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Anne Weying
Anne Weying
"I don't work for him. My firm works for him. Are you gonna behave yourself tomorrow?"
Click here to see her as She-Venom
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Micheline and McFarland (formerly)
Portrayed By: Michelle Williams
Appearances: Venom | Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A lawyer employed by the Life Foundation.
- Action Girl: In the final act of the film, Anne bonds to the symbiote and becomes She-Venom to reunite it with Eddie Brock and save his life from Drake's thugs, even eating The Dragon in the process, and is angered when the symbiote refuses to let her help against Eddie's wishes in the fight against Riot. Following that, she finds a way to blast out a high-pitched sound from the speakers surrounding Carlton/Riot's rocket, stopping him from getting inside.Anne: Told you I could fight ugly.
- Amicable Exes: Zig-Zagged. While she still resents Eddie over what he did six months ago, his erratic behavior after bonding to the Venom symbiote makes her worried about him, even getting her new boyfriend to help him.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- When she briefly bonds with the Venom symbiote, she saves Eddie moments before he is executed by Drake's goons.
- During the battle between Riot and Venom, the former absorbs both Venom and Eddie and is about to escape on the rocket until Anne turns on the launch site's speakers to exploit the Symbiotes' weakness to high-pitched sonic frequencies and force Riot to separate from Venom.
- Big Damn Kiss: She lays a big wet one on Eddie as She-Venom to transfer the Venom Symbiote back to him.
- The Cavalry: Using the Venom symbiote, she rescues Eddie as he's about to be executed by Treece and his men.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: When Venom briefly takes over her body, she does not go by She-Venom.
- The Confidant: After she witnesses Venom fighting a bunch of cops, Eddie ends up confiding in her about the Venom symbiote, his concerns regarding its influence over him, and that he's starting to enjoy its power.
- Cute Monster Girl: When she briefly bonds with Venom, the end result has a very shapely figure, in sharp contrast to the bulky build Venom has when it envelops Eddie.
- Damsel in Distress: At the climax of Let There Be Carnage, Kasady takes her hostage to force Eddie to confront him at the chapel.
- Evil Feels Good: Despite being disgusted by the Venom symbiote's bloodlust, Anne tells Eddie that part of her reveled in the power that it gave her.
- Hello, Attorney!: Anne is a lawyer whose firm is employed by Dr. Carlton Drake, which Eddie teasingly chides her over during a date.
- Heroic Host: She briefly bonds to the Venom symbiote in order to rescue Eddie, eating Roland Treece's head in the process.
- Informed Attribute: Anne works as a lawyer on behalf of the Life Foundation, but is never seen practicing law at any point in the film, even after the Time Skip.
- Kissing Under the Influence: When infected with the symbiote, she kisses Eddie, making him Venom again. When he brings up the kiss at the end of the movie, she claims it to have been the symbiote's idea, but there is noticeable insecurity in her words. Not helping is the fact that she doesn't want to tell her current boyfriend about that.
- Ms. Fanservice: As She-Venom, since she appears in a very curvaceous form just like her comic counterpart, monstrous head notwithstanding.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Later on at the end of the movie when questioned on why she kissed Eddie as She-Venom, she becomes very flustered and defensive stating that it was all the symbiote, not her. Given that Venom doesn't take full control of his hosts even when he's fully manifested, and at the very least doesn't influence or control their minds, this was most likely a case of More than Mind Control as while Venom (who stated that he likes her and by the end is an active Shipper on Deck for Eddie and Anne) may have influenced her and taken down her inhibitions somewhat, while also making her more aggressive, it's heavily implied that the decision to kiss was all Anne and she still very much cares about Eddie. In the second film after transferring from her and back to Eddie Venom suggests that he kisses her and Eddie asks if she's going to kiss him again, and while she at first tells him no she eventually says that she isn't sure while walking away.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Eddie breaking into her laptop and using a confidential e-mail to accuse Carlton Drake of murder gets her fired, whereupon she furiously berates Eddie for the flaws she's previously put up with because she loved him.
Mrs. Chen
Mrs. Chen
"You look like shit."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Chen's Market
Portrayed By: Peggy Lu
Appearances: Venom | Chen's Market | Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versenote
A Chinese woman who runs a convenience store that Eddie Brock frequents.
- Asian Store-Owner: She's a Chinese convenience store owner who tries to peddle her cousin's meditation videos to her customers, though she's frequently robbed by a thug who runs an extortion racket.
- Brutal Honesty: She bluntly tells Eddie he "looks like shit" the second she sees his face after he's been fired from his job and dumped by Anne.
- The Cameo: She makes a small appearance in Across the Spider-Verse in a live-action sequence.
