venoms profile!
22:24 Feb 06 2006
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Appearance
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 260 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Reddish Blond
Features: As Venom, Brock has an elongated jaw, teeth, and tongue which are really part of the alien costume
Summary
Created By: David Michelinie, Todd McFarlane, Symbiote Costume created by, Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, Brett Breeding
Real Name: Edward "Eddie" Brock
Current Aliases: None
Former Aliases: None
Dual Identity: Known to local authorites
Current Occupation: Mad killer bent on revenge
Former Occupation: Journalist for the Daily Globe, short stint as a Vigilante between murdering sprees
Citizenship: United States of America
Legal Status: Criminal record in U.S.
Place of Birth: San-Francisco, California
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Carol Brock (father), Anne Weying (ex-wife, deceased in Amazing v.2 #19), Mary Brock (younger sister, mentioned in Nova v.3 #6-7)
Known Confidants: "Beck"
Known Allies: Spider-Man, Morbius, Vengeance
Major Enemies: Spider-Man, Carnage, Life Foundation, Juggernaut, Scarlet-Spider, Jury
Usual Bases: New York City (again)
Former Bases: New York City, San-Francisco, California
Current Groups: None
Former Groups: None
Education: BA in Journalism
Powers & Paraphenalia
Strength Level: 11 tons under optimal contditons
Powers: Brock's powers stem from his symbiotic relationship with the alien that serves as his costume. The symbiote can mimic any type of clothing whatsoever, as well as blending Venom in his surroundings, rendering him invisible. The symbiote has augmented all of Brock's physical abilities to superhuman levels equal to, and in some cases greater than, Spider-Man's.
Abilities: Venom also possesses the ability to adhere to most sufaces. Venom can animate any part of his costume and can fire a web-like substance from his hands. Because the symbiote was previously attached to Peter, it knows how to shield itself from Spider-Man's spider-sense.
Equipment: None
Weapons: None
Limitations: The symbiote is extremely sensitive to sonic and thermal attacks.
Knowledge Quiz
QUIZ: venom.html
Background
It all started with a simple mistake. While participating in the first Secret Wars, Spider-Man really trashed his costume. He came across two other heroes who earlier had similar problems and told him there was a wondrous machine capable of making any article of clothing you can think of. Unfortunately for poor Spidey, they neglected to tell him where to find it. Spider-Man did find a device that he thought looked like "it wants to make a costume". It produced a small, black ball that initially set off his spider-sense as he picked it up. The ball oozed over the confused hero and became a black costume. Spider-Man wore the costume for a few months, enjoying the fact that it produced its own webbing and could change to mimic his civilian clothes.
This all came to an end when Spider-Man discovered his nifty new threads were actually an alien symbiote trying to bond to him permanently. Mr. Fantastic separated the two with his "sonic blaster" and captured the symbiote for study. It should be noted that during the period that Spider-Man wore the alien costume, there was evidence that the symbiote somehow fed on his adrenaline. The costume escaped and rejoined Spider-Man briefly, but the hero tried to kill the symbiote using the noise from a church's bell tower. The plan worked too well, and the symbiote saved Spidey's life before hiding itself in the church.
The other half of this future combo, Eddie Brock, was the star investigative reporter for the Daily Globe. Eddie was a particularly driven man driven to seek the approval of his stone-hearted father. It stands to reason that when his biggest score--a man confessing to be the then-active Sin-Eater--was exposed as a fraud when the real Sin-Eater was captured by Spider-Man, Brock went a little over the edge. The paper fired him, his father disowned him, and his marriage ended. Brock's mind locked onto Spider-Man as the source of all his woes and thus began Brock's burning hatred of the Wall-Crawler. But life continued to deal harshly with Brock, and soon he decided to commit suicide. Stopping by a church to pray before he did the fateful deed, Brock's intense hatred of Spider-Man was noticed by the symbiote who had been hidden there since its last confrontation with Spider-Man. The two bonded and became Venom.
Venom has battled Spider-Man, and anyone else who gets in his way, numerous times since then. Brock sees himself as a hero, protecting innocents from the "evil" Spider-Man. Venom desperately hates his "son", Carnage, who he sees as a perversion of all that he is. In truth Venom has acted as a hero on several occasions, but he believes anyone he sees as "evil" should die, and this puts him in the same dubious category as the Punisher. He still hates Spider-Man, but for a while regarded him as a necessary evil since the Wall-Crawler also protects the "innocent". Venom served a homeless community of "under people" in San Francisco as their "protector" for a while but make no mistake: that Venom was insane. Shortly after that, Venom had an epic struggle with the returned Spider-Clone, Ben Reilly, who was Scarlet Spider at the time and managed to separate Brock and the symbiote.
