Eddie Brock is the rival photojournalist/reporter for the Daily Bugle. Brock hates Spider-Man and Peter Parker. He hates both of them because of: Parker/Spidey stole Gwen from Eddie, he got him fired (in the comics, not sure if it's in the movie) and a whole hell of a lot of other things. When Eddie finds out that Parker and Spidey are one and the same, this only fuels his anger, making him want to "kill Peter Parker". Lucky for Eddie, he finds what is left of the symbiote in the same church that Spider-Man left it...and Brock merges with it to becomes the deadly monster known as Venom. Venom is the final villain.