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We’ll witness all that Spider-Man: No Way Home has in store for Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus when the movie spins its web on theaters on December 17. Although even if that latter option is indeed on the proverbial table, unless Spider-Man: No Way Home throws a major curveball our way and kills Otto during the battle, he’ll still ultimately have to “go home” and sink to his death, so it just becomes a matter of when he makes the return trip. The other possibility is that Doctor Octopus is in that final battle aiding Peter, and the trailer just didn’t show him. Perhaps Peter’s brief clash with Doctor Strange and the now-clear-minded Otto passing along his own wisdom to the teen is enough to convince Peter that he needs to let destiny takes its course, so he willingly lets Otto go back to his reality before dealing with the other villains. The first is that he’ll be sent back to the Raimiverse either before any of the other villains show up, or at the very latest, before the final battle unfolds. So where does that leave Doctor Octopus? Two scenarios come to mind. We also know that Peter will initially try to change these villains’ fates so that they don’t have to die, but is overpowered by Doctor Strange. These baddies include Green Goblin, Electro, Sandman and Lizard (and perhaps one other individual), but in the brief looks at what’s surely Spider-Man: No Way Home’s climactic battle, Doctor Octopus is nowhere to be seen. You’re flying out into the darkness to fight ghosts.ĭoctor Strange soon clarifies that all the villains who’ve been pulled into the MCU are destined to die fighting Spider-Man, and they need to be sent back to their home universes. We also see there, and in a few other quick shots, the red and gold color scheme is still incorporated into his tentacles, so it can be presumed that Otto will stay in his right mind for most, if not the rest of his time in the movie.

While we don’t know specifically how Spider-Man: No Way Home’s bridge battle concludes, we get a quick snippet of a later scene in the movie where Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, Zendaya’s MJ and Jacob Batalon’s Ned are chatting with Otto Octavius inside a prison where Doctor Strange is keeping the multiversal villains contained. (Image credit: Sony Pictures) What Does This Mean For The Rest Of Spider-Man: No Way Home?
