Post by Mac Gargan on Jun 14, 2008 15:40:26 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Edward Charles Brock
Code names/Aliases: Venom
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Vigilante, Villain
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Gender: Male
Age: 34
Apparent Age: 34
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height and weight: 6'3, 260 lbs.
Appearance: Eddie Brock is an incredibly built individual and has ripped muscles, chest, abdomen, legs, etc. His hair is short, almost like a flat top, and is blonde. He has sapphire blue eyes and slight beard stubble to show his ruggedness. As Venom, he appears to be a black symbiotic alien with enhanced musculature and enlarged jagged white eyes. Venom has an elongated jaw with rows of razor sharp teeth and an acidic tongue twelve inches long. The spider symbol on his chest is enlarged and covers most of his chest and connects to form another on the back. Thanks to Spider-Man, he also has a distorted webbing design on his own symbiotic outfit that is dark and menacing, the anti-Spider-Man if you will.
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Super Powers: Venom possesses all of the previous abilities that Spider-Man has, having bonded to the suit when Peter worn it. Granted, Venom has super strength enabling him to trade blows with beings as strong as Juggernaut. It granted him the ability to lift and press 700 lbs. However, since Spider-Man wore the Symbiote, his strength also bonded within the suit and has enhanced Brock's human strength as well. In addition to the super strength, Venom also has a high durability, enabling him to withstand assault from high-caliber bullets as well as attacks from super powered individuals. He has become highly resistant to physical injury, though not quite invincible. The Symbiote is also become capable of absorbing bullets that are fired from small-arms weapons. Venom, over time, has become capable of surviving long periods of time underwater or in toxic gases, thanks to the Symbiote which provides breathable air for its host.
Not only does the Symbiote have all of Spider-Man's abilities including the Spider-Sense, but it also possesses an accelerated healing factor, granting Brock the ability to heal from injuries at a much faster rate than than normal human healing rate. It also allows him to heal fatal injuries and illnesses that doctors are incapable of curing, such as cancer. A unique ability that the Symbiote possesses is genetic memory, granting its host limited psychic ability that can be obtained from its hosts and even other people and Symbiotes simply by touch.. This was demonstrated when Brock obtained information about Spider-Man, finding out his secret identity after the Symbiote bonded with Peter Parker. The Symbiote is also capable of detecting offspring, other Symbiote life forms that have crashed onto Earth. Wall-crawling and the generation of webbing is also in Venom's possession, able to replicate Spider-Man’s ability to cling to walls.
However, the webbing is a little different here. Instead of shooting white strands of webbing, Venom releases strands of the alien’s substance in the form of "webbing" that is stronger and more durable than Spider-Man's, and has an overall distance of 70 feet. The black webbing is composed of tough, flexible fibers of organic polymers, which seem to regenerate after "shedding" occurs. The strands, alone, have extraordinary adhesive properties that seem to gradually disappear at a rather fast rate once they abandon their living source. The strands possess a tensile strength of 125 pounds per square millimeter of cross section. The "Spider-Sense" that Venom possesses is slightly different than Spider-Man's, in a sense that it isn't as complicated as Spider-Man’s inherent sense. The Symbiote can detect danger from all sides and is able to warn Brock ahead of time. It isn't as efficient or as strong as Spider-Man's own, reason being it takes a little longer to communicate the danger.
Brock's reflexes have been enhanced extremely due to the Symbiote costume but his reflexes are not as fast as Spider-man's. Venom possesses the ability to remain hidden from Spider-Man's "Spider-Sense" due to the fact that Peter Parker was once a host to the Symbiote. He is able to completely bypass the Spider-Sense relatively easily, enabling Venom to attack Spider-Man without warning making Venom perhaps Spider-Man's greatest - and deadliest - foe. The Symbiote possesses camouflage capabilities, allowing its host to mimic the appearance of any form of clothing, camouflaging with its surroundings, and even mimicking other people.
Learned Abilities: Throughout his career, Venom has learned the art of stealth and going camouflage within the background. As Brock, he is a professional journalist and can get the scoop on about anything and everything. Manipulation has also been an acquired taste for both Brock and Venom and he has used it to his advantage numerous times. He is an expert hand-to-hand combatant and is capable of taking on numerous opponents at once, and thanks to the enhanced reflexes he is also good at maneuvering out of danger.
Equipment: Just the Symbiote costume which, in any case, is always bonded to him beit in the form of a hat, shirt, or even a jacket.
Weaknesses (Must Have): The Symbiote possesses two notable weaknesses that are common within its alien species. One is its vulnerability to fire. It is extremely sensitive to any, and all, thermal based attacks. The other being sonic sounds and/or vibrations. For instance, the ringing of a bell could cause the Symbiote to become disoriented and confused making it vulnerable for attack and weakening its host. Also, Venom's "Spider-Sense" isn't as strong as Spider-Man's, meaning it takes it a little longer to communicate with danger but has the ability to warn him ahead of time.
