Comic Book / All-New Venom

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All-New Venom (later rebranded to simply Venom) is a 2024 superhero comic written by Al Ewing, art by Carlos Gómez and color art by Frank D'Armata. It's published by Marvel Comics and set in the shared Marvel Universe of Earth-616.

Venom is an alien symbiote bonded to a human being. The symbiote was once connected to Spider-Man, but it's had many different hosts since then. Sometimes it's been a hero, sometimes an antihero and occasionally a villain. Most recently, father and son Eddie and Dylan Brock clashed over it in a saga involving time travel and the cosmic King in Black.

In the wake of that Venom War, a new host has bonded to the Venom symbiote with a golden makeover… but if it's not Eddie Brock, Dylan Brock, or Peter Parker behind the teeth and tongue, then who is it? This version of Venom seems far more down-to-earth, battling villains in New York rather than time-travelling, world-shattering threats.

Narrowing the potential new hosts down to Robbie Robertson, Whitney Frost, Rick Jones, and Luke Cage, Dylan Brock sets out to discover their identity detective-style.

The first issue was released December 4, 2024, and the identity of the new host for new Venom, Mary Jane Watson, was officially announced by Marvel on March 31, 2025. After All-New Venom #10, the series was rebranded as Venom beginning with #250—marking the return of Knull as the King in Black.

Crossover events and spin-off titles

All-New Venom provides examples of the following tropes:

• The Adjectival Superhero: Initially, it's not just Venom as a Protagonist Title, it's All-New Venom. The title change is justified by the fact that there's someone completely new in the symbiote and their identity is only revealed to readers at the end of the first arc.
• The Alibi: After the All-New Venom thwarts A.I.M.'s attempted assassination of Madame Masque, Luke Cage, Robbie Robertson, and Rick Jones immediately suspect each other of being the symbiote's new host and quiz each other as to their whereabouts when the new Venom appeared. Each supplies an unconvincing alibi — Rick having run off to unsuccessfully find a police officer, Robbie having gotten lost in the courthouse's stairwell, and Luke having been tossed out the window — while also noting that Madame Masque could be a possible candidate, having smashed through the floor immediately before the new Venom appeared.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different:
  • Venom War framed the symbiote's fate as a toss-up between rebonding to Eddie Brock, re-bonding to Dylan Brock, remaining bonded with Peter Parker, or ending up in the hands of Meridius; with #5 having it be poisoned and seemingly killed after temporarily re-bonding to both Eddie and Dylan. All-New Venom instead has it end up with someone completely different — with possible options including Robbie Robertson, Madame Masque, Rick Jones, and Luke Cage — and Dylan Brock trying to find out who detective-style so that he can get it back. By Issue #4, Luke, Madame Masque, and Rick have been eliminated from the suspect pool, leaving only Robbie Robertson, though some do consider the possibility Venom's new host is someone outside the aforementioned suspects, with it being revealed in Issue #5 that the new host is Mary Jane Watson.
  • Venom #250 co-stars a Skrull supersoldier named Captain R'gars, who is sent to investigate and apprehend Talonis—a rogue Skrull who'd usurped leadership of the Chitauri Hive. He finds her dead, with the planet having been taken over by the Cult of Knull, and when he escapes he discovers that the universe is in chaos, with the Kree/Skrull Empire having imploded while he was undercover... and the Cult of Knull has taken advantage of this to metastasize across the cosmos with promises of power and stability. Horrified that Knull is back, Captain R'gars rushes to Earth to warn the only being in living memory to have slain the God of the Void... only to be ambushed by a Knullified symbiote and seemingly perish when his shuttle crashes in the middle of Manhattan.
• Ascended Meme: Issue #2 sees Dylan flippantly dismiss Paul's couscous, which Paul is rather offended by. This is in reference to Paul's chicken korma (“always worth the trip”) from The Amazing Spider-Man (2022).
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • Rick is suspected to be one of the potential hosts of Venom, thanks to his dodgy alibis and long history associated with weird goings-on. He turns out to not be Venom... but he is an unwitting host to Sleeper. His bad alibis are because Sleeper keeps wiping his memories.
  • Venom #250 builds up Knull's return from death... only to reveal that Hela swooped in to usurp the Onyx Throne once Eddie Brock vacated it, and has imprisoned Knull using forgotten ancient magics while he was still weak from resurrection sickness.
• Body Horror:
  • Issue #6 reveals that MJ's Jackpot roulette started going haywire after the events of Venom War due to the sliver of the Venom symbiote inside it, resulting in her rolling increasingly nightmarish combinations — including one that caused her skin to attain a symbiote's shapeshifting powers, and one that caused her bones to do so — resulting in her skin all-but sloughing off and her bones stretching and deforming.
  • In Venom #250, a Skrull soldier named Captain R'gars is sent to investigate the renegade Talonis, who'd usurped leadership of the Chitauri Hive... only to find her dead and being puppeteered by a Knullified symbiote, with grotesque fanged maws all over her body.
• Boom, Headshot!: In Issue #2, the villain Chance blows a hole in Venom's head. Since he only destroyed the symbiote's biomass, however, Venom's fine and easily regenerates, though this does cross Luke Cage off the list of potential hosts.
• Brick Joke: Back in Loki: Agent of Asgard, Oddball of the Death Throws complained that he wasn't a “second-rate juggling-themed guy” like “Chuck Stuff from Philly” or “the Tosser”. Come Issue #3 of All-New Venom and Chuck Stuff and the Tosser are both trying out to replace Oddball on the Death Throws.
• Broken Pedestal: Going into All-New Venom, Dylan Brock wanted nothing more than to rebond to the symbiote and become Venom again. Learning that the symbiote had been secretly bonded to his foster mom Mary Jane that whole time leaves him so hurt and outraged that he furiously tells them that he never wants to see the symbiote—who is effectively his biological father—ever again.
• The Bus Came Back: The first issue sees A.I.M. leader Andrew Forson returning for the first time since 2021's M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games series. Likewise, M.O.D.O.K. also makes a return as he teams up with Madame Masque to retake control of A.I.M.
• Butt-Monkey: Paul is constantly ridiculed and belittled by Dylan for a lot of aspects fans find frustrating about him like his man bun, his uselessness, the fact that he and MJ haven't broken up yet despite their relationship issues, and how he didn't catch on to how his two kids weren't actually real despite being so intelligent.
