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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius, also known as Doctor Octopus, is a fictional supervillain that has appeared in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3 (July, 1963), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.A highly intelligent Mad Scientist, Doctor Octopus is one of the greatest foes Spider-Man has ever faced.note He's almost universally considered Spidey's all-time #2 foe after the Green Goblin. He is typically portrayed as a stocky, myopic man who utilizes four powerful, mechanical appendages and is obsessed with proving his own genius and destroying Spider-Man (and not necessarily in that order). The character has appeared in numerous Spider-Man cartoons and video games and is portrayed by Alfred Molina in the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 as the film's main antagonist; Molina would later return to the role in 2021's Spider-Man film as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An Alternate Universe version of the character appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but to say anything else would be a spoiler. In 2009, Doctor Octopus was ranked as IGN's 28th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Born in Schenectady, New York, Otto Octavius had something of an unhappy childhood. His father, Torbert, was abusive and violent towards both Otto and his mother Mary. Otto was determined not to become like his father and put all his effort into his education, regularly scoring top marks. Unfortunately, a combination of Otto's shyness and good school work got him labeled as a "teacher's pet" and he became a target of bullying. Otto eventually became a brilliant and respected nuclear physicist, atomic research consultant, inventor, and lecturer. One of his most iconic inventions was a set of highly advanced mechanical arms controlled via a mind–computer interface to assist him with his research into atomic physics. Unfortunately, there was an accidental radiation leak that ended in an explosion and those wonderful mechanical arms became fused to Octavius's body.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The accident also seemed to have damaged his brain and the scientist turned to a life of crime. His very first criminal act was taking the hospital hostage and proclaiming himself Doctor Octopus, the derogatory nickname that his co-workers had originally given him. In their first encounter, Octopus defeated Spider-Man by tossing him out of a window. Following this defeat Spider-Man considered giving up his heroic career, but was inspired to continue by the Human Torch and ultimately defeated Doctor Octopus. Since then the Good (or Bad) Doctor has gone on to become one of the most identifiable members of Spider-Man's rogues gallery. He was actually Spider-Man's first recurring Arch-Enemy before the Green Goblin and his mystery overshadowed him. Goblin's death did nothing to raise Dr. Octopus' profile, since other contenders for the Goblin and Venom overshadowed him. He formed the first Sinister Six to fight Spider-Man. He was the villain for one of Spidey's most iconic early arcs as "the Master Planner". He was also indirectly responsible for the death of Gwen Stacy's father George, who died when debris from a building where he and Spider-Man were fighting fell below, and Captain Stacy sacrificed his life to save a child from becoming collateral damage.Dr. Octopus faded from view and prominence in The '80s, with his major storyline, The Owl/Octopus War happening in the pages of the second series The Spectacular Spider-Man (Issues #73-79) rather than the flagship title. In The '90s, writer Tom DeFalco in a number of stories established his backstory, and during the Clone Saga, briefly reworked him into an ally of Spider-Man only for him to be briefly killed off and replaced by Carolyn Trainer, who became Lady Octopus for a brief time, until Defalco brought Octopus back only with his memory of being allies with Peter removed. Dr. Octopus was back and here to stay. He returned to prominence in a series of stories starting from ASM #600 where Peter comes across Octopus' brain scanner and uses it in his attempt to stop a catastrophe. The problem is that the device gives Octopus a scan of Peter's brain. Repeated use of the device over the next 100 issues gives Octopus more and more information to plot the ultimate daring heist. In addition to this, After years of fighting Spider-Man, his body began to succumb to the injuries he had sustained over the years. In one storyline, Ends of the Earth, Dr. Octopus briefly ascended to a global Marvel-wide threat needing Spider-Man and the Avengers to shut him down with Spider-Man dying and decaying in his body leading to the Dying Wish storyline.As a way to prevent his death, Otto switched bodies with Peter Parker using one of his robots and the information from the brain-scanning. Before dying in Otto's body, Peter urged Otto to change for good and succeed the Spider-Man mantle with his last breaths. Otto complied, swearing to both live up to Spider-Man's example but do it his way, i.e. doing good by proving that he's the superior hero, resulting a more brutal, but still trying-to-be-heroic Spider-Man. Unfortunately, he found himself slowly slipping back into evil, starting with his attempted erasure of a fragment of Peter Parker's soul and Jumping Off the Slippery Slope from there. He eventually had a Heel Realization that he was doing more harm than good by the time Peter's soul fragment came Back from the Dead, and relinquished control of Peter's body, erasing his own consciousness as penance. As Otto died, he told Peter that Peter was a better Spider-Man and a better person than Otto (the self-proclaimed Superior Successor) could ever hope to be.As of All-New, All-Different Marvel, it is revealed that Dr. Octopus' mind now resides within the Living Brain, stalkingly watching over Anna Maria. After teaming up with the Jackal during The Clone Conspiracy and temporarily inhabiting a clone version of his old body, he eventually betrayed the Jackal for insulting his love interest. Afterwards, he hijacked a new, powerful experimental clone body. He was then recruited by Armin Zola and HYDRA to aid in destroying Parker Industries, reinventing himself as the "Superior Octopus". After the downfall of the Hydra Empire and the restoration of the true Captain America, and a truce with Peter after Go Down Swinging and Spider-Geddon, Ock once again decides to try and abandon his supervillain ways, seeking to set himself up as the heroic protector of San Francisco in Superior Octopus #1 and the second volume of Superior Spider-Man. Unfortunately it wouldn't last, as Ock made a deal with Mephisto to defeat Spider-Norman. The deal would restore Ock to his old body but with it back to full health. The price being the empathy gained from sharing Peter's memories. | |
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Kill the God: In order to stop the Inheritors, Otto kills the Master Weaver. | |
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Blind Without 'Em | |
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Blind Without 'Em: He sometimes has this problem. In his first debut he was near-sighted before the accident but depending on the continuity (and Depending on the Writer) it's sometimes considered a side-effect of the accident that gave him his powers. (In one min-series, he claims that the accident made his eyes sensitive to light, requiring him to wear shaded glasses.) | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Prior to the Death of Spider-Man in the Ultimate Universe, he tries to back out of the Green Goblin's latest scheme, declaring he always wanted to be a scientist not a villain, he wants to go back to science, and he'd rather take pride in the fact it was his genetic engineering experiments with spiders that ultimate created Spider-Man. The Green Goblin promptly kills him. | |
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Villain Team-Up | |
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Villain Team-Up: Octavius is often the leader, and in some continuities the founder, of the Sinister Six. He has also led at least one version of the The Avengers villain team, Masters of Evil. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: In the end, Otto acknowledges Peter is the true Superior Spider-Man and willingly gives Parker his body back, even purging his memories to avoid distracting and confusing Peter. When Peter successfully trounces him during their fight in Spider-Verse, Otto admits defeat with begrudging acceptance. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Or in his case, someone worse, as Peter considers him his "runner-up nemesis at best" with Norman Osborn taking up his top slot on the villain totem pole. The reason for this is that Dr. Octopus repeatedly went to jail multiple times, while Green Goblin went 40 years in publication history without facing justice for his crimes. Spider-Man's last major battle with him was a gang war in a '80s storyline at the end of which Dr. Octopus was traumatized by a fear of spiders that Spider-Man himself had to help him overcome later on in ASM #296. And even after that Norman Osborn and Goblin remains a more powerful and dangerous figure, and someone who Otto as Superior Spider-Man failed to do anything against leading him to bring Peter back to stop him. | |
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Freak Lab Accident | |
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Freak Lab Accident: His origin story, which is another similarity he shares with Peter Parker. | |
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Reality Ensues: What happens when a human without any kind of enhanced durability spends years getting into super-battles? The result isn't pretty. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: Due to him being myopic. | |
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Heroic Suicide | |
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Heroic Suicide: He erases himself to allow Peter back his body to save New York in Superior Spider-Man 30. | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses | |
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Scary Shiny Glasses: An iconic western example, both invoked and justified in many incarnations by having them do double-duty as prescription Sinister Shades to deal with light sensitivity issues. | |
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Artificial Limbs | |
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Artificial Limbs: Well, he attached four cybernetic arms of questionable morality to his spine. | |
