History ComicBook / DoctorOctopus

* EvilCounterpart: 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. [[spoiler: He plays it even straighter as in recent times, he has aquired a body and costume very similar to Peter's own.]]

** Zigzagged as ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''. After the ComicBook/SpiderVerse incident ([[spoiler: where he discover 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. [[spoiler:However, he later decided to contract Miles Warren to clone his old body and took over that instead.]]

** Zigzagged as ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''. After the ComicBook/SpiderVerse incident ([[spoiler: where he discover that Peter has regained his body and the Otto from Peter's ''present'' is died]]), Otto created an AI copy of his psyche intending to retake Peter's body at a later point. [[spoiler:However, he later decided to contract Miles Warren to clone his old body and took over that instead.]]

* HerrDoktor: In the [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries 1990's animated series]] and the ''VideoGame/SpiderMan'' video game he has a thick German accent (he was voiced by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in both; that's right--Doctor Octopus is ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Alfred]]'').

** Zigzagged as ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''. After the ComicBook/SpideVerse incident ([[spoiler: where he discover that Peter has regained his body and the Otto from Peter's ''present'' is died]]), Otto created an AI copy of his psyche intending to retake Peter's body at a later point. [[spoiler:However, he later decided to contract Miles Warren to clone his old body and took over that instead.]]

** After the ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan incident, Otto created an AI copy of his psyche intending to retake Peter's body at a later point. [[spoiler:However, he later decided to contract Miles Warren to clone his old body and took over that instead.]]

* DirtyOldMan: As Superior Spiderman, he shows a rather skeevy interest in MJ, including a panel where he's blatantly staring at her chest. Averted in his normal body, where he shows no romantic interest in anyone other than Anne Marie.

* GuessWhoImMarrying: Doc Ock was actually marrying May because she was the heir to a private nuclear reactor. He didn't even realize that Spider-Man was her nephew until after he unmasked in ''Civil War''. [[ContinuityNod 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.

** Despite being unattractive and tentacled, Octavius successfully wooed Aunt May and almost married her.

* TookALevelInBadass: Two words: 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.

As of ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'', [[spoiler: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. ]]

As of ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'', [[spoiler: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 inhabitting a clone body, he eventually betrayed the Jackal for insulting his love interest. Afterwards, he highjacked a new, powerful experimental clone body. ]]

As of ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'', [[spoiler:it is revealed that Dr. Octopus' mind now resides within the Living Brain, stalkingly watching over Anna Maria.]]

* EvilCounterpart: 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.

* WorthyOpponent: While he despises Spider-Man and is obsessed with defeating him, Octavious nonetheless appreciates that Spidey is highly intelligent and respects him as a formidable enemy.

** Taken UpToEleven in the Ultimate Spiderman 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.

** Doctor Octopus is rather ugly in the Marvel comics, in contrast to his [[BigBeautifulMan much more striking]] depiction by Creator/AlfredMolina in the ''Spiderman 2'' film.

* BackFromTheDead: Kaine murdered him at one point in the 90's, but he was resurrected by the Hand with the help of Carolyn Trainer and Angelina Brancale.

* {{Badass}}: This guy beat up the ''Hulk'' once. (Well, to be fair, he was using a special set of tentacles at the time made of [[{{Unobtainium}} adamantium.]]). He also defeated ComicBook/IronMan once and has managed to deflect a shield throw by ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and catch a billy club thrown by ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}. This is before we get into the obvious fact that he regularly fights Spider-Man.
** BadassBaritone: 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.
** BadassBookworm: He's a nuclear physicist and skilled roboticist.
** BadassInANiceSuit: He was almost always seen in a white suit in the early-mid 90s.
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: After becoming [[{{ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan}} Superior Spider-man]], he has now brawn to match his brains.

* DentedIron: He spent most of his career trading blows with Spider-Man, who has SuperStrength, despite being just an ordinary guy with cybernetic extra limbs. In a CerberusRetcon, 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.

-->'''Anna Maria Marconi:''' "That's what I like about you. You want a doctorate? You get it. Your own company? Boom. There it is. You help out Spider-Man, you look after your Aunt. Anything you want to do, you just do it ... and do it well, no excuses, just results."

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Doctor Octopus is rather ugly in the Marvel comics, in contrast to his [[BigBeautifulMan much more striking]] depiction by Creator/AlfredMolina in the ''Spiderman 2'' film.

** Octavious won Stunner's love and gratitude when he used virtual reality technology to make her beautiful and mighty.

** In his youth, Octavious was engaged to Mary Alice Anders. Years later, he tried and failed to cure her of AIDS.

* KavorkaMan: Octavious won Stunner's love and gratitude when he used virtual reality technology to make her beautiful and mighty.

* AbusiveParents: His father was an alcoholic {{Jerkass}}, his mother was MyBelovedSmother.