Venom: 11 WTF Moments Not Used In The Film

Venom, as a film, is an anomaly. Hated by critics and loved by nearly everyone else, it's a hot mess of a film that nobody thinks is perfect, but enjoyed regardless, for all its strangeness, its hilarity, its darkness and sheer, bloody fun.

This isn't much of a surprise to anyone who's read the comics, however. Venom has always been one of the strangest yet most appealing creatures of the Spider-Man mythos. Even beyond that, Venom has had such an influence over the entire Marvel Universe that it's been able to capture readers' attentions even without Spidey for years.

Venom has always held that appeal to fans who enjoy the darker, more sinister and graphic side of comics, but that doesn't mean the Symbiote and its many hosts haven't run the gamut of stories that are fun, funny, and purely enjoyable.

Venom has had its fair share of weird, dark, and sometimes unusually sweet moments over the years, and listing all of them would probably take up more than a couple of weeks. But for now, here are 11 of those weird moments, specifically those not used in the recent film, taken from multiple instances across the character's long and storied comics history.

One of the many strange versions of the Symbiote race, the Klyntar, the Grendel Symbiote was a group of multiple Symbiotes that came together in the shape of a dragon, in the early years of their race, serving under the control of the hungry "Symbiote God" Knull and devouring entire civilisations.

One of the Symbiotes in this Grendel conglomerate was known as Tyrannosaurus, who was eventually bonded to a human host, which it felt a strong enough connection to that, when he died, it took his place.

Rex Strickland was part of what was called a "Sym-Soldier" program, bonded with Tyrannosaurus. It admired his nobility, and though it failed to save his life, it was able to live as Rex Strickland for years after.

It eventually sought help from Flash Thompson's Agent Venom, instead meeting Eddie Brock's Venom, the two having been reunited. He recruited Venom into helping him save his Klyntar brethren, and the three fought against Knull and his influence together.

Apart from the giant Grendel Symbiotes (dragons) of yore, there was also a Symbiote Dinosaur in an alternate universe - specifically the notorious Old Man Logan universe - where the Venom Symbiote had bonded to a T-Rex from the Savage Land.