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Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus / "Doc Ock"

"The real crime would be not to finish what we started."

Played by: Alfred Molina

Voiced by: Gabriel Pingarrón (Latin American Spanish dub), Roberto Macedo (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Gabriel Le Doze (European French dub), Luis de Cespedes (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man 2

"The Power of the Sun in the palm of my hand! Nothing will stand in our way! NOTHING!"

The Big Bad (sort of) of Spider-Man 2. Otto Octavius was a kind man who wanted to give the world unlimited power. However, his experiment turns into a Freak Lab Accident and his robotic arms are fused to his body. Corrupted by their evil AI, nothing will stop Otto from finishing his experiment even if it means destroying the city to do it.

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Spider-Man 2's Octavius

• Adaptational Attractiveness: Doctor Octopus is ugly in the comics, in contrast to his much more striking depiction by Alfred Molina in the film.
• Adaptational Heroism: For most of his history, until The '90s, Otto Octavius was a gangster and terrorist, who sought to control New York's underworld, fought gang wars with other superpowered gangsters (The Owl, Hammerhead), and once tried to bomb New York with a neutron bomb. This version makes that part of Otto solely the result of the AI tentacles overwriting his brain functions rather than his real self.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, he was arrogant and unlikeable even before becoming Doc Ock, and also was more than willing to become a supervillain. The movie portrays the pre-accident Octavius as a nice and decent person who wants to do good with his inventions. It helps that he is Happily Married in this version, as well as serving as sort of a mentor to Peter in scientific fields - in fact, Peter cites Otto's own ethics to him which leads to Otto breaking free from the Mind Control of his arms and willingly performing a Heroic Sacrifice. Also, instead of choosing the life of a criminal, he is more or less forced into evil by his own robotic arms' uninhibited artificial intelligence.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Rather than being an Insufferable Genius from an abusive home, Ock is really a good person who got the short end of the stick when an experiment blew up in his face, killed his wife, and fused his tentacles to his spine, causing them to go rogue and start making him do things he otherwise wouldn't.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: He knows that this is a very real possibility with the radically advanced AI in his tentacles and that having said AI connected directly to his own brain could have some very dangerous consequences. Unfortunately, the failsafe he installs to protect himself gets fried when his experiment doesn't go as planned and the influence of the tentacles quickly leads directly to his inevitable Face–Heel Turn.
• Alas, Poor Villain: All he wanted in life was to create technology that could change the world in amazing ways and make everyone happier, a goal that ended up blowing up in his face as it resulted in the death of both his wife and his reputation, and ultimately led to him being corrupted by the very things he had good intentions with. In the end, he realizes his mistakes and puts an end to what was once his dream, taking himself along with it.
  • Even his tentacles partially get this treatment in the novelization. As Otto sinks down into the river along with the fusion reactor, his tentacles are utterly terrified at the thought of dying, not wanting to go out after only having been alive for such a short time. As they continue to sink down further, they desperately beg for their "father" to save them, not even realizing that he's already long gone.
• Alliterative Name: Otto Octavius.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Warns Peter to find Spider-Man or he'll "peel the flesh off [Mary Jane's] bones."
• Animal Motifs: Aside from the obvious octopus-theming in his name, the film also adds a very serpentine quality to his tentacles: they slowly slither (and then suddenly strike), open and close their claws like a snake with its jaw and whirl and hiss mechanically much like a serpent.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: An unintentional example on his part. He only designed the actuators to help control fusion - but the Daily Bugle takes one look at the undeniably tentacle-like machines and cartoonishly dubs him "Doctor Octopus."
• Anti-Villain: Woobie Anti-Villain. A genuinely good man and husband wishing to use his intelligence for the good of mankind who turns into a monster because of his failed experiment and tries to replicate it despite endangering half of New York.
• Arc Words: "Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind." A philosophy which is ultimately the catalyst for Otto's Heel Realization.
• Badass Bookworm: A smart (if delusional) scientist and a capable fighter with his tentacles.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears one to hide his tentacles.
• Big Bad: He is the main antagonist of the second film, though the AI of his metal arms are actually controlling him.
• Big "NO!":
  • When he wakes up at the hospital after his mechanical tentacles went berserk and viciously murdered everyone present, Octavius realizes what just happened and lets out a particularly soul-crushing version of this trope. His arms scream with him, hinting that his control over them may not be completely gone.
  • He gives another one at the end as he drowns his machine, but it's an utterance of his determination not to die a monster.
• Birds of a Feather:
  • Otto and Rosie fell in love because they were both passionate and philosophical in their respective fields, physics and literature. They even tried to woo each other using the Theory of Relativity (Otto) and T. S. Eliot (Rosie).
  • Also with Peter; both are scientific geniuses with a sense of responsibility. Notably, Peter is able to redeem Otto by revealing his secret identity and reminding him of their shared ideals.
• Brainy Brunette: A brown-haired nuclear physicist smart enough to successfully spark a fusion reaction. Unfortunately, he's not quite adept enough to control it. Even as Doc Ock, he demonstrates a clever, strategic mind, tricking Spider-Man into weakening himself for capture and taking a hostage to discourage police pursuit.
• Cold Ham: Contrary to Green Goblin's bombastic-ness, Doc Ock speaks in gravitas.
• Combat Tentacles: Well, he is called "Dr. Octopus." And the four metal arms look like tentacles.
• Composite Character: In addition to being based on his comic book counterpart, this Doc Ock shares similarities to multiple characters from the Spider-Man mythos:
  • Naturally, his status as a successful scientist with mechanical tentacles of his invention that are welded to his back come from his comic book counterpart, as well as at least a touch of his hubris. Also, like his counterpart from Spider-Man: The Animated Series, he is an idol to Peter Parker and his chief work was a fusion energy project.
  • His more amiable demeanor, happily married family life, friendship with Peter Parker/Spider-Man, genuine desire to help humanity with his work (in contrast to comic book Octavius’ more self-centered attitude), and experiment going awry leading to his transformation into a supervillain with something of a split mind of some kind resembles that of Curt Connors aka The Lizard (according to some sources, the character was in fact originally written to be Connors in an earlier draft).