• Call-Back:
  • When Rick reintroduces himself, he goes over the major events of the last seven years for him (dead in Secret Empire, then resurrected in The Immortal Hulk, and the period merged with Del Frye, which he'd rather not talk about at all). Issue #7 brings it up again, and makes it clear Rick still has nightmarish memories of the Below Place, never mind being turned into an Abomination or puppeted by Sterns.
  • When MJ angrily confronts Venom in issue #10, she recalls that on their first-ever meeting years ago, it and Eddie Brock introduced themselves to her with, "Hi, Honey. I'm home!" Plus, she now learns for the first time that, while still bonded to Peter, the symbiote controlled his body while he slept.
• Captain Ersatz: Chuck Stuff looks just like a yellow version of Gritty.
• Cartoon Bomb: One of the Death-Throws juggles these with one real bomb in the set, and throws them as a distraction so the group can make their escape from Venom while he finds and disposes of the bomb.
• Category Traitor: Dylan sees the other symbiotes as traitors for not helping him, apparently unaware they can't help him, what with being locked up.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Among Madame Masque's listed identities is the one she took when in disguise at Stark Industries, way back in the Bill Mantlo run of Iron Man (1968).
  • Aside from his brief recap, Rick mentions how he was briefly a Hulk, an Abomination, and a Bucky.
  • A.I.M.'s stint as a heroic organization is mentioned by Andrew Forson.
  • Paul is a little hesitant about MJ's vigilante-ing what with her power roulette glitching ever since she was taken over by the Arachniote in Venom War, and is reluctant to play caretaker to Dylan Brock due to what happened to “their” children in Zeb Wells' The Amazing Spider-Man (2022).
  • Jill Carson brings up her brother Jack's stint as Spearhead from Venom (Vol. 5) to mock Venom, as well as his death in Cult of Carnage: Misery to explain why she's going Rabid Cop on Venom.
  • As she's waiting for a superhero to turn up in Issue #4, Madame Masque muses if Captain America still has his old emergency hotline, from the Mark Gruenwald era, or if Punisher still has his own “computer guy”.
  • Issue #4 also has Flash talking with Toxin about interstellar exile, mentioning how the Hulk was once shot into space and how it "didn't go great."
  • Like Hank Hensley before him, Rick Jones is unwittingly hosting an offshoot of the Sleeper symbiote, going by “Sleeper Agent” when it activates him. He compares the sensation as being not unlike his brief time as a Hulk, occasionally blacking out and waking up with fuzzy memories.
  • Otto Octavius recalls to Rick Jones the time that he swapped bodies with Spider-Man and tried to become the "Superior Being" only to sacrifice himself in a rare showcase of compassion and regret when he eliminated his mind in Spider-Man's body before he was resurrected in a new body.
  • In issue #10, Rick Jones bonds to the Toxin symbiote, which takes on the appearance of Buckey Barnes' old sidekick uniform—a reference to the time Rick tried it on in hopes of becoming Captain America's sidekick only to get yelled at for doing so.
  • In Venom #250, MJ's agent Meredith references her modelling gig, her soap opera gig, her time as a night-club owner, and her time as Tony Stark's assistant in a Take That! manner, saying that MJ's chaotic career path doesn't inspire confidence in her hireability but that she still wants her 15%. (Left unmentioned is MJ's time as a spokeswoman for Krakoan pharmaceuticals.)
  • In Venom #250, Captain R'gars mentions having heard tales of how Venom fought to protect the cosmos as a member of the Spaceknights—a reference to Flash Thompson's tenure as a member of the Agents of the Cosmos in Venom: Space Knight, and how Venom tried to remake the King in Black as a force for good—a reference to the prelude of Venom (Vol. 5)... though he's clearly unaware of the symbiote changing hosts or that the latter was Eddie Brock acting as the King in Black, not the Venom symbiote.
  • Luke Cage is still angry over the time Doc Ock threatened his baby, as happened back in Mighty Avengers (2013), which Otto legitimately doesn't remember because he wiped his memory of that time.
  • In issue #258, Mary Jane brings up Flash Thompson as a potential date, and Peter remembers how he was his bully a lifetime ago, but he was not Carl King - a nod to Spider-Man's Tangled Web arc "The Thousand".
• Costume Copycat:
  • After becoming the host of the Toxin symbiote, Rick Jones has it assume the appearance of Bucky Barnes' old sidekick uniform, which Rick had once tried on in front of (a pissed off in response) Captain America in the hopes of becoming his new sidekick.
  • With symbiotes being public enemy number one in the wake of the Venom War, Mary Jane and the Venom symbiote decide to stop looking like a symbiote and more like one of the good guys—initially taking a leaf out of Dylan's playbook and disguising themselves as Iron Man before changing tracks to assume the appearance and alias of the goodest person they know—Spider-Man. It's only partially effective since they still have Venom's huge mouth and tongue (initially), bulky physique, and giant spider emblem, leaving Doc Ock unamused at how half-assed the disguise is.
• Courtroom Antics: On one side of Madame Masque's trial, her lawyer is one of the slimeball Krask family. On the other, the prosecution is told by the judge to stop sensationalizing. Robbie is concerned that the prosecutor's grandstanding will win over the jury, but A.I.M. takes care of that.
• Covers Always Lie: The covers and solicits for Venom #250 promised a confrontation between Mary Jane as Venom and the resurrected Knull, but Knull only appeared for three pages that set up his own comic series—showing him to have been captured and imprisoned in a weakened state by none other than Hela.
• Covers Always Spoil: A week before Issue #5 — set to reveal the identity of the Venom symbiote's new host — came out, a Content Leak happened that ruined the surprise. A few days later, variant covers openly revealing the new host's identity were publicly unveiled.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Issue #3 has Dylan confront Venom over the symbiote having abandoned him for a second time. The Venom symbiote reveals it's aware that Flash Thompson cut a deal to set Dylan up with MJ Watson and Paul Rabin — foster parents who'd at least care for him and keep him safe — while it's been searching for Sleeper and Eddie Brock, but when Dylan asks for it to return to him it says that it can't do so yet.
  Venom: I wish we could all be a family again… but that's just not how things can be right now. It's nobody's fault. It's just how it is. But it doesn't mean I love you any less.
