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Anne Weying
Anne Weying
"I don't work for him. My firm works for him. Are you gonna behave yourself tomorrow?"
Click here to see her as She-Venom
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Micheline and McFarland (formerly)
Portrayed By: Michelle Williams
Appearances: Venom | Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A lawyer employed by the Life Foundation.
- Action Girl: In the final act of the film, Anne bonds to the symbiote and becomes She-Venom to reunite it with Eddie Brock and save his life from Drake's thugs, even eating The Dragon in the process, and is angered when the symbiote refuses to let her help against Eddie's wishes in the fight against Riot. Following that, she finds a way to blast out a high-pitched sound from the speakers surrounding Carlton/Riot's rocket, stopping him from getting inside.Anne: Told you I could fight ugly.
- Amicable Exes: Zig-Zagged. While she still resents Eddie over what he did six months ago, his erratic behavior after bonding to the Venom symbiote makes her worried about him, even getting her new boyfriend to help him.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- When she briefly bonds with the Venom symbiote, she saves Eddie moments before he is executed by Drake's goons.
- During the battle between Riot and Venom, the former absorbs both Venom and Eddie and is about to escape on the rocket until Anne turns on the launch site's speakers to exploit the Symbiotes' weakness to high-pitched sonic frequencies and force Riot to separate from Venom.
- Big Damn Kiss: She lays a big wet one on Eddie as She-Venom to transfer the Venom Symbiote back to him.
- The Cavalry: Using the Venom symbiote, she rescues Eddie as he's about to be executed by Treece and his men.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: When Venom briefly takes over her body, she does not go by She-Venom.
- The Confidant: After she witnesses Venom fighting a bunch of cops, Eddie ends up confiding in her about the Venom symbiote, his concerns regarding its influence over him, and that he's starting to enjoy its power.
- Cute Monster Girl: When she briefly bonds with Venom, the end result has a very shapely figure, in sharp contrast to the bulky build Venom has when it envelops Eddie.
- Damsel in Distress: At the climax of Let There Be Carnage, Kasady takes her hostage to force Eddie to confront him at the chapel.
- Evil Feels Good: Despite being disgusted by the Venom symbiote's bloodlust, Anne tells Eddie that part of her reveled in the power that it gave her.
- Hello, Attorney!: Anne is a lawyer whose firm is employed by Dr. Carlton Drake, which Eddie teasingly chides her over during a date.
- Heroic Host: She briefly bonds to the Venom symbiote in order to rescue Eddie, eating Roland Treece's head in the process.
- Informed Attribute: Anne works as a lawyer on behalf of the Life Foundation, but is never seen practicing law at any point in the film, even after the Time Skip.
- Kissing Under the Influence: When infected with the symbiote, she kisses Eddie, making him Venom again. When he brings up the kiss at the end of the movie, she claims it to have been the symbiote's idea, but there is noticeable insecurity in her words. Not helping is the fact that she doesn't want to tell her current boyfriend about that.
- Ms. Fanservice: As She-Venom, since she appears in a very curvaceous form just like her comic counterpart, monstrous head notwithstanding.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Later on at the end of the movie when questioned on why she kissed Eddie as She-Venom, she becomes very flustered and defensive stating that it was all the symbiote, not her. Given that Venom doesn't take full control of his hosts even when he's fully manifested, and at the very least doesn't influence or control their minds, this was most likely a case of More than Mind Control as while Venom (who stated that he likes her and by the end is an active Shipper on Deck for Eddie and Anne) may have influenced her and taken down her inhibitions somewhat, while also making her more aggressive, it's heavily implied that the decision to kiss was all Anne and she still very much cares about Eddie. In the second film after transferring from her and back to Eddie Venom suggests that he kisses her and Eddie asks if she's going to kiss him again, and while she at first tells him no she eventually says that she isn't sure while walking away.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Eddie breaking into her laptop and using a confidential e-mail to accuse Carlton Drake of murder gets her fired, whereupon she furiously berates Eddie for the flaws she's previously put up with because she loved him.
