History Characters / SSUProtagonists

* CompositeCharacter: Visually she more resembles the Julia Carpenter incarnation of Madame Web instead of Cassandra Webb. Since her powers come from a spider bite, instead of being a mutant like in the comics, she's pretty similar to Peter Parker.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Venom often argue, with ''Let There Be Carnage'' showing their relationship becoming pretty aggressive and in Eddie's own words "abusive". However it's also shown that they do care about each other, with Eddie on some occasions admitting that he needs Venom.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Venom and Eddie often argue, with ''Let There Be Carnage'' showing their relationship becoming pretty aggressive and in Eddie's own words "abusive". However it's also shown that they do care about each other, with Venom becoming deeply upset after he and Eddie have a violent argument in the second film.

* NormalFishInATinyPond:
** While Venom does not at all seem to be a particularly ''weak'' symbiote, as it adapts to Earth's environment when two other symbiotes are killed and stands up to Riot (even if Riot has a less compatible host), it admits to Eddie that amongst its own kind it was something of a "loser". That's one of the reasons it wants to stay on Earth alone without the presence of other symbiotes. It is shown to lack many of the same abilities shown by Riot and Carnage however, and consistently shows fear of fighting both of them suggesting that he would be considered weaker than most symbiotes.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''No Way Home'' as Venom comes from a cinematic universe that is just starting out, and at the time had featured only aliens and one superhuman. In comparison the MCU has been around for over a decade and has featured far more than aliens and superhumans, making Eddie and Venom less impressive in the more fantastical MCU.

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[[folder:Eddie Brock]]
!!''[[Characters/MarvelComicsEddieBrock Edward Charles Allan "Eddie" Brock]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"We all have our own problems, our own issues, our own demons."'']]
!!! '''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daily Globe (formerly), The Eddie Brock Report (formerly), Daily Bugle (formerly)

->''"I'm a reporter. I follow people that do not want to be followed. You have to learn how to hide in plain sight. I'm pretty good at it... but you? You suck."''

