8 Reasons Why Sony's Venom Movie Has Us Worried

Call him an anti-hero, call it whatever you want. Making this a solo film ensures that Venom will inevitably have to act as a protagonist and face off against a greater evil. This is not the Venom that we want to see.

Venom is a villain to his very core, introduced as an opponent for Spider-Man in the '90s as a literal and figurative shadow of the hero. He was the embodiment of Spidey's darker side, which is exactly why every extreme '90s kid loved him. But in making him the main character of his own film, you're stripping that away from him. As such, he essentially becomes a discount Spider-Man.

The really infuriating part of this is that they wasted a perfectly good way to get around this obstacle. In later comics, the symbiote bonded to former bully, Flash Thompson, and turned him into what became known as Agent Venom. While still dangerous, Agent Venom was an anti-hero type who often did act as a protagonist in his own stories.

Agent Venom is a take on the material that is practically custom-made for what Sony is looking to do with the character(they could have even gotten Joe Manganiello back to reprise his role!) but alas, we look to be getting a watered-down version of Eddie Brock instead.