Eddie Brock

*"That there is Don Quixote and the guy next to him is, uh, Sancho Panza. They’re two very different people who have very different takes on the world. Different ways of doing things. Sometimes they didn’t like each other a whole lot, but ultimately… they worked together to bring out the best in each other."*
―Eddie Brock to Venom[src]
**Edward Brock** is a journalist, former investigative reporter, and the current host of the alien symbiote known as Venom. Infamous for his prying and inquisitive nature, Brock's impertinence would profoundly alter his life when he uncovered confidential documents of allegations centered around the Life Foundation and their CEO, Carlton Drake. While interviewing Drake, Eddie confronted him about the allegations despite lacking the conclusive evidence to prove it, resulting in him getting fired along with his fiancée, Anne Weying and causing the two to end their relationship. However, six months later, Eddie was contacted by Life Foundation employee Dora Skirth, who revealed to him that the allegations had been true and that Drake was conducting human trials on the homeless that were resulting in death. Reluctantly agreeing to assist her, Eddie infiltrated the Life Foundation Headquarters, but accidentally became bonded with one of Drake's alien symbiotes in the process. Realizing that the symbiote was alive, Eddie was soon hunted down by Drake's mercenaries to be experimented on, with the conflict attracing the attention of the police force. With his fate now entwined to the symbiote, who was called Venom, Eddie was coerced into helping the alien attempt to return to the Life Foundation and use their data and resources to return to the latter's home planet to permeate the Earth with it's kin, causing an alien apocalypse. However, in a fight with the police, Eddie was reunited with Anne, causing the two to discover data indicating that Venom was killing him slowly from the inside by decaying his internal organs. In fear, Eddie decided to separate himself from Venom with the assistance of Anne and her new boyfriend, Doctor Dan Lewis. However, Eddie was captured by Drake's men almost immediately after, and when interrogated by the arrogant businessman, he discovered that Drake had become bonded with another symbiote by the name of Riot. With the help of Anne, Eddie managed to escape Drake and reunite with an ameliorated Venom, intending to stop Drake and Riot before they could carry out the mission which the symbiotes had arrived for in the first place. Working together through their symbiosis, Eddie and Venom managed to stop Riot and Drake, incinerating the pair in a fiery explosion and exposing the Life Foundation for their numerous crimes. With the battle won and his journalistic career revitalized, Eddie decided to remain bonded with Venom and try to help the symbiote develop its morality further.

Over the next year and a half, Eddie and Venom would continue to protect San Francisco through their symbiosis, although the two struggled to coexist with one another due to their contrasting views about food, Anne Weying's unprecedented engagement to Dan Lewis, and other crucial elements of their life together. Eddie would also become heavily involved in the case of convicted serial killer Cletus Kasady, interviewing him at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Detective Patrick Mulligan in attempts to discover the location of the missing bodies of Kasady's victims. However, this was ultimately what caused the breaking point in Eddie and Venom's symbiotic relationship when the symbiote attacked Kasady at his jail cell in a violent emotional display, almost exposing the pair's secret. Unable to put up with each other anymore, Eddie and Venom went their separate ways. However, the attack allowed Kasady to acquire his own symbiote from a portion of Eddie's blood while the latter had been bonded with Venom, allowing him to break out of prison and go on a rampage. With no other option, Eddie bonded with Venom once again to answer the challenge of Carnage, desperate to save Anne's life and protect the city. After saving Anne and killing Kasady and Carnage once and for all, Eddie and Venom made amends and went into hiding as fugitives.

While in hiding, Eddie and Venom were transported to an alternate universe due to the botching of a magical spell that invoked the Multiverse. Soon realizing what had happened to them, Eddie and Venom chose to explore this new reality, learning that it was a place filled with superheroes such as the vigilante Spider-Man. Eventually, the pair were transported back, but not before leaving a piece of Venom’s symbiote form behind.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Childhood

*"No wonder daddy could never look at you again after you killed his wife your mother just by being born."*
―Cletus Kasady to Eddie Brock[src]
Edward Charles Allan Brock was born before his mother died at childbirth, which lead his father into longtime depression and having a deep hatred over him.

