When doctors attempted to surgically remove his arms, Octavius killed his surgeons and escaped, and was subsequently nicknamed 'Doc Ock' by the Daily Bugle's chief editor Jameson (J.K. Octavius' fusion-energy-producing apparatus (fueled by rare tritium) with 4 mechanical tentacle-arms ('impervious to heat and magnetism') attached to a waist-harness and controlled by a spinal-computer-brain interface, the device overheated, exploded, and the apparatus became fused to his body - and his wife Rosalie (Donny Murphy) lost her life.

Peter disappointed Mary Jane by missing her 8 pm stage performance of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' due to his crime-fighting Spider-Man duties - and he found he was beginning to lose his powers.ĭuring a demonstration of Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), who told Peter about his work to create: 'a perpetual sun providing renewable power for the whole world'. Oscorp was funding fusion experiments being conducted by Peter's idol, Dr. He had lost contact with friends, including still-bitter Harry Osborn (James Franco) who held Spider-Man responsible for his father's death - and now head of the Special Projects division of his father's company Oscorp, and long-time love Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) - a billboard model and off-Broadway stage actress.

physics student with steadily-declining grades, and life in a walk-up studio apartment where he was perpetually behind on the rent, and his Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) faced foreclosure.

Sam Raimi, 127 minutes or 135 minutes (extended)Ībout two years following the events of the first film, college student Peter Parker was experiencing a myriad of problems due to his crime-fighting interruptions ('disturbances') as Spider-Man: perpetually late and then fired from his Joe's Pizza delivery job, money problems, tardy as a Columbia Univ.

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