Who is venom in spiderman comics

The symbiote's third human host, Eddie Brock , had been a reporter for the Daily Globe who was fired after Spider-Man debunked his story exposing the identity of the Sin-Eater , humiliating him and ruining his career to the point where he could only find work with cheap gossip magazines.

Contemplating suicide after being disowned by his abusive father and divorced by his wife , Eddie entered Our Lady of Saint's Church to pray for forgiveness.

Attracted by his mutual hatred towards Spider-Man, the symbiote bonded with Eddie, suggesting the name " Venom " for their merged form. When bonded, Venom spoke using the first person plural we , signifying that Brock and the symbiote were two separate entities joined together - although, on occasion, Eddie referred to it as "My Other and I".

They fought Spider-Man many times, and came close to winning on several occasions. By this time, Spider-Man had married Mary Jane Watson , and Venom scared her horribly, causing her to ask Spider-Man to stop wearing the black costume and return to his original suit.

Despite its bond to Eddie, the symbiote viewed him as an inferior host and saw Spider-Man as its soul mate, frequently making efforts to return to him in between attempts to kill him.

During a battle between Spider-Man, Styx , and Stone, the symbiote was seemingly killed by Styx's lethal touch. When Carnage proved more powerful than its progenitor, Spider-Man revealed his survival to Venom and arranged a temporary truce to subdue him. Venom eventually arranged a truce with Spider-Man and relocated to San Francisco , [66] becoming the defender of the Underground City.

Driving off the Juggernaut, the symbiote and Eddie were pulled into the Realm of Madness but managed to escape and expelled the virus. When Eddie's ex-wife Anne Weying was mortally wounded after being shot by the second Sin-Eater , Eddie urged the Venom symbiote to bond with and heal her. Under the influence of the symbiote, Anne impulsively murdered a pair of thugs, an act she instantly regretted. Suspecting the negative influence the symbiote's bloodlust was having on him, Eddie rejected it and in its despair, the symbiote unleashed a psychic scream that accidentally alerted the Symbiote Hive to Earth's location.

Revealing itself, the Venom symbiote rebonded to Eddie and conveyed some of its backstory to him, Spider-Man, and the Scarlet Spider. In the wake of the Symbiote Invasion, Anne was taken into police custody and used as bait to lure Venom into an ambush; Eddie sending the symbiote through the phone's landline to jailbreak her. As She-Venom, Anne again succumbed to the symbiote's bloodlust but returned the symbiote to Eddie when he was mortally wounded.

As the symbiote's bloodlust grew, it began attempting to force Eddie to satiate its growing appetite for flesh, as it had previously with Anne Weying, [77] [78] and abandoned him when he refused to do so. The rampaging symbiote attempted to devour Eddie, who was able to temporarily curb its hunger using chocolate. The symbiote was briefly separated from Eddie by Senator Ward , who wanted to study it to better understand his own alien affliction, [85] though it was eventually returned to him.

After Eddie lost his memories following his stint as a government agent, the symbiote influenced him into relapsing into villainy as Venom and attempting to eat Sandman and Spider-Man. During a battle between Venom, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four, the symbiote's tongue was severed and wound up in the possession of the Ararat Corporation , which used it to create a modified clone of the symbiote.

Fully taking over Eddie, the Venom symbiote attempted to coach the Carnage symbiote through the birth of its first offspring, which it dubbed Toxin. Venom initially planned to train Toxin, whose host was a policeman , but formed a temporary truce with Carnage in an unsuccessful attempt to kill it lest it turn on them and prove too powerful to stop.

Having a Christian reawakening after watching the Passion of Christ , Eddie was unable to stomach the symbiote's bloodlust and decided to expunge himself of it by selling it at a super villain auction and donating the money to charity. The symbiote was purchased by Maggia don Vincente Fortunato , who gave it to his son Angelo Fortunato. After bonding to Angelo, the symbiote revealed Spider-Man's secret identity to him and they attacked Peter Parker at a class reunion.

