澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is swinging ever closer - and with it comes confirmation of something that fans have long-suspected. During yesterday's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest, Insomniac creative director Brian Intihar confirmed that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Eddie Brock will not be Venom's host in the upcoming video𒅌 game. 

Intihar said, "It is not Eddie Brock, our goal was to tell an original story something you haven't seen in the comics and the movies yet...All those things you love about the character are go𒈔ing to be there, but how the story plays out, who is Venom, you'll have to play the game to see."

Intihar's words make a lot of sense. Brock, as a character, comes with decades-worth of lore and associations from the comics and the movies. It would be hard for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Insomniac's game to tell a new narrative about Eddie without drawing immediate comp🅰arisons to what has come 𒁏before. 

Symbiote story

Let's go back to the beginning... Eddie Brock was created by David Michelinie and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Todd McFarlane, first appearing (albeit briefly) in 1986's Web of Spider-Man #18, before p♏roperly debuting a couple of years later in 1988's The Amazing Spider-Man #300. 

A bullish reporter at the Daily Globe, Brock falsely identified a serial killer, only to be disgraced when Spider-Man revealed the true culprit. Consumed with a hatred of Spidey, he makes the ideal host fo🐼r the alien Venom symbiote, recently rejected by Peter ౠParker.

But Brock is no simple bad guy. Following those early adventures, he has been alternately a terrifying supervillain and a surprising hero. At various times he's reje♊cted Venom entirely, sought to make amends for his ꩲcrimes, bonded with a number of alternative symbiotes, including the deadly Toxin and the mindless Anti-Venom, had a son (more on him shortly...), died, been resurrected, studied time travel with Kang, and all that comics good stuff. 

Currently he's acting as the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:King in Black - the cosmic god of the symbiotes - but he still finds hi♋msel𝓡f pulled between his best and worst instincts.

At the movies

It's the complex, neither all-good or all-bad, version of Brock and Venom that we see in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:two Tom Hardy-starring films (let's just ski🅷p over Sam Raimi's whiffy Spider-Man 3, which paints Topher 𒐪Grace's Eddie as a fairly two-dimensional villain). 

Now, these are not am🌟ongst the greatest superhero movies e🌞ver made, but the casting of Hardy was a stroke of brilliance. His performance is perfectly in tune with the goofy tone of the material, and his Brock is empathetic and funny, while still convincing as an action hero. While many will have fond memories of the 90's Spider-Man animated series, which featured the character in several episodes, there's little doubt that, for the 🎐majority of the audience, Tom Hardy is the only Eddie Brock.

Bonding Venom to someone else in the video game neatly sidesteps these associations. It enables ꧑Insomniac to tell a story where we don't already know the ending - and sets up a nice little bit of pre-releas💎e mystery in the process.

Ready, Eddie? No

So who is the new Venom? 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The safe money is on Harry Osborn - something that was hinted at in both the first ga𒅌me and th💝e Miles Morales spinoff sequel.

Then again, perhaps Insomniac are planning a twist of some kind. Could it be that we see Peter Parker's former-bully, Flash Thompson, arrive and bond with the symbiote to become 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Agent Venom? That seems unlikely - Flash hasn't been established in the games yet, and the comics depiction of Agent Venom is qui𝄹te different to the footage we've seen from the game so far. 

Or could it be Dylan Brock - Eddie's son? He's the current comics Venom and that wo🌼uld certainly allow Insomniac to tell a new story. Still, you can't help but think that would be an unsatisfying reveal. You can already imagine the baffled shrugs and cri🥂es of, "Who?"

For the moment, then, we're gonna hedge our bets an♍d assume that Venom in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 really is Harry - someone with a strong personal connection to Peter Parker and who, remarkably, has never really been associated with Venom in the comics - though the Ultimate Spider-Man animated show certainly went there.

There's plenty of dramatic mileage in having Peter having to fi🎐ght his former best friend (as the comics and films have tapped into many times) and Insomniac have certainly foresha♕dowed this development. In putting Eddie Brock on the shelf for now, and focusing instead on a character who truly means something to Peter Parker, Insomniac are staying true to the series' character-based roots.

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