Editing Doctor Octopus (Raimi) (section)

====Quest for the Fusion Reactor====

=====Attack on the Hospital=====
Following the catastrophic demonstration, Otto was taken to Midtown Hospital for emergency treatment. Surgeons attempted to remove the mechanical tentacles from his body, unaware that the inhibitor chip was fried, leaving the tentacles in control. As the surgeons worked, the tentacles violently retaliated, killing everyone in the room. Awakening to the aftermath, Otto realized what had happened and screamed in anguish. Overwhelmed by grief and confusion, he retreated to an abandoned building with the tentacles.

=====Criminal Ways=====
Haunted by the failure of his experiment and the death of Rosalie, Otto fell into despair, cursing himself for creating the tentacles and blaming them for his suffering. Initially contemplating destruction, he considered drowning himself and the tentacles in the river. However, the tentacles, now with their own sentience, began whispering to him, exploiting his grief and wounded ego.

The tentacles convinced Otto to reconsider the reactor's failure, suggesting that his calculations had been correct and that the failure was due to external interference. Torn between doubt and pride, Otto ultimately succumbed to the tentacles' manipulations. When they proposed turning to crime to fund the reactor's reconstruction, Otto hesitated, declaring he was not a criminal. But as the tentacles continued to prey on his vulnerabilities, he rationalized that abandoning his work would be the true crime. Succumbing fully, Otto resolved to complete what he had started, embracing the identity of Doctor Octopus.

=====Robbery at the Bank=====
Under the moniker "Doctor Octopus," a name given to him by the Daily Bugle, Otto Octavius decided to rob a bank to fund his experiments and rebuild his fusion reactor. Disguised in a large jacket to conceal his tentacles, he approached the bank and revealed his mechanical appendages by tearing off the vault door with ease. The commotion caused panic among the bank's occupants, including Peter Parker and his [[Aunt May (Raimi)|Aunt May]], who were present at the scene.

As Doctor Octopus began loading stolen money into bags, Spider-Man intervened, confronting him once again. The two engaged in a fierce battle, during which Doctor Octopus nearly crushed Spider-Man’s skull with his tentacles. However, Spider-Man managed to fight back, using his webbing to hurl objects at him. The confrontation spilled outside the bank, where Doctor Octopus hurled taxi doors at Spider-Man, eventually sending him crashing through a window.

When the police arrived, Doctor Octopus seized a bystander as a hostage to prevent pursuit. Scaling a nearby building, he was stopped again by Spider-Man, who demanded he release Aunt May. Pretending to comply, Doctor Octopus dropped May, forcing Spider-Man to save her with his webbing. As Spider-Man pulled May to safety, Doctor Octopus smashed him against the building and escaped. Despite the chaos, Spider-Man ultimately thwarted Doctor Octopus' plan, leaving him without the stolen $2 million.

=====Alliance with Harry Osborn=====
Determined to continue his work on the reactor, Doctor Octopus constructed a larger and more advanced version. In need of additional tritium to power it, he approached Harry Osborn, who had funded his earlier experiments. Harry, however, refused, citing the catastrophic consequences of the initial attempt.

Doctor Octopus, unwilling to accept defeat, used his tentacles to lift Harry over his house, threatening to drop him unless he complied. Reluctantly, Harry agreed to provide the tritium on one condition: Doctor Octopus had to capture Spider-Man alive. Harry suggested that Otto find Peter Parker, Spider-Man's photographer, to lead him to the hero. Doctor Octopus agreed to the terms and departed, warning Harry to prepare the tritium.

=====Kidnapping Mary Jane=====
Acting on Harry’s advice, Doctor Octopus tracked Peter Parker to a café where he was meeting Mary Jane Watson. Seeking to make an entrance, he hurled a car through the window and confronted Peter. Grabbing him with his tentacles, Doctor Octopus demanded that Peter locate Spider-Man. To strengthen his leverage, he seized Mary Jane and threatened her life, warning that Spider-Man must confront him or she would die.

Doctor Octopus took Mary Jane to the Westside Market Clocktower, using the location as a trap to lure Spider-Man into a final confrontation. Waiting high above the city, he prepared for his inevitable clash with the wall-crawler.

=====Train Fight=====
After regaining his powers, Spider-Man confronted Doctor Octopus at the clocktower where Mary Jane was being held. Rejecting Doc Ock’s command to follow, Spider-Man engaged him in a fierce battle that spilled over onto a moving train. In the chaos, Doctor Octopus attempted a sneak attack, but Spider-Man countered, rescuing two passengers whom Doc Ock had thrown from the train.

Doc Ock then crawled to the front of the train, smashed a window, and accelerated it to maximum speed before destroying the brake lever, rendering the train unstoppable. Mocking Spider-Man with a quip about having "a train to catch," he leaped onto a nearby building. Spider-Man heroically stopped the train, saving all the passengers but at great physical cost, leaving him exhausted. Seizing the opportunity, Doctor Octopus returned, incapacitating Spider-Man despite the passengers’ attempts to protect him, and delivered him unconscious to Harry Osborn.

=====Obtaining the Tritium=====
Doctor Octopus brought Spider-Man, bound in spiked metal fence wires, to Harry Osborn’s penthouse. After laying Spider-Man on a bed as instructed, Harry revealed the tritium stored in a safe. Doc Ock took the large quantity of tritium and left Harry to deal with Spider-Man as promised, escaping the penthouse to continue his experiments.

=====Stopping the Fusion Reactor=====
Back at his lair, Doctor Octopus used the stolen tritium to restart his fusion reactor, now larger and more unstable than ever. Refusing to release Mary Jane out of fear she might alert the authorities, Doc Ock focused on his work. However, Spider-Man arrived to save her. Though initially unaware of Spider-Man’s presence, his tentacles sensed the threat, alerting him to the hero’s approach.

Furious that Harry Osborn had not killed Spider-Man, Doc Ock engaged in a brutal fight with the web-slinger. Spider-Man eventually incapacitated him by using an electric shock from the reactor's power cables. Regaining consciousness, Doc Ock saw Spider-Man attempting to shut down the reactor. The reactor's magnetic field, however, grew exponentially, pulling in metal objects from across the city, creating a dire situation.

Spider-Man, in an effort to stop the chaos, revealed his identity as Peter Parker to Otto, pleading for his help and reminding him of the speech Otto had once given about intelligence being a gift to use for the good of mankind. Peter’s words, along with the electric shock, broke the tentacles' control over Otto, restoring his mind.

Realizing the reactor was beyond saving, Otto resolved to stop it himself. Knowing it could only be neutralized by submerging it in water, he took control of his tentacles and ripped the reactor’s supports, allowing it to sink into the river. Despite Peter's offer to help, Otto insisted on making the sacrifice himself, stating that he would not die a monster. In an act of redemption, Otto drowned the reactor, saving the city but perishing alongside his creation, bringing an end to his tragic arc.