![]() “I didn’t much like the notion of Danny Rand sitting in a corner with a needle and thread,” Byrne writes on his official website. But in the next installment, those uniforms are back and good as new.īyrne, who was working with writer Chris Claremont on Iron Fist at the time, noticed this illogical pattern. It happens in movies, television shows, and in comic books: Superheroes have a huge fight and their precious uniforms emerge as torn up as the heroes wearing them. Marvel ended up paying Scheuller $220 for the basic idea, and one year later Spidey appeared in a black costume.īut according to artist John Byrne, the fledgling idea that would eventually become Venom began much earlier, as a solution to a simple problem concerning superhero costumes. ![]() ![]() In 1982, Marvel asked readers to send in ideas for its comics, and a fan named Randy Schueller wanted to give Spider-Man a new black costume made of unstable molecules. Given Venom’s current status as one of Spider-Man’s most iconic foes, the character’s origin story is, fittingly, a hilarious combination of chance and pragmatism. Venom was a solution to a very common superhero conundrum It’s also an opportunity to get to know the beloved symbiote and its host, Eddie Brock (played by Tom Hardy), on their own terms and not defined by Peter Parker.įrom his beginnings as an editorial solution to the puzzling logistics of superhero uniform maintenance, to his weird alien and vampiric associations, to what he says about the future of Sony’s Spider-Man universe, Venom as a character represents a lot more than just the opposite of his most famous adversary. It’s fans’ first opportunity to see the iconic character come to life since his ignominious debut in 2007’s Spider-Man 3, and it presents a chance for Sony to perhaps absolve itself of some of the grievances leveled at that film. Venom is hitting theaters this weekend without Parker, who was last seen getting dusted away, along with half of humanity, by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. But if there’s any Spider-Man villain that can stand alone, it’s Venom, the squid-ink-colored inverse of Peter Parker. Just to spoil it now since we all already know it, Kangaroo is obviously number 1.It’s hard for a supervillain to shine when their greatest enemy, the superhero who defines them and vice-versa, has been recently vaporized by an Infinity Gauntlet-wearing mad titan. They've all earned a place on this list, through devious schemes, raw power, pure unadulterated evil of just that special indefinable x-factor than can give a character staying power. Get ready for a whole host of aliens, monsters and crimelords and a zoo's worth of animal-themed supervillains as we count down the twenty best enemies that Spider-Man has ever faced. We've already seen the cinematic debuts of some of his worst enemies and, with Spider-Man: Homecoming gearing up the debuts of even more foes, now is a great time to take a look at some of Spider-Man's greatest enemies. Through decades worth of adventures and over the course of numerous different series, he has built up a veritable smorgasbord of evil villains, filled with characters capable of wreaking havoc all on their own or together as part of the Sinister Six. ![]() Spider-Man is often considered to have one of the best rogue's galleries in comics.
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