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He might not be criminally responsible for the deaths of the surgeons who tried to remove his tentacles, true. Does that mean Otto Octavius is truly innocent? Not at all. But as No Way Home proves when Peter replaces the chip and the voices are silent, that’s absolutely not the case. One Screen Rant writer suggested that the voices Octavius hears in Spider-Man 2, after the accident, could be the result of brain damage he receives. Once the chip that prevents the AI accessing Otto’s brain is fried, they’re in the driving seat – it’s not really his fault, right? So why did the Sony Spider-Verse version of Doctor Octopus have “smart” tentacles? While I can’t speak for Spider-Man 2’s screenwriters, it seems like a shortcut to turning the apparently amiable Doctor Octavius into a villain without any previous red flags. But they were no more intelligent than a prosthetic arm, and they were always under Otto’s direct control. In the main Marvel Comics continuity, Otto Octavius’s tentacles were fused to his back, and though they were later removed, he retained the ability to control them. It’s not that I’m suggesting Otto use his invention to create a line of robotic slaves – I’ll tackle that issue in a minute – but it’s world-altering stuff.

Rewatching Spider-Man 2, I want to scream, “ You have created artificial life! Why are you messing around with anything else?” at the screen.

You’d have thought that Peter Parker, also regarded as a genius, would have pointed out what an achievement it was to create a sentient, artificial being.īut no, only one Oscorp visitor raised the issue, framing it in a negative light. There’s no Ultron, no Vision, and none of the technological advances that Stark and his company were responsible for.Īnd yet, Otto Octavius has created either a single artificial intelligence or four artificial intelligences, one for each tentacle. He lives in a world that, as far as we know, has no Tony Stark and, going by No Way Home, is less technologically advanced than the “main” MCU Earth. In the pursuit of creating a source of free, clean energy, Doctor Otto Octavius created an artificial intelligence. And it’s taken seeing Spider-Man: No Way Home for that something to finally click. Įver since I saw Spider-Man 2, something’s been bothering me about Doctor Octopus. The following article about the mystery of Doctor Octopus and his tentacles contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home.