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Real Name

Angelo Fortunato

Current Alias

Venom

Aliases

Eddie Brock

Relatives

Don Fortunato (Father), Giacomo (brother)

Status

Alignment

Bad

Identity

Secret Identity

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Weight

120 lbs (55 kg)

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Brown

Unusual Features

As Venom, Fortunato has a beast-like jaw, teeth, and tongue which are actually part of the alien costume.

Origin

Origin

Angelo Fortunato's father won the Venom symbiote in an auction, giving it to his son so he can finally make a name for himself.

Universe

Earth-616

Created by

Mark Millar, Terry Dodson

First appearance

Appearance of Death

Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #7
(December, 2004)

Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #8
(January, 2005)

HistoryEdit

After Eddie Brock decided to reform and try to make something of his life, he put the venom symbiote for sale at an auction to raise money for charity. Don Fortunato bought the suit to try and make a man out of his son, Angelo. Eddie warned Angelo of the risks involved in using the symbiote, but Angelo decided that anything was worth the risk to escape a life of constant ridicule.

Angelo quickly made use of his new Venom persona by attacking the school where Peter worked as a teacher and killed one of his former classmates. They finally clashed on the roof, where Angelo appeared to kill Spider-Man by apparently ripping out his heart, however his victim was actually an imposter attempting to profit off Spider-Man pictures. The real Spider-Man decided to stop holding back after this and the villain fled after his humiliating defeat. Seeing that Angelo was a coward, the symbiote detached from him in mid-air, and Fortunato fell to a bloody death-- Ironically since Angelo damaged them during their fight, Spider-Man's web-shooters couldn't work and he was unable to save him from the fall. Angelo's death had a profound impact on Eddie (as he was responsible for the symbiote,) causing him to slit his own wrists in guilt and ultimately lead to his downward spiral.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Symbiotic Costume Angelo inherited the same powers as Eddie Brock and the Symbiote including:

• Superhuman Strength
• Superhuman Stamina
• Genetic Memory
• Offspring Detection
• Wall-Crawling
• Webbing Generation
• Constituent-Matter Generation
• ESP (Spider-Sense)

• Immunity to Spider-man's Spider Sense
• Camouflage Capabilities

  Abilities

Innate Symbiotic Skill: Angelo seemed to have access to the skills that Eddie Brock had taken months to learn, including invisibility, however due to his inexperience he was unable to use them to their full potential.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Transportation

Web-slinging.

NotesEdit

Final Appearance: Marvel Knights: Spider-Man 8

TriviaEdit

• Ironically, Angelo's name translated from Italian means "Lucky Angel".

• With the exception of Spider-Man himself, Angelo is the only host of the Venom symbiote to not have a protruding tongue.

LinksEdit

• 3 Appearances of Angelo Fortunato (Earth-616)
• 2 Images featuring Angelo Fortunato (Earth-616)
• Quotations by or about Angelo Fortunato (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Angelo Fortunato (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Angelo Fortunato (Earth-616) 
• Venom 2 page at www.spiderfan.org

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