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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, the Carnage symbiote was spawned from the Venom symbiote when it broke Eddie out of prison, and bonded to Cletus through a cut on his hand -- merging with his bloodstream in the process. In ''Let There Be Carnage'', Carnage is born from Cletus biting Eddie's hand and unwittingly swallowing a piece of the Venom symbiote, as seen in the second trailer.
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!!Dr. Carlton Drake
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RizAhmed
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
->''"Thank-you for bringing us collectively to this moment. It is a moment that so many have... dreamed of claiming. History... starts today."''
The Life Foundation's CEO who believes that the symbiotes are the key to human evolution.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Creator/RizAhmed's portrayal is younger and easier on the eyes compared to his comic counterpart who was generally a [[DependingOnTheArtist middle-aged to old]] man.
* AdaptedOut: He lacks his comic counterpart's Man-Spider transformation, but this does not make him a complete AdaptationalWimp with Riot's presence.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: He considers the symbiotes a better species than mankind and eventually sides with Riot to bring millions more to Earth.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Considering his BadBoss tendencies and his uncaring attitude towards humanity, nobody mourned when he and Riot were blown up.]]
* BadBoss: His dislike for mankind is also shown by how he treats his employees. He fires one of his security guards for failing to realize one of Drake's own doctors snuck Eddie into the lab, [[spoiler:executes Doctor Skirth for betraying him by feeding to the blue symbiote]] and later transforms into Riot to kill a scientist for attempting to sabotage him before killing the others for no reason.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Riot symbiote. Drake funded the discovery of the symbiotes and is using them unlawfully on test subjects that could die as a result of the exposure while the Riot symbiote intends on bringing more of its kind to Earth in order to conquer it.
* BigBadWannabe: His experiments with the symbiotes quickly crash and burn when they all die due to simply not being properly fed, and it's ''abundantly'' clear that Riot has no intention to share his rule over Earth with him.
-->'''Riot:''' There are more of us. Millions more. They will follow wherever I lead.\\
'''Drake:''' ...Wherever ''we'' lead.\\
'''Riot:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yes, we]].
* CompositeCharacter: He’s the Life Foundation's CEO like his comic counterpart but he's also the human host of the Riot symbiote.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:He gets locked in a rocket spaceship which is blown up while he himself is being immolated.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When a class is touring the labs, Drake commends one girl for wanting to ask him something despite getting shushed by classmates, but doesn't actually let the girl get a word in. Right away the audience can see that he's a disingenuous person whose philanthropic nature is just for the sake of good publicity.
* EvilWearsBlack: Dresses in an entirely black outfit, though he wears a white shirt underneath his suit.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: He sees bonding to symbiotes as the next step in human evolution, though his experiments with them quickly go awry.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A handsome, intelligent and charming young man who plans to help aliens conquer Earth.
* FantasticRacism: Almost every scene Drake appears in has him speak ill of humanity, to the point where one has to wonder if he was actually a MisanthropeSupreme.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drake is soft-spoken, charismatic, and genuinely believes his work is a necessary evil in order to save humanity from certain extinction. Said work, however, involves abducting homeless people and subjecting them to unethical and more-often-than-not fatal experiments. This is best illustrated when he convinces a test subject that being locked up with the blue symbiote is the noble choice for him.
* {{Foil}}: To Eddie Brock. Carlton is well-respected and always presents himself immaculately with an air of class, which barely hides the fact that he's a glory-seeking sociopath. Eddie meanwhile looks like a thug, is socially awkward and has a sullied reputation, but is ultimately a good person.
* FriendToAllChildren: Subverted. He acts nice to a group of kids touring his labs and later appears to be concerned that a little girl is wandering his facilities when things go south, yet it is all fake: he only pretends to be civil and affable for the sake of good publicity.
* AGodAmI: Downplayed, but when he talks to the homeless "volunteer" Isaac about the blue symbiote experiment, he relates the story of Abraham being asked by God to sacrifice his son Isaac. Drake states that he considers Isaac to be the hero of that story, being willing to go through with being sacrificed. He then goes off on a tangent about how he would argue God has abandoned humanity "but I won't abandon us", casting himself as ''God'' in his personal modern remake of the Biblical story.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Says he wants to deal with issues like overpopulation and overconsumption, but works with Riot who devours his hosts over time and wants to let his entire species hunt Earth's population to extinction.
** He tells a group of kids that there will always be those who try to silence those who ask too many questions, clearly portraying himself as part of the second group. Yet, he is the one to end his interview with Eddie and send him away when he starts making too many questions. Even in that first exchange, he uses the speech about silencing in order to avoid actually taking the question himself.
** For all his talk on how flawed mankind is (calling them selfish, arrogant, and only know how to take from others), he displayed all these "flaws" himself.
* IdiotBall: It never occurs to Drake that the reason the symbiotes in his custody die with their hosts while Venom and Riot don't is because he neglects to feed them properly. To elaborate, the Life Foundation scientists only give the symbiote's liquid nutrition but Venom makes it clear to Eddie that they won't survive without living meat.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Responds to Maria's death by telling his henchmen to "get it out of here".
* KillThePoor: He takes homeless people from the city and uses them for his experiments. And that is before he acquires the Symbiotes.
* LackOfEmpathy: Best seen with his first test subject, a homeless man called Isaac. Drake shows no concern over the man's terror, insisting he's being part of a noble cause.
* MisanthropeSupreme: When Riot infests him, he is more or less instantly on board with Plan Let Alien Goo Monsters Eat Most Of Humanity.
* MonstrousHumanoid: As Riot, Dr. Drake is a towering, bulky humanoid monster with viscous silvery-grey skin, red vein-like markings, large white eyespots, claws, a gaping maw full of fangs, and a long prehensile tongue. He can also shapeshift his limbs into weapons.
* NeverMyFault: Blames the scientists for not watching over Dr. Skirth properly and causing the blue symbiote's death, when the situation wouldn't have occurred at all if he had just chose a mundane method of [[YouHaveFailedMe killing]] instead of choosing agonizing death via the blue symbiote.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His character draws obvious inspiration from Elon Musk. He's a relatively young billionaire whose business is focused on technology and science. Both like to talk a lot about using technology to solve global environmental issues. Like Musk's [=SpaceX=], Drake owns a company that works in the field of space exploration and seeks to bring that to the masses with long term goal of space colonization. Both also seek to symbiotically merge humanity with non-human intelligence. The goal of Musk's Neuralink is to do this with ArtificialIntelligence using {{Brain Computer Interface}}s in order to help create BenevolentAI. Lastly the Life Foundation is based in the Bay area, much like Musk's Tesla and is similarly named to the Future of Life Institute which has a scientific advisory board on which Musk sits. Fortunately, Drake's ethics and views on humanity are not inspired by Musk.
