The Venom symbiote begins to control Peter’s body without his knowledge until Peter figures it out and escapes. Venom started off as a Spider-Man villain-an alien who disguises itself as a new Spidey suit and bonds with Peter Parker, giving him extra powers. Marvel’s Venom comics have a long history of erotic horror subtext, coupled with an unexpected romance between Venom (an alien symbiote who physically and mentally bonds with a human host) and Eddie Brock, Tom Hardy’s character in the movie. The tongue was a predictable focus for the first wave of horny Venom jokes, but compared to characters like Pennywise, Venom’s sex appeal goes a little deeper. Into this landscape arrived a sweaty Tom Hardy, readily engulfed by a ravenous beast with a gaping, slavering mouth and a prehensile tongue. The last few years saw an unexpected convergence between sincere monster erotica (hello to Guillermo del Toro and Amazon’s vast platform of werewolf ebooks) and absurdist memes about wanting to bang Pennywise the Clown. Tom Hardy really acted his butt off as well, committing to the silliness, and if anything, he deserves more props than he’s getting for being able to sell all the really fun aspects of having your body hijacked by your space-ooze boyfriend.The new Venom movie arrives at a perfect time for monster fuckers. In doing so, it managed to actually highlight all the things that made the characters it was playing with interesting.
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Was Venom groundbreaking? No, hardly, but that just shows how starved we are for that content and how just having some of that subtext at the forefront of a movie like this was important to so many people-plus, again, it was fun and didn’t try to be anything deeper than what it was.
While Deadpool plays with the concept, for the most part, all the opportunities for needed queer content were left on the cutting room floor and kept on the press tour when people would ask about it. I say that’s the key thing because, throughout all the major movie universes including Marvel, DC, and more, people have been thirsting to see a queer superhero story.
What Venom did was choose to have fun and hope that the audience would come and see it for that alone, and for once, that strategy worked because the movie decided to be gay as hell. However, the difference was that many did say it was still fun, and the queer subtext between Eddie and Venom became a big topic of conversation. Yet, critics can’t be blamed for the disparity, because on Metacritic, Venom has a 35, and Justice League has a 45, so it’s not as though critics were singing Venom’s praises. Even those who have defended the DCEU have had mixed reactions to that film.
As someone who didn’t even dislike Justice League to the degree that others did, for me, there was no denying that, for the first time its members came together onscreen, it was a subpar delivery. What accounts for the success of Venom rather than Justice League really comes down to fans and the fan response. While that 15.6-million-dollar difference may not seem like much, it’s also held up against the fact that Venom took around $100 million to make, while Justice League took $300 million. Venom, with its delightfully fun homoerotic subtext and social justice warrior protagonist, has just surpassed Justice League‘s worldwide box office, with a current total grossing $673.5 million, in comparison to Justice League‘s $657.9 million, according to Comicbook.