8 Worst Things Doc Ock Has Ever Done To Spider-Man
8. He Tried To Marry Aunt May
Marvel Comics
One of the most enduring elements about the rivalry between Peter Parker and Doctor Octopus is that Octavius is sort of the antithesis of Peter Parker. They find common ground in the fact that they were both social outcasts gifted with intelligence, but whereas Peter uses that gift to do good, Otto does the exact opposite, latching onto his resentment and using his smarts to take revenge on those who wronged him.
This has manifested under various guises over the years, but perhaps the most unusual one came when Ock tried to marry May Parker, Peter's beloved aunt. Why was Ock so infatuated with the idea? Well it turns out that May had actually inherited an entire island off the coast of Canada, which also happened to house "one of the richest supplies of Uranium found in nature", as well as its own nuclear plant.
Radioactive isotopes and supervillains go together like bacon and eggs, so it's not too difficult to think of what Ock had in mind. What he had in mind though, probably came a lot sooner than expected, as an unsuspecting charge from Hammerhead results in a nuclear meltdown, seemingly killing both Ock and his steely-headed rival.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
