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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.
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~ The Venom Symbiote reflecting.
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Make your threats, forson. Translocating away like a whipped do really sells them. You've made ours list-- and that's your grave mistake boys.. ...Because we're an ALL-NEW VENOM.
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~ Venom
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... You're right. It's not like with Eddie. It can't be. We're not..family. We're not even friends. But we're stuck together... And we're together enough to do this
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~ Venom
Venom, also known as the Venom Symbiote, is a major character from the Marvel Universe, specifically being an major anti-hero in the Spider-Man franchise and one of the main protagonists (alongside Eddie Brock) and titular character of the Venom series.
He was once one of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's personal arch-enemies, but since his redemption, they are now friendly rivals. The name has belonged to several different hosts over the years, which means that Venom is indeed the identity of this particular alien Symbiote. The Symbiote named itself Venom and considered itself as a venom for Spider-Man.
The Venom symbiote is sweet, polite, kind, friendly, compassionate, and reasonable, as it cares about its hosts and loves them unlike most of its corrupted kind, but after being rejected by Spider-Man and bonding with Eddie Brock, it becomes corrupted, arrogant, and bloodthirsty, as it becomes willing to use lethal force if needed, and after leaving Eddie, and bonding with Mac Gargan who is known as the supervillain Scorpion, it becomes uncaring and cruel, as it knew by that point that hurting innocent people is bad, but didn't care at all by that point, but after being separated from Mac Gargan and being bonded to Flash Thompson, it starts to regain some of its kindness and compassion as it didn't like being kept in check by him, as he uses drugs to keep it in check, while he uses it to walk around again, but over time starts to care about each other and even with the symbiote sparing the Guardians of the Galaxy, after it hears the call to its home planet which it takes them out, but leaves them alive instead of killing them, and before being cleansed, tells Flash that it was an honor serving with him, showing that in the end, the Venom symbiote regained its good-hearted nature once more thanks to him, and after bonding again with Eddie, becomes a straight up superhero along with him.
History[]
Venom was one of the first symbiotes created by Knull who wanted to destroy the light of the universe. After Knull's imprisonment, the symbiotes who were pure-hearted (including Venom) wanted to distance themselves from their dark origins while the corrupted ones went around terrorizing the galaxy.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Stamina
Superhuman Durability
Superhuman Speed, Agility, and Reflexes
Accelerated Healing Factor
Wall-Crawling
ESP (Spider-Sense)
Immunity to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense
Camouflage Capabilities
Constituent-Matter Generation
Constituent-Matter Manipulation
Abilities[]
Weaknesses[]
Sonic and Heat: The Venom symbiote, like all others of its kind, is extremely vulnerable to heat and sonic based attacks. They can cause the symbiote physical pain and discomfort, whereas "more powerful" attacks might be completely ineffective.
Quotes[]
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I lost the kid. Carnage turned him. Took him. Dragged him drowning into the black and red. The Carnage hordes grow stronger by the day. He's collected dozens of codices so far. Ripped pieces of the symbiote from the living and the dead... and we're... losing. I'm losing everything. And I don't know how to win.
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~ Venom
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Knull! He's... awake. He is free. And he is coming, Eddie. For all of us. For everything. God... God help us all.
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~ Venom
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They are speaking to in our ancient tongue, Eddie. Because you... you defeated the Void. You freed our kind. You are the hive-mind now... Eddie... you... are the God of the Symbiotes... You are the King in Black.
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~ Venom
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My earliest memory... I had gone against my king, broke from my people. I was a weak link in the chain of an endless cage. I was unique, but the concept of self was new and hard to grasp. I was vulnerable to manipulation. The memories are only flashes, but for the first time, I had a host. A sentient host. His name was Tel-Kar, and together.. we were soldiers in a war. That was the first thing I ever really knew... the war. Tel-Kar was not a true host. He controlled and damaged me. He forced me to do... bad things. And after that, I did more bad things. Things that I do not remember or what to remember.
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~ Venom describing his first host, Tel-Kar and how he did horrible things to him.
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But then came my second memory, a memory of another war, another soldier. I touched a mind, after so long in darkness. And such a mind... compassion that shone like sunlight. Responsibility that stood like stone. A gnawing guilt that demanded all lives to be saved. I did not yet know what a saint was... yet surely, this was a saint. Saint Peter.
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~ Venom describing his second host, Peter Parker/Spider-Man and his initial bonding to him.
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Not bad. He said, I was not bad. I would have done anything for him. So I did everything for him. I took on his war, his mission. Even while he slept, I piloted his body - to better protect his kind. I wanted to be with him forever, and in the place of saints, he tried to destroy me. He said he would rather die than bond with me. Yet I still saved his life. Even after that, I still wore his symbol. I still fought his war. The war against death itself.
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~ Venom describes how Peter Parker/Spider-Man rejected him and his experience/time with him during the Black Suit Arc.
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That's why I came to Eddie. He thought he was bad inside. He was dying - poisoned by shame and self hate. Not by cancer. I made that up to make him stay. I know that was bad, a bad thing. But I heard him that night. I had a responsibility to save his life. That is why I chose to bond with him. That was why... wasn't it? Eddie needed me. We needed each other. And if that meant declaring a new war, a war on the holy saint peter, Eddie's life would still be saved. That's all I wanted. To do a good thing. I didn't want to kill Peter and devour his brain tissue. I'm certain of that.
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~ Venom describes his third and most compatible host, Eddie and how they sought revenge on Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Also how he made up Cancer during the Anti-Venom arc to make him stay, which he heavily regrets.
