Venom 2: Just How Heroic is Tom Hardy’s Alien Symbiote?

“In this movie, it’s like the seven-year itch cycle of a relationship. You got two characters that are literally stuck with each other. That odd couple relationship is what this movie was always going to be about, as a progression from the first one. It’s like living with an oversized toddler. They have had enough of each other. They can’t be together, can’t be apart. Eddie’s far too selfish. Venom just wants to be the hero.”

The last line there might be the most interesting of the entire clip. It’s always seemed that Eddie controlled Venom by giving him rule of who he can attack, similar in the way Harry gave Dexter Morgan rules of who he could kill. But here Serkis seems to be implying that the urge to be a hero comes from Venom and not from the restrictions place on him by Eddie.

The studio has also released a new clip, which reveals the scene in which Woody Harrelson’s character, serial killer Cletus Kasady, transforms into the evil symbiote, Carnage. It’s the sort of “money shot” that Marvel Comics fans have been waiting years for, ever since Carnage made his debut in Amazing Spider-Man #361 in 1992.  Now, despite a long wait and numerous delays, Carnage is getting his live-action debut on the big screen, and from the look of the scene below, Carnage will indeed be getting his due — and Harrelson’s going to have a lot of fun hamming it up as the Marvel villain.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage will be in theaters tomorrow, October 1st.

via ComicBook.com

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