• Destructive Romance: In issue #10, this is how Mary Jane sees the symbiote’s relationship with Eddie, even being disgusted with the symbiote claiming it could change Eddie for the better.
• Different World, Different Movies: In issue #253, Paul introduces Dylan to a (shoddy) new apartment, and mentions that it's like the episode from Buddies.
• Distaff Counterpart: Issue #6 retroactively makes Venom and their new host Mary Jane this for Eddie in Eddie Brock: Carnage, forced to bond with a symbiote to stay alive. That said, while MJ isn't happy with this arrangement, she has a healthier relationship with Venom than Eddie does with the Carnage symbiote, who makes it clear it will not be used for heroism and wants bloodshed.
• Dude, Not Funny!: When Dylan meets Robbie Robertson in Issue #6, he snidely asks if Paul and MJ are trying to spice up their love life by opening up their relationship. Paul — who'd just discovered that MJ is secretly the new Venom and had been lying to him about it — is decidedly unamused, scolding Dylan for being crass and pointedly saying to MJ that he has no interest in being in a three-person relationship.
• Driving Question: “Who's Venom's new host?” is the main question of All-New Venom's first arc, with several characters, mainly Dylan, trying to determine the symbiote host's identity. In Issue #3, Dylan flat out demands to know who the host is, but Venom refuses to answer. Issue #5 reveals it to be Mary Jane Watson.
• Eat the Bomb: In the second issue, Venom faces the juggling supervillains known as the Death-Throws. When they cover their escape by throwing a bomb in Times Square, Venom's response is to eat the bomb. Their head briefly deforms when it explodes, but he's otherwise fine.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Dylan likes calling Paul "Topknot" as a way to mock him and his manbun.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Madame Masque refuses to hurt a child, and is initially not going against the All-New Venom because they did, however inadvertently, save her from Forson. It's only when Venom says she's still a criminal that she attacks.
• Everyone Has Standards: When Paul bitterly asks if Robbie is going to ruin their lives by revealing that MJ is the new Venom, Robbie replies that he isn't. When Paul asks if Robbie isn't obligated to publish the truth as a journalist, Robbie retorts that MJ has been a close personal friend for years and even if she wasn't, it's 2025 and journalism has evolved, and that if anything he'll publish a book about it a few years down the line.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Madame Masque is working with M.O.D.O.K. in her beef with Forson's faction of A.I.M., but in Issue #5 when things go wrong, M.O.D.O.K. decides to ignore her and default to what it's designed to do; kill everyone and everything in range.
• Evil Versus Evil: It's another A.I.M. Civil War, with Forson going after Madame Masque, and vice-versa, with M.O.D.O.K. joining in so it can kill Forson and take over A.I.M. again.
• Expy Coexistence: The Skrull soldier Captain R'gars is inspired by Captain America, who he exists in the same universe as.
• Fantastic Racism: While Jill Carson's motivation is partly personal, her general hatred of symbiotes is also a motivating factor.
• Fate Worse than Death: Toxin's opinion on being held by S.C.A.R. Not because of barely being given enough food to live, but because of the sheer loneliness, hell for a being hardwired to bond with others.
• Feed the Mole: Flash is able to pass on a message to Mary Jane by having his own symbiote discreetly pass on a message in Morse code, revealing that Madame Masque has planted a nanobot inside Mary Jane that transmits everything she says to Masque. Mary Jane subsequently has a fake conversation with Paul and Dylan while writing out messages to explain the real situation, allowing Paul to trace the signal being transmitted by the nanobot.
• Fighting Fingerprint: A.I.M. division head Harlan McNeill is an expert at reading body language and superhuman fighting styles. A few seconds watching the new Venom fight is enough to tell him that it's nobody he's ever seen in the suit before — although he adds a caveat that there's always a hint of Spider-Man left in Venom, which confuses things. He does, however, note that the new host is someone who was in attendance at the trial.
  McNeill: I'm a specialist in superhuman body language, sir. I know every Venom's fighting style. Both Brocks, Gargan, Thompson, Price… if any of them were in that suit, I'd know — and advise you accordingly.
• Final Solution: Jill Carson's hatred of symbiotes is so much she bluntly tells Flash she'd rather just kill them all.
• Flashback: A backup story in issue #252, written by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, reveals a hidden meeting between Peter in the symbiote suit and Eddie Brock, circa Amazing Spider-Man #252, and serves to further build Brock's resentment towards the wall-crawler.
• Foreshadowing: The identity of the Venom symbiote's mystery new host in the fifth issue — which was spoiled by the variant covers being revealed days in advance — was foreshadowed throughout the first four issues. In particular: 1) Paul notes that Mary Jane's Jackpot Bracelet hasn't been working properly, and while she was bonded to the Arachniote in Venom War it stopped working properly as well. 2) Paul complains that Mary Jane has been missing their couples' counselling appointments, coupled with the Venom symbiote very much not supporting MJ's relationship with Paul in Venom War. 3) Paul asks Mary Jane to go look for Dylan after he sneaks out to investigate A.I.M.'s warehouse, and Venom arrives not long afterwards. 4) The new Venom knows how to perform judo, which Mary Jane studied for self-defence. 5) The Venom symbiote admits that it and its new host don't get along, and Mary Jane has been antagonistic towards it ever since their first encounter — when it and Eddie terrorized her while looking for Spider-Man, to say nothing of the years it spent trying to kill Peter — and even after witnessing its Heel–Face Turn in Venom War she wanted nothing to do with it.
• Fusion Dance: How Venom and Mary Jane both survived essentially disintegrating due to the effects of the Venom War. They're bonded on the molecular level with each other, and need to stay in some kind of contact to keep from dying.
• Gang of Hats: The Death Throws' hat is juggling. While some of their number are taken by Heave-Ho and her enthusiasm, others wonder if a pirate-themed supervillain makes it a “hat on a hat”.
• Gender Bender: Unlike its previous female hosts, Venom presents itself in its usual muscular masculine-presenting form while bonded to Mary Jane. Notably, they don't even use the "She" in She-Venom which the symbiote used with Anne Waying, though this could also be to better hide the fact its new host is female. Somehow, during Venom's battle against both Doctor Octopus and the S.C.A.R. team, they all fail to notice it shriveled into a female form while weakened.
• Genre Savvy: Rick is aware his mysterious black-outs could be Gamma related, with his long string of Hulk-related incidents, and checks every single day. Not suspecting he might be a symbiote host can be forgiven, since up till now he's not had much involvement with them.
