5/2/2024 0 Comments Venom google drive![]() On top of making the Venom symbiote a truly evil being (boring), it also made it so that Eddie Brock wasn’t just a reporter who actually worked alongside Peter at the Daily Bugle rather than the comic’s Daily Globe, but he also appeared in multiple episodes beforehand so as to build the character up. The first post-Venom adaptation of Spider-Man was the 90s Spider-Man the Animated Series. ![]() I suppose that you could focus on his catholic background and how that conflict with his desire to operate as Venom so his cancer doesn’t kill them, but then wouldn t you just have a bulkier, more brutish version of Daredevil? However, that’s not to say that subsequent adaptations didn’t try to add something extra. Dude is just an asshole, and it doesn’t feel like it ties into Spider-Man’s themes of power, responsibility, or even being a character that is defined by the city he is in like Spidey is (case in point, when Marvel Comics decided to give Venom his own series, he seemed to operate mainly in Los Angeles, which is where the upcoming movie seems to take place as well). Basically, his reasons for wanting to hunt down Spider-Man are petulant, selfish, and petty. His backstory involves him having being fired from a paper he was working at because he thought he had pegged a culprit called “The Sin Eater,” but the perp turned out to be a compulsive confessor, and Spider-Man ended up finding the real Sin Eater (until years later when the guy Brock accused came back to life and revealed, no, Brock was right all along. But as far as being a dark reflection of Spider-Man, he’s nowhere near close. ![]() His first appearance is terrifying, being able to sneak up on Spider-Man without triggering his spider-sense, as well as being stronger and faster. Going solely by the original comic introduction, Brock is not the greatest. Unfortunately, the best idea that the comics had after the original Secret Wars for the symbiote was “this suit will hijack your body while you sleep and make you evil,” at least until Flash Thompson gained the suit… and no the suit has gone back to Eddie Brock… yeah… If I had my way, I would have made it so that when Peter Parker first got the symbiote suit, Peter knew it was alive, bonded it, make the symbiote a character in itself, and then have all the trauma that Peter goes through as Spider-Man get to the symbiote, making it’s turn to evil into a slow burn. On a concept level, I like the idea of the symbiote: a extraterrestrial life form with nary a concept of what life or being human is about attaches itself to a host and enhances the hosts personality, usually aggressive aspects because those kind of emotions are more primal. Now, I believe that you can make a good movie out of anything, but sometimes depending on the idea at the heart of the heart of that anything, you might have to retool it by varying levels of necessity. I get that Marvel Studios doesn't want whatever Sony is trying to do with the Spidey characters that Marvel Studios either won’t or can’t use, and that Sony seems to be really pushing for an idea that, despite having been in production since Venom’s first film appearance in Spider-Man 3, feels like no one asked for it to be. It was very generic, it gave off the impression that it could be any standard action movie, there was only one shot of the Symbiote in a glass case, and, again, the removal of Spider-Man makes me question just why this movie is being made in the first place. So, the Venom movie’s teaser trailer came out a few days ago, and I was not impressed.
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