Lady Octopus
Lady Octopus is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Carolyn Trainer was a female human born the daughter of noted geneticist Seward Trainer. As a child, she came to note that neither she nor her mother were never more important than her father's work. Seward had raised Carolyn to respect science above everything including human life. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #229)
When she was young, she came to learn of the works of Dr. Otto Octavius and came to admire him as a scientist. Such was her admiration that her father came to notice it and sought to make his daughter happy by purchasing tickets to meet him during one of his lectures. A young and excited Carolyn thus attended the lecture where Dr. Octavius was showcasing his designs for a mechanical harness and came to speak to Trainer. Smitten with Octavius, Carolyn began to stalk him, following him on dates with Mary Alice Anders, who she loathed. Carolyn was overjoyed when Octavius' mother forced him to end the relationship. While Carolyn was in college, Octavius was caught in a massive explosion, transforming him into the maniacal Doctor Octopus. Horrified, Carolyn closely monitored his condition on the radio. After his defeat and capture by Spider-Man, Carolyn sent him the latest research journals in prison, and eventually came to visit him, where he revealed to her his plans for criminal conquest. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #18)
Years later, Octavius came to visit Carolyn and recruited her into his organization. Together, they planned to prevent the possibility of Ock's death in battle by constructing a computer-generated physical duplicate of him to battle Spider-Man in his stead. They succeeded in creating a virtual duplicate of Octavius' mind, which they dubbed the Master Programmer. To test the generation of a physical duplicate, they used one of Carolyn's secretaries, Angelina Brancale, as a test subject. The experiment was a success, resulting in the creation of Brancale's alter ego Stunner, but before a duplicate of Octavius could be created, he was murdered by the rogue Spider-Man clone known as Kaine. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #18)
Following the death of Doctor Octopus, Carolyn looked to continue her favourite professor's legacy and adopted the guise of Lady Octopus. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #18) Having established herself as the new Doctor Octopus, with a large criminal organization of her own, Carolyn moved against her father in order to steal his research. She blew up his cabin in Rachel, Vermont, nearly killing Ben Reilly, and ransacked his lab in New York City, abducting Seward in the process. Reilly, now in the guise of the Scarlet Spider, encountered a group of Carolyn's 'octo-spheres', which quickly subdued him. Carolyn also took the opportunity to briefly look in on her kidnapped father. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #405)
She came to be hired by Lucia von Bardas as part of her plot at revenge against Nick Fury. Fury had used several superheroes in a strike against Latveria with Lady Octopus]] and the new Hobgoblin were sent to attack Captain America. (Secret War v1 #3)
During night time, she was on a mission to break into a building to steal some papers when she was attacked by Mockingbird and Ronin who had gone out on patrol with the two superheroes knowing her out. (New Avengers v1 #63)
Lady Octopus was among the animal-themed individuals kidnapped for Kraven the Hunters great hunt. She rallied under the Vulture when they began striking back against the hunters though warned that they were suffering heavy casualties in the process. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #21) Afterwards, she was recruited by Janice Lincoln to join the newest incarnation of the Sinister Syndicate. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #26)
Overview
Personality and attributes
After the death of Octavius, she sought to honor him and began to take the name 'Lady Octopus. (Spider-Man Unlimited v1 #18)
When she was a child, her father Seward used to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" to Carolyn. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #406)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Lady Octopus was created by J. M. DeMatteis and Angel Medina where she made her first appearance Amazing Spider-Man v1 #406 (October, 1995)
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Carolyn Trainer appeared in the setting of the 2017 animated television series second seas episode "Between an Ock and a Hard Place" where she was voiced by actress Kari Wahlgren. She was shown as a brilliant young woman with a PhD in electronics who was an admirer of the works of Doctor Octavius. After he became Doctor Octopus, the supervillain was arrested by the efforts of Spider-Man where he was sent to the Cellar for rehabilitation. After learning of this, Trainer faked a criminal record so that she could be in the cell next to him so that she could speak to her idol. Octavius then manipulated her into becoming a supervillain and to secretly aid him in obtaining crystals he needed for his secret experiment in modifying the Neuro-Cortex to enhance his own mind. During this time, Caroyln adopted a guise similar to his as Doctor Octopus where she constructed a backpack that produced numerous tentacles and she used enhanced Octobots to aid her leading to her confrontation with Spider-Man. During one such fight, she revealed that she was working for Doctor Octopus who had seemingly left the life of a supervillain to return to working at Horizon High. Spider-Man went to investigate where he found Octavius using the minds of Miles Morales, Anya Corazon, and Gwen Stacy to enhance the performance of the Neuro Cortex to give him enhanced psychokinetic powers that was his plan with him using Trainer to aid him. Upon hearing this, Carolyn in anger attacked him where she teamed up with Spider-Man in defeating leading to her admitting that she made a terrible supervillain as the police arrived at the school. Spider-Man commented that she had a brilliant mind and that she should not squander a second chance at redemption leading to Carolyn abandoning the tentacles she had constructed for herself.
Video games
- In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, a new female Lady Octopus was created for Marvel 2099 where she appeared as a villainous boss character in the videogame and was voiced by Tara Strong. This version was Dr. Serena Patel who was a head scientist of Alchemax's Shadow Division where she was responsible for black-ops dangerous super-weapons and twisted experiments.
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Lady Octopus was teased in the Facebook video game where she appeared on a cover for Season 2 release as among the villain's bring targeted by the Circle of 8.
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1995)
- Spectacular Spider-Man v1:
- Spider-Man Unlimited v1:
- Secret War v1:
- New Avengers v1:
- Invincible Iron Man:
- Amazing Spider-Man v5:
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