A brilliant nuclear physicist, he is the scientific idol of Peter Parker and the subject of his college paper, and Peter first meets him by means of Harry Osborn, who is funding Octavius through Oscorp. At first, Octavius dismisses Peter until he remembers that Oscorp pays the bills and that Parker is the "brilliant but lazy" Empire States University physics student of colleague Doctor Connors. He regards intelligence as "a gift that should be used to benefit mankind", and attempts to provide an infinite energy source for humanity by generating a protostar via a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction. He initiates and sustains fusion with the aid of four artificially intelligent actuators of his own design, which are impervious to heat and magnetism and connected to his spiral cord and central nervous system with nanowires that feed directly into his cerebellum. In a friendly conversation with Otto and his wife, Peter expresses concern about about the slightest errors in calculation dealing with instabilities of the nuclear reaction that could cause harm to the city of New York, but Doctor Octavius and Rosalie assure him he knows what he is doing. Peter, who just prior to this impressed Octavius with his discussion on sympathetic frequencies, further prides Octavius with his knowledge of Bernoulli's discovery of the curves of quickest descent. He asks him about the girl in his life and says that something as complicated as love should never be kept a secret. Rosalie recalls how Otto and she first met and fell in love: she was trying to teach him poetry while he was trying to teach her science, particularly relativity. Further, she says a relationship is difficult and must be worked. Octavius states that poetry is more difficult than advanced science, and that it is the key to a woman's heart. When the protostar is generated at the exhibition the next day he says that the sun is "in the palm of his hands", but a horrible accident occurs, causing his wife to be killed by shattered pieces of glass and ruining Harry's reputation in funding for Octavius' experiment.

The tentacles are attached to Octavius' nervous system along his spiral cord and he controls them mentally from the outset with a special inhibitor chip. The special inhibitor chip protects his higher brain functions by attaching to his cerebral cortex, created to ensure Octavius retains control over the machines and not vice-versa. The arms are designed with a complex claw system that has two separate mini-claws that allows Ock to pick up objects of different size. Each tentacle has superhuman strength and reflexes and are nearly indestructible (although apparently vulnerable to electrical shocks). Each claw also houses a separate camera, allowing the Doctor to see in any direction. They also can become larger "feet" that allow Doctor Octopus to climb walls and walk on any kind of terrain. While they do not posses a large array of weapons like they do in the Ultimate Spider-Man series, in several scenes Doctor Octopus extends daggers from the clawed tips in an attempt to impale Spider-Man. Also, the metal they are constructed from is not adamantium but from an indescribable type of metal. But when the chip is destroyed in his accident, caused when the "sun" he created becomes unstable, and a large "flare" from it strikes him in the back, fusing the tentacles' attachments to his spine, they are able to manipulate his mind and drive him to rebuild his failed fusion device, no matter the cost. The tentacles' influence, combined with the loss of his wife and his ruined dreams, is what makes Doc Ock evil in the movie, rather than him simply becoming insane due to brain damage from the accident (as in the comics).

Doctor Octopus confronts Spider-Man in the movie when he robs a bank to finance parts for the new fusion device. During the battle, Doc Ock takes Aunt May hostage, and nearly kills her when he callously drops her off a high building. Fortunately, Spider-Man saves her, while Ock makes his escape. Doctor Octopus completes the device, but requires tritium to fuel it, and turns to Harry Osborn to provide it for him. Harry agrees, if Ock will bring him Spider-Man (in the first movie, Harry was led to believe that Spider-Man killed his father, and is obsessed with vengeance in the sequel). Doc Ock tracks down Peter in a cafe, where he is having a romantic meeting with Mary Jane. He accosts Peter, hurling a car through a window of the cafe, and tells Peter to instruct Spider-Man to meet him, or Doc Ock will kill Mary Jane.

Following a long battle aboard a train, Doc Ock delivers Spider-Man to Harry and receives his tritium. He duplicates his fusion experiment, creating another, larger "sun", which also becomes unstable, threatening to either drag Manhattan into it with its powerful gravity and magnetic field, or explode. Having escaped from Harry, Spider-Man arrives on the scene and fights Doc Ock again, he knocks Ock back far enough to reach the fusion plug, giving him an electrical shock that stuns his tentacles for the time being. When Spider-Man unplugs the device, however, the "sun" is not destroyed, but has instead become so large that it is self-sustaining. A conversation with Peter (who voluntarily unmasks himself to try and reach Octavius' 'good' side), seems to free Octavius from the influence of his tentacles, after some mental effort fighting them back, he regains control of his mind, realizes he must stop the fusion reactor by himself, and pulls down its supports so it sinks into the river and is contained. Peter had told him that sometimes one must let go of their dreams for the good of mankind, mirroring Aunt May's prior speech to him. Doctor Octopus sinks down along with the "sun" where he died. His last words were, "I will not die a monster!". This version of the Marvel comics villain has been praised by both critics and fans.

Doc Ock appears in the opening titles of Spider-Man 3. He also appears on the front page of a Daily Bugle newspaper from the second film in the third film that is framed in J. Jonah Jameson's office, entitled "Doc Ock Still At Large?". Ideas for the next Spider-Man film after Spider-Man 3 have included possibly introducing the Sinister Six. Wether or not Doctor Octopus will return as its founder is unknown (this is also similar to the questionable appearance of Sandman as a member).

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His tentacles, which allow him to easily break/bend even stronger metals. They also have spikes that come from the 'eyes'.

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The director of the films, Sam Raimi, has stated that Ock was intended to appear in the first film, teaming up with Green Goblin but was not included because Raimi thought it wouldn't "do the movie justice to have a third origin in there". Doctor Octopus is portrayed by Alfred Molina in the film Spider-Man 2 (2004). However, the story is very contracted, and Octavius seems to have become Doctor Octopus and died within a year. While the comic version has been portrayed as highly arrogant, the movie version Otto Octavius is a generally likable, who is married to his loving wife, Rosalie Octavius (Earth-96283) (Octavius was not married in the comics).

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