This article is full of nothing butVenomspoilers.
The newVenommovie is here!
Of course, the connective status of the movie is interesting.
Hell, the villain is a character who hasnt shown up in a comic since 1994!
There are a good chunk of Easter eggs and references to be found in this overly-ridiculous antihero movie.
As always, major spoilers.
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EDDIE BROCK
The movie takes place in San Francisco.
Im actually kind of surprised Maria and Isaac arent based on anyone from those stories.
A man confessed to being the killer to Eddie and the Globe ended up running the story.
Unfortunately for Eddie, that man was a liar and the real Sin-Eater was apprehended by Spider-Man.
Eddie was fired in disgrace.
Interesting line, that.
He ended up eating a live lobster, which barely satiated him.
Venom possessed a dog when escaping captivity.
While they wanted conquest and full control, Venom wanted true symbiosis with its host.
It was deemed insane and was thrown in a prison.
Venom admitted to having a soft spot for chocolate.
The symbiote naturally hungers for the chemical phenethylamine, which is found in both the human brain and chocolate.
Rather than being Eddies former fiancee, she was his ex-wife.
Different comics muddy up whether or not they were divorced before or after the Sin-Eater incident.
As in the movie, she was a lawyer, albeit with no connection to the Life Foundation.
Ann wearing the symbiote was a pretty big part of her history.
As She-Venom, she mercilessly slaughtered some vagrants who attacked Eddie.
They appeared sporadically for several years as a threat to Spider-Man, the New Warriors, and eventually Venom.
Those five soldiers were eventually defeated by Venom and Spider-Man, but Drake escaped.
He later gained powers due to injecting himself with Spider-Mans blood, but had not appeared since.
Oddly enough, Riot was the least descript of all the different symbiote children.
In the film, Riot went hot potato with its hosts before ending with Carlton Drake.
Riot intended to lead an army of millions of symbiotes to Earth to take it over.
Riots fighting style was exactly like Carnages.
At one point, Riot tore the mask off of Venom, causing extreme pain to Eddie.
This looked an awful lot like the cover ofVenom: Carnage Unleashed #3.
Treece ran afoul of Venom twice, but each time ended up in police custody.
The only similarity between the comics and movie versions are that they both worked under Carlton Drake.
If anything, the movie version was closer to Mr. Crane, who acted as Treeces right-hand man.
His inclusion here has more to do with the ninth episode of theSpider-Mancartoon from 1994.
Spider-Man rescued him in that animated incident, based on an event inAmazing Spider-Man #1.
Fitting that in a world with no mention of Spider-Man, John Jameson is doomed.
Anns cat is named Mr. Belvedere, named after the literary character Lynn Belvedere from the Gwen Davenport novelBelvedere.
This part has nothing to do withVenom, but I thought it might brighten your day.
Ann mentioned sonics as being Venoms kryptonite.
Kind of weird that Superman is a fictional entity in that world.
I wonder what Eddie thought ofDark Knight Rises.
The symbiotes indignant, Who is that guy?!
was one of the bigger laughs.
In the final scene, theres a sign for Ron Lim Herbal.
Ron Lim was one of the artists onVenom: Lethal Protector.
