Another interesting difference between movie!Venom and comic!Venom Symbiote, is that, though they are both fiercely possessive of Eddie, it comes from a very different place.
Movie Venom seems to kind of see Eddie as belonging to him. “You are mine” and all that. It comes from a desire to posses him.
Comic Venom Symbiote…it’s all fear. It’s a terror that, should Eddie become close with anyone besides itself, they’ll tear the two of them apart. And the difference lies in their origin. In the movieverse, Eddie is more or less Venom’s first real human host. In the comics, the symbiote bonds first with Spider-Man. It was convinced everything was going well and that it and Spider-Man would be together forever.
Then Spider-Man visited Reed Richards. Reed Richards told Spider-Man his new suit was alive. Told him he needed to get rid of it. Suddenly Spider-Man panics and forcibly removes and imprisons the symbiote, which completely blindsides it. It thought everything was perfect. Until someone else convinced Spider-Man that it was untrustworthy.
Something similar happens again in “Planet of the Symbiotes”. Eddie starts expressing a desire to talk about his experiences being bonded with the symbiote with someone else and the symbiote becomes distressed and tries to dissuade him. Eventually Spider-Man does talk to Eddie and plants a seed of doubt that the symbiote is controlling him. Just as with Spider-Man, Eddie rejects the suit out of fear, despite, again, the symbiote never actually having done anything but what it saw as being what its host wanted. Again another person convinced its host it was untrustworthy.
From then, after Eddie and the symbiote bond again, we see the symbiote becomes INCREDIBLY possessive of Eddie. It doesn’t want him to talk to other people. It tries to convince him it’s the only thing he ever needs. Because it’s so afraid. Afraid of being rejected again. Of having its host be turned against it by someone else.
Which makes the growth it makes in accepting and enjoying the idea of family and both it and Eddie forming connections with other humans so beautiful to me.
Yknow what I loved about Venom, other than like… everything??
That Eddie was just so…not what you’d expect a main male character to be???
Like
He screamed a lot and I mean a LOT, and instead of that bs “AAAA” most men in movies make, he was actually screaming/squealing and not just for jokes but because humans sometimes make those noises
He was just so lost?? Like he was a total wreck and it was portrayed So Well
Even when he was so poor he couldn’t pay his bills, he still remained generous, like “yeah, I have very little but others have even less, I may be in a shitty situation but I can help some people I know who’s lives are even shittier”
He asked for help???? Lots of times????? When he was on the motorcycle and begged Venom to do something (idk how that sounded in English but in the dub he was super panicked and practically begging), he asked for help from Anne and Dan and his friend at that building
Speaking of his friend, the way he begged Venom not to hurt the mustache guy because “he’s my friend, he’s a good man, he works 3 shifts to support his family” MY HEART
I could go on and on because I love this movie so much and Eddie was just such an amazing character and I love him and I love venom a lot!! Thank u!! If u wanna add on pls do
So, canonically, the Venom Symbiote can perfectly imitate any article of clothing and Eddie Brock rarely rarely wears actual clothes besides sometimes underwear or shorts.
Eddie and the Symbiote could make themselves look like they were wearing top of the line, designer clothes all the time just as easily as any other look, which means that every day they wake up and make the conscious decision to dress like a trash hobo and that’s SO VALID
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