Info on Venom the villain

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Here I will talk about my fave Spider-Man villain of all time... the malicious, vicious, vengeful and bloodthirsty VENOM!!!

Venom is the result of symbiosis between an extraterrestrial symbiote and Eddie Brock, a journalist who held a personal grudge against both Spider-Man and Peter Parker for stealing his girlfriend and costing him his job at the Daily Bugle.

The alien costume, prior to grafting itself to the nervous system of Eddie Brock, somehow absorbed the powers of Spider-Man during its brief symbiotic relationship with him. These powers were transferred to Brock, so long as he wore the costume. At his peak, Brock had conditioned himself to lift (press) almost 700 lbs before he came into contact with the costume. Once he merged with the costume, he was able to lift (press) almost 11 tons. The alien costume also replicated Spider-Man’s ability to cling to walls by controlling the flux of inter-atomic attraction between molecular boundary layers.

As Venom, Brock could also shoot strands of the alien’s substance in the form of webbing (from the top of his clenched fists) at high pressure up to a distance of 70 feet. The alien’s substance seems to be composed of tough, flexible fibers of organic polymers, which regenerate swiftly after shedding. The strands have extraordinary adhesive properties, which diminish rapidly once they abandon their living source. After about three hours, with no source to nourish them, the strands dry up like dead skin and dissolve into a powder. The strands possess a tensile strength of 125 pounds per square millimeter of cross section. Venom also possessed an extrasensory ability similar to Spider-Man’s spider-sense (except that it can disable the latter's spider sense). This response is not as complicated as Spider-Man’s inherent sense since the alien costume can detect danger from every direction and conduct Brock in plenty of time. However, it is not as efficient as Spider-Man’s spider-sense because it takes longer to communicate the danger, and Brock’s reflexes are not as fast as Spider-Man’s, even though they had been greatly enhanced by the alien costume.
When distributed at a typical thickness over Brock's body, the symbiote was capable of absorbing bullets from small-arms weapons firing conventional ammunition. The symbiote is however particularly vulnerable to both sonic and heat-based attacks (both factors leading to the symbiote's downfall in the movie). Also the symbiote has the power to blend in with the background.

Although it had not been fully explained, Venom is immune against Ghost Rider's Penance Stare.