History NightmareFuel / SpiderMan

* In [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2EnterElectro its sequel]], Spider-Man just wants to ask his friend Dr. Curt Connors for help, and since Connors is unable to answer Spidey's phone call, Spidey has to visit Connors' lab in BioTech headquarters. Unfortunately, BioTech's anti-infiltration AI detects Spider-Man's presence, hence unavoidable ManVersusMachine scenario happens, where Spider-Man has to face dozens of laser-firing robots]] [[UpToEleven and automatic electricity traps]] that can [[OneHitKill insta-kill him in one hit]].

** From the same game, The Lizard himself. Completely out of control and almost unkillable if not for the emergency serum available in the lab. [[OhCrap Note: The Lizard can climb up the walls and stick to the ceiling, giving Spider-Man very little space to hide or rest].

* In [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2EnterElectro its sequel]], Spider-Man just wants to ask his friend Dr. Curt Connors for help, and since Connor is unable to answer Spidey's phone call, Spidey has to visit Connor's lab in BioTech headquarters. Unfortunately, BioTech's anti-infiltration AI detects Spider-Man's presence, hence unavoidable ManVersusMachine scenario happens, where Spider-Man has to face dozens of laser-firing robots]] [[UpToEleven and automatic electricity traps]] that can [[OneHitKill insta-kill him in one hit]].

* In [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2EnterElectro its sequel]], Spider-Man just wants to ask his friend [[Comicbook/TheLizard Dr. Curt Connor]] for help, and since Connor is unable to answer Spidey's phone call, Spidey has to visit Connor's lab in BioTech headquarters. Unfortunately, BioTech's anti-infiltration AI detects Spider-Man's presence, hence unavoidable ManVersusMachine scenario happens, where Spider-Man has to face dozens of laser-firing robots]] [[UpToEleven and automatic electricity traps]] that can [[OneHitKill insta-kill him in one hit]].
* [[Comicbook/TheLizard The Lizard]] himself, out of control and almost killed Spider-Man if not for the emergency serum available in the lab. [[OhCrap Note: The Lizard can climb up the walls and stick to the ceiling, giving Spider-Man very little space to hide or rest].

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions''
* ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime''
* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4''

* ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt''. Kraven the Hunter literally buries Peter alive and assumes the Spidey identity, only going extra rough on criminals while Peter's friends and family have no idea where he is for days. The What If? issue was even worse, with Kraven actually killing Peter, and later digging up his festering remains in order to consume them.
** "They said my mother was insane..." *BLAM!*
** The sequel ''The Grim Hunt'', which served as the finale to ''The Gauntlet'' series of stories (revamps of old Spidey villains into scarier threats), is a mix of PsychologicalHorror, BodyHorror, and good ol' fashioned GothicHorror as Kraven's family goes about attempting to raise their patriarch from the dead through BloodMagic.

* The infamous "Kraven’s Last Hunt" story arc, where Kraven, driven insane by his repeated losses against Spider-Man, becomes obsessed with defeating his enemy by "becoming him". He does this by putting Spider-Man in a death-like coma and ''burying him alive'', then assuming Spider-Man’s identity and embarking on a vigilante spree. Spider-Man is trapped in his grave for TWO WEEKS, during his which he has horrible nightmares and has to undergo a vision quest just to regain enough control of his own body to claw his way out of the grave. The story ends with Kraven declaring victory and shooting himself in the head.

* ''NightmareFuel/SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries''

* Carl King was the worst bully Peter ever had (worse than Flash Thompson), and after seeing Peter be bitten by the radioactive spider, Carl eventually put two and two together, tracked down the now dead spider, and ''ate'' it in an attempt to give himself superpowers. He became a colony of arachnids that could [[OrificeInvasion invade]] people's bodies, devour their innards, and wear their flesh like a suit. Most of his victims (which included his own parents) were women, hobos and children. The arc was [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/3071083-the_thousand-spider-man%27s_tangled_web%232-coming_out.jpg full]] [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/3071080-the_thousand-spider-man%27s_tangled_web%231-eyes.jpg of]] [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15776/835635-thousand.jpg nauseating]] BodyHorror. Yeah, he's the page image here. For good reason!