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It Only Works Once | |
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It Only Works Once: Doc Ock has a tendency to learn from his mistakes and to come up with effective counter-measures for Spidey's tricks. For example, after being blinded with a squirt of webbing he started treating his glasses with a non-stick coating. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: Probably the defining difference between him and Peter. And the "good" part is stretching it. | |
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For Science! | |
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Slightly subverted in the 90s cartoon; Doc Ock still thinks of himself as a scientist over a villain... the problem is, his obsession is with pursuing scientific goals goes to the extent that he's indifferent to any potential harm to people as a result, which is why nobody will take him in as a legitimate scientist. To put this in perspective, his introductory episode has him kidnap Felicia Hardy due to a vendetta against her mother... only this turns out to mostly be a distraction so he can pursue an experiment with creating a fusion reactor, indifferent to the fact that if this goes wrong, the resultant explosion could wipe out half the city. | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His new suit has four cybernetic spider-legs, similar to Peter's old Iron Spider outfit. | |
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Walking Spoiler | |
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Walking Spoiler: The identity of the character spoils the conclusion of the "Dying Wish" arc in the Amazing series. That being said, anyone who opens up an issue of Superior is going to have the twist immediately spoiled for them. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Although being in Peter's body does not make him physically old in the slightest, he is a middle-aged man, and a lot of issue 1 and 2 of Superior have him hitting on women of Peter's age, meaning women at least 20 years younger than he is. Then in issue four, when he reenters grad school, he flirts with one of the students there. Ghost Peter is very disturbed. | |
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A Date with Rosie Palms | |
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A Date with Rosie Palms: In the Superior Issue #2. Ghost-Peter is pretty grossed out by this. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: During The Owl/Octopus War, he plots an insane scheme to destroy New York with a Neutron Bomb. So crazy is this scheme that The Kingpin is scared of him and he pre-emptively plans on moving his business empire and himself out of the city. When Spider-Man and Black Cat, stops his original plan, Ock goes truly nuts with The Power of Hate promising Spider-Man to kill him To the Pain and Black Cat too, and gleefully indifferent to whoever else gets in his path. | |
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Glass Cannon: If Spidey can get past the tentacles, it usually doesn't take much to knock him out. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: In the 90s, Scarlet Spider faced off against Lady Octopus, a female supervillain who was enamored with Otto and deliberately patterned her identity off of his, complete with a cybnetic arms harness. The Web Warriors mini-series also introduced Octavia Otto, a heroic female counterpart of Otto's from Earth-1104, who returned in Spider-Geddon. Another female version of Doc Ock appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. | |
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Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment | |
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Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment: What his tentacles were originally designed for. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius: About 90 percent of his thoughts are how much Superior he is to Peter, or how other the resident geniuses of the Marvel Universe are not as smart as him, like Reed flipping Richards. | |
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Arch-Enemy: Otto is the main rival to the Green Goblin in regard to Spider-Man. He held this most consistently in the first 100 issues and then only recovered that during Dan Slott's time. Initially, he is the first villain to defeat Spider-Man, the creator and leader of the Sinister Six, the Big Bad of one of Spider-Man's greatest stories, the Master Planner arc. Indirectly he killed Captain George Stacy and irreparably strained Peter's relation with Gwen Stacy. And he put Black Cat, Spider-Man's third great love in the hospital. Then in Dan Slott's run, he managed to take over his body and live his life. However this experience would wind up changing Otto for the better and he would eventually become an anti-hero like Venom. Sadly thanks to Mephisto it didn't stick. | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Almost became one in "The Return of the Sinister Six" storyline. In fact, the reason Spidey was able to defeat him is because he managed to convince Ock that his plan would cause The End of the World as We Know It, which Ock didn't want. (Yet.) | |
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Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work | |
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Dr. Octopus was portrayed as a megalomaniac without any redeeming virtues for the first 30 years or so. He was self-interested, arrogant, and vain. His courtship with Aunt May still coincided with him acting as a gangster in a gang-war with Hammerhead (who helpfully for Peter, crashes the wedding between Ock and Aunt May) and motivated by a scheme to win a nuclear power plant that Aunt May inherited. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist Hero: Like the original Spidey, only more fiendish. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Could easily have been the Trope Namer for Insufferable Genius, given the way he treats his henchmen, as well as when he's the leader of the Sinister Six (or his short term as leader of the Masters of Evil). | |
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Sunglasses at Night | |
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Sunglasses at Night: He's rarely seen without them; frequently justified as a result of light sensitivity issues | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_40c57041 | type |
Manipulative Bastard | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: He's manipulating pretty much everyone right now. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_40c57041 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7 | type |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In some continuities, in particular Sam Raimi's trilogy, his tentacles contain an advanced AI that influences him. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_42a95f60 | type |
Taking Up the Mantle | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_42a95f60 | comment |
Taking Up the Mantle: Becomes Spider-Man after Peter dies. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_42a95f60 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_43e36f2f | type |
Acrofatic | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_43e36f2f | comment |
Acrofatic: Otto's on the pudgy side, but with his tentacles he can really get around. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_43e36f2f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4412f4d | type |
Guess Who I'm Marrying? | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4412f4d | comment |
Guess Who I'm Marrying?: Doc Ock was actually marrying May because she was the heir to a private nuclear reactor (dont even ask). He didn't even realize that Spider-Man was her nephew until after he unmasked in Civil War. Brilliantly, he then went into a rant about how stupid he was not to figure it out and how he should have kept up the marriage facade for far longer. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: While he despises Spider-Man and is obsessed with defeating him, Octavius nonetheless appreciates that Spidey is highly intelligent and respects him as a formidable enemy. In Ultimate Marvel, part of what prompts him to try and give up on villainy is because he decides Spider-Man is so impressive that he ought to be proud of having created him, even if by accident. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_469e3e2f | comment |
In the main universe, the original Otto Octavius died at the conclusion of The Superior Spider-Man, while the Otto that appears in all later appearances (except Spider-Verse, which features a time-displaced Otto-as-Spider-Man) feature an AI copy that has hijacked a powerful clone body. In fact, the Spider-Verse adventure sets up the creation of the duplicate since it has Otto learn-then forget-that he is destined to die in the future and take precautions. In-Universe the two are treated as one and the same, though. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_469e3e2f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: However, he's also doing the right thing because he feels that it's what the real Spider-Man would do. Even still, the "Jerk" aspect of this can be stretched a bit, considering that part of the reason he's being good is due to simply outdo the original. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4782e60f | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4782e60f | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: His actions are increasingly less heroic and more extreme. This definitely kicks in by the time he erases Peter. He subverts this, though with his final actions. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4782e60f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4783acfa | type |
Bait the Dog | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4783acfa | comment |
Bait the Dog: It sure was nice of him to perform a brain surgery to save a little girl. Too bad that he does it as a means to find Peter's remnant and try to kill him for good. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Otto tries to stab Spider-Girl when she tries to stop him from destroying the Web of Life. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_488422f | type |
Angel Face, Demon Face | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_488422f | comment |
Angel Face, Demon Face: As Superior Venom. If Otto is in control his eyes are smooth, the webbing motif neat and tidy, and nary a fang in sight. When he starts to get angry, however, he sprouts a maw full of fangs and both the eyes and webbing motif become distorted. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_488422f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4a57732a | type |
