Doctor Octopus

""The power of the sun...in the palm of my hand.""

- ~Dock Ock

Doctor Octopus is one of the many villains in the Spider-Man comic book series. What makes him so deadly is his four extra mechanical limbs. They can each crush materials stronger than a block of cement, and can stretch over 20 feet. The smart arms can be used for walking, lifting or throwing heavy objects, or climbing.

In the film
Doctor Octopus appears in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 film as the main opponent of Spider-Man. Before he became a four-armed villain, he was a scientist, and his goal was to create successful, stable nuclear fusion, thus making energy available for personal use. To make this experiment successful, he invented the four mechanical arms to assist him in making the measurements accurate and placing the origin of the reaction.

The arms would be set to connect to Octavius's spine by inserting needles through the skin along his back. To maintain full control of the arms, Octavius attached an inhibitor chip to the arms, located behind his neck.

Octavius demonstrated his first trial of the experiment in front of a group of New York civilians. For a brief time, he created a successful fusion reaction. When the reaction became unstable, though, it could not be handled, and numerous objects, including wall coverings, were being sucked into the expanding nuclear hog. In the event, he lost his wife, and the inhibitor chip was destroyed.

With the inhibitor chip gone, Dr. Octavius could not maintain control of his mind with formidable power of his mechanical arms. He became convinced to rebuild a larger generator, and ignored his miscalculations which caused the accident. To build his new creation, Dock Ock needed money, so he set off to a New York Bank, where he first encountered Spider-Man.

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