And when he resorts to desperate measures to get the black suit off he doesn't really think about the consequences and make sure that the symbiote is contained or destroyed, he lets it escape In the original version it only *really* turns evil because of the trauma of separation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
It's psychically drawn to Eddie Brock and picks him as its new host because Eddie, like the symbiote, is completely emotionally dominated by resentment of Peter Parker and a belief that Peter Parker has everything he wants and *he should be Peter Parker*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
Which is just a delightful layer cake of psychological baggage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
IIRC Spider-Man didn't know that the costume was a life form when he brought it to Earth, because that wasn't established in Secret Wars, but by later writers on Spidey's own titles. He didn't know he was introducing an alien into our biosphere, so I don't lay that one on him.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @beetlefella101 and
Yes, the problem is this story itself is inconsistent, but the retconned version that people now think of as "Venom's origin story" usually says that the symbiote gives you this megalomaniacal feeling of unlimited power from the beginning and this is problematic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
A case could be made for lack of proper containment procedures after the bell tower, but didn't Peter think the symbiote was dead at that point (among so many others)?
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Replying to @autogynamelia @beetlefella101 and
Yeah well hindsight is 20/20
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
This line is going to be a part of *so* many insufferable jokes once 2021 rolls around.
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Replying to @beetlefella101 @arthur_affect and
I should note in the comics the symbiote was properly contained for a while by the fantastic four...but it escaped and tried bonding to Peter again...and then the bell tower happened. Most people know the cartoon version, which removed that part and added the mania.
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Replying to @HowardtheDuck95 @beetlefella101 and
Yeah the '90s cartoon is the version I imprinted on
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Note that in the version of the story where he already knew the symbiote was alive, at least semi-sentient, and could survive long-term without a host, that makes letting it escape *worse* than in the cartoon version (where he didn't really know what was going on)
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