Another interesting difference between movie!Venom and comic!Venom Symbiote, is that, though they are both fiercely possessive of Eddie, it comes from a very different place.
Movie Venom seems to kind of see Eddie as belonging to him. “You are mine” and all that. It comes from a desire to posses him.
Comic Venom Symbiote…it’s all fear. It’s a terror that, should Eddie become close with anyone besides itself, they’ll tear the two of them apart. And the difference lies in their origin. In the movieverse, Eddie is more or less Venom’s first real human host. In the comics, the symbiote bonds first with Spider-Man. It was convinced everything was going well and that it and Spider-Man would be together forever.
Then Spider-Man visited Reed Richards. Reed Richards told Spider-Man his new suit was alive. Told him he needed to get rid of it. Suddenly Spider-Man panics and forcibly removes and imprisons the symbiote, which completely blindsides it. It thought everything was perfect. Until someone else convinced Spider-Man that it was untrustworthy.
Something similar happens again in “Planet of the Symbiotes”. Eddie starts expressing a desire to talk about his experiences being bonded with the symbiote with someone else and the symbiote becomes distressed and tries to dissuade him. Eventually Spider-Man does talk to Eddie and plants a seed of doubt that the symbiote is controlling him. Just as with Spider-Man, Eddie rejects the suit out of fear, despite, again, the symbiote never actually having done anything but what it saw as being what its host wanted. Again another person convinced its host it was untrustworthy.
From then, after Eddie and the symbiote bond again, we see the symbiote becomes INCREDIBLY possessive of Eddie. It doesn’t want him to talk to other people. It tries to convince him it’s the only thing he ever needs. Because it’s so afraid. Afraid of being rejected again. Of having its host be turned against it by someone else.
Which makes the growth it makes in accepting and enjoying the idea of family and both it and Eddie forming connections with other humans so beautiful to me.
When Venom first saw Eddie, it was through Maria’s eyes.
Maria was homeless, and when you’re homeless most folks ignore you or treat you terribly. Some help out a bit and give you some change, but Eddie did so much more. He treated her like a person, a friend, and gave her much more then she asked for when she tried to sell him the free papers, even when he didn’t have much himself.
And when she saw him at the Life Foundation and cried for help, instead of backing away to hide, he risked getting caught and freed her.
Venom would have known all of this after a quick trip through Maria’s memories and would have seen how she saw Eddie, as a kind compassionate person.
So Venoms first impression of him would have been based on this, and since kindness isn’t much of a thing in symbiote society, there’s no doubt that Vemon was intrigued by this odd stupid human.
Got something you need to do at a certain time every day (e.g., take meds)? Start giving your cat a treat right before you do it. You may have trouble remembering, but your cat absolutely will not.
This might be the most genius idea I’ve ever read.
Sorry, I’m not up to date on the details of Star Wars outside the movies, but was R2-D2, like, Leia’s droid between the Prequels and the Original Trilogy? Whatever the case, I think I might need it to happen in a crack fic.
Because I’ve suddenly imagined R2-D2 accompanying Leia to her Senate meetings. In reality, it would probably be very dangerous for R2 and Leia. But I think it would be perfect for a crack fic.
Like, just imagine if Leia and R2 are just strolling around the halls of the Senate, with Leia ranting to R2 about something or other. And then bump into an older Senator by accident. And at first it’s all pleasantries and apologies, but then the older Senator takes one look at R2, turns a color that is not a good color for their people to turn, and then says in utter horror, “IT’S YOU!”
Because surely there must be older Senators out there from before the Empire, who remember that horrible little nightmare droid who tailed those awful Jedi around and occasionally Senator Amidala. (Like, there must be people out there who witnessed R2 blow up a building or even straight-up kill someone.)
And Leia’s like, “What? You know my droid?”
And the Senator’s got a hand over their heart, both to soothe themselves and a little protectively, and says, “My dear, I couldn’t forget that thing if I was dead. That’s the little bastard who set me on fire! Granted, it was an accident and it saved Senator Amidala’s life again, but still. She was far too fond of it! That and that debonair Jedi it belonged to!”
And Leia lights up immediately because oho, this is interesting. Meanwhile R2 is basically swearing up a storm trying to push her away. And the Senator has an expression on their face like, “Oh, damn, I shouldn’t have said that.”
Anyway, Leia accidentally figures out who her parents were because R2 is a memorable asshole that old politicians still see in their nightmares.
I want either that crack fic or an even crackier fic that goes like this:
Darth Vader: *walking down a hall in the Senate building, annoyed af that the Emperor is making him be here to intimidate people for some vote or another, scrolling clickbait quizzes or ship commercials on his datapad*
The sound of something clattering comes from ahead. Darth Vader looks up and sees a droid getting kicked out of a conference room, beeping explicitly and indignantly over just being lost, at the far end of the hall. The droid looks down the hall at Darth Vader. It’s unmistakably R2-D2.
Darth Vader: “…”
R2-D2: “…”
R2: *backs up one inch*
Vader: *takes one step forward*
R2: *SCREAMS*
R2-D2 whirls around immediately and flees around the corner. Vader is too surprised to immediately stop his old droid, but drops the datapad and books it after him (as much as DV can book it). What proceeds is probably a Star Wars version of the Benny Hill chase between R2-D2 and Darth Vader.
It ends in R2, covered in soot and scratches, barely managing to get away after causing enormous amounts of mayhem and property damage.
Leia: “There you are! Artoo, where have you been?”
R2: *beeps* (translation: “Out.”)
So uh
Excellent. This is exactly what I wanted.
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probably a Star Wars version of the Benny Hill chase between R2-D2 and Darth Vader”
Oh my God.
Vader just awkwardly powerwalking after a screaming Astromech.
Jab loves robots 