  • Also notably, the character’s “symbiotic” relationship with the mechanical tentacle AI bears a striking resemblance to the character Eddie Brock/Venom through the fact that in both cases, each was a human man (Otto and Eddie) who becomes combined with some powerful resource that gives him superpowers (the tentacles and the symbiote) that has a personality of its own that comes to form an alliance with the man and sharing his mind/body. Also in both cases, the character started out as a good man whose life was torn apart because of an honest mistake on their part, however, both danced around accepting responsibility for it. Doc Ock even refers to himself as “We” during the film’s climax, which is a very well-known trait of the Venom from the comics.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Only way to hide his tentacles, although he only hides them during the bank scene. The outer green trenchcoat remains a constant part of his wardrobe after the bank heist.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: In the previous film, Norman Osborn's Green Goblin was a manic, Ax-Crazy Malevolent Masked Man who relies on a wide range of gadgets to exact vengeance on his board members and later wreak havoc on the entire city. In contrast, Octavius is a more focused Deadpan Snarker who only resorts to violence and crime in pursuit of finishing his work, he makes no attempt to hide his identity and mostly relies on the direct brute force of his mechanical arms. Norman was also directly focused on tormenting Spider-Man in particular, while Otto viewed him as a nuisance and only actively targeted him on Harry's orders. And while Norman fully commits to his villainy and causes his own downfall, Otto comes to his senses with Peter's help and gives his life to save the city.
• Cool Shades: After becoming Dr. Octopus, he wears a classy Hipster style spectacles.
• The Corrupter: The tentacles' advanced AI manipulates Otto into becoming a criminal and rebuilding the fusion reactor.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The confrontation between Octavius and officers at the bank has him easily disarm and defeat them by flinging them away with his tentacles.
• Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: The tentacles manipulate him to re-build his fusion reactor and continue his experiments, no matter the cost.
• Cyborg: The mechanical actuators are controlled by his brain, and end up permanently fused to his body.
• Deadpan Snarker: Very much downplayed, but he has his moments of sardonic wit.
  [After increasing the speed of the subway train they were fighting on and destroying the brakes]
  Otto: [tosses over the broken lever to Spider-Man] You have a train to catch!
• Death Seeker: Implied following the Freak Lab Accident, Rosie's death, and the accidental hospital massacre, as he initially believes that he and his tentacles belong "at the bottom of the river"... until they convince him of a new purpose.
• Determinator: He's got to be this in order to keep control of his own mind against the tentacles' A.I., as well as fighting a super strong (albeit holding back) Spider-Man despite being punched and kicked numerous times. Interestingly, this is both a virtue and a flaw of Otto's; it leads him to try rebuilding his reactor at any cost, but also enables him to take back control of himself via Heroic Willpower and save the city.
• Didn't Think This Through: While he claims to "know the consequences of the slightest miscalculation", his inability to take Peter's questioning into consideration on whether he could stabilize the fusion reaction results in the experiment not stabilizing during his demonstration.
  • His plan afterward counts as well. Even if he were to get the machine to work, it would likely be for naught anyway, as no one would be lining up to use it after his very public crime spree. Possibly justified in this case, as he's being influenced by the straightforward programming of the actuators, who likely don't have the capacity to consider consequences once the deed is done.
• Dies Wide Open: He dies with his eyes open as shown in the final shot of his body sinking into the river.
• Dragon-in-Chief: He briefly becomes this to Harry Osborn. Otto approaches Harry to demand the tritium that he needs for his experiment, and Harry requests in return that Otto bring Spider-Man to him. Once Otto fulfills his end of the bargain, he takes the element and dismisses Harry without a second thought, while Harry sits out the rest of the film after telling Peter where Otto is.
• Dying as Yourself: Octavius' tentacles influence him to commit evil for most of the film, but he comes to his senses in the end and regains control of them to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played with. In the novelization, he chooses to take Harry’s deal instead of killing Spider-Man himself because he thinks he’s above vengeance and murder. However, he doesn't mind threatening and killing people who get in his way.
• Evil Counterpart: To Peter. This is reflected in not only their abilities (with the producer even remarking on the DVD commentary that there's nothing Spidey can do do that Octavius cannot match or counteract in some way), but in their personalities as well. The movie emphasizes them as kindred spirits, with both being geniuses who want to use their “powers” to help people and who lose a loved one through their own negligence and pride. But whereas Uncle Ben’s death drives Peter to become a hero and learn the lesson of responsibility early on, the death of Otto’s wife drives him mad with grief and he doesn’t come back around until the end. Emphasized even more in an earlier draft of the movie where Otto was a much younger man closer to Peter’s own age.
• Evil Hand: The tentacles have an advanced AI. So advanced that Octavius added an inhibitor chip on them to protect his higher brain functions. The chip gets destroyed in the accident and, with their new-found freedom, the tentacles enter Octavius' mind and manipulate him into rebuilding his fusion reactor.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Alfred Molina has said that when researching the character, he knew he wanted to preserve Ock's "cruel, sardonic sense of humor". It shows — Otto deliberately performs a Jump Scare on Harry Osborn, enjoys his one-liners, and generally conducts himself as a downplayed Deadpan Snarker.
  Otto: Before we begin [the demonstration], has anyone lost a large roll of twenty dollar bills in a rubber band? Because we found the rubber band.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Downplayed. When using Aunt May as a hostage and Spider-Man demands him handing her over to him, he drops her and then blames it on "butterfingers", saying so in a snarky tone.
  • He pushes Harry away from his own safe to pursue the tritium for himself.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Not nearly as much as the Goblin, but Otto's voice pretty frequently drops into a raspy growl when he's in full Doc Ock mode.
• Face Death with Dignity: As he drowns in the river with his fusion reactor, Otto calmly stares upward.
• Failsafe Failure: Otto is smart enough to try avoiding A.I. Is a Crapshoot by installing a Restraining Bolt on his tentacles. Too bad it gets fried exactly when it was needed.
• Fatal Flaw: Despite his good intentions, Otto's hubris and overconfidence in his abilities drives him for most of the film. His refusal to shut down the unstable experiment results in Rosie's death and his transformation into Doctor Octopus, and his turn to villainy is caused by his insistence that the experiment's failure wasn't due to his mistake. It isn't until his final moments during his Heroic Sacrifice that he acknowledges his ego and how he really knew so little.
• Faux Affably Evil: When Otto is taken over by his Tentacles, he uses a polite yet humorous tone but it falls flat when he's shown committing heinous crimes.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: When he gets corrupted by his advanced tentacle arms, he puts on a pair of sunglasses to complete the look.
