

— Superior Spider-Man #7

Doctor Octopus

I am Otto Octavius... known as Doctor Octopus to the great unwashed and uneducated! Do not be lulled into a false sense of security by the extra poundage I carry! Spider-Man, Daredevil and even Captain America himself have sufficient reason to respect my battle process!