Additionally, Otto's frustrations with his physical deterioration and years of oppression by Norman increasingly rise to the surface, culminating in his transformation into Doctor Octopus. His patience dwindles when he feels close to reaching his goals, and as the mini-games reveal, Otto's designs have some overlooked flaws that Peter regularly has to address and correct. This is partly brought on by how rapidly his disease is progressing according to Peter, Otto would lose control of his motor functions in less than a year. However, as time progresses, Otto begins acting frantically. Otto possesses an extremely high intellect, enough so that Peter admires him for it, yet Otto maintains a humble demeanor, admiring Peter's knack for impromptu science and describing the boy as a genius in his own right. However, he lies to Peter about realizing his identity, saying Peter is designing Spider-man's suits and equipment. Otto was possesed of a gentle personality overall, not scolding Peter for his tardiness anymore than he feels he has to and understanding after discovering Peter's secret that he was Spider-man, knowing his family and friends could be targets for his enemies. While his work doesn't progress as well or as quickly as he had hoped, he stays his course and seems to take everything in stride. Additionally, he hoped these prosthetics might help him with his own neuro-degenerative disease that would render his body paralyzed.
To that end, he focused on creating specialized prosthetics to help disabled people such as war veterans that lost their limbs in battle. Otto started out initially as an optimistic, forgiving man focused on making the world a better place. He viewed Peter Parker on the other hand, as a surrogate son and saw him as a worthy scientific partner. In spite of this, Otto remained steadfast in his goals and though he continued to view Norman with contempt for his thievery of Otto's work and his willingness to profit off others' suffering. The friendship between Osborn and Octavius was ended after Norman's amoral use of GR-27 in the treatment of Martin Li, which resulted in the death's of Martin's parents and Li himself gaining superpowers. This led to the creation of the compound GR-27, known as "Devil's Breath", which was an attempt at a cure, but was more deadly than the diseases it was meant to treat. However, over time, as Norman became obsessed with reversing the genetic disease that killed his wife and began appearing in his son, this friendship became strained.
Otto Octavius is a tragic character in many ways starting out genuinely wanting to help people, he originally embraced a strong friendship with his former business partner, Norman Osborn. 2.4 Final Battle with Spider-Man/Defeatĭr.He was voiced by William Salyers, who also played Rigby from Regular Show, Erich Soders in HITMAN (2016), Victor Valente in The Darkness II and Truman Marsh from Avengers Ultron Revolution, and Perseus in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. He is also the founder and leader of the Sinister Six and the former friend-turned-archenemy of Spider-Man.
He is the former CEO of Octavius Industries, Peter Parker's science teacher and mentor, but eventually becomes the supervillain known as Doctor Octopus, motivated to get his revenge on Norman Osborn and kill Spider-Man. Otto Gunther Octavius, also known as Doctor Octopus, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Mister Negative) of the 2018 video game, Marvel's Spider-Man and a flashback character in its 2020 spin-off Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. ~ Doc Ock to Peter Parker during their final fight.ĭr. If you want to change the world, you have to be the kind of man who can make the hardest decisions.