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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Replying to @arthur_affect @beetlefella101 and
Honestly I’ve always thought the best way to sum up Venom (at least the villain parts) is that he’s essentially Max Cady from Cape Fear wearing a Xenomorph
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Replying to @HowardtheDuck95 @beetlefella101 and
I'm honestly more interested in Eddie Brock than the symbiote, like I really like the portrait of Brock as this loser driven by his essential internal emptiness, this pathological and wildly unbalanced desire for attention and approval that gets all twisted up into monstrousness
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As you say, this drives him to be a creepy obsessive stalker like in Cape Fear, but we get more of a picture of how pathetic Brock really is The whole sordid story of him being the Marvel Comics version of Stephen Glass, only actually leading to people dying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HowardtheDuck95 and
One of the deleted scenes from the Tom Hardy movie has him talk about how as a kid he would steal other kids' toys just so he could pretend to find them and be a hero Which is just a *perfect* characterization beat from the comics
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HowardtheDuck95 and
(This Venom fan film is really awesome, although the fact that it's a Venom fan film is supposed to be a twist https://vimeo.com/79697570 )
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