Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is opting for a very different take on Venom

Marvel's Spider-Man 2
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Update: During the , Insomniac creative director Brian Intihar confirmed that 澳洲幸运5开奖号ꦐ码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Mꦍan 2's Venom is not Eddie Brock, lending further credence to the fan theory that Harry Osborne will take o🌠n the symbiote.

Original story: Last night's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 trailer at the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation Showcase has given us our first pr🐼oper look at Venom. Peter Parker's symbiotic suit comes with some slimy new powers and a generous helping of bad attitude. That's all par for the course for the classic villain, but so🧜me fans think that Insomniac's effort might be gearing for a twist on the traditional portrayal.

Much of the time, Venom's host is Eddie Brock, Peter Parker's disgraced Daily Bugle colleague who takes on the symbiote via their mutual hatred of the🥃 webslinger. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, Tom Hardy's Venom movies, Marvel's Midnight Suns, and any number of comics and cartoons have made Brock and Venom almost one-and-the-same character.

But Brock hasn't really shown up in Insomniac's universe yet. A sin🐎gle throwaway line in an optional collectable is the only mention of his existence in the original Marvel's Spide🌌r-Man, and with Peter having moved on from the Bugle and Miles' story also needing to be told, there's potentially little room to set up his character. Stepping into that gap, according to fans, could be a very different Venom - Harry Osborne.

That's a thread 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:that Insomniac has beꦯen setting up for years. In the po꧃st-credits scene of Marvel's Spider-Man, Harry can be seen floating in some kind of medical t♎ank, wrapped up in distinctly symbiotic tentacles. We see Harry again in the Miles Morales post-credits scene, still wrapped in those tentacles.

Harry, of course, is far more closely linked to the Green Goblin than Venom, but the symbiote would certainly be an interesting way of tackling his disease. There's also some (admittedly minor) precedent for an Osborne-centric version of the villain. In the🐟 Ultimate Sp🅘ider-Man cartoon, Harry saves a fragment of the symbiote as it leaves Peter, and eventually becomes Venom himself.

That's unlikely to be the way Harry and the symbiote meet in the game, but that Osborne Jnr will play host to Venom. Itꦗ's clear from the gameplay reveal that Peter♒ is aware of his friends' plight by the time he gets his black suit - he references Kurt Connors (better known as The Lizard) - being necessary to save Harry, so it's not impossible that Peter claims the symbiote from Harry, who eventually takes it back.

That ෴concept among players at this point. Eddie Brock, of course, is an iconic part of Venom, and we've limited attachment to Harry so far. Nevertheless, he remains a crucial figure in Spidey canon, and could be an excellent em🍨otional foil, not dissimilar to the original game's Aunt May. 

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