After being rejoined, Venom's killer instincts surfaced once again, and little by little he became a threat to innocent people as well. He acquired selective amnesia (Brock no longer remembers Peter is Spider-Man, and the symbiote doesn't seem to make any effort to remind him of that). Brock absorbed Cletus Kasady's symbiote (who then found another one) and joined the Sinister Six shortly after the reboot. But he soon regretted it and then tried to kill his former teammates. He left Sandman near death, after biting a great chunk out of him, and attacked Electro, leaving him also for dead. He made some sort of peace with Spidey (again), only to foolishly blame him for something as farfetched as his wife's suicide. When the powerful human/alien hybrid known as Senator Ward, Venom lost his chance for revenge, since Ward split Brock and the symbiote apart (again).
A secret agency created their own symbiote using a piece of Venom's tongue that bonded with a woman named Robertson in an alaskan science lab. Eventually, Venom would absorb this symbiote into himself. Unfortunately, he wasnt unable to remove that entire 18 issues run from existence, since it was a story that never quite found its way.
Venom returned later on to reveal that Eddie Brock had cancer, and he could not survive without a permananent merge with the symbiote. In the end, spiderman convinces the symbiote to go through with this "permanent merge." However, Eddie goes through a religious awakening and auctions off the symbiote to Don Fortunato who gives it to his son, so he can be redeemed.
The last we see of Venom, Eddie has slit his wrists in an alley and the symbiote is running free looking for a host. I'm not sure how this permananent merge was undone, or why the cancer that had just about killed Eddie before didn't kill him the minute he gave away the symbiote. However, I have a funny feeling that the symbiote will find Eddie Brock and remerge before he dies of his self inflicted wounds.
Thanks To:
Some of the above information is extracted from the various versions of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe and the more recent Marvel Encyclopaedias.
The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.
Character History
Dec 1984 App: Secret Wars #8
Spider-Man obtains alien costume
Nov 1984 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #258
Spidey learns costume is living alien symbiote; separates himself from costume with "sonic blaster"
Dec 1984 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #259 (Rev)
Jul 1991 App: She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #29
Dec 1984 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #259 (Rev)
Dec 1984 App: Spectacular Spider-Man #97
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Vampire Probability Test13:33 Feb 05 2006
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Vampire Probability Test
Posted to VAMPYRES@GUVM by the Vampire Duck in 4/91.
Original conversion to HTML by the wonderful B. Middlet
A real vampire may not get a perfect score (but it should be high).
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Score a point for all yes answers:
01.) Do you prefer the night?
02.) Do you bite?
03.) Do you bite frequently?
04.) Is blood your major staple?
05.) Do you go a little crazy went you get some blood on your hands?
06.) Do you like the sight of blood?
07.) Do you have a strong lust reaction and start to salivate at the sight of blood?
08.) Were you personal friends with Lief Erickson, Napolean, or Genghis Kahn?
09.) Does garlic bother you in any way?
10.) Do you like steak tartar (if you don't eat food, or you're a vegetarian
vampire, give yourself a point for originality)?
11.) Do you drink blood?
12.) Do you go into withdrawl pains or suffer in any way when you don't get
enough blood during the day/week/month?
13.) Were you born over a hundred and twenty years ago?
14.) Are you Chaotic Evil during dinner time? (I couldn't resist)
15.) Do you sleep in a coffin or other enclosed space?
16.) Do you go to horror films for the comic element?
17.) Do you leave horror films frequently starving?
18.) Have you ever killed anyone for their blood (give yourself 3 points) ?
19.) Can you smell blood from a block away?
20.) Can you fly?
21.) Do you have superhuman powers?
22.) Can you take on a martial arts master?
23.) Do you have noticable fangs?
24.) Does the sight of a holy man with a religious symbol turn you?
25.) Do you take "life energy" from people?
26.) Have you ever killed small rodents, insects, or cute little Chip
or Dale for their blood?
27.) Do you pretend to be reluctant/sympathetic over some bad habit you
keep repeating?
28.) Has a vampire ever bit you?
29.) Have you ever tasted the blood of a vampire?
30.) Have you ever been close friends with any of the undead?
31.) Giving a choice between dying or becoming undead (Firefly's
question), did you pick becoming undead?
32.) Do you believe in vampires?
33.) Have you ever met a vampire?
34.) Do you not reflect?
35.) Are you immortal?
36.) Is blood or taking blood one of your biggest priorities?
37.) Have you ever tried/considered/accomplished robbing a blood bank?
38.) Do your friends think you're a vampire?
39.) Does your SO think you're a vampire?
40.) Is your SO a vampire?
41.) When you read Alex J.'s fluff, do you go through a deja-vu?