* NonActionBigBad: As Drake, he has no fighting skills, sending his men to do his job instead. As Riot, however, he's a match even for Venom. [[spoiler:As Drake, he gets in a brief scuffle with Eddie in the climax, but is quickly defeated.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He aims to fight global issues such as poverty and war by basically eradicating and replacing humanity with a new predator species, by performing some extremely unethical experiments.
* OneWingedAngel: He bonds with the Riot symbiote as part of their shared goal to bring more symbiotes to Earth. [[spoiler:He consumes Venom at one point in their fight in the climax, getting even bigger and more powerful.]]
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* RaceLift: His comic counterpart was an Anglo-American in the comics but here is played by British-Pakistani Riz Ahmed.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: As he threatens Dr. Skirth to keep participating in his unethical experiments, he ominously brings up Skirth's children in the conversation.
* SocialDarwinist: He expresses the misanthropic belief that the human race has grown out of control and needs a new apex predator to cull it.
-->'''Carlton Drake:''' Look around at the world. What do you see? A planet on the brink of collapse. Human beings... are disposable! But man and symbiote, combined? This is a new race, a new species... a higher life form.
* TheSociopath: Willing to sell out his own species for the sake of his ego.
* TechBro: The villainous Carlton Drake is a clean-cut and fairly young billionaire whose company is focused on scientific and technological research. He's got a good reputation as a philanthropist, and positions himself as a big believer in the ability of technology to solve the world's problems.
* TranshumanTreachery: While the Riot symbiote forcibly bonds to Drake, he willingly goes along with it in order to bring more symbiotes to Earth. In an unusual twist, Drake believes himself to be a ProHumanTranshuman, but he doesn't seem to realize the Riot symbiotes intend to enslave and wipe out humanity.
* UnwittingPawn: Drake is unaware that he's Riot's host more out of convenience than them being compatible, and Riot clearly doesn't intend to keep him around once Earth is conquered.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Though Eddie and his higher-ups are rightly suspicious of his true nature, to the world at large Drake is a respectable CEO and philanthropist. His [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney wealth]] and influence also deter most people from going after him.
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[[folder:Roland Treece]]
!!Roland Treece
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottHaze
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
The leader of a band of mercenaries under Life Foundation's employment.
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* AdaptationalBadass: His counterpart from the comics was just a CorruptCorporateExecutive, here he is a mercenary.
* BadassNormal: An evil example, since he can put up quite a fight with Eddie when his [[PowersDoTheFighting symbiote abilities do all the fighting]], and later a relentless car chase on him.
* BaldOfEvil: He's a PMC with a shaved head, and who has no problem causing large amounts of collateral damage in order to capture Eddie.
* CleanupCrew: After it's discovered Eddie doesn't have the Venom symbiote anymore, Treece takes him out into the woods to kill him and dump the body where he'll never be found.
* TheDragon: He's sent to retrieve Eddie once Drake discovers he has the symbiote, and acts as TheHeavy for the first act of the movie.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:Just as he's about to execute Eddie, She-Venom grabs him from behind and eats his head.]]
* OhCrap: When Eddie transforms into Venom for the first time, Treece cringes as the symbiote licks his face.
* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: He's a PMC who's the head of the Life Foundation's security team and takes his job seriously. Even the threat of being eaten by an alien monster doesn't deter him.
* InNameOnly: His counterpart from the comics was the head of a company and a board member of the Life Foundation.
* TemptingFate: Tells Eddie "I don't believe in Karma" approximately 2 seconds before [[spoiler: She-Venom grabs him from behind and bites his head off]].
[[/folder]]
!!Symbiote Invasion
[[folder:Riot Symbiote]]
!!The Riot Symbiote
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RizAhmed
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
->''"You are nothing."''
An evil symbiote who jumps from host to host, ultimately bonding to Dr. Carlton Drake.
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* TheAce: Stated to be this by the Venom symbiote describing it as a "team leader" who has "shit you've never seen". Given that it can jump hosts without burning them out; is bigger and stronger than the other symbiotes, can create more complex weapons from its biomass, can forcibly remove a symbiote from its host, and even contain another symbiote within itself definitely shows that Riot is on a whole other level.
-->'''Drake:''' Your friends... the others, I apologize, I tried to keep them alive.\\
'''Riot:''' There are more of us. Millions more. They will follow wherever I lead.\\
'''Drake:''' ...Wherever ''[[RoyalWe we]]'' lead.\\
'''Riot:''' Yes, [[BigBadDuumvirate we]]. But first, we must retrieve him.
* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Riot can use its shapeshifting abilities to lengthen its claws into blades.
* AdaptationalBadass: Its comic counterpart serves as TheBrute of a QuirkyMinibossSquad and never really battles Venom individually. This version is more analogous to Carnage in terms of abilities, with Venom being something of a "runt" in comparison. He is stated to be a "team leader" among his people, is shown to also be completely capable of working entirely on his own (going as far as to [[WeHaveReserves dismiss the deaths of his kind]]), is bonded to Carlton Drake, the Life Foundation's ''leader'', and even Venom admits that his chances of beating Riot in combat [[CurbStompBattle is a dead zero]].
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Rather than being the Venom symbiote's spawn, Riot is an unrelated individual of the same species.
* AdultFear: At one point, Riot made its host follow a little girl into a public bathroom. The next time Riot appears, it has taken the girl as its new host.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Riot is more physically powerful than Venom and has superior fighting abilities like creating weapons out of his body. Though Venom is quite powerful in his own right and manages to keep up with Riot, he is manhandled for most of the fight against him. [[spoiler:In the end, he isn't even beaten by force but gets incinerated when Venom explodes his ship's fuel tanks with Riot inside it]].
* TheAssimilator: In the final battle, [[spoiler:Riot assimilates the Venom symbiote -- host and all -- to be truly enormous, only for Anne Weying to intercede with a sonic attack that separates them.]]
* AxCrazy: Best shown in the scene where [[spoiler:he kills a bunch of Drake's staff because one tried to sabotage his rocket]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: It forms this with Carlton Drake, intending to bring more of its kind to Earth in order to conquer it.
* BishonenLine: Falls on the far end despite being physically stronger than Venom, who draws closer to the line. Compare Venom's basically humanoid form with a weird mouth and eye structure to Riot's oddly bumpy skin, hunched and loping posture, and somewhat crocodilian head structure.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Riot can transform its arms into enormous bladed weapons in constract to shapeshifting to smashing hammers used by its comic counterpart.
* BodySurf: Riot is a "body hopper" who jumps from host to host -- jumping from John Jameson to a Malaysian paramedic to an old woman to a little girl and finally to Drake.
* BrightIsNotGood: Riot is primarily silver in coloration, helping distinguish him from Venom and the other symbiotes. It's also the film's symbiote BigBad.
