10 Marvel Characters Who Became Venom

7. Mac Gargan

Mac Gargan is something of a forgotten Venom these days, having donned the outfit in the wake of Brock's cancer diagnosis in 2004. That storyline saw the main Venom cede control of the symbiote, thereby allowing the villain formerly known as the Scorpion to take control of it during one Norman Osborn's schemes against Peter.

Gargan wears the suit for a good five years after, while Brock becomes Anti-Venom - a literal symbiote hunter in a contrasting white and black suit of his own - in an effort to stop the proliferation of the alien goop. Gargan isn't able to reverse his misfortunes as one of Spidey's less competent adversaries however, and it later transpires that the Venom suit actually thinks quite lowly of him too.

The crook has since returned to his original Scorpion identity while others have stepped in to don the suit themselves. It's no surprise, then, that Gargan's time as Venom is somewhat overlooked these days, having been sandwiched in between two infinitely more interesting versions of the character.

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