Venom

*"Quite a specimen you left me, Parker. Its chemistry is not unlike the chondritic meteorites of the '70s. You know what, Parker? Parker? It amplifies characteristics of its host. Especially aggression. This could be dangerous."*
―Curt Connors to Peter Parker[src]
**Venom** is a symbiotic alien that landed on Earth by a meteorite from an unknown planet. The symbiote landed while Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson were on a date with each other, and hitched a ride through Parker's motorcycle. Eventually, one night, the symbiote bonded to Parker when he was inside his apartment. The symbiote bonded with his suit, with Peter's personality being amplified. Eventually, after discovering the true nature of the symbiote, he removed it inside of a church, successfully ridding himself of the symbiote. However, Eddie Brock, who was also at the church, saw Peter removing the symbiote, and as he was present, he was eventually chosen to be Venom's host. The symbiote was later destroyed by Parker, along with its second host, during a final confrontation together.

## Biography

### Encountering Peter Parker

#### Landing on Earth

A meteorite landed in Central Park, New York City, with a mysterious symbiotic alien life form made of black goo, crawled out of the meteorite. Having sensed the irradiated blood from a nearby pedastrian, Peter Parker, who was on a date with Mary Jane Watson. The symbiote followed Peter to his apartment by attaching to his motorbike's ID tag, thereby completely unnoticed by both Peter and Mary Jane.

#### Bonding with Peter Parker

   The black symbiote made its way to Peter's apartment where it hid itself from anyone in his room. After Peter went to his duties as Spider-Man, Mary Jane attempted to leave the apartment. The symbiote attempted to hide as it crawled over Peter's desk, accidentally knocking a lamp in the process. The noise attracted Mary Jane, who thought it was nothing and left, leaving the symbiote to hide in Peter's closet.

After Peter learned about the identity of his Uncle Ben's true killer, Sandman, the symbiote was drawn by Peter's vengeance and saw the opportunity to bond with him. The symbiote stealthily bonded with Peter as he was in bed, changing his suit from a friendly red and blue to an aggressive black color. The symbiote used Spider-Man's body to swing across New York City, where Spider-Man eventually wakes up and sees his new black suit. The symbiote also enhanced Spider-Man's powers to a high level, allowing him to swing faster and jump higher.

#### Brought to Curt Connors

Peter brought a sample of the symbiote to his professor at Columbia University, Curt Connors, who was stunned to see that the symbiote was alive. The piece of the symbiote crawled from Connors' microscope and attempted to re-bond with Peter, but he trapped it under a glass lid. Connors warned Peter that the symbiote would not be able to unbond from a host and not to let any of it get on him.

Connors later discovered that the symbiote, to his horror, does not just bond with a host, it takes over the host. The symbiote ampflied negative emotions in the host, such as anger, rage, hatred, vengeance, spite, frustration and vanity, which he realised it could be dangerous.

#### Stored Away

Following a fight with Sandman in the subway, wearing the black symbiotic costume, Spider-Man attacked the latter in a relentless way, due to the symbiote making Spider-Man fight Sandman in a ruthless vigilante like way, rather than a humane way as it was ampflying his negative emotions. After lashing out on Mr. Ditkovich while under the symbiote's influence, Peter started to realise the symbiote's nature and hid it away, upon seeing his reflection in the mirror.

#### Meeting Peter Again

Following a blackmail from Harry urging Mary Jane to break up with him, Peter returned to the black suit, unable to tolerate the relevation. The symbiote influenced Peter to attack his best friend at his penthouse, resulting Harry to getting defeated and having his face disfigured by a Pumpkin Bomb when he attempted to threw it at the symbiote-possessed Peter, who deflected it back at him. The symbiote later influenced Peter's behaviour for the worse, making his loved ones suffer around him and making him do terrible things he wouldn't do.

#### Leaving Peter

Upon realising the symbiote was changing him for the worse after it made him hit Mary Jane, Peter reflected over his terrible behaviour and sought to get rid of the host, remembering what Connors said on the telephone about what the symbiote does to the host. Peter swung to the top of the bell tower attempting to tear the symbiote suit from his body.

The symbiote, unwilling to be seperated from its host, fought to prevent it until Peter's accidental ringing of the church's bell, made a loud vibration, caused the symbiote to shriek in pain. This made it easier for Peter to remove the symbiote and free himself from its control. Peter finally managed to remove the black symbiotic costume from his body, freeing him from its influence before he stealthily returned to his apartment.

