| “ | Why blame yourself? We didn't hurt Uncle Ben, the world took him from us. The world takes everything we love. There's no one you can trust, Peter Parker. No one... except us. | „ |
| ~ Venom manipulating Spider-Man |
| “ | From now on, we're poison to Peter Parker and Spider-Man! We're Venom! | „ |
| ~ -Venom to Peter Parker/Spider-Man during their fight. |
The Venom symbiote is one of the secondary antagonists in the animated TV show The Spectacular Spider-Man.
It is an alien symbiote that entered Earth by latching itself to a space shuttle, seeking to find the perfect host and hijack their entire body, mind, and soul, with its hosts being Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Eddie Brock. While Eddie was mostly a very complex and tragic villain, the symbiote itself lacks any such traits.
When possessing Peter Parker, it was voiced by Josh Keaton. When possessing Eddie Brock, it was voiced by Benjamin Diskin, who also voiced Shouichi Shinkawa/Death Gun in Sword Art Online, Black Doom in Sonic X Shadow Generations, and Szayel Aporro Granz in Bleach.
What Makes It Pure Evil?[]
- Unlike most of its other incarnations, the symbiote has a clear personality, being a selfish, manipulative sadist and having dialogue on its own, being one of the few times it was ever personified.
- Despite feeding on the dark emotions of its host when possessing them, nothing indicates it is made of evil, as its origins amount to him coming from outer space.
- It is even stated that it does this because it loves the taste of dark emotions and was able to survive for months buried underground without possessing anyone, thus not having any dark emotions to feed on. It even believes Peter betrayed it by removing him after he realized its intentions to take over his body, mind, and soul, proving how delusional it is.
- While it does help Spider-Man fight crime, such as stopping the Chameleon and defeating the Sinister Six, it was clearly for a selfish motive of gaining his trust and keeping it rather than out of care for New York.
- During the fight with the Sinister Six, it nearly killed Doc Ock despite already defeating him. It only let him live to preserve Spider-Man's image and relationship when the police intervened.
- When bonding with Peter, it changes the kind-hearted hero into an aggressive and arrogant cynic to nearly everyone, to the point it makes him accept Tombstone's deal that he made in the 6th episode on not interfering with his crimes and only foiling them if he orders him to. It was so bad that Peter realized what the symbiote was really doing.
- It was also the reason Eddie Brock and Peter stopped being friends due to it controlling Peter and making him act like a complete jerk towards him.
- When Peter tries removing it, it ensnares him and then forces him to relive the day he ended up letting the robber that shot his uncle, Ben Parker, to death for the sole purpose of weakening his will and taking full control over him.
- After Peter removed the symbiote, it possessed Eddie Brock and manipulated him into being his partner for their revenge against Spider-Man by revealing that Spider-Man and Peter Parker were the same person.
- Planned to make Peter suffer by killing all his loved ones, such as Aunt May and Gwen, tying the latter to a parade balloon.
- Following its freedom thanks to Eddie, it goes on a crime spree, posing as Spider-Man and framing him for it.
- It overturns a moving truck to get Spider-Man's attention.
- During his battle with Spider-Man, it burns down a building that had civilians inside, which Venom doesn't care about, while telling him it is going to destroy every aspect of Peter's life.
- Infects John Jameson with spores that ended up driving him insane, resulting in him being locked up next to Electro in Dr. Curt Connors' lab after nearly getting electrocuted to death in a fight with Spider-Man.
- Tried to out Peter as Spider-Man, wanting to harm all of his loved ones by making them targets for his enemies out of revenge.
- Plans to de-power Spider-Man by shoving a gene-cleanser at his throat, making him a powerless target for his vengeful enemies.
- While the Green Goblin was more destructive, Venom was a lot more personally evil to Peter, having used its knowledge of his double life to his advantage to try to tear apart every aspect of his life, and also had lesser resources.
- Abandoned Eddie on two occasions, the first being when Peter pretended to want the symbiote back, and the second after Eddie ends up receiving the gene cleanser. This proves it never truly cared for Eddie and only sought a powerful host for its benefit.
- While it is defeated numerous times and fails to accomplish any of his goals, it still gets away with all of its crimes by the show's end.
Trivia[]
- Only the symbiote half of Venom qualifies as Pure Evil since, even as a villain, Eddie is treated both with sympathy and as a poor victim of the symbiote's influence. It's also very likely that he was wrong when he claimed the symbiote wasn't controlling him, seeing as to how Peter thought the same thing until he realized the symbiote was in fact influencing his personality.
External Link[]
- Venom on the Villains Wiki
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