| “ | From now on, we're poison to you, Spider-Man. That's why we call ourselves Venom. | „ |
| ~ Venom vowing to make Spider-Man pay. |
| “ | You know nothing about us, but we know everything about you. You'll see us everywhere, even in your nightmares. | „ |
| ~ Venom |
| “ | There's no more Eddie, and no more symbiote! Only Venom! | „ |
| ~ Venom after getting the symbiote back. |
Eddie Brock, better known as Venom, is a supporting antagonist in the 1994 superhero animated television series Spider-Man.
He was voiced by Hank Azaria, who also voiced Snake Jailbird, Johnny Tightlips, The Grand Pumpkin, Killer Toupée, The Leader, The Devil, Cesar, Don Vittorio D'Maggio, Adolf Hitler, Dexter Colt, Frank Grimes, Jr., and Les Moore in the same series, as well as Whit in Run Fatboy Run, Kahmunrah in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Carlos in Hop, and Gargamel in the live action film adaptation of The Smurfs.
Biography[]
Bugle Reporter[]
Eddie Brock started as a reporter for the Daily Bugle and as a rival for Peter Parker. Brock first appeared in Night of the Lizard, where he and Peter are competing to get evidence of a monster called, the Lizard, who had recently kidnapped a subway repair man, in order to receive $1000 bonus. J. Jonah Jameson has Brock serach for scientists that work on reptiles for references, but Jameson gives the job interviewing Empire State University scientist, Curt Connors, to Peter as Connors is one of Peter's teachers and Peter already knows him. Despite this, Brock decided to interview Connors at the night by going to ESU, but when Brock heard Peter and his classmate Debra Whitman coming his way, he hid to avoid being seen by Peter. Later that night Brock went to Connors' home, but was attacked by the Lizard, who against fought Spider-Man, until Connors' son, Billy, told the Lizard to stop, revealing the latter to Connors himself. Brock then over heard Spider-Man's conversion with Connors' wife, Margaret, about how Connors turned himself into the Lizard by a device called the Neogenic Recombinator on himself after injecting lizard DNA into his body, Brock then ran to tell Jameson this, but is stopped by Spider-Man using his webbing to prevent Brock ruining Dr. Connors' life. The following morning Brock brought Jameson to Connors' house, along with two police officers, to show Jameson that Connors is the Lizard, despite Jameson telling that Brock that Peter already brought photos of the Lizard earlier in the morning, but Connors having be return to normal with Spider-Man's help, is seen as a regular man making Brock look foolish.
Brock then worked together with Norman Osborn, robotic inventor Spencer Smythe, and his son Alistair in a plan to capture and unmask Spider-Man on live TV using Spencer's invention the Black Widow Spider Slayer. The Black Widow then locates what appears to be Spider-Man at Jameson's home during a private party, making Brock happy that his boss will see what's going on. After the Black Widow brings the person in the Spider-Man suit to the factory Osborn provided Smythe, Brock goes live on air unmasks him, which Jameson witnesses, and revealing the person to be Flash Thompson, who pretending to be Spider-Man to scare Peter. However, some mysterious men, who have come for Flash, arrive at the factory and end the broadcast, before the real Spider-Man shows up and fights the men and the Black Widow which causes a fire at the factory in the process, Brock and everyone else, except Smythe, whom Osborn forced to stay in the factory to make sure the Black Widow kills Spider-Man, make it out before the factory explodes seeming killing Spencer in the process, much to Alistair's sadness. The following morning, Brock is berated by a furious Jameson for the damage done to his home and embarrassing his company for unmasking a fake Spider-Man, and is fired for it. While Brock attempts to explain himself, Jameson rebuffs him.
Months later, Brock looks for a job with another publisher, but the man is reluctant to hire Brock, due to what he heard from Jameson about Brock. Brock manages convince to the man to give him a chance, so he hires as a reporter as long he stays out trouble, which Brock agrees. Unfortunately, at the moment a new Spider-Slayer called the Tarantula bursts into the building and attacks Brock, as it was sent by Alistair, who blames Brock, along Spider-Man, Jameson, Flash and Osborn for the disappearance of his father. The Tarantula then chases Brock out in the streets, where he is rescued by Spider-Man. After Spider-Man disables the robot, Brock's new boss, angry about the damage done to his newspaper, blames Brock for it and fires him, leading to Brock, thinking Spider-Man was trying to ruin him, swearing vengeance against him if it is the last thing he ever does.
Becoming Venom[]
During a time when Jameson's son Colonel John Jameson was returning a mission in space, the shuttle was returning at Kennedy Airport with a new isotope known as Promethium X, that Colonel Jameson says is more powerful than plutonium, and Brock was struck in traffic in his car on the George Washington Bridge intending to report on the shuttle landing. Unfortnetly, something goes wrong with the shuttle which causes it to lose control and make a crash landing on the Washington Bridge. While everyone on the bridge is told abandon their vehicles, Brock stays intending to get pictures of the crash. After narrowly avoiding being hit by the shuttle, Brock witnesses the Rhino steal the Promethium X from shuttle, which he photographs, and Spider-Man pulling out Colonel Jameson and his partner out of the shuttle before it falls off the bridge. When Jameson arrives at the scene, Brock confronts him, lying that Spider-Man robbed the shuttle and offers Jameson the photos he took in exchange for old job back, which Jameson accepts, placing a bounty on the capture of Spider-Man.
At the Bugle, while Brock is praised by Jameson for his photos, they are both confronted by Spider-Man, now wearing a new black suit and acting more aggressive, and then Spider-Man reveals that it the Rhino then robbed the shuttle, not him, which Jameson does not believe, before security arrives but Spider-Man manages to escape. However, when Jameson visits his son at the hospital, he reveals to his father that the Rhino did rob the shuttle. A furious Jameson then confronts Brock about this, and fires him yet again for lying, while Brock tries to explain to Jameson he did it for him, Jameson isn't fooled rebutting it saying to Brock that he didn't for himself, forcing Jameson to suspend his bounty on Spider-Man. Now with his reputation shattered, Brock returning to his apartment, venting about Spider-Man, only to learn he has been evicted. While sitting outside, Brock is confronted by a man calling himself the Shocker, telling him that his boss is demanding the photos of the shuttle crash, and attacks Brock, but Spider-Man, who was looking for the photos himself, arrives fights the Shocker giving Brock the opportunity to escape.
The next night, Brock follows Jameson and Spider-Man to an old church, after the Shocker kidnaps Jameson's son in exchange for the Promethium X, which Spider-Man had taken from Shocker and Alistair Smythe the previous night, then Brock gets in the middle between Shocker and Spider-Man and tries to attack Spider-Man for revenge but he in turn is attacked by the Shocker, as he still has business with him. After Spider-Man chases Shocker up a bell tower, Brock interferes again, but Spider-Man traps him in a web and places under the bell to keep him from doing so. Later, Spider-Man defeats the Shocker, but breaks free from the symbiote, his black suit after discovering it's weakness to sound when bell starts ringing, the symbiote finds Brock, who is still hanging the web, and bonds with him instead. Now having joined together the symbiote and calling themselves Venom, they vow revenge on Spider-Man.
As the symbiote tried and failed to bond with Spider-Man, it grants Venom immunity to the Spider-Sense, as well as reveals the knowledge of Spider-Man's identity, Peter, and important people in his life such as his Aunt May, and the girl he loves Mary Jane Watson. After Venom prevents both Shocker and Rhino from killing Spider-Man, as he wants to do it himself, Venom reveals himself, and his knowledge of his secret identity, to Spider-Man. After briefly fighting Spider-Man, which he gains the upper-hand due his immunity to the Spider-Sense, Venom spends the night psychologically torturing him. He starts by threatening to revealing his identity and attempting to have unmasked with the help of Jameson, then showing up on Peter's date with Mary Jane and following the two of them for a short time, and then finally showing up at Peter's home, and charming Aunt May, whom he threaten earlier. As a fed up Spider-Man had enough, and decided to fight back, Venom finds his home with newspaper clippings of his firing, then Venom begins to chasing Spider-Man to a military launch pad, where a shuttle named after Colonel Jameson, which his father had Peter and the other Bugle employees earlier that night, is being deployed in to space. After following Spider-Man to the top of the shuttle walkway, Brock is separated from the symbiote thanks to the loud noise from the shuttle's engine, then Spider-Man uses his webbing to attach the symbiote to the shuttle before it takes off. After Spider-Man escapes, he leaves Brock to found by MPs who arrest him.