• Genre Shift: According to interviews with Al Ewing and previews, All-New Venom is going to dial back the cosmic scope of Venom (Vol. 5) to return the character to their street-level roots, with an added dose of detective mystery as former host Dylan Brock tries to uncover who the symbiote's new host is.
• Go Back to the Source: In a sense. The Venom symbiote debuted when Spider-Man stumbled upon it, unwittingly wore it as his black-and-white costume for a time, and his relationship with Mary Jane was starting to get serious. Then Peter's rejection of the symbiote led it to Eddie and then to it menacing MJ, and caused Peter to quit using a black-and-white costume. Now after all the years since, Peter's influence still remains with Venom, and now Mary Jane is hosting the symbiote due to Venom wanting to save her life.
• Good Counterpart: The All-New Venom is this to Eddie Brock and his time with the Carnage symbiote. While MJ isn't exactly thrilled that she's bonded to Venom (especially since it almost got her killed as shown in Issue #6), she nonetheless uses her new abilities as its new host to fight off A.I.M and whatever villains she comes across.
• Happily Adopted: Zig-Zagged. Despite that Dylan finally has people to look for him, he is still unhappy that he hasn't been with his real parents Eddie and the Venom symbiote after the events of Venom War, due to ending up becoming Carnage's host and the symbiote going with a new host, turns out that Mary Jane is the new host Venom, meaning that Venom has been with Dylan the whole time while Eddie is still missing.
• Heel Realization:
  • At some point, MJ realizes how selfish and vitrolic she'd been to Peter throughout the early portions of Zeb Wells' run of Amazing Spider-Man despite Peter having willingly tanked his own reputation and standing with his fellow superheroes to rescue her.
  • Venom has this feeling before his near-death in the flashback of issue #6, realizing how despite being bonded with many hosts over the years and being connected to many minds that he still has been acting very manipulative and petty towards those hosts, which is why he saved MJ's life and stepped outside his Anti-Hero role because that's what Spider-Man would do.
• Hero Antagonist: Issue #4 reveals that Agent Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson) is now an agent of S.C.A.R. and has arrested the Toxin symbiote — separating it from Bren Waters — and Sleeper, pending them being deported into space with the other captured symbiotes. While Dylan Brock and Toxin are bitter about this, seeing it as a betrayal, Flash argues that he fought against the government simply killing the symbiotes and is trying to keep Dylan off S.C.A.R.'s radar. After discovering that MJ is the new host of the Venom symbiote after having been issued an ultimatum by S.C.A.R. to capture Venom or have Dylan be arrested, Flash calls MJ to reluctantly inform her that they're going to need to fight. They do so in the seventh issue after a heart-to-heart, with Flash even letting Venom impale him through the heart to sell it, but S.C.A.R.'s Jury shows up to make sure Venom is brought in dead or alive and Jill Carson decides to have Flash terminated as a symbiote sympathizer.
• Hive Mind: Issue #4 reveals that S.C.A.R. has captured Sleeper alongside Toxin but spends most of its time in its feline Sleep-Mode Size, living up to its namesake. While Toxin speculates that it's made peace with their situation and is being Zen, it's actually remote-piloting an offshoot of itself it bonded to Rick Jones.
• Hugh Mann: Venom pretends to be Iron Man in issue #251. Despite being bonded to an actress, he still feels the need to tell some passing cops he's human.
• I Have Your Wife: One of the ways S.C.A.R. force Flash to cooperate with them is threatening to go after Dylan and Bren, their status as legal minors be damned, if he doesn't do what they want.
• Inventional Wisdom: Something Robbie points out to Paul; safeguards or no, creating a device that has even the possibility of randomly inflicting deadly effects on the wearer wasn't the smartest idea.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing:
  • All-New Venom takes offense when Forson tells an underling to kill “it”. They're a them.
  • In the seventh issue, Jill Carson sneers at her partner in crime Doctor Octopus referring to the Venom symbiote with masculine pronouns, snapping that the symbiote is, was, and always will be an "it".
• Jerkass to One: Dylan is a Mouthy Kid who takes this trait up to eleven when it comes to Paul, openly bad-mouthing him at every opportunity and having absolutely zero respect for him whatsoever.
• Kick the Dog: Dylan asks Paul how stupid he has to be to get tricked by two imaginary kids, which rattles Paul so much that he angrily orders Dylan to go to his room. Unfortunately, this is exactly what Dylan wanted as he wanted to use the fire escape of their apartment to leave and investigate who the new Venom is.
• Lampshade Hanging: In Issue #5, Robbie points out he's "the reddest of red herrings".
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sleeper has been erasing Rick's memories every time it takes over, so it won't be killed by S.C.A.R. In Issue #5, Sleeper uses M.O.D.O.K. to wipe the minds of everyone in the vicinity so they won't know what it's been doing, though it's unable to do so to Madame Masque due to her escaping.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • When Rick Jones turns up to Madame Masque's trial in the first issue he's wearing a Marvel Comics t-shirt, partly hidden under his jacket. The same scene has Rick recalling the many different sidekick and hero roles he's taken over the years, wondering what he'll be doing next. It works in-universe, but it's also a knowing reference to the way Marvel's used him as a character.
  • On the first page of Issue #2, Venom is in Times Square, surrounded by ads about Robbie Robertson, Rick Jones, Madame Masque, and Luke Cage, as a villain tells Venom off-panel that “There are four possibilities here”.
  • Done with the recap page for Issue #5, which goes over the current list of suspects, and mentions there's now one final suspect. First page of the issue proper is Robbie knocking on MJ and Paul's door.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Venom and Anti-Venom throw down in Issue #7, though the meeting between hosts makes it clear they're just putting on a show for the cameras. Unfortunately for Flash, S.C.A.R.'s Jury crashes the party in order to bring Venom in dead or alive, with Jill suspecting Flash of trying to help his ex-symbiote. Sleeper uses the distraction to attempt a jail-break with Rick Jones, only to be captured by the secret eighth member of S.C.A.R. — Doctor Octopus.
• Limited Window of Vulnerability: Downplayed. MJ was able to track down the Venom symbiote via the sliver of its biomass stuck in her bracelet, intending to kill it while it was still weakened from the anti-symbiote poison. It shifted into Taking You with Me when the safety features on the Jackpot Bracelets went haywire and started creating some gruesome power combos that threatened to kill MJ, who hoped to kill the symbiote with said combinations. When she rolled three skulls and was literally coming apart at the molecular level, Venom saved her life by bonding with her.