* CompositeCharacter: This version can be seen using smashing weapons like hammers and maces like its comic counterpart, however, prefers blades and claws like Carnage as well as growing spikes on his back like Phage.
* CreepyChild: When he possesses the little girl in the Sarawak airport just before he meets Drake.
* DualWielding: He transforms his arms into two giant blades to slaughter the scientists at the rocket launch.
* EvilCounterpart: Riot is an evil symbiote who stands in contrast to the marginally more heroic Venom. While Venom grew to appreciate Earth, Riot just sees it as another feeding ground.
* EvilIsBigger: Riot towers over the already massive Venom, and is also far stronger.
* EvilIsPetty: Riot, while possessing a Malaysian EMT, steals and eats a live eel; the eel vendor yells at him, only for Riot to slash his throat with an arm blade.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a deep''er'' voice than Venom's, although not by very much.
* FantasticRacism: Its ultimate goal is to enslave and kill all of humanity, and for the alien symbiotes to rule Earth.
* FlechetteStorm: While bonded to the Malaysian paramedic, Riot kills a group of thugs with a barrage of spikes fired from her back.
* {{Foil}}: To Venom. Where Riot is a "team leader" and capable of extraordinary physical feats such as turning his arms into weapons and fully overriding a host's body, Venom is a self-described "loser" who is a strong combatant but mostly relies on an UnskilledButStrong fighting style and either allows Eddie autonomy for a majority of the time or is incapable of taking it from him entirely. Venom begins to change for the better thanks to Eddie's influence while Riot cares nothing for Drake.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After stabbing Eddie in the back with a blade, Venom uses said blade to destroy the rocket Riot is using to leave Earth, destroying both Riot and Drake]].
* JoinOrDie: Riot orders Venom to get in the rocket that will bring back more of their alien kind to Earth. Venom refuses, so Riot decides to execute him.
* MonstrousCannibalism: During the final battle, Riot [[spoiler:rips the Venom symbiote off Eddie and prepares to eat it, only for Eddie to rebond to it at the last second]].
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Inverted. Riot's a bit brighter than its comic counterpart, given that its black sections are gone and red veins are visible beneath its silver surface.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: While he doesn't start a Zombie Apocalypse, his first few hosts before getting to Drake are disturbingly Zombie-like in behavior.
* OhCrap: While not immediately apparent due to symbiotes being {{Perpetual Smiler}}s, he clearly has one when [[spoiler:seeing Venom rupture the rocket's fuel tanks - at that point Riot clearly seems to realize that he's a dead man and symbiote]].
* PossessionBurnout: The Malaysian paramedic collapses after the Riot symbiote leaves her, though it's not shown what happened to the old woman or the little girl it bonded to.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Unlike Venom, Riot's head resembles a crocodile or alligator.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Riot transforms its arms into massive blades and [[EpicFlail a giant mace]].
* SpikesOfVillainy: During its battle with Venom, Riot sprouts several spikes and tendrils from its back.
* SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: [[spoiler:Played entirely straight. His rocket which he wanted to board to leave Earth and start a symbiote invasion ended up being destroyed by Venom, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using his discarded blade no less]], and immediately doing away with Riot and Drake.]]
* TaintedVeins: The Riot symbiote has prominent red veins on its arms, chest, and back.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Its comic counterpart was one of many that spawned from Venom. The relationship is barely explored but they seemingly have no "relation" in this film.
* VillainRespect: Riot does seem a bit impressed by how compatible Eddie is with Venom.
--> '''Riot:''' ''(after receiving a few attacks)'' You have a strong host! [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter But not strong enough]]...
* WeCanRuleTogether: While Riot only gives Venom this opportunity once, it is still his offer nonetheless.
--> '''Riot:''' Venom... ''get in the [[spoiler:rocket!]]''\\
'''Venom:''' No! We won't let you destroy this world!\\
'''Riot:''' Then, ''die''!
* WeHaveReserves: When Drake apologizes for letting the other symbiotes of Riot's infiltration team die, Riot remarks there are millions more of its kind.
* WouldHurtAChild: It isn't picky when selecting a temporary host to feed and travel by, such as a little girl. And that's not going to the fact its plan is having legions of symbiotes feast on humanity, adults and children alike.
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[[folder:SYM-A02]]
!!Blue Symbiote
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
One of the four symbiotes collected by the Life Foundation. It is bonded to a man named Isaac, whom it immediately kills.
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* BodyHorror: After bonding to Isaac, it causes Issac to spasm and twitch horrifically as it consumes Issac from the inside out.
* CodeName: Codenamed SYM-A02 by the Life Foundation.
* PossessionBurnout: Inflicted this on its hosts. After it does this to Dr. Skirth, the Life Foundation's scientists kill it by not returning it to its containment unit.
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[[folder:SYM-A03]]
!!Yellow Symbiote
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
One of the four symbiotes collected by the Life Foundation.
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* CodeName: Codenamed SYM-A03 by the Life Foundation.
* HairRaisingHare: Its first successful host is a white lab rabbit, though it isn't shown assuming a monstrous form and presumably consumed it from the inside-out.
* MythologyGag: Its yellow and black appearance is one to the Scream symbiote from the comics.
* PossessionBurnout: Inflicted this on its hosts, which ultimately led to its death when the Life Foundation failed to return it to its containment unit quickly enough by the time Eddie Brock entered the lab.
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!!Others
[[folder:Cletus Kasady / Carnage]]
!!Cletus Kasady / ComicBook/{{Carnage}}
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Soon come chaos... chaos soon comes!"'']][[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Carnage]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carnage_9.jpg[softreturn][[/labelnote]]]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WoodyHarrelson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' | ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
->''"When I get out of here, and I will... there's gonna be carnage!"''
A notorious serial killer who has been locked away for good. Eddie Brock interviews him after dealing with Carlton Drake.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, the Carnage symbiote was spawned from the Venom symbiote when it broke Eddie out of prison, and bonded to Cletus through a cut on his hand -- merging with his bloodstream in the process. In ''Let There Be Carnage'', Carnage is born from Cletus biting Eddie's hand and unwittingly swallowing a piece of the Venom symbiote.
* AxCrazy: The man is so deranged that he has to be kept in a straitjacket within a smaller cell within his cell. When Eddie enters his cell, Cletus is writing "Welcome Eddie" with his blood. He ''claims'' he can turn the creepy-serial-killer act on and off, though, and mocks the idea of waxing lyrical about the beauty of arterial spray.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Eddie goes to interview him to see if he will help the FBI identify some more bodies.
* CulturedBadass: One of Cletus' illustrations shown in the second trailer has a quote from ''Prometheus'', a poem by Lord Byron, written on it.
