Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)

Venom
Name	Edward "Eddie" Brock Jr.
Aliases	Editorial Names: Venom
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Ally of Sandman Formerly Daily Bugle
Host of	Black Suit (former symbiote, deceased)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Green (Brock) White (with symbiote)
Hair	Blond (Brock), No Hair At All (with symbiote)
Unusual Features	As Venom, the Symbiote grants its host an elongated jaw, fangs, claws, and a prehensile tongue which are really part of the alien. After being bonded to the symbiote, Eddie's teeth turn into fangs.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-96283
Place of Birth	New York City, New York
Place of Death	Construction Site, New York City, New York
Cause of Death	He tried to bond with the symbiote again to prevent Spider-Man from destroying it but was disintegrated with it.
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Former Daily Bugle journalist
Education	College graduate
Base of Operations	New York City, New York
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent
First	Spider-Man 3 (May 4, 2007)
First	Spider-Man 3 (May 4, 2007)
Death	Spider-Man 3 (May 4, 2007)
Death	Spider-Man 3 (May 4, 2007)

Never wound... what you can't kill.

—Venom[source]

History

Edward "Eddie" Brock Jr. was a new freelance photographer vying for a staff position with newspaper the Daily Bugle. Eddie Brock was a complete parallel to the normally modest and down-to-Earth Peter Parker. Shallow, superficial, as well as vindictive, Brock was also an insufferable flirt and had no regrets about cheating to get what he wanted. He claimed to be dating Gwen Stacy, but much to his chagrin, she did not consider herself his girlfriend. Although they only had one coffee date, Brock was smitten.

As a human

He sucked up to the Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson to get a job on the paper. After Jameson instructed Brock and Parker to obtain unflattering pictures of Spider-Man, Brock provided a manipulated picture of Spider-Man robbing a bank whilst wearing the black suit. Furious and spurred by the malign influence of the Symbiote, Parker exposed Brock's duplicity and an enraged Jameson fired him. After witnessing him dating Gwen, a miserable Brock went to church and asked God to kill Peter Parker for ruining his life. Hearing the church bells tolling, he entered the belltower to find Spider-Man struggling to remove the Symbiote, exposing himself to be Peter Parker. The sound of the bells aggravated the Symbiote enough to detach from Peter, but as it fell, it latched onto Brock and transformed him into the monstrous Venom, gaining many of Peter's superhuman abilities (and then some).

Fully bonded with "the black"

He was initially scared of the symbiote, believing himself to be dead, and feeling it inside his pores. All he could think about was Gwen. He acted on instinct, attacking a bunch of people who were trying to buy a hot dog. Just as he was about to eat someone, he received flashes from Peter's life without realizing from who it was. A bunch of officers attacked him, rendering him unconscious. However, he fled as quickly as possible. Believing now that Peter has destroyed him ever further by turning him into a monster, he focused, and "let it, let it". He gained access to Peter's memories and realized he was Spider-Man; he could also feel it's desire for revenge for being rejected. Judging himself equal to him, that he could gain what Peter has, he wanted Gwen. He got into her house, and upon coming to her father's office, he found the papers of Flint Marko, the Sandman, the man who killed Uncle Ben.

As Venom

Venom recruited Sandman, who was on the run from Spider-Man, to help finish off the super hero. Venom and Sandman held Peter Parker's girlfriend Mary Jane Watson hostage at a construction site to lure Peter to them. Peter arrived and fought Venom and Sandman, eventually assisted by his former nemesis Harry Osborn. With the help of Peter, Harry managed to subdue Sandman with his Goblin arsenal and rescue Mary Jane. Peter then chased Venom inside the building, but was brutally subdued by the villain. In an attempt to kill Peter, Venom impaled and mortally wounded Harry with his own spiked glider, mirroring his father's death.

The Death of Eddie Brock

Peter temporarily trapped Venom in a circle of upright metal pipes, ringing them at a frequency that subdued the Symbiote. As the Symbiote detached from Brock, Parker extracted him from the Symbiote with his webbing. The now-separated Symbiote then began to grow taller and expanded itself. Parker subdued it again by ringing the pipes and then proceeded to throw one of Harry's pumpkin bombs at it in an attempt to annihilate it, but Brock dove back into the Symbiote along with the bomb. Just as the Symbiote began to re-bond with Brock, the bomb exploded, vaporizing both Brock and the Symbiote.

Attributes

Powers

Former Powers

Black Symbiotic Costume: The symbiote after being rejected by Spider-Man went for the closest host being Eddie Brock who took over as the new host giving him powers similar to those of Spider-Man.

• Superhuman Strength
• Superhuman Durability
• Superhuman Stamina
• Regenerative Healing Factor
• Genetic Memory
• Constituent-Matter Generation
• Parasitic Inheritance
• Wall-Crawling
• Webbing Generation
• Immunity to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense

Weaknesses

Former Equipment

Black Suit Symbiote

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Web swinging

Notes

• Topher Grace portrays Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3.
• Eddie Brock was originally going to appear in Spider-Man, but the character was cut from the film. R.C. Everbeck was cast as Brock, and even filmed scenes with Tobey Maguire, JK Simmons, Bill Nunn and Elizabeth Banks (Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Joe Robertson and Betty Brant, respectively). The final cut of the movie features a leftover reference to this version of the character, as Robertson mentions that a Daily Bugle staff member named Eddie had been trying to get a photo of Spider-Man for weeks to no avail.
• Eddie was also referenced in Spider-Man 2 with him being credited on the picture of Spider-Man's discarded suit.

See Also

• 9 appearance(s) of Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)
• 1 mention(s) of Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)
• 22 image(s) of Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)
• 3 quotation(s) by or about Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)
• 1 victim(s) killed by Edward Brock Jr. (Earth-96283)

Links and References

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