• Living on Borrowed Time: Issue #6 reveals that the Venom symbiote and MJ are bonded on a molecular level and separating them will kill them both due to MJ's Jackpot roulette having rolled three skulls and the Venom symbiote having desperately tried to save her as she was disintegrating — despite itself being on the brink of death itself from the aftermath of Venom War.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • While they know he's alive, neither Dylan nor Venom know what's become of Eddie after Venom War, meaning they're unaware he's since become Carnage's begrudging host.
  • Dylan believes Sleeper, Toxin, Flexo, Red Goblin, and Agent Anti-Venom betrayed him during the events of Venom War and wants Venom back so they can take revenge when their fellow symbiotes and their hosts left them to fend for themselves. He's unaware that Flash cut a deal with S.C.A.R. and arrested Sleeper and Toxin in exchange for them not going after Dylan.
  • In the seventh issue, Paul considers telling Dylan who Venom's new host is, but ultimately chooses to play along at helping him investigate Robbie Robertson and Rick Jones.
  • Issue #10 shows that while MJ is aware Venom's had multiple hosts in the past, she's not aware what they've done while bonded to the symbiote. This also plays into why she refuses to believe Eddie Brock's reformed since all she remembers is a violent monster who terrorized her to get back at Peter, with the Venom symbiote weakly saying Eddie has changed but to no avail.
• Make an Example of Them: Forson crashes Madame Masque's trial to make a public display of killing her for hijacking A.I.M., and in his eyes being intolerably stupid about it.
• Mouthy Kid: Thanks to the events of Venom War, Dylan Brock is staying with Paul Rabin and Mary Jane Watson… but has absolutely zero respect for the former, disparagingly calling him “Topknot” and seeing the latter as the only useful one of the two. In the second issue he turns the sass up to eleven, insulting Paul's cooking, calling him a weirdo, urging him and MJ to break up already, and sporting a borderline Slasher Smile while mocking him for having been tricked via two fake children. In the third issue he disparages both of them when complaining to Venom about Flash having sidelined him with them and lashes out at Paul again when the latter tries to play the supportive foster father roll, though Paul gives him a What the Hell, Hero? speech over being a brat when he and MJ are just trying to keep him safe.
• Mystery Fiction: The story revolves around Dylan Brock playing detective in order to reclaim the Venom symbiote from its new host, with possible candidates being Luke Cage, Robbie Robertson, Rick Jones, and Madame Masque — the former three of whom make incriminating statements prior to the All-New Venom's debut and all four of whom are suspiciously absent when Venom shows up. Luke Cage seemingly gets crossed off the list in the second issue, after a laser beam fired by Chance punches a hole through Venom's head. Madame Masque is also crossed off the list in Issue #3 when she shows up in person. Issue #4 removes Rick Jones from the list of potential hosts, but also reveals that he is actually another symbiote host: Sleeper's.
• Mythology Gag:
  • In issue #2, Rick Jones is seen wearing a T-Shirt with the 90's logo of Marvel Comics, the comic book age where he became more relevant in the Hulk and Avengers stories.
  • In Issue #5, on hearing Paul's been assisting MJ in her actions as Jackpot, Robbie says that makes him her “guy in the chair”.
  • Considering Venom's new host, Mary Jane congratulates Robbie Robertson on discovering her identity, saying he "hit the jackpot".
  • In Venom #250, Mary Jane's agent Meredith pitches an acting gig as Lobster-Man's Aunt June. When Mary Jane protests that Aunt June is an octogenerian, Meredith says she's being reinvented with "sizzling mom energy"—a reference to the MCU's "aunt hottie" take on May Parker.
  • In Venom #250, Hela imprisons Knull and usurps the Onyx Throne as the Queen in Black, a reference to their alliance in Marvel Rivals.
  • Issue #251 has Toxin introduce himself to Doc Ock with a version of Peter's opening monologue from the first Spider-Man film.
• Never Found the Body: When discussing Eddie, Dylan says he's been keeping track of the news, looking for any signs of his father since they never discovered the body. He briefly entertains the idea that it really is Eddie in front of him, but Venom states he'd know if Eddie was dead, but he can't sense him, meaning even they don't know where their former host is.
• Never My Fault: When trying explain to Mary Jane about why it has feelings for Eddie, the symbiote rants about how Peter discarded it and tried to kill it, leaving out the fact that it tried to forcefully bond with Peter.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Issue #6 reveals the circumstances behind MJ and Venom's bonding; during the disastrous fight with the Arachniote, the symbiote attempted to destroy her Jackpot bracelets, with their continued meddling causing her to roll three skulls, which causes her powers to try and kill MJ by tearing her apart down to the molecular level. Venom managed to save her life by bonding to her, though since it was also dying at the time, it's stuck with her for the time being.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Doctor Octopus ruins his status as leadership of the anti-symbiote task force when he tries to threaten Venom in their current disguise as Spider-Man, with his supposed associates on the task force arguing that they can't know it's Venom as it could just be Spider-Man having worked out and Luke Cage making it clear that he chooses the apparent Spider-Man over a known criminal.
• No-Respect Guy: Paul is starting to become this. Dylan mocks and insults him every chance he gets and doesn't listen to him whatsoever, while MJ shows no sympathy for him going through that and neglects their failing relationship in favor of her superheroics. Issue #6 takes it up a notch as it's revealed MJ has been keeping her bonding to Venom a secret from Paul all this time. Paul doesn't take it well, pointedly telling MJ he has no interest being in a three-person relationship. Even in issue #7, the agents of S.C.A.R., specially Jill Carson, don't see Paul as relevant despite trying to break-up the fight between Venom and them only for Venom to escape and make S.C.A.R. follow him while renting about wasting time with a nobody.
• OOC Is Serious Business: Madame Masque randomly shows up in New York and starts shooting people, something Rick points out is unlike her. It's a way of luring Forson out so she can try to kill him.
