I know I am opening myself up to the greatest retaliation of all here... But Venom is a stupid, childish choice for a villain, and is the one thing I would remove completely from Spider-Man history. He is a "gritty" "edgy" villain that is a by product of the 80s and should have been forgotten long ago, but edgy-friends won't let him go, because they need a physical element of darkness and can't understand the emotional darkness of Spidey. The worst part of it is that he could be awesome. But the portrayal of him is what really ruins it. Eddie Brock is a great character, but when he turns, he loses all his personality in the presentation of the "costume" The reason he COULD be a good villain is because he is great power with no responsibility, and he is fueled by vengeance. He knows who Pete is, and he should be a cunning, calculating villain like the Goblin, but is more often than not portrayed as a generic, mindless hulk. The look doesn't make the enemy- The personality does, and Venom rarely has any. He is a bad villain, and you should feel bad.