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Film Theory: Venom is the VICTIM! (Spiderman)

May 30, 2021
Sure, the Venom movie tagline is "The world has enough superheroes" because this powerful alien symbiote appears to be an evil, man-eating threat, but have you ever stopped to consider that Venom may actually be the

victim

of it all? this? give me 15 minutes or honestly whatever length this video ends up being because who knows the actual length of this video isn't finalized until five steps after recording it. Whatever ends, stay because I think I can. to change your mind Hello Internet, welcome to Film Theory, the show that's more embarrassing than a Peter Parker dance. Well, maybe not as embarrassing, but close enough.
film theory venom is the victim spiderman
We're talking about VENOM, one of Spider-Man's most popular villains because, let's face it, who? They don't love themselves as a dark Doppelganger story, do they? For those of you who need a quick recap, Venom is one of several alien symbiotes that possess human hosts in the Spider-verse, giving them special abilities like shapeshifting, increased strength, and, uh, an abnormally long tongue in the new

film

that journalist Eddie Brock is investigating. the Life Foundation, an organization whose experiments on symbiotes are far more sinister than its super-generic name implies, when the research goes wrong, Eddie's body merges with the symbiote.
film theory venom is the victim spiderman

More Interesting Facts About,

film theory venom is the victim spiderman...

Unleashing poison and its ultimate ability: awkward phrases. In all seriousness though, there is an interesting side to poison that no one has stopped to consider. That he is the

victim

in all of this and I don't mean that the big evil scientific corporation did experiments on him or anything like that. I say this for all the death and destruction that poison can bring if the symbiote is actually just a lost entity. Confused and scared that Eddie Brock might be what's really infecting him. But to really understand why we first have to understand the nature of the parasites you see once you get rid of them.
film theory venom is the victim spiderman
All that alien poison and nonsense is the dictionary definition of parasite. I have a parasite. Take, for example, the case of the parasitic wasp and the orb-weaving spider, both of which live in Japan. The female wasp drops her eggs onto the back of the spider, which hatch and then become larvae. In larval form, the baby wasp takes control of the spider and causes it to build a web. A network that is almost three times stronger than any network. The spider would ever build itself in its normal life. It sounds a lot like poison and that increases the strength.
film theory venom is the victim spiderman
It hits the body of its host. The reason they do this is that the larva will soon be left helpless in a cocoon. You need a stronger network to protect you. A web that is heavier than what a spider would normally build. Once that web is built, the Spider's host dies. He's no longer useful Man, like a parasite always on that network bam. Thanks, ma'am, but as similar as a spider parasite may be to

venom

, there's actually a better option when it comes to the real world. Which I talked about very briefly years ago in one of the first and most embarrassing episodes of Game Theory.
HO HO HO! That worked. Basically, toxoplasmosis hijacks a rat's brain, forcing it to hide outdoors where cats can find and eat it. That's bad news for the rat, but great news for the parasite because once it's inside the cat's stomach, it can transform into a cat-friendly form and then also reproduce inside the cat's digestive system. After breeding, the cat expels it again and reaches the water supply, where the rats consume it again. It's like a really crude version of the circle of life: "Anything poop touches is your home." Now, you'd be totally forgiven if none of that immediately reminds you of Venom, but in both cases we're introduced to a parasite whose behavior and abilities change depending on what it's infecting.
The symbiotes greatly affect Peter Parker, Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady. differently Just like Toxoplasmosis changes tactics depending on whether it is inside a cat, or inside a rat, or even inside a human. You see, toxoplasmosis can affect humans too. Now, I'm not going to say that this will make you lay on Mr. Fluffy's food plate in the hopes that one day he will eat you, but studies have shown that this could have other effects on the human brain, specifically could be related. to an increased risk of schizophrenia. According to researchers at the Stanley Medical Research Institute, furthermore, the researchers' finding, again cites that now, before everyone rushes to put Mr.
Fluffy up for adoption, I would like to point out that there were more than 40 million people. in the US who are currently suspected of being infected with the Toxoplasmosis parasite and only a small fraction of them are diagnosed with full-blown schizophrenia, even if the link between the two is scientifically valid and remember it is far from certain the chances of contracting schizophrenia. Diagnoses are still incredibly low, just try to be hygienic and make sure you wash your hands after emptying the litter box. You're doing well, right? Anyway, the link between toxoplasma and schizophrenia is really interesting because in many ways it parallels Eddie Brock's relationship with poisonous parasites.
For example, one of the main symptoms of both schizophrenia and the symbiote is psychosis, the inability to understand reality and an increased propensity for hallucinations, and this is something that is immediately clear from the trailer for the new

