 Peter Parker is an unhappy man : after two years of fighting crime as Spider-Man, his life has begun to fall apart. The girl he loves is engaged to someone else, his grades are slipping, he cannot keep any of his jobs and on the top of it, the newspaper Daily Bugle is viciously attacking him, claiming that Spider-Man is a criminal. He reaches the breaking point and gives up the crimefighter s life, once and for all. But after a failed fusion experiment, eccentric and obsessive scientist Dr. Octavius is transformed into a supervillain Doc Ock, having four long tentacles as extra hands. Peter guesses it might just be time for Spider-Man to return, but would he act upon it?