Friendless Background | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4a57732a | comment |
Friendless Background: Young Otto was bullied and picked on as a child, much like Peter was, and also like Peter, compensated by becoming engrossed in his studies. Indeed, the biggest difference between the two in that regards was that Peter had the loving, nurturing family that Otto lacked. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4de061b6 | type |
Extra-ore-dinary | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4de061b6 | comment |
Extra-ore-dinary: His Ultimate Marvel counterpart, who is eventually revealed to have the ability to psychically manipulate metal. This means that, even though his tentacles get surgically removed, he can recreate them from ambient metal if he wants to. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4de061b6 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | type |
The Atoner | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b | comment |
The Atoner: Much more so than Peter, which is saying quite a bit. He was so moved by learning about the original Spider-Man's past that he decided to use his powers for good instead of for selfish reasons. He's got plenty to atone for, too: nearly destroying the planet for starters, and pretty much every other heinous thing that he's done as Doctor Octopus. This is the only thing keeping him from being a Karma Houdini from the conclusion of Amazing. However, as the series goes on, his quest becomes more driven by his own ego than by any desire to do good, making this a Subverted Trope. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4f62bde6 | type |
Kavorka Man | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4f62bde6 | comment |
Kavorka Man: Despite being unattractive and tentacled, Octavius successfully wooed Aunt May and almost married her. Even afterwards, May is STILL rather fond of him. Octavius won Stunner's love and gratitude when he used virtual reality technology to make her beautiful and mighty. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_4f62bde6 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Bullies in general, and anything that triggers Otto's memories of being bullied cause him to react with Disproportionate Retribution. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: In the "Return of the Sinister Six" storyline Ock recruited the Sandman (who wasn't a criminal at the time) but because he was pretty sure the Sandman would likely turn against him - and he did - he took inspiration from a battle Sandman once had with the Hulk, and kept a weapon on him that could melt silicon and turn sand into glass, which in-effect, petrified Sandman. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_50f66629 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_51300dbf | type |
FatBastard | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_51300dbf | comment |
Fat Bastard: At first and later depending on the artist. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_51300dbf | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | type |
We Used to Be Friends | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_51a3ba7 | comment |
We Used to Be Friends: In a few versions, most notably the 90s cartoon, Dr Otto Octavius encouraged a young Peter Parker's love of science, and told him to ignore those who would mock him. They weren't exactly friends, but close enough that Octavius remembers who Peter is when they meet after he's become Dr Octopus. The PS4 incarnation of the character takes it even further, where Otto was practically Peter's surrogate father before his descent into villainy. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | type |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_533bc7ae | comment |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: After having the tentacles fused to his spine, he turned evil. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: In the first annual, he kidnapped Betty Brant and Aunt May Parker, and then gave them tea and cookies while apologizing for neglecting his guests. He also once rented a room from Aunt May and behaved like a perfect gentleman, even helping her around the house. He also came very near to marrying her after she somehow inherited a nuclear plant. In some of his iterations, he protects civilians, or at least refrains from harming them, but his most notable battles, such as the Death of George Stacy, and The Owl/Octopus War shows him sociopathically indifferent to collateral damage, in the climax of the latter he attacks a hospital and at one point cuts an elevator carrying runaway patients and hospital workers which Spider-Man has to stop. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_539179db | type |
Synchronization | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_539179db | comment |
Synchronization: If his metal tentacles are damaged or destroyed, even from hundreds of miles away, he feels incredible pain and a shock that can often render him unconscious or cause him to fly into rage. After years of using them, the arms have almost become a part of his body. In the mini-series "Doctor Octopus: Year One", it's revealed that he created his infamous tentacles with the ability to feel radiation. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | type |
Empowered Badass Normal | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | comment |
Empowered Badass Normal: After becoming Superior Spider-Man, he has the brawn to match his brains. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Some stories show him as this to Norman Osborn while becoming a Dragon with an Agenda. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_547bb916 | type |
Living with the Villain | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_547bb916 | comment |
Living with the Villain: So, Aunt May decides to rent out a free room in the Parker household. Who moves in? Doc Ock of, course! What happens next? He hits on Aunt May and nearly gives Peter a heart attack in the process. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_547bb916 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_555ff395 | type |
ILoveNuclearPower | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_555ff395 | comment |
I Love Nuclear Power: Doc Ock originally gained his powers from a radiation experiment gone wrong. Doctor Octopus: Year One (set in the original Marvel timeline of the early 60's) embraces this trope, showing that Octavius became obsessed with the power of the atom long before the accident, fantasizing about it to the point of fetishism, and identified with the cleansing atomic fire as a counterpart to his own rage against the world. Subverted heavily, as the original blast of radiation that gave him his powers was revealed to have had a long-term side effect: the radiation prevented his body from properly healing from injury. Coupled with his frequent beatings from foes far more powerful than himself, Otto's body eventually began to shut down and leave his brilliant mind in a decrepit, dying body. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_557838d1 | type |
Adaptational Attractiveness | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_557838d1 | comment |
Adaptational Attractiveness: Doctor Octopus is rather ugly in the Marvel comics, in contrast to his much more striking depiction by Alfred Molina in the Spider-Man 2 film. Some Marvel artists depict Doctor Octopus as overweight and fleshy, while others depict him as muscular. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5beef860 | type |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He once developed arachnophobia after a very angry Spider-Man beat him within an inch of his life after the scientist nearly killed the Black Cat. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5beef860 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | type |
Civvie Spandex | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26 | comment |
Civvie Spandex: His costume has traditionally consisted of a lab coat or sometimes just a plain suit. But during the 70's and 80's he wore green spandex on occasion, but otherwise, he stuck to civvies. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5d6db368 | type |
Four Eyes, Zero Soul | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5d6db368 | comment |
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses because he's myopic. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5ec9f980 | type |
Drunk on the Dark Side | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5ec9f980 | comment |
Drunk on the Dark Side: Taking on the Venom symbiote causes him to lose all self-control and start ranting like a madman and become obsessed with finding any lawbreaker he can find (no matter how minor) so he can beat them up and demonstrate his superiority. This results in Peter resurfacing and convincing Ock to free himself from the Symbiote's control. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_5ec9f980 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_604f9b0f | type |
Brains Evil, Brawn Good | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_604f9b0f | comment |
Brains Evil, Brawn Good: While they both have plenty of brains and brawn, the various versions of Doc Ock tend to have an edge on Spider-Man in terms of brainpower and the various versions of Spider-Man have an edge on him in strength, agility, etc... | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_604f9b0f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Otto takes over as Spider-Man after Peter dies, overwhelmed by Peter's memories and thoughts. Of course, he's still an egomaniac, so he's also motivated by being a better Spider-Man than Peter was. Heel–Face Revolving Door: He sequesters and purges the remnants of Peter from his body, going back on his promise to protect Peter's friends by slaughtering mental representations of them. To be fair, it was because he only saw them as memories and all of Peter's had to go so that he could continue to be Spider-Man. Though Otto's point about how the mental representations are not actually Peter's friends, and "killing" them is not actually breaking the promise Otto made to Peter IS perfectly valid. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_62434fe2 | type |
Sanity Slippage | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: After returning from being time-warped, Otto becomes more brutal and totalitarian than ever. This is because while fighting the Inheritors, he learns that Peter will eventually regain control of his body. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_62434fe2 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_62c1f9a9 | type |
