r/Marvel • u/DarthVaderIsMyWaifu • 2d ago
Most evil thing each Marvel villain has done, Day 14: Doctor Octopus Comics
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u/Drayco21 Man-Thing 2d ago
One time he tried to commit mass genocide on Earth's population while explicitly name-checking how he'd kill more people than Hitler and Pol Pot combined.
The fact that like a year later the same writer tried to convince us that actually no he's a changed man and a hero now is absurd for how severe his crimes were at that point.
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u/Shacky_Rustleford 1d ago
To be fair, he had been blasted by Peter's origin story by that point. That kind of thing would change anyone.
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u/AporiaParadox 1d ago
Yeah, it's kind of weird that any villain is willing to team up with Doc Ock or any hero was willing to give him a second chance after that.
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u/Theta-Sigma45 1d ago edited 1d ago
There are two distinct Ottos, the version who has at least some sense of honour and a sympathetic side, and the version who is just a spiteful, petty monster. Slott started by writing the latter, but then switched to the former and acted like he had always written him that way after a while.
(I get that it’s development for him, but there’s really not enough acknowledgement of how evil he previously was, he at very least shouldn’t have ever gotten treated like part of the gang as he was for a while in the second Superior run.)
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u/R3luctant 1d ago
I think that is a testament to how powerful spideys morals are, that they can change world ender doc ock
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u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT 2d ago
that haircut
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u/Intelligent-Let5187 1d ago
Is it worse than Osborn’s?
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u/OJONLYMAYBEDIDIT 1d ago
2 people can simultaneously violate the Geneva Convention
that being said, Norman's is at least unique lol
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u/PhilosophyOwn2857 2d ago
Being a nightmare fuel to my childhood as Monster Ock (Spider-Man 2000, PS1)
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u/Hilarity2War 2d ago
Lol, my sister's first Spider-Man movie was Spider-Man 2, and she was tod then. She had her eyes half open at the cinema throughout the movie, from the hospital scene until the end.
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u/zeekertron 2d ago
Held the entire world hostage with global warming
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u/Hilarity2War 2d ago
Oh, flip! I remember that. That was right before the Superior Spider-Man series. That was crazy. Great climax, actually.
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u/Apprehensive_Mix4658 Colossus 2d ago
On personal level — the whole Superior Spider-man. That level of identity theft is terrifying
On global level — trying to destroy the world with heat lasers or something like that.
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u/NotACyclopsHonest 1d ago
His Sinister Six slaughtered over 100,000 extra-dimensional aliens in order to steal their technology.
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u/AporiaParadox 1d ago
I don't recall their body count being that high, but yeah they killed a whole bunch of aliens. Definitely the most evil thing Electro, Vulture and Mysterio did.
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u/Jrod12155555 2d ago
I can’t remember if it exactly was him but in the ultimate universe he had a big role in the clone saga of Peter and that whole mind fuck that Peter went through with his dad possibly being alive and Gwen coming back and a spider woman clone of himself is enough to mentally break anyone
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u/kaptaincorn 2d ago
Tried to marry old school aunt may.
Like old grandma aunt may, not the recent silver foxy aunt may, nor big sister aunt may of the mcu
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u/Aluminum2099 2d ago
Came here to say this. I think he was after a plutonium mine she inherited or something along those lines…?
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u/spider_X_1 1d ago
Yes. Him and Hammerhead somehow survived the nuclear blast when the island with the plutonium mine exploded while being in the center of it. Ock became an amnesiac hobo and Hammerhead became an ectoplasm who later tricked Ock into making him whole again. Wild stuff.
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u/PCN24454 1d ago
That sounds wrong simply because it sounds like you’re complaining about her being attractive as though that’s the biggest issue.
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u/kaptaincorn 1d ago
Im giving context in the time frame of how aunt may has been depicted.
Only relatively recently, she's been depicted like middle age/younger- before she was like a grandma
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u/Aizendickens 2d ago
Damn, I like this look on him!
As for most evil, I'd say stealing Peter's life and letting him die in a gruesome way.
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u/Mad_Scientist_Dave 1d ago
Glueing Peters spider trousers to him his skin qith peters own web fluid
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u/Money-Drummer565 1d ago
He could fix global warming. But he didn’t. He actually thought it was best to kill everybody so everybody would remember him … And this guy died before. And then to hell. Straight to Mephisto’s seat. This person knew there is an afterlife in marvel, one that works on the Christian moral axis, and decides to literally kill everybody. Everybody, but burning them alive with solar lents, just because he was dying …
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u/baroqueworks 1d ago
Injecting Norman Osborn with goblin serum against his will
Killing Peter Parker for Kindred during Sinister War
Locking Up Supernova in a tiny room for years and forgetting about her
Stealing and piloting underage children's minds with his more recent Superior plot
Made a deal with Mephisto to defeat a variant Norman Osborn
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u/sideways_jack 1d ago
I'm gonna be honest: his most heinous crime is NOT rocking that 90s white suit and snowboarder sunglasses as his default costume. The drip is strong with this one.
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u/Lazy-Indication3992 1d ago
When he became the superior Spider-Man and then killed the rest of Peter's brainwaves
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u/FluentHeresy 1d ago
Didn’t he let Reed and Sue Richards’ unborn child die during John Byrne’s run?
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u/synthscoffeeguitars Cable 2d ago
Stealing Peter’s body and life for several years