Eddie Brock

Eddie Brock was a freelance photographer, and former staff photographer of the Daily Bugle. After making a rivalry with Peter Parker was humiliated by Parker pointing out his fraudulent pictures, he became vengeful and bonded to the discarded Venom Symbiote to become **Venom**, they would team up with Flint Marko to take down Parker who is Spider-Man. However, Eddie was killed when he attempted to rebound with Venom after it was implemented with a Pumpkin Bomb.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Trying to Catch Spider-Man

Eddie was working freelance for the Daily Bugle when the vigilante Spider-Man first showed up, however over the course of weeks Eddie would only get very bad photos of him. Eddie would later show up less their when Peter Parker sold much better photos of the Web-Head, becoming an unofficial photographer for the Bugle.

### Return to the Bugle

In 2007 Eddie would return to the Bugle for freelance. During that time, he would have coffee with Gwen Stacy, however he would interpret it as a date, falling for Stacy.

The following day he would hear and be sent to take photos of a construction crane hitting a nearby building. After arriving, Eddie took photos of the crash, but saw Gwen hanging from the building. Eddie would explain that it was Gwen, too the surprise of her father NYPD Captain George Stacy. George would ask who he was, which Eddie would introduce himself, before telling him that he was dating his daughter. Gwen would fall from the building, only to be saved by Spider-Man. After the damage was averted, Eddie began taking pictures of Spidey. Confused Spider-Man would ask what happened to the Other Guy. Eddie asked if he meant Parker, before telling him that he would take photos of him from now on to help him, calling Parker coverage of the Web-Head awful. However, Spider-Man would swing away before Eddie could finish his coverage.

### Death

After Parker disoriented Venom, he took the opportunity to web Eddie and yank him off of Venom to save him. When Eddie saw Peter grabbing a Pumpkin Bomb, he asked him what he was doing. Eddie not wanting to give up the power, Eddie jumped back into Venom to grab the bomb. However, it went off before Eddie could reach it, vaporizing Venom and Eddie to death.

## Personality

Normally, Brock is arrogant and cocky about his abilities, egging on Parker constantly to make himself look good, and calling his photos awful. Eddie was also a kiss up as he constantly complimented Gwen Stacy, who he bragged about being her boyfriend, along with complimenting J. Jonah Jameson to get promoted. After he was challenged to take an incriminating photo of Spider-Man, he doctored photos to get what he needed.
After Eddie Bonded with the Venom Symbiote, his anger toward Peter was enhanced, to want to murder Parker and Mary Jane to take revenge for his embarrassment, with Eddie stating that he was happing being bad.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Symbiotic Enhancement**: After bonding with Venom, Eddie inherited a copy of Spider-Man's powers along with powers from the Symbiotes.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**:
	+ **Superhuman Durability**:
	+ **Superhuman Speed**:
	+ **Superhuman Agility**:
	+ **Shapeshifting**:
	+ **Wall-Crawling**:
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**:
	+ **Biological Webbing Generation**:
	+ **Enhanced Senses**:
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**:

## Equipment

* ***Camera***: Brock used two different types of cameras as a photographer.

## Facilities

* ***Daily Bugle Office***: Eddie used to work at the Daily Bugle Office, however after he was fired, Eddie left.
* ***Church***: After hitting rock-bottom, Eddie went to a cathedral to ask God to kill Peter Parker, however he found Parker tearing up the Venom suit off of him, which Eddie bonded to.
* ***Construction Site***: Eddie, Venom, and Flint Marko took Mary Jane Watson, to a construction site where he held her captive. However, the construction site was used against Eddie and Venom to separate then accidently kill them.

## Trivia

* In Venom: Let There Be Carnage, an alternate version of Venom told Eddie that the symbiotes had hive knowledge throughout the Multiverse, which was how him and Eddie Brock were brought in Earth-199999 since the hive-mind knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man. This suggested that the knowledge came from this version of Eddie and Venom.

## Behind the Scenes

* This is the first live-action portrayal of Eddie Brock and Venom. It would later be followed up by Tom Hardy.