Venom (Marvel)

, also known as the Venom Symbiote, is a major anti-hero from the , specifically being an major anti-hero in the Spider-Man franchise and one of the main protagonists (alongside Eddie Brock) and titular character of the Venom series. 
He is one of Spider-Man's archenemies, now turned friendly rival. The name has belonged to several different hosts over the years, which means that Venom is indeed the identity of this particular alien Symbiote. The Symbiote named itself Venom and considered itself as a venom for Spider-Man.
==Personality==
The Venom symbiote is sweet, polite, kind, friendly, compassionate, and reasonable, as it cares about its hosts and loves them unlike most of its corrupted kind, but after being rejected by Spider-Man and bonding with Eddie Brock, it becomes corrupted, arrogant, and bloodthirsty, as it becomes willing to use lethal force if needed, and after leaving Eddie, and bonding with Mac Gargan who is known as the supervillain Scorpion, it becomes uncaring and cruel, as it knew by that point that hurting innocent people is bad, but didn't care at all by that point, but after being separated from Mac Gargan and being bonded to Flash Thompson, it starts to regain some of its kindness and compassion as it didn't like being kept in check by him, as he uses drugs to keep it in check, while he uses it to walk around again, but over time starts to care about each other and even with the symbiote sparing the Guardians of the Galaxy, after it hears the call to its home planet which it takes them out, but leaves them alive instead of killing them, and before being cleansed, tells Flash that it was an honor serving with him, showing that in the end, the Venom symbiote regain
==History==
Venom was one of the first symbiotes created by Knull who wanted to destroy the light of the universe. After Knull's imprisonment, the symbiotes who were pure-hearted (including Venom) wanted to distance themselves from their dark origins while the corrupted ones went around terrorizing the galaxy.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
* Superhuman Strength
* Superhuman Stamina
* Superhuman Durability
* Superhuman Speed, Agility, and Reflexes
* Accelerated Healing Factor
* Wall-Crawling
* ESP (Spider-Sense)
* Immunity to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense
* Camouflage Capabilities
* Constituent-Matter Generation
* Constituent-Matter Manipulation
===Abilities===
===Weaknesses===
*Sonic and Heat: The Venom symbiote, like all others of its kind, is extremely vulnerable to heat and sonic based attacks. They can cause the symbiote physical pain and discomfort, whereas "more powerful" attacks might be completely ineffective.
ed its good-hearted nature once more thanks to him, and after bonding again with Eddie, becomes a straight up superhero along with him. 
==Trivia==
*Oddly, it was shown that Venom doesn't like being called a "parasite", even by Eddie (as they are arguing about this at the end of the film).
*It was also shown that Venom did like Anne and care about her; this could be one of the reasons why Venom didn't kill her while re-swapping into Eddie (which is unlikely as a symbiote would have to kill its host if he/she wasn't suitable to their nature or when swapping to another host).
*Venom has made two appearances on the popular Internet series DEATH BATTLE where he fought Bane and won then against Crona from Soul Eater but lost
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