Venom is overrated
Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean I’m letting up on the poorly crafted popular culture observations and since it is Christmas I’m going to make a controversial one.
Venom from Spider-Man is overrated.
I don’t know what people honestly see in him. I mean I suppose he is a good villain for Spider-Man (who in the last year or so I’ve started to consider less and less important) but does he deserve the rabid fan group that he has?
Does he even deserve his own mini series on his own?
God no! He’s just annoying. I know of late he’s been working on both sides of the good/bad line and I think that he isn’t Eddie Brock any more but I still can’t stand the character. I guess it’s good to watch him get his arse handed to him by various Marvel characters. I especially enjoyed it when Iron Man about ten years or so ago took him on. Venom attacked Stark’s body double robot and then Iron Man came in with sonics blaring. Which brings me to one of the reasons I can’t wrap my head around the vile creature. You ring a bell or blast him with sonics and it puts him down. Someone like Iron Man should be able to wipe him out every time. Surely Reed Richards could stick it in an ultrasonic cage thing and drop him into the archives?
I do like the symbiont concept though.
Are any of you Venom fans? I’m actually willing to be convinced otherwise, why do you like him? Is it cause he looks cool? Because frankly I can live without the tongue thing. I’ve seen some artist’s impressions of him that are just rubbish.
So there you have it, some Yuletide contention.
Venom sucks.
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It could be worse….
ravage 2099…that’s worse
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Well that’s true but then the whole 2099 thing was a bit of a disaster if you ask me.
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Ugh, thank you! I’ve never once understood the whole Venom thing. I thought he was a great villain for Amazing Spider-Man #300, because he was dark and scary and really, honestly, for the only time, was a very formidable villain. When I read that for the first time (and granted, I was something like 12 or 13) that there was no way Spider-Man could defeat him. He scared the hell out of me. But then Spidey did beat him and that was it. Any other time, I just haven’t thought he was a decent villain. And then they had to go and create Carnage–why? Just to have an even more crazy/evil version of Venom? Whatever.
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I remember watching the movie Split Second with Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall and the alien/mutant thing that Rutger’s hunting looked like Venom and was really cool looking and there seemed to be a bunch of rumours around about a Venom movie and for a brief period in my life I thought that Venom could be interesting.
I grew out of it about three or four days later.
Carnage never ever impressed me. I don’t know if the writers have ever taken the Venom character seriously, it could be an interesting character study.