- “So, the chip in the back of Doc's neck was designed to protect his brain from the A.I. system that's controlling these tentacles. But if you look here... The chip is fried. So rather than him being in control of the tentacles, the tentacles are now in control of him. Which, I guess explains why... he is so miserable all the time.”
- ―Peter Parker to Norman Osborn[src]
Doctor Octopus (real name Dr. Otto Octavius), or simply Doc Ock, is a fictional supervillain from Marvel Comics who appears in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Dr. Octavius is a brilliant Oscorp scientist that created mechanical, intelligent tentacle-like arms, but suffered a lab accident. He survived his injuries and became a villain equipped with the arms, who is confronted by Spider-Man.
Doctor Octopus is one of Spider-Man's most prominent and dangerous enemies. He is one of the main antagonists of Ultimate Spider-Man, alongside the Green Goblin, Venom, Carnage, and Wolf Spider. A younger Doc Ock also appears as an antagonist and antihero in the subsequent Spider-Man cartoon.
Doctor Octopus was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Background
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Dr. Octavius is an Oscorp scientist who, in the universe of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, created mechanical, intelligent tentacle-like arms to handle radioactive material. However, upon trying to create a fusion generator in a public demonstration, he was gravely injured in a lab accident and the arms became melted onto his spine. He survived his injuries, though the inhibitor chip blocking the arms from controlling him was fried, turning him evil. Having lost the support to his project, Doctor Octopus started to commit crimes to continue funding his experiments, but was stopped by Spider-Man, who was able to convince him to sacrifice himself to destroy his experiment to save New York.
When Doctor Strange's spell is corrupted, Doctor Octopus is transported to the MCU just before his death by Doctor Strange's botched spell, creating a diverged timeline. He attacks the MCU Peter Parker after mistaking him for his own, and initially assumes he must not be Peter Parker at all. Doc Ock's tentacles absorb some of the nanotechnology from the Iron Spider suit, unwillingly allowing Peter to control them and defeat him. Both are then attacked by Green Goblin, but are transported back to the Sanctum by Strange. Octavius later reluctantly takes up Peter on his offer to cure the dimensionally displaced villains, so Peter and Norman Osborn create a new inhibitor chip to stop his tentacles from controlling him. Octavius's sanity is restored, so he puts the stolen nanotech onto Peter's new suit, upgrading it, and asks how he can help. When the Green Goblin personality takes over Norman, the other four villains betray Peter and Octavius, killing Aunt May in the process. Octavius is forced to flee the scene as Damage Control surrounds the apartment.
Octavius returns during the final battle at the Statue of Liberty. He initially pretends to be on the villains' side, but then betrays them and cures Electro. He then has a heartfelt reunion with his universe's Peter Parker.
Due to Doctor Strange's spell, a cured Octavius is transported back to his universe, possibly undoing his death.
Ultimate Spider-Man
Dr. Octavius is an Oscorp scientist who was gravely injured in a lab accident. With the help of Norman Osborn, he survived his injuries, equipped with mechanical, tentacle-like arms on an apparatus to function and worked for Oscorp, to capture Spider-Man to use his powers for weapons.
Physical appearance
Ultimate Spider-Man
Doctor Octopus has a short height and is very pale, and also hunchbacked. Octopus has long black wet hair and wears red goggles. He wears a gray scientist suit, around his stomach he wears a mechanical device, which enables him to breathe, with four octopus arms attached to it.
Before the accident, Octavius claimed to have been handsome once as he saw his former face in the Hall of Mirrors.
When he was captured by Norman Osborn again, he was bald and his tentacles were removed has a new pair of goggles, which are silver in color with thin red lenses. Later on, his hair grew back and has his tentacles again, but still has his current goggles.
During the finale, he resembles his original look before the accident but had brown hair. He also wore red glasses and a yellow and green suit.
Personality
Ultimate Spider-Man
Doctor Octopus is a mad scientist that experiments with dangerous subjects, as shown when he created the symbiote. Although Doctor Octavius is always in his lab, after the first time chasing and capturing someone, he enjoyed and stated that he should have done it more often and that the thrill excites him. Octavius has shown to have no fear of getting in killed, shown to still chase after Spider-Man while water leaks into his lab. Although being insane, he feels the sadness after his accident, which caused him to change physically. Like a real octopus, Doctor Octopus is always hiding in the shadows, concealed in the cracks of his lab.