• Freak Lab Accident: Became Doc Ock after his experiment demonstration failed horribly.
• Gentle Giant: At the start. He's 6'2 and almost a downplayed Big Fun, with his kind, charming personality. His life's work is all to help others. He even amiably chats with a college student for several hours and has him over for lunch with his wife (after a brief moment of brushing him off), even giving him romantic and personal advice despite Peter technically just being there for an academic visit. After his Freak Lab Accident, the gentle scientist is lost in grief that quickly turns to bitterness and anger...
• A God Am I: It's clear Ock's newfound super strength has gone to his head after he boasts several times that no one stands a chance of stopping him from getting his way. He's also developed a massive hubris after getting a fleeting glimpse of his reactor, waxing poetic about holding "the power of the sun in the palm of my hand."
• Happily Married: To Rosie before she died in the accident. Octavius tells Peter about how he wooed Rosie with poetry in college.
• Hearing Voices: With the inhibitor chip of his mechanical limbs damaged, the limbs' A.I. influences Octavius's actions and he describes it as something in his head speaking to him.
• Heel Realization: He comes to have one at the end thanks to Peter.
• Hell Is That Noise: Octavius's tentacles make a loud, distinct whirring noise when he is approaching somewhere which forebodes his presence.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He destroys his fusion reactor to save New York and drowns with it.
• Heroic Willpower: Upon realizing that his actuators are free to corrupt him when he finds out his inhibitor chip was destroyed, he briefly tried to resist their control, but ended up succumbing to their will. However, after Peter appeals to the good in him during the climax, he reclaims control of his mind from the actuator without the inhibitor chip.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's close friends with Dr. Curtis Connors, the two sharing a mutual respect.
• Icarus Allusion: Octavius genuinely believes his intelligence should be used to benefit mankind and shepherd humanity into a new age. His hubris causes the artificial sun to malfunction and destroy Octavius' humanity in the process. With his spirit broken and at true emotional vulnerability, the tentacles unintentionally corrupt him due to their programming wanting to finish the experiment by any means necessary. When he realizes the weight of his actions in the third act, he atones by sinking the experiment into the ocean, drowning in the process.
• Iconic Sequel Character: He's the trilogy's most revered villain, but only appears in the second film.
• Ignored Epiphany: Initially admits his fusion reaction experiment was a failure, but thanks to the influence of his tentacles, he immediately goes into denial and starts rebuilding his machine.
• Interim Villain: While Otto is the Big Bad of his respective movie, his plot is standalone compared to the larger plot of the whole trilogy.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: The novelization reveals he and Rosie couldn't have children of their own. Stemming from this, Otto comes to regard Peter as a son/protégé he could mentor and guide. While influenced by his tentacles, he briefly considers them his "children".
• Made of Iron: While his Combat Tentacles are a genuine power in their own right, granting him Super-Strength and greater reach, his real body is still very much human and able to take many hits from the very much superhuman Spider-Man (although Spidey is holding back constantly to avoid killing him) and keep on fighting.
• Mad Scientist: As per norm for Doc Ock. His For Science! goal is what he believes for humanity’s greater good even if the machine isn’t stable, but he is manipulated by his tentacles to continue to do it anyways. Ironically, the Spider-Man 2 novelization reveals he used to despise this trope.
• Meaningful Name: The Daily Bugle names him "Doctor Octopus" due to his eight limbs.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: His outfit here has an army green trenchcoat over a second brown coat, as opposed to his classic green and yellow jumpsuit from the comics.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: After the accident.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has four metal arms permanently attached to him which makes him able to fight the likes of Spider-Man.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Otto shows remorse for his actions that caused the death of his wife Rosie and the surgeons at the hospital who were about to operate on him.
• My Greatest Failure: Regards the demonstration that resulted in his wife's death and that burned the inhibitor chip protecting him from the tentacles' control as this.
  Otto: My Rosie's dead. My dream is dead. And these... monstrous things should be at the bottom of the river... along with me.
• Nature Is Not a Toy: Otto endeavored to create a clean source of infinite energy to power all of New York, and in that pursuit, he made multiple breakthroughs in the field of robotics and fusion. This resulted in the creation of a reactor capable of forming a mini-star, and the four robotic arms, each with highly advanced AI and composed of the heat and magnetic-resistant material necessary to control the star's magnetic field. However, during the nearly successful demonstration in his home in New York, he neglects to account for the possibility of the star's magnetic field inducing currents on the metals within his own home (or arrogantly assumed it within his ability to control), and the resulting accident kills his wife, and fries the inhibitor chip preventing the arms' AI from controlling him. The second time he tries it, he regains enough of his humanity and his true identity to pull a Heroic Sacrifice before the star's growing magnetic field tears all of New York apart.
• Neck Lift: Does it to both Spider-Man and Peter Parker.
• Never My Fault: A byproduct of his hubris. Otto downplays any risks or oversights that his reactor experiment could have before and during his demonstration. He eventually (albeit briefly) admits he was wrong, but quickly shrugs the idea off with a little enabling from the arms, reasoning that he "couldn't have miscalculated" because the machine was clearly working at first. For the rest of the movie, his goal is to recreate the reactor, this time larger and without any alterations or new safeguards to speak of. That is until the end of the film, when he finally takes responsibility for his actions and pays the ultimate price to atone for the damage caused by his negligence and pride.
• Nice Guy: Before the accident, Otto was an affable man who loved his wife Rosie, and genuinely wanted to help the people of New York by giving them unlimited solar energy.
• Nominal Villain: Unlike his comic incarnation, this version of Dr. Octopus only becomes evil because the AI controlling his robotic tentacles possesses him. In the film's climax, Peter is able to help him regain control of himself and he performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save the city.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Otto had a desire to grant renewable power for the whole world with his experiment, but miscalculations result in the death of his wife and his transformation into a supervillain.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: Can't wear a shirt due to the way the tentacles are strapped on him. Doesn't stop him from donning trenchcoats, though.
• Not Afraid to Die: He shows no sign of fear when opting to drown alongside his fusion reactor.
• Nothing Can Stop Me Now: Says this after mistakenly believing that Harry has followed through with his deisre and killed Spider-Man.
