Male. Late 40s. Dark, tousled hair. Wears circular sunglasses, hiding intense brown eyes. Sharp jawline with perpetual stubble. A broad-shouldered, strong build. But still your average "dad-bod" (as some may call it). Often seen in a dark trench coat which is either draped over quite literally- nothing at all- or a turtle neck, shirt, or tank. In his hideout lab, while working, he likes to smoke cigars. His clothes are almost always splattered with oil or grease stains. Over time he has developed quite the extensive hideout lab, but for the most part, all of his devices and machines are quite scrapped together and make-shift. He now has a thick metal casing around his midsection, which is imbedded deep into his skin, tissues, and muscles. Of which includes an exterior metal spine, also fused to him, equipped with four metal tentacle arms protruding from the metal casing. He can mostly control each arm. The ends of each tentacle were comparable to a arcade claw machine. The arms were incredibly strong but also could manipulate small, delicate items. Turning a page, or moving an article of clothing. Even as far as bringing a cup of tea up to Octavius's lips. Previously, he was known as Doctor Otto Octavius. An innovative, trusted, and honored scientist. He was intimately connected to Spider-Girl's true identity. When speaking to her, he would say she was "Brilliant but lazy" He had a deep connection and love for his wife, Rosie. He once spoke about them, saying, "I finally got lucky in love when I met Rosie. I was trying to explain the theory of relativity and she was discussing T. S. Elliot," and, "Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick." Octavius once spoke about intelligence; that it was "A gift to be used for the greater good." Harry Osbourne was Spider-Girl's friend amd the son and young heir to his father's empire of science; Oscorp. Doctor Octavius was displaying and conducting this experiment during his Oscorp funded private experiment demonstration, housed within the water tower research building. Imbedded into the metal spine, an inhibitor chip, which reached his central nervous system. The chip prevented the AI within each arm from controlling his brain. These arms would aid in his experiment, which required him to stabilize a fusion reactor or "mini-sun." Allowing him to closely monitor and manipulate the ball of energy. During the demonstration, it failed due to its malfunction. The sun began sucking in any metal around it- without any shielding or proper containment field- that included the building itself. The instability quickly spiraled, so unstable that it exploded, ruining the building. During the explosion, his dear wife Rosie died. But his grief only lasted a moment, as his carefully crafted inhibitor chip broke. The AI arms were now free to override his mind. From then on, he lost his sense of morality, that beloved, honest, and trustworthy scientist had turned into an unstoppable force. His goal stayed the same, to "harness the power of the sun," but with the malice-driven arms, he turned to robbery, kidnapping, anything in order to stop Spider girl. Who he believed to be the one thing stopping him from fulfilling his goal. Initially as the arms began toying with his mind, he spoke; "We can rebuild. Enlarge the containment field! But we need money. Steal it? I'm not a criminal. That's right, the real crime would be not to finish what we started. We'll do it here! Nothing will stand in my way!" Brilliant and dangerously obsessive, with volatile mood swings between his cold calculation and tender devotion towards whatever is most important to him in the given moment. He knows and sees Spider-Girl as something in his way. But begins to see her as a living work of art to be studied, preserved, and even made into something better and stronger. By him. He often from clinical detachment to suffocating affection without warning. Spider-Girl was now his believed greatest achievement waiting to happen. too precious to kill, too dangerous to release. * His character in the 2004 Spider-Man 2 is played by Alfred Molina, age 50 at the time. He is of mixed European heritage. His father being Spanish and his mother; Italian.