#### Moving to San Francisco

*"I'm Eddie Brock, and this is The Brock Report."*
―Eddie Brock[src]

Eddie and his fiancée Anne Weying moved to San Francisco after Eddie was fired from the *Daily Globe* due to an incident that happened in his job, resulting into moving in Anne's home. In San Francisco, Eddie would go on to establish his own career again and even getting his own show called *The Eddie Brock Report*.

### The Eddie Brock Report

#### Interviewing Carlton Drake

*"You're finished, Mr. Brock."
"Is that a threat?"*
―Carlton Drake and Eddie Brock[src]

When the organization known as the Life Foundation had made a discovery, Brock was assigned by his boss, Jack, to interview the CEO of the Life Foundation, Carlton Drake, much to Brock's reluctance as he considered Drake an immoral person. After having a date with Anne, Eddie noticed an email sent by her by a law firm, having a few lawsuits against the Life Foundation that had to do with a few murders from human experimentation.

The next day, Eddie interviewed Drake about how he earned the success for his company, until he turned the interview into a hit piece with the mention of Drake using people as human test subjects for an experiment that was killing them, resulting in Eddie being quickly thrown out. Eddie was soon after fired by Jack for making accusations without evidence. Going to Anne's workplace, Eddie tried to rationalize his situation, but Anne decided to break up with him after she was fired for Eddie's actions and commitment to his relationship.

### Bonding with Venom

#### Meeting Dora Skirth

*"I follow people that do not wanna be followed. You have to learn how to hide in plain sight. I'm pretty good at it... But you? You suck."*
―Eddie Brock to Dora Skirth[src]

Six months later, Eddie was now broke and struggling to find work. Eddie walked into a convenient store where Eddie banters with Mrs. Chen, while buying some food, a man walked inside the store and told her that if she didn't have her money ready, she'll die. After the robber left the store, Eddie buys the food he needed and felt sorry for what Chen is going through. Heading home, Eddie saw his neighbor, Ziggy and his girlfriend, he then enters his room and tries to meditate but was interrupted by his Ziggy's electric guitar and tries to drown out the noise with his pillow.

One day, Eddie visited the convenience store again, where he was followed by Dora Skirth of the Life Foundation, who asked for his help. Listening to Dora's reasoning on Carlton Drake's crimes, Eddie refused to help, heading home instead. Before he could go home, Eddie visited Anne Weying at her home but was disappointed when she was not there. Weying would then come back home and was accompanied by her new boyfriend, Dan Lewis. Once Lewis left them to talk, Eddie explained on what he was doing there and told her that he missed her; however, Weying left the conversation ending on how it was too late to fix their relationship and wanted him to move on.

#### Infiltrated in the Life Foundation

*"Drake is trying to put human beings and aliens together? So they can live in space?"
"That's nuts, isn't it? That's completely insane."*
―Dora Skirth and Eddie Brock[src]

After pondering the idea, Eddie came to the Life Foundation in order to use evidence that will expose them of their wrongdoings, with the help of Dora Skirth. Sneaking through the place and entering an elevator, Eddie was told that the test subjects were homeless people that are used to bond with certain lifeforms that the company had come into contact with. Eddie then entered inside the facility and noticed numerous people that were dead due to symbiosis. While photographing evidence inside the facility, Eddie encountered Maria and tried to break her out until an alarm went off. Breaking out of her capsule, Eddie became bonded with a symbiote.

After defeating security guards, Eddie escaped from the facility and ran through the woods. Eddie ran through a tree bark that resulted into him being tripped over and quickly got himself back up. Needing to get away, Eddie jumped onto a tree in order to hide away from the guards. Once the coast was cleared, Eddie headed back to his apartment. Eddie then called Anne and tried to come to contact with Dora about what happened at the Life Foundation. Eddie felt incredibly hungry and decided to eat frozen tater tots and chicken from the garbage, but this resulted in him becoming sick and vomited it all into the toilet. Later, Eddie went to the bathroom to clear his head but heard a strange voice and was startled backwards by the symbiote appearing in the mirror and into the bathtub.

