Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===Doctor Octopus===
Dr. Otto Octavius is a scientist who pioneered the use of a cybernetic harness with four metallic tentacle-like claw-tipped arms, allowing him to safely perform experiments with dangerous chemicals and radioactive materials with great precision. Then there was a freak lab accident, his lab blew up, and the harness was literally fused to his spine, giving him the ability to control the tentacles with his mind, but also driving him mad. As you can probably guess from the name, he's a Spider-Man villain, and one of Spidey's oldest and most respectable. The 90s cartoon actually made him one of Spidey's teachers when he was a kid, a guy that Spidey looked up to as both a mentor and a friend before the experiment drove him nutty. That had no basis in the comics whatsoever, but they have had a long and often complex relationship.

How complex, you ask? Well, when Otto was slowly dying of old age, he decided to abduct Peter and then somehow swap their minds. While Peter was stuck with the old body with failing health, he decided to take up the role of Spider-Man by implementing his own scientific prowess in a bid to prove that he could be the "Superior Spider-Man". The problem was that at some point his quest to prove his superiority, he eventually had to accept the gravity of what he did and undid the swap at the last moment, accepting that his time was truly up...except he didn't because he had experimenting with making a clone body fusing his own genetics with Peter's. He then decided to leave for San Francisco in order to make his own run as a superhero, the Superior Doctor Octopus.