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Bonding with Eddie Brock After being brought to Earth on a space shuttle by astronaut
John Jameson as part of an
invasion force of
symbiotic lifeforms led by
Riot, Venom and his team are captured by the
Life Foundation, who bring them to
San Francisco to begin a series of human trials in an attempt to achieve "symbiosis" and bind them to living beings, while Riot himself is stranded in
Malaysia. Six months later, Venom is freed by an oblivious Eddie Brock as he attempts to free Maria, a homeless acquaintance of his whom Venom has been bound to. Transferring to Eddie's body, leaving Maria dead, Venom escapes the facility, while his two brethren die. As he begins to hear Venom's voice, Eddie reaches out to his ex-fiancée
Anne Weying and her new boyfriend, Dr. Dan Lewis, for help and Lewis discovers the symbiote on examining Eddie. After Eddie is attacked by Life Foundation mercenaries to retrieve the symbiote, Venom manifests around his body as a monstrous creature that fights off the attackers and formally introduces himself to Eddie, declaring that "I am Venom, and you are mine." After explaining their origins to Eddie, Venom assists him in breaking into his old workplace in order to turn in evidence of Life Foundation CEO
Carlton Drake's numerous crimes, marveling at the cityscape of
San Francisco after climbing atop a skyscraper. Subsequently, surrounded by
SWAT officers alerted to the break-in, Venom and Eddie are forced to fight to escape, witness by Anne, who uses an
MRI machine to separate Eddie from Venom, Dan having concluded that Venom's presence in Eddie's body is killing him: Venom subsequently explains that he would require sustenance from elsewhere to maintain a host, it was the Life Foundation's decision not to feed him that led to his previous hosts' deaths
and that the previous hosts were all bad matches for him, as opposed to Eddie. After Eddie is captured by Drake, now bonded to Riot (having found his way into the country through several hosts), who is in search of Venom, Anne bonds with Venom herself to free Eddie, who returns to Eddie's body by lifting him up and kissing him. Admitting that he is seen as a "loser" like Eddie on his home planet, Venom decides to abandon the Symbiotes' invasion and prevent Drake and Riot from using a rocket to return to the comet their species came from to acquire reinforcements, instead causing it to explode and kill them, with Venom apparently sacrificing himself to save Eddie. After the incident, Eddie returns to journalism, still secretly bound to Venom without Anne's knowledge, setting out to protect San Francisco by killing criminals. Confronting a criminal who had been extorting local convenience store owner Mrs. Chen, the duo devours him, declaring that "We are Venom." Sometime later, Eddie and Venom help Mrs. Chen film television advertisements for her store, holding her video camera for her before Venom expresses interest in eating Mrs. Chen's model.
Fighting Carnage One year later, after Eddie visits incarcerated serial killer
Cletus Kasady to interview himat the behest of Detective
Patrick Mulligan, Venom can figure out where Kasady has hidden the bodies of victims, which gives Eddie a huge career boost. After Kasady subsequently invites Eddie to attend his execution by lethal injection, Venom is provoked to attack Kasady via insults towards Eddie. After briefly witnessing Venom's true form, Kasady bites Eddie's hand, unknowingly ingesting a small part of Venom as they reproduce. Eddie is then contacted by Anne, who tells him that she is now engaged to Dan, much to Venom's displeasure. Wanting more freedom to eat human brains instead of chicken brains, Venom has an argument with Eddie, and the two end up fighting until the symbiote detaches from his body; they go their different ways. Venom makes his way through San Francisco by hopping from body to body and attending a rave until Anne finds him at Mrs. Chen's store and convinces him to forgive Eddie. She bonds with Venom herself to break Eddie out of a police station after he is arrested on suspicion of aiding in Kasady's escape from prison, as the symbiote piece he had ingested metamorphoses into Venom's offspring "
Carnage." Making amends, Venom and Eddie bond again. Arriving at a cathedral with Dan, where Kasady and his lover
Frances Barrison plan to get married, after Barrison and Kasady take Anne and Mulligan hostage, respectively. Venom is shocked to see Carnage ("a red one") envelop Kasady and address them as "father", seeking to eat them, refusing to fight until Eddie promises to let him eat "everybody." Venom begins to fight Carnage but is quickly overpowered, and the latter decides to kill Anne atop the cathedral. Venom manages to rescue Anne in time with Dan's help and provokes Barrison to use her sonic blast powers, causing both symbiotes to separate from their hosts as the cathedral collapses and the falling bell kills Barrison. Venom saves Eddie by bonding with him along with the help of Anne and Dan before the impact. Carnage tries to bond with Kasady again, but Venom devours him before biting Kasady's head off and escapes with Brock from the police, bidding farewell to Anne and Dan, and takes a tropical vacation with Brock.