As twisted as he is, Doctor Octopus states that he has a form of honor, and always returns to repay favors to others who have helped him in the past. Understandably, however, he does not hold this code for those who double-cross him.
Powers and abilities
Ultimate Spider-Man
- Genius-Level Intellect: As a former scientist, Otto is very intelligent, capable of creating new and deadly creations like Venom.
- 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.
- Leadership: Doctor Octopus is a superb strategist and a charismatic leader.
- Nanotechnosis: As of season 4, he has complete control mental over an army of nano-machines, which he has utilized for mind control via infecting his nanites onto other's High-Tech Armors, technological manipulation, quick repairing, upgrading & assimilation.
- Tentacles: Doctor Octopus has four mechanical tentacles protruding from his back. These tentacles are strong enough to lift him above ground for mobility and can scale surfaces with them. Each tentacle is also equipped with electrocuting tasers and saw blades.
Weaknesses
Ultimate Spider-Man
After the accident, Doctor Octopus had a trouble with breathing and had a piece of technology equipped to him that enables him to breathe. If the holes are blocked Doctor Octopus can fall unconscious from the lack of air in his lungs. He is also unable to use his hands and legs, being very dependent of his bionic tentacles.
Appearances
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Octopus appears in the MCU for the first time in Spider-Man: No Way Home, portrayed by Alfred Molina, reprising his role from the Sony film Spider-Man 2. He is brought to the universe by Doctor Strange's botched spell that was meant erase the world's memory of Peter Parker's secret identity as Spider-Man after it was revealed by Mysterio.
Marvel Animated Universe
Ultimate Spider-Man
Doctor Octopus is ordered by Norman Osborn to capture Spider-Man, and to create equipment to sell, so Octopus hires the Frightful Four to do the job. After the Frightful Four were defeated, he is scolded by Osborn and decided to not fail again.
Doctor Octopus sent an Octobot after Spider-Man to get a blood sample. Spider-Man crushed the Octobot, but not before it got a blood sample which the tiny Octobot brought to him. From the sample, Doctor Octopus created a symbiote, which unfortunately escaped to return to Spider-Man. After the symbiote seemingly was destroyed, Norman orders Octopus to create a stronger version of the symbiote.
Doctor Octopus soon learns that Harry Osborn became Venom with the symbiote abd keeps it a secret from Norman. Despite the dangerous effects the symbiote had on Harry, Osborn is still impressed with the symbiote and demands Octavius to make more symbiotes like it. Octavius agrees but tells Osborn he would need more time. Osborn objects, explaining that time was something he did not have.
Later, Octavius is scolded by Norman for his failures, so Octavius states that he would capture Spider-Man himself. After Norman mockingly sends him off on this mission, Octavius destroys his screens in rage and goes after Spider-Man. He confronts Spider-Man at an amusement park and starts a fight against the spider. After they bring their battle into the hall of mirrors, Octavius sees a mirror reminding of his past self, but is interrupted by Spider-Man's remark, allowing him to grab Spider-Man and electrocutes him into unconsciousness. Octavius brings him into his underwater lab to dissect him. He reports to Norman that he caught Spider-Man. However, Norman still mocks him for his efforts, so Octavius decides that he would take are of Spider-Man on his own and cuts the communications off. Before Octavius can dissect Spider-Man, the latter wakes up and fights against Octavius. Norman witnesses Otto's failed attempts to hild Spider-Man down and fires him. In the process, the lab blows up causing water to leak in and reach up to Octavius and Spider-Man. Octavius drowns but is saved by Spider-Man at the last minute when he throws him out of the lab to float up to the surface.
The Iron Octopus.
Soon, Doctor Octopus returns in an armor similar to that of Iron Man's, with the addition of the mechanical arms. After a two-versus-one brawl, Octopus is defeated. Unbeknownst to the heroes, Octopus is captured by Norman once again and is rehired, now restrained and refined to a recuperation tank.