- Canon Foreigner: Doesn't have a comic book equivalent.
- Foreign-Language Tirade: She rants in Mandarin when frustrated.
- Innocent Bystander: Is on the receiving end of a protection racket by a thug that regularly collects money from her at gunpoint.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In Let There Be Carnage, she's abrasive and (weakly) extorts Eddie and Venom. When a weakened Venom arrives at her doorstep in a different host and confesses that he and Eddie separated, she's very concerned, hugs the symbiote and lets him possess her temporarily.
- Odd Friendship: Despite just being one of her customers, she does seem to care about Eddie and Venom. In Chen's Market they help her make a video to advertise her store while in Let There Be Carnage she offers Eddie chocolate so that Venom's cravings can be managed, though she weakly attempts to extort him and Venom for more protection, and later in the film she lets a weakened Venom possess her so that he won't die.
- Running Gag: Every time Eddie enters her store, she notes he looks like crap and asks if he's been meditating.
- Seen It All: She gets so used to interacting with bizarre shit that she doesn't even bat an eye when a trans-dimensional villain from another universe pops out of a portal and robs her store.Spot: I'm literally splitting the fabric of space and time. To you it's just a Tuesday night. You're acting like weird stuff like this happens to you all the time.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Subverted. When Venom takes care of the thug extorting her, she seems more concerned about the fact that Eddie was that big black thing than the fact that a man just got eaten in front of her. Meanwhile in Across she has no reaction to seeing a completely blank man covered in black portals from another dimension appearing right in front of her through a portal and robs her.
- Younger Than They Look: Claims to be thirty-nine in the second film despite her actress being almost sixty. Venom doesn't believe it.
Jack
Jack
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): MNBN
Portrayed By: Ron Cephas Jones
Appearances: Venom
Eddie Brock's boss at the MNBN broadcasting network.
- Benevolent Boss: He kept Eddie in for quite some time despite the latter pushing his investigation journalism shtick far enough to spell trouble for the network. Until Eddie's interview of Carlton Drake went awry, that is. When Eddie backs his claims up with photographic evidence of the Life Foundation's illicit experiments, he offers Eddie his job back, though Eddie turns him down.
- Da Editor: He manages the news network in which Eddie works, and tries to keep the latter on a leash, because Curiosity Is a Crapshoot. He ends up firing Eddie after his "interview" of Carlton Drake, since the billionaire surely doesn't like being investigated upon and is powerful enough to have the network shut down.
- Good Is Dumb: Even if he does seem to be a Nice Guy all in all, it never occurs to him that maybe his reporters might discover very important information needed to protect the public by investigating a company more thoroughly. He admonishes Eddie for going too deep in interrogating Drake for allegations against the Life Foundation that most of its test subjects have perished in the experiments and that their deaths are being covered up. Rather than simply give Eddie a warning, he outright fires him to appease Drake, who's rich enough to buy MNBN and put it out of business.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He is not in the movie that much, but him firing Eddie for speaking out against Drake started a chain reaction of events that turned Eddie’s life upside-down.
Dan Lewis
Dr. Daniel "Dan" Lewis
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Reid Scott
Appearances: Venom | Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Anne's new boyfriend following her breakup with Eddie.
- Beware the Nice Ones: To most people, he's a kind, rational doctor. To those that kidnap his girlfriend, he's the guy who just lit them on fire.
- He Knows Too Much: Venom at one point tried killing him for explaining to Eddie that Venom, out of desperate hunger, tried eating his heart out literally.
- Love Triangle: He replaces Eddie as Anne's boyfriend, making Eddie jealous. Unusually for this trope, however, he and Eddie bear no actual ill will towards each other, and he treats Eddie like one of his patients when Eddie shows symptoms of Venom.
- Nice Guy: When Eddie makes a scene in a restaurant as a result of his symbiote-induced hunger, Dan insists that Eddie is his patient and tells the waitress not to call the cops. Overall, he is rather nice to Eddie and doesn't treat him as a love rival. That being said, Eddie still doesn't like him much. Although Venom does wish him to take care in the second movie.
- Only Sane Man: When Eddie has a Venom-instigated public freak-out in a fancy restaurant, Dr. Dan responds with professional concern that Eddie must be very ill. When Anne tries to reassure him she is not going back with Eddie, he is more concerned about the alien lifeform that is apparently killing Eddie to really care about that.
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: The rich to Eddie's poor when it comes to dating Anne. Having been fired, Anne appears to look to Dan who is a medical doctor as her new breadwinner once she dumps Eddie, who was also fired. Venom offers to help Eddie get Anne back from Dan, but Eddie decides to stay single for now.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Correctly assumes that Eddie pleading to Anne for help before diving into a lobster tank and eating one raw is a sign of extreme mental distress rather than malice, and even gets the idea that Eddie might be suffering from a parasite, though he doesn't have any idea the symbiotes exist.
- Took a Level in Badass: When Carnage kidnaps Anne, and is busily beating the crap out of Eddie and Venom, Dan unexpectedly shows up to pour fire on him from a catwalk above the fight.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Downplayed AND justified. He is a little more irritable and impatient with Anne and Eddie in the second movie, annoyed with Eddie causing trouble and Anne lying to him. However that's because he was told that Venom and the rest of the aliens are dead, and it's because of Eddie and Venom that there is another dangerous alien which forces him and Anne to try and flee from San Francisco. He still helps Eddie and Venom out in the final battle, however.
- Two First Names: Dan and Lewis are both common as given names.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears from the third act of the first film. He reappears in the second and even plays a major role in the final fight.
Maria
Maria
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Melora Walters
Appearances: Venom
A homeless woman who sits outside Mrs. Chen's convenience store. She is abducted by the Life Foundation and becomes the Venom symbiote's first human host, but proves incompatible and dies after it transfers to Eddie.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She is established as being friends with Eddie, who gives her some money despite being down-on-his-luck himself. The next time he passes by the convenience store, Maria is gone, but her possessions are still on the ground. The next time Eddie sees her, she's within the Life Foundation's secure labs, having already been infected with the Venom symbiote.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's introduced having a good-humored snarky conversation with Eddie about her habit of stealing free newspapers and selling them for five dollars apiece.
- Disposable Vagrant: Maria is one of several homeless people kidnapped by Drake and his men to serve as hosts for the symbiotes (it's implied she was bribed with money), though the trope is downplayed since Eddie clearly doesn't think so; he goes to save her as soon as he recognizes her, and it's her transferring Venom to Eddie that results in the collapse of the Life Foundation's Symbiote project.
- Nice Girl: What we do know of her is that she and Eddie have a friendly relationship, and she's got a sense of humour despite her situation, with the two of them quipping back and forth about her "five dollar delivery service" of free newspapers taken from a stand not five feet away from her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears twice, but Eddie would have left the Life Foundation without Venom had he not recognized Maria and tried to free her.
- Tainted Veins: Being infected by the Venom symbiote leaves her with pronounced black veins around her eyes.
Detective Mulligan
Detective Patrick Mulligan
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): San Francisco Police Department
Portrayed By: Stephen Graham
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A detective for the SFPD who hassles Eddie over his interviews with Cletus Kasady.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, he was a more heroic cop and Venom was the one who was antagonistic towards him, with Spider-Man considering Pat/Toxin to be his first genuine symbiote ally, despite previous team ups with Venom. In this movie, he's a moderately dislikable Inspector Javert character who's still on the side of the law, but takes every opportunity he can to make accusations towards Eddie.
- Create Your Own Villain: He shot out a young Shriek’s left eye, which causes her to immensely hate him, and is what got him kidnapped in the finale.
- Disney Death: He presumably gets his neck snapped by Shriek, but later wakes up alive and with bright blue eyes.
- Friend on the Force: Downplayed. While he and Eddie work together to find Kasady's bodies and meet and call each other several times, they have a shaky relationship and he later drags Eddie into questioning.
- Handicapped Badass: He wears a hearing aid due to an encounter with Shriek that irreparably damaged his hearing. Doesn't make him any less capable, though.
- Hero Antagonist: He's initially an ally to Eddie, albeit a mildly douchey one, but later has him put into police custody.
- Inspector Javert: He ends up suspecting Eddie and trying to arrest him.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While antagonistic towards Eddie, he does make a point that Eddie had connections to both the Life Foundation and Carnage, and that it's too suspicious to be a mere coincidence.
Sonny & Cher
Sonny & Cher
Species: Chickens
Citizenship: N/A
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: N/A
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A pair of chickens kept as pets by Venom.
- Adopt the Food: Heavily implied that Eddie got them for Venom to eat, but Venom ended up adopting them.
- Living Prop: They are just ordinary chickens kept as company for Venom and Eddie.
- Named After Someone Famous: They're named after Sonny & Cher.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Though visited by Eddie and Venom before they go on the run, we don't know what happens to them.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Stan Lee
Appearances: Venom | Venom: Let There Be Carnage note
An old man whom Eddie Brock and Venom meet after defeating Carlton Drake and Riot.
- Ambiguously Human: As noted in Ambiguous Situation, the fact the SSU connects to the MCU means that he might not be human.
