Venom/Earth-616

*"Been to many worlds, but **none** of them this strange. Understood **feelings** before, but simple feelings - like colors, bold and bright. Happy. Sad. Angry. Then... met Spider-Man. Feelings got **complicated**. Learned guilt. Also the first time I felt **fear**. Felt **agony**. Learned feeling: **Betrayal**. Learned **first words** they called me. Monster. Parasite. **Bad**. [...] Feels **good** to be a hero. Did bad things, too. Can't deny. **Mac Gargan** was bad. Thoughts like poison stingers. It was a thrill to kill. **Knew** it was bad. Didn't care. Gargan made it **easy**. Got to punish Gargan for what he did. He was evil and afraid. Lee Price was not afraid. He was a **soldier**. Hurt and desperate. I **trusted** him. **Talked** to him. But Lee was too strong. Didn't want to talk. Didn't want to be a hero. Wanted power. Couldn't stop the bad things he was doing. Lee was bad. **Hurt** me. Eddie hurts me too, sometimes, but Eddie is **different**. Eddie never means to. [...] If Eddie is good, why do we disagree? If disagree... am I a monster? Parasite? **Bad?** Can't be bad. Wasn't bad with Flash. Fought with **heroes**. **Was** a hero. Trained another **symbiote**. Got to **learn**. Got to **teach**. Flash called me **partner**. Was never afraid like Spider-Man. But Flash is gone... and heroes don't **hide**. Not from anything... especially their **mistakes**."*
―Venom[src]
**Venom** is the name of an alien symbiote spawned by the elder god Knull, who's will it denied. Imprisoned by its fellow species on its home planet, a prison inadvertently incorporated into the Beyonder's Battleworld, Venom would eventually come across Peter Parker, alias Spider-Man, who brought it to Earth with him during the Secret Wars.

With Parker's impression of Venom having a negative effect on him, he took his blackened suit off at the Our Lady of Saint's Church, happening to bond with a suicidal Eddie Brock, praying for forgiveness. Taking on Parker, Brock's rival, and many others, the two parted ways. Venom would then find hosts such as Mac Gargan and Flash Thompson, with whom they'd become **Agent Venom**. Separated from Thompson, the symbiote bonded with ex-Army Ranger Lee Price, worsening his corruption. Once reunited with Brock, his corruption was cleansed by a serum derived from Venom's remains in Brock's body, which brought the disease of cancer onto him. Cured by Mr. Negative's Lightforce ability, the remains would help Brock become the Anti-Venom.

With the resurgence of Knull, Brock had him defeated and passed down the mantle of "Venom" to his long lost son Dylan Brock.

## Personality

*"Though we are a benevolent species, there is no literature on my my home planet. And though it is our goal to make the universe better, we create no art, no music, no culture. At least, not as other civilizations would understand it. All we have are our **hosts** -- the beings we join with -- to forge through the cold and unforgiving cosmos with. The bond between a Symbiote and its host is sacred. They give our lives context and our existence meaning. They give us history. All we have are our hosts to tell us who we are."*
―Venom[src]
1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *The Amazing Spider-Man*
2. ↑ *Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man*
3. ↑ *Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality*