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It ’s prescribed : Venomhas finally outgrownSpider - piece . Everybody knows the story of Venom ; the alien costume brought to Earth by Spider - Man , transubstantiate into one of his most severe foes . Bonded to the vengeful and vindictive Eddie Brock , the Venom symbiote became taken up with destroying Peter Parker ’s life sentence .
It did n’t take Marvel long to realize Venom ’s voltage , and by the early ' 90s , they had decided to transform the tongue - slavering symbiote into an antihero rather than an straight-out villain . TheVenom : Lethal Protectorminiserieskicked off with a armistice between Eddie Brock and Spider - Man , with Venom moving to San Francisco . Still , those first attempt to establish Venom as a standalone grapheme in his own right were feeble and faltering . It did n’t take long for the better - love and more popular Spider - Man to channelise to San Francisco in pursuit of Venom , and the wall - earthworm regularly had junior-grade roles inVenomongoing series . Venom largely feel like a Spider - humans sub - sword , explaining why film right for him are packaged with the webheads .
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All that has switch over the last few age , largely because of writer Donny Cates . He unveil the ancient history of the symbiote race , attach them to a cosmic threat known asKnull , the graven image of the symbiotes . Knull hold out in the void before the Big Bang and fought against visible radiation and lifetime since the beginning of time . He is the one who created the symbiotes , and he is also responsible for forging theNecrosword , a weapon system so muscular it can kill the very God . This arc reframes Venom , taking him away from his usual street - grade vigilantism and make him a primal histrion on a cosmic level .
Supporting this feeler , Cates has established further thematic distance between Spider - Man and Venom by revealing there have been symbiotes on Earth long before Eddie Brock . In fact , during the Vietnam War , the US Government ran a hush-hush chore force of symbiotes . Cates has further moved some Spider - Man villains into Venom ’s own scalawag ' gallery , developing Carnage as a retainer of Knull and focalize on the mutual vendetta between Venom and Carnage . It ’s telling that , while Spider - Man did indeed come along in the recent " Absolute Carnage " event , in truth this was a Venom event . It feels like a milestone moment for Venom , suggest he has in the end outgrow Spider - Man .
This has apparently been confirmed by this week’sVenom#25 , which is pitch as another milestone issue - and does n’t boast Spider - Man . Instead , Venom at last realizes the stakes are too high , and he come on the Avengers for help . It does n’t appear to suggestVenom is becoming an Avengeranytime soon , although that would hardly be a surprise and there look to be interesting spark between Eddie Brock and Captain Marvel ; but it clearly pose him for a major Avengers team - up in which he ally with Earth ’s Mightiest Heroes for a cosmic dangerous undertaking . It face as thoughVenomhas stepped out of Spider - Man ’s shadow - and there ’s no run back .
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