An investigative reporter who lost both his job and fiancée for being too curious about the Life Foundation's unethical experiments. Through an accident in the foundation's labs, he becomes the host of the Venom symbiote.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: He does not have cancer like his comic book counterpart, though he wonders if the symbiote is a brain tumor-induced hallucination, though [[spoiler:it should be noted to be "at the time" as ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'' later retconned that Eddie never had cancer when he first bonded to the Symbiote and, in fact, the cancer he did get was the symbiote screwing with his body chemistry, and his belief that he did have it at first was the symbiote gaslighting Eddie into staying with it.]]
* AbusiveParents: Like in the comics, Eddie's father was a firm believer in MaternalDeathBlameTheChild.
* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Eddie isn't shown to have cancer, and he takes his firing with [[SelfDeprecation sad humor]] instead of suicidal despair and rage. [[spoiler:It should also be noted that ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'' retconned that Eddie didn't have cancer at first, and when he did get cancer, it was due to the symbiote screwing with his body chemistry.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: Zig-zagged. While Eddie seems to be a fit, exercising man who can hold his own in a physical fight, he does not seem to be the herculean BadassNormal he was in the comics, where he was canonically almost as strong as Captain America and actually a little stronger than guys like Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin. He does seem to be a more competent and famous reporter though, even having his own primetime show.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: In contrast to his comic self, who has his moments of being sarcastic and funny, Eddie is portrayed much more comedically due to being a LoserProtagonist. While ''Venom'' had this primarily be shown by him freaking out by the insane situation of being bonded by Venom, who honestly does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to protecting them, ''Let There Be Carnage'' continues this with things like his VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with Venom.
* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. In the comics, Eddie is very buff and has a broad build (where Venom was originally depicted getting his large, monstrous appearance from), but here Eddie has a more average build (if on the large side of average).
* AdaptationDyeJob: Eddie Brock is blond in the comics, but has brown hair in the film.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Prior to obtaining the symbiote, Eddie lightly chides his girlfriend for working for an evil person, and tries to bring up the allegations about Carlton Drake performing life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people during an interview. After obtaining the symbiote, he explicitly forbids it from hurting innocents. While Eddie in the comics does share his movie counterpart's desire to protect innocent people, he indulged in a few unethical practices, was by his own admission not a particularly nice person, and -- DependingOnTheWriter -- Venom's villainy was all Eddie's fault as his rage corrupted the symbiote. Here, Eddie manages to be a positive influence on Venom. Also in contrast to ''Film/SpiderMan3'', where Eddie was a sleazy photographer who willingly forged pictures of Spider-Man to get a coveted staff job at the ''Daily Bugle'', and worked with Venom to hurt Spidey in any way they could, Eddie holds himself to a very high ethical standard (at least as far as the truth is concerned), and only lets Venom hurt really bad people.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, Venom was the name when the symbiote bonded with Eddie. Since the name was given to the symbiote in this version, the closest thing to a codename that Eddie has is Lethal Protector.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He's less egocentric than his comic book counterpart. Also, while in the comic books he is mad at Spider-Man for exposing his mistake here he loses his job while really finding out his girlfriend's boss does illegal things and for that the JerkassHasAPoint this time despite costing said girlfriend her job.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Due to the ambiguous situation with Sony's cooperation with Marvel Studios over the [[Film/MCUSpiderManTrilogy MCU Spider-Man movies]], all connections between Venom and Spider-Man are cut, completely rewriting Eddie's and Venom's origin as it was their shared hatred for Spider-Man that brought the two together in the first place. [[spoiler:''Let There Be Carnage'' reveals the MCU is an AlternateUniverse to the SSU, and while Spider-Man is implied to exist in ''Morbius'' there still isn't a connection between him and Eddie.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Owing to the movie [[PragmaticAdaptation omitting his toxically obsessive hatred of Spider-Man]], which is not needed here since Spidey is AdaptedOut, Eddie reacts radically differently to his fall from grace compared to the comics. In the source material, Eddie by his own admission wasn't all that kind even before his life went to crap (even keeping a serial killer's identity hidden for a while to write sensationalist articles, as opposed to this movie's IntrepidReporter) and afterwards became first suicidal, then borderline psychotic as he gleefully embraced the Venom symbiote. In this version, he instead looks at the whole ordeal with a sardonic, self-depreciating sense of humor, coming off more as EndearinglyDorky and even a NiceGuy at times, and spends a solid chunk of the movie being weirded out by the symbiote. The movie also doesn't make any overt references to his Catholic beliefs, which in the comics were a major aspect of his character. His eagerness to build a reputation as a reporter and help those who can't help themselves, however, remain, and by the end of the movie, his relationship with the symbiote more closely reflects that of the comics.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Anne Weying was Eddie's wife, divorcing from him after Eddie lost his job as she saw him as a loser. In the movie, they were only engaged and Anne left Eddie after losing her job due to his actions as a journalist. However, as the movies go on, they sort of figure it out and become AmicableExes in the process.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Compared to his comics counterpart and his depiction in ''Film/SpiderMan3'', Eddie's transformation into Venom and the subsequent experiences he goes through are played more tragically. He still loses his job due to his own fault like in Rami's trilogy, but instead of being fired for forging photos or for pinning the blame of a serial killer on the wrong guy like in the comics, he goes against orders to try and prove Carlton Drake's guilt, and ''does'' accept his role in losing Ann instead of blaming Peter for his mistakes ([[AdaptedOut not that there is a Peter to blame in his universe]]). Moreover, the fact his relationship with Venom is VitriolicBestBuds ''at best'' most of the time, sometimes to the point he has trouble functioning in his everyday life, makes him more of a tragic figure.
* AdaptationalWimp: A mild example. Eddie is still quite physically fit in this movie, but not excessively so, and his personality is less aggressive when contrasted with the vengeful, bodybuilding BadassNormal from the comics.
* AgeLift: Potentially. While usually portrayed as only being a couple of years older than Peter Parker, placing Eddie in his late twenties or early thirties, Tom Hardy was 41 when ''Venom'' was released. So this version of Eddie might be around the same age. In ''No Way Home'' this makes him around twenty years older than the MCU Peter, about a decade older than the Webb-Verse Peter and around the same age as the Raimi-Verse Peter. Meanwhile [[spoiler:''Madame Web'' reveals that the SSU Peter Parker was born in 2003, meaning there is an age gap of roughly 25 years between Peter and Eddie]].
* TheAlcoholic: He spends the first half of the first film mostly drunk, and his appearance in ''No Way Home'' has him having spent all day (if not longer) getting drunk at a local bar while trying to learn the MCU's backstory.

