Why Venom Needs to be in the MCU by Michael B.

As some of you may know, Venom is an interesting and complex character in the Marvel Universe. With the new Venom movie coming out in October this year, I want to say a few things about the setting of the movie. First off, the movie is about the Eddie Brock Venom, who is a journalist-turned villain. He becomes a journalist and follows the story of Sin-eater, a serial killer in New York. Eddie is contacted by someone claiming to be the Sin-eater, and Eddie writes an exposé about the identity of the Sin-eater. However, Spiderman catches the real Sin-eater, and Eddie is fired for writing a story about a fake killer. Eddie becomes a sad person whose father and ex-wife have stopped talking to him, and he goes to a church to ask for forgiveness. At this time, Spiderman uses the church’s bell to remove his symbiote suit, and the symbiote bonds to Eddie, granting him his powers. This arc makes Eddie Brock into the villain known as Venom, who seeks to get revenge on Spiderman for catching the real Sin-eater.

In Ruben Fleischer’s Venom movie, the story is a little different. In the movie adaptation, Eddie Brock is investigating the Life Foundation, where they’ve captured a symbiote. Eddie investigates rumors that the symbiote is being used in human-symbiote experiments. Eddie gets attacked by a patient infected with the symbiote, and he gets the powers granted by the symbiote. This is more related to the Venom: Lethal Protector storyline in the comics, where Spiderman fights with Venom against other symbiotes. However, something is still wrong. Venom is a villain/anti-hero that came from Spiderman stories. Without Spiderman, there’s no Venom. This poses an issue since the movie is going to be outside the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). This problem also occurred in movies like Logan and Deadpool, where they could never interact with the other (frankly, more successful) Marvel characters. Bottom line, Venom has always been based off Spiderman, so Venom with no Spiderman is simply an injustice to the fans that pay attention.