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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.

Venom is a major antagonist in the animated TV show The Spectacular Spider-Man, serving as the main antagonist of Season 1 and a major antagonist in Season 2.

He is an alien symbiote that entered Earth by latching himself to a space shuttle, seeking to find the perfect host and hijack their entire body, mind and soul, with his hosts being Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Eddie Brock. While Eddie was mostly a very complex and tragic villain, the symbiote himself lacks any such traits.

When possessing Peter Parker, he was voiced by Josh Keaton. When possessing Eddie Brock, he was voiced by Benjamin Diskin, who also voiced Shouichi Shinkawa/Death Gun in Sword Art Online, and Szayel Aporro Granz in Bleach.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

  • Unlike most of his other incarnations, the symbiote has a clear personality, being a selfish manipulative sadist and having dialogue on his own, being one of the few times he was ever personified.
  • Despite feeding on the dark emotions of his host when possessing them, nothing indicates he is made of evil as his origins amounts to him coming from outer space. It is even stated he does this because he loves the taste of dark emotions and was able to survive for months buried underground without possessing someone, and thus, not having any dark emotions to feed on. He even believes Peter betrayed him for removing him after he realized his intentions to take over his body, mind and soul, proving how delusional he is.
  • While he does help Spider-Man fight crime, such as stopping the Chameleon and defeat 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, he nearly killed Doc Ock dishonorably despite already defeating him. He only let him live to preserve Spider-Man's image and relationship with the police when they intervened.
  • When bonding with Peter, he changes the kind-hearted hero into an aggressive and arrogant cynic to nearly everyone, to the point he 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 realizes what the symbiote was really doing.
    • He was also the reason Eddie Brock and Peter stopped being friends due to him controlling Peter and making him act like a complete jerk towards him.
  • When Peter tries removing him, he 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.
  • Possesses Eddie Brock and manipulates him into being his partner for their revenge against Spider-Man, by revealing that Spider-Man and Peter Parker were the same person.
  • Plans to make Peter suffer by killing all his loved ones such as Aunt May and Gwen, tying the latter to a parade balloon.
  • Following his freedom thanks to Eddie, he goes on a crime spree posing as Spider-Man, framing him for it.
  • He overturns a moving truck to get Spider-Man's attention.
  • During his battle with Spider-Man, he burns down a building that had civilians inside, which Venom doesn't care about, while telling him he 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 his knowledge of his double life to his advantage to try tearing apart every aspect of his life.
  • 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 he never truly cared for Eddie and only sought a powerful host for his benefit.
  • He is arguably the series' most heinous villain, surpassing the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus and Tombstone, who all have less resources. He does not have a tragic backstory, redeeming qualities, comedic moments or even a Freudian Excuse for his actions and shows no remorse for what he does at all.
  • While he is defeated numerous times and fails to accomplish any of his goals, he still gets away with all of his crimes by the shows 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.

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Movies
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Venom: Carlton Drake/Riot
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Spider-Man (1981): Red Skull
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Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin: Kingpin
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See Also
Avengers Pure Evils | Disney Pure Evils | Marvel Cinematic Universe Pure Evils | Sony Pictures Pure Evils | Venom Pure Evils

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