If Venom is so much of a loser back home, how did they end up on this highly important mission? What possible purpose would they serve? Riot is the leader, of course, and I’m assuming Carrion (yellow) and Blight (blue) would probably be like combat and study, so why is this dumb gay there?
And then it hit me.
The only constructs Venom ever produced during fights were defensive. When the Foundation goons bust up Eddie’s apartment, they make a shield to protect the people whose window they just crashed through from getting shot. The fight with Riot, they produce a big one to keep him from tearing their face off. After the rocket, they created a parachute so Eddie didn’t get hurt—at what could easily have been the cost of their own life. They told Anne not to get involved because it would be dangerous.
Venom was just a tank. The only reason they were there was to take damage and keep the others safe.
Fuck, man.
…and of COURSE the team protector would be the one to look at this planets sweaty inferior meatbags and go ‘but consider: what if I protect THIS, actually’
I’m all aboard the Eddie/Venom/Tony train but like. Imagine with me for a minute.
Venom has never given any indication that he would eat Tony. Tony is happy about this but also concerned? Like… Venom will eat anything. Venom once ate a slice of pizza out of the trash because he likes pepperoni that much. And he’s shown he has basically no disliked foods except for vegetables. So like. Technically he should want to eat Tony? So Tony asks Eddie and Venom one day if Venom wants to eat him.
“Nah,” Venom says. “You’re small. You’d be like… not even a snack. I’d still be hungry afterwards.”
“WHY WOULD YOU TELL HIM THAT?!” Eddie shrieks as they dodge a repulsor beam. Venom wants to say he’s still learning and Tony is very difficult except he’s too busy making sure they don’t die.
So I finally got around to watching Venom so that I could understand all the memes and let me tell ya, 70% of this movie is just Eddie freaking out and Venom trying to convince him that everything is fine.