Doctor Octopus
Doctor Octopus is a comic book character that first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #3
Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius is a scientific genius but after an experiment explosion, Otto Octavius's body was fused to his four steel tentacles and soon became Spider-Man's strongest foe, Doctor Octopus.
Origin
Once he was Otto Octavius - a brilliant and respected nuclear physicist, inventor and lecturer. In pursuit of academic excellence, Octavius designed and constructed a set of highly advanced robotic arms to assist him in his research. Now able to manipulate radioactive substances from a safe distance, Octavius was dubbed Dr. Octopus by his co-workers. A freak laboratory accident exposed Octavius to intense radioactivity, grafting the mechanical appendages to his body and granting him complete telepathic control over the artificial limbs. The mishap also altered Octavius' mind, transforming him into a criminally insane megalomaniac.
Waking up from the hospital and discovering his new found powers, Octavius held the medical staff that was trying to remove his tentacles from his body hostage. Spider-Man came to the rescue but was easily defeated by Doctor Octopus that after the fight, he was thinking about retiring from his superhero career. But it wasn't until he was inspired by the Human Torch to become a hero again when the Fantastic Four was fighting Doctor Octopus. When Octavius kidnapped Betty Brant, who was dating Peter Parker at the time, Spider-Man goes to save her, but he was suffering from a virus. When Spider-Man was easily defeated again by Doctor Octopus, he managed to unmasked him but he didn't believe that Peter was the real Spider-Man because he was not as weak as he had fought him before. Doctor Octopus left Peter and goes on to a crime spree and later a fully healed Spider-Man and was defeated.
Tired of being defeated by Spider-Man and deducing that he needed help to defeat the wallcrawler so he called on to other villains that fought and was defeated by Spider-Man to create a group to defeat him. Only Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio and Vulture answered the call. While Doctor Doom was to proud to join a team and he was too busy defeating the Fantastic Four and the Green Goblin wanted to defeat Spider-Man on his own. Together with his cadre of supervillains, Doc Ock created the Sinister Six but was again defeated by Spider-Man and soon disbanded. Doc Ock would soon reassemble the Sinister Six again in different incarnations.
During a fight between Doc Ock and Spider-Man, he became indirectly responsible for the death of Gwen Stacy's father, Captain George, who said to Spider-Man that he knew that he was Peter Parker and that he should take care of his daughter from now on. Later, Doctor Octopus was transported to Battleworld by the Beyonder to part in the Secret War. In the events of the Clone Saga, Octavius manage to save Spider-Man's life but in doing so, he discovered his secret identity. He gave himself up to the police hoping that Stunner would save him, but she was knocked out and subsequently murdered by the clone of Spider-Man, Kaine. Carolyn Trainer then inherited his master's tentacles and title, calling herself Doctor Octopus until her predecessor was resurrected by the evil ninja cult, The Hand. Upon his resurrection, he lost his memory, but his apprentice gave him a computer chip that holds his past memories, except the time he discovered Spider-Man's secret identity.
Doc Ock was seen again in Ryker's, where he was brainwashed to defeat the Green Goblin. He later got mix in the skirmish between his target and Spider-Man in the Brooklyn Bridge, where he and the Green Goblin was struck by lightning and fell from the bridge and into the river. Octavius emerged from the river with no knowledge of the event. During the Civil War, he witnessed Spider-Man revealing himself as Peter Parker on the television, where he later goes on a rampage in the streets, complaining about how he was defeated by an adolescent boy. Spider-Man confronted him and defeats him. He is seen later in Baron Zemo's group of supervillains that are hunting down both heroes and villains that are not abiding to the Super-Human Registration Act. He was later approached by a desperate Spider-Man on finding a way to save his Aunt May's life, but like many other that Peter has approached before, he didn't know what to do.Powers and Abilities
Before the accident that turned him into a villain, Otto Octavius is genius in the field of physics, where he earned a Ph. D in nuclear science and because of this innate intelligence, he has become a expert strategist and leader in his criminal career. He has four telescoping titanium-steel tentacles attached to his lower abdomen and waist which was grafted into his body after an explosion from his experiment. superhuman strength derived from his tentacles that can carry for up to 8 tons, as long as one of the tentacles is supporting Octavius' body as an anchor to the ground. the tentacles can also hit with a force of a jackhammer and travel to speeds of 50 mph. Not just a weapon, Octavius also uses his tentacles for locomotion and scaling high buildings. In all of his appearance, Doctor Octopus has had three sets of tentacles; the original titanium tentacles, a more powerful adamantium, both of which were destroyed and his current set of tentacles that is made out of titanium-steel-niobium allow mixture that looks more of the octopus tentacles
When his tentacles was surgically removed from his body, he was able to telepathically control his tentacle to execute an escape, thanks to the accident that fused his tentacles to his body, the same explosion rewired his brain to accommodate the control of his extra appendages. Another theory about the the strong bond of Octavius and his tentacles was that they were bonded not just physically but also mentally as evidence when the original set of tentacles were destroyed, Octavius felt so much pain within himself.
