Eddie Brock

"'I'm a reporter. I follow people that do not wanna be followed. You have to learn how to hide in plain sight. I'm pretty good at it...'- Eddie Brock, Venom (2018)"Edward Charles Allan "Eddie" Brock is a journalist, and a former investigative reporter with his own show, The Brock Report. When getting the job of interviewing Carlton Drake, the founder and CEO of the Life Foundation, Eddie accused him of doing illegal tests on people without conclusive evidence to proof it, resulting in him getting fired along with his ex-fiancée, Anne Weying. Six months later, Eddie was contacted by Life Foundation employee Dora Skirth, who informed him that Drake was conducting tests that ended up killing people. Reluctantly agreeing to assist her, Eddie entered the Life Foundation Headquarters and became bonded with a alien symbiote named Venom. After realizing that the symbiote was alive, Eddie came into contact with Drake's mercenaries who attempted to apprehend him. Trying to expose the Life Foundation, Eddie came to contact with Anne, who told him that Venom was killing Eddie slowly from the inside by decaying his internal organs, so Eddie decided to separate himself from Venom with the help of Anne and her new boyfriend Dan Lewis, leaving Venom feeling betrayed as he escaped. Eddie left it alone, only to be subsequently captured by Drake's men. While held captive, Eddie was saved by Venom as they both planned to thwart Drake's scheme, who became bonded with another symbiote, Riot. Once they defeated Drake and Riot in a climatic battle and exposed the Life Foundation for their numerous unethical crimes, Eddie decided to remain bonded with Venom and revitalized his journalistic career, together becoming known to the public as the deadly vigilante Venom, fighting crime and protecting the innocent as the Lethal Protectors. In Fusion Universe's What if..? he was saved by Sasuke Uchiha by getting attacked by a person with the symbiote inside.