We Are Venom

[Venom Voted Favorite All time Spider-Man Villains]


Written by Kal-El

I owe you guys this article for being your most favorite Spider-Man Villian, Thanks for all your support, and keep the votings coming, so as a token of our appreciation, i present you, Eddie Brock aka VENOM.

Edward Allan Charles Brock was born in San Francisco, he was raised in a Roman Catholic upbringing to a cold and unloving father from whom he desperately tried to gain approval. Though as a child, he excelled in many subjects, particularly athletics, his father's response was always in the form of half-hearted encouragements, due to the fact that Eddie's birth had caused the death of his late wife. After reading a newspaper article on the Watergate Scandal in college, Brock quit athletics and switched his major to journalism.

Upon graduating, he moved to New York City and obtained a job at the Daily Globe, a rival of the Daily Bugle. He proved himself to be highly talented, though even this could not get his father's approval.At some point in his career, he married Anne Weying. She was apparently attracted by his wit and gentility, traits he had always hidden from his father.

Sensing an opportunity, Brock decided to investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a serial killer nicknamed the Sin-Eater, and surprisingly came across someone actually confessing to the murders. Brock interviewed the man and The Globe's popularity soared. However, with the authorities pressing for a suspect, Eddie was forced to reveal his subject's identity. To his horror though, it turned out that Spider-Man had caught the real killer and the man he had been interviewing was nothing more than a compulsive confessor.

Fired from his job in disgrace, Brock's father practically disowned him and refused to see his son again. With no decent publishers willing to hire him, Eddie was forced to work for sleazy tabloid magazines. Unable to accept responsibility for his own incompetence, Brock blamed Spider-Man for ruining his career and resumed his passion for athletics through weight training to reduce stress. Though his body grew to near-Olympic standards, his rage remained. His own wife got tired of his incessant brooding, Anne divorced him. With both his professional and personal life shattered, Brock contemplated suicide and went to Our Lady of Saints Church where he pleaded to God for forgiveness, unaware the symbiote Spider-Man had discarded lay waiting for him.The symbiote bonded with Brock, imparting him with the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity. Brock and the symbiote named themselves "Venom" and tormented Spider-Man and his family. The symbiote was later revealed to be attracted to Spider-Man, and it attempted to leave Brock and reunite with Spider-Man.

The bond between the symbiote and Brock was too strong, however, and the separation resulted in mental trauma to both. Brock was remanded to the Vault, a prison for superpowered criminals, until he escaped by faking his death. Venom's murder of Vault guard Hugh Taylor would later lead to Hugh's father General Orwell Taylor funding the Jury; a team of former guardsmen armed with sonic and fire weapons able to destroy Venom's symbiote. Initially, it was suspected that the symbiote bonded with Brock over their mutual hatred of Spider-Man; however, Brock was later diagnosed with a form of cancer (pheochromocytoma) that increased his production of adrenaline, on which the symbiote feeds. This increased adrenaline production was the primary reason for their bonding.

The bonding also saved Brock from his cancer, while the cancer saved Brock from having his life force drained by the symbiote, as happened with Peter Parker and killed Brock in a storyline set in an alternate universe.

Following the revelation of his cancer, Brock had a religious awakening and decided against permanently merging with the symbiote. Brock instead chose to sell the symbiote to crimelord, Don Fortunato, intending to donate the $100 million received to charity before dying. Angelo Fortunato, the Don's son, became the second Venom for a brief period of time. However, Angelo began killing innocent people in his quest for glory and later proved to be a weak host for the Symbiote, being humiliated in a battle with Spider-Man. The symbiote abandoned Angelo mid-leap, and the subsequent fall killed Fortunato.

Upon hearing that Angelo had died, and that he used his newfound powers to kill innocent people, Brock slit his wrists in an alley and was seen waiting to die. However, he was found before his death and survived the suicide attempt. The symbiote then became attached to Mac Gargan, better known as the Scorpion at the time, and is currently still with him as he is now a member of the Thunderbolts. Eddie was last seen recovering in a hospital. When Peter Parker unmasked himself publicly as Spider-man unmask. He is shown in the hospital to be rapidly succumbing physically to his cancer and experiencing hallucinations of the symbiote, representing his dark side. After a while of being tormented by his other, he spots Mary Jane Watson Parker watching over Aunt May who has been seriously wounded by a bullet. Eddie has no idea what to do, but his dark side then persuades him to order a black suit similar to Peter's and put it on, apparently making the decision that may forever damn him.As a result of the symbiote's former host, Spider-Man, it grants its hosts abilities parallel to those of the wall-crawler (i.e. superhuman strength, agility, and reflexes, and the ability to adhere to walls). However, the symbiote does not appear to have inherited its former host's "Spider Sense".