Mrs. Chen
Mrs. Chen
"You look like shit."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Chen's Market
Portrayed By: Peggy Lu
Appearances: Venom | Chen's Market | Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versenote
A Chinese woman who runs a convenience store that Eddie Brock frequents.
- Asian Store-Owner: She's a Chinese convenience store owner who tries to peddle her cousin's meditation videos to her customers, though she's frequently robbed by a thug who runs an extortion racket.
- Brutal Honesty: She bluntly tells Eddie he "looks like shit" the second she sees his face after he's been fired from his job and dumped by Anne.
- The Cameo: She makes a small appearance in Across the Spider-Verse in a live-action sequence.
- Canon Foreigner: Doesn't have a comic book equivalent.
- Foreign-Language Tirade: She rants in Mandarin when frustrated.
- Innocent Bystander: Is on the receiving end of a protection racket by a thug that regularly collects money from her at gunpoint.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In Let There Be Carnage, she's abrasive and (weakly) extorts Eddie and Venom. When a weakened Venom arrives at her doorstep in a different host and confesses that he and Eddie separated, she's very concerned, hugs the symbiote and lets him possess her temporarily.
- Odd Friendship: Despite just being one of her customers, she does seem to care about Eddie and Venom. In Chen's Market they help her make a video to advertise her store while in Let There Be Carnage she offers Eddie chocolate so that Venom's cravings can be managed, though she weakly attempts to extort him and Venom for more protection, and later in the film she lets a weakened Venom possess her so that he won't die.
- Running Gag: Every time Eddie enters her store, she notes he looks like crap and asks if he's been meditating.
- Seen It All: She gets so used to interacting with bizarre shit that she doesn't even bat an eye when a trans-dimensional villain from another universe pops out of a portal and robs her store.Spot: I'm literally splitting the fabric of space and time. To you it's just a Tuesday night. You're acting like weird stuff like this happens to you all the time.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Subverted. When Venom takes care of the thug extorting her, she seems more concerned about the fact that Eddie was that big black thing than the fact that a man just got eaten in front of her. Meanwhile in Across she has no reaction to seeing a completely blank man covered in black portals from another dimension appearing right in front of her through a portal and robs her.
- Younger Than They Look: Claims to be thirty-nine in the second film despite her actress being almost sixty. Venom doesn't believe it.
Jack
Jack
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): MNBN
Portrayed By: Ron Cephas Jones
Appearances: Venom
Eddie Brock's boss at the MNBN broadcasting network.
- Benevolent Boss: He kept Eddie in for quite some time despite the latter pushing his investigation journalism shtick far enough to spell trouble for the network. Until Eddie's interview of Carlton Drake went awry, that is. When Eddie backs his claims up with photographic evidence of the Life Foundation's illicit experiments, he offers Eddie his job back, though Eddie turns him down.
- Da Editor: He manages the news network in which Eddie works, and tries to keep the latter on a leash, because Curiosity Is a Crapshoot. He ends up firing Eddie after his "interview" of Carlton Drake, since the billionaire surely doesn't like being investigated upon and is powerful enough to have the network shut down.
- Good Is Dumb: Even if he does seem to be a Nice Guy all in all, it never occurs to him that maybe his reporters might discover very important information needed to protect the public by investigating a company more thoroughly. He admonishes Eddie for going too deep in interrogating Drake for allegations against the Life Foundation that most of its test subjects have perished in the experiments and that their deaths are being covered up. Rather than simply give Eddie a warning, he outright fires him to appease Drake, who's rich enough to buy MNBN and put it out of business.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He is not in the movie that much, but him firing Eddie for speaking out against Drake started a chain reaction of events that turned Eddie’s life upside-down.
Dan Lewis
Dr. Daniel "Dan" Lewis
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Reid Scott
Appearances: Venom | Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Anne's new boyfriend following her breakup with Eddie.
- Beware the Nice Ones: To most people, he's a kind, rational doctor. To those that kidnap his girlfriend, he's the guy who just lit them on fire.
