Picture Of Doctor Octopus
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For this to translate effectively to the movies, without blowing the bank on CGI, they would have had to give the good doctor, the quickly glossed-over explanation, i.e. some kind of more complete body armor, skeletal enhancement or other handwavium to explain why a punch from Spider-Man didn't equal a month in traction and years of reconstructive plastic surgery.
Spider-Man's superhuman strength varies depending on whose writing him. In most cases, it appears to range from 8-20 tons, with a bit of wiggle room for leverage, webbing assists and plot necessity. Granted, whenever Spider-Man fights most humans he must restrain his strength lest he harm someone by accident. This means he fights throttled back most of the time and has to be driven to use his full strength, and he only uses it if the target has been proven to be able to survive it. (See: Spider-Man vs. Firelord)
The Doctor's mechanical arms have great superhuman strength depending on what they're made of (titanium, adamantium, and later carbonadium) in the latter cases, allowing him to best Iron Man and hold his own against the Hulk. So their superhuman strength is more than enough to keep Spider-Man in check. Their durability does not, however, extend to the good doctor's face.
Doctor Octopus rarely takes a body blow from Spider-Man due to the insane speed of the Doctor's mechanical arms. More than fast enough to keep up with Spider-Man's preternatural quickness, what is usually depicted is Spider-Man spends most of his time on defensive and if Spider-Man is just fast enough, Doctor Octopus' arms protect him by instinctively blocking at the last moment, protecting his face/body like a boxer.
This has made for some of Spider-Man's most challenging fights because, while the Doctor's body is relatively fragile, his arms weave an area of protection around him Spider-Man can't afford to get too close to, since if he gets grabbed by the Doctor's arms, they can rip him apart.
In contests between Doc Ock and Spidey, the two would almost appear perfectly matched, so much so, you'd tend to forget Doc Ock was a normal man in this fight. But if Spider-Man landed a body blow, the battle was usually over.
The eventual solution (which seemed to take almost five decades for anyone to consider) to explain how Doctor Octopus ever survived fights with Spider-Man in the first place, being a portly, middle-aged scientist, was he had some kind of low-level mutation going on giving him telekinesis and presumably the ability to not explode when Spider-Man punched him in his non-armored meaty sections. In the Ultimate Marvel comic universe, they gave Octopus an entire super-powered exoskeleton...
Doctor Octopus has begun wearing a full-body armor suit due to a crippling illness caused by the amount of punishment he has sustained over the years, made even worse by the fact that his ability to take damage is still at a human norm, even if he can deliver a superhuman level of punishment; he relies completely on his arms to prevent opponents with superhuman strength getting in close enough to damage his relatively unfit physical form even before his illness. To compensate, he has covered his entire body with his new suit, his normal arms are bound to his chest, and four additional tentacles have been added to his harness. He has also developed psychokinetic-telepathic control over an army of "Octobots" (small octopus-like drones).
When Peter Parker's body is apparently permanently hijacked by Doctor Octopus (you did know this, right?) Octavius learns first hand just how powerful Spider-Man is when he PUNCHES OFF THE JAW OF THE SCORPION...by accident.
Spider-man intentionally pulls his punches in the comics. It's reasonable to assume he does so in the films as well. Although he appears to hit Ock pretty hard (and even blasts him with a desk), there's nothing that would definitively kill a human-normal human.
I could say that Peter must've held back, which is also true, but I still have a hard time believing that even with held back power Doc Ock simply shrugged off Spidey's punches like nothing. I'd chalk it up as "bad writing". We know that even a small fraction of Peter's power is enough to knock a person out cold, let alone getting flicked in the face by Spidey's fingers.
Doc Oc's neural interface influences his nervous system (we see the AI in his tentacles has some control over his emotions). It is possible, though not directly explained in the movie AFAIK, that it suppresses his pain and boosts his strength, like being high on speed can do.
Doctor Octopus (real name Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius) is a formerly crippled scientist. While working silently under Norman Osborn for Oscorp, and later as the leader and founder member of the Sinister Six, he ends up being another one of Spider-Man's former arch-enemies. He is the secondary antagonist of Season 1, the main antagonist of Season 2, a major antagonist of Season 3: Web-Warriors, and the main antagonist of Season 4: Ultimate Spider-Man vs The Sinister 6 in collaboration with Hydra but he is then redeemed in the end. Doctor Octopus is regarded as one of Spider-Man's worst enemies.
