Villain Overview
That's where you are wrong. It's not about control, or following orders like a soldier. It's about us. We. We are Venom!
~ Venom (Eddie Brock)

Eddie Brock is the original Venom and one of Spider-Man's greatest foes. After being separated from the Venom symbiote and becoming Anti-Venom, he eventually became the second host of the symbiote Toxin, before being bonded with the Venom once again and resuming his role as Venom.



As a child, Edward Charles Allan Brock was raised as a Roman Catholic in suburban San Francisco. His father Carl was cold and unloving towards him because he blamed Eddie for his wife Jamie's death during childbirth. Eddie constantly attempted to obtain his father's approval, though even after excelling in school, he only received half-hearted encouragements. Eddie often stole possessions from the other students, just so he could "find" these items to gain their friendship.

In his teenage years, Eddie stole his father's car in order to sneak out and get drunk with his friends. As he returned home, he accidently struck and killed his neighbour's son. Horrified by his actions, he intended to plead guilty in court and face his punishment, but his father demanded that he plead innocent and violently assaulted him when he refused. Carl's covering up of the incident nearly bankrupted him and ruined his reputation, which only further fueled to his resentment towards his son.

After graduating highschool, Brock gained entrance to ESU's journalism program, fabricating an internship, and he entered a relationship with law student Ann Weying. Though exceptional in athletics, Brock switched his major in college to journalism, inspired from reading an article on the Watergate scandal. Upon graduating, he moved to New York City, married Ann and as a member of the Associated Press, he obtained a job as a journalist for the Daily Globe. He proved himself to be highly talented at his job, though even this did not give him the approval he craved from his father, who continued to treat him with indifference.

Daily Globe

Being a young reporter, Brock faced down the shadowy alien Krobaa, and uncovered illegal human testing at Devlin-MacGregor Pharmaceuticals, although threats on Ann's life prevented him from reporting the latter story to the public. He later began to suffer from severe anxiety, which was soon discovered to be a symptom of adrenal cancer. With just months to live, he wanted to break a big story. Brock thought he had found this story when he was accidentally contacted by Emil Gregg, who claimed to be the infamous serial killer Sin-Eater. Following an interview, Eddie wrote front-page exclusives of the Sin-Eater, protecting his identity under the First Amendment, until a crisis of conscience and pressure from the authorities forced him to write an exclusive revealing Gregg as the Sin-Eater.

Although that edition of the paper sold out immediately, on the same day, Spider-Man revealed Police Detective Stan Carter to be the true Sin-Eater. Gregg was found to be Carter's delusional neighbor, making Brock a laughing stock among his fellow journalists. Fired from the Daily Globe, he was forced to write venomous drivel for tawdry tabloids. Ann left him, his father disowned him and his future appeared to be over. Brock blamed all of these problems on Spider-Man. Soon after, Brock began an intense physical workout program hoping to reduce the stress his life had become. However, such physical exertions only increased his violent obsession with Spider-Man. Although his body had been honed to near-perfection, Brock’s mind was reduced to an all-consuming vessel of hatred.



As the symbiote saved Spider-Man from the sound, it trickled down to Brock, drawn by his despair, adrenaline and fierce hate, on which it fed. The symbiote merged mentally and physically with Brock, whose seething hatred overwhelmed the compassion the alien had acquired from Spider-Man. The dominant thought on both their minds was that of Spider-Man. But Brock’s sheer hatred for the crime fighter twisted the symbiote’s feelings to a similar extent.






In a plan to help his father, Darkhawk hijacked a cargo plane which crashed onto the island. The two fought mostly because Venom desired privacy. After the symbiote sensed Powell's innocence, misled the hero into thinking he was dead. Also, his peaceful solitude was interrupted by his stint as an unwitting pawn of Nightmare.



After some time, Venom finally sought Spider-Man in what was meant to be their last battle to end it all. Learning that Parker's long-lost parents had resurfaced (unaware they were actually robot duplicates), Venom kidnapped them in order to protect their innocence from his corruption.[9] Spider-Man contacted Eddie's ex-wife, Ann Weying, in order to gain info on his whereabouts, which led Spider-Man to Thrill World where he found Venom waiting. Eddie noticed Annie, who traveled there to try reaching him one last time. As the Wild Pack arrived, a battle ensued. An amusement ride fell next to Annie and Eddie couldn't hold it on his own. As Eddie started to falter, Spider-Man assisted him in holding the tremendous weight, and together they tossed the ride aside. Afterwards, Venom began to resume the fight with Spider-Man, but Annie stopped him, reminding Eddie that Spider-Man just saved an innocent life. Pondering this fact for a moment, Eddie realized that by not killing Spider-Man, more innocent lives could be saved. Venom then made a deal with him: So long as Spider-Man did not go after them, they would not go after him. Agreeing to the terms, Spider-Man watched as Venom attached a web line to a nearby helicopter, departing for a new city where he wouldn't interfere.


When Venom heard the news of Carnage leading a massacre across NYC, he went there to stop the villain but was outnumbered by Carnage and his minions. He took up alliance with Spider-Man and many other superheroes in an effort to stop Carnage and his henchmen. Venom advocated the use of lethal force against Carnage but Spider-Man refused this tactic, putting them at odds. The heroes eventually succeeded, with Venom tackling Carnage into a generator system, rendering him unconscious. Spider-Man & Black Cat believe that Venom sacrificed his body to save them from Carnage. Venom survives and eventually returns home.

During his period of vigilantism, Eddie crossed paths with other superheros and anti-heroes such as the Punisher, Wolverine, Daredevil, Iron Man, Morbius, Mace and Vengeance. In one of these encounters he attempted to rid his symbiote of its weakness to fire and sound by acquiring a bio-virus but was convinced by Daredevil that his weakness actually provided him an opportunity to prove himself as a hero.









During a battle with Carnage, Venom explained the birthing process to Carnage. Carnage was disgusted and fled. As he was about to give birth to another symbiote, he was threatened by its existence and attempted to destroy it. Venom however, wanted to raise and train the new symbiote as an ally and partner. Weakened by the actual birthing, Carnage was unable to kill the newborn. Supplanting the symbiote in Patrick Mulligan, a New York City cop, it returned days later. Venom named the new symbiote Toxin, after himself. Because they knew how powerful Toxin will be, and because his host is a cop and thus he would most likely be a good guy, they made a temporary alliance, because they had to kill him, but in the end they were defeated.



















It was revealed that both the symbiote and Eddie survived and continued to work as Toxin, hunting down and killing numerous criminals and gang members in their way to get revenge on Venom.


Return as Venom

Eddie Brock eventually returned to being Venom and oddly became a hero and a protagonist from now on.

Live-Action media

Spider-Man 3

Main article: Venom (Spider-Man Films)


Main article: Venom (Sony's Marvel Universe)


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