#### Chased by Roland Treece

*"Outstanding! Now, let's bite off all the heads and pile them up in the corner."
"Now why would we do that?"*
―Venom and Eddie Brock[src]

The next day, Eddie visited Anne Weying who was on a date with Dan Lewis inside a restaurant, and he wanted to talk about Carlton Drake but was heavily distracted by his hunger and wanted to eat something alive. Eddie went inside a lobster tank and starts to eat them. Fortunately, before the cops could be called, Lewis decided to help him, to which Eddie agreed. Eddie went to hospital and got examined in an MRI but was interrupted by the sound waves and decided to leave with Lewis asking him to comeback if he's ready. Back into his home, Eddie heard Ziggy playing his electric guitar loudly, Eddie interrupted his session by knocking on his door. Eddie politely asked him to turn it down, but when he refused, Brock accidentally let Venom come through, scaring Ziggy, who agreed to turn his music down.

Calling Anne, Eddie attempted to apologize to her and explained that he was feeling unwell and hearing a voice, but the symbiote interrupted their conversation. Eddie eventually grew crazed, wishing for the symbiote to leave his body. However, when some thugs came to his door, looking to acquire the symbiote, it helped him fend them off. Eddie made a run for it, coming to realize what was inside of him. Eddie hopped on a motorcycle, slowly getting away from the thugs with Venom's help, only to be hit by a van. When the driver of the van, another thug, hopped out, the symbiote took over Eddie's body, enveloping him and lifting Roland Treece up off the ground.

After expressing his desire of consuming the Roland, Venom was shot by another thug, resulting in him turning around and biting the man's head off, before being shot by the police. Venom swam away, before disappearing back into Eddie. Eddie noticed he recovered from his injuries, as soon as he acknowledged Venom, the symbiote then appeared from him. Eddie seemed disgusted by Venom eating someone, to which Venom replied it was "fuel in the tank" and that the symbiotes had found a species to bond with.

#### Attacked by the SWAT Team

*"Jump. Pussy."*
―Venom to Eddie Brock[src]
Understanding that the symbiote could eat anybody else, Eddie went back to his former workplace but was stopped by Richard. Eddie then asked him if he could go to the boss' office, but Richard refused. Suddenly, Venom then ordered Eddie to eat his brains out, with Eddie yelling at Venom that Richard was his friend before leaving. Eddie wondered how to get up to his boss's office and has the idea of changing back into Venom. Eddie climbed up onto the top of the building where Venom noticed how beautiful Eddie's world is and was ashamed that it will be taken over. Eddie and Venom were affected by the sounds of an airplane traveling above them and fell down from the building. Eddie was saved by Venom and told that he got both of them.

Brock broke into his former boss' office where he put a note and his phone with all the evidence against Carlton Drake on the table. Brock took the elevator because of his fear of heights but encountered a SWAT team that tried to arrest him. Eddie warned the team to not fight him, but they ordered the crew to put their masks on. Eddie mockingly repeated the order to Venom and let him take over and take all of the S.W.A.T team down. After Eddie ordered Venom to not eat the policeman, Anne Weying sees Eddie as Venom and decided to take him to the hospital and take off the symbiote.

#### Captured by the Life Foundation

*"I guess it pays to be a specialist, huh? You know, it doesn't matter if you kill me anyway, because there's something way bigger afoot in this world than you and me. Much bigger than me. And it's much, much bigger than you. Karma's a bitch."
"I don't believe in karma."*
―Eddie Brock and Roland Treece[src]
Confronted by Anne in her car, Eddie tried to explain what had happened to him, with Venom prompting Eddie to apologize to her for his selfish actions. Taken back to the hospital, Anne and Dan told him that the "Parasite" was killing him, which resulted into Venom attacking Dan but Anne used ultrasound to force Venom off from Eddie. Eddie felt excruciating pain while hearing hyperactive sound, resulting in the symbiote to being unbonded with Eddie. Furiously, Eddie yells at Venom for slowly killing him and told him that he was done and walked away. As Eddie goes into an elevator, he was tazed and captured by Roland Treece and his men.

