Venom

## Eddie Brock

* Venom
* Eddie Brock

"***We**...are Venom,*"
—Venom meets Spider-Man[src]
**Eddie Brock** is a journalist for the Daily Bugle and a close friend of Peter Parker. He had an accident while working on a news story and broke several vertebrae in his spine, putting him in a wheelchair for several years. While undergoing surgery to fix his back, the doctors discovered that he was suffering from stage 4 pancreatic cancer that had already spread to his lymph nodes. After saying goodbye to his loved ones, Eddie went to church to pray, at the same time that an escaped alien symbiote had worked its way into the building. Sensing his cancer, the symbiote bonded to him, curing his cancer and creating a new creature: **Venom**.

Over the course of several months, the bond between Brock and Venom strengthened considerably, to the point that Venom's appetite was greatly reduced and was only acting on Eddie's subconscious desire to harm those who prey on the innocent. Reluctantly, Venom worked with Eddie to negotiate with Spider-Man to defeat Gustave Fiers, who had unleashed several Symbiotes on New York, including bonding a particularly aggressive symbiote - Carnage - with the Green Goblin to create the Red Goblin. Following the end of the Symbiote War, Eddie decided to move to San Francisco, unaware that Carnage was following close behind.

## Biography

### Last Church Visit

#### Praying for Mercy

Arriving at the church, Eddie proceeded to pray for the safety and comfort of his loved ones, as well as forgiveness for "taking the coward's way out".

#### Bonding with the Symbiote

As Eddie prepared to call Liz and say his goodbyes, a black substance landed on his arm. He removed it from his arm, only for it to spread over his hand. Eddie looked up to see the black symbiote launching for him, enveloping his entire body in the alien substance. The symbiote formed into a humanoid figure that smiled and roared in triumph.

## Overview

### Personality

Eddie is witty, fun-loving, and sociable, yet intelligent and professional when the situation demands it.

## Powers, Equipment and Abilities

### Powers

* **Symbiotic Enhancement/Symbiotic Black Suit**: Eddie has several superhuman attributes as a result of his association with the Venom symbiote, which covers his body in black biomass. This increases Eddie's abilities, such as strength, durability, speed, agility and healing at superhuman levels. In addition, he can also use the symbiote as a weapon while in its human form.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: With the help from the Symbiote known as Venom, Eddie has developed superhuman strength
	+ **Superhuman Senses**: While possessing a host, Venom demonstrates having superb awareness of its surrounding, notably to sense nearby threats before it's host could.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Venom has superhumanly strong and powerful durability, he was able to withstand multiple bullets fired by SWAT officers, and some lethal attacks from Red Goblin without sustaining injury or discomfort of any kind.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Brock seems to have moved faster with the help from the Symbiote. Venom is also more than quick enough to help Eddie dodge bullets and catch a tear gas grenade that was fired at them.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Due to his super-speed, Venom is extremely agile because he is able to perform acrobatic and gymnastic stunts.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Venom is able to rapidly repair Brock's body from even the most severe of injuries in mere seconds, from ruptured organs to broken bones. This allowed Brock to almost instantly recover from being hit by a van and having much of his body broken, as well as bring him back from the brink of death. Even without a host, Venom can regenerate himself even from the smallest bit of his very being proved that he has more than enough nourishment to do so, as seen when the symbiote recovered some time after sacrificing most part of itself to protect Eddie.
	+ **Possession**: As a Symbiote, Venom has been shown to be able to transfer itself from host to host upon physical contact with them, passing into their flesh as if intangible and taking full control of their bodies. While in their bodies, Venom is able to enhance their physical abilities to inhuman levels, allowing them to overpower other humans with ease and heal from severe injuries such as broken bones and damaged tissue in seconds. While it is capable of seemingly suppressing a host's mind and use their bodies as if it were its own, it is able to almost meld minds with them and work collectively with them while sharing the same body. The abilities it can use while bonded to its host, including its ability to manifest constructs out of its own mass and enveloping its host to form a body for itself, is fueled by how compatible it is with its host.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Venom can generate portions of itself out of Brock's body to form various constructs, including tendrils, shields, parachutes and various other appendages. It can also fully emerge from Brock while remaining attached to him, enveloping its host's body to form its own, complete with eyes, claws and a mouth with powerful jaws and sharp teeth, allowing it to tear flesh and eat off entire body parts from its victims. Its ability to manifest these constructs is fueled by how compatible it is with its host. The Symbiote notably uses tendrils for attack and defence.
	+ **Body Manifestation**: Venom can fully emerge from Brock while remaining attached to him, enveloping it's host's body to form its own, complete with eyes, claws and extendable, fanged mouth with a long, prehensile tongue. It uses its razor-sharp teeth and powerful jaws to tear through flesh and bone, allowing it to eat off entire body parts from its victims. Venom's full-body emulates that of its human host, resulting in it having a humanoid appearance despite it's more monstrous traits. In this form, Venom's physical superhuman attributes are at there peak, amplifying his strength, durability, speed, agility and reflexes far beyond that of normal humans' capacity.

## Trivia

* Eddie Brock is one of three known hosts of a member of the Symbiote race, the others being Harry Osborn and Cletus Kasady, both of which were hosts to the Carnage symbiote.