Symbrock

Symbrock is the non-binary ship between the Venom Symbiote and Eddie Brock from the Venom and Marvel comic fandoms.

Venom (2018)
Eddie is approached by Dorothea, a scientist working for Carl Drake who tells him that Drake is killing people with his experiments. After some time to think over her proposition, Eddie agrees to help her and she breaks him into Drake's lab. While taking picture's of the lab, Eddie see's a woman that he knows and breaks her out. She attacks him, and a black goo, the Symbiote, seeps into him. She lets him go as the intruder alarm goes off, and he takes off. Two security guards attempt to stop him but he is somehow able to get away from them. As more guards chase him, he is able to use super strength and something starts controlling his body. He's able to hide for a bit before escaping.

Eddie gets back to his apartment, and starts to eat everything he can find before throwing it all back up. He brushes his teeth to get the taste out of his mouth, but when he looks in the mirror, a brief appearance of the symbiote appears in the reflection, along with a voice, and he freaks out, accidentally knocking himself out in the process. When he awakens, he reaches out to ex-fiance Anne for help, who takes him to a Dr. Dan for an MRI when Venom freak out inside of him. On his way home, he starts to lose control over his body and starts to hear voices in his head. Once at his apartment he gets a call from Dan and Anne, who tell him that he has a parasite. He asks if the parasite would make him be able to climb a very tall tree, very fast when a voice tells him that it did. Dan says that they'll get him on some meds to get rid of it, when the voice says that that'll never happen. He tells it to be quiet, and says that he'll call Dan and Anne later. His neighbor starts to play guitar very loudly and hurt the "parasite", and he storms across the hall. He tells the man to keep it down, but he dismisses Eddie. The "parasite" then briefly appears, and scares the man.

The parasite tells Eddie not to open the door, confusing him, when someone knocks. He opens the door when several men come in and threaten him unless he gives back the parasite. Eddie tries to surrender, but the parasite asks what he's doing. He says that he's putting his hands up, but the parasite says that he's making them look bad and forces Eddie's hands down. Eddie forces himself to raise his hands again, but the parasite keeps forcing them down. They decide to take care of things themselves and attacks them men as they attack Eddie. Eddie becomes increasingly confused as the fight goes on, goo coming out of him and attacking the men, and his body being controlled. After all the men are knocked out, the parasite suggest biting off all their heads and making piles. Eddie frantically asks why they would do that, but the parasite just says that it'd make a pile of bodies and a pile of heads. Another man tries to enter the apartment and the parasite quickly takes him out. Eddie tries to run when the parasite forces him out a window and onto the next balcony.

Eddie makes his way to the alley, and starts to head towards his bike, when he hears the parasite say his name. He looks into the car window and see's an all black creature with teeth and big white eyes. He assumes that it's not real and just in his head due to the parasite. The creature becomes offended by the term and forces Eddie back against the alley wall. Eddie quickly apologizes when a drone shows up and the creature lets him avoid it crashing into him. He gets on his bike as the drones start to chase him. The parasite protects him from the drone blasts as they fire at him and forces him to duck as a drone flies towards him. Eddie thanks them and the parasite says your welcome. They chase continues and they're able to get rid of all the drones.

Then men chase Eddie down, but they seem to be able to stop them when one of them knocks Eddie off the motorcycle. Eddie lies on the ground extremely injured, but the parasite starts to mend him back together and takes over. He threatens the man that hit Eddie when another one of Drake's men shoots him in the back. He throws the other man to the side and bites the man's head off, just as the police arrive. The parasite then runs through the city before diving off into the ocean and swimming away. The sybiote gets to the other side and lets Eddie take control. Eddie becomes increasingly confused and freaked out, and part of symbiote appears outside of him, officially introducing themselves as Venom. They want to form an alliance with Eddie. Eddie will act as their host to get to Drake's space ship so that they may return home. Eddie agree's but he wants to make a stop at his old work place to get the evidence of Drake out to the public. He's unable to get past the guard at the front, and tries to think of a different way to get the evidence there. Venom realizes Eddie needs to get to the top of the building, and takes over climbing to the top and breaking in through the office window. Eddie leaves the phone with the photos. Venom tells him to jump through the window to leave but Eddie opts for the elevator. They reach the first floor where a swat team is waiting for him. He puts his hands up and tells them not to shoot, but they don't listen so he tells Venom to take over. Venom fights the swat team, and is about to eat one, but Eddie takes over just in time telling them that they can't eat cops. Ann arrives and see's Venom transform back into Eddie and forces him back to the hospital. Ann's boyfriend Dan explains that the parasite inside him is killing him, but Venom insists to Eddie that they can fix him. Ann turns on the MRI and removes Venom from Eddie. Eddie becomes angry at Venom once his head is clear, and leaves the hospital only to be captured by Drake's men. Drake confronts Eddie on where Venom is but Eddie won't talk, prompting Drake's own symbiote, Riot, to try and get some answers. Drake orders his men to get rid of Eddie and they take him out to the woods. Eddie see's some of the men disappear in the process and smiles knowing that it's Venom. Venom eats the head off the last of the men, revealing that they bonded with Ann to get there. Venom

