reading the venom (2011) stuff and the thought of the 2018 run making the symbiote into a representation of addiction again is so frustrating to me cause like. agent anti-venom was RIGHT there
– flash already has a history with addiction (and eddie doesn’t fit the necessary archetype as well as flash, esp considering his attitude in many of the 90s arcs)
– the anti-venom power isn’t a symbiote (aka A Sentient Being), therefore you don’t have to keep it sedated or have a narrative of it being inherently violent/needing to be Controlled in order for it to fit the metaphor
– flash’s body doesn’t produce the anti-venom naturally, and it seems he ran out of it a whole lot faster than eddie did, so he would need to receive more of the serum/acid/whatever the fuck– which, again, works a whole lot better towards the metaphor of getting a fix
– imo flash’s desire to continue being a superhero would easily lead to him returning to alchemax so he can continually refresh the anti-venom, while agreeing to do a lot of the kind of morally grey stuff as payment like what eddie did for the company in the past. esp when you consider the contrast between flash’s goals and eddie’sanyways. symbiote rights!
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