Doctor Octopus

: This page refers to the first Doctor Octopus, Otto Octavius. For the second, see Lady Octopus

In other media

Doctor Octopus is portrayed by Alfred Molina in the film Spider-Man 2 (2004). However, the story is very contracted, and Octavius seems to have become Dr. Octopus and died within a year. In the movie, Otto Octavius is originally a generally nice and likeable man (he is also married, which did not occur in the comics) and rather than working with nuclear material, he uses fusion to create a minature electricity-generating "sun", which he manipulates with his tentacles. The tentacles are also different - in the comics, Octavius controlled them with dials prior to his accident, but in the movie, they attach to his nervous system along his spinal cord and he controls them mentally from the start. They also have a degree of artificial intelligence in the movie - Octavius controls this with an inhibitor chip, but when the chip is destroyed in his accident (caused when the "sun" he creates becomes unstable, and a large "flare" from it strikes him in the back, giving him a huge electric shock that melts the tentacles' attachments to his spine), they are able to control his mind and drive him to rebuild his failed fusion device. The tentacles' influence combined with the loss of his wife and his failure is what makes Doc Ock evil in the movie, rather than him simply becoming (possibly) insane due to brain damage from the accident as he does in the comics.

Related Topics:
Alfred Molina - Film - Spider-Man 2 - 2004 - Fusion - Flare

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Doctor Octopus is first brought into conflict with Spider-Man in the movie when he robs a bank to gain money for buying parts for the new fusion device. Later, he completes the device, but requires precious tritium to fuel it, and turns to Harry Osborn to provide it for him. Harry agrees, if Ock will bring him Spider-Man (in the first movie, Harry was led to believe that Spider-Man killed his father, and is obsessed with getting revenge in the second movie). This leads to Ock tracking down Peter Parker and kidnapping Mary Jane Watson so Peter will get Spider-Man to meet him. This leads to another battle between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, which Ock wins (Spider-Man is forced to stop a speeding train after fighting Ock, and when Ock confronts him again afterward, he is too weak to fight back).

Related Topics:
Tritium - Harry Osborn - Mary Jane Watson

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After delivering Spider-Man to Harry, Doctor Octopus gets his tritium and creates another, larger "sun", which also becomes unstable, threatening to either drag its surroundings into it with its powerful gravity and magnetic field, or explode. Having escaped from Harry, Spider-Man arrives on the scene and fights Doc Ock again - he knocks out Ock by giving him another electric shock with the wires attached to the fusion device. When Spider-Man unplugs the device, however, the "sun" is not destroyed, having become so large it is self-sustaining. The second electric shock appears to free Octavius from the influence of his tentacles - after some mental effort fighting them back, he becomes good again (this also did not happen in the comics) and destroys the "sun" himself by pulling down its supports so it sinks into the river and cools down. Doctor Octopus sinks down after it, and presumably drowns.

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Doctor Octopus appears in almost every Spider-Man video game, many of which feature him as the game's primary antagonist. In the Spider-Man game for the PlayStation, he and Carnage are the main bosses. After both are defeated, the Carnage symbiote attatches to Octavius to form the hybrid villain "Monster-Ock". Direct confrontation with this combined foe results in the player character's death; after the player flees from him, his base explodes and the two villains are separated and subdued.

Related Topics:
Video game - Antagonist - PlayStation - Carnage - Bosses

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Doctor Octopus is a guest villain in The Incredible Hulk animated series, in the episode Tomb of the Unknown Hulk in 1982 which he had stolen a rocket ship in the military camp.

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The Incredible Hulk - Animated series - 1982 - Rocket - Ship - Military

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Doctor Octopus appears in 1990's T.V series, . Ock works alone in episode "Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous". Sometimes Ock continues to get revenge on everyone who had wronged him in episodes "Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous", and "Make a Wish". Sometimes he teams up with the Insidious Six in episodes, "The Insidious Six", "Battle of the Insidious Six", and "Six Forgotten Warriors" 5-parter. Sometimes Doc Ock was hired by Spider-Man's enemy, Kingpin in episodes, "The Insidious Six", "Make a Wish", "The Cat", and "Six Forgotten Warriors" 5-parter.

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