Venom (Topher Grace)

Venom (Eddie Brock) is the main antagonist Spider-Man 3. He is a fictional supervillain character that appears in the Marvel Comics. He was created in one form or another collaboratively by Randy Schueller, David Michelinie, Mike Zeck and Todd McFarlane in 1984 as the symboite and 1988 as Venom. He was portrayed in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3 and 2017's Spider-Man 6 by Topher Grace.

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At the time of Spider-Man's first appearance in New York Eddie Brock is already an active freelance photographer. While mulling over what to make of Spider-Man, The Daily Bugle editor Robbie Robertson is heard remarking "Eddie's been trying to get a picture of him for weeks".

Spider-Man 3
Eddie is at first glance, an exact opposite to Peter Parker in almost every way imaginable—He dresses in spiffy designer clothes, uses enormous hair product, rides a motorcycle and seems progressively tanned. Eddie is louder, more flamboyant, more able to schmooze and socialize. Eddie is overly arrogant and obnoxious, but certainly a lot more polished. However, Eddie lacks elsewhere, he apparently has no real friends or close family.

Eddie considers himself a ladies' man, but the ladies themselves don't concur. He is known to have once dated Gwen Stacy who's a model and a physicist. But after one coffee date, she has no interest in pursuing things further. Eddie flirts with J. Jonah Jameson's secretary Miss Betty Brant. She's amused at the gesture, but brushes him off. And his cologne seems to disgust more than it attracts. After the alien symbiote took him over, Peter began to act more like Eddie. He had a hip hairstyle, a pricey suit, a over-inflated ego and more swagger.

After losing his job and his reputation for forging a photo of Spider-Man robbing a bank, saw Peter with Gwen Stacy and was as depressed as ever. He went into a church and prayed for Peter's death. Almost like a divine hand granted his wish, he heard a scream from above. Peter was at the top of the bell tower attempting to tear the symbiote suit from his body, and with the help of the bell's thunderous chimes, the suit seems to be shrieking in pain. The symbiote then seemed to look more demonic and agressive.

Peter peeled off the creature and it descends down the bell tower. Just as he tossed the debris of the alien suit, it landed directly ontop of Eddie Brock and completely consumes him, even more so than Peter. Eddie struggles like he's in a straightjacket sinking directly into quicksand. But, the creature won in the end and found a new host.

Brock, now re-christened and re-born as Venom, travelled around the city web-slinging and swinging in Spider-Man's own style, looking for the real Spider-Man himself. While doing such, he happened to run into The Sandman. After The Sandman attacked Venom, mistaking him for the actual Spider-Man, Venom gives him a disaproving villanous roar... Just as The Sandman was about to take off, Venoms proposes a bargain, a partnership. Two against one, against a common foe. Confused, The Sandman agreed.

Brock captures Mary Jane Watson through use of a taxi. Peter put on his old traditional blue and red Spider-Man costume when he heard of her disappearance. Peter attempted to plead with Eddie and warned of the dangers of the black symboite, and the unholy being it based from. The cautions did not faze Eddie. But then Peter's friend Harry Osborn came blazing onto the scene to save the day, in his New Goblin gear. Harry tries to keep The Sandman at bay while Peter tried to take care of Venom. Harry ultimately sacrificed himself to save Peter and Mary Jane during the ensuing fight, Venom stabbing him with his own glider.

It's suddenly become more than just a poison. It's a free-thinking creature of evil, ready to kill Peter and Eddie. Peter grabbed one of Smith's pumpkin bombs and hurled it right at the alien matter. Eddie, seeing what was about to happen, ran toward the symbiote and was caught, and presumably killed, in the explosion.

Spider-Man: The Justice Awakening
As Eddie Brock's fate was never ultimately revealed and still open to speculation, many thought Venom might return in a future film. In July 2007, Spider-Man 3 producer Avi Arad revealed a Venom VS Carnage spin-off film was in the works. Jacob Aaron Estes was commissioned to write a script, but it was rejected the following year. In September 2016, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese signed on to write the film. Reese later revealed that they had written two drafts for the film and that the studio was pushing the film forward. In 2017, Gary Ross, who was then rewriting the latest draft of the unproduced Spider-Man 4, was assigned to rewrite the Venom VS Carnage script and direct the movie, in which Venom would be an anti-hero rather than a supervillain.