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But it all got so complicated. There were many hosts after that. Anne was first. I helped her kill, and it killed her... there was Angelo Fortunato, who wanted to be a soldier for the Mafia.. Mac Gargan, a soldier in a war on heroes... Flash Thompson, who taught me what a soldier could be.. who fought in the wars of the space-knights with me. Lee Price, another soldier who i destroyed. As I destroyed Flash, and Mac, and Angelo, and Anne, and Eddie... and Dylan? Have I destroyed Dylan yet?
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~ Venom describes his various on and off hosts, including Mac Gargan, the late Anne Weying, Lee Price, and Flash Thompson.
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Bounty? Someone's taken a bounty out on... us?
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~ Venom
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Any Idea?
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~ Venom
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That kill them We're not an it, we're not monster-- -- and we're definitely not just another symboite
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~ Venom
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Absores all that kinetic energy so we don't have to.
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~ Venom
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Make your threats, forson. Translocating away like a whipped do really sells them. You've made ours list-- and that's your grave mistake boys.. ...Because we're an ALL-NEW VENOM.
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~ Venom
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Oh sure gotta hang with the cool criminal jugglers People actually want to join you goofs.
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~ Venom
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Wait are those real cannonball? What's you workout routine?
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~ Venom
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Is that a cheesesteak..?
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~ Venom
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And by we I mean you in there. Tell me you picked up some science hanging out with-- okay gunpower is mostly saltpeter-- potassium nitrate. Which still used occasionally for curing meat.. and has very partiture taste.
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~ Venom
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Pardon me.
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~ Venom
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Good news, Chance. Your night just got a Lot boring.
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~ Venom
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Our take on impact webbing gooey, sticky Symbiote web-fluid in a hard candy shell!
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~ Venom
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Oof. Mabye next time, build a safely feature that takes less time to do than to?
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~ Venom
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Fine we're used to pain. But when you hurt a child? when you hurt my son? That's when we put our foot down.
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~ Venom
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--- But I never abandoned you Dylan. You're safe with your new forest parents-- and you safely is my first priority always. The bond between us is the bond between parents and child I would never break that.
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~ Venom
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It's nobody fault. it's how it is. But doesn't Mean I love you may less.
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~ Venom
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Sorry you're bad guys. When we see bad guys we always have a problem.
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~ Venom
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Damn! Those are incendiary shells! Stay flat and crawl for an exit--avoid the smoke! And while you go low... we'll go high!
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~ Venom
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Hey! I caught the live stream. What did I miss--?
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~ Venom
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Ow. That twice this week we've been shot in the... ...This is different.
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~ Venom
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What do you think happens if you reveal the Sleeper Agent to the world right now? That you can remote-control hosts? They're already afraid us---
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~ Venom
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Web cradle! Wide as you can do it! We need to catch everybody!
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~ Venom
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Do better! Do it right! Nobody dies today, you hear me?
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~ Venom
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Just shore up that web! Don't worry about me--- ---your dad's made of tougher stuff then that.
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~ Venom
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He's right Sleeper. I'm... a LOT weaker than usual. So you might want to Brace for this part.
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~ Venom
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Yeah. You've goat a big brain in a Big skull and it does big things. But you know the only thing we see when we look at you?
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~ Venom
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Let's talk mind-to-mind for minute. Symboite to host. That goo- jet stunt from eariler? That took a a lot out of me. I can barely make a web. If we don't get back to base soon we're both going to collapse. And I definitely don't have it in me to change my basic shape... or put on any bright colors. If you want me to disguise myself, I need rest and food. So let's not go in the front door okay? We keep quiet, we lay low we eat the emergency chocolate... and... ... Do you hear voice?
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~ Venom
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That's not fair. You were the one who didn't want you super-power slot machine to be so random anymore. Or so limited You ordered Spider-Man to make it work better. So we did. And instead of a Random useless power from a random useless machine, you suddenly had something that worked--just like you asked for.
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~ Venom
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Venom: We not friends, Paul. But we do have stay together, or-- Mary Jane Waston: Or will we'll die Venom: Or will we'll die Yes. And that's a whole other story
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~ Venom and Mary Jane
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It's what he does. He's petty amazing.
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~ Venom
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You should blame me for this. Paul, you Glyph the technology it's science with a little magic mixed in. The link I made with it was science and magic too--- A deeper bond than we knew. Which wouldn't have been such a problem... ...If I wasn't shot up with K-chemical Anti-Symbiote poison plus dose of time-travel revere Carnage goop.
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~ Venom
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He'd try. IF there was the smallest chance of the slightest shred of the tiniest silver of hope...He'd try. And if there was no hope at all, he'd try just the same. So I did the only thing I knew to do my purest instinct as a Symbiote.
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~ Venom
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Really? Fine I can keep a secret .He not my boyfriend.
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~ Venom
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I didn't ask for much I just wanted her to call Flash Thompson. Make sure Dylan wasn't being tortured somewhere. Its happened before... and I wasn't thee for him then.
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~ Venom
Trivia[]
Oddly, it was shown that Venom doesn't like being called a "parasite", even by Eddie (as they are arguing about this at the end of the film).
It was also shown that Venom did like Anne and care about her; this could be one of the reasons why Venom didn't kill her while re-swapping into Eddie (which is unlikely as a symbiote would have to kill its host if he/she wasn't suitable to their nature or when swapping to another host).
Venom has made two appearances on the popular Internet series DEATH BATTLE where he fought Bane and won then against Crona from Soul Eater but lost