  Doc Ock: I can't let you go. You'd bring the police. Not that anyone can stop me now that Spider-Man is dead.
• Not So Above It All: According to the novelization, he despises depictions of scientists as madmen in film but wouldn't mind getting their powers of X-ray vision.
• Not Wearing Tights: He never dons any of his costumes from the comics.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: A researcher with a primary focus on particle physics/energy sciences... that develops a bio-mechanical masterpiece AS A SIDE PROJECT, just as a supplement/tool to help him in his other research. Possibly justified, as it's never specified he built the arms alone (in fact, an early draft of Iron Man would reveal they were a creation of Stark Enterprises) and does have Oscorp funding, meaning it's possible he got significant help from their labs, but still an example as he understands its functionality well enough to show how it works off, as well as know how it's gone wrong after the accident.
• Offhand Backhand: Quite often, Ock strikes at something outside of his eyesight range without even turning around. This is because his tentacles have mechanical eyes, so he essentially has a 360 degree range of vision that allows him to easily spot and intercept any threat from any direction. It makes him rather menacing.
• The Plan: Manipulated by his tentacles to believe that he did not miscalculate, Otto desires to make "a bigger and stronger" version of his fusion reactor experiment.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Forms this dynamic with Harry, who sarcastically asks him if he's crazy when he expresses a desire for more tritium and calls him "a hack" after Otto politely greets him.
• Powers Do the Fighting: As Octavius himself is just a normal human, his tentacles are solely responsible for the action; they even go on a rampage (the first one, no less) in a surgery room while he's completely unconscious.
• Redemption Equals Death: "I will not die a monster!"
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Not Otto, but his tentacles. When they go on their attack of the doctors trying to remove them from Octavius, they spend most of it hurling them violently around the room, but when two of them spy one desperate doctor striking another tentacle with a power saw, the white "eyes" that allow them visual input turn a sudden red before they lash out directly at him and then it cuts to the man's final scream and the saw dropping to the ground.
• Reluctant Mad Scientist: He is hesitant to do evil, but his tentacles persuade him into it. He actually abhors the idea of abusing his intelligence.
• Rousseau Was Right: Peter still sincerely believes there's good in Octavius when he appeals to him at the end of the movie. He's proven correct.
• Royal "We":
  • Mostly averted, but there's one moment in the finale that frighteningly shows how much Otto is under the sway of the actuators.
    Peter: Shut it down, Ock! You're gonna hurt a lot more people this time!
    Otto: Well, that's a risk we're willing to take!
  • He also says 'nothing will stand in our way.'
• Secret Secret-Keeper: No Way Home has him recognize Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin despite that being a secret that only Peter knew, retroactively establishing that he must have figured out the truth on his own and chose to not tell anyone. The film also revealed that he and Norman were familiar with each other and had some sort of history prior to the first film.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Like most of the other antagonists in the series, Otto is killed off by his own hand once his character arc is complete, but unlike Carradine or the Green Goblin, his death is the result of him pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to save New York.
• Sinister Shades: Contrasting the goggles from the comics (though he does wear those a few times too).
• The Speechless: The tentacles don't actually "speak" despite being capable of vocalizations in the form of hisses and screeches but because they're directly jacked into Otto's nervous system and brain, he can understand what they're "saying" to him. Although, they can mouth simple words if one is observant enough, such as in one scene where one of them says "rebuild".
• Sunglasses at Night: In the scene on Harry's balcony. Justified, as his eyes are photosensitive after the accident. He does take them off during the scene, however.
• Super-Strength: Thanks to his tentacles, Otto can use them lift heavy objects, tear apart metal, and can fight one-on-one with Spider-Man.
• Tautological Templar: In the novelization, Doc Ock still considers himself a moral man working for the good of mankind, which is why he is fixated with perfecting his fusion reactor. His grudge against Spider-Man is mostly because be blames the hero for his initial failed experiment and now views him as an obstacle preventing him from completing his vision.
• Tentacled Terror: His mechanical arms grants him super strength which makes him able to fight at Spider-Man's level.
• Tentacle Rope: Snares May and MJ this way. And a few other innocent bystanders during the train scene.
• Token Evil Teammate: Of the villains in No Way Home, is immediately the most hostile and uncooperative, even when Peter is attempting to help them all, and is only kept in check because of Peter hijacking the interface for the tentacles. Everyone else was willing to at least humor Peter's efforts to help them. Inverted once everyone else pulls a Face–Heel Turn, as Otto only shows up at the end to help the Peters deal with Electro and has a happy reunion with his own Peter Parker.
• Too Dumb to Live: Even as his fusion experiment is going haywire and tearing the room apart, Otto refuses to shut it down, adamantly insisting that he has everything under control and it will stabilize, and going so far as to swat Spider-Man aside when he tries to pull the plug. This leads to his wife's death and his tentacles being fused to his body.
• Toxic Friend Influence: The AI in Octavius' tentacles to Octavius himself.
• Tragic Villain: The man is not and doesn't want to be evil, but his tentacles completely took over him until the end of the second film.
• Tranquil Fury: He shows this when Spider-Man tries to stop his heist at the bank, grabbing the latter and sternly telling him that he's getting on his nerves.
• The Unfettered: When fully under the influence of his tentacles, he doesn't hesitate to do anything if it means accomplishing his goals.
• Visionary Villain: Doc Ock isn't stealing money just to enrich himself, but for the grander purpose of creating a fusion reactor.
• Wall Crawl: Otto can use his tentacles to climb/traverse walls and ledges.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He wanted to use his intelligence for the good of mankind and hoped to do this with his fusion reactor. Unfortunately, the fusion experiment fails horribly, resulting in his wife's death and the tentacles fusing permanently to his body. Manipulated by the tentacles, he goes back to rebuilding the fusion reactor and doesn't care about the danger it brings to the city.
• Workaholic: He is so focused on his work that he refuses to be pulled away by anything (save for Rosie). Otto is clearly annoyed when Harry interrupts his research for a meeting with Peter, being quick to dismiss the latter at first. In the novelization, Otto admits that Rosie had to remind him at least 19 times about his speaking engagement at Columbia University, practically shoving him into his taxi. It's to the point that he initially tries carrying his materials while being pursued by a Humongous Mecha.
• Would Hit a Girl: Takes May and MJ hostage, and grabs another woman during the train scene. His appearance in Earth-199999 threatens to do this again to an alternative version of his enemy in the MCU since he thought he was continuing his fight with his Spider-Man in the bridge.