Soon, Doctor Octopus is placed in a green, spherical, and movable version of the recuperating tank and is given new goggles, with his tentacles removed and his head shaved. Doctor Octopus begins his work by sending the Frightful Four at Spider-Man again. However, this was a distraction to capture Spider-Nab with his Octobots and take him to his new lair. After revealing that Venom came from Spider-Man's DNA, Octavius becomes engulfed in his own monologue, providing Spider-Man with enough time to escape. They battle once again, but Norman Osborn then tases Spider-Man. Octopus then retreats to a new battlesuit of squid-like design, and injects Norman with an experimental green serum turning him into the Green Goblin. As Spider-Man's team arrives, Osborn is forced to confront them. He sets fire to his own lab during the scuffle and attaches a control collar on the Golbin so that he could control the Goblin; however, the Goblin is able to tear it off and in the process incapacitate Octopus's battlesuit. Octopus is then thrown around by the Goblin with his battlesuit continually being smashed by the Goblin's fists. It was here that the Goblin notices that the team had retreated, and goes after them, leaving Octopus for dead.
In "The Lizard", Octopus later resurfaces alive and well, as he tries to re-obtain his serums in one of his labs. Spider-Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Curt Conners follow him and foil his plans, but Conners injects himself with one of the serums and transforms into the Lizard. The Lizard then hunts down Doctor Octopus to obtain more lizard DNA serum but Doctor Octopus refuses, noting that Lizard is losing his intelligence and becoming feral in the process. Lizard attacks him, forcing Spider-Man to briefly team up with Doctor Octopus to fight back. However, Doctor Octopus abandons Spider-Man in the middle of the fight.
Spider-Man taking off Doctor Octopus` tentacles.
In "The Sinister Six", Doc Ock recruits the Rhino, Electro, Kraven, and the Beetle to form the Sinister Six. He also abducts Connors and forcefully turns him into the Lizard, controlling with a device planted on the back of his neck to become a member of the Sinister Six. Spider-Man comes to Octopus' lab on Ryker's Island and is forced to fight the Sinister Six. The S.H.I.E.L.D. trainees soon arrive along with Iron Patriot and help defeat the Sinister Six, but Doctor Octopus uses this as the opportunity to inject Iron Patriot with Goblin serum and turns him back into Green Goblin. However, Goblin also lashes out on Doctor Octopus and departs with Spider-Man's captured teammates. Octopus also loses his control over the Lizard and his tentacles are incapacitated by Spider-Man. He is then locked away in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s new headquarters along with the remaining Sinister Six members.
Marvel's Spider-Man
Doctor Octopus appears in the subsequent 2017 cartoon Spider-Man, voiced by Scott Menville. In this, he is far younger, being a student-teacher at Horizon High, not that much older than Peter Parker, who he butts heads with. Growing up, Octavius had a hard life between being picked on by a jock named Steve and having problems with his own father Torbert. In Season 1, during a science fair hosted by Tony Stark, Octavius showcases his own innovative invention: a mechanical harness with robotic arms which would help complete more complex experiments. However, thanks to an attack by Crimson Dynamo attempting to rob them, the resulting disaster and Otto's failed attempt to stop her causes his harness to be fused to his body.
Peter convinces Otto to make the best out of his situation and suggests he work together with Spider-Man, attempting to help him be a superhero. However, thanks to manipulation by Norman Osborn, Octavius becomes vengeful and villainous, turning the Osborn Commandos into the Sinister Six and christening himself as the supervillain Doctor Octopus. yet his plans are foiled by Spider-Man and Hobgoblin. In Season 2, Octavius' body falls into a coma and his consciousness ends up in cyberspace to remain alive before relocating himself into Spider-Man's body, adopting the Superior Spider-Man alias. Despite his original agenda, Octavius restores himself and Peter to their former selves after seeing the errors of his ways. Octavius dies by fading away into light particles after stopping the Goblin King using the Neuro Cortex leaving his tentacles behind. He is honored as a hero by the rest of the Spider Team, who attend his funeral along with Anna Maria and Max.
Trivia
- Alfred Molina, who plays Doc Ock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, originally played the character in the Spider-Man trilogy staring Tobey Maguire. It was also confirmed that he is actually the same version, appearing in the MCU immediately after his last scene in Spider-Man 2.[1]
- Tom Holland was terrified of the character in the original film.[2]
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