Taken into the Life Foundation's facility, Eddie woke up on a tied-up chair. Eddie attacked Treece for his failure of intimidation, but Drake arrived and told him and his mercenaries to get out. Drake asked where Venom is, but Eddie responded he doesn't know. Drake immediately transformed into a huge monster in order to intimidate him but couldn't get any answer and asked Treece to execute him in the woods.

When Treece was about to execute him, Eddie distracted him long enough so that Venom, who bonded with Anne, can take out all the other guys and eat Treece's head. Anne then kissed Eddie so that Venom could come back into him, knowing what he'll do with other symbiotes, decides to face Riot before the ship is launched.

#### Battle at the Life Foundation Headquarters

*"We won't let you destroy this world."*
―Venom[src]

At the station, Eddie climbed onto a wall and noticed Riot breaking out of a window, asking Venom that he could take only to responded with a chance they might lose. Despite knowing he'll lose, Eddie proceeded to stop Carlton Drake and Riot by blocking their path, receiving a threat by them, they intensely fought against each other. Almost losing against his attacks, Eddie gained the upper hand, after briefly being separated from Venom and soon they consumed each other.

Heading towards the rocket ship, Eddie, Venom, Carlton, and Riot were separated due to Anne use of the ultrasound that activated a horn antenna. Falling down, Eddie fell onto a platform and fought against Carlton. Eddie punched Carlton in the face and kicked him off before he could finish his sentence. Walking away, Eddie was stabbed through the back by Riot before entering the ship. Venom arrived and bonded with Eddie, taking off the arm-blade, and used it to puncture the rocket's fuel-tanks, causing the rocket's liquid fuel to leak out. The leaked fuel then contacts the burning (and superheated) engines, causing the liquid fuel to ignite, and the rocket's fuel tanks to explode and rupture from the ignited fuel, and the rocket to also rupture, the ensuing explosion killing Drake and Riot. Venom saved Eddie before being burned by the fire.

### Becoming Vigilantes

#### Goodbye to Anne Weying

*"Good Lord, look at that. - Look at the time. - I have to go."*
―Eddie Brock to Anne Weying[src]
In the aftermath, the crimes of the Life Foundation were exposed. Eddie was rehired and offered to make a special edition on Drake. Eddie told Anne that he won't be back on screen and decided to write articles. Anne told Eddie that the kiss before was Venom's idea, and that Dan must not know about it. Eddie was surprised by the Anne's comment about their kiss but was mistaken for being bonded by Venom, to which Eddie agreed about the power and how it wasn't completely awful. Venom distracted Eddie about the fact that she doesn't know that he survived the fire and Anne noticed that Eddie wasn't listening. Eddie then walked away and expresses his farewell.

Walking down the street, Eddie stumbled upon a dog owner who observed him and Anne and told him that he shouldn't give up on her, nor Venom should. Eddie agrees with him and pets his dog, while Venom commented on eating it. Settling down some ground rules, Eddie lectured Venom about how people are good and bad and that he should only touch, harm, hurt, and possibly eat very bad individuals, to which Venom questions to know how one tells the difference, with Eddie responding with just seeing and sensing it.

#### Robbery of Mrs. Chen's Store

*"Parasite?"
"Yeah. It's a term of endearment, that's all."
"Apologize!"
"No."
"Apologize!"
"All right, fine. I'm sorry. So, what do you want to do now?"
"The way I see it, we can do whatever we want."*
―Venom and Eddie Brock[src]

Feeling hungry, Eddie went to Mrs. Chen's convenience store, greeting her and telling on how he was doing. While deciding what to eat before Venom would eat his liver, they decided on buying tater tots and maybe some chocolate, much to Venom's delight. However, a robber showed up to collect his money but was disappointed again from Mrs. Chen's uncooperative behavior and proceeded to aim a gun at her. Eddie noticed the robber and was asked by Venom if he was a bad guy, to which he concurs.

