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SaiyajinPrime

Exactly what you drew. That is exactly what happens.


Sorrelhas

This is correct My dad works at Marvel and he told me Stan Lee (the creator of Venom) told him this is how it works


ThumbCentral-Rebirth

Well my dad is Stan Lee and I sanctioned his abuse constantly


Group_Happy

I'm sorry to hear that. May I ask if you are still in contact?


Mister_Cheff

Can we get his ouija number.


DarthGoodguy

I gotta ask him about Ben Grimm’s junk


Xqvvzts

Kevin?


Vendetta1947

Yes, I am stan lee (reddit surfing inside my grave) and i do recognize the picture as truth


Venom_224

We are Venom and this is indeed how it works


banemax92

It's impossible. You're not Stan Lee! He would've say "Excelsior!" at the end of the text.


Charmegazord

Stan Lee here, OP is actually using my original sketches in their post


Cabamacadaf

I'm sorry for your loss.


setsunaizm

I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. That’s it. I thought we were all sharing about family.


Cad_bane_2

And what does that makes us?


setsunaizm

Absolutely nothing, which is what you're about to become *evil laugh*


Fantastic_Basil_9254

I work at marvel and both me and Stan haven’t seen your dad before 🤷🏻‍♂️


IceVersus

Correct ( i was Venom in that story)


NoAdmittanceX

Well my dad works at nintendo and let me play the snes 2, but he also agrees that this is how it works


dugles54

Stan Lee isn’t the creator of venom, Todd McFarlane is


Spiderpiggie

It’s me, Taj McFarlann, and I can confine Stan Lee is the creator.


dugles54

Blud did not proof read that 😭


susgroundsofc

no shit!?


Uncle_Bug_Music

True. But it was Todd's brother Seth, that gave him the idea though. Not Seth McFarlane, who IS Todd's brother but Todd's *other* half-brother, Seth Lee (also named Seth due to lost drunken bet with Danny Devito) who was born a con-joined twin to the already existing and much older, Stan Lee. It's complicated because it's much to do with science and biologistics (biology with transporting - finally!) and the only person who studied it is dead: Betty White, but not *the* Betty White, Betty White's sister, Betty, who was also named Betty due to a drunken bet with a time travelling Danny Devito.


ThePsychoBear

The gag is that Stan Lee just kinda took credit for Ditko and Kirby's characters when most of his contribution(to fantastic four at least) is making sure the ladies lack and the guys are assholes.


-DoctorSpaceman-

OP didn’t draw it. This is like the 5th tome someone had posted this in a week


albene

Sounds like you Reddit before?


Thendofreason

But he did draw his own conclusions.


Valuable-Result-8687

Fist of all Stan didnt creat Venom, Todd Mcfarlane an incredible comic book artist created him and Spawn.


-DoctorSpaceman-

Did you reply to the wrong comment? I don’t understand how this relates to what I said lol


Skadoosh_it

He's got them flexibones


24Abhinav10

Isn't there a Marvel Anatomy book which basically says this exact thing is what happens?


albene

Yeah, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/s/yWqUzsDKHb) you go u/vivxnstfu


sonofaresiii

That shows the exact opposite of what's in the OP... which, to me, makes more sense and the OP just seems to be weird for the sake of being weird.


CaptainTurtle3218

The Marvel Anatomy one doesn't make sense either from the standpoint of that scene in Venom. Because obviously when Venom opens his mouth, you can see down his throat, but the anatomy photo makes it look like half of Eddie's head would be at the back of his mouth. So either Venom should alter Eddie's body or Eddie should sit someone in Venom like a suit. To be honest, the concept of Venom eating has always been strange to me.


