Otto Octavius (Earth-96283)

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Doctor Octopus
Name	Dr. Otto Octavius
Current Alias	Doctor Octopus
Aliases	Nicknames: Doc Ock
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Formerly affiliated with Oscorp by Harry Osborn
Relatives	Spouses: Rosie Octavius (wife, deceased)
Marital Status	Widowed
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Brown
Unusual Features	Mechanical tentacles
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human with two pairs of mechanical tentacles fused to his spine.
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-96283
Place of Birth	Somewhere in the United States
Place of Death	Abandoned warehouse in New York
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Criminal, scientist, atomic researcher, inventor
Education	Ph.D. in Nuclear physics
Base of Operations	Abandoned warehouse, New York City, New York
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Sam Raimi, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Chabon, Alvin Sargent
First	Spider-Man 2 (June 30, 2004)
First	Spider-Man 2 (June 30, 2004)
Death	Spider-Man 2 (June 30, 2004)
Death	Spider-Man 2 (June 30, 2004)

 I will not die a monster. 

—Doctor Otto Octavius

History

Early career

Doctor Octavius before the accident

Doctor Otto Octavius was a brilliant nuclear physicist and engineer who developed a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction-based protostar to act as an infinite energy source for New York City, and potentially the world. He was a friend of the famous scientist Norman Osborn, founder of the company where he would work in the future.

Under the funding of Oscorp Industries, Octavius and his wife Rosie built the machine and planned to sustain the energy using four mechanical tentacles connected to his spine and nervous system through AI. Otto was a kind, funny, and ambitious man, who took pride in progress and intelligence, making him the idol of one Peter Parker, who bonded with him when introduced to him by Oscorp CEO Harry Osborn, Norman's son.

Becoming Doctor Octopus

While developing the protostar at a demonstration, Otto miscalculated and the fusion reactor began sucking in everything it could, killing Rosie with a piece of shattered glass. Spider-Man arrived and shut down the machine, but its malfunction had already fused the tentacles to Otto, and destroyed the inhibitor chip that prevented their AI from influencing him and his decisions.

Doctor Octopus is born

Otto was taken to the hospitalHe escaped to an abandoned building on the river, and under the tentacles' influence, the distraught scientist decided to rebuild his machine, regardless of how many lives it cost.

Rebuilding the reactor

Now dubbed "Doctor Octopus" by the Daily Bugle, Otto tried to rob a bank to fund his new device, but was confronted by Spider-Man. The two battled, with Doc Ock proving more than a match for Spider-Man, but using a captured May Parker to distract him, Doc Ock made his escape with his newfound riches, which he used to complete his machine. In need of more tritium to fuel it, Doc Ock went to Harry Osborn to provide it for him, in exchange for Octavius bringing Spider-Man to him, who Harry believed had killed his father.

Battling Spider-Man

Knowing Peter Parker took pictures of Spider-Man for the Bugle, Doc Ock tracked down Peter in a cafe, and kidnapped his lover, Mary Jane Watson, to force Spider-Man to meet him. Indeed, Spider-Man faced him on a train, and after a long battle, Spider-Man was exhausted and Doc Ock exchanged him for his tritium with Harry. With his machine finally complete, he prepared to recreate the protostar and, in his eyes, save the world.

Doctor Octopus turned on the reactor and created another protostar, much more powerful than the last, but Spider-Man, having escaped from Harry, arrived to stop him. As the two fought, the protostar only grew larger, and soon threatened to consume all of Manhattan. After beating back Doc Ock, Spider-Man shut down the machine, but the protostar had become self-sustaining. He revealed his true identity of Peter Parker to Octavius in an attempt to get on his good side and find a way to shut it down, which caused Octavius to see that his tentacles were twisting his mind, and wrest control of them.

Otto's sacrifice

Once back in control, Otto realized the only way to stop the protostar was to drown it in the river. While Spider-Man and Mary Jane escaped, Otto Octavius pulled the reactor, and the protostar with it, down into the water, where it sank to the bottom, and Otto drowned in his selfless sacrifice.

Legacy

While under the tentacles' influence as Doctor Octopus, Otto caused much chaos and destruction across New York City, sending everyone in it into a panic. The failure of his protostar also nearly bankrupted Oscorp and sent Harry into a spiraling depression, combined with his discovery of his best friend being Spider-Man. However, when he did take control of the tentacles, his sacrifice did save the city from being destroyed, and his words about intelligence and responsibility did leave their impact on Peter in a positive way.

Peter would remember Otto fondly into his adult life, and, years after his sacrifice, was happy at the chance of seeing his counterpart from a divergent timeline, when they were both displaced to Earth-199999.

Attributes

Powers

Mechanical arms: Otto is just an ordinary human without any power, after his suffering an accident during his Solar Fusion Reactor experiment that caused his arms to fuse with his spine.

• Superhuman Striking Force
• Telescoping
• Wall-Climbing and Traveling

Abilities

• Genius Intelligence: Octavius is considered a genius in the field of nuclear physics.
• Expert Inventor

Weaknesses

Artificial Intelligence of mechanical arms: Octavius had created, along with the arms, a special inhibitor chip that protected his higher brain functions by attaching to his cerebral cortex to ensure that he maintained control of the arms, but because the chip was damaged, the mechanical arms influenced his personality.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

• Doctor Octopus' Tentacles: His tentacles, which allow him to easily break/bend stronger metals. They also have spikes that come from the 'eyes'. When the claws are closed, they can fold up to reveal small claws to hold smaller and more delicate objects. They are resistant to heat and magnetism.

Notes

• Alfred Molina portrayed Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2.
  • Molina later portrayed a divergent Doctor Octopus variant in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• The director of Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, Sam Raimi, stated that Octavius was intended to appear alongside the Green Goblin in the first film, but was not included because Raimi thought it wouldn't "do the movie justice to have a third origin in there".

See Also

• 5 appearance(s) of Otto Octavius (Earth-96283)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of Otto Octavius (Earth-96283)
• 1 mention(s) of Otto Octavius (Earth-96283)
• 13 image(s) of Otto Octavius (Earth-96283)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Otto Octavius (Earth-96283)