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It all started with a simple mistake. While participating in the first Secret Wars, Spider-Man really trashed his costume. He came across two other heroes who earlier had similar problems and told him there was a machine capable of making any article of clothing you can think of. Unfortunately for Spider-Man, they neglected to tell him where to find it. Spider-Man did find a device that he thought looked like "it wants to make a costume". It produced a small, black ball that initially set off his spider-sense as he picked it up. The ball oozed over the confused hero and became a black costume. Spider-Man wore the costume for a few months, enjoying the fact that it produced its own webbing and could change to mimic his civilian clothes. This all came to an end when Spider-Man discovered his new costume was actually an alien symbiote trying to bond to him permanently. Mr. Fantastic separated the two with his sonic blaster and captured the symbiote for study. The costume escaped and rejoined Spider-Man briefly, but the hero tried to kill the symbiote using the noise from a church's bell tower. The plan worked too well, and the symbiote saved Spider-Man’s life before hiding itself in the church. The other half of this future combo, Eddie Brock, was the star investigative reporter for the Daily Globe. Eddie was a particularly driven man driven to seek the approval of his stone-hearted father. It stands to reason that when his biggest score--a man confessing to be Sin-Eater--was exposed as a fraud when the real Sin-Eater was captured by Spider-Man, Brock went a little over the edge. The paper fired him, his father disowned him, and his marriage ended. Brock's mind locked onto Spider-Man as the source of all his woes and thus began Brock's burning hatred of him. But life continued to deal harshly with Brock, and soon he decided to commit suicide. Stopping by a church to pray before he did the fateful deed, Brock's intense hatred of Spider-Man was noticed by the symbiote who had been hidden there since its last confrontation with Spider-Man. The two bonded and became Venom. Before Venom revealed himself to Spider-Man, he decided to fuck with him for a bit. One time, Peter Parker was going to catch a train, but someone pushed him off the platform and onto the train tracks, with the train only seconds away. Peter was able to move out of the way in time, but he was shocked that his spider sense never warned him that someone was about to put him in danger. Another time, Peter left a big party to go take care of something as Spider-Man, and as he was climbing up a building (still in his party clothes), someone reached out a window and pushed him off the building. It should be noted that during this time, Peter was wearing a costume that looked like the symbiote one. So one night, Mary Jane came home and saw a set of big white eyes sitting in darkness. She started talking to them cause she thought it was Peter, but then she realized that the person sitting there was a lot bigger than Peter. Venom then revealed his hideous grin to Mary Jane, which frightened her. Venom left and later, Mary Jane told Peter what had happened. Peter went to confront Venom, but Venom was able to sneak up on him. The two fought and Venom won. He then webbed Spider-Man to the inside of the church bell with tons of webbing. Spider-Man was able to free himself before he was killed, and then he and Venom fought on top of the church. Spider-Man knew that Venom’s webbing was organic and that the suit needed time to replenish it’s supply, so he kept knocking Venom off the top of the church to force him to use his webbing. Eventually, Venom couldn’t produce any more webbing, and he fell to the ground below and was defeated. Venom has battled Spider-Man, and anyone else who gets in his way, numerous times since then. Brock sees himself as a hero, protecting innocents from the "evil" Spider-Man. Venom desperately hates his son, Carnage, who he sees as a perversion of all that he is. In truth Venom has acted as a hero on several occasions, but he believes anyone he sees as "evil" should die, and this puts him in the same category as the Punisher. He still hates Spider-Man, but for a while regarded him as a necessary evil since the Wall-Crawler also protects the "innocent". Venom served a homeless community of "under people" in San Francisco as their "protector" for a while but make no mistake: that Venom was insane. Shortly after that, Venom had an epic struggle with the returned Spider-Clone, Ben Reilly, who was Scarlet Spider at the time and managed to separate Brock and the symbiote. After being rejoined, Venom's killer instincts surfaced once again, and little by little he became a threat to innocent people as well. He acquired selective amnesia (Brock no longer remembers Peter is Spider-Man, and the symbiote doesn't seem to make any effort to remind him of that). Brock absorbed Cletus Kasady's symbiote and joined the Sinister Six. But he soon regretted it and then tried to kill his former teammates. He left Sandman near death, after biting chunk out of him, and attacked Electro, leaving him also for dead. He made some sort of peace with Spidey (again), only to foolishly blame him for something as farfetched as his wife's suicide. Venom returned later on to reveal that Eddie Brock had cancer, and he could not survive without a permanent merge with the symbiote. In the end, Spider-man convinces the symbiote to go through with this "permanent merge." However, Eddie goes through a religious awakening and auctions off the symbiote to Don Fortunato who gives it to his son, Angelo, so he can be redeemed. The symbiote later kills Angelo and joins up with Mac Gargan (the Scorpion). The last we see of Eddie, he has slit his wrists in an alley. There
was an issue a few months later that shows Eddie in a hospital bed,
and there is an upcoming story arc in June titled “The Last
Temptation of Eddie Brock.” Also, Venom will be in Spider-Man
3, in theaters May 4.
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