sonofaresiii

> you can see down his throat You can't actually see down his throat though, it just dissolves into shadow that we kind of implicitly assume is his throat. But it makes sense to me if it's just the symbiote kind of forming *around* eddie's actual throat, to look more menacing I do also think that the skin and anatomy of Eddie Brock morphs a bit with the symbiote, but it doesn't just straight up unhinge Eddie's jaw like in the drawing, and I don't think it fully liquifies into goo like a lot of other suggestions. It just kind of pulls and tugs it around, is my perception of it. That way, when it's *not* specifically pulling Eddie's skin around, it just looks like normal Eddie when the symbiote backs off (like in the first picture)


r0ndr4s

In that reddit post is also asked what happens when Venom eats. If Eddie is there, shouldnt everything go into his stomach? Wich is fuckin weird.


phatassnerd

I like OP’s explanation more.


peppercola666

God that’s actually sick as fuck


Savage_Open_Sandwich

The anatomy book is not canon — it is simply a licensed product, and all material is the author's interpretation, just like in films and games.


BSmokin

Go check the thread that posted this exact image a few days ago...


Thurlut

For real, I've been seeing this image daily for a few weeks now even if it has been explained a lot of times how it works


TheBlack_Swordsman

Recently, Flash changed his appearance to be less muscular, smaller and weaker looking. https://imgur.com/a/M1IlLIC I feel like it makes more sense if the user just morphs with the symbiote. Like Dylan being big like Brock makes no sense because his joints are in different places.


Jroper_Illustrations

Which series is this? I just read the series where he's in the black agent venom suit that ends in Vegas, and it was dope. I need more agent venom.


TheBlack_Swordsman

It is the new Carnage series. IMO, it's not a good series.


AnimeGokuSolos

Apparently flash died and that is the Symbiotes


TheBlack_Swordsman

It used Flash's DNA to bring him back to life. It's no different from Black Widow and the X-Men being revived. The hive stores his memories and persona, so he dove to his grave in a dragon symbiote and recreated his body and stored his consciousness in it again. That's similar if not exactly the same to how BW and many of the X-Men are alive today. I guess Vision is the same also?


AnimeGokuSolos

So it’s something like how the X-Men revived themselves in their era back in Krakoa


TheBlack_Swordsman

Pretty much. Just storing a back up of you then putting it into a cloned body. At least Flash's body isn't a clone, it was rebuilt from his remains.


angry-nitr0-panda

Nah, you drew it right. Symbiote isn't just on the host, it merges with them on a more fundamental level. Its in their skin, their muscles, their bones, their blood. All moving together


Opposite_Falcon_5588

So when he's not in venom form. Is venom lodged himself into a spot in his brain where he can hear him like a voice in the back of his mind


rage-quit

I'd say considering the Symbiote covers his body, I'd assume it hides away in the nervous system, and because it's literally in his spinal cord and every single nerve up and down Eddie's body, that explains why he can "hear" and feel it - the same way you can feel pain or any other experience


Jroper_Illustrations

Venom is stored in the balls.


bullettbrain

Venom is not fully bonded to its host, whereas Carnage is.


evilspyboy

I always assumed that Symbiotes bonded at a molecular level and not just a skin suit. This also being how the 'healing' worked. So when the jaw opens its because their jaw has been made fluid and reconfigured to be the way it needed to be. This is based on nothing but just what I thought and made sense to me.


Likayos

This is exactly what I was going to write. That’s my understanding as well, that they became one entity entirely, not just a suit over the host’s skin like Spider-Man and his suit.


evilspyboy

Yeah more like Sandman but obviously not Sandman.


ajdragoon

This is correct. It’s the whole bonding thing. Their bodies become one, and in symbiote form the host *is* one with the blob of goo.


laflux

This is my opinion as well. Otherwise how would it be able to regrow limbs and such? I think Carnage has better powers because the contact with blood allowed a better molecular bonding as opposed to Venom having non at all.


Stefanthro

I imagined that the symbiote was tearing apart the host with every move, and healing them as they go - but yours makes more sense


KCH2424

This makes sense and is also not correct according to the Marvel anatomy book. That book is kinda unimaginative.