* DeepSouth: He's a convicted murderer with Woody Harrelson's famous Texas drawl.
* EvilIsVisceral: In the first trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'', a close-up of Carnage's hands show they look like they're made of raw meat.
* EvilRedhead: Cletus Kasady's red hair is maintained courtesy of Woody Harrelson rocking a curly-haired red wig, which is changed to a more shorter haircut in ''Let There Be Carnage''. And as for the evil part, it's ''Cletus Kasady''.
* EyeScream: At one point during the extended [=DVD=]/Blu-ray cut, Cletus mentions that he sucked out and ate his victim's eyeballs. As he puts it:
-->''"Crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside."''
* FauxAffablyEvil: Always has a polite tone and a smile on his face but he's definitely not someone to take lightly.
* GenreSavvy: He seems to be aware that he's the stereotypical "AxCrazy SoftSpokenSadist" usually seen in media, and both he and Eddie snarkily put a {{lampshade|hanging}} on how played out the archetype is getting:
-->'''Cletus Kasady:''' Do you mind if we forgo the whole "creepy SerialKiller" thing here?\\
'''Eddie Brock:''' Sure, it's good with me.\\
'''Cletus:''' I mean, I can turn it on if you want. I can talk about ''Dadaist patterns of arterial spray''.\\
'''Eddie:''' ''[smirking despite himself]'' I bet you can.
* IAmAHumanitarian: In the extended edition, Cletus quips that he enjoyed eating his victims' eyeballs. In the second trailer for ''Let there be Carnage'', he angrily takes a bite out of Eddie's hand and is confused at not tasting blood, something he freely admits he's tasted before.
* MadArtist: He loves to scribble and draw whenever he can. He also has some knowledge of art, when he refers to Dadaism.
* MonstrousHumanoid: As shown in the trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'', as Carnage he is a towering blood-red humanoid monster with black vein-like markings, claws, a fanged maw, serpentine tongue, and large white eyespots. He can also spawn chaotic tentacles and transform his limbs into weapons.
* MythologyGag:
** He tells Eddie to expect "ComicBook/{{Carnage}}" when he breaks out of prison. Given that he doesn't gain powers in the first ''Venom'' movie, that's the extent of the character's presence in that film.
** Eddie's prop notes, [[https://heroichollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Venom-Cletus-Kasady-Carnage-Sony.jpeg which were put up on display at New York Comic Con 2018]], also reveal that his history is more or less identical to his comic counterpart's outside of the bit about him digging up his mother's grave, which occurred after he became Carnage in the comics.
** He's also introduced writing "Welcome Eddie" on the bars of his cell [[CouldntFindAPen with his own blood]], calling back to his first comics appearance after bonding with the Carnage symbiote, where he made doing the same with "Carnage Rules!" in his victim's as a CallingCard.
* OedipusComplex: Eddie's journal notes speculate Cletus might have one based on him digging up his mother's grave.
* PsychopathicManchild: Andy Serkis considers his portrayal to be this.
* PsychoticSmirk: After promising to cause carnage when he escapes, Kasady distorts his facial features into a creepy cross between a KubrickStare and a grin.
* SequelAdaptationIconicVillain: Riot is a very minor character in the comics, while Carnage is far more famous and iconic as enemy to both Spider-Man and Venom.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: As shown in the trailers, as Carnage he is predominantly blood-red with black vein-like markings.
* SequelHook: Exists in TheStinger of the first ''Venom'' movie to be one, setting up his role as one of the villains of ''Let There Be Carnage''.
* SerialKiller: He's responsible for murdering countless people, starting with his own grandmother.
* SlasherSmile: Seems to be his default expression. It's unsettling, to say the least.
* TheSociopath: Gives off this creepy vibe as a first impression.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He never raises his voice above a casual tone, even when he's talking about murdering people.
* WalkingSpoiler: His very presence is the surprise of the stinger.
!! ComicBook/{{Carnage}} Symbiote
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/WoodyHarrelson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
An offshoot of the Venom symbiote bonded to Cletus Kasady.
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* BioArmor: When fully manifested, the Carnage symbiote covers its host's body in its biomass and manifests a fanged maw, huge white eyes, and a long prehensile tongue.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: As shown in the trailers, one of its preferred means of attacking is morphing its host's limbs into blades.
* BloodyMurder: It has merged with its host's blood, giving it a RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver coloration.
* CombatTentacles: In the trailers, the symbiote is shown forming spike and blade-tipped tentacles.
* TheDreaded: In the second Official Trailer of ''Let There Be Carnage'', when Cletus turns into Carnage and prepares to fight Eddie, Venom reacts with shock and fear, before retreating back into Eddie. Compare this reaction to Riot, who Venom was willing to fight despite acknowledging that Riot's abilities far exceeded his own.
-->'''Venom''': [[OhCrap Oh, shit!]] ''(retreats into Eddie)'' [...] That is a ''red one''!
* EvilIsVisceral: The red parts of it look to be made of exposed muscle and raw meat, and it is an extraterrestrial predator bonded to a cannibalistic serial killer.
* FlechetteStorm: In the second trailer, Carnage fires a volley of spiked projectiles from the symbiote's tendrils.
* OverlyLongTongue: Like Venom, the Carnage symbiote has a serpentine prehensile tongue. In the second trailer, Carnage shown extending its tongue and shoving it down the throat of a prison guard.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Due to merging with Cletus' blood, the symbiote is predominantly red with black vein-like markings -- as shown during its close-ups in the trailers.
* TransformationHorror: The second trailer shows that -- unlike Venom smoothly covering Eddie's body -- the Carnage symbiote cancerously bubbles and bursts out of Cletus, horrifically warping him in the process.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Frances Barrison / Shriek]]
!! Frances Barrison / Shriek
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NaomieHarris
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
A woman with the power to create sonic blasts by screaming.
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* CreepyBlueEyes: A shot in the trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows she has piercing, icy blue irises that accentuate her status as a maniacal serial killer.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The trailers for ''Let There Be Carnage'' show she can launch sonic attacks by screaming -- hence her supervillain codename of Shriek.
* ManOfKryptonite: Her sound-based powers on display in the trailers zero in on one of the symbiotes' key weaknesses, setting her up to pose a significant threat to both Venom and Carnage.
* OutOfTheInferno: The trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows Shriek and Cletus exiting the burning ruins of Ravencroft, silhouetted by the flames.
* RaceLift: The trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows Shriek being portrayed by Creator/NaomieHarris, while in the comics Frances Barrison is Caucasian and has unnaturally pale skin due to being a mutant.
* TailorMadePrison: The trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows her contained in a soundproofed cell in the Ravencroft Institute, with the guards being equipped with noise-cancelling headphones as a counter to her sonic abilities.