Due to his ramblings about being Venom and the symbiote, Brock was sent to the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane. At Ravencroft, Brock falls in love his psychologist Dr. Ashley Kafka, who tries to convince Brock that Venom and the symbiote was a stress related delusion.
Fight against Dormammu and Carnage[]
One night, after a session with Dr. Kafka, Cletus Kasady, a dangerous and insane criminal who fought Spider-Man, was incarcerated at Ravencroft, placed into the cell next to Eddie's, and flirted with Dr. Kafka, then Eddie took a mutual dislike towards Kasady. Later that night, Eddie was contacted in astral form by sorcerer Baron Mordo, who offers him his symbiote back in exchange for Brock offering his services to Mordo's master, Dormammu, which Kasady overhears and offers his services instead. After Brock tells Kasady to stay out of it, Brock agrees to help Dormammu.
The next day, Brock is visited by a woman who is actually possessed by the symbiote, then it bonds with Brock once more, allowing him to become Venom again, and convincing Dr. Kafka that it wasn't a delusion. Venom then escapes from Ravencroft, despite Dr. Kafka's pleas, and goes to Baron Mordo's lair, where Dormammu speaks to him from his dimension, and explains how he had Mordo manipulate the shuttle into returning to Earth. Venom goes to attack Stark Industries to retrieve an Inter-Dimensional Probe under Dormammu's orders, as the probe will allow him to be brought to Earth. Once there, Venom fights against Spider-Man, who is given help by War Machine, Iron Man's partner. As the two start to gain the upper-hand over Venom, he then gets help from the offspring of the symbiote, Carnage, as the symbiote was about to reproduce which was another Dormammu had it brought back to Earth, and had the new symbiote bond with Kasady. Dr. Kafka then shows up, as she saw the news coverage of Venom attacking Stark Industries, tries to Brock stop what he's doing. Just as Carnage was about to kill Spider-Man, Venom stops him, as he still wants to do it himself, then he and Carnage try to kill each other, before Mordo stops them and reminds them of their deal with Dormammu. Both reluctantly agree and escape together with the probe.
After bringing the probe to Mordo, Venom and Carnage resume trying to kill each other, before Dormammu intervenes, telling them he also needs an equal life force to also enter Earth. As Venom sees his debt has been paid, he refuses and escapes. Brock then arrives at Peter's house, where after a brief confrontation with Mary-Jane, he learns from Aunt May that Peter is at the Bugle and goes there. At the Bugle, after trying to attack Jameson, Venom fights both Spider-Man and Iron Man, but hindered by presence of Dr. Kafka, who tries convince Brock to fight symbiote, before Venom escapes and takes Ashley with him, while Spider-Man and Iron Man follow.
Brock brings Ashley back to Ravencroft, where he explains how the symbiote is starting to see her as a threat, they then go to Dr. Connors, who is able to separate Brock from the symbiote and put it a containment unit. While Brock is recovering from the separation, he learns from that Ashley, who had her life drained by Carnage, had been kidnapped the latter. After Spider-Man and Iron Man show up and enlist Brock's help to find Mordo's lair, Brock chooses to become Venom one last time, despite Dr. Connors' warning he won't survive another separation, takes the two to Mordo's lair. Once there, they fight against Mordo, Carnage and Dormammu, who just entered Earth, Spider-Man quickly reverses the polarity of the probe to Dormammu back through the portal, which releases the souls Carnage collected including Ashley's, but the portal could not be closed unless Carnage goes through it too, as Dormammu developed a connection with. As Carnage attempted drag with through the portal, Venom stops by going through the portal himself, leaving unknown what happened Venom after that.
Trivia[]
- It is this version of Eddie Brock and the Symbiote that has been adopted into re-tellings of his origin story in other media. Most notably the movie Spider-Man 3 which the symbiote made Peter Parker more aggressive.
External Links[]
- Venom on the Heroes Wiki
- Venom on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
