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Edward Brock (Bedlam) (Earth-616)

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History

Preface[]

The life story of this Bedlam mirrored that of his original incarnation up until his takeover of Baywater. Unlike the original one, he was confronted by a resurrected Eddie Brock while waiting in the town.[4][5] The two Eddies fought each other, with Bedlam proclaiming to be the true Eddie Brock and the other just a copy. Despite Bedlam mauling and mutilating him, Eddie was able to regenerate thanks to his "human symbiote" physiology and shoot out his nerves to connect to Bedlam's mind, bringing the fight to the Astral Plane. Manifesting as a flat-topped clean-shaven version of Eddie before transforming into Venom, Bedlam again tried to kill Eddie, intending to usurp control of their body. However, Eddie got the upper hand, telling Bedlam that he himself was complete and didn't need anyone while Bedlam was incomplete and needed Eddie to return to his full self. Offered a truce, Bedlam agreed to join Eddie and fight Meridius together, bonding to him and taking a four-armed form mixing his hulking appearance with that of Warstar.[1] Meridius did not predict the resurrection of the other Eddie, meaning it did not happen to him and Bedlam had diverged from his history.[4][6]

The Royal Rumble[]

Edward Brock (Earth-616) and Edward Brock (Bedlam) (Earth-616) from Venom Vol 5 21 cover 001

Merged with Eddie Brock.

Travelling to Latveria to help Eddie gain access to Doctor Doom's Time Platform, Bedlam devoured a Doombot who confronted Eddie at the airport security check-in. As more Doombots attacked, Bedlam re-bonded to Eddie and the two fought their way out of the airport, making their way to Castle Doom. Interrupting Doom's meal, Bedlam retracted into Eddie's body when Doom offered an invitation to dine rather than fight. When Doom refused to grant Eddie access to his Time Platform, however, Bedlam emerged and he and Eddie attacked the Latverian monarch. When the fight breached the lab where Doom kept the Time Platform, Bedlam separated from Eddie and attempted to devour Doom -- keeping him distracted while Eddie tried to figure out how to work it. When Doom managed to repel Bedlam, Eddie smashed the Time Platform's controls, causing it to malfunction and warp the three of them through time.[7] Arriving in the late Cretaceous Period, Bedlam rebonded to Eddie but their brawl was interrupted by Meridius in the form of a Venomized T. rex. Bedlam and Eddie next arrived in France in the 1940s, where they found the symbiote "robot" Flexo the Rubber Man and used their King in Black powers to conscript it into protecting the citizens of a Nazi-occupied village while Doom slaughtered the fascists in a fit of rage.

When Eddie and Doom next arrived roughly 15 years into the past, Bedlam bickered with Eddie over having gone soft. When they encountered a teenaged Peter Parker shortly after he'd become Spider-Man, Bedlam mocked Eddie for forgetting that Peter's uncle had been murdered and lamented that he missed being a rage-fuelled cannibal. When Doom called a truce and took Eddie to see Kang the Conqueror, Bedlam devoured two of the three temporal duplicates Kang summoned. When Kang agreed to help Eddie on the condition that he be given a sample of Bedlam's symbiote, Bedlam warned Eddie it was a trick or a trap but begrudgingly complied, unwittingly spawning the symbiote called Rascal. Taking the Fantastic Four's old time machine, Eddie and Bedlam travelled to the Garden of Time and rammed it into Meridius, interrupting the fight between Bedlam's past self, Eddie's past self, and Finnegan; and in the process creating a new timeline.[6]

They attacked their first iteration and smashed his head. When the Bedlam duplicate attacked, Bedlam unbonded from Eddie and they discussed who is the real Bedlam. During the confrontation, the approached each other so much that their biomass merged and they mentally incursed and created multiple Eddie replicas of each other in their heads, fighting a war. However, the Carnage symbiote burst through Meridius' chest and absorbed his powers, then killed Eddie's original duplicate.[3] During the ensuing fight, Finnegan mutated into a more muscular form and alerted the two Bedlam's about Carnage. They merged together and fought the crimson symbiote. However, Carnage was equipted with All-Blood, and killed Bedlam's duplicate and Finnegan. When Meridius recovered, Carnage destroyed the Garden of Time, leaving Eddie, Bedlam, Wilde, Tyro and Meridius to fall to the Timestream.[8]

