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Olivia Octavius

Doctor Octopus

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The chief scientist at Alchemax, who is cheerful, brilliant, and the reason a hole is being torn in the sky.

Doctor Olivia Octavius is the head scientist and chief executive of Alchemax and a scientific adviser to Kingpin, using highly advanced tentacles. Kathryn Hahn plays her.

The reveal is played as a joke and works as characterisation: she is introduced as a warm, helpful scientist and simply carries on being warm and helpful while trying to kill everybody in the room.

Show detailsNot that Doctor Octopus

This catalogue also carries Otto Octavius from Spider-Man 2, played by Alfred Molina, who is a different person in a different universe. The name is the only thing they share.

Played by
Kathryn Hahn
Role
Head scientist and chief executive of Alchemax
Affiliation
Wilson Fisk
What they can do
Four mechanical arms, and no doubts.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse2018

    Runs the collider for a crime boss, meets six Spider-People at once, and is delighted rather than alarmed.

Appears in

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse2018

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 10, 2026