** What happens when you make an AxCrazy MisanthropeSupreme into a GodOfEvil? You get ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'', where Carnage gets the ''Grendel symbiote'' (you know, the ''NighInvulnerable dragon of the primordial evil god of symbiotes''), and seeks to kill every single person bonded to a symbiote to reawaken Knull, the aforementioned symbiote god, to destroy all of reality. If there were a Moral Singularity beyond the MoralEventHorizon, Carnage blasted through it cackling.

* '''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}''' is perhaps one of the scariest villains out of Spidey's whole rogue's gallery - yes, even far more terrifying than Venom! To start, he knows everything about both Spidey ''and'' Venom. Now, this wouldn't be much different from Venom...if he weren't an irredeemably AxCrazy SerialKiller doing everything ForTheEvulz, with a symbiote merged into his bloodstream, making him a NighInvulnerable maniac. To make matters even more disturbing, he also has his own sense of humor: Spidey has YouFightLikeACow, Venom has BlackComedy, and Carnage has ''the worst of DeadBabyHumor possible''. Perhaps the worst bit is this: Carnage is so powerful, in fact, that his mere presence immediately prompts an EnemyMine between Spider-Man and Venom. ''Carnage is so deadly that Venom is willing to team up with the one he's endlessly stalked.''

* The Green Goblin himself: '''''ComicBook/NormanOsborn'''''. Think a CorruptCorporateExecutive, but ''as AxCrazy as humanly possible''. Bearing a SplitPersonality, Norman himself is a subdued but calculating businessman who treats everyone as a means to an end, while the Green Goblin persona is a twisted MadBomber who relishes in BreakThemByTalking followed by BlackComedy commentary. Both of which are stored inside of one man - one man who will go to any deep, sinister lengths to torture Spider-Man; and everyone else he loves; as cruelly as possible - killing Gwen Stacy, trying to kill his son Harry for sympathy ratings, and upon discovering that Spidey cares about the lives he saves, ''carpet bombs Times Square'' to the point where Spidey was able to just save ''five people at most.''

** Carrion's origin is even worse; he was originally a backup clone Miles Warren created of himself, in case his vendetta against Spider-Man failed. It did, but Warren never returned to release the clone since he died in the fight, and the clone was left to grow old and ''die'' in the clone tube, but the machinery kept up its support of the corpse, preventing it from completely dying and decomposing, creating a TechnicallyAliveZombie. Years later, a university professor stumbled upon the machine and released Carrion, who had understandably been driven completely insane by the experience, even if he wasn’t awake in stasis.

** In ''ComicBook/GoDownSwinging'', almost all of this gets greatly overshadowed by Carnage binding to '''''ComicBook/NormanOsborn.''''' Essentially, take the madness of the Green Goblin and blend it with the psychotic bloodlust of Carnage, and you get something that ''can and will'' rain absolute chaos upon the entire world.

* The Green Goblin himself: '''''ComicBook/NormanOsborn'''''. Think a CorruptCorporateExecutive, but ''as AxCrazy as humanly possible''. Bearing a SplitPersonality, Norman himself is a subdued but calculating businessman who treats everyone as a means to an end, while the Green Goblin persona is a twisted MadBomber who relishes in BreakThemByTalking followed by BlackComedy commentary, both of which are stored inside of one man - one man who will go to any deep, sinister lengths to torture Spider-Man; and everyone else he loves; as cruelly as possible - killing Gwen Stacy, trying to kill his son Harry for sympathy ratings, and upon discovering that Spidey cares about the lives he saves, ''carpet bombs Times Square'' to the point where Spidey was able to just save ''five people at most.''