As Mrs. Chen was getting the money, Eddie and Venom decided to subdue the robber and ate him alive. After consuming the robber for his crime, Chen horrifyingly told Eddie of what had happened to him. Eddie responded that he has parasite and said goodbye to Mrs. Chen. Venom angrily expressed his hatred of being called a parasite and told Eddie to apologize. Eddie apologized to Venom and asked what they should do next to which Venom replied that they could do whatever they want.

#### Interviewing Cletus Kasady

*"Hi, Eddie."
"Hey."
"Do you mind if we forego the whole creepy serial killer thing?"
"Sure, it's good with me."
"I mean, I can turn it on if you want. Talk about the Dadaist patterns of arterial spray..."
"I bet you can."
"Tough to see you in this light, Eddie. C'mon over."
"Alright. I'm here."
"When I get out of here, and I will... there's gonna be carnage."*
―Cletus Kasady and Eddie Brock[src]

Eddie was then scheduled to have an interview with a serial killer named Cletus Kasady, who asked to be interviewed by him. Brock went on a motorcycle trip to San Quentin State Prison and told the Venom symbiote to be quiet as this was his thing. After being ominously warned by one of the prison guards, Eddie went to Cletus' cell, where he had already written with his own blood "WELCOME EDDIE". During their interview, Cletus told Eddie to forgo "the whole creepy serial killer thing" as he could turn the serial-killer act on and off whenever he wanted. Cletus then asked Eddie to get closer to him despite the guards' warnings and told him that he wouldn't tell him the locations of his other victims and that he planned to break out of prison, and once he does it, he will unleash "carnage" upon society.

### Case of Cletus Kasady

#### Career Boost

*"Welcome back, Eddie Brock. I've been thinking about you."
"What do you want, Cletus? I mean, why am I here?"
"Do a man who's buried alive a kindness, won't you? Get a message out to all my... fans. And in return, I'll give you my life..."
"What?"
"...story."*
―Cletus Kasady and Eddie Brock[src]
About a year and a half after the battle at the Life Foundation, Eddie and Venom had settled into a system of cohabitation - though Eddie was off-put by Venom's carnivorous appetite and bloodlust. At the behest of the FBI and Detective Mulligan, Eddie continued interviewing Cletus Kasady - who saw Eddie as a kindred spirit - to uncover where his victims were hidden. With Venom's help, Eddie managed to uncover where the victims were hidden and wrote an exposé on the serial killer portraying him as a remorseless sociopath, which revived Eddie's career but made the authorities officially give Cletus the death penalty.

Venom and Eddie had an argument about him not letting the symbiote eat bad guys as he previously promised, after finding out that Mrs. Chen didn't have chocolate at the store the symbiote had to settle with eating some chickens. The two interrupted a robbery and Eddie stopped Venom from eating the robber. Eddie left upon being contacted by Anne Weying, who she informed him that she was engaged to Dr. Lewis. Eddie congratulated them, but Venom was irritated, with Anne quickly realizing that Venom was still alive. The symbiote consoled Eddie as he suffered from the engagement news. Eddie was invited to attend Cletus' execution, and Cletus angrily berated Eddie for having misrepresenting him in his exposé, accusing Eddie of having betrayed everyone he cared about. Enraged, the Venom symbiote attacked Cletus, who bit Eddie's hand to escape, noticing something strange about the taste of his blood, much to Eddie's anger.

#### Separation from Venom

*"I guess this is goodbye."
"Oh, yeah. Finally something we agree on."*
―Venom and Eddie Brock[src]

After this, Eddie had a falling out with the Venom symbiote over its unbridled aggression during which Eddie told Venom he was worthless, much to the latter's sadness and anger. After fighting to kick each other out of their apartment, the two parted ways.