- He Knows Too Much: Venom at one point tried killing him for explaining to Eddie that Venom, out of desperate hunger, tried eating his heart out literally.
- Love Triangle: He replaces Eddie as Anne's boyfriend, making Eddie jealous. Unusually for this trope, however, he and Eddie bear no actual ill will towards each other, and he treats Eddie like one of his patients when Eddie shows symptoms of Venom.
- Nice Guy: When Eddie makes a scene in a restaurant as a result of his symbiote-induced hunger, Dan insists that Eddie is his patient and tells the waitress not to call the cops. Overall, he is rather nice to Eddie and doesn't treat him as a love rival. That being said, Eddie still doesn't like him much. Although Venom does wish him to take care in the second movie.
- Only Sane Man: When Eddie has a Venom-instigated public freak-out in a fancy restaurant, Dr. Dan responds with professional concern that Eddie must be very ill. When Anne tries to reassure him she is not going back with Eddie, he is more concerned about the alien lifeform that is apparently killing Eddie to really care about that.
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: The rich to Eddie's poor when it comes to dating Anne. Having been fired, Anne appears to look to Dan who is a medical doctor as her new breadwinner once she dumps Eddie, who was also fired. Venom offers to help Eddie get Anne back from Dan, but Eddie decides to stay single for now.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Correctly assumes that Eddie pleading to Anne for help before diving into a lobster tank and eating one raw is a sign of extreme mental distress rather than malice, and even gets the idea that Eddie might be suffering from a parasite, though he doesn't have any idea the symbiotes exist.
- Took a Level in Badass: When Carnage kidnaps Anne, and is busily beating the crap out of Eddie and Venom, Dan unexpectedly shows up to pour fire on him from a catwalk above the fight.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Downplayed AND justified. He is a little more irritable and impatient with Anne and Eddie in the second movie, annoyed with Eddie causing trouble and Anne lying to him. However that's because he was told that Venom and the rest of the aliens are dead, and it's because of Eddie and Venom that there is another dangerous alien which forces him and Anne to try and flee from San Francisco. He still helps Eddie and Venom out in the final battle, however.
- Two First Names: Dan and Lewis are both common as given names.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears from the third act of the first film. He reappears in the second and even plays a major role in the final fight.
Maria
Maria
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Melora Walters
Appearances: Venom
A homeless woman who sits outside Mrs. Chen's convenience store. She is abducted by the Life Foundation and becomes the Venom symbiote's first human host, but proves incompatible and dies after it transfers to Eddie.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She is established as being friends with Eddie, who gives her some money despite being down-on-his-luck himself. The next time he passes by the convenience store, Maria is gone, but her possessions are still on the ground. The next time Eddie sees her, she's within the Life Foundation's secure labs, having already been infected with the Venom symbiote.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's introduced having a good-humored snarky conversation with Eddie about her habit of stealing free newspapers and selling them for five dollars apiece.
- Disposable Vagrant: Maria is one of several homeless people kidnapped by Drake and his men to serve as hosts for the symbiotes (it's implied she was bribed with money), though the trope is downplayed since Eddie clearly doesn't think so; he goes to save her as soon as he recognizes her, and it's her transferring Venom to Eddie that results in the collapse of the Life Foundation's Symbiote project.
- Nice Girl: What we do know of her is that she and Eddie have a friendly relationship, and she's got a sense of humour despite her situation, with the two of them quipping back and forth about her "five dollar delivery service" of free newspapers taken from a stand not five feet away from her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears twice, but Eddie would have left the Life Foundation without Venom had he not recognized Maria and tried to free her.
- Tainted Veins: Being infected by the Venom symbiote leaves her with pronounced black veins around her eyes.