As Venom, Angelo quickly learned how to use the symbiote's powers and initially overwhelmed Spider-Man, but after he killed a civilian dressed as the superhero Spider-Man stopped holding back and turned the tables against the fledgling super villain. When Angelo fled from Spider-Man, the symbiote deemed him an unworthy host and scornfully abandoning him to fall to his death while he was jumping between buildings. Bonded to Mac Gargan. The Venom symbiote later approached MacDonald "Mac" Gargan , who was considered a low-level villain as the Scorpion, offering him new abilities in exchange for killing Spider-Man.

Gargan bonded with the creature, which gave him an extra edge as part of Norman Osborn 's Sinister Twelve. Even with these additional powers, he was still swiftly defeated by Spider-Man, as the Avengers dealt with the rest of the Twelve.

Gargan later became a member of a sub-group of Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts , which was drafted by the Avengers to hunt down the members of the fugitive Secret Avengers.

In order to keep the increasingly feral symbiote in check, the government outfitted Gargan with electrical implants. Despite this, over time Gargan's control over the symbiote declined, leading to him expressing nausea and fear of the organism despite being addicted to its power. However, Li's Lightforce powers had altered remnants of the symbiote inside Eddie and caused them to form into a new, mindless symbiote called Anti-Venom.

As the symbiote's influence over him grew, Gargan became increasingly monstrous and bloodthirsty. However, in preparation for announcing his Dark Avengers, Osborn developed a symbiote suppressant compound that granted Gargan increased control over the symbiote and allowed him to shift between his Venom form and a smaller form identical to Symbiote Spider-Man at will, [] using this as a way of discrediting their old enemy Spider-Man. During the Dark Avengers' Siege of Asgard , Gargan and the symbiote went on a feeding frenzy before being confronted by Ms.

Marvel and Spider-Man. Marvel managed to rip Gargan from the symbiote, which promptly bonded to and took over her; mocking Spider-Man while trying to devour him.

With Spider-Man's help, Ms. Marvel was able to eventually force the symbiote off herself by flying into some power lines and expelling all the energy she had absorbed from them. Military removed it from Gargan and took it into custody for study. After an unsuccessful trial that ended with the recruit - Cal Henricksen - losing control and being terminated, the symbiote was assigned to Colonel Eugene "Flash" Thompson. While bonded to Flash, the symbiote took on the appearance of body armor, later manifesting chitinous spikes and a more exoskeletal appearance.

To keep it from going on out-of-control feeding frenzies, the Venom symbiote was dosed with symbiote suppressant drugs intended to lobotomize it.

However, the drug was imperfect and unable to fully suppress the symbiote, which frequently used Flash's anger issues to seize control and revert to its monstrous form. In retribution for this, the villain kidnapped Betty Brant , but gave the location to Flash only if he swore not to bother him anymore. The symbiote seized control when Venom was attacked by Jack O'Lantern and Spider-Man - who believed he had been the one who kidnapped Betty - but Flash managed to suppress its rampage long enough to tell Spider-Man where she was.

When the Project Rebirth 2. By this point, Eddie hated the Venom symbiote and was terrified at the prospect of being re-bonded to it, shedding tears as it covered him. While the symbiote was jubilant to return to its former host, Flash was able to convince it to return to him by telling it that Eddie would constantly fight its control.

Following this, the Crime-Master sent Jack O'Lantern to threaten Flash into carrying out missions for him to protect his family, the first of which was to steal the Toxin symbiote from Blackheart 's lair in Las Vegas.

With Red Hulk's testimony, Flash was pardoned by Captain America in recognition of his heroism and made a member of the Secret Avengers. It later left the gorilla and returned to Flash, saving him from being killed by Kasady. While investigating the Department of Occult Armaments , Flash was ambushed by Daimon Hellstrom , who possessed Flash with a powerful demon in an attempt to turn Venom into one of his Monsters of Evil , which backfired due to the Hell-Mark.