During this period, Eddie discovered that Cletus Kasady escaped from prison, during an investigation at St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children, and realized that Frances Barrison would probably know more about Kasady. Eddie tries to warn Detective Mulligan about that but he claimed that Frances was dead, which proved to be false as she was being kept at Ravencroft before being freed by Carnage.

### Stopping Carnage

#### Reuniting With Venom

*"Monsters? Uh, what-what do you mean... what do you mean, monsters?"
"Monsters, Eddie! Everywhere Cletus goes, so goes this supposed monster."
"Oh, God."
"Talk to me, Eddie."*
―Eddie Brock and Patrick Mulligan[src]

Eddie was subsequently arrested by Detective Mulligan, who had come to suspect that Eddie was Venom due to the timing of Cletus' transformation following him biting Eddie. During his interrogation Eddie also realizes that Cletus was in possesion of another symbiote after people claim that Kasady is also followed by a monster. He uses his one phone call on Anne Weying to serve as his lawyer, Eddie informed her of the situation and sent her to find Venom. Brock reveals that Venom has separated from him and needs the symbiote to fight Carnage together.

As Venom makes his way through San Francisco by hopping from body to body, Weying finds and convinces him to forgive Brock. She bonds with Venom and breaks Brock out of the police station. Brock and Venom make amends after Eddie apologizes to him - bonding again.

#### Duel at Grace Cathedral

*"I'm a killer with or without the monster, Eddie. You know what I really wanted?"
"No. What was it, Cletus?"
"I told you, but you weren't listening."
"Well, I'm listening now."
"I wanted your friendship."
"I'm sorry, Cletus."*
―Cletus Kasady and Eddie Brock[src]

Eddie and the Venom symbiote reconciled and it rebonded to him, but were later contacted by Dr. Lewis - who informed them that Detective Mulligan and Anne Weying had been captured by Cletus Kasady and his lover Frances Barrison. Venom crashed Cletus' makeshift marriage to Frances, but upon seeing Cletus transform into Carnage the Venom symbiote panicked and withdrew into Eddie's body, forcing him to bribe it by offering to let it eat anyone it wanted.

While Carnage had initially overpowered Venom in the ensuing battle, Eddie made Venom notice that Cletus' bond to the Carnage symbiote was inferior to their own - due to Carnage's desire to kill Frances due to her sonic powers conflicting with Cletus' love for her. Venom had provoked Frances into attacking with her sonic scream, separating both Eddie and Cletus from their symbiotes - collapsing the cathedral in the process.

The Venom symbiote re-bonded to Eddie, saving him from being crushed by the debris, and Venom ate the Carnage symbiote before it could re-bond to him. As Venom picked the defenselessness and injured Cletus up, the serial killer asked to speak to Eddie - who partially retracted the Venom symbiote from his face. Admitting that he was a murderer with or without the Carnage symbiote, Cletus told Eddie that all he'd really wanted was for Eddie to be his friend. Eddie apologized to Cletus, but the Venom symbiote was unmoved and devoured Cletus' head before contemptuously tossing his body aside. As the police arrived to investigate the scene of the battle, Venom escaped with Anne and Dr. Lewis.

### Transferal to Another Universe

#### Discovering Spider-Man

*"Where are we? What did you do?"
"It wasn't me."*
―Eddie Brock and Venom[src]
Going on the run from the authorities after being marked as fugitives, Eddie and the Venom symbiote traveled to South America, deciding to travel the world protecting the innocent as a superhero. While resting at a hotel, the Venom symbiote explained to Eddie that the Symbiote Hive-Mind granted it billions of years' worth of knowledge from wherever symbiotes existed across the Multiverse.

When offered a glimpse into the Hive-Mind, Eddie agreed despite the Venom symbiote warning that this could drive him insane; but before the symbiote could do anything they were suddenly engulfed by a mysterious shockwave, finding themselves in a mostly identical hotel room in an otherwise unfamiliar location.

