Hello! I am seriously in love with the concept of this game so far and the potential of cool stuff that can come with it in the future. One thing I am very concerned about however, is how literally every tabletop or card game has handled my all time favorite character, Eddie Brock/Venom. I am hoping and praying that the devs of this game check up on this forum often because I would like to put some input into how I think that Venom should play in the game.
Artwork
First and foremost however, please when thinking about artwork for this hero, PLEASE draw your influence from the 90’s art and prior. Preferably Mark Bagley’s version of the character during the very first Carnage appearance which I would also like to mention his version of Carnage in that era imo is the definitive version of the character as well(duh he created Carnage). If not Bagley, then Erik Larsen’s version of Venom was always awesome and looked so menacing during the 80’s and I actually liked that version sometimes more than even Bagley’s work. Please do not do artwork of either symbiote with the “clawed toes”. Carnage does not have a tongue or spider symbol on his chest I hate that some artists depictions of the character displayed him in this way, that was Venom’s thing to spite/mock Spider-Man. I bring this up because it’s been done before and it’s such an eyesore for me when I see these things on the artwork that I never purchased any game containing these elements of my 2 favorite symbiotes. You want to do it to any other symbiote go for it. But please stick to the original design for both of these characters when you decide to release them. I will try to leave images for reference if my phone allows me to. Both Bagley and Larsen gave Venom the right amount of bulkiness and height it wasn’t overly massive for no reason.
Powers/Theme
Early Amazing Spider-Man/Lethal protector Era- I really want to see Venom themed around protecting innocents it was and still kind of remains his thing even though I stopped reading comics after Venom became a demon and grew wings and a “space knight”, I still observe in the shadows on preview pages to see what is up with him and notice that they at least kept that in tact with his character somewhat. This should be the main focus of his set. Not sure how you’d be able to implement it in game with no bystanders around or whatnot, but if I come up with further ideas I will drop them here.
His powers and abilities should center around his symbiote mimicking Spider-Man being able to generate tendrils in the form of WEBS like Spider-Man only a little weaker, camouflage and being able to shape shift his alien to mimick clothing etc, brute strength being able to lift gigantic objects like trucks, construction vehicles etc., haymaker punches, web tossing or just simply throwing an enemy into a wall/object since he is much stronger than Spidey he can probably do it to any character in the Marvel Universe. He was able to track Carnage using his symbiote for a short period(Just an idea if you decide to do Maximum Carnage as a villain scenario for Carnage). Just please keep the tendril attacks/moves to a MINIMUM, that is what made Carnage unique from Venom is that he used tendrils so much more in weapon form. Maybe one tendril attack or defense move is fine.. but no weapons. They didn’t start doing that until the modernized version of Venom when Flash Thompson acquires the symbiote. Leave all that mess out of this please I beg of you. A simple tendril choke or throw is fine I guess. No mind control, no wings/flight, no weapon tendrils, no vampirism/life steal mechanics, blasters, guns none of that please. Just brute force and Spidey mimickry, camouflage etc for the most part with a tiny bit of tendril attacks/defenses.
As a villain he is able to mute Spidey’s Spider Sense just an idea if you decide to make a villain pack for him also but I think he is better as a hero
Weaknesses/ideas for obligations
-his ex wife Anne Weying
-Fire and Sonics
-his tendencies to protect innocents get in the way sometimes from his goals
-hatred for spider man
MINIONS TO FIGHT this one is a little hard
-The Jury
-Maybe Jack O Lantern although he was more Flash’s nemesis he did fight Eddie as Venom recently
-The spawns he originally had in the Lethal Protector series Phage, Scream, Lasher, etc
- sin-eater
- Any Maximum Carnage sub-villain: Shriek, Carrion, Doppleganger, Demogoblin, etc.
ALLIES
Cap?
Firestar
Black Cat
Cloak/Dagger
Punisher?
Morbius
Deathlok
Iron Fist?
i put question marks next to characters I think are probably going to get the hero pack or already have the hero pack treatment in case you’re trying to make them unique which I completely am fine and would agree with anyway
that is all for now as I have a busy day ahead of me if I missed anything I’ll post it later! I love Venom and I really want to get this game, but games like legendary and vs system and heroclix never got the darn character right FULLY there was always something that turned me off so I never bought any of them. Please make my 2 favorite symbiotes the right way! Thanks!
EDIT: below is an image of Bagley’s Venom for reference
Edited by LordvaderCQ
Added some text