The Amazing Spider-Man Number Three: The Cowardly Doctor Octopus

Dr. Octopus got rave reviews when he played the main villain in the Spiderman 2 movie. He is said to be one of Spiderman’s arch-enemies. He makes his debut in the third issue of The Amazing Spider-Man and is announced as the first archenemy to defeat Spider-Man.


Plot and Synopsis:

Spiderman is busy beating up criminals and turning them over to the authorities. In the third issue, we are presented with a spider signal, which Spiderman activates with his belt buckle. While he defeats enemies with ease, he is getting a bit bored with the crime-fighting business, because he thinks that there is no one who can compete with him, with his superpowers and physical abilities.

Well, Doctor Octopus arrives, yes, he doesn’t have a name yet, who is the only Doctor allowed to wear a vest with arms, which help him on the job.

Doctor Octopus is quite proud of his work and thinks he is the best in the business, and while he is working on a nuclear experiment, there is an incident where Doctor Octopus suffers extensive brain damage and the mechanical hands fuse with him. .

As the authorities try to dissuade Doctor Octopus from working, his damaged brain thinks that the authorities are not allowing him to work because they are jealous of his work and worried that he will become more famous than ever.

While discovering that the arms are not only fused along his body, but that he can control them like his real limbs, Spider-Man makes a deal with Jameson that he will bring the photo of Doctor Octopus. Well, when Spidey arrives at the hospital with his trusty camera, Doctor Octopus escapes the hospital by beating up one of the doctors. Of course, our trusted superhero tries to stop him, but Octopus beats him up.

Spiderman is not only physically beaten, but also mentally scarred by this confrontation. He enters a phase of doubt, when Doctor Octopus heads to a nearly dilapidated plant on the outskirts of town and takes over the plant.

Peter Parker now questions the very existence of Spider-Man and his crime-fighting roles, when he meets the Flash, who tells people that winning and losing are part of his crime-fighting life. Inspired by this, Spider-Man decides to face the Doctor one more time.

And so he does this time, armed with everything he needs to take down Doctor Octopus. Single-handedly, Spider-Man ventures into the dilapidated plant, and even as Octopus finds him through the cameras installed everywhere, Spidey makes it to the spot where Doc is controlling all the action.

Webhead first fuses the mechanical hands, but Doc Ock simply uses them as a puncher to create more trouble for Spider-Man.

For his part, Spidey weaves and ventures throughout the fight, eventually using the oldest trick in town to win. He blinds Doc for a moment with his webs and cold-bloods him. And before he leaves, he wraps Doc in a spider web, so the authorities won’t have a problem with the fallen scientist.


Discussion:

So, the flying robbers are gone, the aliens are gone, and Spiderman seems to be becoming famous among the kids. So what do screenwriters do? Well, they decide to portray the problems that the children faced back then. While the ridiculous and light concept that Stan Lee faced from the first issue, this is the problem in which he portrays aspects such as ego and attitude.

And the writers tell us that both the antagonist and the protagonist can experience these emotions. At one point, Spider-Man wonders if all this is worth it and Doctor Octopus is proud of his work, so proud that when he is prevented from doing so, he decides to run away, thinking that they don’t want him to work because they are jealous of him.

This problem is also interesting, because it tells us about the worst case scenario in which electronics break down: creating enemies from humans. In the second issue, The Vulture just got mechanized wings, but here, the mechanized arms are fused with Doc Octopus’s body.

That’s fodder for thought today, isn’t it?

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