Venom War[]

In the timestream, the other four kings agreed they are not bound to Meridius and his timeloop no longer, absorbing his symbiote biomass and seemingly killing him, though he only went to the late cretaceous period. Eddie alerted his alternate selfs about Dylan's future should he keep the Venom symbiote, so they went back to the present time to recover it.[9] They jumped into the Grand Garden Arena, subduing the ring fighters and taking it over in order to bring Dylan there, announcing the Venom War. In the fight, Bedlam fought the last fighter standing as he wanted the winning belt.[2]

Edward Brock (Bedlam) (Earth-616) from Venom War Vol 1 2 003

When Dylan and his team appeared, they were surprised by the sudden arrival of Spider-Man with the Venom symbiote.[2] Spider-Man set a grouding rule of "costume names only" and when Eddie showed dissatisfaction with him wearing the symbiote, Peter explained about what he learned about Dylan and Eddie's futures should one of them keep the Venom symbiote and offered himself as a safe neutral third party. However, as Eddie wasn't happy with this, he ironized Spider-Man's grouding rule and declared his "costume name" as Bedlam. The angry Eddie bonded with his past self and both fought Spider-Man, later absorbing Wilde and Tyro in order to become stronger. Tired of this, Dylan bonded with Flexo and Sleeper to become the Prince in Black.[10]

Edward Brock (Bedlam) (Earth-616) from Venom War Vol 1 5 001

Unresponsive matter

When Bedlam prepared to fight Dylan, Eddie forced himself out, declaring he's not him as he would never hurt his son. However, as Flexo was brainwashed by Doctor Doom to serve as his avenging hand against Eddie, he fired several shots at Eddie, who couldn't heal due to his bond with Bedlam. Bedlam still attacked Spider-Man due to his hate for him, Peter now uncapable of helping. The Red Goblin, that is Bedlam's offshoot, Rascal, purged Dylan from Flexo as Doom's vengeance against Eddie would disturb Kang's temporal war, and took it to fight off the Arena. Spider-Man, realizing Bedlam is still vulnerable to sound as he's mentally Eddie's past self, he asked Crusher Hogan to increase the volume from the Arena, defeating Bedlam. Realizing they still need Venom, Peter gave offshoots of it to both Eddie and Dylan, as it could neutralize both futures.[11] Bedlam still fought Spider-Man but Eddie and Dylan decided to intervine, Dylan ripping his head with his Codex Blade and disconnecting it from the Hive-Mind. However, he still piloted the rest of his body but the fight only ended with the sudden arrival of Agent Anti-Venom, Flash Thompson, turning him into unresponsive matter that was possibly contained by Alchemax after the war.[12]

Personality

Bedlam embodies Eddie Brock's rage and bloodlust, reflecting his earliest days as the host of the Venom symbiote. Revelling in combat and bad puns, Bedlam has zero compunctions about devouring his opponents. Without the memories that were taken by Chasm, Bedlam lacks a driving purpose and was content to idly rule over the mostly-empty Baywater. After a failed attempt to take over Eddie's physical body, Bedlam begrudgingly agreed to a truce with his other self.[1]

Attributes

Powers

King in Black Powers: As an offshoot of Eddie Brock, Bedlam possesses all the powers of the King in Black.[13]

  • Symbiote Domination: Bedlam can project his mind into any symbiote he chooses. Once he is inhabiting a symbiote, he has absolute control over its body.[14] He can expel the virtually irresistible Transmode Virus.[15] He can also command separate symbiotes to combine together into a whole.[13]
    • Mental Time Travel: Bedlam is not limited to controlling symbiotes in his present. He can send his consciousness backward and forward through time as well as through space.[13][16] As a King in Black, he is nonlinear.[14]
Symbiote Physiology: Bedlam exists as a codex within the Symbiote Hive-Mind, only able to take physical form by possessing symbiotes. This grants him the ability to use the innate powers all symbiotes possess, predominantly shapeshifting.[13] This allowed Bedlam to bond to the original Eddie Brock, further empowering each other.[1]

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Bedlam has fangs and claws he uses as weapons, can form tendrils to attack or restrain opponents, and can transform his limbs into weapons.

Transportation

Bedlam can project his mind into any symbiote matter at any point in time or space.

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