Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-1610)

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History

Eddie Brock Jr. was Peter Parker's closest childhood friend. However, the genesis of Venom began years earlier. Instead of a sentient alien, a genetically engineered protoplasmic "Venom Suit" was designed by Richard Parker and Edward Brock, Senior. Parker intended it to be used for medical purposes in his quest to cure cancer, but Brock Sr. was more interested in the military applications of the Suit. After the deaths of both Parker and Brock, Eddie continued the research, using two samples from a Suit he found in his father's fridge that was originally created for Richard Parker's DNA. One of the samples bonded with Peter^[1].

Contents 1 History 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Strength level 3 Trivia 4 Links 4.1 Discover and Discuss

Afterwards, Peter warned Eddie of the dangers of the Suit when its enhanced metabolism and aggression nearly drove him to kill. Eddie, angry at Peter for destroying his Suit, (their 'inheritance') used a second sample to become Venom. The Suit consumed Eddie alive and drove him insane, forcing him to feed on other humans.

Eddie gained full control of the Suit after finally absorbing the remnants of the first sample in Peter's blood, and developed the spider-symbol on his chest. The Venom Suit had been forcing him to kill innocent people, such as civilians, policemen, and even Silver Sable's mercenaries and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s troopers to sustain his constantly depleting health.^[2]

Venom soon murdered Bolivar Trask, the man he thought was responsible for the death of his parents, unaware that Eddie Sr. was accidentally responsible for the crash by testing a Venom Suit on the plane.^[3]

Eddie later returned^[4]. He had been on the run for several months, and had survived getting consumed by the suit by feeding on innocent bystanders. As Venom, he attacked Spider-Man and was beaten into submission by Silver Sable and her Wild Pack and later taken into confinement by Bolivar Trask and Adrian Toomes. The two leading researchers made a deal with Brock of removing the symbiote, in which Brock accepted. While Brock (as Venom) was being contained in a research chamber and being studied by Trask and his scientists, Beetle suddenly broke into Trask's facility and attempted to retrieve a sample of the symbiote from Venom. However, after the Beetle released Venom and beckoned him in giving him a sample, Venom attacked the Beetle. The Beetle manage to took a sample from the Symbiote, which Venom gave chase on the Beetle. After corning the Beetle in one of New York City's streets, Spider-Man fought Venom. Just before Venom could claim victory, the suit left Eddie and bonded with Peter, transforming him into an monstrous Symbiote creature. Eddie pled for the suit to take him back, but Peter/Venom, unable to control his actions, ignored him. Soon, the Ultimates arrived and battled the new Venom, giving Eddie more time to escape. Venom was ultimately defeated by Thor, and Peter was freed from the suit, which was taken by S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives for study.

Eddie reappeared at Peter's high school and (threateningly) demanded that he get his suit back. If Parker refused, he'd reveal to the world that Peter was Spider-Man. Later, he showed up at the Parker's house, looking for Peter. Instead, he was confronted by May Parker. Eddie lied with May that he is a friend of Peter. But, after May asks a few questions to Eddie put him at gun-point, having seeing through his ruse. Eddie quickly overpowered May and took her gun and threaten her. Spider-Man quickly subdued him and angrily bring him to a desolate industrial part of New York City. Eddie is then beaten by Spider-Man until Gwen Stacy, who followed the two, and upon seeing Eddie, transformed into Carnage and attacked him. Direct contact with the Carnage symbiote caused the remnants of the Venom cell, that is inside of Brock, to reform on Eddie's body into Venom again. Now reborn, Venom battled with Carnage while Spider-Man looked on from the sidelines. After a fierce battle, Carnage was absorbed by Brock, which not only freed Gwen, but also transformed Eddie into an enormous new Venom with glowing red eyes. Venom told Spider-Man that he "have what (he) want" and quickly escaped to the sewers as Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived on the scene. Eddie later appeared in Central Park recalling his previous events to a passerby. When the passerby asked Brock if he fought Spider-Man and was Venom, Brock changed into the Symbiote to devour the man. However, the passerby revealed himself to be the Beetle and Venom was easily captured by him and was taken to Latveria.^[5]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Ultimate Venom is much more physically powerful than Spider-Man, although he does not have the same amount of speed and agility. Venom can lift at least 15 tons. His suit cannot create organic webbing, but instead uses extruded tentacles to 'web-swing' from building to building. In the video game Ultimate Spider-Man, however, he uses his impressive physical strength to leap from building to building at an incredibly fast rate, jumping several hundred feet in a single bound.

Unlike the original Marvel Universe Venom, who does not activate Peter's spider-sense, Ultimate Venom instead overloads it, to the point where Peter is in such physical mental pain that he sometimes cannot move. This seems to have stopped once Venom absorbed the cells of the first sample from his blood, as both parts of the Suit had been trying to reunite.

Unlike the original, Ultimate Venom is not specifically vulnerable to sonic sounds or fire, but given that Peter was able to dispose of the first Venom sample (and later Carnage, which was based partially on the same DNA) in an industrial smokestack, some weakness to fire must be assumed. Brock seems to have had a much greater negative reaction to the suit than Peter did, probably due to the genetic similarity between Peter and his father, who was the suit's intended user. After Spider-Man fought with the Shocker again and gets hit with a sonic blast, he dismisses it as relaxing, indicating the suit has no weakness to sound. Judging by the things that can injure or kill Venom, such as electric-shocks from downed power lines, Venom is vulnerable to things that compromise the entire suit all at once, so that there is nothing left to regenerate from.

Also of note is that when Peter wore the Suit, it was a small sample stretched over his entire body, making it thinner, and thus more likely to vaporize in extreme electricity; however, Eddie took a whole jarful of the suit, making a mix that could quite possibly withstand the same amount of voltage Peter suffered.

Strength level

While the exact extent to his strength is unknown, Venom has been depicted as vastly stronger than Spider-Man. Venom should be capable of lifting at least 15 tons.

Trivia

• While Venom's suit does not display the trademark white spider symbol during his comic-book appearances, he gains it in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game. Considering the game is considered canon, there is a strong possibility that Venom's spider-symbol will appear in an Ultimate comic; however, "Venom" was revealed as only as an android constructed by the Ultimate Ultron. The symbol has, via a few slip-ups from pencilers, appeared on his chest in small panels, such as when he was electrocuted at the end of the Ultimate Venom arc.

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