- Ambiguous Situation: May or may not be the same entity as The Watcher Informant. Especially so, considering that Venom: Let There Be Carnage connects this world to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by having Eddie Brock and Venom summoned by Doctor Strange. Otherwise, he could just be an Alternate Self.
- As Himself: Ambiguous Situation aside, Let There Be Carnage implies that Stan Lee was playing himself in the first film.
- The Cameo: Because this is Stan Lee we're talking about.
- Venom: He is walking his dog in the streets of San Francisco before stopping to talk with Eddie Brock, encouraging him (and Venom somehow) to not give up on Anne Weying.
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage: While he doesn't appear in person (Lee had passed away long before filming began), a picture of his face is seen a magazine in display on Mrs. Chen's shop and Venom prevents it from falling with one of his tendrils.
- Cool Shades: It wouldn't be a Stan the Man cameo without those sunglasses.
- Shipper on Deck: He encourages Eddie (and Venom somehow) to not give up on Anne, who previously dumped Eddie to pursue a relationship with Dr. Dan Lewis.
Little Simz
Simbiatu "Simbi" Abisola Abiola Ajikawo
Species: Human
Citizenship: British
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Little Simz
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A singer at a party that Venom attends in an attempt to get over Eddie.
- As Herself: Little Simz is a real life rapper, singer and actress.
Life Foundation
General Tropes
- Corporate Conspiracy: The Life Corporation is a multibillion-dollar Research, Inc. involved in everything from cancer treatments to space travel, and is headed by an Evilutionary Biologist determined to save humanity from the next global crisis — no matter how much Playing with Syringes he has to do.
- Research, Inc.: The Life Foundation is a multibillion-dollar corporation that's investigating everything from cancer treatments to space exploration. Unfortunately, its founder is mostly concerned with surviving any sort of global crisis the future might hold, and is willing to chew through any number of human test subjects to do so.
Carlton Drake
- See Enemies.
Dora Skirth
Dr. Dora Skirth
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Life Foundation
Portrayed By: Jenny Slate
Appearances: Venom
A disgruntled Life Foundation scientist who informs Eddie about the foundation's experimentations on humans with symbiotes.
- The Atoner: Tries to stop the experiments and make things right, upon realizing Drake is going too far.
- Being Good Sucks: Deciding to do the right thing ultimately gets her killed.
- Bespectacled Cutie: She wears thick and round glasses, which make her shy and concerned personality actually endearing and pitiful.
- Big "NO!": Her last words.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Apparent when a security guard questions her at the Life Foundation. She bluffs, but is terrible at it.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Drake feeds her to the dark blue symbiote after interrogating her.
- Defector from Decadence: After successfully bonding the yellow symbiote to a rabbit, she's horrified when Drake decides to immediately jump to human testing. Her growing discomfort causes her to sneak Eddie into the lab, though her role is ultimately exposed.
- Eaten Alive: She gets eaten off-screen by the dark blue symbiote, which Drake sicced on her for helping Venom escape.
- Everyone Has Standards: She reaches her breaking point when her boss's practice of feeding homeless innocents to the symbiotes in an attempt to find good hosts ends up with a lot of people dead. She specifically goes to Eddie about it because she knows he cares about the lives of innocents as well.
- Incredibly Obvious Tail: Eddie accuses her of being one when confronting her in Mrs. Chen's convenience store.
- Mama Bear: Has two children who she adores and desperately wants to protect.
- Nice Girl: She's the only one of the Life Foundation scientists who shows any concern about their callous human experimentation, whistleblows out of her genuine moral concern for what her boss is doing, is terrible at lying, and loves her two children very much.
- Not What I Signed Up For: She claims that she happily worked for the Life Foundation back when they were working on making progress in medicine, but eventually tries to expose Drake's unlawful human testing practices when they start experimenting with the symbiotes.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Drake uses this as justification for having her killed after she sneaks Eddie into the Life Foundation HQ.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She's a scientist working for a huge corporation who wears a pair of specs.
- You Have Failed Me: After Drake gets her to tell him who she let into the lab, he has her used as a test subject for the dark blue symbiote, which eats her from the inside-out.
Roland Treece
- See Enemies.
Lloyd Emerson
Dr. Lloyd Emerson
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Life Foundation
Portrayed By: Wayne Pére
Appearances: Venom
One of the scientists who works at the Life Foundation.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Went along with Drake's experiments until he planned to leave on the rocket, and while he didn't know Drake was the new host for Riot he knew whatever he had planned couldn't be good and tried to stop it. All that ended up happened was that Riot killed him before he could actually stop the launch.
- Two First Names: "Emerson" can also be used as a first name.
