For over thirty years, Venom has built a legacy as one of Spider-Man's most popular adversaries. He's tormented the wall-crawler far and wide, and with an upcoming solo film featuring the character currently being fast-tracked by Sony the spotlight is once again fixed to the Spidey villain.
However, the alien's history remains largely uncovered by the masses. For the vast majority of fans, Eddie Brock is and will always be their Venom - a diabolical antagonist for Peter Parker and one with a massive axe to grind. The fact that there have been multiple wearers has flown relatively beneath the radar, so to speak.
But the symbiote's travelled far and wide, and some more unlikely heroes and villains have played host to the parasite, each with their own looks, motives and stories to explore.
Indeed, there’s a whole lot more to the Venom suit than the character’s films and video games would suggest. But with a history as bizarre as his, it only makes sense that some aspects of it possess the innate ability to shock and - most importantly - excite.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