* AmicableExes: With Annie. He seems to have found his peace with Anne living her life. He seems also to be happy for her and Dan and doesn't try to win her back. To his annoyance, Venom [[ShipperOnDeck doesn't exactly share the same sentiments]].
* AntiHero: If he is to remain bonded to the Venom symbiote, it will only hurt bad people. The term is even used in the second trailer.
* ApologeticAttacker: He constantly apologizes to Treece and his thugs while Venom beats them up.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: A drunk Eddie scoffs at the bartender's description of Thanos and the Infinity Stones, remarking that the aliens he knows only want [[BrainFood to eat brains]].

* BadassBiker: He's an avid biker, and his first fight scene with Life Foundation's agents leads to a violent chase scene with him riding a motorcycle.
* BadassInDistress: Due to the [[spoiler:Venom symbiote being much weaker than Riot, it and Eddie get absorbed by Riot easily]].
* BettyAndVeronica: Since Venom is a ShipperOnDeck for Eddie and Anne, she becomes the Archie and him the Veronica: a now-anti-hero fused with a violent symbiote, against the mentally sound and honorable surgeon Dan (Betty). Though Eddie is happy for her and seemingly doesn't want to win her back.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Eddie sees that his favorite shopkeeper is being forced into a "protection" racket, he lets Venom loose on the thug.
* BigEater: After acquiring Venom, Eddie develops an increasingly absurd hunger, eating every bit of food he comes across, even rotten ones.
* BigNo: [[spoiler:When Venom seemingly sacrifices itself.]]
* BrutalHonesty: The first trailer establishes him as someone who doesn't hold his opinions back, which according to Anne got him fired from his job at New York's ''Daily Globe''. In an interesting way, it's used to establish him as a good person, as he bluntly challenges the BigBad, Carlton Drake, making it clear that he knows Drake is performing life-threatening experiments. More humorously, he outright says to Dora Skirth -- the Life Foundation employee who's following him -- that she sucks at being discreet.
* ButtMonkey:
** Eddie's life sucks because of his poor decision making, and in both films nothing seems to go right for him. Even in the sequel he's still shown to be a mess despite having a CareerResurrection, while Venom in both films is shown to be a HyperCompetentSidekick who keeps him alive.
** Venom expresses the desire to fight Spider-Man in the stinger of ''Let There Be Carnage'', but Eddie's streak of bad luck continues as he and Venom get yanked away from the MCU before they get a chance to do anything in it aside from getting drunk at a bar.
* CareerResurrection: InUniverse, Eddie gets back his prestigious reporter job at the end of the movie. [[spoiler:He then gets to interview Cletus Kasady at the stinger.]]
* CompositeCharacter: He's basically 616!Eddie Brock's origin, personality and character flaws mixed with 616!Peter Parker's snark, repressed anger, and overall good nature.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Abused by his father after his mother died in childbirth.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has his moments, most notably after killing the thug with Ms. Chen watching, where he just bluntly apologizes and says he has a parasite while acting like it isn't a big deal.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:As a result of his actions at the beginning of the movie, Eddie and Anne broke up, but they parted ways on peaceful terms. While Eddie still has feelings for her, he seems to be happy for Anne's new relationship. Venom, however, is convinced it won't remain this way for long and that they could win her back.]] [[spoiler:However Anne gets engaged in the second film, while in the end Eddie is forced to go on the run leaving it more unlikely that they will get back together.]]

