Otto smiles. "I'll take it as a compliment." From everything he's heard? Heroic phase or not, it is one. It doesn't escape his notice that a good word towards Spider-Man is apparently just that shocking. How on earth did that time as a hero happen at all, he wonders, if not with Spider-Man's help?

"I'm a bit curious about him, myself. The most specific information I've heard is that he's got some kind of Napoleon complex." He says it with a bit of disdain. He's a tall man himself, but even if he could relate - how ridiculously must you behave, to have that be what people know about you?

It sounds almost silly. It was probably intentionally so; he thinks Doreen was trying to be kind. But Otto knows better than to dismiss his counterpart out of hand. Half the time, people he meets seem to think he'll just...explode over nothing. That world's Spider-Man was afraid of him, when they first met. It's all...unsettling, deeply and persistently so.

"But maybe another time," he concludes. "This is hardly the place - besides, you're working. I must be scaring people away from your demonstration!" He's not; this place is dead. But he's trying to be nice. Really, it does deserve more attention!