When peter Parker's rival photographer for the Daily Bugle, Eddie Brock was hit with intergalactic black goo, he became merged with an alien life form that transformed him into Venom. Still retaining the ability to morph back into his human form, the shape-shifting (and scene-stealing) symbiote was the force that everyone's favorite web-slinger had to reckon with in this summer's blockbuster, spiderman 3.