(give yourself 5 points)
42.) Do you have those hypnotic eyes that nobody can resist?
43.) Is your favorite color red?
44.) Is your SO frequently prone to extreme moments of being tired?
45.) Do you like neck nibling?
46.) Have you (or will you) outlived your great great grandchildren?
47.) Do you avoid the daylight?
48.) Do you avoid holy water?
49.) Do you giggle at funerals?
50.) Do your eyes turn bizarre colors during feeding time?
51.) Do you dislike manaics chasing you with wooden stakes?
52.) Did you survive the black plague?
53.) Do you dislike getting burned to death?
54.) Would you survive a few bullet wounds in vital organs?
55.) In the midst of overwhelming different interpretations, when
someone mentions the word "vampire", do you have a precise image
of what this is come to your mind?
56.) Do you write vampire fluff based on personal experience?
57.) Do you not write vampire fluff based on personal experience?
58.) Do you have many excuses (like, they're a child abuser!) for killing?
59.) Do your victims (if they live) ever complain about a sore neck?
60.) Has anybody ever called you a pain in the neck?
61.) Do you like the taste of blood?
62.) Do you LOVE the taste of blood?
63.) Is there nothing in the universe that tastes better than blood?
64.) Can you change your form at will?
65.) Do you stay up all night? (no fair if you're a student, but okay)
66.) Do you sleep most (or all) the day?
67.) Do you make long term financial investments?
68.) Do you visit a grave yard more than once a week?
69.) Do you like to leave your mark on people?
70.) Do you like to sit in the front row around a boxing ring?
71.) Does the man in the mortuary pay you under the counter?
72.) Does it take more than coffee to wake you up sometimes?
73.) When you do wake up, do you often feel like you've risen from the dead?
74.) Do people often say this to your face?
75.) Do you secretly watch daredevils and hope for the worse?
76.) Can you run the hundred meters faster than 8 seconds?
77.) Do you read any vampire fanzines?
78.) Do you have more than 10 vampire books?
79.) Do you have around 50 or more vampire books?
80.) Have you read all your vampire books?
81.) Do you belong to a vampyres electronic mailing list?
82.) Have you seen over 20 vampire movies?
83.) When you do see a vampire movie, do you route for the vampire?
84.) Does it piss you off when the humans always win?
85.) Do you have a favorite blood type?
86.) Do people around you occasionally pass away due to blood loss?
87.) Have you ever passed away due to blood loss?
88.) Were you one of those vampire Doubting Thomas' once upon a time
who dared a vampire to show themself?
89.) Did you participate in the California Gold Rush?
90.) Do you carry home soil with you everywhere?
91.) Have you ever been buried?
92.) Are people cattle (opinion type of question) ?
93.) Do you often think your victims deserve what they get?
94.) Do you identify with the hungry hunter?
95.) Does the name vampire enter into your thoughts more than three times a day/night?
96.) Are you a car mechanic or politician?
97.) Do you frequently get blood stains on your clothes?
98.) Have you ever publicly admitted you'd become a vampire under certain conditions?
99.) (let the author know: fill in the blank) To see suggestions for Q.99 so far Click here .
100.) Do YOU think you're a vampire?
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Scoring results:
0-12: Let's face it. You're probably not a vampire. But I'm wary of people in this category.
Vampirism may be disparate from their own personality, but because of this, it may be a form
of a forbidden fruit for them. These people are the most inclined to increase their scores
rapidly given the right circumstances.
13-33: You're most likely human. While you have less personality traits in common with
the vampire, people in this group might like certain aspects of vamprism as opposed to others.
Like, they'd like the immortality, but hate hurting people; or, they'd like hurting people,
but would fear getting bored doing it.
34-50: You're still most likely human. But here we start to see people with more and more
characteristics of the vampire. Some people in this group would be willing to join the undead
given the right circumstances. Others may only now be realizing exactly how much they have
in common with the vampire. Still others just love blood a lot.
51-59: If you're mortal and you know a vampire you may not stay mortal much longer. Part
of the probability does refer to the future as well, with this in mind, most members of this
group are likely to be human, or if they're a vampire, they're probably a newly turned one.
60-74: We see more hard core vampire loving humans or newly turned vampires here. If
you're mortal and you got this score, quickly check your results on the
Vampire Vulnerability Test. If that is high too, you're in big trouble. You probably like the
taste of blood, are entirely nocturnal, and have a wonderful viewpoint for making posts.
Then again, if you do get this high of a score, quickly test to see if indeed you are human.
75 and up: You are what you are. And you are a Vampire.
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- Greg Henry
- ghenry@cs.utk.edu
- henry@crnlcam.bitnet
- http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/vampired.html
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