Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The plural pronoun is the whole character: a man and a parasite who have stopped being two minds. It sells the horror (the thing can't be separated from its host without killing him) and the double-voiced menace that later Venom stories, the 1990s Lethal Protector era and the films keep. Fans repeat it as a flat statement of identity, usually followed by a lunge.
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In context
Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-ManShow the scene
Venom is the fusion of journalist Eddie Brock and the alien symbiote that once served as Spider-Man's black costume (introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #252, 1984). Brock, disgraced after a botched Sin-Eater story, is praying in a church when the symbiote, which Spider-Man had shed using the sound of its bells, bonds to him; together they hunt Spider-Man in his full first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988), created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. Because the two are a single creature, Venom speaks as "we", and "We are Venom" is how the combined being introduces itself.
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- Wikipedia: Venom (Marvel Comics character)infobox and Publication historyReference checked
- Wikipedia: Eddie BrockFictional character biographyReference checked
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