John Jameson
John Jameson
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Life Foundation
Portrayed By: Chris O'Hara
Appearances: Venom
The sole surviving astronaut of the Life Foundation's space mission after his ship crashes due to the symbiotes. He rapidly gets taken over by the Riot symbiote.
- Alliterative Name: Both his forename and surname start with a J.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: He is this to his Earth-96283 and Earth-199999 versions.
- Death by Adaptation: He was the first host of Riot, and the ambulance he is in crashed after Riot took over the nurse. Although his death isn't outright confirmed.
- Mythology Gag: In the Spider-Man comics, he is the son of J. Jonah Jameson, Da Editor for the Daily Bugle and Peter Parker's boss.
- Puppeteer Parasite: He is the first host of the Riot symbiote, and he is used by it to make the ambulance crash and take over a Malaysian rescue worker.
Ravencroft Institute
Camille Pazzo
Dr. Camille Pazzo
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Ravencroft Institute
Portrayed By: Sian Webber
Appearances: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
The head doctor of the Ravencroft Institute.
- Age Lift: Is played by a woman in her sixties, while in the comics she appears to be in her thirties.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Blond in the comics, but has white hair here.
- Death by Adaptation: Is killed by Carnage, while her comic self is still alive.
Frances Barrison / Shriek
See Enemies.
New York City
Emil Nicholas
Dr. Emil Nicholas
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Jared Harris
Appearances: Morbius
A scientist and surrogate father to Michael and Milo.
- Adaptation Name Change: His surname was Nikos in the comics.
- Adaptational Nationality: Greek in the comics, but American in this film.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics Emil was Michael's age and they were best friends in university. Here he is older by a few decades and was a father figure to Michael.
- Age Lift: He's the same age as Morbius in the comics, but is a few decades older in the film (though there is only a ten-year age difference between the actors).
- Decomposite Character: His role in turning Michael into a vampire is given to Martine, while his role as Michael's best friend was given to Milo.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: He is killed by Milo instead of Michael, and while he was eventually resurrected in the comics, there's little evidence the same will happen to him in this version.
- In Name Only: He's very different from his comic counterpart, and in fact Milo has more in common with Emil's comic self, since he's Michael's best friend.
- Parental Substitute: He was this to Michael and Milo.
- Two First Names: "Nicholas" is more common as a given name.
Julia Cornwall
Julia Cornwall
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Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Sydney Sweeney
Appearances: Madame Web
A young woman being hunted by Ezekiel Sims.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Julia's mother had a nervous breakdown after her dad left her and is currently committed, forcing Julia to move in with her father and new step-mom and brother. However, despite seemingly willing to put the effort in to connect with her new family, she feels like they don't want her around (which is probably true, given her father's reluctance to take her in to see her stepmother at the hospital and having her stepbrother's happy family drawing to Cassie not include her) which makes her decide to run away.
- Adaptational Wimp: She doesn't have any powers like her comic counterpart, which is justified since she hasn't become a superhero yet.
- Adaptation Name Change: Averted. Her surname in the film is Cornwall, which is her maiden name in the comics, rather than her comic self's more well known surname Carpenter, which was her married name that she kept even after her divorce, something not applicable to her film counterpart who is still a teenager.
- Ambiguous Situation: Her status in the present day is unclear, which is especially noteworthy with Morbius since that's also set in New York. This suggests that she isn't an active hero in the present, though it's possible that the events of Morbius occurred too quickly for herself, Cassie, Mattie and Anya to react to.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Although we see her in-costume in the future, we never hear her called any of her codenames from the comics: Spider-Woman, Arachne and Madame Web.
- Decomposite Character: In the comics, she became the second Madame Web, and her appearance in the comics has seemingly been given to Cassandra while Julia retains the Spider-Woman aspect of her comic self.
- Future Badass: Like Anya and Mattie, she's destined to become a superhero at some point in the future, with the film showing her in her black and white costume in visions.
- Freudian Trio: The Superego to Anya's Ego and Mattie's Id. Despite being The Runaway, she tends to follow others and follow the rules even when these things are objectively the wrong thing to do.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: It's implied that with her mother being institutionalised and her stepmother wanting nothing to do with her, she latches onto Cassie as a Parental Substitute in an effort to get some kind of attention and affection. She's notably much keener than the other two to gain Cassie's approval and looks crushed when the older woman tears them all a new one after escaping from the diner.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: She's quicker than the other two to try and talk about their shared experience at first, and looks saddened when Mattie keeps making fun of her. Later, she's visibly overjoyed when they all start bonding in the diner.
- The Runaway: She was planning on leaving New York because she felt unloved by her family.
