I am dying as I think about how low-key powerful it was to switch up Venom’s MO for the movie. I love Comic Venom: they’re just a pile of slime that wants a friend/partner/Love and to Do A Good Job (which incidentally leads to a whole lot of bloody mess, but hey, they’re trying to help). But Movie Venom?
For the majority of the film we see this asshole 1) Hijacking some poor dude’s free will and entire body, 2) Eating people and thereby forcing the same poor bastard to eat people, 3) Helping his alien supervisor plot the invasion and/or consumption of the whole goddamn Earth, and 4) Taking stealth nibbles out of his host’s organs between meals–granted, with the intent of spackling shit back together once he’d finally realized he liked/loved/wanted-to-marry the guy, but still
By the time Anne MRI’s him out of Eddie’s system, anyone who didn’t know better–and frankly, folks who were already Comic Venom fans–saw that Movie Venom had proven himself to be a dick and a half. Movie Venom does whatever the fuck he feels like, working on pure impulse 25/7, no sugarcoated sweetheart symbiote to be seen. Which brings us to the scene in the woods.
With Anne. And the kiss. And returning to Eddie like a shot. And telling Eddie his mind was changed, he’s all for saving the Earth, fuck Riot, we’re all good now, Honest and For Real
So think about this. He bonds with Anne–apparently another perfectly compatible host–and doesn’t immediately run off with her to join Riot. (No longer thinking just about the mission)
Steers her straight back to Eddie. Kills goons. Does that good symbiosis make out session. (Now showing he’s very specifically, very explicitly, into Eddie)
He claims that he wants to stay on Earth/protect it because he’s Cool ™ here, humanity’s great, rah rah. Eddie calls bullshit. Venom admits the obvious–I’m here for you, Eddie~–and then they rush to the rocket. Now think back.
Think about the Venom who said, “We have no secrets,” and then proceeded to wait until the last possible second to mention, oh, ha, funny thing, I was actually planning to help my boss feed your whole planet to my species, my bad
Think about the Venom who conveniently forgot to mention he’d been gnawing on Eddie’s innards and tried to murder the man who brought it to Eddie’s attention before he could fix it–the symbiote equivalent of sweeping a mess under the rug before Mom finds out
Think about the Venom who proved over and over throughout the film that he was 110% in control of Eddie’s body, Heroic Willpower Does Not Apply, and, upon realizing he wanted to be bonded with Eddie for keeps, could still have very easily marched that man, screaming and kicking, into the rocket anyway. It would have been nothing. It would mean following orders. It would mean keeping to the mission and offering up a new world to his species. And he would still have had Eddie with him, whether Eddie liked it or not
But he doesn’t do it.
Eddie was right to call bullshit on him suddenly falling in like with the human race–who does Venom know besides Eddie and Anne?–but Venom still, for the first time in the film, does something self-sacrificing. He goes against the grain of what would be easiest, what would be most beneficial to him, and fights Riot. Knowing he could die. He does throw himself into the (literal) line of fire to save Eddie from the explosion, accepting the 99% chance that it will kill him.
It’s at this point–the twofold move of betraying his world and sacrificing himself for Eddie–that the seeds of a conscience and the potential for something like a hero are planted.
Venom did the hard thing. Venom did the moral thing. Venom didn’t just do ‘whatever he wants.’ Because of Eddie. Because Eddie was mad at him, hurt by him, and way back in the MRI room, that hit the pile of space sludge like a brick. Because as it turns out, he doesn’t want to just ‘have’ Eddie. He’s in love with Eddie. And having the person you’re in love with pissed at you fucking sucks.
So Venom did the math.
Get Eddie Back + Take Over World = Eddie is Sad/Mad/Will Never Forgive Me
Get Eddie Back + Save World = Eddie Forgives Me
But then there was the impalement:
Eddie’s Dead = Fuck That Noise Entirely
Followed by the explosion:
Eddie Shielded from Fire = I’ll Probably Burn to Death Eddie Lives = Good = Goodbye, Eddie
Which is all a very roundabout way of saying: Movie Venom, known asshole, completely overhauled his core of pure organic assholedom just so Eddie would not only live, but would live to not be upset at him anymore.
They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.
Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS
Please note the date on this says 2014, they are getting there but they have not fully cured it yet. But there IS HOPE! And they are working hard every day to fight to find a proper cure!
Hey, remember when environmentalist cartoons from the early 90s used to get criticised for oversimplifying complex issues because they depicted the primary drivers of pollution and climate change as a tiny group of power-mad billionaire industrialists who deliberately promote unsustainable business practices for absolutely no reason other than satisfying their weird garbage fetish?
Turns out, the most unbelievable and unrealistic part was that idea that they can be defeated by the combined effort of the youth.
THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
Reblog to save sanity!
Reverse dictionaries are the shit. My dad has a physical copy and it’s massive
One time I worked as a personal assistant for this rich dude. He was pretty ok for like. A dude w more money than I can rlly comprehend? Anyways a part of his assets was this grain processing plant; idk what they actually did I just ran errands for the dude n made sure he wasn’t bothered from big money decisions basically. Glorified coffee bitch? Anyways we’re working one day and the workers catch this random lady like??? Taking bags of whatever the hell they kept in the plant. We’re getting ready to call the cops, I’m getting anxious, and the boss…….. tells them to let her go. He tells her she’s allowed to take only what she can carry in her own arms. So she scrambled off with the bag of wheat or corn or whatever ???? And the crews super confused and the boss goes “do not stop her from getting what she can carry” & so that happens again like once a week for the next few months. I find out she’s actually an immigrant and a widow? Living with her dead husbands mom. She’s been stealing to feed her mom in law. Anyways eventually one day she like. Approached my boss. In his office.
And like a month later I was given an invitation to their wedding it was extremely fucked up my boss married a lady who was a wheat thief
Mixing sweet and salty flavors is perfectly normal. Nobody bats an eye when they buy caramel and sea salt ice cream, but they apparently lose their damn minds when you slap some delicious pineapple and ham on a pizza.
Kill ageism in its beginnings and support younger generations!
My generation (GenX) was treated exactly the same way millennials are now (we’re lazy, entitled, we live in our parents’ basements because we won’t grow up and get a job, etc), and yet, so many of the anti-millennial hit pieces in the media are written by us.
Don’t be us. Don’t do what we have done and take the opportunity while you’re stable adults to shit on the kids. And while you’re at it, eliminate the entire concept of “cringe”. The only things that are “cringey” should be being an overt asshole to other people; anything that’s done for harmless fun should be okay.
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