Variants

No Way Home's Otto Octavius

Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus / "Doc Ock"

"Hello, Peter..."

Species: Human (cybernetically enhanced)

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Oscorp (formerly)

Portrayed By: Alfred Molina

Voiced By: Gabriel Pingarrón (Latin American Spanish dub), Maurício Berger (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Gabriel Le Doze (European French dub), Manuel Tadros (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man: No Way Home

"So this is your plan, Peter? Hmm? No lab, no facilities, just performing miracles in a condominium? Hmm? What, you're going to cook up some cures, and some frozen burritos in a microwave?"

A Mad Scientist with a quartet of deadly mechanical arms attached to his back, whose AI influence his mind at every turn.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: He joins the heroes partway through the Final Battle.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: He's drawn as a Gonk in the comics and has a bowl cut that makes him look even more unflattering. Here, he's played by the friendlier-looking Alfred Molina and has a more normal looking hairstyle.
• Adaptational Badass: Not so much the doctor himself, but rather the advanced A.I of his tentacles. While Doc Ock's tentacles in Spider-Man 2 were very manipulative and controlling of Otto for most of the film, Otto is eventually able to fight off their influence just in time to save the day. Here, the tentacles are constantly in his head and affecting his personality without stopping, forcing Peter to have to create a new inhibitor chip to finally give Otto his mind back. They also seem to be able to extend further than they could in Spider-Man 2 and cause more damage, as Octavius was able to tear through a bridge with ease when he appeared in the MCU, while in his original appearance it was shown that some things required more difficulty to break through such as a bank vault.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: His hair is much curlier and longer than in his original appearance. He also doesn't have his comic book counterpart's bowl cut.
• Adaptational Heroism: In Spider-Man 2, it was left vague as to how much of Ock's villainy was due to the influence of the tentacles and how much was his own For Science! ambitions. This film clears that up and once he is given a new inhibitor chip and the tentacles no longer cloud his brain, Otto returns to being a good guy. It also is a far cry from the comics where the tentacles have no such influence on Otto. Comic Otto choose the life of a supervillain by himself.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In Spider-Man 2, Doc Ock was largely Faux Affably Evil until his last-second redemption. Here, he's a lot more snappish and hostile, even Suddenly Shouting at MCU Peter after being asked one too many questions. Justified, as he's in an unknown environment and the tentacles that controlled his mind were physically turned against him, leaving him unable to do much more than vent his frustration. Once he gets a new inhibitor chip installed and is cured of his AI-induced madness, he becomes not only much nicer but genuinely heroic.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Keeping it in line with his portrayal in Spider-Man 2, once freed of the influence of his tentacles he acts pretty nice and decent while in the comics Otto Octavius was arrogant and unpleasent before the accident transformed him into Doctor Octopus. He also is a supervillain by choice in the comics.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: It's established that Otto and Norman knew each other prior to Norman becoming the Green Goblin and were apparently friends, while in the comics they briefly become friends during their super villain careers before developing a strong hatred for each other.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His tentacles take on a unique red-striped color scheme in this appearance after absorbing the nanotech from the Iron Spider suit. They go back to normal once Otto gives the nanotech back to Peter for his Integrated Suit.
• Affectionate Nickname: Post his Heel–Face Turn, he refers to both the MCU Peter and the Raimi-verse Peter as "dear boy" at different points of time.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Otto's mechanical arms possess a very high artificial intelligence that he can control with the help of the neural inhibitor chip on the back of his neck. With the chip fried, the mechanical arms wound up controlling him instead, making him a lot more malicious, short-tempered, and grumpy. Peter and Norman manage to create a new neural inhibitor chip for him with the use of Stark Industries technology that allow Otto to finally regain control of his mechanical arms and go back to the person he was before the arms took control of him.
• Alliterative Name: As always, his actual name is Otto Octavius (despite the disbelief of Peter and his friends).
• Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-120703, several other variants including a female counterpart in several undesignated Earths, And another distinct version is set to appear in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Octopi, obviously.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: He is a supervillain using advanced technology who has fought a superhero with spider powers, found himself teleported into another universe, and witnessed a wizard using magic. Despite all this, he still insists that it's completely impossible for the Green Goblin to be Norman Osborn back from the dead.
• Artificial Limbs: He has four mechanical arms attached to his spine that start influencing and controlling his thoughts after the inhibitor chip meant to control them got destroyed. Peter and Norman construct him a new one that allows him to regain control of them and return to his old self.
• Assimilation Backfire: A technological variation. He tears off the chest plate of the Iron Spider suit and, recognizing it as nanotechnology, decides to integrate it into his tentacles. Unfortunately for him, since Stark tech is far more advanced than Otto's tentacles, the nanotech is able to wirelessly link back to the Iron Spider suit and allow Peter to control them and turn them against him.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears a trench coat that makes him look cool and sinister.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Peter and Norman making him a new inhibitor chip to replace his damaged one restores his original personality, which is a far cry from the grumpy and spiteful madman he was introduced as.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Before he made a Heel–Face Turn, Otto was genuinely surprised when May Parker kindly offered him something to drink and accepted it nevertheless, as he wasn't upset with her for her part in her nephew curing him.
• Big Entrance: Doctor Octopus reveals himself to the MCU Peter by destroying and appearing from the wreckage of the Alexander Hamilton Bridge.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Just like in Spider-Man 2, Otto's mechanical arms have sharp, retractable blades that he can use to stab opponents. He tries to kill Peter-1 with one of them, but the Iron Spider's nanotechnology protects him from it.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: His mechanical arms glow red when they're directly influencing his thoughts in Spider-Man 2. When he's attacking the highway, they're like that once again. He stays antagonistic until Peter creates a new control chip that finally gives Otto control over the tentacles again.
• Brainy Brunette: A dark-haired nuclear physicist who created the mechanical arms he wears all throughout his appearances.
• Broken Pedestal: Regardless whether he figured it out before Spider-Man 2 or when he saw the Goblin on the bridge, Otto seems to have put two and two together and realize that the Green Goblin, a murderous psychopath, was Norman Osborn, a man whom he held genuine respect for. When Peter and his friends are searching for a trace of him, all Otto can do is quietly utter "it can't be him" in a hollow tone while vacantly staring towards the wall when the subject of the Goblin's identity hadn't even come up yet, suggesting that Otto had been dealing with shock from the revelation of his old acquaintance's malignant dealings. Tellingly, he speaks in the humble tone of Otto Octavius during this scene, not the arrogant snide of Doctor Octopus.
• Car Fu: He grabs several cars to throw at Spider-Man during their fight on the bridge, some with people still inside. This is not the first time he has thrown some cars at someone named Peter Parker.
• Catch and Return: He uses his tentacles to throw back Green Goblin's razor bats in the final battle.
• Character Catchphrase: "The Power of the Sun, in the palm of my hand." Referring to his fusion energy machine he was fixated on rebuilding for the better part of Spider-Man 2. This comes up more literally when he curiously observes the just-as-powerful but small Arc Reactor in his hands, while reuniting with his Peter in the second part.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: During his fight with Spider-Man, he tears off a piece of Spider-Man's suit and absorbs its nanotechnology. Instead of giving him a power boost, it instantly costs him the fight when Peter is able to retain control of the nanomachines and hijack Ock's tentacles right under his nose.
• Cold Ham: He speaks magniloquently while remaining calm and composed, similar to Thanos.
• Combat Tentacles: Ock fights with the four massive metal tentacles he has hooked to his spine. They prove to be quite deadly again, being strong enough for Peter to struggle against them physically or lift and throw heavy objects, and also extremely versatile in helping Ock climb or navigate through terrain as well as protect him against Spider-Man's webs.