[One of Venom's Strength being virtually Bulletproof]

The symbiote makes Venom virtually bulletproof. The symbiote is capable of enhancing the strength of its host to varying degrees. Due to Eddie Brock's muscular physique and natural physical strength from weight-training, his strength as Venom is greatly increased, far in excess of Spider-Man's, though his full strength often fluctuates. According to Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide by Tom Defalco, Eddie had conditioned himself to lift up to 700 lbs before being bonded to the symbiote. Although the symbiote gives Eddie Brock enhanced agility, his speed and reflexes are not as great as Spider-Man's. Venom has demonstrated strength ranging from only slightly greater than Spider-Man's to being capable of trading blows with high-powered individuals such as the Juggernaut.

Venom's body is highly resistant to physical injury, capable of withstanding assault from high-caliber weapons aswell as attacks from super powered beings. The suit also protects Brock from any type of extremely sticky substance. Venom is also capable of surviving in harmful areas for long periods of time such as underwater or in toxic gases, the symbiote filtering breathable air to the host. Additionally, the symbiote is capable of healing injuries in the host at a faster rate than normal human healing allows. The symbiote is also capable of healing injuries and illness that current human medical care cannot.

Due to Spider-Man being a host to the symbiote, Venom, and as a result his offspring, is able to bypass Spider-Man's spider-sense. As such, Venom is capable of attacking Spider-Man without alerting him.

The symbiote is capable of mimicking the appearance of any form of clothing, camouflaging with its surroundings, and even mimicking other people, therefore he can even make himself invisible.

The suit can also shoot webbing similar to that of Spider-Man, albeit from the back of the host's hand instead of the wrist, but as this is made from the symbiote itself, overuse slightly weakens it. However, the symbiote is still capable of producing vast amounts of this webbing before it is forced to stop. Furthermore, it does have an upper limit as to how much webbing it can produce. In Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1, #300, Spider-Man, surprisingly, defeated Venom by forcing the symbiote to continually fire off its webbing, after correctly deducing that it uses its own substance to create it. In addition to using the suit as webbing, the symbiote has also been used in the form of tendrils and tentacles to attack.The symbiote is weak against sonics and fire.

Though it hasn't been fully explained, Venom is immune to Ghost Rider's penance stare. It can be hypothesized that since Brock is viewing the world through the symbiote's eyes, the soul-burning effect of the penance stare would have no effect on the soul-less alien entity.

In some incarnations, the symbiote (and, by extension, Venom) requires a certain chemical to stay sane and healthy, which has been said to be found abundantly in two sources: chocolate and human brain tissue. Thus, Venom is forced to steal/purchase large amounts of chocolate or become an unwilling cannibal who devours the brains of those he kills.

Eddie Brock's tenacity and the symbiote's disposition to brutality are both a gift and a curse in combat. Venom's fighting style does not incorporate agility or subtlety as much as Spider-Man's, often relying on frontal assaults that usually leave him and his opponents injured. Despite this and a seeming disregard for his personal safety, Venom has proven himself to be a very deadly fighter. He has been seen defeating enemies stronger and faster than himself, such as Carnage during the Maximum Carnage storyline. As Venom, the symbiote gives Brock's an echoed double voice.

[ Venom's first debut in Spider-Man 3, 2007]

In the first Spider-Man (film), Eddie was briefly mentioned but never seen. Topher Grace played Venom in the 2007 feature film Spider-Man 3. In the film, Eddie Brock, Jr. is a freelance photographer who vies for a position with the newspaper Daily Bugle. To get editor J. Jonah Jameson's attention, he provides a staged picture of Spider-Man committing a criminal act as he wears the symbiotic suit. Peter Parker eventually exposes the truth, and Jameson, who is angered by this, fires Eddie from the Daily Bugle. He later spots Peter with Gwen Stacy going to a Jazz club and becomes mad and wants revenge. When Brock goes to church and asks God to smite Parker for ruining his life, he finds Spider-Man removing the symbiotic suit, exposing himself to be Peter Parker. The symbiote latches onto Brock and as a result transforms into the monstrous Venom. He gains Peter's superhuman abilities except they are greater. The former photographer then plots revenge against the person who got him fired and (in his mind) stole his girl.

Venom recruits Flint Marko (Sandman), who is on the run from Spider-Man, to help finish off the superhero. Venom and Sandman kidnap Peter Parker's girlfriend Mary Jane Watson to lure Parker to them. Parker arrives and fights Venom and Sandman, eventually assisted by his former nemesis Harry Osborn. With the help of Parker, Harry manages to subdue Sandman (who has become gigantic after absorbing huge amounts of sand) with his Goblin arsenal and rescue Mary Jane. In an attempt to kill Parker, Venom incidentally impales Harry with his own spiked glider, mirroring his father's death. Parker traps Venom in a circle of upright metal pipes, ringing them at a frequency that subdues the symbiote. Parker extracts Eddie from the cage and proceeds to annihilate the symbiote with one of Harry's pumpkin bombs, but not before Eddie, not wanting to be apart from the symbiote, dives back into the cage, getting killed in the process.

So there you go Venom Fans, Absolutely twisted i might say...but as i already mentioned before, i you wanna go out alone in a strange dark alley, i suggest you bring your self a big size bar of Cadbury's Chocolates, It might just distract Venom before he goes after your Brain. Keep on reading True believers.