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[[foldercontrol]]
!!Life Foundation
[[folder:Carlton Drake]]
!!Dr. Carlton Drake
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RizAhmed
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
->''"Thank-you for bringing us collectively to this moment. It is a moment that so many have... dreamed of claiming. History... starts today."''
The Life Foundation's CEO who believes that the symbiotes are the key to human evolution.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Creator/RizAhmed's portrayal is younger and easier on the eyes compared to his comic counterpart who was generally a [[DependingOnTheArtist middle-aged to old]] man.
* AdaptedOut: He lacks his comic counterpart's Man-Spider transformation, but this does not make him a complete AdaptationalWimp with Riot's presence.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: He considers the symbiotes a better species than mankind and eventually sides with Riot to bring millions more to Earth.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Considering his BadBoss tendencies and his uncaring attitude towards humanity, nobody mourned when he and Riot were blown up.]]
* BadBoss: His dislike for mankind is also shown by how he treats his employees. He fires one of his security guards for failing to realize one of Drake's own doctors snuck Eddie into the lab, [[spoiler:executes Doctor Skirth for betraying him by feeding to the blue symbiote]] and later transforms into Riot to kill a scientist for attempting to sabotage him before killing the others for no reason.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Riot symbiote. Drake funded the discovery of the symbiotes and is using them unlawfully on test subjects that could die as a result of the exposure while the Riot symbiote intends on bringing more of its kind to Earth in order to conquer it.
* BigBadWannabe: His experiments with the symbiotes quickly crash and burn when they all die due to simply not being properly fed, and it's ''abundantly'' clear that Riot has no intention to share his rule over Earth with him.
-->'''Riot:''' There are more of us. Millions more. They will follow wherever I lead.\\
'''Drake:''' ...Wherever ''we'' lead.\\
'''Riot:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yes, we]].
* CompositeCharacter: He’s the Life Foundation's CEO like his comic counterpart but he's also the human host of the Riot symbiote.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:He gets locked in a rocket spaceship which is blown up while he himself is being immolated.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When a class is touring the labs, Drake commends one girl for wanting to ask him something despite getting shushed by classmates, but doesn't actually let the girl get a word in. Right away the audience can see that he's a disingenuous person whose philanthropic nature is just for the sake of good publicity.
* EvilWearsBlack: Dresses in an entirely black outfit, though he wears a white shirt underneath his suit.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: He sees bonding to symbiotes as the next step in human evolution, though his experiments with them quickly go awry.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A handsome, intelligent and charming young man who plans to help aliens conquer Earth.
* FantasticRacism: Almost every scene Drake appears in has him speak ill of humanity, to the point where one has to wonder if he was actually a MisanthropeSupreme.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drake is soft-spoken, charismatic, and genuinely believes his work is a necessary evil in order to save humanity from certain extinction. Said work, however, involves abducting homeless people and subjecting them to unethical and more-often-than-not fatal experiments. This is best illustrated when he convinces a test subject that being locked up with the blue symbiote is the noble choice for him.
* {{Foil}}: To Eddie Brock. Carlton is well-respected and always presents himself immaculately with an air of class, which barely hides the fact that he's a glory-seeking sociopath. Eddie meanwhile looks like a thug, is socially awkward and has a sullied reputation, but is ultimately a good person.
* FriendToAllChildren: Subverted. He acts nice to a group of kids touring his labs and later appears to be concerned that a little girl is wandering his facilities when things go south, yet it is all fake: he only pretends to be civil and affable for the sake of good publicity.
* AGodAmI: Downplayed, but when he talks to the homeless "volunteer" Isaac about the blue symbiote experiment, he relates the story of Abraham being asked by God to sacrifice his son Isaac. Drake states that he considers Isaac to be the hero of that story, being willing to go through with being sacrificed. He then goes off on a tangent about how he would argue God has abandoned humanity "but I won't abandon us", casting himself as ''God'' in his personal modern remake of the Biblical story.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Says he wants to deal with issues like overpopulation and overconsumption, but works with Riot who devours his hosts over time and wants to let his entire species hunt Earth's population to extinction.
** He tells a group of kids that there will always be those who try to silence those who ask too many questions, clearly portraying himself as part of the second group. Yet, he is the one to end his interview with Eddie and send him away when he starts making too many questions. Even in that first exchange, he uses the speech about silencing in order to avoid actually taking the question himself.
** For all his talk on how flawed mankind is (calling them selfish, arrogant, and only know how to take from others), he displayed all these "flaws" himself.
* IdiotBall: It never occurs to Drake that the reason the symbiotes in his custody die with their hosts while Venom and Riot don't is because he neglects to feed them properly. To elaborate, the Life Foundation scientists only give the symbiote's liquid nutrition but Venom makes it clear to Eddie that they won't survive without living meat.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Responds to Maria's death by telling his henchmen to "get it out of here".
* KillThePoor: He takes homeless people from the city and uses them for his experiments. And that is before he acquires the Symbiotes.
* LackOfEmpathy: Best seen with his first test subject, a homeless man called Isaac. Drake shows no concern over the man's terror, insisting he's being part of a noble cause.
* MisanthropeSupreme: When Riot infests him, he is more or less instantly on board with Plan Let Alien Goo Monsters Eat Most Of Humanity.
* MonstrousHumanoid: As Riot, Dr. Drake is a towering, bulky humanoid monster with viscous silvery-grey skin, red vein-like markings, large white eyespots, claws, a gaping maw full of fangs, and a long prehensile tongue. He can also shapeshift his limbs into weapons.
* NeverMyFault: Blames the scientists for not watching over Dr. Skirth properly and causing the blue symbiote's death, when the situation wouldn't have occurred at all if he had just chose a mundane method of [[YouHaveFailedMe killing]] instead of choosing agonizing death via the blue symbiote.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His character draws obvious inspiration from Elon Musk. He's a relatively young billionaire whose business is focused on technology and science. Both like to talk a lot about using technology to solve global environmental issues. Like Musk's [=SpaceX=], Drake owns a company that works in the field of space exploration and seeks to bring that to the masses with long term goal of space colonization. Both also seek to symbiotically merge humanity with non-human intelligence. The goal of Musk's Neuralink is to do this with ArtificialIntelligence using {{Brain Computer Interface}}s in order to help create BenevolentAI. Lastly the Life Foundation is based in the Bay area, much like Musk's Tesla and is similarly named to the Future of Life Institute which has a scientific advisory board on which Musk sits. Fortunately, Drake's ethics and views on humanity are not inspired by Musk.
* NonActionBigBad: As Drake, he has no fighting skills, sending his men to do his job instead. As Riot, however, he's a match even for Venom. [[spoiler:As Drake, he gets in a brief scuffle with Eddie in the climax, but is quickly defeated.]]