* Any appearance of Norman Osborn between "The Final Chapter" (where his already notorious insanity was ''magically enhanced'') to his appearances in ''The Pulse'' and ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' (where he was finally outed as the Green Goblin and sent to prison) was full of this. His MO by this point was to straight up torture Spider-Man in any way he could to mold him into being an Osborn worthy of his legacy. This included such lovely acts as [[spoiler: brainwashing Peter into being the Green Goblin without even realizing it, using electro shocks to force Peter to choose darkness over light, causing an alcoholic relapse in Flash Thompson before engineering a car accident into a school via tanker truck with Flash, and generally threatening his loved ones through surveillance photos and the like.]]
** Really, Norman is general: think a CorruptCorporateExecutive, but ''as AxCrazy as humanly possible''. Bearing a SplitPersonality, Norman himself is a subdued but calculating businessman who treats everyone as a means to an end, while the Green Goblin persona is a twisted MadBomber who relishes in BreakThemByTalking followed by BlackComedy commentary, both of which are stored inside of one man - one man who will go to any deep, sinister lengths to torture Spider-Man; and everyone else he loves; as cruelly as possible - killing Gwen Stacy, trying to kill his son Harry for sympathy ratings, and upon discovering that Spidey cares about the lives he saves, ''carpet bombs Times Square'' to the point where Spidey was able to just save ''five people at most.''

!!General

* Hydro-Man was once hired to free a Russian mobster who was being extradited; part of his plan to do so involved sneaking into the airplane that was transporting the man and forcing his way into the pilots' bodies, killing them and allowing him to crudely puppeteer their corpses. It was surprisingly macabre, especially for a villain who is usually depicted as a borderline joke and no more than DumbMuscle.
--> '''Everett K. Ross:''' I read somewhere that the human body is 98% water. And, at least in the case of Zurich Flight 1635's pilots--2% Hydro-Man.
* Speaking of Spider-Man, the Tordenkakerlakk from the graphic novel ''Hooky'' is worth mention, due to the myriad of grotesque forms it takes throughout the book, for the sole purpose of stalking a little girl who has been alone for 200 years.
* ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' story arc "Shed" is this. There's no return to Curt Connors for the Lizard. Not now. Not after what he does.
--> '''Lizard:''' [[SssssnakeTalk Kahnrrs]] want kill Cold One. Kahnrrs be rival male. [[OffingTheOffspring Cold One raids Kahnrrs nest!]] [[ImAHumanitarian Cold One eats Kahnrrs young!]]
** And the worst thing - Lizard is now gone, probably for good. And Curt is stuck in his hideous form, well aware of what he had done.
** Later, the Jackal clones his family in exchange for his help, but the clones are unstable and slowly begin to degenerate. So what does Curt do to save their lives? He gives them the same Lizard serum. It saves them, but now they are turned into reptiles like him.
* Two books published by Marvel about the villain Carnage, ''Mind Bomb'' (which is by Creator/WarrenEllis by the way) and ''It's A Wonderful Life''. The character of Carnage is already up there to begin with, having been in prison serving eleven consecutive life sentences for murder before obtaining the symbiote, and after obtaining it, his only goal was to kill as many people as possible. The entire plot of ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' was that Carnage wanted to kill everyone in Manhattan. He's a killer with no style or gimmick, who only wants to kill, preferably by brutal, gory means. But these books... both involve Carnage using the symbiote to connect to the minds of other people, which allows us to see what's in Carnage's mind. He lives in a world of corpses, willing victims, dark humor, and frightening landscapes all of which house his knowledge, desires and memories of the past. There is even a special area where Carnage spends time hacking up Spider-Man copies for fun. One panel of ''Mind Bomb'' shows the "real world" as he calls it, which features a man eating intestines and holding a cup labeled "urine sample" as a drink glass, an elderly woman in bondage gear, and a cop with a KKK hood shooting a man. In ''Mind Bomb'', the man he's connected to, Dr. Matthew Kurtz, goes completely insane from this experience. The second book plays more to Cletus Kasady's history as Dr. Kafka and John Jameson are connected this time, each mutating into a vicious creature (John turned back into the Man-Wolf, a previous villain form, and Dr. Kafka slowly changed into a cockroach) finally ending when a young black kid named Billy shows up deep within the area of repressed memories. Carnage threatens to kill him if they get too close but seems unable to (it's hinted that Billy was a childhood friend, but the details beyond this are never really said) and finally has a breakdown, releasing the two but left in a catatonic state. The artwork is graphic even for a Carnage story and the cover of ''Mind Bomb'' has him perched on a pile of human skulls. The oddest part? Both books were approved by the CCA. Even worse, ''IAWL'' seems to play with the idea that the people running the mental hospitals that house supervillains may actually be more evil than Carnage. ''Mind Bomb'' showed him as oddly intelligent for a supposedly uneducated guy but ''IAWL'' opens with Carnage ranting about the change in management. He even seems to be more than aware that many "accidents" that are resulting in patient deaths during their transfers are intentional and even calls out that the car crash that killed Wolverina (not Wolverine) was on purpose. This alone might be the most frightening aspect, Carnage himself calling out someone else for being worse than him and being right.

* ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt''. Kraven the Hunter literally buries Peter alive and assumes the Spidey identity, only going extra rough on criminals while Peter's friends and family have no idea where he is for days. The What If? issue was even worse, with Kraven actually killing Peter, and later digging up his festering remains in order to consume them.
** "They said my mother was insane..." *BLAM!*
** The sequel ''The Grim Hunt'', which served as the finale to ''The Gauntlet'' series of stories (revamps of old Spidey villains into scarier threats), is a mix of PsychologicalHorror, BodyHorror, and good ol' fashioned GothicHorror as Kraven's family goes about attempting to raise their patriarch from the dead through BloodMagic.
* In a story arc titled ''Venom: Shiver'', set in the isolated Alaskan wilderness, an army base loses contact with a nearby military research facility in the midst of a driving snowstorm. One of their officers, a young woman named Pat, takes a long and lonely journey through the storm to find out what's gone wrong. [[spoiler:What she finds is a dark, cold, silent facility filled with the mangled corpses of the staff, most covered not only with blood, but also a familiar-looking black sludge. Only a single, nearly catatonic survivor remains. She chooses to take the terrified man back to her base, followed by by a lone figure obscured by the snow.]] While the overarching plot of the story is, admittedly, pretty weak, and borrows very heavily from ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'', what follows in the next several pages still manages to be a ''pretty'' unsettling look at what the Venom symbiote gets up to when it doesn't have a host like Eddie to moderate its violent impulses . . .

