Venom - Artboard 1

Senator Steward Ward, who hopes to better understand his own alien infection by researching the symbiote before it returns to Brock.

When Spider-Man helps Venom save Brock's ex-wife Anne Weying, the two form a temporary truce, though this falls apart after Weying's suicide.

Peter turned himself in for the murders, but was ultimately declared not guilty since the other heroes who were possessed by symbiotes testified on his behalf.

Bane used Venom to escape Peña Duro and traveled to Gotham City, with ambitions of defeating.