History Characters / Venom2018

->''"On my world, I was actually a loser as well. But together, here on Earth, perhaps we could be something more."''

* GirlyScream: Eddie's voice jumps several octaves, alongside his testicles, when the Symbiote [[JumpScare startles]] him for the first time as he's staring at his own reflection.The

* HeroStoleMyBike: He grabs a motorcycle while running away from Life Foundation {{mooks}}.

* GirlyScream: Eddie's voice jumps several octaves, alongside his testicles, when the Symbiote [[JumpScare startles]] him for the first time as he's staring at his own reflection.

** Anne says that [[spoiler:the symbiote was invoking this trope when it chose (though seemingly, not entirely without her consent) to use an entirely unnecessary BigDamnKiss (any form of physical contact would've worked) to transfer itself from her back to Eddie.]]

* TheAtoner: Tries to stop the experiments and make things right, upon realising Drake is going too far

* LoveTriangle: He replaces Eddie as Anne's boyfriend, making Eddie jealous.

* OnlySaneMan: When Eddie has a Venom-instigated public freakout in a fancy restaurant, Dr. Dan responds with professional concern that Eddie must be very ill.

* FantasticRacism: Almost every scene Drake appears in has him speak ill of humanity.

* HateSink: Every action he takes oozes with despicableness; from ruining Eddie's life for daring to ask sensitive questions to sacrificing countless homeless people for his unethical experiments to blackmailing (and eventually killing) any employee who has a conscience. The only thing that audience would like about him is that he becomes Riot, but that is mostly due to the symbiotie rather than the actual man.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Many versions of the symbiote portray it as a mindless instinctive creature [[TruerToTheText but this one is quite clearly an intelligent being like in the comics.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Riot serves as TheBrute of a QuirkyMinibossSquad and never really battles Venom individually. In the movie, he's 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 [[LackOfEmpathy dismiss the deaths of his kind]]), is bonded to Carlton Drake, the ''leader'' of the Life Foundation, and even Venom admits that his chances of beating Riot in combat [[CurbStompBattle is a dead zero]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: TruerToTheText aspects aside, this version of the symbiote is far more malicious and controlling than it originally was in the comics. In Venom's original appearance, it was heavily implied ([[FlipFlopOfGod and occasionally confirmed]] DependingOnTheWriter) that the symbiote was turned into an insane monster in part due to Eddie's intense hatred for Spider-Man, something that would bite Eddie in the ass when it tries to turn him into a KnightTemplar when he's genuinely trying to protect innocent people. Current comics also portray the symbiote as having a pet-like loyalty towards Eddie, while the film begins with Venom merely using Eddie as a way to escape the Life Foundation and proceed with Riot's plan. The trailers even making it out like Venom is the corrupting influence on Eddie, [[TheEnemyInside rather than the other way around]]. However, in the film proper, it's eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as Venom undergoes CharacterDevelopment and comes to truly care for Eddie and its more noble nature is uncovered.

* AdaptationalVillainy: TruerToTheText aspects aside, this version of the symbiote is far more malicious and controlling than it originally was in the comics. In Venom's original appearance, it was heavily implied ([[FlipFlopOfGod and occasionally confirmed]] DependingOnTheWriter) that the symbiote was turned into an insane monster in part due to Eddie's intense hatred for Spider-Man, something that would bite Eddie in the ass when it tries to turn him into a KnightTemplar when he's genuinely trying to protect innocent people. Current comics also portray the symbiote as having a pet-like loyalty towards Eddie, while the film begins with Venom merely using Eddie as a way to escape the Life Foundation and proceed with Riot's plan. However, it's eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as Venom undergoes CharacterDevelopment and comes to truly care for Eddie and its more noble nature is uncovered.

->''"The way I see it... we can do whatever we want."''

* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Riot is just one member of a QuirkyMinibossSquad and never really battles Venom individually. In this movie, he's more analogous to Carnage in terms of abilities, with Venom being something of "a runt" in comparison.

* PetTheDog: Maria asks Eddie for $5 in exchange for his favorite newspaper. Eddie gives her $20 instead.

* BigGood: Of the Venom film, though it is definitely [[GoodIsNotNice not the nicest example of this trope.]]

* ImmuneToBullets: Bullets are little more than an annoyance to it.

* NoBiologicalSex: Being a symbiote, it has no defined gender or sex, choosing to assume the form of its host. It never refers to itself by any pronouns but "we". [[spoiler: This is better shown when it briefly possesses Anne, morphing then into a female form.]]

* IntrepidReporter: Eddie Brock is an investigative journalist whose desire to "do [his] job" saw him disgraced and run out of New York. In an interview with Dr. Carlton Drake, he goes off-script to ask him about allegations that the Life Foundation is conducting illicit human experiments -- putting him at odds with his fiancee Anne Weying, whose lawfirm represents Drake and the Life Foundation. Eddie being contacted by a disgruntled employee, digging into the Life Foundation's dark secrets, and accidentally acquiring one of their symbiotes puts him in their sights as a threat.

* UngratefulBastard: He calls Venom a "parasite" even after all Venom's done for him, including helping Eddie win back Anne's affection after she broke up with Eddie and replaced him with a doctor.

* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: The rich to Eddie's poor when it comes to dating Anne. Having been fired, Anne appears to look to Dan who seems to be a medical doctor as her new breadwinner once she dumps Eddie who also got fired. Though Venom does help Eddie get Anne back from Dan.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the third act of the film, but we do know that now Anne isn't dating him anymore because she and Eddie are a pair again at the end.

* TheHedonist: Venom shows shades of being this, as he keeps encouraging Eddie that they have some fun rampaging stating "The way I see it, we can do whatever we want!" Not to mention that because of his pariah status back on his homeworld among his own kind, Venom wants Earth to be his own safe refuge and new home.

* TheHedonist: Venom shows shades of being this, as he keeps encouraging Eddie that they have some fun rampaging stating "The way I see it, we can do whatever we want!"

* TheHedonist: Venom shows shades of being this, claiming he can do whatever he wants to the humans because he ''can''.

* AGodAmI: Downplayed, but when he talks to the homeless "volunteer" Isaac about the 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 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.

* AGodAmI: Drake look down on humanity and wishes to do something about overpopulation. During a conversation with the first symbiote test subject, Drake brings up the Binding of Isaac, mentions how God have abandoned humanity and brags that he will finish His work.