Evil Versus Oblivion | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_62c1f9a9 | comment |
Evil Versus Oblivion: In The Sentry miniseries, as the heroes are gathered to stop the Void, Spider-Man notices Doctor Octopus lined up with them. Dialogue goes something like this: | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_6379a920 | type |
Diagnosis from Dr. Badass | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_6379a920 | comment |
Diagnosis from Dr. Badass: When he recalled his first fight with Spider-Man: | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Octavius's relationship with his mother was unhealthy and complicated, but he did care about her. Her death saddened him. In his youth, Octavius was engaged to Mary Alice Anders. Years later, he tried and failed to cure her of AIDS. While occupying Peter Parker's body as Superior Spider-Man, Octavius found himself falling in love with Anna Maria Marconi. To this day, he has a genuine soft spot for Peter's Aunt May. During the Sinister Six Trilogy, when she was believed dead, he interrupted a villainous speech at the Daily Bugle to offer his sincere condolences to Peter about her passing. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0 | type |
Drunk with Power | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0 | comment |
Drunk with Power: With the adamantium tentacles he started thinking he was invincible, and acted very rash (going so far as to start using an Evil Laugh) and even tried to Take Over the World for real. It ended badly, and even he himself would later admit it had been a bad idea. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_6a47a1e2 | type |
Knight of Cerebus | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: He's got little to no comedic quirks and he is the first villain to actually beat Spider-Man. Whenever he shows up you know things are about to get nasty. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_6b42ea7e | type |
Hijacking Cthulhu | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_6b42ea7e | comment |
Hijacking Cthulhu: He seizes control of the Venom symbiote and forces it to remain bonded to him when it tries to leave him for Flash. The symbiote quickly undermines his control and turns the tables on him fairly quickly, though. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_703b3699 | type |
Came Back Strong | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_703b3699 | comment |
Came Back Strong: Octavius hijacking the Proto Clone from the Jackal, which has a mixture of both his DNA and "Spider-Clone" DNA, which gives now gives him his incredible smarts on top of Spider-Man's legendary abilities. His "Superior Octopus" costume is also this as it takes his Superior Spider-Man costume and gives it an Octopus motif, complete with his classic arms. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_71a223fc | type |
Up to Eleven | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_71a223fc | comment |
Taken Up to Eleven in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, where he depends on his cybernetic tentacles to get around because he was in an accident that rendered him a quadriplegic. If it weren't for his arms, he'd be completely immobile from the neck down. Subverted when, during the series finale, he uses nanotech to rebuild his body and undo the damage. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_72c848cc | type |
Fair-Weather Mentor | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_72c848cc | comment |
Fair-Weather Mentor: To Alpha. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: He considered the second incarnation of the Sinister Six to be this. In one three part story, Fusion, a villain who Spider-Man had previously called a "poor man's Mysterio", thought he had brainwashed Doc Ock into being his slave. Boy, was he wrong. Doc's iron will couldn’t be scratched, and he had been using Fusion as his own Unwitting Pawn the whole time. When he no longer needed him, Fusion found himself on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle, as Ock beat him severely and left him broken, bloody, and barely alive for Spider-Man to find as an example of anyone who challenged him. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7484b619 | type |
Herr Doktor | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7484b619 | comment |
Herr Doktor: In the 1990s animated series and the Spider-Man video game he has a thick German accent (he was voiced by Efrem Zimbalist Jr in both; that's right—Doctor Octopus is Alfred). | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_750b606b | type |
Multi-Armed Multitasking | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_750b606b | comment |
Multi-Armed Multitasking: He was very good at using his tentacles to do this. According to the most reliable source, he could use his tentacles in combination with his regular hands to do one complex task and two simple ones at the same time. And as the above Trope shows, there were also several stories where the "complex task" was a heated battle. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_775a1af6 | type |
Married to the Job | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_775a1af6 | comment |
Married to the Job: Even before his mother's death, the man was a workaholic, and after it happened, he shunned out other people entirely, becoming an anti-social Dr. Jerk. Eventually, this attitude caused him to overwork and caused the accident due to fatigue. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_77666408 | type |
Combat Tentacles | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_77666408 | comment |
Combat Tentacles: Four cybernetic artificial limbs. He's had multiple versions. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_77666408 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec | type |
For Want of a Nail | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec | comment |
For Want of a Nail: A What If? story suggested that, if the radioactive spider had bitten Flash Thompson instead of Peter Parker, Peter would have averted Otto Octavius's Start of Darkness. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | type |
Animal-Themed Superbeing | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | comment |
Animal-Themed Superbeing: As his moniker suggests, octopi. And later, spiders. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7a87fa80 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7bf14666 | type |
And Now for Someone Completely Different | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7bf14666 | comment |
And Now for Someone Completely Different: It's a brand new Spidey, for better or worse. Sort of; even though it's Peter's body, Doctor Octopus is in control of it. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Ghost-Peter just before purging him. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Octavius' use of Body Backup Drive stolen from the Inheritors, combined with some bungling by the Web Warriors still on Loomworld, kicks off the Spider-Geddon event. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Good gravy, just look at the quote. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_853b7948 | type |
Ambiguously Evil | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_853b7948 | comment |
Ambiguously Evil: In almost all of his appearances in other comics especially in Alpha: Big Time and Avenging Spider-man, where he is using Alpha to upgrade himself and seems to be rebuilding the Sinister Six respectively. Not that this is surprising given that he's a somewhat reformed villain. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8739b21 | type |
Technopath | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8739b21 | comment |
Technopath: One of Marvel's latest trends is to attribute this power to Doc Ock. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_87ab7f69 | type |
Sharp-Dressed Man | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_87ab7f69 | comment |
Sharp-Dressed Man: Starting when he formed the second version of the Sinister Six, he got rid of his original costume in favor of expensive Italian suits; these lasted until his death and later resurrection by the Hand. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_88f16cee | type |
Go Out with a Smile | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_88f16cee | comment |
Go Out with a Smile: He smiles at Peter, recognizing that he's the hero New York City needs. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Kaine murdered him at one point in the 90s, but he was resurrected by the Hand with the help of Carolyn Trainer and Angelina Brancale. Zigzagged as Superior Spider-Man. After the Spider-Verse incident (where he discovers that Peter has regained his body and the Otto from Peter's present is dead), Otto created an AI copy of his psyche intending to retake Peter's body at a later point. However, he later decided to contract Miles Warren to create a superior body, a young adult frame made from a fusion of his and Peter's DNA, and took over that instead. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: He becomes more and more of this as the series progresses. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8a58bb81 | type |
Meta Guy | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8a58bb81 | comment |
Meta Guy: In Hickman's run on the Avengers, oddly enough. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8aef3aa4 | type |
Big Beautiful Man | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8aef3aa4 | comment |
Doctor Octopus is rather ugly in the Marvel comics, in contrast to his much more striking depiction by Alfred Molina in the Spider-Man 2 film. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8f6f3188 | type |
Swiss-Army Appendage | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_8f6f3188 | comment |
Swiss Army Appendage: Most incarnations of his tentacles have this capacity to some extent. Common alt-modes for his claws are spiked blades, electronic interface devices, Sensory Tentacles, and dedicated drills or drill-like rotation of the claws. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_90769dd0 | type |
Evil Genius | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_90769dd0 | comment |