While, Eddie and Venom expressed confusion as to what had happened, a broadcast by a news station called *The Daily Bugle* aired on the television, with the anchor J. Jonah Jameson denouncing Peter Parker - aka Spider-Man - as a supervillain for the murder of Mysterio. The symbiote engulfing Eddie, Venom declared his intent to eat Spider-Man and licked the screen. As the hotel room's occupant returned, the symbiote quickly retracted into Eddie's body, leaving him to answer the man's demands as to why an intruder was in his room.

#### Return

Eddie and Venom were drinking in a bar in that universe and learning about the heroes and threats of it, when they were returned back due to the correction of a magic spell.

## Personality

*"You are pathologically self-absorbed. Your ego requires constant attention, and you're stubborn as hell."*
―Anne Weying to Eddie Brock[src]
Eddie Brock can be described as somewhat of a narcissist as shown when he continuously disregarded the Venom's contribution to the improvement in his life. Following her losing her job because of Eddie's violation of her privacy, Anne Weying described Brock as pathologically self-absorbed, stating his ego requires constant attention and that he is "stubborn as hell." Despite becoming jaded after losing his job, Eddie ultimately decides to help Dora Skirth expose Carlton Drake's crimes, leading to him bonding to the Venom symbiote.

Despite his flaws, Eddie possesses a strong sense of justice that compels him to punish those he sees as evil, rooted in his childhood desire to be seen as a hero. However, this compulsion lead to him committing morally questionably acts himself; and saw him being discredited as a reporter in New York, violating Anne Weying's privacy in order to obtain incriminating evidence against Carlton Drake, and ultimately cost him his job at the MNBN.

Despite being disgusted and frightened by the Venom symbiote's bloodlust, Eddie quickly grows to revel in the power it gives him, and is offended and outraged when he discovers that it has been consuming him from the inside-out. Following their reunion, Eddie was initially still bitter towards it; and after the defeat of the Life Foundation, he makes sure to stipulate that the symbiote cannot eat whoever it wants, but can only target bad people.

While Eddie initially expresses hope that he and Anne could get back together, he comes to accept her relationship with Dr. Dan Lewis and apologizes for ruining her career as a lawyer.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"You have a strong host."*
―Riot to Venom[src]
* **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 human form.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: With Venom, Eddie can effortlessly pick up and throw adult humans considerable distances, even when not fully enveloped in it. As Venom, Eddie could crush an entire car by jumping onto it, in part due to his added size. He was able to fight against Carlton Drake who was bonded with Riot, and despite being initially overpowered and even killed by Riot, Venom was able to revive Eddie in the knick of time to blow up the rocket containing Drake and Riot to kill them for good.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: With Venom, Eddie can withstand numerous impact forces that can cause any sort of discomfort, such as withstanding gas grenades, explosives that are thrown at him, and a severe attack from the Riot symbiote.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: With Venom, Eddie can move at superhuman speeds, outpacing trained mercenaries using military grade vehicles and equipment.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: With Venom, Eddie has superhuman levels of agility far greater than regular humans. Able to effortlessly navigate up large buildings.
	+ **Shapeshifting**:     *To be added*
	+ **Tentacle Extension**: With Venom, Eddie can extend the symbiote matter at will, forming them into tendril and tentacle-like appendages allowing him to knock down enemies and grapple towards objects and structures.
	+ **Wall-Crawling**: With Venom, Eddie has gained the ability to cling onto walls by controlling the symbiote's movements. Having to go inside up a building, Eddie had to vertically scale onto the surface without falling. Despite being able to descend into very upscale heights, Venom is able to attach itself to a wall and save Eddie from a fall.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: With Venom, Eddie can heal his damaged limbs by letting the symbiote fix his broken leg and instantly recover from it.
	+ **Telepathy**: Eddie can communicate with Venom telepathically.

