Venom

Venom is the nickname of various characters that appear in the Marvel Comics universe. The name was first used for Eddie Brock in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (April 1988). Venom, as such, is the connection of the human body with an alien parasite known as the Venom Symbiote. Venom first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #252.

The Venom symbiote came to Earth with Spider-Man after the events of the Secret Wars mini-series. Venom engulfed Spider-Man more and more until he was able to free himself from him. The symbiote was forced to move to reporter Eddie Brock, and then to Scorpion (Mac Gargan).

Initially, the Venom symbiote was portrayed as a mute and lonely creature in need of a host. Later, he began to abuse his masters and gained the ability to speak.

It is known that at first Venom was supposed to be a woman who witnessed the death of her husband in a car accident. The symbiote was supposed to connect with her and direct her anger towards Spider-Man. However, Marvel's publishers dismissed the idea, stating that a woman couldn't make a good villain. As a result, Venom became Eddie Brock, a hero specially created for him and as a result became one of the most popular villains in the world.

The Venom Symbiote is a race of alien parasites that live off the bodies of other life forms. Parasites provide their hosts with enhanced physical abilities in exchange for drinking adrenaline from them. If used for a long time by an untrained person, the symbiote can kill him.

According to the Planet Of The Symbiotes story, the Venom symbiote was considered insane by its race after it realized it was more profitable to use its host for its own purposes instead of draining it. The symbiote was imprisoned in the World of War so that it would not defile the genes of the race.

Though it requires a living host to survive, the Venom symbiote is adept at fending for itself independent of a host. The symbiote is capable of shapeshifting abilities, including the ability to form spikes or expand its size,as well as mimic the appearance of other humanoids after it has obtained a host. The organism can additionally use its shape-shifting abilities to conceal itself by altering its coloration or by becoming completely invisible. It also contains a small "dimensional aperture", allowing its hosts to carry items without adding mass to the costume. The symbiote also exhibits telepathic abilities, primarily when it needs to communicate with its host.

Because of its contact with Spider-Man, the symbiote grants all of its subsequent hosts that hero's powers and cannot be detected by his spider-sense. As Spider-Man's fighting style is partly dependent on his spider-sense, his effectiveness was somewhat hampered when he battled Eddie Brock. Retaining its memory from the time it was bonded with Spider-Man, Venom is also capable of producing webbing similar to Spider-Man's variety created from its biomass.

The symbiote greatly enhances the physical strength of those it bonds with. Its hosts experience a vastly larger size and musculature. The symbiote displays non-human teeth, which are very sharp, and commonly protrude a long, prehensile tongue from its mouth. Venom is depicted as being physically much bigger than Spider-Man, as well as having more brute strength.

Venom exhibits some immunities to the supernatural powers of others such as the Penance Stare of Ghost Rider or Spider-Man's extrasensory spider-sense.

Some incarnations of the Venom symbiote have shown it able to replicate itself. This ability is shown in the 2005–2006 miniseries Spider-Man: Reign when Venom recreates his symbiote to combat his loneliness.

The Venom symbiote is vulnerable to fire and sonic waves, causing it great pain and exhaustion if it sustains enough exposure. It can sense and track all of its offspring symbiotes except Carnage, who learned how to block this ability shortly after bonding with Cletus Kasady and confronting Venom/Eddie Brock for the first time.

The Venom symbiote is shown to form giant web-like dragon wings when it was in contact with Knull.

5 Fun Facts About Venom

Venom fought Superman

In 1996, a crossover between Marvel and DC was released called DC/Marvel: All Access. It was built on the principle of battles between characters who met each other as a result of the collision of two universes. So, in the first issue, Venom ended up in Metropolis, where he began to attack random passers-by.

Superman stood up for them (in the 90s he wore long hair). During the duel, the symbiote almost managed to defeat the Man of Steel, but Spider-Man intervened, causing Venom to flee. Who knows, maybe the symbiotes are another kryptonite from the last son of Krypton?

Venom once used a car as a carrier

Venom was twice in the Avengers

Venom was able to single-handedly defeat the Guardians of the Galaxy

Spider-Man wasn't the first person to carry Venom. The first was Deadpool!