• The Comically Serious: His grouchy skepticism and bemusement to his surroundings as a result of the MCU's Lighter and Softer and Denser and Wackier setting has comedic timing and is the primary source of most of the film's Cringe Comedy.
• Cool Shades: He wears green Ray-Ban sunglasses.
• Costume Evolution: He wears a black turtleneck as opposed to being topless under his trench coat in his original appearance, possibly a side effect of Dr. Strange's spell that somehow gifted him with a sweater for some reason despite him being unable to wear shirts due to his tentacles fused to him in his original universe. His tentacles also gain a red hue after absorbing the Iron Spider suit's nanobots, but returns to normal as he returns them to Peter post-Heel–Face Turn.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Similarly to the Lizard. Despite being defeated with relative ease, Octavius does give Peter-1 a good fight, albeit by forcing Peter to focus his efforts on rescuing civilians as opposed to actually focusing on fighting the Doctor.
• Curtains Match the Window: Otto possesses brown hair and brown eyes.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: His mechanical arms negatively affected his mind due to the neural inhibitor chip on the back of his neck getting fried. When Peter and Norman build and install a new one for him, his mind goes back to normal and he takes back control of his mechanical arms.
• Cyborg: His mechanical arms are fused into his body, making him this. Happy even refers to him as such during a phone call with Peter.
• Dark Is Evil: In part of his Costume Evolution, his clothes are all black and his hair is a much darker brown than it was in his debut movie. After being cured, it becomes a case of Dark Is Not Evil.
• Deadpan Snarker: At least before his Heel–Face Turn.
  Norman Osborn: It'll work, have faith.
  Dr. Octopus: Says the reckless fool who turned himself into a monster.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's the first of the displaced supervillains to be fought by Spider-Man and serves as the most prominent and antagonistic among them in the first half of the film, especially since Norman apparently managed to repress his Green Goblin personality. However, Otto eventually gets cured of his madness midway through the movie and becomes a good guy, while the Green Goblin takes over as the true main villain.
• Diving Save: Otto does a variant of this when the Green Goblin attempts to destroy Doctor Strange's box at the Statue of Liberty, using two of his tentacles to propel himself behind the good doctor, while using his other two tentacles to block the bombs from hurting him.
• Doctor Jerk: He's a scientist (nuclear physicist, to be exact) who's incredibly grouchy and ill-tempered. Peter later finds out that it's because he's being controlled by his mechanical arms as a result of the neural inhibitor chip on the back of his neck being fried. He makes him a new one with the help of Norman Osborn, returning Otto back to his Nice Guy personality before he got the arms.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Not only is he finally freed from his tentacles' influence, but obtaining the Arc Reactor at the end helps him realize his dreams of achieving near-limitless clean energy can come from as something as small and much safer as the unit rather than a large and dangerously lethal fusion reactor, as he reconciles with his Peter Parker.
• Easily Forgiven: Otto as his real self doesn't hold a grudge and is quick to forgive those who wronged him, such as the MCU Peter for what he put him through, Electro for trying to kill him and his attempt to revert Otto back to Doctor Octopus, and Doctor Strange for imprisoning him. He also forgives Norman for his actions as Green Goblin, having come to realize that his friend may have created the evil persona, but Norman's actions as his alter-ego weren't his fault.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He takes offense when Peter calls him a "crazy monster".
  • After seeing him in action, Doctor Octopus is utterly horrified to learn that Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin, quietly murmuring, "It couldn't be him..." while MCU Peter and his friends brainstorm ways to find him. When the two of them meet in person, Otto makes it clear that he's disgusted with the Goblin's actions, calling him both an insane fool and a monster.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's confused when Peter opts to save them from dying in their home universes while Strange insists on it, and asks Peter why he didn't. MJ simply responds that's who he is.
• Evil Is Hammy: He's almost as hammy as the Green Goblin himself. He loses this after he gets cured and takes control of his mechanical arms.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: After Sandman reveals how Octavius drowned with his machine while fighting Spider-Man, Octavius recalls that he was about to kill Spider-Man while his Fusion Reactor started to function before he realizes that he ended up in the MCU shortly after.
• Face–Heel Turn: Despite his Redemption Equals Death moment in his home universe, Doctor Octopus is back to being a villain here. This appears to be because he was pulled into the MCU before he regained control over the tentacles. It takes Peter forcibly inserting a new inhibitor chip into the tentacle rig to finally get Otto back to normal.
• Fake Arm Disarm: One of Otto's four tentacles (specifically the top-left one) is severed by the Green Goblin after Otto attempts to grab onto his glider in the Battle at Liberty Island.
• Fake Defector: When Otto shows up at the Statue of Liberty during the final battle, it appears he's gone back to the side of the villains, despite MCU Peter installing a new inhibitor chip into his tentacles, making it appear that Electro fried it when he attacked him at the apartment. He restrains the Spider-Men so that Electro can finish them off... only to turn around and pull off Electro's stolen Arc Reactor before slapping a Power Nullifier in its place.
• Fat Bastard: He's a hostile and short-tempered man who's on the pudgy side. He gets cured halfway through the movie by an inhibitor chip created by Peter and Norman to allow him to control his mechanical arms, restoring him to his previous kind, helpful personality.
• Faux Affably Evil: When Octavius first arrives in the MCU, he greets MCU Peter with a polite ‘Hello Peter’ as if it’s a teacher meeting his student as an adult. However, Octavius quickly drops the affability, acts smug and talks to Peter with disdain and tries to kill him; throughout the film, his affable facade is gone. However, this is subverted when Octavius is cured and he’s shown to be a genuine Nice Guy rather than a smug Jerkass.
• Flat "What": Says this when May asks him if he wants to drink saltwater because he's an octopus. She takes this as a no and gives him freshwater instead.
  Aunt May: You know, because you're an octopus?
• Foil: To Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. Both of them are dangerous villains from the Raimi-verse who are confused as to what the hell is happening and how they got into the MCU, and both of them were genuinely decent (if flawed) scientists who just wanted to live their lives and make their world a better place. However, Otto is initially an angry and uncooperative jerk towards Peter as he's trying to help him before he's finally freed from his tentacles' A.I, allowing him to perform a Heel–Face Turn and help Peter succeed in his goals. Norman, on the other hand, starts out by trying to help Peter with curing him and the rest of the villains, but later undergoes a Split-Personality Takeover from the Green Goblin, which undoes all his good efforts in exchange for becoming the Big Bad.
• Gentle Giant: Double Subverted. He's 6'2" and he's a complete grouch prone to making sarcastic or hurtful remarks. The double subversion comes when Peter and Norman cure him with an inhibitor chip that allows him to control the mechanical arms affecting his behavior, bringing back the friendly, kindhearted Otto Octavius he was before he put the mechanical arms on. This is exemplified during the final battle, where he depowers Electro non-fatally and later saves him from falling off the collapsing statue, instead of seeking revenge against Dillon for attacking him earlier.
• Glasses Pull: Does this in his first scene when he realizes the Peter Parker he's fighting is not the one he knows (apparently to have a better look at him).
  Otto: [after removing his glasses] You're not Peter Parker.
• Good Costume Switch: Downplayed but when Otto is able to gain control over his tentacles, his glasses become clear as opposed to shades when he is Doc Ock. This is especially notable because when he first appears, his glasses are so dark his eyes can't be seen.
• Green and Mean: A rancorous malcontent who wears green sunglasses, trench coat and turtleneck. He loses the mean part when Peter and Norman create a new neural inhibitor chip that finally stops his mechanical arms from controlling him.
• Grumpy Old Man: He's the oldest of all the characters pulled into the MCU by Doctor Strange's botched spell and he's an incredibly grouchy and downbeat person. Getting cured by Peter and Norman shows that he's actually the opposite of that, as he's quite an easygoing and cheerful fellow.
• Hates Everyone Equally: Due to the tentacles messing with his mind, Otto is vindictive to pretty much everyone he meets while in the MCU, regardless of who they are or where they came from.