* DistressedDude: Is constantly being saved by Venom or Anne [[spoiler:or both at the same time]], but it is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as it cleanly establishes just how majorly out of his depth Eddie is. By the final act, Eddie grows out of it as he and Venom become more in tune with each other and learn how to work together.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: When cornered by a squad of SWAT police, Eddie advises them to back off. They don't listen, so Venom happily [[CurbStompBattle crushes]] them.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lightly implied; after getting shut down by Anne again, the scene immediately following has him looking over the waterfront of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Bridge is infamous for attracting suicide attempts, but it also provides a prime view of Drake's Life Foundation headquarters. The scene ends with him asking Dora about the truth of Drake's experiments.
* DrowningMySorrows: After his disastrous interview with Drake and subsequent fall from grace, he's seen drinking both at a pub and at home.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Eddie makes the mistake of trying to belittle the threat posed by Thanos and the Infinity Stones while talking to a man whose whole family was ashed by the Snap.
* {{Foil}}: To Carlton Drake. Drake is a billionaire who is fully invested in the big picture of humanity's future, Eddie is upper-middle class and then moves to lower-class after he and Anne break up, is very much in the moment and uses his fame in reporting to bring the plights of everyday people (ie. the homeless, or political protestors) to light. Eddie's reputation and relations all go down the toilet when he tries to expose Drake's inhumane practices, where Drake's fame only grows as he continues (as seen when a group of school children were touring his lab). Even their relationships with their symbiotes are opposite. While Venom is at first using Eddie as a ride and keeps him around because they match perfectly, he still takes care of him and grows to genuinely care for his host to the point that he [[spoiler: performs a HeroicSacrifice to save Eddie from an explosion]]. On the other hand, Riot is implied to just be using Drake in order to get access to his [[spoiler: rocket ship]].
* ForgotToPayTheBill: Doctor Strange's second spell ends up warping a drunken Eddie back to his home universe before he's able to pay off his bar tab. Though given Eddie's [[PerpetualPoverty financial situation]], it's likely he didn't have any money to pay the bartender anyway.
* GameFace: When Eddie is trying to persuade his rocker neighbor to turn the music down, [[BlackEyesOfEvil his eyes briefly turn jet-black]] and [[ScaryTeeth his teeth turn into fangs]].
* GenreRefugee: Downplayed as Eddie and Venom are comic characters from the superhero genre. However their own film series was more of a SuperheroHorror which at the time when ''No Way Home'' came out wasn't a genre the MCU had explored, so Eddie was pretty confused to find himself in a world full of more traditional superheroes and mentioned that in his experiences aliens only want to eat people, not go around collecting stones.
* GirlyScream: Eddie's voice jumps several octaves, alongside his testicles, when the symbiote [[JumpScare startles]] him for the first time as he's staring at his own reflection.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Eddie wears a Hawaiian shirt and a ball cap at a bar in Mexico. The fact they were transported to this dimension adds to the ''tourist'' part of this trope.
* HearingVoices: Eddie hears the Venom symbiote's voice in his head when it speaks to him.
-->'''Eddie:''' I'm feeling really sick. I'm hearing a voice...\\
[[AC:'''Venom:''' Eddie!]]
-->'''Eddie:''' Y-you're not real! You're just in my head!
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Although he does have a few friends such as Mrs. Chen and Maria, Eddie's being hunted down by the police and the mercenaries sent by Carlton Drake because he has become the host for Venom.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: The two spend all of their time in the MCU getting smashed and trying to figure out what's going on, and the crisis passes before they have time to accomplish anything of importance.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Riot stabs Eddie with one of his blades, leaving him to die. However, Venom re-bonds with him, saving his life.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When trying to make sense of [[spoiler:the MCU]], Eddie is confused as to why [[spoiler:[[Characters/MCUThanos a purple alien]]]] is such a big deal there, unaware that [[spoiler:said alien was a genocidal madman]].
* IntrepidReporter: Eddie Brock is an investigative journalist whose desire to "do [his] job" sees him disgraced and run out of New York. In an interview with Dr. Carlton Drake, he goes off-script to interrogate him about allegations that the Life Foundation is conducting illicit human experiments -- putting him at odds with his fiancée Anne Weying, whose law firm represents Drake and the Life Foundation; and resulting in him being blacklisted from journalistic work. Eddie being contacted by a disgruntled employee, digging into the Life Foundation's dark secrets, and accidentally acquiring one of their symbiotes puts him in their sights as a threat.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Despite his issues, he is never jealous of Anne's new boyfriend Dan. In the end, Eddie is on better terms with her, though they're not together. It's revealed in the sequel that he ''is'' still pretty hung up on it, though, and his genuine attempts to pretend he is happy for Anne and Dan's engagement fall flat. Eddie even briefly considers suicide by traffic accident for a moment until Venom convinces him otherwise.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Despite ruining his career after the interview with Drake and subsequent cynicism, he is still dedicated to do the right thing. After getting on better terms with Venom, he agrees to do things its way, but on the condition that it will only hurt "bad people".
