One of my favourite scenes of how much of an Actual Disaster Eddie Brock is in Venom is when he’s being walked into the forest to be disposed of(/straight up shot and murdered and left there) and as far as he knows, this is it for him. He’s just had a messy breakup with his alien significant other, who’s now stuck behind the glass in an MRI room, so really, Eddie knows there’s no one to save him. but hIMSELF!
Of course, Eddie’s completely fucked up sense of self-preservation kicks in and he literally attempts to get himself out of danger while simultaneously putting himself deeper into it.
He makes smart ass comments in the hopes to distract his captor, or because he just can’t help himself, probably a bit of both, completely bypassing the impulse that says Don’t Antagonize The Guy Holding The Gun and he’s all ‘What ya gonna do- you gonna, walk me to death?’
When this gets no reaction he follows it up with a (dear god Eddie no, s t o p talking) golden line of ‘Did your momma not love you?’ and just fucking Goes For The Gun even though there’s two other guys there, also with guns, and Eddie has probably never been in a fight that he has won in his life (without Venom doing all the fighting).
It goes as well as expected
And Eddie’s on the floor.
Like, what was he going to do if he’d actually got the gun?? How did he think this was a plan that would work?? A for effort, but damn Eddie you know how to get under people’s skin and piss them off like it’s an art.
Like, you expect this to work - he reaches for the gun and that means he’s going to get it and everything will somehow work out, right?
Not with this loser.
It’s the little 'Goddamnit’ Eddie groans when the guy kicks him while he’s down that gets me. He knows he done screwed up. But he’s Trying. Eddie Brock is always Trying.
'I guess it pays to be a specialist, huh’ he wheezes before his self-preservation packs up its bags (like that was the last effort bye) and even though he says 'well, it doesn’t matter if you kill me anyway,’ he still cant help himself when he adds a hissed, 'there’s something much bigger afoot in this world than you and me’.
He’s right of course, because that’s when Venom and Anne come to save him. He’s a smart ass who knows he’s won now and he says his final parting words to his captor with a grin. 'Karmas a bitch’ he nearly giggles. (He knows Venoms here to save him, he’s so happy)
So anyway, Eddie Brock may be a Total Disaster but he never stops Doing, never stops Trying. And yeah, he didn’t save himself, but he sure did Try. Despite the impossible situation, despite not really having the slightest chance of his plan (do we call that a plan? did he really think any of it through first?) working, Eddie does it anyway.
imagine not thinking tom holland is the spider-man our generation deserves when homeboy is the only man in the mcu cast who isn’t the epitome of ‘no homo’ and without hesitation stated that he would fuck chris hemsworth
mr chris evans sir i’m sorry for this erasure i know you want to fuck chris hemsworth as well my bad
I love how the last comment implies that Chris Evans contacted op to let them know personally that he’d fuck Chris Hemsworth too
the fact that pearl immediately grabs amethyst like this and they fuse in like .01 second (i know that was for plot purposes but like. the DEVELOPMENT)
In Light of the New Year, here’s a comic i started forever ago and never got around to finish. I wrote this when people’s expections and views of me were getting to me really bad.