### New Host

#### Bonding with Eddie Brock

At that time Peter ripped off the symbiote, it fell from the top of the church's tower. Angry at Spider-Man for rejecting it, the symbiote went to find a new host. Having sensed the anger and hatred from a nearby citizen, which happened to be Eddie Brock, who was also at the church praying for Peter's death, selected him to be its new host. After it landed on Eddie, it crawled over him, transforming him into Venom. After the aggressive bonding with its second host, Eddie slowly got used to the symbiote.

At first driven mad by the alien's attempts to communicate with him, believing it was eating him, especially how cold it felt, Eddie attacked several teenagers in his lunacy and attracts the attention of some police officers. After fighting them off, he finally allowed the symbiote to communicate with him, and it sends images of Parker's life and role as Spider-Man to Eddie, confirming his suspicions that Parker was Spider-Man.

By tapping into the symbiote's memories of Spider-Man, Venom was able to replicate his abilities of web production, wall-crawling, and super strength. He sneaked over to the Stacy apartment and watched Gwen through a window. After she leaves the room, he broke in to look at Captain Stacy's files, and finds Flint Marko's file, inspiring him to choose him as a potential ally.

#### Allying with Sandman

*"That doesn't seem right to me. Look, I want to kill the spider, you wanna kill the spider. Together, he doesn't stand a chance. Interested?"
"Yeah."*
―Eddie Brock (as Venom) and Sandman[src]
Venom travelled around the city web-slinging and swinging in Spider-Man's own style, looking for the real Spider-Man himself. While doing so, he happened to run into the Sandman in an alley. The Sandman attacked Venom, believing him to be Spider-Man, but Venom proposed that the two of them form a partnership to kill the web-slinger, which the Sandman agreed to.

#### Battle at the Construction Site

Brock later captured Mary Jane Watson through use of a taxi. Peter put on his old traditional blue and red Spider-Man costume when he heard of her disappearance. Upon arriving at Venom's trap, Peter attempted to plead with Eddie and warned of the dangers of the symbiote, and the unholy being it made its wearer. The cautions didn't faze Eddie as he preferred being evil. But then Peter's friend Harry Osborn came blazing onto the scene to save Peter, in his New Goblin gear.

Harry tried to keep the Sandman at bay while Peter tried to take care of Venom. Then, Harry sacrificed himself to save Peter and Mary Jane during the ensuing fight, Venom fatally stabbing him with his own glider, similar to how Norman Osborn died.

#### Death

Recalling the symbiote's weakness to sonic vibrations, Peter gets into a fit of furious rage for what Venom did to Harry, as he took two pipes and banged them together, temporarily weakening Venom. Then Peter trapped venom in a wall of steel pipes and banged one against the row of other pipes, making a thundering chiming to make Venom writhe in pain, revealing Brock as he screams in pain too, and Peter finally rips Brock from the symbiote, separating both Brock and the suit.

However, the symbiote, now completely independent, and full of rage makes an attempt to desperately kill Peter, but Peter was still more filled with more rage than the suit was as he banged a pipe again as it still weakens the symbiote to back away. Peter grabbed one of Harry's pumpkin bombs from his glider and hurled it right at the alien matter. In an unexpected surprise, Eddie became horrified as he knew what was about to happen and instead ran towards the symbiote in order to don it once more. Peter was shocked at what Eddie was doing and began rushing to save him, but was too late when the bomb detonated, destroying them both.

### Legacy

*"I fought a...an alien made out of black goo once."*
―Spider-Man to his alternative selves[src]
Many years later, when Peter was transported into another reality that was similar to his own, where he met a younger version of himself, including another version, they conversed the many villains they faced in the past. Peter referred to Venom as "an alien made out of black goo" that he fought in 2005 and describing it to be the weirdest villain he faced, especially with Eddie Brock, his late old rival turned enemy.