Entering an alternate reality Later, as Venom tells Brock about the symbiotes'
hive mind knowledge across universes, a blinding light transports the pair to an alternate reality where they watch
J. Jonah Jameson expose
Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker and as a "murderer" on television. After leaving the hotel, Venom and Brock go to a bar and learn about the new universe and individuals such as
Tony Stark,
Bruce Banner,
Thanos, and a major event known as
the Blip. As Brock decides to go to New York and find Spider-Man, he and Venom are returned to their universe, while unknowingly leaving a piece of the Venom symbiote behind, which slowly starts moving.
Escaping from both worlds After returning to their universe, Eddie and Venom are drunk in a bar in
Mexico, still on the run after their recent battle with Carnage. The murder of Patrick Mulligan makes international headlines with Eddie being named the prime suspect, forcing him to set out to
New York City, where he was banished long ago by a corrupt judge, and decides to blackmail him in an attempt to clear his name. Unbeknownst to either of them, a creature known as the Xenophage has begun tracking Eddie and Venom, including Imperium, an organization that collects other symbiotes that have fallen to Earth. They hitch a ride to the side of a plane bound for New York City, until Eddie and Venom are attacked by the tracking Xenophage and forced to crash in a desert field. Venom explains to Eddie that the Xenophage were released into the universe by
Knull, the creator of the symbiotes, in order to retrieve a "Codex" forged when a symbiote resurrects its host. This can free Knull from the prison the symbiotes trapped him in long ago. Because Venom revived Eddie once before, he now carries a Codex that the Xenophage tracked to Earth. After being ambushed by the commander of the Imperium,
Rex Strickland and his team while barely escaping from them and the Xenophage, Eddie meets Martin Moon and his family of traveling hippie and alien enthusiasts who offer him a ride to
Las Vegas on their way to
Area 51. Eddie and Venom run into Mrs. Chen at a
casino and Venom shares a dance with her before being ambushed by the Xenophage again. Strickland's team arrives, separates Venom from Eddie and takes them to Area 51 (Area 55, Imperium Program) where Eddie reunites with Mulligan.
Sadie Christmas frees Venom who rebonds with Eddie after Strickland shoots him. Following the Xenophage's attack, Mulligan protects Venom so he can escape before sacrificing himself. Venom has the other confined symbiotes released, which bond with Sadie and other hosts to fight off the Xenophage, who has signaled to Knull that the Codex has been found. Knull sends more Xenophages through portals to Earth, overwhelming the symbiotes. Escaping the base, Eddie, Venom, and the symbiotes team up to save Moon and his family from attack. Realizing he must sacrifice himself to destroy the Codex and save the universe, Venom merges with the Xenophages, leads them into acid tanks, and bids Eddie farewell before ejecting him as a mortally-wounded Strickland sets off his grenades to destroy them, including himself. Following Venom's death during the explosion, Eddie falls unconscious as the base burns. Eddie later wakes up in a hospital, where a military official informs Eddie that his actions with Venom at Area 51 have earned him a
pardon, under the condition of keeping the events that transpired a secret. Arriving in New York City, Eddie started a new life and gazes at the
Statue of Liberty while remembering Venom, and promised himself to never forget his best friend. After a panicked bartender escapes the burned remains of Area 51, a black
cockroach crawls out of the rubble, alongside a broken vial that previously contained a sample of the Venom symbiote. == Differences from the comic books ==