Source: ign.com
Chapter Five: Mac Gargan
MacDonald "Mac" Gargan is most famous as a very different Spider-Man villain. In the early days, he was given a suit and named The Scorpion. As The Scorpion, he was mostly a failure who sucked.
But after Venom had ditched its rebound boy, it came looking for someone else. And that someone was Mac Gargan. They bonded just in time for the new Venom to join the Sinister Twelve in menacing Spider-Man. He"¦ was quickly defeated and thrown in super prison. Because he still kind of sucks.
While in jail, the superhero Civil War broke out and Iron Man had the bright idea of jamming bombs into supervillains and siccing them on Captain America's Secret Avengers. Venom took to this pretty well and was retained when the program was refined into the new Thunderbolts Initiative, led by the supposedly reformed Norman Osborn. As a Thunderbolt, Venom gained more control over himself, becoming a better bond than they had previously. Although the growing bloodthirstiness was still an issue, making his teammates a little afraid of him.
At the end of the Skrull Secret Invasion, when Norman Osborn killed the Skrull Queen and took over as the new head of SHIELD, Venom got a new job. And a new title.