Mattie Franklin
Martha "Mattie" Franklin
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Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Celeste O'Connor
Appearances: Madame Web
A young woman being hunted by Ezekiel Sims.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Mattie's parents are incredibly negligent and are often in different countries, leaving her feeling that she can't call them for help when Ezekiel starts hunting her.
- Adaptational Wimp: She doesn't have any powers like her comic counterpart, which is justified since she hasn't become a superhero yet.
- Ambiguous Situation: Her status in the present day is unclear, which is especially noteworthy with Morbius since that's also set in New York. This suggests that she isn't an active hero in the present, though it's possible that the events of Morbius occurred too quickly for herself, Julia, Cassie and Anya to react to.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Her Spider-Woman codename from the comics never gets said.
- Deadpan Snarker: The most likely of the three future Spider-Women to offer a snarky quip on their insane situation, or to disbelieve Cassie.
- Future Badass: Like Julia and Anya, she's destined to become a superhero at some point in the future, with the film showing her in a blue and red costume in visions.
- Freudian Trio: The Id to Julia's Superego and Anya's Ego. She's much more driven by her emotions than the other two and rebellious.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Her parents are very wealthy, but they spend all their time abroad without her, leaving the job of raising her to the maid. Mattie even doubts they would come back from China if someone was trying to kill her.
- Primary-Color Champion: Her costume is blue and red.
- Race Lift: White in the comics, but is black here.
- Two First Names: Franklin is pretty common as a male first name.
Anya Corazon
Anya Corazon
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Species: Human
Citizenship: Mexican
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Isabela Merced
Appearances: Madame Web
A young woman being hunted by Ezekiel Sims who also lives in the same apartment building as Cassandra Webb.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Anya's mother died when she was five years old and her father has been deported, leaving Anya terrified of being found out and also being deported or forced into the foster system.
- Adaptational Wimp: She doesn't have any powers like her comic counterpart, which is justified since she hasn't become a superhero yet.
- Ambiguous Situation: Her status in the present day is unclear, which is especially noteworthy with Morbius since that's also set in New York. This suggests that she isn't an active hero in the present, though it's possible that the events of Morbius occurred too quickly for herself, Julia, Mattie and Cassie to react to.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Her Araña and Spider-Girl codenames from the comics never get mentioned.
- Freudian Trio: The Ego to Julia's Superego and Mattie's Id. Interestingly she's actually The Smart Guy of the group instead of Julia, but while Julia and Mattie for different reasons tend to get distracted from the current issue more Anya is able to keep her focus.
- Future Badass: Like Julia and Mattie, she's destined to become a superhero at some point in the future, with the film showing her in a silver and black costume in visions.
- The Smart Guy: While Julia has a bookish nerd look, it's Anya who fits this trope. She's able to (accurately) describe how Ezekiel's wall-crawling ability actually works and later works out the time until Mary's next contraction in her head, something Ben comments on as being impressive.
Mary Parker
Mary Parker
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Emma Roberts
Appearances: Madame Web
Ben's sister-in-law.
- Adaptational Wimp: Doesn't seem to be a spy like in the comics.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Brown hair in the comics, blonde here.
- Doomed by Canon: Subverted. She's still alive by the end of the film, but Cassie's comment to Mattie seems to suggest that like her comic self she and Richard will die in the future, leaving Ben to become Peter's Parental Substitute.
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: She goes into labor during the film's climax, and is nearly caught in an explosion when Ezekiel tries to bomb the car she and the girls are riding in.
Spider-Man
Peter Parker
Click here to see him as a baby
Species: Enhanced Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliations: N/A
Portrayed By: N/A
Appearances: Madame Web
A superhero from New York who has recently gone missing.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: Because of his Age Lift making him far younger than Cassie, Anya, Julia and Mattie, he debuts as Spider-Man sometime after they become superheroes themselves.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: Downplayed. The circumstances of his birth make him a peripheral figure in Madame Webb's origin story, a connection not present in the original comics.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: His connection with Eddie Brock and Venom is removed in this version.
- Age Lift: Madame Web features the youngest depiction of the character ever, being a newborn when he appears at the end of the film. This makes him much younger than Julia Cornwall, Mattie Franklin and Anya Corazon, when in the comics the former is roughly the same age as him while the latter two are teenagers when he's an adult. He's also roughly 25 years younger than Eddie Brock, while in the comics it's assumed the latter is only a couple years older.
- All in the Manual: The newspapers in Morbius were eventually released to be sold, which revealed more information about this Spider-Man. All that is known is that after being spotted in Europe, he went missing and hasn't returned to New York.
- Alternate Self: On Earth-199999, Earth-616B and Earth-1610B.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: He does whatever a spider can, in case you couldn't tell from his name.
