symbiote containment blog

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[scentedninjapuppy]

El carnoso y el tierno sleeper ❤️🖤

[farsight-the-char]

“Queen In Black: Venom Unchained” issue 1

variant by Peach Momoko

[codicies]

Hey Marvel I'm gonna need a panel of Dylan & Valeria interacting soon so I can superimpose this onto it:

[holy-comics-batman]

Whyyyy are they like this. Why. It's like a bad commercial where they turn and start talking to the camera

[codicies]

Eddie Brock, unironically: (pulls the needle off a nearby record player) Yeah, that's me. I bet you're wondering how I got into this situation.

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Amazing Spider-Man: Spider-Versity #4

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: SPIDER-VERSITY #4

CARNAGE ON CAMPUS! NORMAN OSBORN’s training regimen takes its toll on the Spiders! As they pick up the pieces, another threat emerges — is there a killer loose on campus?!

Written by: Joe Kelly, Jordan Morris Art by: Pere Pérez, Guru-eFX Cover by: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Edgar Delgado Page Count: 32 Pages Release Date: Jul 15, 2026

[codicies]

CARNAGE

YOU CAN'T BE RED GOBLIN ANYMORE

THAT NAME BELONGS TO RASCAL AND LITTLE NORMIE 🤬🤬🤬

[hazeltea-returns-to-this-site]

No one else has uploaded the best panel from ANV#259 so here you go. Eddie would love to have this on his phone.

[venomsno1fan]

It’s canon!

[kaijuparfait]

they hate each other but can agree on one thing

[luidlangel]

Sleeper's protective brother moments:

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Fantastic Four #14

FANTASTIC FOUR #14

OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: ABSOLUTELY THE MOST UNEXPECTED STORY YOU’LL READ ALL YEAR! Something has gone terribly wrong on Earth, and it’s spreading from human to human — quickly, unstoppably. The Baxter Building is not immune — and before they can even realize there is a problem, everyone on the Fantastic Four is compromised!… Everyone, that is, save for Jo and Nicki — the young adopted children of Ben and Alicia, whose alien Kree and Skrull physiology leaves them immune. But what can two children do to save an entire world all by themselves? And what if what’s needed for a cure is physically impossible? Jo and Nicki take center stage in this mind-bending single-issue epic! PLUS: A SPECIAL BACKUP STORY CELEBRATING DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH!

LEGACY #740

Written by: Ryan North Art by: Ramón Rosanas, Edgar Delgado Cover by: Humberto Ramos, Edgar Delgado Page Count: 32 Pages Release Date: Jul 15, 2026

[codicies]

oh hell yeah, a Nicki & Jo adventure!! This is gonna be great.

[thispreciousthing]

[venomseedofdarkness]

Dylan: Hi i am 6 or 11 years old 😊 and i want to eat ice cream 🍨 and have fun 🤩 playing video games 🎮 and have a good day today 🥰 with my family and friends 💗

Some random corporate knight: hey we need to kidnap this kids parents & then hook the kid up to the torture machine

His dad: son can i borrow 5 dollars and the symbiote

His other dad: i miss your daddddd 😢 😢

His sibling: kid do you want me to kill myself in your honour. I can do that. I can kill myself in your honour. Let me kill myself in your honour

Some random vigilante: dude i need to beat the fuck out of this kid i swear i need to bomb his house

His evil grandfather that is a primordial god trapped in hell: grandson. Kill your father for me and let me kidnap you for torture pleaseeee

His other sibling: kid i will rip your skin off and boil you alive i need you to fucking dieee

His school bully: fucking gay nerd loll 🤛

[red-hydra]

I'm not sure where this page is from, but just yesterday I was thinking: what if symbiotes actually carried the little hostless baby symbies in their mouths the same way crocodiles and alligators carry their babies?

And now look at Venom being a good grandpa and carrying Toxin...!

[codicies]

This is Venom (2021) issue 27! That's Dylan Venom carrying Toxin in his mouth ❤️

This was actually the arc that gave me the foundation upon which I interpret a lot of Dylan's personality, too.

Just an issue before, we had this moment:

"Toxin is our grandchild."

Venom has already revealed that it's Dylan in there, not Eddie, so they're not trying to maintain a façade. By this point the Venom symbiote has developed a sense of individuality, so it's not using "our" in place of "my."

They could have easily said "[Toxin] is family" and retained a similar meaning, but they didn't. They, as a unit, chose the word "grandchild."

Dylan actively chose to claim Toxin as his grandchild instead of his nephew.

More than that, this arc also showed Dylan taking responsibility for any baby symbiotes he found, making it his mission to find good hosts for them. He was furious when Nat bonded to Sliver without his knowledge or input because he was worried about Nat being a bad influence on it.

Dylan was parentified (and grandparentified) in Eddie's absence.

This is where it clicked in my brain just how Dylan's personality is shaped by Eddie. Where Eddie refuses to accept responsibility when it gets inconvenient, Dylan willingly shoulders responsibility that was never his to bear. "Toxin's grandfather" is Eddie's role. "Caring for baby symbiotes" is something Eddie should be worried about, as King in Black.

But Eddie's not here, and the way Dylan sees it, somebody has to. So he steps up.

[codicies]

You know, I was reading this arc as it came out, and I remember thinking "This is cool and all but I don't really think this has any thematic relevance to Dylan. I thought this was going to be one singular rogue that Dylan could have to himself, but no, it's just this... weird cult of people collectively detaching themselves from their identities and calling themselves No One."

But thinking about it now in relation to what I just said in the previous reblog, it actually is thematically relevant. Dylan is trying so hard to fill the void that Eddie left behind that the void has started to subsume him. He's working himself so hard trying to shoulder all this responsibility that he's losing aspects of himself to do it, and is dangerously close to (metaphorically) losing his identity as Dylan.

[aadamantine]

The arc is certainly big for Bren at least. Worth reading for him

[codicies]

Considering the nature of animation & how its impossible to establish decades of context & growth for Eddie Brock before adding a teenage son to the mix, I'd like to submit my pitch for how Dylan Brock could work in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (or another future adaptation) without compromising his innate link to symbiotes:

He can still be the bio son of Eddie and the symbiote (Knull used Eddie's DNA & some of Symby's matter to craft his little human avatar remotely) and Dylan gets a happier ending than Annie did, breaking free of Knull's influence and living with his "dad."

[metsaahenki]

i was wildly obsessed with symbrock in the beginning of the year, now phm takes my mind, drawing them together brings joy to me

they want to know all, just for scientific reasons of course

[blitzzeri]

they go on double dates the silly men and their alien partners

[codicies]

If I was composing music for a Venom TV show, each symbiote would have a bass line leitmotif that would harmonize with each host's leitmotif accordingly but in different ways

[codicies]

Carnage's bass line would have an insane time signature.

[codicies]

Carnage's bass line if I had my way: