After Daisy Johnson deactivated von Bardas, Lady Octopus and the other villains Lucia von Bardas manipulated were all hospitalized with severe injuries. Just then, Lucia von Bardas activated the devices in the villains' suits linking them together to a giant bomb. Lady Octopus fought Spider-Man and Captain America when the Fantastic Four join the battle. They regrouped to a dock where a small army of Tinkerer's clients where waiting (consisting of Boomerang, Constrictor, Crimson Dynamo IX, Crossfire, Eel II, Goldbug, Grim Reaper, King Cobra, Mentallo, Scorcher, Scorpion, Shocker, Spider-Slayer XIX, Trapster and Wizard).
She and Hobgoblin V were sent to assassinate Captain America, but were defeated. She was given a new suit of armor by Lucia von Bardas and Tinkerer.
She now calls herself Lady Octopus to distinguish her from her mentor. Ĭarolyn Trainer made a small appearance in " Secret War". She joined him as an assistant and faded into the background. Carolyn injected him with all the data of the Master Programmer and returned the tentacles to him. The cult group known as The Hand, working for Rose, dug up Octavius' corpse and brought him back from the dead, albeit with large mental gaps. Later, she was involved in the resurrection of Doctor Octopus. This thwarted, she attempted to claim her father's then-comatose body and was finally captured by the police. The Master Programmer was revealed to be a digitized copy of Doctor Octopus' mind and Carolyn's overall plan had been to allow Master Programmer to exist in the real world, effectively resurrecting the original Doctor Octopus.
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She hired the Looter, Override and Aura, and the Pro to assist her in this, as well as Stunner (Octavius's lover/henchwoman), and eventually succeeded in defeating Smythe and gaining the technology she needed before the Scarlet Spider thwarted her.
Tso and his boss Alistair Smythe with the Scarlet Spider in the middle of it. Ĭarolyn continued her efforts to merge reality and virtual reality, ending up in a technological gang war against Mr. She tried but failed to blackmail her way into gaining Trainer's data by stealing a serum that could cure a seriously ill Mary Jane Watson, resulting in her being beaten heavily by Spider-Man and revealing she was working for the mysterious Master Programmer. When she found her father was being protected by Scarlet Spider, she became jealous of the father-son relationship between him and her father. She took the "Doctor Octopus" name in honor of her beloved instructor and began a campaign to steal her father's research in merging reality and virtual reality. She obtained a set of a four-tentacle harness identical to Octavius's, which she upgraded by adding a force-field that protected her from any exterior attacks, but allowed her tentacles to freely go through. After Octavius was killed by Kaine during the " Clone Saga", Carolyn sought to continue her favorite professor's legacy. DeMatteis and artist Angel Medina.Ĭarolyn Trainer is the daughter of Seward Trainer who was a student of Otto Octavius.
Lady Octopus was introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #406 (October 1995) and was created by writer J.M. After Octavius' resurrection only a few years later, she became Lady Octopus to distinguish herself from him, and has made minor appearances in several stories. The character is the protégée of Otto Octavius, the original Doctor Octopus, and assumes her mentor's mantle following his death in the " Clone Saga". Lady Octopus ( Carolyn Trainer), also known as Doctor Octopus II, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily as an enemy to the superheroes Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider. Wears super-strong and highly-resistant mechanical appendages, impervious to conventional attacks and armed with lasers.The Amazing Spider-Man #406 (October 1995) Marvel Masterpieces (1996) lithograph of Lady Octopus.