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Deleted Role: The scene of his mural was only filmed for the Morbius trailer without the director. However, the director has said that Spider-Man still exists in the SSU and the newspapers in Morbius also confirm his existence, which is further supported by how Morbius seems familiar with the name when Vulture mentions him. He can be presumed to be Peter Parker as well, who's birth in Madame Web which is set in 2003 would make him old enough to have become Spider-Man by the present day of the SSU. - Iconic Sequel Character: Played With. Madame Web takes places before any of the other films in the franchise, but for a franchise named after the character, Peter Parker doesn't make his debut in Sony's Spider-Man Universe until the fourth film of the franchise.
- In Spite of a Nail: Like the Spider-Man of Earth-199999, he has been to Europe and accused of murder.
- Minor Major Character: Just like most versions of the character, he is a very well-known superhero who stops crimes across New York. However, his only real appearance in the SSU was as a newborn in Madame Web.
- No Name Given: He is never referred to directly by name in Madame Web.
- Primary-Color Champion: If the poster is accurate, he wears a red and blue costume.
Amaria
Amaria
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Zosia Mamet
Appearances: Madame Web
A hacker working for Ezekiel Sims.
- Canon Foreigner: Has no comic counterpart.
- Karma Houdini: Despite being complicit in attempting to murder three teenage girls, she seemingly gets away with it.
- No Full Name Given: Her last name is never revealed.
Walter Cornwall
Walter Cornwall
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): N/A
Portrayed By: Josh Drennen
Appearances: Madame Web
Julia's father.
- Abusive Parent: More negligent and distant, but he doesn't seem to want Julia around and acts distant around her which is why she decides to run away.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In the comics Walter remained married to Julia's mother Elizabeth, but here he divorced her and has married someone else. He also has a terrible relationship with his daughter, unlike in the comics where they are reasonably close.
- The Cameo: Only appears at the hospital with Julia and his step-son.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After the hospital scene he's never seen again and it's never explained how he reacted to his daughter seemingly being kidnapped for a week and being attacked by a masked superhuman.
Jonah
J. Jonah Jameson
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliations: N/A
Portrayed By: N/A
Mentioned In: Madame Web
Mattie Franklin's uncle and the father of John Jameson.
- Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-199999.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear whether he has any connection to the Daily Bugle like in the comics.
- The Ghost: Has yet to appear, but his son briefly appeared in Venom while his niece appears in Madame Web.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Assuming he's still alive by 2018, then he outlived his son John.
Fire Department of New York
Ben Parker
Ben Parker
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Fire Department of New York
Portrayed By: Adam Scott
Appearances: Madame Web
A paramedic who works with Cassie Webb.
- Adaptational Badass: Ben is a former soldier in this version, though he doesn't really show off any impressive skills.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Given he has medical knowledge in this version, that makes him much smarter than his comic self.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, Ben was a textile worker before retiring, while in this version Ben is a paramedic and former soldier.
- Adaptational Skill: He has medical knowledge which his comic self never had.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Ben never met Cassie, Mattie, Julia or Anya in the comics, having been dead for years before they appear in the comics. Here, he's Cassie's closest friend and helps protect the girls from Ezekiel.
- Nice Guy: As always with the character, but shown in some new ways. He's a good friend to Cassie, is endlessly tolerant of her spikier personality, checks on her when she's devastated by he coworker's death at the explosives warehouse and takes care of Anya, Julia and Mattie on her word alone.
- The Not-Love Interest: Ben is Cassie's closest friend and he mentions that he's recently met someone (presumably May), though there are some moments which suggest that the two have unexplored romantic feelings for each other.
- Parental Substitute: Averted, as Peter is born during Madame Web with both of his parents still alive. However, Cassie's comment at the end after Mattie says being a uncle means having all the fun with none of the responsibility seems to suggest that he will become this in the future like in the comics.
O'Neil
O'Neil
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Fire Department of New York
Portrayed By: Mike Epps
Appearances: Madame Web
A friend and co-worker of Cassie and Ben.
- Canon Foreigner: Has no comic counterpart.
- No Full Name Given: His first name is never revealed.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He is killed in a car crash to prove that Cassie isn't having delusions or deja vu, she's having legitimate prophetic visions.
Horizon Labs
Martine Bancroft
Dr. Martine Bancroft
Species: Human (formerly), Vampire
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Horizon Labs
Portrayed By: Adria Arjona
Appearances: Morbius
A scientist who works with Michael Morbius.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Blond in the comics, but has black hair in the film.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Since she's a scientist instead of a secretary like in the comics, this applies.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the comics, Martine was Michael's secretary, while here she is a scientist like him.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In the comics she has an Opposites Attract dynamic with Morbius, being described as "an out and about society girl". This version is more serious and professional.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Unlike in the comics, she and Michael aren't engaged and have never even dated, though during the film they do admit their feelings for one another.
