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Let there be carnage3/27/2023 Not counting cameos and build-up, Carnage’s first major appearance was in Amazing Spider-Man #361, starting off a three-parter. I’m not going to count Eddie Brock as Toxin, or Flash Thompson as Agent Anti-Venom or whatever. For the sake of simplicity, I’m going to define “Venom” and “Carnage” as characters wearing their respective symbiotes (excluding Peter Parker), or the symbiotes themselves. So let’s take a look at the history of Venom vs. Over time, the two became roughly equals as Carnage became the go-to bad guy for Venom to punch. Venom: Let There Be Carnage has hyped Carnage up as being out of Venom’s league and that was the initial push of the character. He was something so sinister and malevolent that both Spider-Man and Venom knew it was worth it to put aside their differences and take this creep down. Carnage was simpler because he was full-on evil and had no potential for redemption. Even when he was able to accept that Spider-Man was good, they couldn’t co-exist due to their different natures as vigilantes. Outside of his personal delusions and anger issues, he still claimed that he wanted to help the innocent and punish the guilty. Venom was a villain at the time, sure, but he was also on the border of becoming more. Since Carnage’s first appearance in 1992, the idea has always been to make a darker, scarier Venom. Carnage, Venom’s main villain, gets more fanfare by appearing in the sequel where our hero is fully formed. By letting Venom build himself up on his own, flanked by some rather mundane villains, it gave more meaning to Cletus Kasady showing up in the post-credits. Much like how the Justice League movie decided to take its time by giving us Steppenwolf of all people, the first Venom movie had Carlton Drake (who hasn’t appeared in the comics since the early 90s) and Riot (the most forgettable of all of Venom’s comic children). The MCU Spider-Man has yet to meet an Osborn, guys like Thanos and Darkseid started out as ominous benefactors, and the existence of Heath Ledger Joker was merely a cliffhanger tease in Batman Begins. Doom, it’s a breath of fresh air when, say, Man of Steel only makes an Easter egg reference to Lex Luthor instead of going directly for that confrontation. When there are four different Fantastic Four movies, and they’re all about emphasizing Dr. The mid-credits sequence ties everything nicely and we can look forward to more alien carnage and mayhem in the future.Something that impresses me with a superhero movie like Venom is when it doesn’t rush directly into the expected villain. Oh, and there is even a reference to Cervantes and Quixote too.Īpart from Hardy, Michelle Williams as Anne, Eddie’s ex-fiancée, Reid Scott as Dan Lewis, Anne’s doctor fiancé and Peggy Lu as convenience store owner Mrs Chen reprise their roles. Casady, like all serial killers in popular culture, seems well-read, quoting everything from Shakespeare to Ray Bradbury. Spider-Man Universe (everything is quantum and a multiverse now). There is an engaging literary tone to the second movie in Sony’s The bromance between Eddie and Venom is sweet and funny, the action set pieces are a 100 per cent awesome, and while the Ducati does not feature much - thanks to Venom trashing it after a particularly nasty break-up - there are other chases featuring a classic car to keep us amused. Kasady asks Eddie to witness his execution and all hell breaks loose as another alien symbiote, Carnage, in Kasady’s body, runs riot. With Venom’s help, Eddie is able to find where Kasady has buried the bodies and his journalistic career gets its much-needed boost. Kasady will only speak to Eddie, and so the detective in charge of the case, Patrick Mulligan (Stephen Graham) contacts Eddie. Journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is still having troubles with his loquacious house/body guest, Venom, the alien symbiote, who would rather bite off heads than eat chocolate, and a pair of hens called Sonny and Cher. Storyline: The odd couple has to resolve their differences to combat a greater evil.Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson, Peggy Lu, Sian Webber.
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