A Tumblr ship that's basically canon is at #1? Will wonders never cease.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.You think when David Michelinie and Todd Mc Farlane created Venom, they ever once sat down and said, "You know, I think this may be one of the most beautiful romances ever created in superhero comics"?
I mean... the symbiote is essentially Spider-Man's clingy ex, and the Eddie/Venom/Peter relationship is basically a messed-up Love Triangle. Remove Peter from the equation, and all you have left is Eddie/Venom. It's not that strange the ship took off.
Having rewatched the movie, I gotta say that it is still quite an entertaining movie, and I'm not quite sure what the critics were expecting, even if it is flawed.
Also, I realized that the theme of symbiosis is actually a running theme throughout the whole story. Note how all the times a symbiote was forced into becoming bonded with a host, the latter died, whereas Venom willingly bonded with Eddie, and that one was the one that worked. While Eddie obviously hated it at first, he eventually warmed up to it. It's almost as if the movie is saying that change can't be forced, and both sides need to adapt first before anything like that can happen. So what do you know? The film actually has more layers than I thought.
Also, I'm not really sure where the whole idea that Venom is a good version of a Satanic Archetype came from on that character's page. If anything, he's more of an Anti-Anti-Christ. Riot and Carlton Drake are more of the devil figure in my eyes.
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I remember reading somewhere that Venom is rather unique among the Symbiotes because it prefers to bond with just one host.
That was a pretty great car chase.
Better than I thought, and closer to the comics than the trailers were leading me to expect. Someone in marketing really didn't like this movie — meanwhile this was some of the animators' dream job. The color desaturation and shaky-cam didn't always do the action any favours, but even so, those animators were having the time of their lives. Worth it for the effects alone, kind of actually wishing I'd seen it in IMAX 3D, for real.
Edited by Unsung on Nov 13th 2018 at 4:25:13 AM
I ended up seeing it late, pretty much because of word of mouth from friends, and the fact I had a cheap ticket due to the loyalty program at my cinema.
It was a pretty enjoyable film for me.
Parts of the plot didn't really mesh properly, particularly the parts with Riot and Drake, but I still had fun.
She-Venom was a big highlight. And I was a fan of how they used Anne in the film.
Also Dan, the guy is just a ridiculously good person for putting aside everything to just want to help Eddie.
Although he did seem weirdly friendly with him even knowing how Eddie screwed Anne over. note
I think it's more he's a doctor who takes his hippocratic oath very seriously. There's definitely something wrong with Eddie and as a medical professional it's his job to find out what, no matter how much of a jerk the patient is. (Though given he must know Eddie's stone broke that's still pretty noble of him.)
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."Analysts dissect what Venom means for Sony's Marvel Universe.
ComicBook.com is talking about this article like it means the end for MCU!Spider-Man, but it's just to get people to read their stuff, right?
...Right?
I wouldn't put it past Sony to take completely the wrong lesson from Venom. It's not "Ha, we finally made a good Spider-Man movie! Screw you, Marvel!", it's "Marvel made people love Spider-Man again, and that goodwill probably reflected back on us and had people give this movie way more of a chance than they would have otherwise."
Edited by Unsung on Nov 5th 2018 at 9:05:29 AM
I would be very surprised if any of the other villain movies made anything resembling Venom money.
This song needs more love.Captain Marvel, Into the Spider-Verse, and Avengers 4 are confirmed
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Dark Phoenix and Far From Home are unconfirmed.
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Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Kind of a random comment, but I recently read this novel by Molly Tanzer, Creatures of Will and Temper (might start a page for it), that's sort of like a cozy, lesbian version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and it has a version of demons that inhabit the summoner's body and have a presence in their mind and provide abilities including heightened physical and mental skills in exchange for a greatly shortened life span.
With this set up coupled with elements like the demon sharing/encouraging the host's physical and emotional attractions, the implication that the fact that the demon parasite described above might be a rare benevolent member of an Always Chaotic Evil species, and a host of the good demon fighting against the host of the evil kind, I was thinking to myself that it was the greatest novel about the Venom symbiote ever written.
Edited by Hodor2 on Nov 13th 2018 at 4:32:54 AM

For that Venom to work, it'd have to be in the middle of a film series, with Eddie Brock being introduced before the symbiote, and with a film devoted to the symbiote first messing Spiderman up, then bonding with Eddie, creating Venom, and the climax of that movie ending with a Spidey-Venom truce. THEN you can have antihero Venom for spinoffs or as a side character.