Warning ! This article contains spoilers for Free Comic Book Day 2023 : Spider - Man / VenomVenom ’s root inSpider - Man 3was not well receive by fans , but in one of Venom ’s latest comics , it seems the explanation give in the film was n’t as lazy / excessively simplistic as it initially seemed , as that controversial origin is now Marvel Comics canyon .

In Sam Raimi’sSpider - human being 3 , the Venom symbiote comes to Earth via a random meteorite landing properly next to Peter Parker ’s scooter , before latching onto it and subsequently infect Parker through symbiosis , creating the Black - Suit Spider - Man which finally leads tothe nascency of Eddie Brock ’s Venom . In the comedian , Spider - Man beak up the symbiote during the originalSecret Wars – an event that was occur in recondite quad . Then , in the movieVenom , the symbiote was brought to Earth likewise to how it come to the major planet in the ‘ 90sSpider - Mancartoon . It was pluck up by the spaceman John Jameson and hitch a ride aboard his spacecraft , thereby invade Earth upon the ship ’s blood line . In both the risible and theVenomfilm / Spider - Mancartoon , the symbiote is picked up after a human finds it in space , yet inSpider - Man 3 , the alien just plops down from the stars right next to Peter with no explanation whatsoever . While that was a middling annoying lack of storytelling warmth , it seems as though symbiotes come to Earth by attaching themselves to meteorites is just something that sometimes happens ( and could be perniciously careful ) .

Venom’s Arrival on Earth in Spider-Man 3 Also Happened in the Comics

In theFree Comic Book Day 2023 : Spider - Man / Venomstory denominate “ January , 1940 ” by Al Ewing and CAFU , readers are taken back to the year 1940 where a squad of scientist and businessmen jazz as the Williams Brothers are mouth with a newsperson about the newest superhero on the vista : Flexo . Flexo is seemingly a rubberized robot who can bend , stretch , and is virtually unkillable . What ’s interesting about Flexo , however , is n’t what he can do , but how he was made . Flexo is actually a symbiotethat the Williams Brothers found and then nurtured until it arise into a courting large enough to cover an entire ‘ golem ’ superhero . And the Williams Brothers found this incredible substance in a meteorite .

While it is still exceedingly otiose writing that the meteorite inSpider - Man 3hit the ground right next to Spider - Man , the fact that it came to Earth this way should no longer be controversial . As turn out in this comic – which promises to lead into the on-going Venom series , giving this origin even more credibleness – it seems as though symbiotes have been coming to Earth via meteorite since the ‘ 40s , at least . Who knows how long this method of interplanetary transportation has been used by the symbiotes , and if it ’s something that can be linked back to the original business leader in Black himself .

When Knull obligate the toilet of the King in Black before Eddie Brock killed him and take the title for himself , he unfold his symbiotes out across the cosmos for eon before they eventually turned on him and snare Knull within their planet . This means that Knull likely control the meteorites his symbiotes were riding when infest planets , as he efficaciously had control over all their mind at once before the symbiotes fought back for their own self-direction . Could this mean that the King in Black targeted Peter Parker for symbiote contagion inSpider - Man 3 ? Probably not . But that does n’t discount the fact that symbiotes invading planets through meteorites is something that they canonically do in the comics , thereby soothing the tilt surroundingVenom ’s stemma inSpider - Man 3 .

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Venom in Spider-Man 3.

A symbiote was found in a meteorite in the comics.

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