A Force Sensitive Phasesixer

I read Venom: Dark Origin and I hate it.

It totally erased Eddie Brock’s more complex personality, and made him a complete jerk and downright creepy person. The most interesting thing about 90′s Venom is
the conflict of them being able to do something bad but also something good. He genuinly cared about the homeless underground people and went through great effort protecting them from coporation; but you can’t deny the fact that he killed several guards the few times he was put in The Vault because that’s a necesarry sacrifise to them, and how he blames Spiderman for his own down-fall, which is a character flaw they shold focus on.

But in Dark Origin, he was re-written into this cowardly manipulative hypocrite who fakes everything and never cares about other people, only their attention, which is simply not true if they payed attention to any of the older Venom story. It’s just “let’s make this villain terrible and unsympathetic” for the sake of making another “psychopath”.

Also, I simply don’t buy that Eddie is manupulative and a creep to women as written in Dark Origin (faking his living address to bring a girl to a shady ally and it’s hinted that he’s going to do something creepy but some thugs interrupt him). In Sinner Takes All and Along Came A Spider, he was protective to Ann but he was never being pushy or intimidating. He plead Ann to be back to him but when Ann understanbly refused because of the symbiote, he simply let her go because he knew he fucked up. Even in The Madness, and let me tell you, that miniseries is downright creepy and has some really uncomfortable scenes (because of other non-symbiote weird alien parasites that literally drives ppl crazy, ugh), but in the end, when the love interest said she doesn’t want to have an “intimate” relationship with Eddie, he accept it and they are still friends and acting normally in the other stories.

Why would Dark Origin completely missed all these and wrote an anti-hero with zero (0) previously well established good and bad character traits? Even the movie Venom, it basically retcon the whole comic background, but it still got Eddie Brock’s essential character: he cares, but he doesn’t think too deep about consequences, and he doesn’t like to admit mistakes.

TL;DR

Dark Origin is terrible retcon of Eddie Brock. Don’t touch it if you like the 90′s canon more.