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Brock, Eddie

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Marvel Universe

Real Name
Edward Charles Brock

Anti-Venom; Formerly Venom

Known to legal authorities

U.S.A. with a criminal record

Place of Birth
New York City, New York

First Appearance













While praying at church, Brock is discovered by philanthropist Martin Li, who is secretly the super-villain Mister Negative. After Matt Murdock proves in a court of law that Brock was not responsible for his actions while bonded to the symbiote and has the charges dropped, Li gets Brock a job in his soup kitchen. A touch from Mr. Negative completely cures Eddie's cancer and the remnants of the Venom symbiote within his body bond to his white-blood-cells. Upon being assaulted by Mac Gargan, the Venom symbiote attempts to leave Gargan to bond with Brock again. However, Brock's skin is caustic to his former symbiote, and as a white substance seeps out of his pores covering his body, Brock becomes Anti-Venom (also known as White-Venom). He engages Venom in a fight, and after receiving some help from Spider-Man, weakens and nearly destroys the symbiote, but also feels some remnants of the symbiote inside Peter's blood and begins "curing" him as well, but also ends up sucking the radiation from Spider-Man's blood, something that almost depowers him.[35]

Later, Thunderbolts guards arrive to take the disabled Gargan to the ship while Songbird and Radioactive Man battle Spider-Man and Anti-Venom. During the battle, Anti-Venom almost cures Radioactive Man of his powers, but is saved by Songbird. After the fight, Anti-Venom sneaks on the Thunderbolts ship [36] and steals back Peter Parker's camera, looted by Norman Osborn in a bid to reverse engineer the tracing system allowing the camera to zero on Spider-Man's chest. He is able to help Peter escape Osborn's tracer, and forewarn him about his next move, in a show of friendship and good-will.[37] It also appears he no longer knows Spider-Man's identity, remarking that he wasted a lot of time being angry at Peter Parker, when Spider-Man has been taking his "own" pictures.

Anti-Venom then leads Spider-Man to Oscorp and the two split up. Brock disguises himself as Spider-Man to distract the other Thunderbolts while Spider-Man goes after Osborn. After webbing Songbird and Radioactive Man to a wall, Anti-Venom faces Gargan, who is now wearing a new Scorpion battle-suit to protect his recovering symbiote. After a gruelling battle, Gargan, as Scorpion, hits Anti-Venom with his stinger and injects a poisonous formula that seemingly destroys Brock's suit. Gargan advances to kill Brock but is met with resistance by his Venom symbiote. The symbiote gains strength and breaks though Gargan's battlesuit, refusing to let Gargan kill Brock. Gargan explains that the suit still loves Brock too much and gives up, but he promises Brock that he will get past this problem and someday finish him off, to which Brock replies: "Not if I kill you first." Unbeknownst to Gargan, Brock's Anti-Venom suit reforms. Now a fugitive for helping Spider-Man and fighting the Thunderbolts, Brock is back on the streets, planning to continue his former vigilante antihero career with seemingly increased religious emphasis as The Anti-Venom.[38]

After curing heroin addict Jenna Cole of her addiction, Eddie finds himself fighting Mister Negative's Inner Demons (who are using the same "cure" Mac Gargan had used to try to kill him with). Upon defeating them, Brock is the first person to find out that Martin Li is Mister Negative. Discovering the man he idolized is also a supervillain causes a breakdown for Eddie, both making him question his faith and lament that no one will believe the truth he knows, because he is a monster.[39]

Working with Jenna Cole, Eddie is now fighting crime in the sleazier areas of New York, having disassociated themselves from the F.E.A.S.T. foundation. As Anti-Venom he "cures" the streets of drug traders after Jenna goes undercover to lure them out. Since the revelation of Mr. Li's dual identity, Eddie has become increasingly mentally unstable, struggling to control his muderous impluses while at the same time being aggressively protective of Jenna. In one scene he looks at the face and arm of a drug dealer and sees his own face reflected in the dealer's arm where he has a tattoo of Venom. At another drug bust, Eddie walks in on the Quintas gang after they've captured Jenna. He prepares to transform until the Punisher intervenes. Anti-Venom and Castle slaughter the criminals until a gang member takes Jenna hostage. Eddie stops Castle from shooting the gang member through Jenna, however upon hearing his full name (Eddie Brock, the serial killer) the Punisher shoots Anti-Venom in the head with a shotgun.[40] Anti-Venom recovers and attacks the Punisher in retaliation. When Jenna is captured by the Quintas gang, Eddie and the Punisher almost kill each other, but Eddie declares a truce, saying that if the Punisher doesn't back down he'll make him go to Mexico with him in a wheelchair and that he could drive the Punisher's van. The Punisher agrees to the truce, but tries to kill Eddie again during the border crossing with a knife. He drops Eddie off at the compound, figuring Eddie will die instead of him, and this way he plans to take care of two birds with one stone. When he talks on the phone to the leader of the Quintas gang and finds that Jenna has relapsed and is doing drugs again, Eddie loses control and tears a border guard in half in a fit of rage, changing the black spider emblem on his chest to a skull.[41] Eddie tracks the Punisher down and slaughters a lookout post left by the Quintas.