* The Tarantula [[BodyHorror transforming into a giant, anatomically accurate tarantula]]. It drives him to suicide, with a panel even showing the gruesome aftermath of his giant, bloody corpse lying on a public street. Sweet dreams, readers.
* Similarly, any time Spidey himself mutates into a GiantSpider.
* A ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' (comic book) arc features Spidey and Black Cat stopping Ock from nuking New York. While the bomb is stopped Ock's tentacles bind Black Cat and one shoots her with a machine gun. That's disturbing enough but Spider-Man tears out several of Ock's extra arms and the issue ends with Ock on an operating table, refusing pain killers while his arms are reattached to him, vowing to return the pain to Spider-Man.
* The fifth Green Goblin (who wasn't human, but [[ArtificialHuman a genetic construct]]) revealing his [[TheBlank empty face]], and then gruesomely melting into a pile of goo after assuming Harry's appearance.
* Like the ''Noir'' version of the Vulture, the one from ComicBook/Marvel2099 is also a man-eater, complete with CannibalLarder.
* ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #373. Venom is held in custody, with a [[AssholeVictim jerkass guard]] who's favorite pastime is [[BullyingADragon intentionally turning up the sonics in Venom's cell]] so he can laugh at Brock and the symbiote's agony. Once Venom escapes the cage, he wraps his tendrils around the guard's head and squeezes. And squeezes. And squeezes. His head is completely covered in tendrils but we see it gradually getting smaller and smaller. And then we cut to the [[GoryDiscretionShot other guard's horrified face]] as Venom cheerfully sings "Pop goes the weasel!"
* A lot of people think of Mysterio as being a minor IneffectualSympatheticVillain at worst. Those people really don't realize how ''horrifying'' ol’ Fishbowl can get when he gets serious. ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' kindly shows this. The [[ComicBook/XMen Xavier Mansion]] is being attacked by an army of supervillains. Wolverine can't find any of the other X-Men and the villains are threatening the students, so Logan is forced to pop out his claws and kill them to protect the kids. Finally he gets down to Bullseye and stabs him when suddenly Bullseye says "Why Logan?". The illusion drops revealing that the whole time Wolverine was slaughtering the other X-Men. Bullseye is actually Jubilee, who is basically the closest thing to a daughter Logan has ever had. Mysterio than appears behind Wolverine, casually mocks him for thinking he could take on that many supervillains at once, and then walks away, having totally broken Wolverine in mind, body, and spirit. Really, Spider-Man is incredibly lucky that mainstream Mysterio doesn't have very big ambitions; the Wall-Crawler wouldn't last a week.
* The Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin) villain Flesh had no bones, and possibly no other innards, due to a curse, and was thus a prime source of Body Horror. Mattie (who was once ''sewn inside'' Flesh) noted that she and her sister, Bones, likely made their getaways while the witnesses and responders to their crimes were busy throwing up at the sight of them.

* Like many stories that compose "the Gauntlet", "Power to the People" has a rather unsettling moment in which Electro manages to essentially convince an unknown number (implied to be quite high) to assist him in murder, in such a way they could do it from their own homes and nobody would ever know, just by turning on all their electrical appliances to feed him the power he needs to get the job done.
* The Grim Hunt storyline. The Kravenoffs manage to murder Peter's clone brother Kaine, leave his body on display in a graveyard with a note "Hunt Me!" Their plan proceeds to [[GoneHorriblyRight go horribly right]] as Peter, in a fit of pure rage, dons his black (non-Venom) suit, and proceeds to hunt and torture Kraven's family, ripping apart Sasha's face with his wall-crawling power and going at Kraven with one of his spears fully intending to kill him in retaliation. The whole time, echoing menacing threats of his intentions to each of them.
* The ''Vermin'' story arc in Spectacular Spider-Man. Vermin was originally a scientist who had been sexually abused by his father as a child. As an adult, a failed experiment turned him into a hideous rat-like mutant, which also made him psychotic and turned him into a cannibalistic serial killer. The storyline has a ton of creepy scenes, such as showing Vermin’s mental breakdown in the mental hospital while his doctor is trying to reach his original personality, and the crime scene photos of his victims. There's also one disturbing scene where Peter Parker is visiting the cemetary with Mary Jane and Aunt May and has a bizarre vision of Vermin bursting up from Uncle Ben's grave (Vermin is nowhere near the place at the time).
** By far the creepiest scene is where Vermin returns to his parents’ house, and manages to sneak into his father’s room, and ''lies down next to him in bed!'' The look of horror on the man’s face says it all.
--> '''Vermin''': ''I'm home, daddy...''
** On top of that, Peter is in the middle of a breakdown, and is sent right over the edge when Harry exposes him to a hallucinogenic gas, forcing him to deal with his massive death phobia, and showing him visions of his dead parents as rotting corpses.
--> '''Peter''': '''mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy'''
** In the middle of all that, Harry Osborn is having one last relapse into mental illness as he begins to see visions of his dead father driving him to resume being the Green Goblin. He even starts to become abusive towards his family just as Norman had been.