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He aims to fight global issues such as poverty and war by basically eradicating and replacing humanity with a new predator species, by performing some extremely unethical experiments.
* OneWingedAngel: He bonds with the Riot symbiote as part of their shared goal to bring more symbiotes to Earth. [[spoiler:He consumes Venom at one point in their fight in the climax, getting even bigger and more powerful.]]
%%The scene where the Riot-possessed girl walks into his lab is not an example of PetTheDog, since it was discussed that the scene was just him being surprised and he shows no genuine signs of concern.
* RaceLift: His comic counterpart was an Anglo-American in the comics but here is played by British-Pakistani Riz Ahmed.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: As he threatens Dr. Skirth to keep participating in his unethical experiments, he ominously brings up Skirth's children in the conversation.
* SocialDarwinist: He expresses the misanthropic belief that the human race has grown out of control and needs a new apex predator to cull it.
-->'''Carlton Drake:''' Look around at the world. What do you see? A planet on the brink of collapse. Human beings... are disposable! But man and symbiote, combined? This is a new race, a new species... a higher life form.
* TheSociopath: Willing to sell out his own species for the sake of his ego.
* TechBro: The villainous Carlton Drake is a clean-cut and fairly young billionaire whose company is focused on scientific and technological research. He's got a good reputation as a philanthropist, and positions himself as a big believer in the ability of technology to solve the world's problems.
* TranshumanTreachery: While the Riot symbiote forcibly bonds to Drake, he willingly goes along with it in order to bring more symbiotes to Earth. In an unusual twist, Drake believes himself to be a ProHumanTranshuman, but he doesn't seem to realize the Riot symbiotes intend to enslave and wipe out humanity.
* UnwittingPawn: Drake is unaware that he's Riot's host more out of convenience than them being compatible, and Riot clearly doesn't intend to keep him around once Earth is conquered.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Though Eddie and his higher-ups are rightly suspicious of his true nature, to the world at large Drake is a respectable CEO and philanthropist. His [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney wealth]] and influence also deter most people from going after him.
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[[folder:Roland Treece]]
!!Roland Treece
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottHaze
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
The leader of a band of mercenaries under Life Foundation's employment.
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* AdaptationalBadass: His counterpart from the comics was just a CorruptCorporateExecutive, here he is a mercenary.
* BadassNormal: An evil example, since he can put up quite a fight with Eddie when his [[PowersDoTheFighting symbiote abilities do all the fighting]], and later a relentless car chase on him.
* BaldOfEvil: He's a PMC with a shaved head, and who has no problem causing large amounts of collateral damage in order to capture Eddie.
* CleanupCrew: After it's discovered Eddie doesn't have the Venom symbiote anymore, Treece takes him out into the woods to kill him and dump the body where he'll never be found.
* TheDragon: He's sent to retrieve Eddie once Drake discovers he has the symbiote, and acts as TheHeavy for the first act of the movie.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:Just as he's about to execute Eddie, She-Venom grabs him from behind and eats his head.]]
* OhCrap: When Eddie transforms into Venom for the first time, Treece cringes as the symbiote licks his face.
* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: He's a PMC who's the head of the Life Foundation's security team and takes his job seriously. Even the threat of being eaten by an alien monster doesn't deter him.
* InNameOnly: His counterpart from the comics was the head of a company and a board member of the Life Foundation.
* TemptingFate: Tells Eddie "I don't believe in Karma" approximately 2 seconds before [[spoiler: She-Venom grabs him from behind and bites his head off]].
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!!Symbiote Invasion
[[folder:Riot Symbiote]]
!!The Riot Symbiote
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RizAhmed
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
->''"You are nothing."''
An evil symbiote who jumps from host to host, ultimately bonding to Dr. Carlton Drake.
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* TheAce: Stated to be this by the Venom symbiote describing it as a "team leader" who has "shit you've never seen". Given that it can jump hosts without burning them out; is bigger and stronger than the other symbiotes, can create more complex weapons from its biomass, can forcibly remove a symbiote from its host, and even contain another symbiote within itself definitely shows that Riot is on a whole other level.
-->'''Drake:''' Your friends... the others, I apologize, I tried to keep them alive.\\
'''Riot:''' There are more of us. Millions more. They will follow wherever I lead.\\
'''Drake:''' ...Wherever ''[[RoyalWe we]]'' lead.\\
'''Riot:''' Yes, [[BigBadDuumvirate we]]. But first, we must retrieve him.
* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Riot can use its shapeshifting abilities to lengthen its claws into blades.
* AdaptationalBadass: Its comic counterpart serves as TheBrute of a QuirkyMinibossSquad and never really battles Venom individually. This version is more analogous to Carnage in terms of abilities, with Venom being something of a "runt" in comparison. He is stated to be a "team leader" among his people, is shown to also be completely capable of working entirely on his own (going as far as to [[WeHaveReserves dismiss the deaths of his kind]]), is bonded to Carlton Drake, the Life Foundation's ''leader'', and even Venom admits that his chances of beating Riot in combat [[CurbStompBattle is a dead zero]].
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Rather than being the Venom symbiote's spawn, Riot is an unrelated individual of the same species.
* AdultFear: At one point, Riot made its host follow a little girl into a public bathroom. The next time Riot appears, it has taken the girl as its new host.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Riot is more physically powerful than Venom and has superior fighting abilities like creating weapons out of his body. Though Venom is quite powerful in his own right and manages to keep up with Riot, he is manhandled for most of the fight against him. [[spoiler:In the end, he isn't even beaten by force but gets incinerated when Venom explodes his ship's fuel tanks with Riot inside it]].
* TheAssimilator: In the final battle, [[spoiler:Riot assimilates the Venom symbiote -- host and all -- to be truly enormous, only for Anne Weying to intercede with a sonic attack that separates them.]]
* AxCrazy: Best shown in the scene where [[spoiler:he kills a bunch of Drake's staff because one tried to sabotage his rocket]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: It forms this with Carlton Drake, intending to bring more of its kind to Earth in order to conquer it.
* BishonenLine: Falls on the far end despite being physically stronger than Venom, who draws closer to the line. Compare Venom's basically humanoid form with a weird mouth and eye structure to Riot's oddly bumpy skin, hunched and loping posture, and somewhat crocodilian head structure.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Riot can transform its arms into enormous bladed weapons in constract to shapeshifting to smashing hammers used by its comic counterpart.
* BodySurf: Riot is a "body hopper" who jumps from host to host -- jumping from John Jameson to a Malaysian paramedic to an old woman to a little girl and finally to Drake.
* BrightIsNotGood: Riot is primarily silver in coloration, helping distinguish him from Venom and the other symbiotes. It's also the film's symbiote BigBad.
