hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger: No Adj #35 This is from Maximum Carnage and re-reading this I’

hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger:

No Adj #35

This is from Maximum Carnage and re-reading this I’m given pause to question some things. Peter partnered with Venom twice but the idea of ‘condoning his violent methods’ wasn’t really a consideration in those stories. One of those occasions entailed facing Carnage; the other was in ‘Lethal Protector’.

And yet here, when he’s facing Carnage along 2 other villains he’s concerned about condoning his methods?

Were i to offer a solution to the problem I’d go with something like this.

Whilst Peter knew in the original Carnage story that Venom was willing to kill to defend innocent life, he had a contingency plan in place to apprehend Venom* and was likely willing to mix it up with him if Venom stepped out of line.

However, in Maximum Carnage the situation hasn’t afforded him any time to set up any such contingency. Back in ASm 361-363, Peter needed Venom’s help to learn about what Carnage was and bring him in. But that entailed travelling to the island he’d left Venom on in the first place, which he needed Human Torch’s help to transport him over anyway. So he could’ve set something up en route to that island or in contacting the F4 anyway. 

Here though Venom is in NYC (specifically asleep on Peter’s coach during the above scene), Carnage and 2 other mass murderers are on the loose. It’s not practical or responsible to waste time setting up a plan to reign in Venom when it’d waste time that could otherwise be spent on stopping the Carnage crew. 

So basically Spidey is in a situation where he needs to team up with Venom but also can’t really hope to hold Venom in check. Not only does he have some injured ribs in this scene but because Carnage has 2 accomplices, he’d be at a major disadvantage if he had to stop Venom going too far against Carnage. 

Of course he resolves to at least TRY to do that later, but at this point you can understand how from his POV his options seem like he either works with Venom and accepts his methods or doesn’t work with him at all. 

Essentially he needs Venom’s muscle but hasn’t got anything in his back pocket to keep Venom in check if needs be. 

*Which involved the F4