* The infamous "Kraven’s Last Hunt" story arc, where Kraven, driven insane by his repeated losses against Spider-Man, becomes obsessed with defeating his enemy by "becoming him". He does this by putting Spider-Man in a death-like coma and ''burying him alive'', then assuming Spider-Man’s identity and embarking on a vigilante spree. Spider-Man is trapped in his grave for TWO WEEKS, during his which he has horrible nightmares and has to undergo a vision quest just to regain enough control of his own body to claw his way out of the grave. The story ends with Kraven declaring victory and shooting himself in the head.

* ''Marvel Cinematic Universe'':
** ''NightmareFuel/SpiderManHomecoming''

* '''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}''' is perhaps one of the scariest villains out of Spidey's whole rogue's gallery - yes, even far more terrifying than Venom! To start, he knows about both Spidey ''and'' Venom. Now, this wouldn't be much different from Venom...if he weren't an irredeemably AxCrazy SerialKiller doing everything ForTheEvulz, with a symbiote merged into his bloodstream, making him a NighInvulnerable maniac. To make matters even more disturbing, he also has his own sense of humor: Spidey has YouFightLikeACow, Venom has BlackComedy, and Carnage has ''the worst of DeadBabyHumor possible''. Perhaps the worst bit is this: Carnage is so powerful, in fact, that his mere presence immediately prompts an EnemyMine between Spider-Man and Venom. ''Carnage is so deadly that Venom is willing to team up with the one he's endlessly stalked.''

* '''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}''' is perhaps one of the scariest villains out of Spidey's whole rogue's gallery - yes, even far more terrifying than Venom! To start, he knows about both Spidey ''and'' Venom. Now, this wouldn't be much different from Venom...if he weren't an irredeemably AxCrazy SerialKiller doing everything ForTheEvulz, with a symbiote merged into his bloodstream, making him a NighInvulnerable maniac; and that he has Venom's BlackComedy commentary, boosted UpToEleven. Carnage is so powerful, in fact, that his presence immediately prompts an EnemyMine between Spider-Man and Venom. ''Carnage is so deadly that Venom is willing to team up with the one he's endlessly stalked.''

* [[spoiler:'''[[VideoGame/SpiderMan Monster Ock]]''', which is basically what happens when Doc Ock gets Carnage's symbiote]]. There's no way to defeat him: all you can do is run, and pray he won't catch you, all while he makes noises that sound like a monster being strangled. Look up videos of him on [=YouTube=], and many of the comments will be similar to: "This scared me to death as a kid!"
** One of his growls end in an inhuman "DIE! DIE! DIIIEEEE!!!" that sounds not too dissimilar how the alien says it in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. He even says it in [[spoiler:Doc Ock's]] normal voice! About halfway through the chase, [[spoiler:Doc Ock's]] human voice returns to also simply say, "IT'S... NOT... OVER... YET!!!!" - which he can also repeat in his regular, demonic voice.
** The sequence takes place in a vent, meaning that you may get stuck to walls running from him and wind up seeing the meter that shows how close he is to you shoot up fast. Try NOT to feel your heart rate spike.
** How about Carnage himself? Him shrieking "The pain, the paaaain!" every time you pull him into the sonic emitter area...
** Similar to [[spoiler: Monster Ock]], there is Spider-Carnage. Imagine your favorite childhood character, turned into a horrible monstrosity that wants to kill everyone.
*** At one point, Carnage infected the ComicBook/SilverSurfer. The implications for the universe are horrifying.
*** In ''ComicBook/GoDownSwinging'', almost all of this gets greatly overshadowed by Carnage binding to '''''ComicBook/NormanOsborn.''''' Essentially, take the madness of the Green Goblin and blend it with the psychotic bloodlust of Carnage, and you get something that ''can and will'' rain absolute chaos upon the entire world.