• Old Shame: Although post-Heel–Face Turn the Venom symbiote has been shown to mostly regret its actions during its villain years, MJ rakes it over the coals for what it and Eddie Brock did when they first met. The symbiote tries to excuse its actions by saying that at the time it had a poor grasp of human emotions, was lashing out in anger and hurt over Peter's rejection, and was just going along with what Eddie had wanted to do, but ultimately admits that what it did was wrong and it now deeply regrets it. MJ isn't convinced, however, and is disgusted that it still loves Eddie despite how toxic their relationship often was.
• Papa Wolf: As always, Venom is fiercely protective of Dylan. When they see their former host caught in the crossfire during his fight with A.I.M., he powers through a sonic attack and demolishes the gang.
  Venom: We're used to pain. But when you hurt a child? When you hurt my son? That's when we put our foot down.
• Pet the Dog: Despite knowing full well how much she hates it, Venom asked MJ to contact Flash to help look after Dylan as his only request. Not only did MJ do as it asked without complaint, she even went so far as to talk with Paul about taking Dylan in and look after him herself without any prompting from the symbiote, having felt the sheer affection and love Venom had for the kid thanks to their new bond.
• Pirate Girl: One of the costumed villains auditioning for a spot in the Death-Throws is Heave-Ho, a muscular woman in a pirate costume who fights by using her strength to throw cannonballs.
• Powered Armor: A trio of A.I.M. troops in powered armor (catchily named as the “Battle Suit Designed Only For Combat”) invade Madame Masque's trial in an attempt to kill her. As well as basic Hand Blasts, the armour also absorbs kinetic energy and allows the wearer to channel it into energy-enhanced Elemental Punches.
• Power Incontinence: According to Paul, MJ's powers have been on the fritz ever since she got taken over by the Arachniote. This is also why he's been so reluctant to support her heroic career, as she's putting herself in danger. Issue #6 reveals that this is due to the sliver of the Venom symbiote stuck inside the roulette bracelet interfering with the rune magic and disabling the safety measures. This leads to it randomly rolling increasingly gruesome powersets and ultimately rolling a triple skull, which would have killed MJ had the Venom symbiote not bonded to her on the molecular level in order to glue her disintegrating body back together.
• Protectorate: MJ doesn't show Paul any support against Dylan's insults and putdowns as she justifies it as him acting out due to trauma.
• Pull the Thread: Fittingly, it's Robbie — the long-time journalist — who puts together all the clues about Venom and the incongruities in Dylan's initial line of reasoning to work out exactly who the real host is. It leads him to Paul and MJ's front door, the latter revealed to be Venom's newest host.
• Puppet King: Madame Masque essentially acts as this on behalf of M.O.D.O.K.; after killing everyone who might try to take charge of A.I.M. while M.O.D.O.K. is in prison, she manages to make contact with M.O.D.O.K. and he agrees to her essentially ruling A.I.M. on his behalf.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: At the beginning of Issue #2, Venom faces off against a team of super-villains called the Death-Throws, whose gimmick involves throwing objects at their opponents. The Ringleader, Charles Last, offers Venom a spot on the team, but Venom refuses.
• Rabid Cop: S.C.A.R. is a new federal organization dedicated to capturing symbiotes that were stuck on Earth and releasing them into space. However, many of its recruits — including Ripcord (Jill Carson) — are people who have lost friends and loved ones to symbiotes over the years and see this as an opportunity to get revenge. Jill is especially fanatical, and is conspiring with Doctor Octopus to get the government to have the symbiotes exterminated—even going so far as to try to kill Flash Thompson based on the mere suspicion that he's colluding with Venom.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: While Dylan is still angry at Venom, he's long since forgiven the symbiote for it and Eddie's bloody actions in the past after the events of Venom War, even referring to him as family. Unfortunately, it breaks again once he finds out Venom deliberately hid the fact that he was with MJ "for his own safety".
• Redeeming Replacement:
  • Of a sort. Rick Jones has been hired at the Daily Bugle as their new columnist on superheroes. Rick hopes to be much more supportive of heroes than the Bugle's usual fare, especially after the repeal of New York's ban on vigilantes, and describes himself as the “anti-Jonah”.
  • MJ is the newest iteration of "She-Venom" despite not officially taking up the name. Unlike with Anne Waying, who was pretty much hijacked and manipulated by the Venom symbiote to shred a group of would-be rapists and attack Spider-Man (traumatizing Anne in the process), MJ has a more beneficial if tense relationship with Venom as the two now fight crime together as the All-New Venom.
• Red Herring:
  • Rick Jones is listed as one of the four potential suspects as the Venom symbiote's newest host. Issue #4 reveals that while he isn't Venom's host, he is the unwitting host of the Sleeper symbiote.
  • Issue #5 confirms all four suspects were red herrings, with Robbie even proving his innocence by visiting Venom's new host: Mary Jane Watson.
• Reformed, but Rejected:
  • In issue #10, MJ angrily confronts the Venom symbiote over it and Eddie Brock having attacked and terrorized her back in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 (1987). The symbiote tries to apologize—blaming Eddie for the incident and saying that it should have stopped him. However, MJ rebukes its excuses—disgusted that it still loves Eddie despite how toxic that relationship tended to be—and refuses to accept its assertion that it and Eddie have changed for the better in the years since.
  • Venom #250 reveals that MJ doesn't distinguish between the main Eddie Brock and Meridius, and as such blames the main Eddie for the Zombiote Apocalypse and Arachniote's rampage while dismissing the Venom symbiote's claims that Eddie is redeemed and ignoring its attempts to explain what happened.
• Required Secondary Powers: Issue #250 points out symbiotes have immunity to radiation poisoning as a natural consequence of spending time in space, allowing them to diffuse large amounts of it.
• The Reveal:
  • Issue #6 reveals how MJ and Venom bonded; during the fight with the Arachnoite, Venom modified the Jackpot device to destroy it, but a piece of the symbiote got stuck. It messed with the device until it finally rolled three skulls, beginning to tear MJ apart molecularly. Venom, also dying, bonded with MJ to save her, so now they are currently stuck together or they both die.
  • Venom #250 reveals that Knull is Back from the Dead, with his resurgent cult wreaking havoc all across the universe... but that Knull himself isn't the god in charge, Hela having imprisoned him and usurped his throne to become the Queen in Black.
• Revenge:
  • In the second issue, Dylan reveals that he considers Sleeper, Agent Anti-Venom, Toxin, Flexo and the Red Goblin traitors and wants revenge on them when he gets Venom back.
