8 Worst Things Doc Ock Has Ever Done To Spider-Man
4. He Unmasked Spider-Man (Without Realising It)
Marvel Comics
Although 'with great intellect comes great ego' isn't nearly half as immortal as Uncle Ben's musings on power and responsibility, in Octavius' case, it probably should be.
Years before he would effectively 'kill' Parker by swapping bodies, Octavius actually unmasked him in front of all his peers. Unfortunately for the eight-legged villain he was too arrogant to see that Parker was actually Spider-Man, decrying the freelance photographer as a "weakling brat" and deducing that the real Spider-Man must've used him as bait.
Fortunately for Peter, his colleagues at the Daily Bugle remain none the wiser. Betty Brant thinks that Peter donned Spidey's tights as a means of saving her, while Jonah deems his antics to have been reckless. The thought of him actually being Spider-Man never crosses their minds, and had Otto only been more diligent, he would've learnt his adversary's secret far sooner.
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.
