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.
Venom: The time has come for me to return to my homeland. I must come to terms with the fact that I am no longer required here. I have lead a good life on earth, but alas, my shattered heart belongs elsewhere. Somewhere where my presence is valued, where I’m not treated like vermin, where I’m actually respected for the fearsome creature I-
that feel when you are trapped in the shadowzone and have resigned yourself to a slow death at the bottom of the ocean curled up next to lord megatrons corpse and youve started feeling semi-okay with this arrangement but then suddenly he comes back to life and blasts off screaming into space and now youre just some absolute walnut stuck alone in spectator mode on a stupid dirt orb
Last part of Commissions for abucketofprotons, who asked for this little comic with the Necrobot! I am sorry this took so long, drawing a character that has exactly one small panel for reference was kinda exhausting, but it was fun! Thank you so much!
Jab loves robots 