spiderman the movie-profile - Spider-Man 2 (2004): Spider-Man 2 picks up two years after the events of the first film. Peter is struggling with being Spider-Man and keeping the rest of his life in order. Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn, is out for revenge against Spider-Man, and the woman he loves, Mary Jane Watson, is about to marry someone else. Dr. Otto Octavius develops four mechanical, artificially intelligent arms to handle a fusion reactor he's creating. The reactor malfunctions, and the mechanical arms are melded to his body. With the arms giving him direction, Octavius sets out to build a bigger, stronger fusion reactor.