However, he was followed by both Toxin [] and the Jack O'Lantern. When the latter tried to kill his neighbor Andi Benton , Flash sent what he thought was a small portion of the symbiote to protect her though this would turn out to be the symbiote's clone , which bonded to her. Calling herself Mania, Andi set out to avenge her father using the cloned symbiote, while Flash interrogated the original symbiote to find out what had happened.

It scolded him for suppressing it and revealed it had shunted the Hell-Mark onto its clone to keep the demon from taking over them. With the symbiote wounded, Agent Venom revealed his identity to Spider-Man in the hopes that he would be shown mercy, and escaped when Spider-Man tried to kill him.

The symbiote, having grown more powerful in the years since Spider-Man had been its host, broke free and sought to return to its former host. As the "Superior Venom", Otto became even more vicious and aggressive under the symbiote's influence, using extreme violence against even minor infractions and lashing out at Aunt May when she was insensitive towards Anna Maria Marconi 's height. Mary Jane, thinking Peter had been overtaken by the symbiote, contacted the Avengers, [] who then engaged Venom in a fight just as he was about to kill some of Hobgoblin 's gang members.

With the symbiote's power, Otto was able to fight evenly with them, but he realized too late that the symbiote had been undermining his will and was soon taken over by it.

When Flash arrived in Iron Man's armor and tried to convince it to return to him, Venom lashed out in rage at having been controlled by drugs. Unable to suppress it or expel it, Otto gave in to despair but was saved by the remnant of Peter Parker's psyche, who expelled the symbiote. The symbiote returned to Flash, and later informed him something was wrong with Spider-Man.

Agent Venom joined Red Hulk's iteration of the Thunderbolts, although the violent methods the group employed undermined his control of the symbiote, enabling it to seize control and go on a feeding frenzy while on the Punisher 's mission to exterminate the Paguro Family and their clients.

The symbiote also devoured several True Fairies , but freaked out after witnessing their eldritch true forms. Red Hulk offered to kill the creature, but Flash - needing it to survive and having become addicted to its power - refused and rebonded himself to it. Once in space, the symbiote changed its appearance to lose all semblance of body armor while maintaining an exoskeletal appearance and manifesting a jagged mouth. Sensing the symbiote's return to space, the Symbiotes hive-mind reached out to it across the cosmos and tried to reconnect to it, [31] causing Flash to lose control of it as it lashed out in rage and confusion, taking on an insectoid appearance when berserk.

However, the symbiote escaped containment and took over the nearby Groot. After being separated from Groot by Drax , the symbiote took over Rocket, transforming his arms into bio-mechanical multi-barreled guns and demanding the Guardians turn over their ship to it.

After being purged of its bloodlust, the symbiote took on the appearance of bulky body armor with a face markedly resembling that of the Destroyer , though it could still manifest its signature fangs and tongue. After being cleansed, the symbiote developed the ability to hear the "voice" of the Cosmos, guiding it to those in need of protection; and the ability to take on humanoid form independently of its host for short periods of time.

Seeking to corrupt Flash, it lured him to its first host's homeworld, where it took him over and it attempted to drive him insane with his darkest memories. With the help of Flash's new allies, the symbiote was subdued and contained, and was taken back to Klyntar to be re-cleansed. Instead, it was placed on trial by the Agents of the Cosmos and nearly executed, but with Flash's help it managed to overcome its bloodlust and learned that its cleansing had failed due to Mania having been corrupted and taken over by the Hell-Mark.

A spider-bot detected the presence of Flash and the symbiote, tracking them to Philadelphia. Believing the symbiote to be evil and that it had taken over his friend, Peter — as Spider-Man — ambushed Venom using anti-symbiote technology developed at Parker Industries.

Despite both Flash and the symbiote protesting that they didn't want to fight, Spider-Man separated the symbiote from Flash, preparing to imprison it in his lab. Enraged, the Venom symbiote used its ability to take on humanoid form without a host to catch Peter by surprise and easily overwhelmed him. Trying to lead it away from civilians, Spider-Man quipped that they were old friends due to him being a former host, which to his surprise the symbiote didn't remember.

