Eddie Brock



Venom is a living symbiotic organism and one of Spiderman's greatest foe. As a child, Edward Allan Charles Brock is raised in a Roman Catholic household in San Francisco, his mother dead due to complications of his birth. Eddie's father is shown to be loving but left cold and unaffectionate because of the death of his wife. 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 as a member of the Associated Press, he obtains a job as a journalist for the Daily Globe. He proves himself to be highly talented, though even this does not get his father's approval.[12] He eventually marries Anne Weying, who is attracted by his wit and gentility. Afterward, Brock buries himself in his work. He investigates the serial killer nicknamed Sin-Eater, and surprisingly finds someone actually confessing to the murders. Hoping to get an exclusive, Brock writes an article revealing the man as the Sin-Eater, which is published by the Globe. However, the real Sin-Eater was later caught by Spider-Man, and it is revealed 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. Brock blames Spider-Man for his downfall. 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 remains in the church, and is waiting for him.[13]

Attracted by Brock's matching resentment towards Spider-Man, the symbiote bonds with Brock, feeding off his cancer and keeping him alive in the process. Brock now possessed powers similar to those of Spider-Man, though he learns that the symbiote thinks of him as a second-rate host compared to Spider-Man. Brock's hatred for Spider-Man twists the symbiote's own emotions and drives it even more insane. Brock, knowing that the symbiote could potentially go back to Spider-Man, leaving him to die, and also blaming Spider-Man for his misfortune, becomes determined to torment and kill Spider-Man and his family. The symbiote imparts him with the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity, and Brock names himself "Venom", for he claims he's poison to Peter Parker and Spider-Man.(From Wikipedia/Eddiebrock).