
In their final battle, Spider-Man tried to stop his machine and revealed his identity, but Doctor Octopus grabbed him by the throat. Octavius was given the name Doctor Octopus, as well as Doc Ock for short, and came into conflict with Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson. They played on his vanity and ego to corrupt his mind and convince him to rebuild his reactor at any cost. Through the loss of his inhibitor chip, Octavius heard the voices of his arms within his head.

However, during a lab accident, Octavius' mechanical arms were permanently bonded to his spinal column and the neural inhibitor chip was destroyed. To build his reactor and successfully create and sustain the fusion reaction, Octavius developed a set of artificially intelligent mechanical arms and a Neural Inhibitor Chip to prevent the advanced AI of the arms from influencing his mind. A few years later, Octavius met and befriended Peter Parker. He learned of Osborn's identity as Green Goblin and that Osborn had died fighting Spider-Man. During his career, he became friends with Curt Connors and Norman Osborn, the founder and CEO of Oscorp, who funded his work via his company, although Octavius deep down considered Osborn, greedy and misguided.

Otto Octavius was a brilliant scientist who worked towards researching and building a sustainable fusion power reactor. "A couple of years later, you, Doc Ock, drowned in the river with your machine." ― Sandman Octavius then chose to assist Spider-Man, his universe's Spider-Man, with whom he reunited briefly and another alternate Spider-Man, in battling Green Goblin and the other villains, until they were all cured and sent back to their respective universes. Rather than sending him and the other villains back to their universes to die, Spider-Man chose to cure them, freeing Octavius from his tentacles' control.

Here, Doctor Octopus encountered that universe's version of Spider-Man and battled with him, but was defeated and sent to the New York Sanctum. However, Doctor Octopus was resurrected and teleported through the Multiverse due to Doctor Strange's failed spell. Nicknamed Doctor Octopus or simply Doc Ock, he clashed with Spider-Man, until eventually Doctor Octopus drowned with his reactor. Unfortunately, the tentacles fused to Octavius' body in a lab accident, and their artificial intelligence corrupted his brain. And then I was here." ―Doctor Octopus ĭoctor Otto Gunther Octavius is a nuclear scientist and inventor of a set of mechanical limbs to help his experiments. So I stopped him! I had him by the throat and then I. " Spider-Man was trying to stop my fusion reactor.