Detective Mulligan
Detective Patrick Mulligan
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): San Francisco Police Department
Portrayed By: Stephen Graham
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A detective for the SFPD who hassles Eddie over his interviews with Cletus Kasady.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, he was a more heroic cop and Venom was the one who was antagonistic towards him, with Spider-Man considering Pat/Toxin to be his first genuine symbiote ally, despite previous team ups with Venom. In this movie, he's a moderately dislikable Inspector Javert character who's still on the side of the law, but takes every opportunity he can to make accusations towards Eddie.
- Create Your Own Villain: He shot out a young Shriek’s left eye, which causes her to immensely hate him, and is what got him kidnapped in the finale.
- Disney Death: He presumably gets his neck snapped by Shriek, but later wakes up alive and with bright blue eyes.
- Friend on the Force: Downplayed. While he and Eddie work together to find Kasady's bodies and meet and call each other several times, they have a shaky relationship and he later drags Eddie into questioning.
- Handicapped Badass: He wears a hearing aid due to an encounter with Shriek that irreparably damaged his hearing. Doesn't make him any less capable, though.
- Hero Antagonist: He's initially an ally to Eddie, albeit a mildly douchey one, but later has him put into police custody.
- Inspector Javert: He ends up suspecting Eddie and trying to arrest him.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While antagonistic towards Eddie, he does make a point that Eddie had connections to both the Life Foundation and Carnage, and that it's too suspicious to be a mere coincidence.
Sonny & Cher
Sonny & Cher
Species: Chickens
Citizenship: N/A
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: N/A
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A pair of chickens kept as pets by Venom.
- Adopt the Food: Heavily implied that Eddie got them for Venom to eat, but Venom ended up adopting them.
- Living Prop: They are just ordinary chickens kept as company for Venom and Eddie.
- Named After Someone Famous: They're named after Sonny & Cher.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Though visited by Eddie and Venom before they go on the run, we don't know what happens to them.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Stan Lee
Appearances: Venom | Venom: Let There Be Carnage note
An old man whom Eddie Brock and Venom meet after defeating Carlton Drake and Riot.
- Ambiguously Human: As noted in Ambiguous Situation, the fact the SSU connects to the MCU means that he might not be human.
- Ambiguous Situation: May or may not be the same entity as The Watcher Informant. Especially so, considering that Venom: Let There Be Carnage connects this world to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by having Eddie Brock and Venom summoned by Doctor Strange. Otherwise, he could just be an Alternate Self.
- As Himself: Ambiguous Situation aside, Let There Be Carnage implies that Stan Lee was playing himself in the first film.
- The Cameo: Because this is Stan Lee we're talking about.
- Venom: He is walking his dog in the streets of San Francisco before stopping to talk with Eddie Brock, encouraging him (and Venom somehow) to not give up on Anne Weying.
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage: While he doesn't appear in person (Lee had passed away long before filming began), a picture of his face is seen a magazine in display on Mrs. Chen's shop and Venom prevents it from falling with one of his tendrils.
- Cool Shades: It wouldn't be a Stan the Man cameo without those sunglasses.
- Shipper on Deck: He encourages Eddie (and Venom somehow) to not give up on Anne, who previously dumped Eddie to pursue a relationship with Dr. Dan Lewis.
Little Simz
Simbiatu "Simbi" Abisola Abiola Ajikawo
Species: Human
Citizenship: British
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Little Simz
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A singer at a party that Venom attends in an attempt to get over Eddie.
- As Herself: Little Simz is a real life rapper, singer and actress.
Life Foundation
General Tropes
- Corporate Conspiracy: The Life Corporation is a multibillion-dollar Research, Inc. involved in everything from cancer treatments to space travel, and is headed by an Evilutionary Biologist determined to save humanity from the next global crisis — no matter how much Playing with Syringes he has to do.
- Research, Inc.: The Life Foundation is a multibillion-dollar corporation that's investigating everything from cancer treatments to space exploration. Unfortunately, its founder is mostly concerned with surviving any sort of global crisis the future might hold, and is willing to chew through any number of human test subjects to do so.
Carlton Drake
- See Venom's Enemies.