* KnightTemplar: Eddie demands that if the symbiote is going to hurt anyone, it should at least only hurt bad people.
-->'''Eddie:''' I have no problem with you sticking around, but we will only hurt the ''bad'' people.
* LoserProtagonist: The first film starts with him losing his job and any public respect he had after totally botching his interview with Drake, quickly followed by his fiancée leaving him for a breach of trust and every other employer blacklisting him. He then lives in his filth in an unemployed malaise for a while. It's implied that he was considering suicide before the Venom symbiote found him.
* MonstrousHumanoid: As Venom, Eddie is a towering, bulky humanoid monster with viscous inky-black skin, white vein-like markings, large white eyespots, claws, a gaping maw full of fangs, and a long prehensile tongue.
* MoustacheDePlume: After being fired, Eddie is so desperate to find a new job that he even considers writing under a female pseudonym. He still gets rejected.
* NaiveNewcomer: The reason he never actually shows up to meet Spider-Man? Seemingly, he spent the film's entire runtime taking notes on the MCU, which has [[ContinuityLockout way more going on in it]] than most cinematic superhero universes can claim. Thus, by the time he's ready to track down Spider-Man as he planned to, the movie is over and he's sent back to his home universe.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: His main condition for letting Venom stick around is that, if they ''must'' eat people, it can only be ''bad'' people. He's also pretty firm in needing solid proof that he's seen for himself before he gives the green light on killing somebody. Luckily for him, Venom's totally on board with this.
* NeverMyFault: To a degree. [[spoiler:Though he rightly assumed Drake was a bad guy from the start, Eddie's life spiraling downhill was of his own doing. He made the conscious decision to break Anne's trust and view confidential information, then derailed his interview with Drake by bringing up the illegal allegations, which cost him his and Anne's job, as well as their relationship. He blamed Drake for all of this. Anne flat out tells him that it's his fault and he eventually comes to realize this.]]
* NiceGuy: For all his faults, Eddie is motivated to do what he feels is the right thing.
** The "Eddie Brock Report" montage near the beginning of the film establishes that he focuses on stories that involve the plight against the homeless in San Francisco. He's on good terms with a homeless woman, Maria, and gives her $20 despite struggling to find work, then tries to rescue her when he finds out she's being experimented on.
** When Eddie finds out Anne is seeing someone else, he doesn't show any bitterness.
** His kindness is strong enough that it manages to convince the Venom symbiote, [[spoiler: who came to Earth for the express purpose of invading and killing all humans,]] to turn against [[spoiler: Riot and its entire race]] and live semi-peacefully on Earth, only harming bad people who deserve it.
* NoodleIncident: Eddie lost his job at the prestigious Daily Globe newsroom and was effectively run out of New York due to an unspecified incident -- a reference to the comics' Sin-Eater case.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''No Way Home'' as Eddie comes from a cinematic universe that is just starting out, and at the time had featured only aliens and one superhuman. In comparison the MCU has been around for over a decade and has featured far more than aliens and superhumans, making Eddie and Venom less impressive in the more fantastical MCU. He's utterly baffled by the idea that there was a team of superheroes and an alien obsessed with seemingly magic stones that killed half the universe.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: You can hear Tom Hardy's English accent break through his narration at times, specifically on "own" and "issues." It slips even further in the full trailer, with lines "the guy you work for is an evil person" just coming out as a weird mishmash... [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent thing]].
* PermaStubble: Contrasting the Eddie Brock from the comics, who was almost always clean-shaven.
* ResignedToTheCall: At the end of the second film, despite having been desperate to return to having some sort of normal life through most of it, he seems to accept that he will always be tied with Venom and comes round to the idea of being the "Lethal Protector" as Venom calls them.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: When Venom suddenly shouts his name while he brushes his teeth.
* ThrowingOutTheScript: The incident that cost Eddie his job as a reporter was that he was supposed to interview Dr. Carlton Drake about their new space probe... but instead threw the script out the window and started grilling him about allegations that the Life Foundations was conducting unethical experiments. Going by Anne Weying's mention of the "''Daily Globe'' incident", Eddie has a history of doing such things and getting into trouble for them.

