Otto Octavius started out as a good hearted, charming person, wanting to change the world for the better. Octavius' motto to Peter Parker before his transformation into "Doctor Octopus". Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift, and you use it for the good of mankind. In the Japanese dubbed version, he is voiced by Banjō Ginga. Freeze in Harley Quinn, The Duke in Solar Opposites and Mictlan in Maya and the Three. He was portrayed by Alfred Molina, who also played Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reverend Leland Drury in White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, Snidely Whiplash in Dudley Do-Right, Johann Tetzel in Luther, Bishop Manuel Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Code, Professor Jeffries in Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!, Maxim Horvath in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ke-Pa in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the On Her Majesty’s Secret Service radio drama adaptation, Rippen in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Viggo Grimborn in Dragons: Race to the Edge, Destiny in Justice League Dark, Lasombra in Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie, Mr. After the remaining villains were cured, Octavius along with the others were sent back to their respective universes, where he was given a second chance at life in his world. Indebted, Otto helped him, his native Spider-Man, and another alternate Spider-Man in their fight against their adversaries on Liberty Island. Twenty years later, he was accidentally transported to a different universe through space and time alive from a spell performed by Doctor Strange, that universe's Spider-Man helped release him from the corrosive AI of his tentacles. From then onwards, Otto turned into a dangerous supervillain as well as the former second adversary of Spider-Man. He was an enthusiastic scientist and friend of Peter Parker who later became possessed by his own malevolent mechanical arms after an experiment with his fusion reactor funded by the son of his close friend Norman Osborn and Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn, went horribly wrong. He also serves as a major character in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home. Otto Gunther Octavius, later called Doctor Octopus, is the main antagonist of the 2004 superhero film Spider-Man 2, the second installment of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. ~ Otto Octavius, now known as "Doctor Octopus", becomes villainous after he hides in a derelict fishing boathouse and reveals his plans.ĭr. And we'll nothing will stand in our way! NOTHING! Once again, we'll harness the power of the sun in the palm of my hand. (two of the tentacles plant themselves on the dock, rising him up) It's settled then. The real crime would be not to finish what we started. (yet another tells him differently) You're right. (another tentacle moves in, speaking to him) Steal it? No! No, I'm not a criminal. NO miscalculations, NO mistakes! But we'd need money to purchase the equipment, the materials. Enlarge the containment field, make it stronger. It was working, wasn't it? (grins sinisterly) Yes, it was. (suddenly his face grows hard, dismissal, and angry) But I COULDN'T have miscalculated. (one tentacle stops beside him, the prongs moving almost like a mouth) Rebuild? No! Peter was right. They belong rusting at the bottom of the river. These monstrous things, that have shed innocent blood. My dream of a world renewed so that the working man wasn't left downtrodden when the powers that be rescind their privileges. This is punishment for my playing God, isn't it? My Rosie. For trying to reach out and grasp the sun. I’m just going -' he glared again - 'with a kind of mean look on my face.This must be my penance. 'I just do that a lot, and the arms are doing all the killing and smashing and breaking. 'My basic physical move as Doc Ock, as the actor, is just this,' he said as he glared intensely at the Zoom camera and made a menacing noise. "When the actor asked Jon Watts, the director of 'No Way Home,' how the movie would bring Doc Ock back - since, as he pointed out, 'I died' - Molina said the director told him, 'In this universe, no one really dies.' It was very interesting going back after 17 years to play the same role, given that in the intervening years, I now have two chins, a wattle, crow’s feet and a slightly a slightly dodgy lower back.' I actually described myself as the worst kept secret in Hollywood!' “'When we were shooting it, we were all under orders not to talk about it, because it was supposed to be some great big secret, but, you know, it’s all over the internet. It has only been reported by major Hollywood trades and not yet confirmed by Sony or Marvel Studios, but actor Alfred Molina took it upon himself in an interview with Variety to confirm he is most definitely returning as Doctor Octopus in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME.
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