* CompositeCharacter: This version can be seen using smashing weapons like hammers and maces like its comic counterpart, however, prefers blades and claws like Carnage as well as growing spikes on his back like Phage.
* CreepyChild: When he possesses the little girl in the Sarawak airport just before he meets Drake.
* DualWielding: He transforms his arms into two giant blades to slaughter the scientists at the rocket launch.
* EvilCounterpart: Riot is an evil symbiote who stands in contrast to the marginally more heroic Venom. While Venom grew to appreciate Earth, Riot just sees it as another feeding ground.
* EvilIsBigger: Riot towers over the already massive Venom, and is also far stronger.
* EvilIsPetty: Riot, while possessing a Malaysian EMT, steals and eats a live eel; the eel vendor yells at him, only for Riot to slash his throat with an arm blade.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a deep''er'' voice than Venom's, although not by very much.
* FantasticRacism: Its ultimate goal is to enslave and kill all of humanity, and for the alien symbiotes to rule Earth.
* FlechetteStorm: While bonded to the Malaysian paramedic, Riot kills a group of thugs with a barrage of spikes fired from her back.
* {{Foil}}: To Venom. Where Riot is a "team leader" and capable of extraordinary physical feats such as turning his arms into weapons and fully overriding a host's body, Venom is a self-described "loser" who is a strong combatant but mostly relies on an UnskilledButStrong fighting style and either allows Eddie autonomy for a majority of the time or is incapable of taking it from him entirely. Venom begins to change for the better thanks to Eddie's influence while Riot cares nothing for Drake.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After stabbing Eddie in the back with a blade, Venom uses said blade to destroy the rocket Riot is using to leave Earth, destroying both Riot and Drake]].
* JoinOrDie: Riot orders Venom to get in the rocket that will bring back more of their alien kind to Earth. Venom refuses, so Riot decides to execute him.
* MonstrousCannibalism: During the final battle, Riot [[spoiler:rips the Venom symbiote off Eddie and prepares to eat it, only for Eddie to rebond to it at the last second]].
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Inverted. Riot's a bit brighter than its comic counterpart, given that its black sections are gone and red veins are visible beneath its silver surface.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: While he doesn't start a Zombie Apocalypse, his first few hosts before getting to Drake are disturbingly Zombie-like in behavior.
* OhCrap: While not immediately apparent due to symbiotes being {{Perpetual Smiler}}s, he clearly has one when [[spoiler:seeing Venom rupture the rocket's fuel tanks - at that point Riot clearly seems to realize that he's a dead man and symbiote]].
* PossessionBurnout: The Malaysian paramedic collapses after the Riot symbiote leaves her, though it's not shown what happened to the old woman or the little girl it bonded to.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Unlike Venom, Riot's head resembles a crocodile or alligator.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Riot transforms its arms into massive blades and [[EpicFlail a giant mace]].
* SpikesOfVillainy: During its battle with Venom, Riot sprouts several spikes and tendrils from its back.
* SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: [[spoiler:Played entirely straight. His rocket which he wanted to board to leave Earth and start a symbiote invasion ended up being destroyed by Venom, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using his discarded blade no less]], and immediately doing away with Riot and Drake.]]
* TaintedVeins: The Riot symbiote has prominent red veins on its arms, chest, and back.
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Its comic counterpart was one of many that spawned from Venom. The relationship is barely explored but they seemingly have no "relation" in this film.
* VillainRespect: Riot does seem a bit impressed by how compatible Eddie is with Venom.
--> '''Riot:''' ''(after receiving a few attacks)'' You have a strong host! [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter But not strong enough]]...
* WeCanRuleTogether: While Riot only gives Venom this opportunity once, it is still his offer nonetheless.
--> '''Riot:''' Venom... ''get in the [[spoiler:rocket!]]''\\
'''Venom:''' No! We won't let you destroy this world!\\
'''Riot:''' Then, ''die''!
* WeHaveReserves: When Drake apologizes for letting the other symbiotes of Riot's infiltration team die, Riot remarks there are millions more of its kind.
* WouldHurtAChild: It isn't picky when selecting a temporary host to feed and travel by, such as a little girl. And that's not going to the fact its plan is having legions of symbiotes feast on humanity, adults and children alike.
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[[folder:SYM-A02]]
!!Blue Symbiote
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
One of the four symbiotes collected by the Life Foundation. It is bonded to a man named Isaac, whom it immediately kills.
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* BodyHorror: After bonding to Isaac, it causes Issac to spasm and twitch horrifically as it consumes Issac from the inside out.
* CodeName: Codenamed SYM-A02 by the Life Foundation.
* PossessionBurnout: Inflicted this on its hosts. After it does this to Dr. Skirth, the Life Foundation's scientists kill it by not returning it to its containment unit.
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[[folder:SYM-A03]]
!!Yellow Symbiote
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}''
One of the four symbiotes collected by the Life Foundation.
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* CodeName: Codenamed SYM-A03 by the Life Foundation.
* HairRaisingHare: Its first successful host is a white lab rabbit, though it isn't shown assuming a monstrous form and presumably consumed it from the inside-out.
* MythologyGag: Its yellow and black appearance is one to the Scream symbiote from the comics.
* PossessionBurnout: Inflicted this on its hosts, which ultimately led to its death when the Life Foundation failed to return it to its containment unit quickly enough by the time Eddie Brock entered the lab.
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!!Others
[[folder:Cletus Kasady / Carnage]]
!!Cletus Kasady / ComicBook/{{Carnage}}
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Soon come chaos... chaos soon comes!"'']][[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Carnage]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carnage_9.jpg[softreturn][[/labelnote]]]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WoodyHarrelson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' | ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
->''"When I get out of here, and I will... there's gonna be carnage!"''
A notorious serial killer who has been locked away for good. Eddie Brock interviews him after dealing with Carlton Drake.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, the Carnage symbiote was spawned from the Venom symbiote when it broke Eddie out of prison, and bonded to Cletus through a cut on his hand -- merging with his bloodstream in the process. In ''Let There Be Carnage'', Carnage is born from Cletus biting Eddie's hand and unwittingly swallowing a piece of the Venom symbiote.
* AxCrazy: The man is so deranged that he has to be kept in a straitjacket within a smaller cell within his cell. When Eddie enters his cell, Cletus is writing "Welcome Eddie" with his blood. He ''claims'' he can turn the creepy-serial-killer act on and off, though, and mocks the idea of waxing lyrical about the beauty of arterial spray.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Eddie goes to interview him to see if he will help the FBI identify some more bodies.
* CulturedBadass: One of Cletus' illustrations shown in the second trailer has a quote from ''Prometheus'', a poem by Lord Byron, written on it.
* DeepSouth: He's a convicted murderer with Woody Harrelson's famous Texas drawl.
