Venom

Eddie Brock is the former-villain-turned-hero Venom. Starting his career as a failed reporter unwittingly due to the actions of Spider-Man, he would go to Our Lady of Saints Church to ask Godforgiveness before attempting suicide. However, a symbiote that was earlier discarded there by Spider-Man sensed his anger and merged with him, becoming one of the deadliest foes of Spider-Man.

Going by the alias of Venom, he would give birth to another symbiote that bonded with the serial killer Cletus Kasady to become Carnage. For a time, Eddie agreed to a truce with Spider-Man and moved to San Francisco, where he became the antiheroic "Lethal Protector" of an Underground City, but returned to villainy following a failed stint as a black ops government assassin. Parting ways with the Venom symbiote, Eddie began to seek redemption for his dark past - bonding to the Anti-Venom and Toxin symbiotes, before finally returning as Venom and attempting to become a true hero.

## History

Eddie Brock was born to Carl Brock and Jamie Brock, who died in childbirth - leading to his father blaming Eddie for his wife's death and becoming cold and abusive towards him. Constantly seeking his father's approval, Eddie excelled academically but his achievements were met with half-hearted encouragement. When Eddie was a teenager, he stole his father's car and snuck out to get drunk with some friends, attempting to sneak it back home before his father noticed. In the process, he accidentally killed his neighbour's young son, leaving him horrified. Carl brutally beat Eddie when he refused to plead innocent, and the charges were dropped when he plead not-guilty. However, covering up the incident almost bankrupted Carl Brock, ruining his reputation and further amplified his hatred and resentment towards his son.

In his teenage years, Eddie gained entrance to ESU's journalism program by fabricating an internship, and he romanced law student Anne Weying. Though exceptional in athletics, Brock switched his major in college to journalism after reading an article on the Watergate scandal. Upon graduating, he moved to New York City and married Anne. As a member of the Associated Press, he obtained a job as a journalist for the Daily Globe. He proved himself to be highly talented, though even this did not get his father's approval.

Ultimately overwhelmed by shame and despair, Eddie - who had been raised a devout Catholic - decided to visit Our Lady of Saints Church to beg forgiveness from God before intending to commit suicide. Once inside the church, he was caught by surprise when the symbiote that had until-recently been posing as Spider-Man's Black Suit ambushed and bonded with him - drawn by their mutual hatred for Spider-Man. on which it fed. The symbiote bonded mentally and physically to Eddie, revealing Spider-Man's civilian identity to be Peter Parker. Agreeing to bond to the symbiote in exchange for revenge against Spider-Man, Eddie agreed to the symbiote's suggestion to name their merged form "Venom" out of resentment over being forced to write drivel for tabloids.

Taking advantage of the symbiote's immunity to Peter's Spider-Sense, Eddie ambushed him several times. Driven by the symbiote's jealousy towards Peter rejecting it, Venom attacked Mary Jane Watson at her and Peter's apartment, leaving her terrified and traumatized.Realizing the symbiote had returned, Spider-Man obtained a sonic blaster from the Fantastic Four and battled Venom using it. Venom took advantage of Spider-Man's refusal to deal a fatal blow by knocking him out and attempting to kill him using Our Lady of Saints' bell, but Spider-Man escaped and tricked the symbiote into depleting its biomass through overuse of its organic webbing. With Venom incapacitated, Spider-Man turned him over to the Fantastic Four, who imprisoned him in a sonic containment cell before he was transferred to a government-run super-prison in the Colorado Rockies called the Vault.

Posing as a fallen Guardsman, Venom murdered new recruit Hugh Taylor and escaped to New York City, thwarting the criminal activity of a small militia in Missouri en route. Hunting for Spider-Man, Venom came across Peter's former lover the Black Cat, and nearly beat her to death. Getting Spider-Man's attention by menacing May Parker, Venom battled him on the beach of Montauk, Long Island. However, Spider-Man exploited the symbiote's desire to return to him in order to trick it into attempting to separate from Eddie. The trauma of trying to detach itself from Eddie's nervous system knocked both Eddie and the symbiote unconscious, and they were re-incarcerated in the Vault.

After several foiled escape attempts, Eddie faked his own suicide to escaped the Vault and attacked Spider-Man in Central Park, but abandoned the battle to save an innocent baby. Approached by Styx and Stone, who were also intent on killing Spider-Man, Venom escaped and lured Spider-Man into a confrontation in his sewer lair. Styx and Stone attacked them, and Venom - unwilling to let anyone but himself kill Spider-Man - intervened, resulting in Styx seemingly killing the symbiote with his carcinogenic touch. Returned to human form, Eddie Brock was sent to a normal prison at Ryker's Island, where his symbiote accidentally created the symbiote carnage.

he joined SHIELD as an anti-hero but later became a real hero after a battle with Immortus. however, all that changed when his SHIELD team was wiped out by the Snap. He regained the actually alive symbiote and traveled to the furthest depths of the universe to battle Thanos. After a short battle Thanos decided to bring Carnage to the battlefield and he killed him with one blast. In the later events Venom was imprisoned by Thanos until eventually escaping back to earth where he joined up with Deadpool to fight against Thanos,