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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
And should finally put an end to the narrative that the symbiote was the real victim when peter discarded it because he didn't want to be forced to be its host.
It's still there, but it's kinda evolved into a more nuanced "both the host and symbiote accentuate each other's attributes, for better or for worse".
Venom just mentioned how Eddie's hatred for Spiderman stoked it's own scorn for him early on, and Normies Osborn has been struggling to handle Rascal making him more angry.
#IceBearForPresidentIt's still a thing, but the symbiote making the host more aggressive has never been the default of the comic books. If a symbiote WANTS to make its host more aggressive it will, but that's a two way street.
The original symbiote, Flexo, the robot that came from the alien "rubber" back in the 1940s that was retconed into being a symbiote, it wasn't aggressive at all. Venom initially wasn't aggressive either, just restless and thrill seeking, until Peter Parker rejected it, and even then it had to really learn aggression from Eddie Brock.
Hybrid was aggressive sometimes, but only sometimes. It was the symbiotes stopping the hosts from going overboard just as much as it was the host reigning in the symbiotes as they debated morality. The purple symbiote that ran away from Shreik, it was definitely un aggressive, it didn't even like to bite heads and eat brains. Toxin tried to make its host more aggressive, twice. Failed the first time, succeeded for a little while the second time, but only because Eddie Brock wasn't in the best of states to begin with, and he reigned it in once he got his head together.
It's really All Black and Grendel, the big brothers of the symbiotes, who makes people more aggressive. There are some bad seeds like ZZZXX and of course Carnage, but the large majority of symbiotes can be managed.
Buldogue's lawyerEven Carnage might have been more chill if its first host wasn’t Cletus fucking Cassidy
Forever liveblogging the AvengersPaul is the new Spiderman, but he was actually a clone of Peter.
Edited by Thesegougou on Aug 12th 2024 at 7:31:38 PM
I'm not crazy, just creatively different.

There's been an Octoverse mini event for Devil's Reign.
Only a matter of time before the Goblinverse because it's Marvel.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"