History Characters / Venom2018

* EnemyWithin: It slams Eddie around in an almost telekinetic manner, pinning him to a wall and preventing him from moving while taunting him.

* ImAHumanitarian: Makes multiple threats to criminals to eat them.
--> '''Venom:''' Eyes, lungs, pancreas... So many snacks, so little time!

* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Venom symbiote allows Eddie to contort in ways that aren't humanly possible and freakishly alters his appearance, sprouting CombatTentacles and covering his arms so that he can perform an EnhancedPunch. The footage shown at Comic Con also revealed he can manifest his arms as axes and rapidly heal Eddie from injuries.

* TheSymbiote: Venom was one of at least two amorphous extraterrestrial entities discovered by the Life Foundation that bond to and augment their hosts, transforming them into monsters.

--> '''Venom:''' (To a robber) We will eat both your arms and then both of your legs and then we will eat your face right off your head. You will be this armless, legless, faceless thing, won’t you? Going down the street like a turd in the wind.
* TruerToTheText: The look of Venom here compared to the ''Film/SpiderMan3'' version, as the symbiote acts more like liquid as opposed to a sticky, string-like creature and the head forms by first forming teeth around Eddie's head and going over it like it's eating him; he has a larger, more monstrous appearance, as well as the long tongue and tons of sharp teeth; and Venom uses plural terms to refer to himself.

[[folder:Doctor Carlton Drake]]

* OneWingedAngel: The SDCC trailer reveals that he will [[spoiler:bond with the Riot symbiote to combat Venom.]]

* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Venom symbiote allows Eddie to contort in ways that aren't humanly possible and freakishly alters his appearance, sprouting CombatTentacles and covering his arms so that he can perform an EnhancedPunch. The footage shown at Comic Con also revealed he can manifest his arms as axes.

* EvilIsBigger: A hulking stature and musculature to compliment it's monstrous features.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Eddie Brock is blond in the comics, but has brown hair in the film.

* BrutalHonesty: The first trailer establishes him as someone who doesn't hold his opinions back. In an interesting way, it's used to establish him as a good person, as he bluntly challenges the BigBad, Carlton Drake, making it clear that he knows Drake is preforming life threatening experiments. More humorously, he outright says to the Life Foundation employee who's following him that she sucks at being discreet.

[[folder:Doctor Carlton Drake/[[spoiler:Riot]]]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The SDCC trailer reveals that he will bond with the Riot symbiote to combat Venom.]]

* RaceLift: Dr. Carlton Drake was an Anglo-American in the comics, but here is played by Riz Ahmed, a British-Pakistani. Given his acclaim and success as an actor, this was likely a case of AbilityOverAppearance.

[[folder:Doctor Carlton Drake]]

* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Venom symbiote allows Eddie to contort in ways that aren't humanly possible and freakishly alters his appearance, sprouting CombatTentacles and covering his arms so that he can perform an EnhancedPunch.

* EvilSoundsDeep: The symbiote has a deep, glutteral voice, and is a malevolent presence.

* AdaptationalVillainy: TruerToTheText aspects aside, this version of the symbiote is far more malicious and controlling than 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 film makes it very clear that Venom is akin to a demon in Eddie's eyes, their relationship like a demonic possession and the symbiote even overrides his body at one point to make it clear that it'll do whatever it damn well pleases regardless of what Eddie thinks.

* TruerToTheText: The look of Venom here compared to the ''Film/SpiderMan3'' version, as the symbiote acts more like liquid as opposed to a sticky, spider-like creature and the head forms by first forming teeth around Eddie's head and going over it like it's eating him; he has a larger, more monstrous appearance, as well as the long tongue and tons of sharp teeth; and Venom uses plural terms to refer to himself.

* AdaptationalVillainy: TruerToTheText aspects aside, this version of the symbiote is far more malicious and controlling than in the comics. In Venom's original appearance, it was heavily implied ([[FlipFlopOfGod and occasionally confirmed]] DependingOnTheWriter) that the symbiote was turned into the insane monster it is 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. The film makes it very clear that Venom is akin to a demon in Eddie's eyes, their relationship like a demonic possession and the symbiote even overrides his body at one point to make it clear that it'll do whatever it damn well pleases regardless of what Eddie thinks.

* BadassBaritone: The symbiote's deep voice is a stark contrast with the weaselly voice of the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy previous version]].

* NominalHero: It helps Eddie fight the antagonists, but it's mostly following it's host's moral compass for it's own amusement.

* AdaptedOut: The giant white spider-symbol that serves as a twisted counterpart to ComicBook/SpiderMan's is nowhere to be seen here, which makes sense considering that this version of the character has nothing to do with Peter Parker.

* 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.]]

* BrutalHonesty: The first trailer establishes him as someone who doesn't hold his opinions back. In an interesting way, it's used to establish him as a good person, as he bluntly challenges the BigBad, Carlton Drake, making it clear that he knows Drake is a bad person. More humorously, he outright says to the Life Foundation employee who's following him that she sucks at being discreet.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Prior to obtaining the symbiote, Eddie lightly chides his girlfriend for working for an evil person and tries to bring up the allegations about Carlton Drake performing life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people during an interview. After obtaining the symbiote, he explicitly forbids the Symbiote from hurting innocents. While Eddie in the comics does share his movie counterpart's desire to protect innocent people, he indulged in a few unethical practices, was by his own admission not a particularly nice person and DependingOnTheWriter, Venom's villainy was all Eddie's fault as his rage corrupted the symbiote.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Prior to obtaining the symbiote, Eddie lightly chides his girlfriend for working for an evil person and tries to bring up the allegations about Carlton Drake performing life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people during an interview. After obtaining the symbiote, he explicitly forbids the Symbiote from hurting innocents. While in the comics, Eddie does share his movie counterpart's desire to protect innocent people, he indulged in a few unethical practices, was by his own admission not a particularly nice person and DependingOnTheWriter, Venom's villainy was all Eddie's fault as his rage corrupted the symbiote.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Prior to obtaining the symbiote, Eddie lightly chides his girlfriend for working for an evil person and tries to bring up the allegations about Carlton Drake performing life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people during an interview. After obtaining the symbiote, he explicitly forbids the Symbiote from hurting innocents. While in the comics Eddie does share his movie counterpart's desire to protect innocent people, he indulged in a few unethical practices, was by his own admission not a particularly nice person and DependingOnTheWriter, Venom's villainy was all Eddie's fault as his rage corrupted the symbiote.

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

* AdaptationalHeroism: Prior to obtaining the symbiote, Eddie lightly chides his girlfriend for working for an evil person and tries to bring up the allegations about Carlton Drake performing life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people during an interview. In the comics, he indulged in a few unethical practises and was by his own admission not a particularly nice person. And DependingOnTheWriter, Venom's villainy was all Eddie's idea, while here he explicitly forbids the Symbiote from hurting innocents.

* EvilWearsBlack: Dr. Carlton Drake dresses in an entirely black outfit. Unusually for a film using this trope, our hero is also set to have a mostly black appearance.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Dr. Carlton Drake sees bonding to symbiotes as the next step in human evolution, though his experiments with them quickly go awry.
* ObviouslyEvil: If the fact that Carlton Drake experiments on alien parasites wasn't enough of a clue, the second trailer has him ending the a TV interview once Eddie asks about his alleged deadly experiments rather than denying them. And then he [[UpToEleven threatens Eddie.]]

* HelloAttorney: Anne is a lawyer whose firm is employed by Dr. Carleton Drake, which Eddie teasingly chides her over during a date.