  • One of the S.C.A.R. agents who are hunting Venom is Jill Carson, the sister of Jack Carson from Venom (Vol. 5), who blames Venom for her brother's death in Cult of Carnage: Misery and is willing to use excessive force to get revenge.
• Revisiting the Roots: After the time-traveling, symbiote zombie outbreak, and world-ending craziness of the last series, All-New Venom returns Venom to its more “grounded” roots by having the symbiote become a crime-fighting vigilante in New York City again under a new host. Additionally, Venom is depicted as having flat, human-like teeth rather than the maw stuffed full of fangs he's more famous for, closely resembling the character's original depiction as drawn by Todd McFarlane.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: A.I.M. has never really crossed paths with Venom before, particularly not the iteration under Andrew Forson, but the first issue sets them up as a major antagonistic force for the Wicked Web-Slinger going forward after they thwart an assassination attempt on Madame Masque (to say nothing of the symbiote having possibly taken Madame Masque as its new host).
• Running Gag: Before the reveal of Venom's new host, it repeatedly gets its head "blown" comically (puffed like a balloon; shot through; burst open), all revealing that the host's head isn't in there as MJ is maybe a foot or so shorter than Venom, so her head is below its neck.
• Sadistic Choice: Madame Masque poses Venom with one; capture her, or let a bunch of A.I.M. goons burn to death in a fire she's caused. After all, Venom does call themselves the "Lethal Protector". Venom begrudgingly saves the goons.
• Samus Is a Girl: Despite sporting the typical bulky masculine frame, the list of candidates for the All-New Venom's host includes a female like Madame Masque as a suspect. While the host is indeed female, she turns out to be Mary Jane Watson.
• Saying Too Much: When Venom impales Agent Anti-Venom through the heart, Paul—who had been reluctantly running interference with Dylan—is horrified and lets slip that he 1) knows who the new Venom is, and 2) that the host is female. Dylan quickly puts two and two together and realizes that his foster mom Mary Jane has been the symbiote's host all along, leaving him outraged that they lied to and tricked him.
• The Scapegoat: A.I.M.'s leaders intend to let Masque cause damage and then step in to essentially accuse her of being a solo operative, restoring their reputation.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: When Doctor Octopus tries to get Luke Cage to assist him in facing Venom as the anti-symbiote task force is fully legal, Cage counters that he adheres to the promises he made to get elected rather than just flip-flopping depending on what laws are in favour now, and assists Venom in facing Doc Ock.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • Robbie Robertson figures out the identity of the Venom symbiote's new host but decides to keep it a secret after accidentally revealing them to Paul Rabin, who is surprised—having assumed he'd have a journalistic obligation to reveal the truth.
  • Zig-zagged with Paul Rabin, who reluctantly runs interference with Dylan Brock for Venom, keeping him distracted and occupied so he won't keep looking into the Venom symbiote's host's identity... at least until he accentally reveals the host is a "she" when Venom impales Agent Anti-Venom, leading to Dylan discovering that Mary Jane is the Venom symbiote's host.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: Like all symbiotes, Venom can freely reshape parts of their body into weapons like axes and blades, though in its time with the Brocks it rarely ever did so, and with Flash, it was limited to arm-blades. With its new host, it's a lot more creative, even making impact webbing guns from its own biomass.
• Ship Sinking: Twofold in Venom #258; Mary Jane affirms that there is no relationship with Flash as the potential just passed them by, and muses that even if Paul wasn't a bad person, outside of the need to care for the (now non-existent) twins and surviving the apocalypse they just weren't really connecting.
• Ship Tease: After Paul's funeral, Peter and Mary Jane talk about their pasts, and while they don't immediately reconnect as a couple, they agree that a relationship built on friendship is a good foundation.
• Shipper on Deck: In Venom #252, the Venom symbiote invites Flash Thompson out for a coffee date on Mary Jane's behalf, to her annoyance—as she insists it's strictly a platonic get-together between old friends.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Venom #250, Captain R'gars attempts to send a message to Venom warning of Knull's return, paraphrasing Princess Leia's plea for Obi-Wan Kenobi's aid in A New Hope.
  • In Venom #250, MJ walks past and is gawked at by Jay and Silent Bob.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Both Dylan and Robbie are tracking down the identity of the new Venom in the first arc—Dylan going off of the statement by an A.I.M. goon that Venom had to be one of four people not present in the courtroom at the time of their debut, while Robbie undertaking his own investigation. It turns out Dylan — a child without much investigative experience — was on the wrong track the entire time, as the A.I.M. goon was just making an assumption that was never verified, and it's eventually shown that none of the initial four suspects are the host of Venom: the identity of the new Venom is Mary Jane Watson.
  • Ripcord's rabid cop antics finally backfire on her after issue #9, and she's unceremoniously fired for it.
• Talking Is a Free Action: During their fight with Venom in Issue 3, an A.I.M. goon assumes this is in effect, warning his comrade that their weapon is about to overload, but fortunately not for several seconds. It explodes before he can finish his sentence, and Venom advises that maybe next time, get a weapon that takes longer to explode. The battered A.I.M. goon takes this under advisement.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Venom admits it and its new host don't get along very well, which is understandable since it caused Mary Jane all sorts of grief in its early days as part of Peter's rogues gallery. MJ still has problems with the symbiote despite having seen its Heel–Face Turn back in Venom War. Issue #6 adds another reason why MJ isn't happy to be bonded with Venom as its attempts to upgrade her Jackpot bracelet during Venom War almost got her killed when it caused her bracelet to roll three skulls, causing her powers to try and kill her. During their argument the fact that it's still in love with Eddie Brock—who she blames for the Venom War and refuses to believe is redeemed—disgusts MJ, with her and the symbiote agreeing to find a way to stabilize her so they can go their separate ways as soon as possible..
• There Is Another: Issue #4 reveals Rick Jones is also playing host to a symbiote, specifically Sleeper.
• Title Drop: After the first issue's battle with A.I.M., a victorious and defiant Venom states that A.I.M. should stop making threats and start worrying because they're facing an “All-New Venom”. The title drop is hammered home by using the front cover's title styling, with the same font and golden text, rather than Venom's usual white-on-black Speech Bubble text format.