The symbiote prevented Spider-Man from fleeing and bonded to him, but instead of taking over him it showed him memories of its birth and first host, explaining its origins and that the cleanse had purged it of all its memories except those of its original host — who had corrupted it and left it with an addiction to rage — and Flash Thompson.

The symbiote noted that Peter was teeming with rage towards it, and sincerely apologized for everything it had done to him, stating that it was no longer the Venom he knew and hated. Accepting that the symbiote had changed for the better, Spider-Man volunteered to help Venom find Mania, and assisted in capturing her before returning to New York. Andi, corrupted by the Hell-Mark, tried to take both the Mania and Venom symbiotes from Flash, but Venom's allies arrived in time to stop her and suppress the demonic corruption.

While it regained control of itself, the symbiote did not return to Flash out of shame at enjoying being bloodthirsty and angry. New host , new problems. In search of a new host after being separated from Flash Thompson, the symbiote came across former Army Ranger Lee Price when he was about to be gunned down in a shootout between Tombstone 's gang and Black Cat's gang. It bonded to him to protect him and was initially excited to discover he was a soldier, but was quickly horrified when he dominated it with his will and proceeded to massacre both groups of gangs, forcing the memories of his traumatic childhood on it to shut it up when it protested.

Unable to directly control Lee due to his Army Rangers training, the symbiote resigned itself to being bonded to him, but attempted to sabotage his application to Black Cat's gang by causing him to vomit, and tried to refuse to aid him in fighting off the assassin sent by Tombstone to kill him - though when injured by flames it lashed out and killed the assassin.

The symbiote was introduced as an antagonist and his persona continues to be seen as such due to his inherently malicious traits. Venom is unique for the fact that he was essentially a part of Peter for some time. Venom is essentially what an evil version of Spider-Man would look like who has no qualms about crossing lines.

This aspect offers fans an insight into both the personalities of Spider-Man and Venom himself, making the characters two sides of the same coin. The issue was dedicated to depicting how Eddie Brock bonded with the symbiote, as Peter reacted with horror that the villain came as a result of him disposing of it. Yup, this Peter Parker. Sony Pictures. Peter Parker dresses in black, in Secret Wars 8.

Marvel Comics. Byrne, who was working with writer Chris Claremont on Iron Fist at the time, noticed this illogical pattern. We never got around to using that in Iron Fist , and years later, after Spider-Man got his alien costume in Secret Wars , Roger Stern asked if he could use the notion, and added the idea that the suit was some kind of symbiote. The idea of a symbiote comes from the symbiotic relationships we see in nature — when two organisms e.

Venom being symbiote began with the kernel of an idea from Byrne that Stern then implemented; eventually, writer David Michelinie and artist Todd McFarlane took the reins and created Venom as a fully fleshed-out character, along with a proper, plural noun and alien race known as the Symbiotes. Derived from the meaning of their name, the Symbiotes need a host to bond with and give that host superpowers Venom has super strength, agility, and shape-shifting abilities in exchange for life force, usually in the form of adrenaline.

While Venom has had multiple hosts in comics over the years, the one that we and the Symbiote keep coming back to is a man known as Eddie Brock. Part of that is due to the similarities Brock shares with Peter Parker: Brock was a journalist, like Parker, and blames Spider-Man for his career failings.

Brock thought he had cracked a big murder case, but it turns out his source the murderer was a false confessor. But the other major reason that Venom became such a phenomenon is that the character functions as something of an antihero — or perhaps an antivillain. Characters that straddled the line between good and evil — heroes who had destructive urges or a history of killing think: Wolverine and the Punisher and conscientious villains think: Magneto or even Deadpool — became beloved.

The movie is loosely based on this comic. Venom: Lethal Protector also pits Venom against other, more vicious symbiotes with less humanity, allowing writers to establish a moral spectrum that ends up casting Venom in a more positive light.