We’re pretty certain if Bane managed to find his way to a symbiote, he’d more closely resemble Carnage than he would Venom, even at Venom’s worst. The two had to unite to defeat the supervillain when Spider-Man realized he couldn’t do it on his own. His bonding with an offspring of the Venom symbiote created a villain the likes of which neither Venom nor Spider-Man had ever seen. Whereas Eddie Brock had a moral compass (though a slightly broken one), criminal Cletus Kasady 100% did not. Supposedly we’ll also see Carnage, Venom’s most famous adversary aside from Spider-Man. Presumably we’ll see threads of that storyline in Venom, though without Spider-Man’s part in Brock’s/Venom’s storyline. But they’re not all bad – Bane has a soft spot for Talia al Ghul (for better or for worse), and in the comics, Venom eventually lets go of his vendetta against Spider-Man and becomes more of a vigilante and anti-hero once he moves to San Francisco. The two characters are nihilistic, lonely creatures who find altruism a huge waste of time. We’d give our left arms for a Bane/Venom mash-up. Supposedly, this was because Sony had yet to finish the CGI on Eddie Brock’s alter ego, but that didn’t inspire confidence in a studio that hasn’t had a Spider-Win in far too long. While Tom Hardy spends a lot of time looking disturbed and pensive and we do get shots of him running through fallen tree branches to show off his new strength, the actual manifestation of the symbiote was held back. To be honest, Jonah James’ reaction in this meme is probably closer to what most fans actually felt while watching what turned out to be a very anticlimactic first glimpse into the film. When the teaser didn’t even offer a look at the central character, fans were, to put it nicely, perplexed. Oscar nominee Tom Hardy, Emmy winner Riz Ahmed, and Oscar winner Michelle Williams clearly aren’t enough to quell fan’s fears that Venom could be yet another Spider-dud for the studio that has rebooted the franchise two times in a single decade. That plus Sony’s hit-or-miss track record with its Spider-Man franchise(s) hasn’t lent a lot of confidence to the Venom project, despite its stellar cast. When Sony released the first teaser for Venom, it was already fighting an uphill battle by being a Spider-Man universe film that didn’t include Spider-Man.
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