• Hearing Voices: With the inhibitor chip of his mechanical limbs damaged, the limbs' A.I. influences Octavius's actions and he compares it to voices in his head speaking to him. When Peter inserts a new chip, Octavius comments how the voices are now gone, signifying the removal of his Doc Ock persona.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Although he has his tentacles, Otto's true strength and resolve as his true self comes from his heart, as he would risk his life to help those in need. He chose to help Peter in his mission to save the villains, especially Norman, cured Electro of his power then saved his life when the Statue of Liberty collapsed, and protected Doctor Strange from Green Goblin.
• Heel–Face Turn: Just like he did in his debut film, Octavius pulls this after Peter installs a new chip in his head that sets him free from his mechanical arms' control over him.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Him integrating the Iron Spider suit's nanomachines is what allows Peter to defeat him, by making Dr. Octopus unable to control his own tentacles.
• Humiliation Conga: After his defeat on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, Otto suffers one humiliation after another. First, Spider-Man takes control of his mechanical arms and uses them to manipulate him like a puppet, forces him to save one of his would-be victims and ties him up with one of his own tentacles, then he gets teleported to a cell in a wizard's dungeon, his name and gimmick are mocked by Peter, Ned, MJ and even May Parker, and finally he gets forcibly cured of his homicidal impulses against his will. Otto even complains about what he has to endure at one point. After his Heel–Face Turn, he's treated with a lot more respect by both the characters and the narrative.
  Otto: Oh, will all these humiliations never cease?!
• Hyde Plays Jekyll: Inverted. During the final battle, Otto briefly pretends that his evil side has taken over in order to fool Electro and attack him by surprise.
• Hypocrite: When Norman tries to assure Otto that Peter's plan to cure all the multiversal villains will work, he's dismissed as a "reckless fool who turned himself into a monster". This is coming from the guy who attempted to create a machine to simulate the sun's power without any regard for the wellbeing of himself or others and ended up becoming a psycho due to the lack of precaution taken to prevent his tentacles from controlling his mind.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: He attempts to reach out to Norman when Green Goblin takes over his mind, but to no avail.
• I Owe You My Life: Otto feels like he owes an unpayable debt to the MCU Peter Parker for saving him from his fate in his universe and freeing him from his tentacles' control, which is part of his Undying Loyalty towards Peter.
• Improvised Weapon: Like in his debut film, he is fond of throwing random objects at his enemies. During the fight on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, he grabs anything he can get his tentacles on to use against Spider-Man.
• Internal Reveal: Assuming that he wasn't already a Secret Secret-Keeper Otto had no idea that Norman Osborn was the Green Goblin in his universe, reacting with shock and horror when he sees the man in action for himself.
• Irony: In most Spider-Man media whenever the Sinister Six assemble, it's usually Doctor Octopus spearheading the creation of the group and their attacks on the titular webhead. In No Way Home, not only does Otto have no interest in teaming up with anyone, but by the time the Sinister Five assemble, he betrays the group and sides with the heroes as soon as he gets the chance.
• Jerkass: Up until he is cured, Octavius is nothing but smug, rude and easily angered, not to mention the fact he’s a supervillain.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Subverted. It looks as if once he is cured from the actuators' influence, he chooses to go back to being evil, but it’s a Bait-and-Switch and he saves the Spider-Men.
• Large Ham: Alfred Molina continues in Chewing the Scenery after almost two decades.
• Laughably Evil: Whenever he's The Comically Serious grouch in his scenes.
• Leitmotif: A few notes of his from Spider-Man 2 play during his highway confrontation with MCU Peter, and a few during the final battle as well when he first appears.
• Man of Kryptonite: He turns out to be one to Electro, as his arms, made to work on a fusion reactor with the end goal of producing as much energy as the sun, are more than capable of withstanding Max's electricity. It comes in handy when the Spider-Men are unsuccessful in depowering Electro.
• Manly Tears: He starts shedding these when he gets the new inhibitor chip that finally lets him be free of the tentacles' control over him.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Zig-Zagged. Much like in Spider-Man 2, Doctor Octopus is wearing a dark-colored trench coat rather than the more colorful jumpsuits or armor that he's often seen wearing in the comics. However, this design is still accurate to Ultimate Spider-Man, which actually debuted the look before Spider-Man 2. Late into the original run of Ultimate Spider-Man, he actually wore colors closer to the ones seen in this movie◊.
• Mr. Exposition: He's the one who explains Norman Osborn's background and is the first to mention that he's supposed to be dead.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has four mechanical tentacles attached to his back. The fact that the Iron Spider Armor has its own set of four appendages isn't lost on Otto.
  Otto: [to his tentacles] Looks like we got competition.
• Mysterious Past: Outside of how the tentacles are controlling him and vague references to his machine, his actual origin isn't fully explained. He makes no mention of his recently deceased wife or the purpose of his machine, so unless you've watched Spider-Man 2, you will not understand what he's talking about.
• Near-Villain Victory: From his perspective at least. According to him, he managed to stop Spider-Man from stopping his fusion reactor and had him by the throat, intending to kill him, but then he got transported to the MCU. He then realizes that he was about to die after hearing the other villains' stories of how they got transported to the MCU.
• Nice Guy: Once the new inhibitor chip is installed. He returns the Iron Spider nanotech he stole for his tentacles, sincerely thanks Peter for curing him, and immediately offers to help cure the other villains. He also proves his mettle when he returns to help the Peters in the final battle, even though he didn't necessarily have to and he could have easily sat the whole thing out.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: A heavily inverted example in regards to his intelligence and the sophistication of his machines. Otto is an absolutely brilliant scientist to the standards of any world, but he comes from a world that was more mundane than the MCU, two decades in the past at that. As such, the new world he finds himself in is rife with geniuses that develop technology similar to or better than Otto's own. The Iron Spider's nanotech rather easily overrides the operating system of his tentacles and at the end of the film, he marvels at the pocketwatch-sized Arc Reactor, which is more or less a perfected, safer alternative to his own nuclear fusion device.
• Oblivious to His Own Description: He derides Norman as a "reckless fool who turned himself into a monster" without a hint of irony.
• Offhand Backhand: Just like in his first appearance, he is able to use his mechanical tentacles even against people who are outside his range of vision. During the battle on the Statue of Liberty, he has one of his tentacles grab Electro by the throat from behind without having to look.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Otto being able to utilize the MCU's technology wasn't shown, but judging by Max's cure being completed and Norman, Connors, and Flint's in progress, he had a big contribution in making them alongside Peter and Norman.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: During the final battle, Doc Ock interrupts Electro while he's electrocuting the Spider-Men because he wants to kill them himself. Subverted, as he's actually trying to help them.
  Otto: Leave them, they're mine.
• Only Sane Man: Subverted in that he believes he's this for the first half of the movie, treating the whole Multiverse situation with nothing but contempt (especially when the concept of magic in the MCU comes into play). He also resists Peters' plan to cure the villains partially due to how haphazard and reckless it seems. Ironically, it's only after being cured does he properly become the Only Sane Man and saves the Spider-Men in the climax.
• Papa Wolf: He protects all three Peter Parkers from Electro and the Green Goblin during the final battle. His "leave them, they're mine" boast almost seems to be a vow to himself that they're under his protection.
• People Puppet: Doc Ock is a victim of this after absorbing some of the Iron Spider nanotech into his tentacles, which allows Peter to take remote control and lock them down or move the mechanical arms around at will.
• Pet the Dog: He relents and becomes courteous when May offers him a drink of water. It's the most cordial he is before his Heel–Face Turn, and the first indicator that Otto is more than the pessimistic grouch Peter knows him as.
• Plug 'n' Play Technology: During his first fight with Peter Parker, he rips a chunk of nanobots off the Iron Spider suit, which meld with Doc Ock's tentacles. This wirelessly connects them to the Iron Spider, effectively turning them into an extension of the suit. Peter uses this to seize control of the tentacles and restrain Octavius.