* EvilIsVisceral: In the first trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'', a close-up of Carnage's hands show they look like they're made of raw meat.
* EvilRedhead: Cletus Kasady's red hair is maintained courtesy of Woody Harrelson rocking a curly-haired red wig, which is changed to a more shorter haircut in ''Let There Be Carnage''. And as for the evil part, it's ''Cletus Kasady''.
* EyeScream: At one point during the extended [=DVD=]/Blu-ray cut, Cletus mentions that he sucked out and ate his victim's eyeballs. As he puts it:
-->''"Crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside."''
* FauxAffablyEvil: Always has a polite tone and a smile on his face but he's definitely not someone to take lightly.
* GenreSavvy: He seems to be aware that he's the stereotypical "AxCrazy SoftSpokenSadist" usually seen in media, and both he and Eddie snarkily put a {{lampshade|hanging}} on how played out the archetype is getting:
-->'''Cletus Kasady:''' Do you mind if we forgo the whole "creepy SerialKiller" thing here?\\
'''Eddie Brock:''' Sure, it's good with me.\\
'''Cletus:''' I mean, I can turn it on if you want. I can talk about ''Dadaist patterns of arterial spray''.\\
'''Eddie:''' ''[smirking despite himself]'' I bet you can.
* IAmAHumanitarian: In the extended edition, Cletus quips that he enjoyed eating his victims' eyeballs. In the second trailer for ''Let there be Carnage'', he angrily takes a bite out of Eddie's hand and is confused at not tasting blood, something he freely admits he's tasted before.
* MadArtist: He loves to scribble and draw whenever he can. He also has some knowledge of art, when he refers to Dadaism.
* MonstrousHumanoid: As shown in the trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'', as Carnage he is a towering blood-red humanoid monster with black vein-like markings, claws, a fanged maw, serpentine tongue, and large white eyespots. He can also spawn chaotic tentacles and transform his limbs into weapons.
* MythologyGag:
** He tells Eddie to expect "ComicBook/{{Carnage}}" when he breaks out of prison. Given that he doesn't gain powers in the first ''Venom'' movie, that's the extent of the character's presence in that film.
** Eddie's prop notes, [[https://heroichollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Venom-Cletus-Kasady-Carnage-Sony.jpeg which were put up on display at New York Comic Con 2018]], also reveal that his history is more or less identical to his comic counterpart's outside of the bit about him digging up his mother's grave, which occurred after he became Carnage in the comics.
** He's also introduced writing "Welcome Eddie" on the bars of his cell [[CouldntFindAPen with his own blood]], calling back to his first comics appearance after bonding with the Carnage symbiote, where he made doing the same with "Carnage Rules!" in his victim's as a CallingCard.
* OedipusComplex: Eddie's journal notes speculate Cletus might have one based on him digging up his mother's grave.
* PsychopathicManchild: Andy Serkis considers his portrayal to be this.
* PsychoticSmirk: After promising to cause carnage when he escapes, Kasady distorts his facial features into a creepy cross between a KubrickStare and a grin.
* SequelAdaptationIconicVillain: Riot is a very minor character in the comics, while Carnage is far more famous and iconic as enemy to both Spider-Man and Venom.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: As shown in the trailers, as Carnage he is predominantly blood-red with black vein-like markings.
* SequelHook: Exists in TheStinger of the first ''Venom'' movie to be one, setting up his role as one of the villains of ''Let There Be Carnage''.
* SerialKiller: He's responsible for murdering countless people, starting with his own grandmother.
* SlasherSmile: Seems to be his default expression. It's unsettling, to say the least.
* TheSociopath: Gives off this creepy vibe as a first impression.
* SoftSpokenSadist: He never raises his voice above a casual tone, even when he's talking about murdering people.
* WalkingSpoiler: His very presence is the surprise of the stinger.
!! ComicBook/{{Carnage}} Symbiote
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/WoodyHarrelson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
An offshoot of the Venom symbiote bonded to Cletus Kasady.
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* BioArmor: When fully manifested, the Carnage symbiote covers its host's body in its biomass and manifests a fanged maw, huge white eyes, and a long prehensile tongue.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: As shown in the trailers, one of its preferred means of attacking is morphing its host's limbs into blades.
* BloodyMurder: It has merged with its host's blood, giving it a RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver coloration.
* CombatTentacles: In the trailers, the symbiote is shown forming spike and blade-tipped tentacles.
* TheDreaded: In the second Official Trailer of ''Let There Be Carnage'', when Cletus turns into Carnage and prepares to fight Eddie, Venom reacts with shock and fear, before retreating back into Eddie. Compare this reaction to Riot, who Venom was willing to fight despite acknowledging that Riot's abilities far exceeded his own.
-->'''Venom''': [[OhCrap Oh, shit!]] ''(retreats into Eddie)'' [...] That is a ''red one''!
* EvilIsVisceral: The red parts of it look to be made of exposed muscle and raw meat, and it is an extraterrestrial predator bonded to a cannibalistic serial killer.
* FlechetteStorm: In the second trailer, Carnage fires a volley of spiked projectiles from the symbiote's tendrils.
* OverlyLongTongue: Like Venom, the Carnage symbiote has a serpentine prehensile tongue. In the second trailer, Carnage shown extending its tongue and shoving it down the throat of a prison guard.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Due to merging with Cletus' blood, the symbiote is predominantly red with black vein-like markings -- as shown during its close-ups in the trailers.
* TransformationHorror: The second trailer shows that -- unlike Venom smoothly covering Eddie's body -- the Carnage symbiote cancerously bubbles and bursts out of Cletus, horrifically warping him in the process.
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[[folder:Frances Barrison / Shriek]]
!! Frances Barrison / Shriek
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NaomieHarris
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
A woman with the power to create sonic blasts by screaming.
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* CreepyBlueEyes: A shot in the trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows she has piercing, icy blue irises that accentuate her status as a maniacal serial killer.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The trailers for ''Let There Be Carnage'' show she can launch sonic attacks by screaming -- hence her supervillain codename of Shriek.
* ManOfKryptonite: Her sound-based powers on display in the trailers zero in on one of the symbiotes' key weaknesses, setting her up to pose a significant threat to both Venom and Carnage.
* OutOfTheInferno: The trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows Shriek and Cletus exiting the burning ruins of Ravencroft, silhouetted by the flames.
* RaceLift: The trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows Shriek being portrayed by Creator/NaomieHarris, while in the comics Frances Barrison is Caucasian and has unnaturally pale skin due to being a mutant.
* TailorMadePrison: The trailer for ''Let There Be Carnage'' shows her contained in a soundproofed cell in the Ravencroft Institute, with the guards being equipped with noise-cancelling headphones as a counter to her sonic abilities.
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