His intense rage and hatred towards Spidey for troubling hm helped Klyntar bond with him on both mental and physical level. In fact, all that anger actually corrupted the being, which become ever more ferocious and bloodthirsty than it already was. Although the symbiote had a desire to bond with Peter again, he now wants to kill him instead.
's incredible powers and because of his already intimidating physical frame, it became more powerful than ever. Merging with his alien costume also grants him extensive knowledge on his sworn enemy as well as his precious secret identity.
often referred to them as "we" noting they are two different beings becoming one. It kept Eddie alive from adrenal cancer which he was previously diagnosed with before running into all these and had a little time to live. This suit could also cancel out
After taunting Spidey a couple of times, Brock decided to pay a visit to Peter's wife, Mary Jane Watson, who was terrified as a result even though she didn't harm her physically. Parker then confronted
Though Peter decided to stop using the weapon on Brock thinking it can kill him, when it caught him off guard,
Venom took him to the church bell and webbed him up. With struggle, he came out of his captivity and force
Venom to exhaust his webbing to a point where he couldn't regenerate more mass, leading it to be captured in a sonic containment cell.
Lethal Protector
Giving up on chasing
Spider-Man and wanting to help people, Eddie Brock moves to San Francisco. He got into a fight with men sent from developer Roland Treece when trying to protect a group of homeless people who welcomed him. In their underground abode, he even tackled two exo-suit Diggers sent by Treece International.
He is soon hounded out by Orwell Taylor and group of hired mercinaries that call themselves "The Jury" for killing his son Hugh Taylor earlier while escaping Vault. He made a deal with Treece to save his skin but got tricked into getting captured.
In a secret compound of Life Foundation, their leader Carlton Drake forced him into spawning five more symbiote offspring
Agony,
Lasher,
Phage,
Riot and
Scream.
Spider-Man came looking for Eddie and together they manage to fend off children of
Venom. Brock then heads back to California to save his underground friends from Treece.
New Ways to Die
When Norman Osborn called in his
Thunderbolts team to New York, they came to stalk
Spider-Man and they started with questioning Peter Parker about his bug-buddy but got nothing from him. Looking for his enemy over the city, Gargan eventually ended up at F.E.A.S.T. Center and then stumbled onto Eddie Brock, former host of the symbiote.
The symbiote tries to merge with Brock once again and he retaliated by turning into
Anti-Venom. Gargan and his suit are literally crushed by their reverse counterpart and even "cured" him by completely draining him off. Osborn however, managed to restore his suit back and made him a poisonous counter using the immune system of Freak.
These two have a rematch and Gargan stung Brock with the poison that nearly killed
Anti-Venom but his suit still refused to kill Eddie. This gave the white substance time to recover and it strikes back to destroy the
Scorpion suit. When Osborn initiated a self-destruct sequence, they had to postpone the fight and leave to settle this some other day.
Red Goblin
When Norman Osborn bonded to
Carnage symbiote and become Red Goblin, he savagely beat Spidey down before leaving him with a warning to go after his loved ones if he doesn't stop playing hero. Meanwhile,
Venom showed up at Stark Tower to protect Mary Jane after J. Jonah Jameson tipped off Eddie Brock but only to spook her unwittingly.
Brock did his best to hold Red Goblin off until
Spider-Man arrived and they overpowered the maniac but he managed to hurt MJ before leaving. As he tries to follow Osborn, Eddie lends his suit to fight the hybrid Goblin and even though hesitant, Spidey wore the black costume once again to defeat his worst enemy wrapped in another symbiote.
First off, he saved Liz Allan from falling off and then drove Osborn away from Harry and Liz. When Osborn electrocutes Flash Thompson as
Anti-Venom for ruining his secret plan, Peter screams in rage and become Spider-Venom but Flash urges him to calm down. Before his final fight with Goblin, he drops the suit and tells it to return to Eddie.
Rex
Eddie starts having recurring nightmares from Viking Age of a monster and turns out his symbiote was the one having these bad dreams. When trying to take photos of
Jack O'Lantern doing an arms deal, he lost control of the suit as it has gone berserk and starts speaking an alien language before being captured by a man named Rex Strickland.
Rex was a member of a Sym-Soldier Program that
S.H.I.E.L.D. employed during Vietnam War and asks
Venom to help him liberate his comrades. Though reluctant at first, Brock agrees to help him to get answers for his recent nightmares. However, his suit abandons him when he faced the Sym-Soldiers and got impaled in chest by one of them.
A symbiote-dragon called Grendel is awakened that threatens the city and he goes to confront it alone but is attacked by
Spider-Man, Miles Morales. Miles mistakes him for the
Venom that killed his mother but Eddie manages to convince him otherwise and these two web-slingers team-up to take down the dragon-like creature with Miles' Venom Blast.
Within the beast emerges a pale entity who introduces him as Knull, God of the Symbiotes. He is looking for a missing piece of Grendel to be free from his imprisonment on the other side of cosmos. Upon contacting Knull,
Venom unlocked new abilities and confronts Rex, the missing symbiote of Grendel, Tyrannosaurus posing as his original host.
Knowing none of them could single-handedly beat Knull's avatar, they bonded together and faces the symbiote-dragon with an arsenal of high-tech weapons. They connect to the Klyntar hive mind to call Grendel for a final battle and Tyrannosaurus sacrifices itself to kill the beast using a blast furnace while
Venom also died off that heat.