Dora Skirth
Dr. Dora Skirth
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Life Foundation
Portrayed By: Jenny Slate
Appearances: Venom
A disgruntled Life Foundation scientist who informs Eddie about the foundation's experimentations on humans with symbiotes.
- The Atoner: Tries to stop the experiments and make things right, upon realizing Drake is going too far.
- Being Good Sucks: Deciding to do the right thing ultimately gets her killed.
- Bespectacled Cutie: She wears thick and round glasses, which make her shy and concerned personality actually endearing and pitiful.
- Big "NO!": Her last words.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Apparent when a security guard questions her at the Life Foundation. She bluffs, but is terrible at it.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Drake feeds her to the dark blue symbiote after interrogating her.
- Defector from Decadence: After successfully bonding the yellow symbiote to a rabbit, she's horrified when Drake decides to immediately jump to human testing. Her growing discomfort causes her to sneak Eddie into the lab, though her role is ultimately exposed.
- Eaten Alive: She gets eaten off-screen by the dark blue symbiote, which Drake sicced on her for helping Venom escape.
- Everyone Has Standards: She reaches her breaking point when her boss's practice of feeding homeless innocents to the symbiotes in an attempt to find good hosts ends up with a lot of people dead. She specifically goes to Eddie about it because she knows he cares about the lives of innocents as well.
- Incredibly Obvious Tail: Eddie accuses her of being one when confronting her in Mrs. Chen's convenience store.
- Mama Bear: Has two children who she adores and desperately wants to protect.
- Nice Girl: She's the only one of the Life Foundation scientists who shows any concern about their callous human experimentation, whistleblows out of her genuine moral concern for what her boss is doing, is terrible at lying, and loves her two children very much.
- Not What I Signed Up For: She claims that she happily worked for the Life Foundation back when they were working on making progress in medicine, but eventually tries to expose Drake's unlawful human testing practices when they start experimenting with the symbiotes.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Drake uses this as justification for having her killed after she sneaks Eddie into the Life Foundation HQ.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She's a scientist working for a huge corporation who wears a pair of specs.
- You Have Failed Me: After Drake gets her to tell him who she let into the lab, he has her used as a test subject for the dark blue symbiote, which eats her from the inside-out.
Roland Treece
- See Venom's Enemies.
Lloyd Emerson
Dr. Lloyd Emerson
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Life Foundation
Portrayed By: Wayne Pére
Appearances: Venom
One of the scientists who works at the Life Foundation.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Went along with Drake's experiments until he planned to leave on the rocket, and while he didn't know Drake was the new host for Riot he knew whatever he had planned couldn't be good and tried to stop it. All that ended up happened was that Riot killed him before he could actually stop the launch.
- Two First Names: "Emerson" can also be used as a first name.
John Jameson
John Jameson
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Life Foundation
Portrayed By: Chris O'Hara
Appearances: Venom
The sole surviving astronaut of the Life Foundation's space mission after his ship crashes due to the symbiotes. He rapidly gets taken over by the Riot symbiote.
- Alliterative Name: Both his forename and surname start with a J.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: He is this to his Earth-96283 and Earth-199999 versions.
- Death by Adaptation: He was the first host of Riot, and the ambulance he is in crashed after Riot took over the nurse. Although his death isn't outright confirmed.
- Mythology Gag: In the Spider-Man comics, he is the son of J. Jonah Jameson, Da Editor for the Daily Bugle and Peter Parker's boss.
- Puppeteer Parasite: He is the first host of the Riot symbiote, and he is used by it to make the ambulance crash and take over a Malaysian rescue worker.
Ravencroft Institute
Camille Pazzo
Dr. Camille Pazzo
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Ravencroft Institute
Portrayed By: Sian Webber
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
The head doctor of the Ravencroft Institute.
- Age Lift: Is played by a woman in her sixties, while in the comics she appears to be in her thirties.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Blond in the comics, but has white hair here.
- Death by Adaptation: Is killed by Carnage, while her comic self is still alive.
Frances Barrison / Shriek
See SSU: Venom's Enemies.