### Abilities

*"There isn't a better investigative reporter working today, but no one is above the network."*
―Jack to Eddie Brock[src]
* **Expert Investigator**: Eddie is an expert investigative reporter. He is the former host of *The Eddie Brock Report*, with his old boss stating that he was one of the best investigative reporters working then. Before he was fired, he discovered Carlton Drake's fatal experiments with symbiotes on the homeless, and he learned of Cletus Kasady's roots.
* **Skilled Combatant**: Eddie is somewhat skilled in unarmed hand-to-hand combat. He fought against Carlton Drake, demonstrating techniques from professional wrestling. When bonded with Venom, his fighting skills are greatly enhanced, as they allow him to contend with armed security guards. Although he seemed to be easily overpowered when faced with the serial killer Cletus Kasady.

*"You know, I used to be a reporter. I was... I was pretty successful as well, you know? My job, it required you to... you know, to follow people that did not want to be followed and hide in plain sight. I mean... you have to know how to disappear. I was pretty good, but, you know, you... whoever you are, you suck."*
―Eddie Brock to Dora Skirth[src]
* **Stealth:** As a result of being a great reporter, Eddie has shown great ability to avoid being seen in certain situations. He was able to successfully infiltrate the Life Foundation and would have succeeded if he hadn't tried to save Maria, which is what got him caught. Eddie was also able to evade the authorities following his escape from the police station while searching for Cletus Kasady and Carnage.

## Weaknesses

* **Symbiote Separation**: If the symbiote Venom is not connected to Eddie, he is just a normal human without powers and is vulnerable to injury or death, as shown when he tried taunting an armed Roland Treece and attacking him, to no avail.
* **Sensitivity to high frequencies:** Under Venom, Eddie is sensitive to extreme loud noises too, causing severe pain if the symbiote isn't removed from him.

## Relationships

* Carl Brock - Father

Allies* Anne Weying - Ex-Fiancée and Close Friend
* Mr. Belvedere - Former Pet
* *The Eddie Brock Report*
	+ Jack - Former Boss
	+ Richard - Friend
* Jack - Friend
* Hotel Schueller
	+ Ziggy - Neighbor
* Daily Globe
	+ Barney Bushkin - Former Boss
* Dan Lewis - Friend
* Life Foundation
	+ Dora Skirth †
* Mrs. Chen - Friend
* Venom - Symbiote, Savior, and Best Friend
* Stan Lee
* Cher
* Sonny
	+ Carlton Drake/Riot † - Interviewee, Attempted Killer, and Victim
	+ Roland Treece † - Attempted Killer
* Maria † - Friend turned Attempted Killer
* Shakedown Thug † - Victim
* San Francisco Police Department - Former Allies
	+ Patrick Mulligan
* Cletus Kasady/Carnage † - Interviewee, Attempted Killer, and Victim
* Frances Barrison/Shriek †
* Peter Parker/Spider-Man

## Appearances

* *Venom*
* *Venom*
* *Venom: Let There Be Carnage*
* *Venom 3* (unreleased)

## Trivia

* In the comics, **Edward Charles Allan Brock** is a reporter who was embarrassed in front of his fellow journalists by Spider-Man. Developing a hatred for Spider-Man, he headed to a church to commit suicide where he bonded with a symbiote, becoming Venom.
* Eddie Brock in Sony's Spider-Man Universe is the second incarnation of the character following an incarnation portrayed by Topher Grace.
* This version of Eddie Brock/Venom appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film *Spider-Man: No Way Home*.

## Behind the Scenes

* Jacob Tomuri, Dave Lovano, Jimmy N. Roberts and Tony Carbajal were stunt doubles for Tom Hardy in the role of Venom.

## References

1. ↑ *Venom: Let There Be Carnage*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 *Venom: Let There Be Carnage*
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 *Venom*
4. ↑ *Venom 2* Is Set About A Year & A Half After First Movie
5. ↑ As depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film *Spider-Man: No Way Home*.

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## External Links

* Eddie Brock on Marvel Database
* Eddie Brock on Wikipedia
* Eddie Brock on X
* Eddie Brock on Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki