Dr. Octopus
Dr. Otto Octavius was a revered nuclear physicist responsible for the design of a machine that could create clean fusion and provide free, limitless energy to the world. Alongside his beloved wife Rosie, Octavius unveiled his project at Osborn Industries alongside his ‘assistants’ – four mechanical arms whose A.I. and connection with Octavius allowed him to contain the rapidly accelerating fusion reaction. But Otto miscalculated, and the experiment’s debut went horribly awry. The unstable fusion created an accident that fused Otto’s arms to his body while breaking the inhibitor chip containing the arms’ A.I. Combined with the traumatic event of witnessing Rosie’s death, Otto’s mind was warped into a violent obsession with recreating his experiment at any cost, and Dr. Octopus, or ‘Doc Ock,’ was born. The hero Spider-Man impeded Ock’s schemes, and the two clashed repeatedly before an electric shock and the wise words of the unmasked hero brought Ock back to his senses. As a final act of retribution Otto pulled his second fusion reactor atop him into a river, saving the world from its threat so he would not die a monster.
Strength - Striking
- Hits Spider-Man, smashing him through a section of brick wall (source)
- Busts doors off hospital (source)
- Punches tentacles through a wall while climbing it (source)
- Hits Spidey into wall, collapsing part of it (source)
- KOs a train conductor and breaks the controls (source)
- Shakes a balcony with his approach and knocks Harry over (source)
- Smashes Spider-Man through the train doors while fighting him (source)
Strength - Lifting/Throwing
- Throws a cab down a street where it lands atop another car (source)
- Tears off and throws a bank vault door (source)
- Flings multiple guards away simultaneously, sending one flying across a room (source)
- Throws bags of gold that explode on impact (source)
- Grabs Aunt May and climbs up wall (source)
- Pushes large pieces of machinery into place while constructing a new device (source)
- Throws a car through a cafe and rattles the building with his approach (source)
- Throws hostages (source)
- Embeds metal into a wall (source)
- Throws Spider-Man through a ceiling (source)
Strength - Grip/Restraint
- Restrains Spider-Man briefly (source)
- Ripping cab apart and throwing pieces (source)
- Tears apart and throws clock hand (source)
- Clears a train car full of passengers out of his way, smashing the car’s windows (source)
Strength - Misc.
- Expands door frame of subway car (source)
- Brings down the structure around him that then pulls the surrounding building with it (source)
Durability
- Survives a sustained shock that destroys his inhibitor chip and KOs him (source)
- Hit into wall, taking out a chunk of it, and keeps fighting (source)
- Hit by a table through a wall, a metal box anchored into the street, and into a cab, rocking the cab on impact before recovering (source)
- Takes a beating from Spider-Man, recovering enough to fight back (source)
- Dazed by a hit from May (source)
- Exchanges more hits with Spider-Man (source)
- Fights with Spider-Man while falling a considerable distance, landing atop a moving train and denting the roof (source)
- Exchanges hits with Spider-Man while clinging to the side of a train (source)
- Takes Spider-Man slingshotting him through floorboards and beating him in the face (source)
- Briefly incapacitated from an electric shock that may have brought him to his senses shortly after (source)
Speed
- Intercepts Spider-Man with a hit (source)
- Blocks shards of glass flying hard enough to kill a person (source)
- Flings multiple guards away before they can fire on him (source)
- Spider-Man pulls 2 projectiles toward Ock, who tears apart one before getting hit by the other (source)
- Knocks over Harry and catches his glass as it falls (source)
- Blocks Spider-Man’s web and exchanges blows with him atop a moving train, ducking beneath obstacles amidst combat (source)
- Appears and disappears surprisingly fast around Harry (source)
- Catches Spider-Man leaping over him (source)
Tentacles - A.I.
- Arms have an advanced A.I. linked directly to Ock’s brain and controlled by an inhibitor chip. (source)
- The inhibitor chip is destroyed by an errant arc from the fusion reaction and jolt (source)
- Kills surgeons while Ock is unconscious (source)
- Overcomes the A.I. on his own (source)
Tentacles - Durability
- Said to be impervious to heat and magnetism; successfully manipulates a fusion reaction, unaffected by its heat or magnetic pull; however strong the fusion reaction gets the arms remain unaffected (source)
- Blocks shards of glass (source)
- Unharmed by a chainsaw (source)
- Bullets bounce off the arms as Ock flees the police (source)
- Frequently used to block strikes from Spider-Man (source)
Tentacles - Senses
- Arms house cameras Ock sees through (source)
- Even when Ock’s eyes are bandaged they navigate a surgical theater deftly (source)
- Spots Spider-Man’s approach from behind (source)
- Manipulates the controls inside a train car while Ock stands atop it (source)
- Spots Spider-Man behind him (source)
- Catches MJ’s sneaky (source)
Tentacles - Gadgets
- Extends a smaller cord to seize Aunt May (source)
- Uses the smaller cord to grab MJ (source)
- Houses a dagger he conceals for a sneak attack (source)
- The dagger stabs through thick electrical cords (source)