## Personality

*"It has the characteristics of a symbiote, which needs to bond to a host to survive. And sometimes these things in nature, when they bind... they can be hard to unbind."*
―Curt Connors to Peter Parker[src]
The Venom Symbiote is an alien life form that needed to bond to a host to survive. The symbiote did not possess any sort of empathy or consicence as whenever it bonded to a living host, specifically a human, it amplfied the host's negative emotions that include: anger, rage, hatred, frustration, spite and vanity, which was correctly specified by Dr. Curt Connors, who also discovered the symbiote was dangerous to be used, especially when it was bonded to any human. The symbiote would sense a person's rage and hatred near it which would give it the opportunity to bond with any living individual. As a result of this, any host who would be possessed by the symbiote will lose him/herself to the dangers of the alien and would make them suffer, as it did for anyone they cared about.

When the Venom Symbiote first bonded to Spider-Man, it attempted to change the hero from a friendly to an aggressive individual by making him do terrible things he wouldn't do, such as violent vigilante tendancies when it possessed Spider-Man into attacking the Sandman in a relentless way, subduing his best friend, Harry and leaving him disfigured, including making him act jerkish and rude to his loved ones. The symbiote, however, was unable to withstand Spider-Man's strong indomitable willpower and postive emotions when it enabled him to break free from the symbiote and freeing himself from its control.

As a result of being rejected by Spider-Man, the symbiote was extremely vengeful and angry for its former host's rejection and embarked on a quest to take Spider-Man down in revenge. It had the opportunity to get back at Spider-Man when it bonded with its second host, that happened to be Eddie Brock, after it sensed his rage and hatred towards Spider-Man for his ruined life. Because Eddie was already an egotistical and obnoxious person, the symbiote was proud to merge with Eddie so they would take down Spider-Man in revenge for being rejected and for the cost of Eddie's job. Eddie was also proud to have his personality merged with Venom's persona, while Spider-Man was only possessed by the alien due to the fact he was truly a good person.

The Venom symbiote's vengeance and rage ultimately proved to be its downfall when after Spider-Man seperated Eddie from the symbiote, the enraged Venom became independent enough to survive on its own, without requiring a host and became more determined to kill Spider-Man. However, it was with Spider-Man's quick thinking to use sonic vibrations to weaken the symbiote and destroy it with one of Harry's Pumpkin Bombs in order to put it out of everyone's misery and to prevent it from bonding with anyone else again.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Symbiotic Biology Physiology:** The Venom symbiote had the characteristics of a symbiote which needed to bond to a host to survive. It also had the power to amplfy negative emotions to make its host act different and rude to other people. It could enhance the person's superhuman attributes to a high level, that included Spider-Man. The symbiote also had the ability to copy any host's memories, powers and skills so that whenever it bonded to another host, it will grant him/her the memories of its previous hosts and the powers and skills, making him/her an equal to that of the previous host.

### Weaknesses

* **Sonic Vibrations:** As powerful as Venom was, exposure to extremely loud noise and even that of intense sonic vibrations drives the alien crazy. This will render its opponent to seperate him/herself from the symbiote or remove the current host from it when it was weakened enough.
* **Intense Heat:** Aside from the intense noise causing Venom to go crazy, the alien can also be injured through exposure to intense heat, such as fire, etc.

## Trivia

* The symbiote was never addressed as Venom or the Venom Symbiote by the characters in *Spider-Man 3*. However it was given its name, known as the symbiote, by Dr. Curt Connors, while Spider-Man only referred to it as the Black Suit or just the Suit.
* When the symbiote crashed down to Earth in Central Park, it followed Peter and Mary Jane to his moped, where it attached itself to his ID tag, where it shaped itself into a "V", referring to Venom, its ungiven name.

## Behind the Scenes

* This is the first live-action incarnation of the Venom Symbiote.
* In the comics, the Venom symbiote first bonded to Spider-Man when it was brought to Earth during the *Secret Wars (1984)* event. He rejected it when he learned it was slowly corrupting him and it bonded to Eddie Brock, becoming Venom, one of Spider-Man's most dangerous opponents.
* Sam Raimi originally wasn't going to include Venom in Spider-Man 3, due to not being a huge fan of the character, stating he lacked humanity. Sony and producer Avi Arad forced Raimi to add Venom in as a sort of a fan service.

## References

The Spider-Man Trilogy Wiki has a collection of images and media related to **Venom**.

1. ↑ *Spider-Man: No Way Home*
2. ↑ Spider-Man 3

## External Links

* Venom on Wikipedia
* Venom on Marvel Database