Doctor Octopus

"Intelligence isn't a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind."

- Doctor Octopus

Doctor Otto Gunther Octavius is a former scientist turned supervillain. He was a friend of Doctor Curt Connors, a professor at Columbia University, who had lost an arm, as well as the husband of Rosalie Octavius. At some point in his career he founded Octavius Industries.

In 2004, when Peter Parker was planning to write a whole essay on him for Columbia University, Harry Osborn, now the CEO of Oscorp Industries, brought the pair together. He was intended to be a mentor to Peter, but after presenting his newly-made tentacles and presenting his fusion-based energy reactor, an accident occured, which killed his wife. Thanks to the tentacles altering his mind, he started to do various criminal activities in order to recreate the sun, only to be stopped by Spider-Man. Following Spider-Man's loss of powers, he threatened Peter Parker (who he knew took pictures of Spider-Man) to tell Spider-Man to show up. He did due to a deal with Harry Osborn, (who wanted Spider-Man as revenge for killing his father), in return for tritium, which was used for the reactor. Otto agreed and brought Spider-Man to Harry. Havin everything he needed, he recreated the system, but Spider-Man, having been freed from Harry, came by. After a fight between him and the masked vigilante, he eventually found out Spider-Man's true identity. However, Otto shut the system down after a talk with Peter, killing himself.

Early Life
Otto Gunther Octavius was a good friend of Curt Connors and went to college with him, as well as going with a woman named Rosalie. Octavius and Rosie were very different students as they studied different topics. Being different, the pair tried to explain the concepts of their subjects. Octavius fell in love with her and read poetry to get her to feel the same. The pair would eventually get married. As they grew older, Connors would tell Octavius of his student Peter Parker, whom he viewed as brilliant but lazy. Otto also befriended Oscorp founder Norman Osborn. For most of his life, Otto dreamed about providing free self-sustaining energy for the entire of New York.

Life's Work
Determined for his life's goal, Otto studied fusion in order to make his dream possible and make a self-sustaining fusion reactor to provide limitless energy for the entire of New York. While working on it, Otto designed some mechanised tentacles made solely for the purpose of the reactor. He placed a neural inhibitor chip inside it so that he would remain in control of them.

Funded by Oscorp
While working on the fusion reactor, he met Harry Osborn of Oscorp. Harry funded Otto in hopes that the company would profit from Otto's invention.

Meeting Peter Parker
A day before the official presentation, Otto was approached by Harry Osborn with his friend Peter Parker. Harry then introduced them together, with Peter mentioning him writing a paper on Otto. Otto began to brush him off but decided not to, due to Harry's fundings. Harry then took off due to a board meeting, leaving Peter and Octavius. Octavius then remembered Parker from his discussion with Connors and told him that despite it being a great thing, brilliance wasn't enough. Otto then showed him his fusion reactor which concerned Parker. However, him and his wife Rosie described is as being safe and that he could sleep soundly tonight.

Otto then disagreed with Rosie about going to sleep for the presentation during lunch, before Parker showed off his knowledge of the curve of quickest descent which Otto praised him about. Eventually, Rosie asked Parker if he had a girlfriend which he was confused about, before Otto told Parker about him and Rosalie, concluding that the best way to get a girlfriend was to read poetry.

Failed Demonstration
The next day, Otto decided to demonstrate his fusion reactor, which was attended by Peter and Harry. Otto presented his tentacles for the public, before showing off the main event which was the Fusion Reactor. He then placed the tritium (the fuel for the reactor) inside so that it would power, before thanking Harry and Oscorp for the funds. It then powered which his assistant Raymond responded was successful. However, more power was added which resulted in the reaction to destabilise. However, Octavius refused to shut it off, believing that it would stabilise later. Octavius then attacked Spider-Man who had just showed up to pull the plug. Eventually though, Otto would witness Rosie's death as a result of collateral damage and the electricity in the reaction caused his inhibitor chip to explode and knock him unconscious.

Attack on the Hospital
Following the failed demonstration of the accident, Otto was taken to Midtown Hospital, where the doctors would try to extract his tentacles. However, the tentacles were now in control of him due to his fried inhibitor chip. Unwilling to stay removed, the tentacles attacked all the doctors and removed the blindfold off of a now awake Otto. However, Otto realised what they had just done and yelled in agony. Upon leaving, the tentacles found an abandoned building for them to stay.

Criminal Ways
Following the accidents, Otto began to repent Rosie's death as well as the failures of the demonstration. He then repented the tentacles being ever created and began to wonder if Peter was actually correct. However, he believed he couldn't have miscalculated and that he was right. The tentacles then persuaded him to turn to criminal ways to get money, however Otto refused stating he wasn't a criminal. However, he then proclaimed that the real crime would be not to finish what he had started.