- Composite Character: As a scientist, she takes a more active role in turning Michael into a vampire, essentially replacing Michael's assistant in the comics, Emil Nikos.
- Emergency Transformation: An unintentional example as Morbius believes her to be dead at the end of the film, but accidentally ingesting his blood turns her into a vampire.
- Satellite Love Interest: Her role consists of supporting Michael.
- Race Lift: White in the comics, but played by the Puerto Rican Adria Arjona in the film.
Kristen Sutton
Kristen Sutton
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Horizon Labs
Portrayed By: Joanna Burnett
Appearances: Morbius
A nurse at Horizon Labs.
- Red Shirt: She only exists to be killed by Milo.
Anna
Anna
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Horizon Labs
Portrayed By: Zaris-Angel Hator
Appearances: Morbius
A patient at Horizon Labs.
- Uncertain Doom: While he intentionally put her in a coma to save her life, since she's never mentioned again it's unclear whether she recovered or is still in the coma.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Morbius placed her in a coma to save her life, she's never mentioned again.
FBI
Simon Stroud
Agent Simon Stroud
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): US Army (formerly), FBI
Portrayed By: Tyrese Gibson
Appearances: Morbius
An FBI agent sent to investigate a series of vampiric killings.
- Adaptational Job Change: A CIA operative, NYPD task force officer, and mercenary at different points in the comics. The Stroud of the SSU was instead a member of the US Army before joining the FBI.
- Alliterative Name: Simon Stroud.
- Cyborg: After an injury sustained during his military service, his right arm has been mechanically augmented to function with Morbius's artificial blood. However all scenes with his arm had been cut except for the ending where it can be briefly seen.
- I Owe You My Life: An indirect example, as Stroud tells Morbius that it was his invention of artificial blood which saved his life in Afghanistan. This is likely why he at least tries to talk with Morbius while his partner is slightly more antagonistic.
- The Quiet One: His partner does more of the talking.
- Race Lift: Stroud, a character traditionally depicted in comics as a blond white man, is instead portrayed by the black Tyrese Gibson.
- Seen It All: Neither he or his partner are that surprised to be dealing with vampires, though Rodriguez mentions that something strange happened in San Francisco (referring to the events of either Venom or the sequel) which suggests they are familiar with superhumans.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: He and Rodriguez are pursuing Morbius only because they (somewhat justifiably) think he is dangerous in his vampiric state and want to bring him in for everyone's safety.
Alberto Rodriguez
Agent Alberto Rodriguez
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliations: FBI
Portrayed By: Al Madrigal
Appearances: Morbius
Stroud's partner in the FBI.
- Canon Foreigner: In contrast to his partner, he was invented for the movie and is not based on any characters from the comic books.
- Genre Savvy: After learning that all the dead mercenaries on the boat were drained of their blood, he quickly realizes that he's in a vampire story instead of going into denial like most characters in his role.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Does a decent amount of snarking.
- Seen It All: Neither he or his partner are that surprised to be dealing with vampires, though Rodriguez mentions that something strange happened in San Francisco (referring to the events of either Venom or the sequel) which suggests they are familiar with superhumans.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: As with his partner, he only pursues Morbius to prevent a potentially dangerous man from getting to the general population.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Brings holy water with him while interrogating Morbius, unaware that he isn't that kind of vampire.
Other Civilians
Malaysia
Corinne Wan
Corinne Wan
Species: Human
Citizenship: Malaysian
Affiliations: N/A
Portrayed By: Michelle Lee
Appearances: Venom
A Malaysian paramedic briefly used as a host by Riot.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Attempting to save the life of John Jameson led her to being possessed by Riot and possibly killed.
- Uncertain Doom: It's unclear whether Riot killed her after it left her body.
Peru
Santiago
Santiago
Species: Human
Citizenship: Peruvian
Affiliation(s): Las Arañas
Portrayed By: Jose Maria Yazpik
Appearances: Madame Web
A member of the Las Arañas tribe responsible for giving Cassie Webb her abilities in an attempt to save her mother Constance.
- Canon Foreigner: Santiago and the Las Arañas tribe doesn't exist in the main comics, though they appear to be based on the Spider Clan, another arachnid-themed Peruvian tribe, from the one-shot story Peter Parker: Spider-Man 2001.
- Mr. Exposition: He is the one to explain the nature of Cassie's powers and how her mother died.
- No Full Name Given: He doesn't reveal his last name.
- Older Than They Look: He doesn't seem to have changed all that much between between Cassie's birth and her return to Peru three decades later.