film

. In that trailer, Eddie looks out a car window and sees Venom's reflection staring back at him. This should be physically impossible. The shot shows us things as Eddie sees them. In this case, he is seeing things that don't really exist. Eddie is also prone to auditory hallucinations; he hears a voice calling him by name, Venom's voice praising him, etc. "Now wait," I hear you say, "that's not a hallucination, Venom is literally talking to him" and it sure is true.
But everything keeps happening in his head. That conversation with Venom is the textbook definition of an auditory hallucination and one of the clearest signs that Eddie could be headed toward schizophrenia, but why does any of this matter? I mean, I'm sure Venom and Toxoplasmosis could share some similarities. But even I, with my exaggerated theories, won't go so far as to say that the symbiote is just a hyper-evolved form of this feline parasite. I don't need another Deadpool-as-Earnest Hemmingway moment on my hands No The reason I mention the parallels here is that whether we're talking about parasitic wasps, rat brain-warping parasites, or fictional alien parasites, one thing connects them all. . : a need for survival.
It's easy to forget, but parasites fight to survive like any other living creature and use every technique at their disposal. That is why the wasp gets the spider to build a stronger web so it can reproduce. That is why Toxoplasma forces the rat to be eaten, so that it can reproduce inside the cat's stomach. But now, let's take a look at Venom's behavior. We see him presumably eat a guy in the middle of a convenience store and then just leave a witness. If you need to eat a human to survive, why don't you look for victims to eat in uhh, I don't know, dark, secluded alleys instead of, I don't know, in the middle of the street where six people, yes, SIX PEOPLE? , count them, they are watching.
One of which appears to be recording everything on a cell phone. Behaviors like this result in Eddie and, by proxy, Venom being repeatedly attacked by thugs, having to flee and fight for their lives. In Spiderman 3 Venom, being evil, gets the worst possible enemy, Spider-Man. Any way you look at it, this behavior is simply not conducive to helping Venom survive. Rather he is doing exactly the opposite and putting it at active risk. So what's really going on here? Well, everything is explained by toxoplasmosis. You see, changing the behavior of rats so that cats eat them helps Toxoplasma survive and reproduce.
Inducing psychosis in humans, however, does none of that. It's a loss for the human who starts to develop mental problems, but it's also a loss for Toxoplasma, which can't get from the human's digestive tract to the cat and reproduce, because, well, there just aren't that many of them. man-eating cats out there. The problem is that Toxoplasma did not evolve to exist in humans. It evolved for the cat-rat lifestyle. The fact that it also affects humans is completely accidental, an unwanted side effect. This relates to a field called "zoonosis," infectious diseases that begin in animals but can eventually be transmitted to humans such as "bovine spongioform encephalopathy," probably better known as "mad cow disease." There is also bird flu and probably the most notorious example in history, the Black Death in 14th century Europe, which was transmitted by rat fleas that killed human hosts.
One of the reasons these types of diseases can be so fatal to humans is that they did not evolve to affect humans. They evolved to affect some other animal. The fact that they can infect and kill humans is just an accidental side effect which is generally a pretty bad evolutionary strategy if you're a parasite. But this is what seems to be happening in the case of symbiotes. We're so used to seeing Venom and other symbiotes like Carnage and Scream bonding with human hosts that you could make the mistake. We assume that symbiotes exist naturally to bond with humans, but that is not the case at all.
Canonically speaking, symbiotes were originally created by the primordial deity Null to slaughter the Celestials, basically space gods from the beginning of time. Do you remember Knowhere from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies? How is its head shaped? Oh yeah, in the comics that's technically the severed head of a Celestial where people park their boats anyway. It shouldn't be a big surprise that an organism created in a separate part of the galaxy with the intention of bonding with Jeesi space (matpat how the hell do I spell that) would likely experience unwanted side effects when attempting to bond with a human host;
It's a learning process that could explain why Venom's behavior sometimes seems erratic at best, and completely against his own survival at worst. In fact, if anything, it could be the Symbiotes themselves that are most affected by this bonding process. We often see the Venom symbiote as something that takes control of humans, but the bond works both ways. However, the symbiotes were originally created with evil intentions. One of the peculiarities of their programming is that they adopt some attributes of their host. In many cases, symbiotes feel that their existence is meaningless and one of the reasons they bond with a host is to give their lives a simple purpose.
This is one of the reasons why when Venom first teamed up with Peter Parker in the comics, what he did was go out at night and fight crime. The meaning of his own existence comes from Peter Parker, who spends most of his time fighting crime. However, this had an unintended side effect. Symbiotes that had bonded with benevolent hosts infected the symbiotic hive mind with traits such as nobility and honor. The good symbiotes eventually rebelled against Knull and imprisoned him in the center of his artificial planet in the Andromeda galaxy. Finally, they created the agents of the cosmos as a force, not of chaos, but of good.
If you needed proof that symbiotes weren't designed with humans in mind, that seems like a pretty good indicator. The fact that noble humans were essentially able to reprogram the mind of an evil alien symbiote hive to be benevolent seems to indicate that the symbiotes are not prepared for the effects of what happens when they bond with an entirely new organism. In this case, a human. whether that means turning the page and rebelling against his evil creator or simply threatening to eat a guy in the middle of the street and turn him into turds. Venom is on an unknown planet fighting for his own survival and one of the only weapons he has at his disposal is imperfect humanity.
He is afraid, he is threatened, and he is doing everything he can to survive. The Venom trailer seems to be trying to sell us on the idea that Venom is the one who is corrupting Eddie Brock But who knows, in the end, Eddie could be the one who ends up purifying Venom but hey, that's just a

theory

, a movie

theory

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