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Gotta wonder how many people furious about Otto trying to be a hero were fans of Zemo's redemption.
The thing is, Otto was popular enough to be prominent and frequently used over the years, but there was no unified take. You had him portrayed as a joke in Byrne's book a week after Larson tried to make him serious. He callously ignored that his plans would have a huge death toll one minute, then expressed sorrow that his life of crime had hurt good people the next. He got portrayed as someone genuinely capable of compassion and of caring about others (including Peter), and he got portrayed as a total misanthrope, all depending on the writer. And it's not that there was one fluke story where he was out of character, it's that he's been all over the damn place over the years, without a whole lot of consistency beyond a vague Mad Scientist vibe. There's definitely enough wiggle room to give us this story, where he did lots of terrible things over the years, but is trying to be a hero... in a very twisted way.
I don't agree with every element of how Slott's done this, but there's been enough variety in the character's portrayals that it's hard to take complaints that this is "out of character" very seriously.
(As for him being suddenly a surgeon... the dude simultaneously took on an Avengers offshoot, Reed Richards' Future Foundation, and the fucking Intellig-"We're a team of evil supergeniuses"-encia. We've looooong since passed the point where it's implausible for him to go "Oh, I can do that SCIENCE too, sure, I'm just that fucking smart.")
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