Evil Genius: A definite poster boy of this trope. Hell, in The Spectacular Spider Man he drinks out of a coffee mug with this label on it. Otto is an master strategist and manipulator and an expert in many scientific fields, including the study of radiation, which even Reed Richards acknowledges is better than his own. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: A self-inflicted example. Otto put Peter down for the count for a long time by erasing him from his own mind. When he realizes that the world needs Peter, he does the same thing to himself in penance, and so that Peter won't be distracted by Octavius' extra baggage. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Kicking Peter out of his head cost him Peter's memories, which becomes increasingly important as the story arc progresses. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | type |
Hero-Worshipper | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | comment |
Hero-Worshipper: In Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure, he claims to idolize Leonardo da Vinci, and was inspired to invent his tentacles by DaVinci's famous Vitruvian Man pencil sketch. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_91cecc1e | type |
Exaggerated Trope | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_91cecc1e | comment |
Much more so than Peter, which is saying quite a bit. He was so moved by learning about the original Spider-Man's past that he decided to use his powers for good instead of for selfish reasons. He's got plenty to atone for, too: nearly destroying the planet for starters, and pretty much every other heinous thing that he's done as Doctor Octopus. This is the only thing keeping him from being a Karma Houdini from the conclusion of Amazing. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9228e13b | type |
Disastrous Demonstration | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9228e13b | comment |
Disastrous Demonstration: He had some problems during his new invention's demonstration, which sets him on the path to become a supervillain. The movie Spider-Man 2 carried over this element of his origin-story. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: He finally realizes all he has done wrong and all of his flaws in the Goblin Nation arc. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Of "If This Be My Destiny" and "Ends of the Earth". He is also this in a Five Bad Band sense seeing as he founded the Sinister Six and was the leader of almost every incarnation in stories that involved them. In a way he is this for Superior Spider-Man as the titular protagonist. He also plays this role in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man (PS4). | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_97522514 | type |
Heel–Face Revolving Door | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_97522514 | comment |
Heel–Face Revolving Door: He sequesters and purges the remnants of Peter from his body, going back on his promise to protect Peter's friends by slaughtering mental representations of them. To be fair, it was because he only saw them as memories and all of Peter's had to go so that he could continue to be Spider-Man. Though Otto's point about how the mental representations are not actually Peter's friends, and "killing" them is not actually breaking the promise Otto made to Peter IS perfectly valid. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_97ee273 | type |
Momma's Boy | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_97ee273 | comment |
Momma's Boy: As his dad was abusive, he bonded more with his mother. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_98160158 | type |
I Hate Past Me | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_98160158 | comment |
I Hate Past Me: When they come face to face in Spider-Verse, Otto assumes Peter is from before his Grand Theft Me and mocks him lacking the ruthlessness to kill his enemies. Peter responds by punching him in the nose, then beats him by surrendering and telling SpOck to prove his superiority by killing him. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_99a12edd | type |
Cyborg | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborg: The tentacles and their harness were fused to his body. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9ab3da1a | type |
Evil Mentor | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9ab3da1a | comment |
Evil Mentor: To both Carolyn Trainer (aka Lady Octopus) and Angelina Brancale (aka Stunner) two of the very small number of people to show Undying Loyalty to him. He was also this to Peter himself in the1990s animated series. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9ae85487 | type |
Dr. Jerk | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9ae85487 | comment |
Dr. Jerk: He was like this before the accident which made him a villain, rude and egotistical, the biggest reason why his co-workers called him "Dr. Octopus" behind his back. (Part of it, of course, was due to stress caused by his mother's death, which also made him careless and caused the accident in the first place.) | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: To Peter, on the scale of being a scientist, using smarts for evil purposes and being based on an eight-legged creature. The biggest difference between the two is that Otto had a couple decades of cynicism ground into him before getting his powers. He plays it even straighter as in recent times, he has acquired a body and costume very similar to Peter's own. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: That one time he got adamantium tentacles. He beat the Hulk unconscious. He gave Iron Man such a thrashing he considered retirement, setting him up as a villain who can hang with the big guns. His comeback as the Superior Octopus. A brand-new set of powerful tentacles, but now complemented by an actually superhumanly powerful body, Spider-powers included. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Averted. He's often had to create armor due to the incredible damage he has taken because, when all is said and done, he is still an ordinary man. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9d647997 | type |
Double Consciousness | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9d647997 | comment |
Double Consciousness: a long-standing characterization attempting to resolve the varying depictions mentioned in Depending on the Writer. Somewhere between his traumatic childhood, the neurological damage from being fused to a malfunctioning Brain–Computer Interface, the nebulous, possibly imagined, active influences of said system, brain damage from years of fighting well beyond his organic body's capacity, his own megalomania, personal fixations, and countless other issues, Otto is in a constant state of identity crisis. He is torn between his identity as the confident, ruthless, and brilliant supervillain Doctor Octopus... and the insecure and troubled man desperately seeking vindication, Dr. Otto Octavius. While not a true split personality, even Doc Ock has no idea what he really wants beyond his latest scheme, and what he'll do to get it. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9de3abce | type |
Merging Mistake | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9de3abce | comment |
Merging Mistake: The accident where he was stuck by radiation, causing him to be permanently fused with the harness. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9e08b900 | type |
Most Definitely Not a Villain | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9e08b900 | comment |
Most Definitely Not a Villain: For the most part, he doesn't act anything like either Peter or Spider-Man, although it takes a while for anyone to notice. | |
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Evil Virtues | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9eeb5455 | comment |
Evil Virtues: Octavius has a stellar work ethic, as Anna Maria observes in Superior Spider-Man about "Peter": | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9fbe06a5 | type |
Badass in a Nice Suit | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: He was almost always seen in a white suit in the early-mid 90s. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Averted in most of his incarnations: He was a scientist who invented and used his arms for legitimate research purposes. It took a lab accident fusing the arms to his body and driving him insane to turn him into a supervillain. This insanity, then, is why he doesn't just give up on being a supervillain and go back to being a scientist, usually. Slightly subverted in the 90s cartoon; Doc Ock still thinks of himself as a scientist over a villain... the problem is, his obsession is with pursuing scientific goals goes to the extent that he's indifferent to any potential harm to people as a result, which is why nobody will take him in as a legitimate scientist. To put this in perspective, his introductory episode has him kidnap Felicia Hardy due to a vendetta against her mother... only this turns out to mostly be a distraction so he can pursue an experiment with creating a fusion reactor, indifferent to the fact that if this goes wrong, the resultant explosion could wipe out half the city. Subverted in Ultimate Marvel; when Norman Osborn tries to recruit the Sinister Six, Octavius actually refuses to join in, pointing out that the whole idea is stupid, that he's never really had a particular enmity for Spider-Man and, if anything, he's proud of Spidey, since he engineered the spiders that made Spider-Man in the first place, and so Spider-Man is basically the living pinnacle of his work. Sadly, Norman promptly kills Otto for refusing to join in. Subverted in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon; Doc Ock is being forced to work as Norman Osborn's black ops scientist after his death was faked by Osborn, and he simply can't get out from under Osborn's thumb. Of course, by the time he does escape, he's so full of hate and rage that he decides to become a supervillain in his own right. Similar is done in the new Spider-Man (PS4) game. Otto, with Peter as his research assistant, starts off trying to create good-as-new prosthetic limbs for the disabled, but as is expected, forces (namely, Norman Osborn and Otto's buried vitriol towards him for past sins) conspire to rob him of his sanity and turn him into Doc Ock. Subverting this is Invoked with the Superior Octopus storyline; Otto wants to use his new body and his new costumed identity to start over and become a hero, having developed a taste for it during his time as the Superior Spider-Man. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833 | type |
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833 | comment |
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Doc Ock was very much a momma's boy growing up. However, as a grown man he came to the conclusion that she had been coddling him, even while accepting that his dad was a drunken asshole. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a0a005d1 | type |