Doctor Octopus has a short height and is very pale and also hunchbacked. He has long black wet hair and wears red goggles. He wears a grey scientist suit, around his stomach, along with a mechanical device that enables him to breathe, and four octopus arms attached to it.
When he was captured by Norman Osborn again, he was bald and his tentacles were removed and replaced with a green ball with cables on his head. He also had a new pair of goggles, which are silver in color with thin red lenses.
Doctor Octopus once again used another nanite that transformed him into a healthy looking well-fit man with brown hair. His attire has changed into that of his classic green and yellow comic costume (resembling his Spider-Man: The Animated Series incarnation). In addition, his voice no longer has a voice modulator.
Doctor Octopus is a mad scientist that experiments with dangerous subjects, as shown when he created the symbiote. Although Doctor Octavius is always in his lab, after his first time of chasing and capturing someone, he enjoyed it and stated that he should have done it more often and that the thrill excites him.
Octavius has shown to have no fear of being killed, shown to still chase after Spider-Man even as large amounts of water leaks into his lab. Although being insane, he feels sadness after his accident, which caused him to change physically. Like a real octopus, Doctor Octopus is always hiding in the shadows, concealed in the cracks of his lab.
Doctor Octopus hates being told what to do even by other villains like Loki or Armin Zola or the former Green Goblin. His inferiority complex is the cause of this. It is revealed that Doc Ock has a vendetta against HYDRA for some reason on keeping Ock in even worst slavery treatment than in Oscorp, and soon he removed one of its main leaders, Arnim Zola, to cover his status as a traitor.
His ideology is to be respected by the world, by utilizing fear since no one would respect him for his brilliance alone. He believed that "with great power, comes great fear and with great fear, comes great respect". This obsession ended up nearly destroying him when he, out of intense anger and denial, injected himself with a serum that causes him to mutate into a giant mutant octopus with limited intelligence. After Spider-Man saves him by curing him, Spider-Man makes him realize the error of his ideology of using fear as an anchor to gaining respect and recognition.
Dr. Otto Octavius was friends with Dr. Curt Connors at college, then started working for Oscorp. Dr. Octavius was later involved in a lab accident which caused him to be paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own. Fortunately, Norman Osborn funded technology to let Dr. Octavius breathe through a harness equipped with mechanical tentacles that gave him mobility and Dr. Octavius started serving Norman since that day. He was put into an underwater lab under the Hudson River where no one can find him.
Later, when Spider-Man appeared in New York City, Norman Osborn became obsessed with him and kept watching him ever since. Dr. Octavius hired the Frightful Four to bring Spider-Man to him. Trapster was defeated but was able to put a tracking device on him which led to Midtown High School just after he refused to join S.H.I.E.L.D. Dr. Octavius contacted Norman and asked him if he was impressed which Norman replies that he is very impressed. Norman tells him that they both know that Spider-Man is the key to military superiority and believes that once he replicates Spider-Man's powers he will create Spider-Soldiers to sell to the highest bidder. Norman also believes that Nick Fury is a fool to get Spider-Man to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and prefers Spider-Man the way he wants him to be: headstrong, undisciplined, easy to anger and with Dr. Octavius adding that he can also be easier to turn. He tells Norman that he will inform the remaining members of the Frightful Four to begin Phase Two. After the Frightful Four attack Midtown High looking for Spider-Man, he appears to them and Wizard transmits everything to Dr. Octavius. Dr. Octavius impressed with this, informs Norman of the attack on Midtown High and the team will give a profile detail of his powers. He then asks if he should have the Frightful Four destroy Midtown High which shocks Norman and tells him not to because his son is there and leaves. Spider-Man defeats the Frightful Four but the team escape.
Norman asks Dr. Octavius if he has the surveillance photos taken of Target S. Dr. Octavius sends them to Norman who tells him that he will not have Director Fury getting hooks into his prize and that Oscorp will own Spider-Man and not S.H.I.E.L.D. and tells Dr. Octavius to send the remaining Frightful Four members to find him. After the Frightful Four are defeated by Spider-Man and his new teammates, White Tiger, Iron Fist, Power Man and Nova, Norman tells him that he will not tolerate failure which Dr. Octavius responds that he understands.
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