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 @autogynamelia and
I mean, Peter is, in theory, a scientist "Covering myself with this black goo makes me feel AWESOME" is the kind of thing he should theoretically ask more questions about before making it part of his lifestyle
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
"Hey welcome back to the Joe Rogan Experience Now this is another one of the things the FDA doesn't want you to hear, but a lot of my listeners asked me to try out bonding to one of these alien symbiotes from the planet Klymtar, and I gotta say I am seeing REMARKABLE gains"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @autogynamelia and
It was also a lot less "gooey" initially, it acted more like The Flash's folded-up-in-a-ring-somehow suit or the Iron Man "Extremis" stuff and would slip on like a shadow or whatever. It was mostly supposed to be an excuse to make a costume that wasn't a pain in the ass to draw.
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Replying to @the_moviebob @autogynamelia and
Right, at the VERY beginning it literally wasn't anything more than a costume upgrade and all the other stuff is a retcon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @the_moviebob and
The Secret Wars retcon is so bananas because it's like if on some distant planet halfway across the galaxy you discovered a machine that dispensed Xenomorphs from a spigot
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
It's also worth noting that generally speaking, as I understand it, the Venom symbiote is usually envisioned as *actually quite nice for a symbiote*. It really wants to be friends, it wants to connect with people, it wants to help. Peter broke it a bit.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
Yeah the whole dark thing was that as Black Spider-Man the symbiote was just trying to give him what he always wanted
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Of course apparently since then they've gone real hog-wild with Symbiote Lore & now they are/were originally the redeemed remnants of a primordial God of pure malice & spite which might in turn be a fragment of the ultimate force of pure omnicidal evil & oh no I'm cross-eyed
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
(seriously, comics writers, I get that Mythos-style "the universe's most primal powers are of alien eldritch horror" is like nerd candy, but... it's so weird to do this with comics where they used to have an Eru Illuvatar figure.)
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I mean it's not really new, primordial evil has always been a thing And the progenitor of Klyntar isn't the true ultimate god or anything, the whole point is he was defeated
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I more just mean it's a strange segue to go from "the ultimate authority of the universe is the One Above All, the embodiment of good and love, who ensures heroism triumphs" to "the world began in darkness and primordial wickedness"
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Not like, something I have a moral objection to or anything, it's just a tonal shift which is surprisingly significant for "the latest Totally Bigger Bad Made of Big Badatons"
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