• Tombstone Teeth: As opposed to Venom's usual maw full of fangs, All-New Venom's default appearance harkens back to their original appearance under Todd McFarlane by giving him a mouth full of identical flat-topped teeth — more heroic-looking than the fangs but still plenty unsettling. He does sprout More Teeth than the Osmond Family when he gets pissed, though, as A.I.M. learns the hard way. They also foreshadow the new host's history with the Venom symbiote, as Venom was originally drawn with straight teeth when he first menaced Mary Jane Watson.
• Took a Level in Badass: Watching All-New Venom fight, McNeil observes their webbing has always been stronger than Spider-Man's, ever since he first appeared, but even with that it appears to have gotten stronger with the Eganrac boost.
• Transplant:
  • With The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) focusing on supernatural horror with 8 Deaths of Spider-Man, Mary Jane and Paul have moved over to this title, housing Dylan while he searches for the Venom symbiote.
  • Rick Jones and Luke Cage join the Spider-Man franchise in the All-New Venom series.
• Underestimating Badassery: S.C.A.R. learn the hard way that while Rick is something of a goofball, he was taught to fight by Captain America, and has survived being around the Hulk for years.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Zigzagged. Between having lost his home and Eddie being MIA, Dylan has nowhere else to go. MJ and Paul happily bring him into their home, though it's quickly shown that while Dylan likes MJ, he doesn't extend the same sentiment toward Paul and practically insults him in almost every conversation. Issue #3 later reveals MJ and Paul are housing him at Flash's behest, something Dylan isn't happy about.
• Variant Cover:
  • The first issue initially gets eight variant covers (as well as the standard version). A wraparound cover by Humberto Ramos is a close-up of Venom's face, teeth and tongue (with the previous Venom's fangs rather than the new one's Tombstone Teeth); a Skan cover shows him mounted on Venom Horse; an Erik Larsen cover shows Venom menacing Spider-Man, a Chris Giarrusso cover shows a much more cartoonish Venom swinging through the city, and one version is simply a close-up of the golden spider insignia on Venom's chest. Iban Coello contributes a gold foil variant that shows Venom leaping towards the reader, which is also reused for the second printing.
  • A variant cover to issue #5 has Venom sitting on a couch, as a plant vase obscures the view of their newest host. Since this issue reveals that Venom is Mary Jane, the cover is a nod to her first appearance in person in Amazing Spider-Man #25, whose face was then obscured by a vase.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: One of the new Death Throws is a fat man that throws bricks named the Tosser, who appropriately wears a cap with the British flag on it.
• We Can Rule Together: Charles Last notes that Venom could use a PR boost and some decent lawyers in the wake of all the symbiote-related disasters and that the Death-Throws could use a celebrity hire who throws a mean web, offering them a spot on the team.
  Ringleader: So… how's your juggling?
• Wham Line:
  • At the end of Issue #5, as Robbie's talking with Paul, he brings up the subject of Dylan living with him and MJ, which Flash Thompson helped arrange, and asks who actually suggested it - did Flash suggest it to MJ, or was it the other way around?
  • The end of Issue #10 has a Skrull named Captain R'gars rushing to Earth with an urgent warning.
    "I have to tell them. I have to tell them! I have to warn them that Knull is coming!"
• Wham Shot:
  • Issue #3 ends with Madame Masque speaking with an unknown individual, offering to team up with them to gain control of A.I.M. The final panel reveals it's none other than M.O.D.O.K..
  • Issue #4 has Rick Jones arriving on the scene of Madame Masque and M.O.D.O.K fighting the new Venom, which crosses them off the suspect list as well… and then Madame Masque questions how he even got up to the rooftop they're on since she sealed the elevators. Rick, genuinely confused, admits he doesn't know or remember… right before vomiting up a symbiote, revealing that while he's not the new host of the Venom symbiote, he is the unwitting new host of the Sleeper symbiote.
  • Issue #5 would have ended on one if Marvel hadn't revealed it before the issue was released, as the real host of Venom is revealed to be MJ.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • When Dylan reunites with Venom, he lambasts the symbiote for abandoning him and leaving him with Paul and MJ. Venom weakly says it's “the Spider-Man” in him, but Dylan isn't having any of it. He's even angrier when he finds out in Issue #10 that Venom's been bonded to MJ this whole time. Much like their last encounter, Dylan isn't having any of his "dad's excuses" and runs off to his room.
  • Dylan gets caught by Paul after managing to escape the warehouse where Venom and Madame Masque were fighting before it went up in flames, with Paul making it clear MJ was worried about him and dressing him down. When Dylan retorts that Paul doesn't know what he's going through, Paul shoots back that the reason he doesn't know is because Dylan refuses to let him in, nor does Dylan understand that Paul is just trying to atone for the mistakes he made.
  • Sleeper is admonished by Venom for controlling Rick remotely and erasing his memory of it, especially since the reputation of symbiotes is at an all time low and being able to control people against their will and without their knowledge is the absolute worst thing for the increased paranoia. He gets it again for taking over MODOK to use his powers to mass mind wipe witnesses of him and Venom.
  • Robbie Robinson admonishes Paul for designing the Jackpot roulette bracelet in such a way to threaten MJ’s life, though Paul argues that he implemented safeguards to prevent a fatal outcome from occurring.
• What Would X Do?: As MJ goes through excruciating pain because of the horrific results of her Jackpot bracelet's been giving her, with the final roll being the three skulls, Venom asks himself what Peter would do in this situation. Not a second later, the symbiote bonds with Mary Jane to save her life. However, a few issues later he admits this was a lie, given what Peter tried to do when he learned Venom was alive.
• What You Are in the Dark:
  • Busting Toxin out also nearly kills it, due to bonding to Flash and being badly injured by the Anti-Venom still in his body. Sleeper points out they can't just get him some chocolate, as he's too far gone to metabolize it. Rick, who has plenty of reason to be irritated with symbiotes in general, agrees to become Toxin's new host.
  • Debated in the aftermath of Death Spiral as Mary Jane and Venom question if either of them were responsible for Torment's death, eventually deciding that while Venom is maybe 90% responsible given its more ruthless history Mary Jane may have resisted the idea of actually catching him before he fell.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Due to the fact he's learned Peter's identity and wiped his mind several times in the last decade, Otto now has an actual pathological fear of learning Spidey's identity again.
• Yandere: Doctor Octopus is a minor example since his introduction in All-New Venom #7, as he suspects that Spider-Man is the new Venom, which is understandable due to Octavius' confrontations with the hero in the past.