Bank Robbery
One day, Otto decided to rob a bank to gain enough money to build the reactor. He walked towards the bank with a large jacket to conceal his tentacles. However, he revealed them in order to lift the vault door. He then hurled it away and made his appearance obvious. As he attacked policemen, he prepared to put the stolen money in the bags he had before Spider-Man showed up once again. Otto then hurled the bags at Spider-Man and attacked him. However, Spider-Man was able to use his webs and hurl a desk at Octavius, which led him to crash outside the bank. He then grabbed a bystander and climbed up a building. Spider-Man was able to save May but Octavius had to fight him and May. Otto then escaped unsuccessful.

Alliance with Harry
Following the botched robbery, Octavius approached Harry, once again asking for the tritium, but now he wanted more. However, Harry refused due to the consequences of last time. However, Octavius then lifted Harry over his house, prompting Harry to make deal. Harry asked to bring Spider-Man alive and he would give the tritium. He then told Octavius that he needed to find Peter Parker in order to find Spider-Man, which Octavius agreed to. He then left and told Harry to get it ready.

Kidnapping Mary Jane
Following their newfound alliance, Octavius found Parker with Mary Jane Watson at a cafe. He then hurled a car at the window for a better entrance, and met Parker. He grabbed him, asking for him to find Spider-Man. He then grabbed Mary Jane and threatened to kill her if Spider-Man didn't come. Climbing up a building, Otto waited for Spider-Man at the Westside Market Clocktower.

Train Fight
Spider-Man, now returning following a loss of power, met Octavius at the tower. When Octavius asked him to come, Spider-Man refused and instead they fought, which extended further onto a train. Octavius then tried to sneak attack Spider-Man, but he returned and saved everyone. Octavius then left, reminding Spider-Man he had a train to save. Spider-Man was able to save the people on the train. However, Octavius returned to the scene, and decided to grab Spider-Man, who was shielded by a handful of citizens. However, Doc Ock grabbed him without any difficulty, knocking him out.

Obtaining the Tritium
After his fight with Spider-Man, Otto returned and placed him on a bed, pointed by Harry. In exchange, Harry opened the safe to reveal the tritium, which Otto took. He then escaped and left Harry to kill Spider-Man.

Stopping the Fusion Reactor
After, Otto returned to his hideout and started the fusion reactor. He refused to let Mary Jane go, knowing that she may as well call the police doing so. Eventually, Spider-Man came to rescue her, but first Otto fought Spider-Man. Octavius threw Spider-Man away, but he returned and attacked Octavius, knocking him out. However, the magnetic field of the fusion reactor increased, so Spider-Man woke Otto up. He then revealed himself to be Peter Parker and asked how to shut it down. Otto, under the influence of the tentacles, instead refused and attacked Parker. However, Parker made him remember his speech about intelligence. Despite Otto having turned, the fusion reactor was unstoppable, so Otto decided to drown it himself. Vowing not to die a monster, Otto sunk it into the river. However, doing this, he would also drown into the river and kill himself.

Personality
"Steal it? No, no, no, I'm not a criminal ... That's right. the real crime would be not to finish what we started."

- Doctor Octopus

To be added.

Weapons

 * Doctor Octopus' Tentacles: While creating his fusion reactor, Otto Octavius created heat/magnetism-resistant tentacles. However, due to the fried neural inhibitor chip, it started to control Otto and turn him into Doctor Octopus. This led him to use criminal ways in order to rebuild his fusion reactor.

Other Equipment

 * Otto Octavius' Fusion Reactor: Otto Octavius built two versions of the fusion reactor.
 * First Fusion Reactor: To be added.
 * Second Fusion Reactor: To be added.

Facilities

 * Doctor Octopus' Hideout:To be added.

Family

 * Rosalie Octavius - Wife

Allies

 * Curt Connors - Friend
 * Oscorp
 * Harry Osborn
 * Norman Osborn
 * Raymond - Assistant
 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Former enemy

Enemies

 * Mary Jane Watson - Hostage

Trivia

 * When considering a name for Doctor Octopus at The Daily Bugle, Ted Hoffman comes up with the name Doctor Strange. While J. Jonah Jameson likes the name, he mentions it is already taken.
 * Octavius finds T. S. Eliot confusing.

Behind the Scenes

 * Doctor Octopus was originally considered to appear in Spider-Man, but was written out in order to make the plot less complicated.
 * Chris Cooper, Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro were all considered for the role.
 * Alfred Molina was excited to play the part, having been a fan of Marvel Comics.
 * Molina underwent physical training for the role.
 * When Molina was approached to reprise the role of Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus, he asked Jon Watts how he would be able to reprise his role following the character's death, but Watts told him nobody really dies. Thanks to CGI, they were able to de-age the character.
 * However, it is unknown whether this is the same Doc Ock from the Spider-Man Trilogy or a variant.