• Powers Do the Fighting: His tentacles are very strong, and with them he could even overpower an Arc Reactor-empowered Electro, but they're the only things he could rely on in combat. Without them, he's just a normal human with no training in hand-to-hand combat. When Peter manages to hijack control of them through the Iron Spider's nanites, Otto is rendered completely and utterly helpless.
• Prepare to Die: He tells Peter the "now you die" variation before trying to stab him in the chest. Peter survives because of the Iron Spider suit.
• Pretend to Be Brainwashed: He pretends that Electro managed to fry the inhibitor chip in his back, allowing his mechanical arms to take control of him again, to get the drop on the latter and use the cure on him to strip him of his superpowers.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like in his previous appearance, the "eyes" at the center of his arms glow red when the AI is in control of him. When Peter hacks into the AI, the eyes glow blue, and following his Heel–Face Turn, the eyes glow white.
• Royal "We": Not always, but he occasionally uses the pronoun "we" to refer to himself and his tentacles.
  Doc Ock: We tire of your questions, boy!
• Save the Villain: Even though Electro tried to kill him in the apartment fight, he chose to cure him and later saves him from falling to his death using his mechanical arms. This proves that, at his core, Otto is a good and heroic man. Had this been the Otto being controlled by his mechanical arms in this scenario, he would've killed Electro without hesitating.
• Scarred Equipment: Otto's tentacles still bear all the damage that they took in his original universe. Pits and scars mare them and the once prominent yellow stripes down them are hardly visible. They can still get the job done well enough when not under outside control.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Electro blasts him through the window using his electric powers and J. Jonah Jameson's news helicopters begin covering the chaos at Happy's condo, Otto promptly takes off into the night. Thankfully, he later comes back to assist the heroes during the final battle.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: It's implied that he figured out that the Green Goblin was Norman Osborn before Spider-Man 2, which retroactively changes his reasons for working with Norman's son Harry.
• Ship Tease: With May Parker, of all people. In one scene, she shows kindness towards Otto and he reacts by acting more polite to her than he did to anyone else before his Heel–Face Turn. This is probably a reference to the fact that the two characters have dated in the comics.
• Sinister Shades: He wears green Ray-Ban oval double bridge sunglasses that make him look more menacing.
• So Last Season: Otto's tentacles were extremely dangerous in his homeworld, which was set in a relatively grounded version of the early 2000s. While still a threat here, he's not as dangerous to a Spider-Man who's from a technologically-advanced version of the mid-2020s.
• So Proud of You: After the final battle in No Way Home, he fondly greets Raimi-Verse Peter, calling him "dear boy" and saying how much he's grown in a way that suggests he's proud of who Peter has become.
• Starter Villain: He is the first of the five multiversal villains that Peter encounters in No Way Home.
• Suddenly Shouting: Otto ends up snapping after Peter asked him too many questions.
  Doc Ock: Norman Osborn. Brilliant scientist. Military researcher. But he was greedy, misguided...
  Peter: What happened to him?
  Doc Ock: WE TIRE OF YOUR QUESTIONS, BOY!
• Sunglasses at Night: He's still wearing his sunglasses during the final battle, which took place at the dead of night. His original film handwaves this as his eyes being photosensitive after the fusion reactor accident.
• Super-Strength: Each of his mechanical arms are capable of lifting and throwing humans and cars with ease.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: A tall, dark-haired scientist who constantly throws around biting, sarcastic remarks.
• Technopath: During the bridge fight, he frequently communicates with his mechanical arms.
• Tentacled Terror: A supervillain who uses four mechanical arms that have great superhuman strength.
• Tentacle Rope: He grabs Peter several times during their fight on the bridge by wrapping his tentacles around him. Once Peter manages to take control of the tentacles, he returns the favor by using one of them to tie Otto up.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • When Peter thinks he has identified the Green Goblin, Otto repeatedly affirms that it's absolutely impossible for him to be the real one, because Norman Osborn is supposed to be dead for years.
    Doc Ock: That's impossible... It can't be him.
  • He also refuses to believe it when Flint Marko reveals that he is supposed to die during his last fight against Spider-Man.
    Doc Ock: That's nonsense!
• Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Despite the telltale signs that MCU Peter definitely isn't the Peter he knows (particularly in his mannerisms and voice), Otto still somehow fails to realize he's attacking a stranger until Peter unmasks himself during their fight on the bridge.
• Token Good Teammate: Norman at first is shown as though he'll be this as a Red Herring, getting close to Peter and May while Otto remains ostensibly only restrained by the fact that Peter's suit has his tentacles locked down — but the true colors of both ultimately come to light as Norman succumbs to the Goblin while Otto, freed by a new inhibitor chip, becomes allied to the Spider-Men for the film's back half.
• Token Human: Doc Ock is the only villain who is not a superpowered being and is only a human with four mechanical appendages, making him a cyborg at best.
• Transplant: The same Doc Ock that appeared in Spider-Man 2.
• Underestimating Badassery: He admits to Peter that he underestimated him before trying to kill him. Peter survives and then takes control of his mechanical arms using the Iron Spider's nanites.
• Undying Loyalty: He became extremely loyal to Peter and his allies, after he freed Octavius from his mechanical arms' control through a new inhibitor chip. He became dedicated in helping Spider-Man cure the remaining villains, especially his friend and fellow scientist, Norman. He was also the only one of the five villains that didn't betray Peter when Green Goblin took control of Norman and convinced the uncured villains to turn against them. Also, despite fleeing when a fight broke out between Peter and Green Goblin, Octavius came back to help the Spider-Men finish what he started.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His tentacles are a technology-based variant. They weren't made for combat so they are unable to do much more than smash and throw things around, which they do with more than enough power to give Peter trouble. They were also made in the early-2000s in a world that, year to year, is behind the MCU technology-wise, while the Iron Spider is native to the MCU and was built in the mid-2010s by Tony Stark, who by that point has had plenty of experience with hyper-advanced AI. As a result, the operating system of Doc's tentacles is leagues behind that of Peter's suit so when the nanomachines become embedded within, Peter disables him as if it were child's play.
• Villainous Friendship: Inverted, as it is when he is cured of his rampant nature by a new inhibitor chip that he forms a welcome and friendly candor with Norman. Before, as Doctor Octopus, he dismissed him as a naïve fool who turned himself into a monster, and afterward, Otto is dismissed as a lapdog for the Parkers by the Green Goblin.
• Villain Respect: Subverted. When he first encounters Peter-1, Otto is impressed that he's managed to upgrade his suit with nanotechnology and spider-legs, assuming he's fighting the Peter he knew. Once he realizes that he's not the Spider-Man he knows, however, Otto treats him with utter contempt, constantly complaining about Peter's lack of preparedness and casual way of working on things compared to Norman.
• Wall Crawl: He can use his mechanical arms to climb buildings as seen in the apartment fight.
• What Is This, X?: He asks this after hearing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange talk about spells and magic.
  Doctor Octopus: Spell? As in magic? What is this, a birthday party?
• When He Smiles: After he's freed from his tentacles, he gives a warm, relieved smile and genially assures Norman that he's back. He gives a similar smile when he's reunited with his universe's Peter. In both instances, his happiness practically radiates off the screen.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Peter, M.J., and Ned think he's pulling their leg when he claims his real name is Dr. Otto Octavius, as none of the villains they'd encountered so far had such Prophetic Names.
• Would Hit a Girl: He endangers the lives of several civilians during his attack on the bridge, including the female MIT representative. In the same scene, he also tells Peter that he wishes he had killed his girlfriend (Mary Jane Watson, as he thinks he's fighting the Peter of his earth).
• Would Hurt a Child: At the beginning of the fight on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, he throws a car at Spider-Man with a family in it, including a little girl.
• You Fool!: Calls Norman Osborn a "fool who turned himself into a monster" at one point.
• Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: During his fight with MCU Peter, Otto, who assumes he's facing the Spider-Man from his own universe, taunts him by expressing regrets for not having killed Mary Jane Watson before, referring to her as "your little girlfriend".

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"I will not die a monster."