Re: Kirsten Dunst Confirms Venom And Sandman To Be Spidey 3 Villians!

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 "Smart Ape marks for Opie" <Zaius@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >> > And yes, it's a living creature in the shape of a costume.
> >>
> >> Debatable, it has an amorphous form whether it's bonded to a human or

> >> not...
> >> With a human it manifests as a humanoid shape, but it can distort
that 
> >> from
> >> almost completely, just look at Venom's mouth.. FAR wider than a
normal
> >> human mouth could ever hope to be.
> >
> >   Yeah. Then there's the ridiculous tongue with green saliva. And the
> > shark teeth. I don't think it bulks up the wearer so much as bulks
> > itself up when it has a wearer. Maybe it can. I dunno. But it wouldn't
> > happen overnight.
> 
> Remember when Peter wore the costume, he wasn't any bigger. Venom was
only 
> big because Eddie Brock was big. Michelinie and McFarlane made sure to
show 
> Brock working out prio to his first appearance.
> Also, look at Carnage. he's not huge; he's just a skinny guy, because
Cletus 
> Kasady is skinny.
> 

   Yeah, see? It adds nothing but itself.

> >   Doesn't it also lean more on the parasitic side than symbiotic
> > anyway? IIRC it leaves people weaker after they get rid of it. And
> > mentally they are definitely worse for wear (no pun intended).
> 
> It feeds off of adrenaline, which is why it always wanted Peter back. I
like 
> to think it also gives its host's cancer, as both Brock and Kasady
contacted 
> it when they were separated with the symbiote.
> Paul Jenkins added this in the initial Spectacular Spdier-Man (vol 2)
arc.

   Parasite then. Not symbiote. 



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