* TwoFirstNames: He has ''four'', to be exact.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Tom Hardy gives Eddie Brock an accent that's... a little hard to pin down. It's equal parts Brooklyn-American and Cockney English, with just a tiny bit of Australian thrown in at times. His tendency to slur and mumble his words certainly doesn't help, and his delivery sounds almost [[Creator/AdamSandler Sandlerish]] at times.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He is afraid of heights, which comes into play when Venom jumps at the highest point of the [=MNBN=] building. He even uses an elevator to go down, which gets Venom to call him a pussy.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Initially, he just thinks Drake is a stereotypical corrupt billionaire who violates human rights with illegal experiments on the homeless and he's the IntrepidReporter going to expose him. In reality, he's in a SuperheroHorror and Drake's plans are far more insane, with the goal of bonding humanity with aliens.
* YankTheDogsChain: Just when you think that Eddie can have a fresh start after becoming a fugitive following the events of ''Let There Be Carnage'', he is brought back to his universe before he can do anything.

[[folder:Venom]]
!!''[[Characters/MarvelComicsVenom Venom]]''
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!!! '''Species:''' Klyntar
!!!'''Citizenship:''' None
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Life Foundation (formerly)

->[[AC:''"On my planet, I am kind of [[NotSoDifferentRemark a loser, like you]]. But here, [[DareToBeBadass we could be more]]. And I'm getting to [[HumanityIsInfectious like it here]]."'']]

An amorphous sentient alien entity found by the Life Foundation. Eddie Brock accidentally bonds with it.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Fittingly considering the character's popularity in that decade, Venom desperately wants to be this in ''Let There Be Carnage''. He even suggests that he and Eddie call themselves the Lethal Protector, and expresses anger at Eddie stopping him from biting the heads off criminals

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Downplayed with the first film, but played straight in the sequel. This version of Venom is far more of a {{Jerkass}} to LoserProtagonist Eddie, making fun of him often which adds to their VitriolicBestBuds dynamic. ''Let There Be Carnage'' makes him more excitable ShipperOnDeck for Eddie and Anne, having [[TookALevelInKindness become slightly more nice]] since the first film and now [[JumpedAtTheCall desires to be a]] NinetiesAntiHero.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The symbiote lacks its hatred for Spider-Man and seems overall more reasonable. In fact, it is ''its'' idea to go into the fight with Riot due to growing on Eddie and planet Earth. While its desire of eating people and their brain still remains, the symbiote is totally into the idea of becoming a [[VigilanteMan Vigilante]] in the [[Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage sequel]].

* AdaptationalWimp: ZigZagged. Venom considers itself a loser on its home planet, and unlike its comic book counterpart, is not the "father" of Riot, but actually ranks much lower than Riot does in terms of abilities. It's mostly a case of Riot getting ''significant'' AdaptationalBadass treatment.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, the symbiote actually doesn't have a name and is only referred to as the Venom symbiote due to its bond with Eddie, with "Venom" being the name of their shared form. Here, it's actually ''named'' Venom. While they both refer to themselves as Venom at the end of the first film, in the second film Venom seems to want their superhero name to be "Lethal Protector" which Eddie finally agrees to at the end of the film.

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Characters/SpiderManTrilogy Earth-96283]] as mentioned by that version of Spider-Man in ''No Way Home''.