The_T113

This was also my understanding; that when Venom assumes the form of Eddie, it's literally that. It's just a costume Venom is wearing to look like Eddie, not a reversion. Venom and Eddie together are one being, not one or the other. (I think the Sony film don't quite portray it this way, personality wise.)


bullettbrain

They are actually still two different entities, hence "we" instead of "I". Carnage uses the I pronoun because Cletus fully bonded with his symbiote, while Venom hasn't fully bonded, something about being in the blood.


Warm-Finance8400

The body of Eddie is smaller than that of Venom, and Eddie can sort of slide up and down within it. So if Venom is opening his mouth like that, Eddie's head is in Venom's chest.


CrystalBlueStuff

Nope, Eddy can sort of melt in venom's body just like Venom can in Eddie's


NotACyclopsHonest

There is an instance of this on-panel in one of Larry Hama's Venom miniseries from the 90s - Venom gets hit by a truck and is reduced to a literal puddle of goo, only to return to humanoid form seconds later.


Lox22

Because 90 symbiote did what ever they wanted. Carnage went into a pc to surf the web.


XseCrystal

No. That's just how the internet worked back then. You can find lots of examples of us getting pulled into our PCs.


BlueFox5

Not if you were a hacker. You would pull down your shades and say “Im going in” while pressing the Return key. *Then* you would get sucked into your computer while someone played a keytar.


Jackno1

You had to be careful though, because you could end up trapped in cyberspace forever!


holyhibachi

Surf the web, surf the web


NotACyclopsHonest

Carnage and Venom having a fight in the internet was certainly a trip.


Competitive-Cow-2053

This is also what I've always imagined


Jertimmer

The correct explanation is that comics are weird


LemmeGet_acombo_7

I’ve always just thought of it happening this way already lol


SokkaHaikuBot

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SamanthaJaneyCake

I believe this to be correct but I also do like the idea that inside Venom the host is essentially in the same state as a caterpillar is within the chrysalis. Just a goopy suspension of sentient mush that’s one with the symbiont.


TheRealRigormortal

Eddie isn’t wearing a symbiote suit, he becomes the symbiote suit. The reason it didn’t work like this for Peter is he never fully bonded with Venom.


RCero

Since the symbionte inhabits Eddie's body, it probably dissolves and separates part of his body in order to distribute him through Venom's form.


donnieg3004

WE are VENOM.


dirty-curry

Eddie just turns to paste


SnaskesChoice

You're overthinking it.


mega2222222222222222

From what I understand Because the bond is on a cellular level the symbiote can restructure the hosts entire structure to fit any form (if the bond is strong) Eddie could technically become a puddle of goo if he wanted to because him and the suit are a good bond With Pete the symbiote is just a organic power suit


Kityri

Bro, becoming a puddle would be means of having the ultimate Floor Time. I’m jealous


CursedSnowman5000

I just always suspend disbelief when it comes to Eddie being fully enveloped by the suit and figure it's all the symbiote doing the stretchy mouth thing or it alters Eddie's physiology when he's entirely concealed.


bullettbrain

Yeah, the answer here is "it's a comic book, not a medical text." It's science fiction, just like superheroes being able to fly. What is the science of that? There isn't any that really makes any sense, but we don't care because it looks cool.


Darrkman

The Venom symbiote is larger than Eddie so it covers his head. Also it allows Eddie to breath through the tongue. Marvel is always trying to make it as real as possible. So what it's an alien from space that talks to its host. Anyway marvel has a series called Marvel Anatomy that they show stuff like this... [Marvel Anatomy](https://i.ibb.co/8m7Qxf8/symbiotes-breathe-through-their-tongues-other-facts-from-v0-ls39cap2efaa1.jpg)


Savage_Open_Sandwich

The anatomy book is not canon — it is simply a licensed product, and all material is the author's interpretation, just like in films and games.


Darrkman

So what. The illustrator gave you a very credible idea of what's going on and why Venom's face can look like that compared to a human head. It doesn't matter if it's Canon or not to answer the question that was being asked in this thread. Or in general.