* The Venom suit. An organism capable of sentient thought that relies on other organisms to live via a symbiotic bond. It affects you not unlike a drug, altering your state of mind and making you crave its power. While it provides benefits to you, it also uses your body against your will as it pleases and takes a toll on you in the long run. Once removed, some fragments of it retain inside the blood, as the rest retains not only the thoughts you shared, but all of your memories, that it will then share with its next host. It holds a grudge, will crave blood when it wants, and has an obsessive personality towards former hosts. Not to mention the powers it grants to its users, ranging from claws to tendrils.
** Want to know what could make it worse? How about the fact it's not even the most DANGEROUS symbiote. That honor goes to the Carnage suit which has all of the above but with one slight difference... it's bonded with a serial killer who is actually stronger then both Venom and Spidey combined when wearing the suit. On top of that there's another one out in space that's outright stated to move from host to host just eating them as it's wearing them. And remember... Venom's the NICE one.

* '''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}''' is perhaps one of the scariest villains out of Spidey's whole rogue's gallery - yes, even far more terrifying than Venom! To start, he knows about both Spidey ''and'' Venom. Now, this wouldn't be much different from Venom...if he weren't an irredeemably AxCrazy SerialKiller doing everything ForTheEvulz, with a symbiote merged into his bloodstream, making him a NighInvulnerable maniac; and that he has Venom's BlackComedy commentary, boosted UpToEleven.

** While Venom himself can be scary alone, he gets ''significantly'' creepy in the non-canon ''Dark Origin''. As the name suggests it shows Eddie's origin, as his TraumaCongaLine begins and his life starts to go to hell. As Eddie, putting aside his [[AdaptationalVillainy much scummier personality]], he becomes disturbing as his sanity plummets, but it's when he's Venom does he become terrifying as all hell. He disguises himself as a costume in front of MJ, and then gives her a JumpScare via reverting to his regular form. Plus, he acts just...''[[StalkerWithoutACrush creepy]]'' towards Peter, watching him from the Bugle's window, and as he fights Spider-Man for the first time he undergoes some BodyHorror as the symbiote covers and uncovers his face and body. The artwork is also particularly...[[UncannyValley disturbing]], ''especially'' when Eddie first bonds with Venom. [[EyeScream Just...]] ''[[FacialHorror wow...]]'' Needless to say, while Venom can serve to be a NightmareFuelStationAttendant in regular stories, it's ''Venom: Dark Origin'' that takes his creepiness to levels that were never reached before.

** One of his growls end in an inhuman "DIIIEEEE!!!" that sounds not too dissimilar how the alien says it in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. He even says it in [[spoiler:Doc Ock's]] normal voice! About halfway through the chase, [[spoiler:Doc Ock's]] human voice returns to also simply say, "IT'S... NOT... OVER... YET!!!!" - which he can also repeat in his regular, demonic voice.

* Carl King was the worst bully Peter ever had (worse than Flash Thompson), and after seeing Peter be bitten by the radioactive spider, Carl eventually put two and two together, tracked down the now dead spider, and ''ate'' it in an attempt to give himself superpowers. He became a colony of arachnids that could [[OrificeInvasion invade]] people's bodies, devour their innards, and wear their flesh like a suit. Most of his victims (which included his own parents) were women and children. The arc was [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/3071083-the_thousand-spider-man%27s_tangled_web%232-coming_out.jpg full]] [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/3071080-the_thousand-spider-man%27s_tangled_web%231-eyes.jpg of]] [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15776/835635-thousand.jpg nauseating]] BodyHorror. Yeah, he's the page image here. For good reason!

** One of his growls end in an inhuman "DIIIEEEE!!!" and another ending in "IIIIT'S NNNOOOT OOOVERRR YEEEET!!!" that sounds not too dissimilar how the alien says it in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. He even says it [[spoiler:in Doc Ock's normal voice!]] About halfway through the chase, [[spoiler:Doc Ock's]] human voice returns to also simply say, "IT'S... NOT... OVER... YET!!!!".

** One of his growls end in an inhuman "DIIIEEEE!!!" that sounds not too dissimilar how the alien says it in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. He even says it [[spoiler:in Doc Ock's normal voice!]] About halfway through the chase, [[spoiler:Doc Ock's]] human voice returns to simply say, "IT'S... NOT... OVER... YET!!!!".