apprenticenanoswarm:

when judging Eddie Brock’s character and actions over the years, I feel like it’s important to recall that he AND the symbiote have both – together and separately – been subjected to prisoner abuse and, let’s not mince words here, horrifying torture by the police and other powerful authority figures multiple times.

like, clearly this is a pants-wettingly gruesome scene. BUT in the panels just before this happens, one of the guards was literally having himself a chuckle finding out how loud he could make Eddie scream. and, of course, the generally accepted protocol across the Marvel universe when holding the symbiote prisoner is “stick that thing in a tiny jar on its own, with no stimulation or respect for its autonomy, so we can poke and prod it”. and that’s the BEST case scenario. 

so i kinda feel like that’s an important part of their bond. not just that they’ve both endured trauma but that they’ve both endured the exact same type of trauma at the hands of a world and a system that punishes criminality with dehumanization. 

(also, i need someone to come up with a more appropriate word than ‘dehumanization’ pls? because the symbiote…isn’t human, obvs. but i can’t think of a better way of succinctly describing the practice of treating a person like an object. help?)