Alternate Versions
House of M Doc OckHouse of M
Otto is a scientist working for the government, researching about mutant stem cell
Marvel Zombies
A zombified Doc Ock is seen with the undead Sinister Six at Doctor Doom's castle siege. He was later killed when he was in the line of fire between the Marvel Zombies and Galactus.
MC2
Shortly after the disappearance of Spider-Man and subsequent retirement, Doc Ock attacked the Daily Bugle and killed Robbie Robertson. This prompt J. Jonah Jameson to start "Project: Human Fly". When mercenaries were about to steal the suit for the project, Jack Jameson, John Jameson's son and JJJ's grandson, took the suit and wore it to defeat them. From then on, he became the costumed superhero, The Buzz. Together with Spider-Girl, they captured Doc Ock, who hired the mercenaries to steal the Buzz suit earlier. He was suffering from cancer, and slipped into coma, which is reported that he will might not wake up.
Spider-Man: Reign
Doc Ock is already dead in this reality and have programed his tentacles to save Spider-Man to the future version of the Sinister Six. The tentacles brought Spider-Man to the cemetery, where his loved ones are laid to rest and hoped that this will give him the inspiration to fight again.
Ultimate Universe
Ultimate Doctor Octopus
Dr. Otto Octavius is a scientist working for Norman Osborn, but is really a spy employed by Justin Hammer. When a lab accident turned Norman into the Green Goblin, Otto was also got caught in the accident, merging his body with metal appendages. He seek to avenge himself by confronting Justin but was stop by Spider-Man, but the confrontation lead Justin to have a heart attack, thus killing him.
Together with the Green Goblin, they formed the Ultimate Six along with Electro, Kraven The Hunter, Sandman, and an unwilling participant, Spider-Man. In a fight with the Ultimates, Doc Ock was taken down by Wasp. It is also revealed that he was behind the clones of Spider-Man. all the clones and Spider-Man fought Doc Ock, but two of the clones were killed (the Ultimate Tarantula and Kaine) and in the end, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman defeated Doc Ock. When Norman is trying to escape the Ultimates' prison, Triskelion, Otto stop him and beat him to a pulp. Until Electro zapped him, knocking him unconscious.
Larval Universe
In Spider-Ham's universe, Doc Ock is a cat named Doctor Octopussy Cat.
Mutant X
In this reality, Octavius was one of the first superhumans to fight the Beyonder in the first Secret War. He also has real octopus arms instead of mechanical harnesses
Exiles
In this reality where most of the superhumans are infected by a mutated Legacy Virus combined with Warlock's technarck, Doctor Octopus is one of the Avengers that assaulted the Vi-Locks base.
What If?
In this reality where Spider-Man wasn't able to get rid of his four extra arms, Spider-Man fought Doctor Octopus and he realized that having the extra arms can be an advantage to him.
Appearances In Other Media
Spider-Man 2
| Super Name: | Doctor Octopus |
| Real Name: | Otto Gunther Octavius |
| Aliases: |
Doc Ock Doctor Octavius The Master Planner The Master Programmer Bowrey Bum Prisoner #4756689 |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | The Amazing Spider-Man #3 |
| Appears in: | 450 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
