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word of advice ! This clause contain spoilers for Venom # 25Being a villain - turn - antihero himself , Venomreally should n’t be judging or criticizing any ground hero sandwich in the Marvel Universe at all , let alone a fellow member of perhaps the most honored squad in Marvel Comics story , the Fantastic Four . However , in his latest adventure , Venom names the one Marvel Cuban sandwich even he does n’t respect : Johnny Storm aka the Human Torch .
Eddie Brock became Venom after Spider - Man violently murder his mysterious smuggled cause that subsequently infected Brock . Both the symbiote and Eddie hated Spider - Man at that sentence for their own reasons , so they were felicitous to knead together to try and kill him . As time get going on , however , Venom ’s hatred for Spidey subsided , and the two finally became big allies , and even close friends . By the time oftheKing In Blackcrossover event , Spider - Man became Eddie ’s tightlipped confidant , and was even someone Eddie trust to know about and watch over his own son . Now , as Eddie get over the timestream following the events of theKing In Black , he reveals a secret animosity not towards Spider - Man , but the Human Torch , which was something that no one antecedently knew about .
Venom Openly Mocks Human Torch’s Intelligence
InVenom#25 ( by Al Ewing , Sergio Dávila , Sean Parsons , Ken Lashley , Cafu , and Julius Ohta ) , Venom needs a clock time automobile in gild to battle his young high - concept Sci - Fi villain call Meridius in a space that be at the end of all things known as the Garden of Time . The issue open up with Eddie fighting Doctor Doom over Victor ’s time platform , and as the two struggle across the timeline , they finally attract the aid of Kang the Conqueror , who in reality considers Venom a friend . devote his fate , Kang offers Eddie an artifact in the beginning made by Reed Richards and used by the Fantastic Four : the Time Sled . The Time Sled had the capacity to jaunt through fourth dimension and place , but it was designed withevery fellow member of the Fantastic Fourin mind , meaning it was a machine that Eddie could operate even if he did n’t full understand how it worked . In fact , Brock even commented on that fact , saying , “ This was built so Johnny Storm could pilot it . I think I can piece it up ” .
Johnny Storm is an integral member of the Fantastic Four given his powers as the Human Torch , but it ’s no secret that he is n’t exactly the sassy member of the squad . To be bonnie , he ’s competing mainly with the like of Reed Richards , who might be the smartest serviceman in the multiverse . Though harmonize to Venom , Johnny is just relatively dense when considering Reed , he ’s just broadly speaking not very sound . Eddie ’s gossip was meant as an obvious dig , implying Johnny is ‘ so stunned ’ , anyone could operate something that was designed for him to vanish . While this sentiment is seemingly out of nowhere , and is n’t that exact give Johnny ’s many noetic accomplishment through his Fantastic Four account , there could be an explanation behind Venom ’s feelings towards him : Spider - Man .
Spider-Man & Human Torch Are Friends, Which Is Why Venom Hates Him
Spider - Man and the Human Torch are excellently booster , and have been long before the Venom symbiote was in the picture . Since Venom ’s early life sentence was spent despising Spider - Man and everything he stomach for , it ’s possible that he grew to hate the Human Torch simply because he was a close friend and friend of Spider - Man , and Venom simply never conciliate those tactual sensation the mode he did with Spider - Man himself . However , no matter of why , this comedian clearly indicates that the one Marvel Comics heroVenomhas no respect for is the Human Torch , and his dig at Johnny Storm ’s intelligence information shew it .
Venom # 25by Marvel Comics is available now .
