Topher Grace - with his NEW BLONDE DO which not only dyes his hair but his eyebrows as well - looks EXACTLY like the Ultimate Spiderman Eddie Brock. I pointed this out many times on this board. Although I DETEST the Ultimate spiderman storyline for venom, it makes it a quick and easy way to introduce the symbiote without having to have a backstory which took place during Secret Wars #8. (Go look it up!!)
Eddie Brock JR is the character that becomes venom, NOT Eddie Brock Sr. Eddie Brock SR actually was a friend of Peter Parker's father (in the ultimate storyline) and they were working on a cure for cancer. Eddie Brock JR and Peter Parker actually hung out together as toddlers.
Eddie Brock JR tells peter that they used a human's dna to start this magic cancer cure. Whos DNA? Peter's Fathers.
Stupid, I know, but that's the ultimate storyline.
It's this black goo that supposedly is the cure. (gee, the symbiote)
So Spiderman decides that he's going to take the DNA sample / black goo and perfect the yet-to-be-created cancer cure which is a work in progress. When he accidentally touches it, it engulfs his entire body and he now has a black costume.
However, his mood changes, and at one point he actually transforms into the likeness of venom - Huge Fangs, long tongue, and VERY VERY muscular - and peter is NOTHING like that - duh - in the ultimate universe. He's actually super scrawny and silly looking with a large head and skinny body.
However, that not withstanding, the black costume becomes 'venom'. He manages to get it off of him. Brock gets it back, and boom, connects with him, and he becomes venom. Mind you, BROCK JR is a very scrawny and skinny guy - exactly like peter - he looks almost like him except for the Blonde Hair and Blonde Eyebrows - hence, the casting of a topher grace who has similar features to Tobey McGuire.
So can we please accept that Venom is in fact a character in this movie?
As for not being able to pull off two villains, I think everyone has forgotten something very significant about Batman Begins - it had THREE villains:
1 - Ra's Al Guhl
2 - Scarecrow
3 - The mob Boss in Gotham
And we didn't even care. We actually enjoyed and accepted it. I say that we'll accept both Sandman and Venom as villains because Venom - although he hates Spiderman - doesn't want anyone ELSE hurting him. Hence, he'll very well "protect" Spiderman from Sandman.
And I will remind you that Venom is the only one in the universe that has been able to damage Sandman to the point of him dying. He bit a chunk of his material and he died. Go look it up!
I hope this post makes it, because I'm tired of typing!
(this was posted by someone in another forum.....I thin kit gives a great explanation as Grace being Venom......What do you guys think..?