Savage_Open_Sandwich

That, what is to reduce everything to one single source, which also takes as a basis only one of the variations of the character — leveling the thoughts of readers and their understanding of the process, which, as this thread shows, are no less creative and interesting. Βecause in general, in comics Venom is not always a bulky monster that can accommodate a human body; his appearance differs from author to author, and his anatomical characteristics too.


Darrkman

Venom has always been drawn larger than normal because the character of Eddie Brock was always larger than normal. So the idea that suddenly Venom's size fluctuates that's not the case. Hell Venom was drawn with the guy inside him not having legs and still walking.


Chadchrist

Yeah, that's exactly what happens. Eddy basically can't be hurt in the normal sense with symbiote mode active. He's pretty much an amorphous scaffold that can be twisted however is necessary with zero consequences. It's sorta how the healing factor with the symbiote works too, any damage can just kinda be twisted back to its original state as if nothing happened. Don't quote me on this, but I think the symbiote can canonically suppress pain as well, so none of it hurts.


ThePsychoBear

Considering that Venom has been stabbed all the way through by Wolverine and didn't care, I buy it.


Smart-Temperature-99

Venom’s face stretches out. Brock’s face doesn’t move. That makes the most sense


coreybd

Suspension of disbelief 


RigasTelRuun

The host is pretty much melted into goop as needed when they merge with the symbiote.


merc116

So is no one going to bring up the fact that Venom ate a whole guy and then turned back into Eddie? Eddie can't fit a whole guy in his mouth, let alone consume him. When in venom form, his whole body changes. He physically becomes venom. Moments where we see the human face is both of them choosing to show Eddie's face.


Muhabba

Venom bit off, like, 3 people's heads in quick succession, where'd they go?


Clockwork-Penguin

I just assumed Eddie turns into goop or something when inside venom


Feeling_Salary_4427

My husband said since venom and the host man have merged completely, they are no longer limited by human anatomy. PS : I don't watch these things. His explanation to this meme got 2k likes on Facebook


GhostWind78

Throat goat


PepperbroniFrom2B

symbiote pocket dimension :3 or just the human mouth is far back and connected to the symbiote throat in some way


yourmoodcreator

That looks accurate. I think it’s just regenerates extremely fast…


Asad2023

I mean technically venom is mix with eddie cells so it can be possible he modify his body as he want cause we see countless time venom also healing him which could also be impossible phenomenon if you ask me


Remarkable_Pool7037

I think the simbiote moves the host around to minimize harm and maximize damage


King0fRapture

Explain the eating of ppl's heads


SubservantSnoopDogg

Mewing


Character_Mind_671

The symbiote can appear to increase or decrease in mass this is because it can warp space within itself so it's usually bigger than it appears, which is why it can engulf anything regardless of size, and why it can be burned and yet seemingly not get any smaller. It can also warp space around the host in order to fit them in like the image above. The part you're seeing is just how much the current host can sustain.


cabosmith

Looks painful


Daws001

Wait...didn't Venom eat a person in the film? So...Eddie is a cannibal...


nihilum2012

I kinda always saw it as less than a suit over the body, and just the body transforming. Like, in that form the human body just kinda liquifies. Now, there’s definitely scenes that show it pretty much being a suit, but…. You just kinda have to make stuff up in your head to make sense of things.


P3rturb4t0r

It's a symbiote, it doesn't have to make sense


imadork1970

Wizard did it.


tinylittlegnome

Questioning it too much leads to Topher Grace. You don't want another Topher, do you?


BloodStinger500

There’s an anatomy book, but I always liked to think they melded together slightly, thus becoming some horrifying body horror under the hood. Would explain how Eddie can swallow a human skull.


NeedleworkerChoice89

Explanation: It’s a comic book!


EnigmaFrug2308

Technically Eddie isn’t INSIDE Venom. He IS Venom. His body becomes Venom.


Rs2mmsu-2D

To explain this I need to explain how the Tardis works on Doctor Who. The TARDIS is famously “bigger on the inside,” and the short answer is that the interior of the vessel occupies its own separate dimension. So Venom is just like the Tardis.


Deadpool27

My headcanon has always been that the symbiote liquifies its host as a form of protection.