Protagonist Journey to Villain | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a0a005d1 | comment |
Protagonist Journey to Villain: Sort of. His series starts off as a recovering villain that uses the methods of an Anti-Hero, seemingly becoming more heroic over time. Later on, he becomes more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist and uses increasingly morally questionable methods to achieve his goals, and ultimately leaves many of those that are close to him alienated by his actions. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a1c0cab7 | type |
New Tech Is Not Cheap | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a1c0cab7 | comment |
New Tech Is Not Cheap: He's had to rob banks before because that equipment he uses is not cheap. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a4414a05 | type |
Adaptation Dye-Job | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a4414a05 | comment |
Adaptation Dye-Job: Usually sports short brown hair but in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series he sports long black hair. | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a4878b81 | comment |
It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Why he splits up with Mary Jane. He also does this out of respect for Peter. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a54c2273 | type |
Dented Iron | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a54c2273 | comment |
Dented Iron: He spent most of his career trading blows with Spider-Man, who has Super Strength, despite being just an ordinary guy with cybernetic extra limbs. In a Cerebus Retcon, it was eventually revealed that he was effectively being beaten to death over the course of his career, leaving him a hideously disfigured, dying wreck of a man trapped on life support. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a6cbef9a | type |
Joker Immunity | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a6cbef9a | comment |
Joker Immunity: Let's see, he has been resurrected once and had his mind transferred into Spider-Man's body. He is apparently really dead now that his body is in rigor mortis and his consciousness has been erased. Of course, he was once killed, proclaimed dead, and buried in a cemetery, only to be brought back to life by the Hand in an unholy ritual, so you never know... Turns out he had his holographic copy of Anna set up a contingency plan and uploaded a copy of his consciousness into the Living Brain. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a6e8221e | type |
Status Quo Is God | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: Superior Spider-Man vol.2 ends with Otto Octavius's original body and personality being restored, his efforts to be a hero as the Superior Spider-Man now considered irrelevant and all knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity being lost. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a89348f2 | type |
Excuse Me While I Multitask | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_a89348f2 | comment |
Excuse Me While I Multitask: He was known to use his arms to fight off enemies' attacks while casually lighting a cigarette or focus more attention on something else, like giving instructions to a minion or continue a chemistry experiment. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_aba8065b | type |
Fatal Flaw | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_aba8065b | comment |
Fatal Flaw: Pride. Octopus can't stand the idea of anyone not acknowledging his genius, and is absolutely obsessed with proving himself as the greatest scientific mind in Marvel. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: It's most evident in The Avengers, however he tends to be more on the deadpan side. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: "The die is cast!" became one during his time as the Superior Spider-Man, and seems to have stuck long through the aftermath. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: His father was an abusive, alcoholic Jerkass, his mother was My Beloved Smother. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b42b7e7b | type |
Moral Myopia | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b42b7e7b | comment |
Moral Myopia: The whole "blaming Spider-Man for beating him to near-death" thing in the build up to the Superior Spider-Man storyline really falls into this. Doc, if you don't want to get bashed around by the super-strong vigilante, then maybe you should, y'know, not commit crimes? Especially not crimes that involve trying to kill said vigilante in the first place? | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b4dcdf5b | type |
Antagonist in Mourning | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b4dcdf5b | comment |
Antagonist in Mourning: After he kills Peter, he remembers everything that Peter went through due to the Freaky Friday Flip. It's enough to drive him to use his powers for good. Notably averted when he purges Peter from his mind — he immediately celebrates that he's free. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
My Beloved Smother: His mother was incredibly overprotective and smothering, presumably as a way to "make up" for his father's abuse. As a result, Octavius grew up with an unhealthy attachment to her. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b5b4bd37 | type |
The Don | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b5b4bd37 | comment |
The Don: He created an actual criminal gang, with his minions dressed in remarkably dorky uniforms, multiple times with the goal to take over the underworld, most notably as the Master Planner. He also formed a supervillain team, the Sinister Six, with himself as the leader with the goal to kill Spider-Man and carve territory. Later on, Otto fights gang wars with the Hammerhead and Daredevil villain Owl to establish domination over the criminal element. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b5e63cc4 | type |
Shadow Archetype | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b5e63cc4 | comment |
Shadow Archetype: He already was this as Doctor Octopus and now it's taken Up to Eleven. His methods of crime fighting are more vicious and what would happen if Peter decided to be serious about protecting the whole city. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In Spider-Verse, when Otto and Peter face off for the final time, Otto sneers at Peter for ganging up on him with Spider-Girl and Spider-Woman. Peter is quick to point out he has no right to judge, since he founded the Sinister Six with the same intent in mind. During Mighty Avengers, he yells at "Spider Hero" (no hypen) for stealing his identity, and demands he remove his costume immediately. This'd be the same guy running around in someone else's body. | |
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Omnidisciplinary Scientist | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_b72ae7 | comment |
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: While primarily a nuclear physicist, he is also skilled in chemistry, engineering, biochemistry, and robotics. | |
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It's All About Me | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: Well, as if hijacking another man's body and stealing his life just so he could keep living wasn't a hint. Also, just in general. During Mighty Avengers, he brings an army of minions to Luke Cage's doorstep just because he can't stand the idea of there being other heroes cutting into "his" turf. Only the threat of legal action in the form of She-Hulk gets him to go away. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: When wielding his tentacles, he's a formidable fighter, despite his otherwise less than athletic physique. He regularly tangles with the likes of Spider-Man, so you better believe he knows how to fight. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: In Superior Spider-Man Issue #3, finding out that his old friend the Vulture was using children as mooks, drove Otto blind with rage, especially since he had hit one of them. Due to his father abusing him as a child, he abhors the idea of harming children, especially if he hurt them. He changed his mind from giving the Vulture money so he would stop his crimes, to trying to kill him. Bullies in general, and anything that triggers Otto's memories of being bullied cause him to react with Disproportionate Retribution. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | type |
Alliterative Name | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Both his first and last names begin with "O". | |
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Anti-Hero Substitute | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_be981edb | comment |
Anti-Hero Substitute: He lacks the aesthetics to be a proper '90s Anti-Hero, but certainly has the attitude and viciousness of one. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain: As of the beginning of Superior, Nominal Hero for the former and Noble Demon for the latter. While he becomes increasingly antagonistic and arrogant, he believes he's doing it for the good of the city (and his ego). When he ultimately realizes he's been doing more harm than good, he sacrifices himself to give Peter his body back. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bfec296b | type |
Ghost Memory | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_bfec296b | comment |
Ghost Memory: One of his new "powers", in a sense. He got these memories from Peter, and it's what inspired him to go through his Heel–Face Turn in the first place. He loses them after purging the remnants of Peter from his body. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c0afd51a | type |
Evil Cripple | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c0afd51a | comment |
Evil Cripple: Years of super-powered fights have taken a toll on his body. Taken Up to Eleven in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, where he depends on his cybernetic tentacles to get around because he was in an accident that rendered him a quadriplegic. If it weren't for his arms, he'd be completely immobile from the neck down. Subverted when, during the series finale, he uses nanotech to rebuild his body and undo the damage. The version of him in Spider-Man (PS4) is on his way to being this even before he becomes a villain due to a neurodegenerative condition that's causing him to slowly lose his motor skills. Peter estimates that within a year, he'll be completely paralyzed. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | type |
Subverted Trope | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | comment |