Background: As a child, Edward Allan Charles Brock is raised in a Roman Catholic household in San Francisco. His father is cold and unloving towards him because he blames Eddie for his wife's death during childbirth. Eddie constantly attempts to obtain his father's approval, though even after excelling in school, he only receives half-hearted encouragements. Though exceptional in athletics, Brock switches his major in college to journalism after reading an article on the Watergate scandal. Upon graduating, he moves to New York City and obtains a job at the Daily Globe. He proves himself to be highly talented, though even this does not get his father's approval.
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Brock decides to take his mind off it by burring himself in his work. He investigates the serial killer nicknamed Sin-Eater, and surprisingly finds someone actually confessing to the murders. Once the case is finally closed, it is revealed that the real killer was already caught by Spider-Man, and that Brock had been interviewing a compulsive confessor. Brock is fired from his job in disgrace, and his father practically disowns him. With no decent publishers willing to hire him, he is forced to work for sleazy tabloid magazines. Now with his fear of the cancer growing, Brock resumes his passion for athletics through weight training to reduce stress. Though his body grows to near-Olympic standards, his anger and depression remain, causing Anne to divorce him. With both his professional and personal life shattered, Brock contemplates suicide and goes to a church where he prays to God for forgiveness, unaware the symbiote Spider-Man has discarded is waiting for him.
Attracted by the adrenaline caused by his cancer, the symbiote bonds with Brock, feeding off the cancer and keeping him alive. Brock willingly accepts it due to stopping the cancer and the powers similar to those of Spider-man, though he learns that the symbiote thinks of him as second rate compared to Spider-Man. Brock, knowing that the symbiote could potentially go back to Spider-Man, leaving him to die, becomes determined to torment Spider-man and his family. The symbiote imparts him with the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity, and Brock names himself "Venom" in reference to what he is "paid to spew out these days."
After Spider-Man had been seen as the hero, Brock aware of his true identity, he got to Peter's heart first and foremost as he kidnapped Mary Jane, having posed as her cab driver. Venom, along with Mary Jane and the car, were then suspended high above the city and he had trapped Mary Jane inside of the Symbiote's own black webbing which proved to be stronger, and more durable than Spider-Man's. Venom recruited Sandman as his partner in crime and the both of them held Mary Jane hostage to draw the hero in. As expected, Spider-Man arrived to rescue his 'Damsel in Distress' and he attacked Spider-Man from behind, immediately. Venom had revealed itself to be Edward Brock much to the surprise of Spider-man and noticed that the Symbiote had now taken over his rival as its new host. Eddie Brock began toying with the hero and gave him a beating he would never forget.
Venom and Sandman soon used the "tag team" tactics on order to attempt to obliterate the hero, but their "ganging" was cut short once the good friend of Spider-man's had arrived, Harry Osborn, the New Goblin. The odds became evened and while Harry was busy with Sandman, Venom decided to handle Spider-Man and keep him as his own. Harry interfered a few times and got the better of Eddie but ultimately, Venom got what he wanted. After he defeated Spider-Man, Venom was about to finish his rival for good when he attempted to impale the hero with a metal pole until Harry once again interfered. However, this time, Venom was prepared and he outmaneuvered the Goblin's attack, sending the anti-hero to crash into poles that were set up on the construction site and later on impaled the hero with the pole. Spider-Man remembered the Symbiote's weakness and used that against the monster, weakening it by setting up poles and hitting them with a free pole that he had a good grip on.
Venom became weakened and brought to his knees, as the smarter of the two helped pull Brock to safety while Spider-Man had planned to blow the Symbiote up. In a way, he succeeded but Brock was too close to the Symbiote to let it become lost forever and he ended up jumping into the explosion as the Symbiote attached itself to him again. Venom barely escaped the explosion, pieces of the Symbiote left behind, as Venom used his sense of awareness whenever danger was near to escape just in the knick of time. The hideous creature used its web-slinging abilities to escape and Brock began to heal from cuts and wounds eventually. He went back home to his house in Queens, New York and has remained there ever since that battle had ensued. Eddie, in general, had changed his appearance and slight beard stubble now decorates his face as well as packed on muscle from his extensive work out routine.
Eddie Brock had become the very thing that has kept Spider-Man awake at nights for months on end, and the face Peter always happened to see when the moon was shining down. As of the recent happenings, Brock has become something of a vigilante even though he retains his evil status as a villain.
~ First few paragraphs credit to wikipedia
Personality : Venom can be incredibly manipulative and has been known to take those who are weak in the mind, perhaps due from losing something near and dear, and using that to empower his own thirst against Spider-Man. Manipulation has been one of his strong points since be became one with the Symbiote costume; Sandman was one of his first manipulations. He is highly dangerous when he can use the feelings of someone against their own will and often times proves to be successful. His hatred for J. Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle as a whole has made him bitter towards that side of New York. He lost his job there, lost his would-be girlfriend, but ultimately gained something much more powerful than either in return. Being Catholic, Eddie feels as if the costume was given to him out of smite for his rival, Peter Benjamin Parker. Aside from his flirtatious, often forceful ways Venom has become the epitome of evil and everything unjust with the world today. But as he said before, "I like being bad. It makes me happy."
Other: N/A
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