WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE SHOCK AND AWE SHORT STORY IN SPIDER-MAN: BLACK SUIT & BLOOD #2!A horrifying new feature in Marvel’s Poison Lore finds the symbiote taking a cue from Jordan Phils hit horror film, Get out. The 2020s have been a great decade so far for Venom and his symbiote relatives. They went through massive changes in their history with Carnage rising to godly stature and Venom looking for a new boss. However, a new detail during Venom’s time with Peter Parker has unveiled something incredibly sinister in his history.
in Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2, the story “Shock and Awe” – written by Greg Weisman and Javi Fernà ndez – finds Peter waking up in a mysterious dark environment. While trying to figure out what’s going on, an angry voice can be heard telling him “Go back to sleep“and”Let go. Everything is fine.”
He quickly discovers that it is actually the Venom symbiote, and his body is being controlled to fight Shocker while he is unconscious. It is a horrifying scenario Peter finds himself in, however What’s even scarier is how it really relates to one of the scariest elements of Get out: The Sunken Place.
Venom controls Peter’s body by pushing him down into his mind, similar to the “Sunken Place” from Get Out
“Shock and Awe” by Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2 – Written by Greg Weisman, Art & Color by Javi Fernà ndez
in Get outDaniel Kaluuya’s character, Chris, finds himself in a living nightmare when he is hypnotized by his girlfriend’s mother to sink into his mind at the sound of her carpet clinking. The sad place he finds himself floating in without a voice is called the “sunk place”, which is used to push a person down into a small fragment of their mind as they are forced to watch a completely new person pilot their body. This happens after a terrible operation called the coagula.
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in similar fashion, Black suit & blood Does a phenomenal job with exploring the terrifying side of Venom, and The choice to mirror the Sunken Place is a fascinating way to expand Marvel’s symbiote. It was confirmed earlier that Venom could control his host’s body from time to time, as Peter would find himself waking up in strange places. However, the fact that it goes as far as Venom taking complete control of his mind and forcing his host’s personality into a dark void while they are asleep or unconscious makes it a terrifying new take on the symbiote.
According to Venom, the symbiote forces its hosts into the void only when necessary
Symbiote lore continues to grow deeper
What is fascinating about this change in Venom’s knowledge is what it means about how it interacts with some of its more compatible hosts. While he loves being tied to Spider-Man, the two aren’t exactly the best match for each other, as Peter ends up fighting the parasite when he realizes how much it changed him. However, when Venom is introduced to Eddie Brock, there is no need for the two to be at odds. Venom finds a perfect match in Eddie, cementing the two as one unit. For this reason, Eddie probably never saw the void because there was no need for Venom to put him there.
This ultimately suggests that Gift saves the mysterious void for those who do not comply with it. When the symbiote comes into conflict with its host body, it can easily push their brain functions down into a version of the sunken place, allowing it to take control for the time being. It’s a terrifying update to gift s Learning, and having the characters take a page from Jordan Phils Acclaimed film Get out Makes it a cool way to relate to one of the most refreshing concepts of modern horror.
Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2 is now available from Marvel Comics!