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Chapter Six: Dark Avengers

So the newly christened HAMMER needed some Avengers.

And Norman Osborn, AKA the Iron Patriot, just decided to corporately rebrand his Thunderbolts for that purpose, which is hilarious and I never quite realized it before.

Venom got refined and rebounded in a new way and became Spider-Man. He had a lot of fun being Spider-Man, mostly because he just continued to be a jerk and eat people and didn't make a real attempt to pretend to be a superhero. The thing about Gargan-Venom is that he's kind of dumb.

Like, Brock-Venom was cunning and sinister but the unique combination of Gargan and Venom is a lot more bestial and monstrous and kind of an idiot. After the failed Siege of Asgard, the symbiote was ripped away from Gargan and put into stasis by the U.S. Government. They figured out a new way to suppress the symbiote's baser tenancies and hand selected a new host.