History Film / Venom2018

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Venom symbiote's villainous personality in the comics [[DependingOnTheWriter may or may not]] was caused by it being corrupted by Eddie's IrrationalHatred for Spider-Man. ''This'' take on the symbiote starts out cheerfully violent, macabre, and hungry for human flesh. Also, it had a pet-like loyalty to Eddie in the comics, while the film's symbiote admits it's keeping Eddie alive to keep ''itself'' alive and because he's too good a genetic match to discard and replace. [[spoiler:The latter part at least creeps into the movie through the finale, when it admits it's grown attached to Eddie enough to abandon Riot's invasion plan and makes a HeroicSacrifice to protect him from the exploding rocket.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: While not exactly a villain in the comics, pre-Venom Eddie did some pretty shady things as a reporter and cared more about advancing his own career than doing the right thing. In some other cases, DependingOnTheWriter, Eddie's hatred of Spider-Man was so great that it was what turned the symbiote into a murderous {{Yandere}} for Spidey. This movie shows Eddie trying to do good but not always [[DidntThinkThisThrough thinking his actions through]]. The beginning has a HardWorkMontage of Eddie going after corrupt tech companies and discussing the plight of the homeless, followed by lightly chiding his girlfriend for working a defense law firm that defends evil people... and then using her login information to access confidential information to interview Carlton Drake about performing life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people, which gets them fired from their jobs. [[spoiler:Venom convinces him to apologize to Anne]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Venom symbiote's villainous personality in the comics [[DependingOnTheWriter may or may not]] have been caused by it being corrupted by Eddie's IrrationalHatred for Spider-Man. ''This'' take on the symbiote starts out cheerfully violent, macabre, and hungry for human flesh. Also, it had a pet-like loyalty to Eddie in the comics, while the film's symbiote admits it's keeping Eddie alive to keep ''itself'' alive and because he's too good a genetic match to discard and replace. [[spoiler:The latter part at least creeps into the movie through the finale, when it admits it's grown attached to Eddie enough to abandon Riot's invasion plan and makes a HeroicSacrifice to protect him from the exploding rocket.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Venom symbiote may be aggressive, violent and sadistic at times, but it's more like a predator fighting for survival than a monster. It generally never hurts or kills people that aren't a direct threat to it or Eddie, and limits its more extreme actions for the sake of [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]]. Later on, the creature comes to [[TookALevelInKindness truly care for Eddie]] as more than just a vehicle and [[NobleDemon seems to genuinely like staying on Earth with him]]. Compare to Riot, who is genuinely sadistic and relishes bringing the rest of its kind to Earth.

* CoolLoser: [[spoiler:Venom says that where he comes from he is known as a loser, just like Eddie is on Earth. This helps the two bond and stand up to Riot.]]

** After bonding with the symbiote, Eddie begins ravenously eating any available food in his apartment, including frozen tater tots and ''rotten chicken'' straight from the bin. Naturally, [[VomitIndiscretionShot he pukes everything out]]. Just because he became a host to a BigEater entity doesn't mean he can (and/or wants to) eat or stomach ''anything''.