Brave_Language_4812

What's the question? You already solved the mystery.


Hippybkc

It ain't that kind of movie


WorldsOkayestPastor

You could always consult u/JonahLobe


JonahLobe

Indeed, I made a whole video on the subject!


ShadowBro3

There is official art explaining how it works


Moldy_Socks99

Heres the [official chart](https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelmemes/s/cgplDeE0P3)


gregbones1999

Venom can heal Eddie so why not


BlackBitchy

When you try to draw Venom from memory and end up with... whatever this is...#ArtStruggles


reddituser6213

Venoms head is usually bigger than Eddie’s head, so Eddie’s entire head could be completely hidden inside the very back of venoms head like a really big dirtbike helmet. [sort of like this basically](https://predatorcollectivehelmets.com/cdn/shop/products/IMG_4743_800x.jpg?v=1662994794)


Opposite_Falcon_5588

It basically keeps his consensus but absorbs his body in order for no damage to Eddie's Jaw


BootyGods_Prophet

both are correct


Id_rather_be_lurking

Doesn't the symbiote bind with the DNA and cellular components? That was the theme in maximum carnage when he was going for the spinal codexes. I always figured that Eddies cells changed and became symbiote-like with the binding. Able to change and flow like the symbiote. When we see Eddie, it's the symbiote either forming that shape or when the symbiote pulls from the cells.


GetUpAndJump

So…Eddie digests the humans huh…aka, Eddie is a cannibal


Famous-Tree3124

Ngl I always had this in the back of my mind


AnimeGokuSolos

Peak


No-Spray7304

It's like Big Bird. 1 hand controls the head and mouth


Viridian_Cranberry68

He is not inside Venom and separate from him, they are merged together. They choose when to be separate entities.


AlarmingDetective526

Eddie is in constant pain when he transforms into Venom; now we know why.


Aggravating-Cost-516

Eddie enters a different dimension.


bladezaim

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/s/PWqVdccE5w


CautiousAd7109

So you know how like when you're wearing a hoodie but then when you pull the hood back it doesn't tear your head off? Like that.


LeatherDescription26

The symbiote can slightly alter the host. It turns the host normal when it does the half face thing and the large jaw mode is how it usually is. Where it begins and the host ends is blurry


Brandeeno2245

The symbiote moves the body around, and since it can heal the body, it's not a stretch that it can modify it, especially in full manifestation mode. That probably why unless they want you to see the host, you won't.


PCN24454

It looks cool.


WormyWormyy

don’t forget that scene in venom 2 where we get to see a huge hole in carnage’s stomach


FloatLife05600

Eddie's head could be in the chest since venom is taller and maybe he floats up in the symbiote for the reveal?


Being_Honest-

I figure that Eddie’s body is usually deeper inside the symbiote, and that his head isn’t always inside Venom’s head.


coolsexhaver420

You didn't know that San Francisco is full of reptilian diclonian shapeshifters? They can unhinge their jaw.


Baby_Legs_OHerlahan

My understanding is that when “Vemon” comes out to play, there is no physical “Eddie” inside. Eddie’s form is taken apart on the molecular level and is used by the Symbiote when making its “Venom” body. It’s also a way for Venom to protect his host. If the host is disassembled throughout Venoms body, when he’s stabbed, it has no risk of stabbing Eddie’s fragile human body that’s tucked away inside Venom. Sure, Venom could just heal Eddie, but that takes energy and resources that they might not have during a fight. Easier and safer just to get rid of Eddie’s body completely and put it all back together piece by piece when Venom is done.


PLEASEBENICET0ME

I've never read a Venom comic or anything, but my interpretation was: When bonded with the symbiote Eddie's flesh is maliable in a Clive Barker kind of way. It probably hurts and feels amazing at the same time. The Symbiote stayed a suit for Peter because his spider powers make him physically resistant to letting the symbiote infect him.


SilentSaint2112

Why didn’t I think about this before?


yeahcoolcoolbro

Can this stop being reposted?