However, as the series goes on, his quest becomes more driven by his own ego than by any desire to do good, making this a Subverted Trope. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c15195f0 | type |
CharacterDeath | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c15195f0 | comment |
Character Death: Technically, the original Otto Octavius died at the conclusion of The Superior Spider-Man in 2013, while the Otto that appears in all later appearances (except Spider-Verse, which features a time-displaced Otto-as-Spider-Man) is an AI copy that has hijacked a powerful clone body. While the two are treated as one and the same, AI!Otto lacks the memory of Otto's final days. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c15195f0 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: He's a nuclear physicist and skilled roboticist. He can also go toe-to-toe with Spider-Man. | |
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1.0 | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c39846a3 | type |
Pride | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c39846a3 | comment |
Pride: Octavius' most prominent recurring failure is his arrogance; even when he's trying to be a good guy, he's still hugely ego-driven. For example, in Superior Octopus #1, he rescues a bus full of people from being robbed by the Night Shift, boasting about how they cannot hope to compete with the advantages his intelligence gives them even as he dishes out a Curb-Stomp Battle. When he returns to his lair, he is shown dismissing the city's original protectors, such as Dare Devil and the original Spider-Woman, as "weaklings" incapable of doing the job, and arrogantly proclaiming that even the local high-level supervillains like Graviton and Count Nefaria, despite being "possessed of near-godlike power" (in his words), are no threat to him. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c39846a3 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c4842ab1 | type |
Appropriated Appellation | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c4842ab1 | comment |
Appropriated Appellation: Doctor Octopus was originally an insulting nickname given to Otto by his co-workers, and in some continuities, Norman Osborn. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c4842ab1 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6102eb0 | type |
Grand Theft Me | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6102eb0 | comment |
Grand Theft Me: Pulled a Freaky Friday Flip on Peter after his battle with both Hobgoblins. | |
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1.0 | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6102eb0 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | type |
Fallen Hero | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | comment |
Fallen Hero: He used to do experiments for the sake of bettering mankind and then he discovered first-hand how Cybernetics Eat Your Soul. | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | featureApplicability |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c6655b23 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c696f3ba | type |
Heroic Willpower | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c696f3ba | comment |
Heroic Willpower: Never take this guy on in a battle of wills. As strong as his arms are, his mind is even more potent. The Answer, Fusion, and Peter himself found this out the hard way. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c696f3ba | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c914e68d | type |
Cigar Chomper | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c914e68d | comment |
Cigar Chomper: Sometimes he's depicted as being a smoker having a taste for cigars; a notable example being his Sam Raimi incarnation. | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c914e68d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Doctor Octopus is now Spider-Man after the aforementioned Grand Theft Me. | |
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1.0 | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: After Horizon Labs is destroyed he founds Parker Industries in order to keep developing weapons and equipment. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cc28f3bf | type |
Not That Kind of Doctor | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cc28f3bf | comment |
Not That Kind of Doctor: He had a doctorate in Nuclear Physics originally. The Ultimate version seems to have replaced this with genetics. The Sam Raimi films maintain his nuclear physics background, while the PS4 incarnation of the character is instead primarily a robotics expert. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cc28f3bf | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: In the Ultimate Marvel universe, by Norman Osborn. In the main universe, the original Otto Octavius died at the conclusion of The Superior Spider-Man, while the Otto that appears in all later appearances (except Spider-Verse, which features a time-displaced Otto-as-Spider-Man) feature an AI copy that has hijacked a powerful clone body. In fact, the Spider-Verse adventure sets up the creation of the duplicate since it has Otto learn-then forget-that he is destined to die in the future and take precautions. In-Universe the two are treated as one and the same, though. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_cda501da | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ce75a983 | type |
Screw Destiny | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ce75a983 | comment |
Screw Destiny: When Otto figures out that Peter is going to get his body back in Spider-Verse, he tries to destroy the Web of Life thinking it will free him from his fate. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ceed5759 | type |
Villain Over for Dinner | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ceed5759 | comment |
Villain Over for Dinner: At one point, Aunt May was dating him and they nearly got married. Right now he even supplies the page image for this trope. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ceed5759 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d028e0da | type |
An Arm and a Leg | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: In The Owl/Octopus War, after putting the Black Cat in the hospital, Spider-Man was so consumed with rage, he tore Ock's metal arms off. Because they are physically meshed into his spinal column, this was incredibly painful for Doc Ock, and in the aftermath, it had to painfully reinserted by his minions and Otto insisted they do it without anesthetic because he wants to feel the pain he's going to put Spider-Man and Black Cat through. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d028e0da | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Kaine, self-described "evil clone" of Spider-Man, berates Otto for how far he's fallen. As do a lot of the other heroes that Otto has run into. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d3aad64a | type |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d3aad64a | comment |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: As of #22, Dr. Peter Parker is in the house. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d3aad64a | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d49f90ea | type |
Western Terrorists | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d49f90ea | comment |
Western Terrorists: Some of Ock's actions over the years were outright terrorism. This includes an airplane hijacking of a foreign diplomat, holding him hostage in exchange for money and safe-passage at an airport (ASM #88) and his plot to bomb New York with a neutron bomb in The Owl/Octopus War and his actions in the Ends of the Earth. Likewise in Spider-Man (PS4), Otto branches into bioterrorism where he launches an aerosol agent called "Devil's Breath" spreading an epidemic in Manhattan that kills several people, including Aunt May. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: One of his aliases is Master Planner for a reason. Some of his exploits include taking over Spider-Man's body and creating a backup copy of his consciousness in case anything happened, and getting Sajani Jaffrey fired so that his beloved Anna Maria could take her position. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d62dd556 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | type |
The Unfettered | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | comment |
The Unfettered: He nearly kills someone during his first night on the town. Arguably Subverted due to the influence of Ghost-Peter. He later plays it straight: in issue five he uses a gun to point blank shot Massacre in the head, even after Massacre was able to feel emotion again. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d842e380 | type |
Love Redeems | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d842e380 | comment |
Love Redeems: Otto's love for Anna Maria leads to him giving Peter his body back in order to save her. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d8afec40 | type |
…But He Sounds Handsome | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d8afec40 | comment |
...But He Sounds Handsome: Whenever Doctor Octopus is brought up. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d8afec40 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: So Peter Parker, normally a good-natured quipster, suddenly to all his friends and family turns into an operatic jerkass, and no-one in the superhero community seems to suspect anything's up. Mighty Avengers gives the mild handwave that everyone assumes he's just been reading way too much Ayn Rand lately. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_dcb2305f | type |
Legion of Doom | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_dcb2305f | comment |
Legion of Doom: He founded the Sinister Six, and would later reunite the team twice. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_dfa71e43 | type |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
In one three part story, Fusion, a villain who Spider-Man had previously called a "poor man's Mysterio", thought he had brainwashed Doc Ock into being his slave. Boy, was he wrong. Doc's iron will couldn’t be scratched, and he had been using Fusion as his own Unwitting Pawn the whole time. When he no longer needed him, Fusion found himself on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle, as Ock beat him severely and left him broken, bloody, and barely alive for Spider-Man to find as an example of anyone who challenged him. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e1acc872 | type |
From Nobody to Nightmare | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e1acc872 | comment |
