Tag: Venom

Near Miss – battle_cat – Venom (Movie 2018) [Archive of Our Own]

fuckyeahisawthat:

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Venom (Movie 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eddie Brock/Venom Symbiote
Characters: Eddie Brock, Venom Symbiote (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Near Death Experiences, Gunshot Wounds, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD, Ficlet
Summary:

He knows the symbiote can heal him, but getting hurt still really fucking hurts.

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Just a little ficlet cause I got stuck on thinking about how rapid healing is probably not fun at all and also thinking about Venom as a weighted blanket.

Near Miss – battle_cat – Venom (Movie 2018) [Archive of Our Own]

deluxetrashqueen:

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.

copperbadge:

buckybatnes:

queenmabonthefinalizer:

Can I just say, as great as Venom and Eddie’s relationship was, I appreciated Dan and Anne’s. Dan didn’t fall into the jealous new boyfriend category. Not once did he mistrust Anne about Eddie, showing he was totally comfortable in that relationship and trusted her totally, he was so nice to Eddie instead of telling him to stay away from Anne. It was a healthy relationship dynamic (despite Anne’s possible remaining feelings at the end) and I appreciated it and Dan as a character

Update: I forgot to add, Dan had his priorities right like when he told Anne they needed to talk about what was going on and she said there was nothing going on with her and Eddie and Dan was like ‘no we need to talk about the weird parasite thing that’s unknown to medical science obviously’ and I appreciate that he was focused on the right thing

I think part of what made the Venom movie so palatable to me was the whole situation with Dan and how it was handled as if everyone involved was a Decent Adult Person instead of the heteronormative caricatures we’ve come to expect. Just by being written the way he is, Dan makes my queer ass feel so much safer in indulging in this fandom, and I love him for that!!!

I was prepared for a boatload of second hand embarrassment at the restaurant scene but it was wonderfully resolved when Dan was like “Yes this is my girlfriend’s ex behaving inappropriately in a restaurant but also he’s obviously visibly unwell and I’m a doctor so can we all please calm the fuck down so I can get him to a hospital.”