From Nobody to Nightmare: That timid researcher and Momma's Boy has come a long way in terms of badass. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e21e21be | type |
Red and Black and Evil All Over | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e21e21be | comment |
Red and Black and Evil All Over: SpOck's second costume is based off of Alex Ross' concept art for Spider-Man, and he becomes increasingly violent and antagonistic, taking cues from 1984. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e21e21be | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e3b14ec9 | type |
Badass Baritone | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e3b14ec9 | comment |
Badass Baritone: In Superior Spider-Man, when he hears a recording of his voice, he remarks that he sounds like a walrus under water, suggesting that his voice is deep. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e3b14ec9 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e431c24c | type |
Not Quite Dead | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e431c24c | comment |
Not Quite Dead: In the Superior Spider-Man #32 and #33 SpOck is shown to have been transported to the 2099 universe, though this takes place during his fight with Spider-Man 2099. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e431c24c | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e52a0409 | type |
Calling the Old Man Out | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e52a0409 | comment |
Calling the Old Man Out: After his widowed mother makes him break things off with his fiancée, so he can take care of her instead, he catches her getting ready to go on a date. He calls her out for her hypocrisy, and as this is pretty much the first time in his life he's ever stood up to her, it gives her a fatal heart attack. All of these emotional problems weighing on him is why he doesn't notice the radiation accident until it's too late. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e52a0409 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e7b0229a | type |
Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e7b0229a | comment |
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Getting sent back to Earth-616 erased his memories of the events of Spider-Verse. | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e7b0229a | featureApplicability |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e7b0229a | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e8a56ee7 | type |
Steven Ulysses Perhero | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e8a56ee7 | comment |
Steven Ulysses Perhero: Gets a lampshade hung on it by J. Jonah Jameson: | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_e8a56ee7 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: In terms of personality, he's really not someone you'd want to hang around with. This trait nearly got him kicked off of the Avengers. Jerk with a Heart of Gold: However, he's also doing the right thing because he feels that it's what the real Spider-Man would do. Even still, the "Jerk" aspect of this can be stretched a bit, considering that part of the reason he's being good is due to simply outdo the original. Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: His actions are increasingly less heroic and more extreme. This definitely kicks in by the time he erases Peter. He subverts this, though with his final actions. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ec0bf4a1 | type |
Take Over the World | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ec0bf4a1 | comment |
Take Over the World: This has been his stated goal in some of his schemes (including the "Return of the Sinister Six" and "Ends of Earth" storylines), but it was usually a front for some other goal, except in "Revenge of the Sinister Six" where it really was his goal. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ec0bf4a1 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ece27800 | type |
Kill and Replace | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_ece27800 | comment |
Kill and Replace: Previously, Dr. Octopus had swapped bodies with Spider-Man, leaving the hero to die trapped in Ock's broken body and leaving the villain in a healthy, heroic body with no one realizing anything. Doc Ock uses his new life to constantly try to prove himself a superior Spider-Man. In the end of the series, Otto realizes Parker was better than him and lets him take control of his body once more. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_f0001923 | type |
Fire-Breathing Weapon | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_f0001923 | comment |
Fire-Breathing Weapon: In The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride, he's able to expel fire from his tentacles. | |
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Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_f0001923 | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_f1492605 | type |
Redemption Equals Death | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: While he wasn't able to undo the damage he did to Peter's life, he did allow Peter to live to fight another day. | |
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Spider Limbs | |
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Spider Limbs: His tentacles, of course. | |
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Goggles Do Something Unusual | |
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Goggles Do Something Unusual: He's tricked out the outfit to have Stat-O-Vision and Night Vision, like Iron Man. | |
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Devil in Plain Sight | |
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Devil in Plain Sight: Aunt May can't seem to understand why the police would want to arrest such a nice man. | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Kaine, self-described "evil clone" of Spider-Man, berates Otto for how far he's fallen. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: He was a terrorist, and killed many innocent people over the years, and by collateral damage, is responsible for the death of Captain George Stacy, Peter's Parental Substitute, and then he hacked Peter's body and hijacked his life while ruining his life and career. Yet, the minute Otto affects redemptive traits, Depending on the Writer, Peter says "things are square" between them. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
Doctor Octopus (Comic Book) / int_f8e010ce | comment |
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Much of Otto's actions as the Superior Spider-Man backfire as he can't grasp that being a hero means more than just showing yourself as "the best." As it turns out, Otto lets Peter come back to his body with the realization Peter is a true hero. Thanks to a time-travel escapade, Otto learns he loses to Peter and downloads his brain patterns into a robot assistant for Anna Maria. When Anna Maria talks of Otto and how terrible he was, Otto thinks he needs to take back Peter's body to get Anna Maria back. He then decides that Peter's mind "hurt my own" and by getting his original brain back, he can get Anna Maria's love once more. Otto literally cannot understand that Anna Maria will never love someone with such a record of murderous actions as Otto. | |
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Running Gag | |
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During Mighty Avengers, he yells at "Spider Hero" (no hypen) for stealing his identity, and demands he remove his costume immediately. This'd be the same guy running around in someone else's body. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Both as a villain and an Anti-Hero. | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
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Depending on the Writer: Much like Doctor Doom, Otto can be a Noble Demon Anti-Villain in one story and a remorseless mass-murdering psychopath in another, though unlike Doom, not much Arc Welding has been done to make the two takes in line with one another, with the writers of the former variation downplaying the latter: Dr. Octopus was portrayed as a megalomaniac without any redeeming virtues for the first 30 years or so. He was self-interested, arrogant, and vain. His courtship with Aunt May still coincided with him acting as a gangster in a gang-war with Hammerhead (who helpfully for Peter, crashes the wedding between Ock and Aunt May) and motivated by a scheme to win a nuclear power plant that Aunt May inherited. Tom Defalco in a number of stories in The '90s sought to deepen his character and created a sympathetic backstory to heighten similarities between him and Peter and also to better allow Ock to play a new fraternal bond with Peter with mutual admiration as a scientist. Aspects of which seeped in the Raimi movies and other versions. This created a problem for writers more familiar with one take rather than the other. Case in point, in 2002 both Paul Jenkins and J. Michael Straczynski (writing the titles "Spectacular Spider-Man" and "Amazing Spider-Man", respectively, both part of 616) did a story with Ock as the villain; the latter has Ock pursuing a vendetta against an amoral corporate yuppie who stole his tech, but shows Otto going out of his way to save civilians (then leaving Spider-Man to die, because "you're not a civilian") and suggests what he really wants is legitimate scientific and business success; the former portrays him as an utterly ruthless Manipulative Bastard professional criminal motivated entirely by ego and Greed who, in the words of Spidey, (doesn't) care enough about anyone to hate them, Ock responding with a "touché" before savagely beating on Spidey (remarking he's an exception). His hatred of Spider-Man is the one consistent character trait, but otherwise he could be saving the innocent one minute and trying to kill all life on Earth out of spite the next. At some point he's mercenary, trying to bait old ladies so that he can appropriate their inheritances, in others he plans to destroy New York just to prove he's his "superiority" and establish himself as the greatest intellect of his day (in other words, a terrorist). | |
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Evil Is Hammy | |
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Evil Is Hammy: At times he will demonstrate that he is enjoying being mean profusely ("Find him. Or I'll peel the flesh off her bones...") | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: He has gotten a few pet the dog moments over the decades, including trying to save Aunt May from Hammerhead and trying to develop a cure for AIDS in order to save his ex-girlfriend. | |
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