then grabs Eddie and kisses him to bond with him again. Venom make Eddie leave Ann behind to go stop Riot, who wants to bring more symbiote's to earth so that they can take over. Eddie asks why Venom would betray his species and help earth, and Venom tells Eddie that he was the one that changed their mind. They get to the ship and are able to stop Riot, but Venom burns up in the process. The next day Eddie and Ann talk, and Eddie accidentally slips talking to Venom in his head, making Ann suspicious. He leaves and talks to Venom telling them that they can't eat every person they see. Venom asks which people they can eat, and Eddie explains the difference between good and bad people, and they can only eat the bad people. Venom wants to know the difference, and Eddie says he'll explain. They walk in to Mrs. Chen's and start shopping when a man with a gun comes in and threatens her. Venom asks if he's a bad guy, and Eddie confirms so. Venom takes over and threatens the man, who asks in fear who they are. Venom removes half of their face, and they and Eddie simultaneously say, "We are Venom." before eating the man. Eddie takes over again and tells Mrs. Chen that he has a parasite as a way to explain Venom, and leaves. Venom is offended at Eddie calling them a parasite and demands he apologize. Eddie says it's affectionate nickname, but still apologizes. He asks what they should do next, and Venom see's that they can do whatever they want.

Venom (2018)

 * Eddie hears Venom in his ear say that he's hungry.
 * Venom assures Eddie that he's not going to die.
 * Eddie asks Venom what they wants for dinner and tells him tater tots and chocolate
 * When Eddie drives off to an interview for work, he tells Venom they have to stay quiet, and Venom reluctantly agree's.

Children
Sleeper Venom found that they were with their sixth child, but didn't tell Eddie. It isn't until their captured by the Symbiote Recon Task Force that Eddie finds out that Venom's about to have a baby. After a long tiring delivery, Sleeper is born. Worried that being bonded so young would cause Sleeper to become a killer like their siblings, the two opted to leave the baby in the care of Alchemex, visiting the often.

Sleeper was later taken hostage by Venom's first host, Tel-Kar, and threatened to corrupt it unless Venom returned to him, which he complies. In order to save Venom, Sleeper bonds to Eddie and the two go off to save them. They track him down, and are able to save Venom, Sleeper taking a brain dead Tel-Kar as his new host. Despite Eddie's protests, Sleeper then set out to explore the cosmos.

Quotes
"You were killing me? What happened to we, man? What happened to we? Yeah, look at you now. Now you're dying too. We're done."

- Eddie to Venom; Venom (2018)

Fanon
The ship has been popular among Venom fans for awhile. It began to take off more during the 2018 run of the Venom comic, as well as after the announcement of the film. Those that saw the film felt that the relationship was the best aspect of it. The relationship between Eddie and Venom was hailed by both critics and fans.

Those that ship based around the comics, believe that the two are already in a committed relationship. Often they site the two raising one of Venom's offspring together. More recently there was the canonical statement of Venom's that they love Eddie.

Once the film was released fans were quick to create jokes about their relationship. Many comparing them to the demon possession vine, or how Venom became emotionally attached to Eddie. He got physically attached pretty quickly as well. There's also the contradiction between their two personalities. However more popular are jokes about Venom being a very annoying voice in Eddie's head.

Fan art of the two became extremely popular after the film, and began to overtake the tags on tumblr and twitter. The fan art ranged on content. Some artist would draw the two in more "fluffy" or domestic moments. Such as eating together, or Venom taking care of Eddie. Redrawing the two as popular vines and other memes are also popular. Other artists draw the two in more risque situations. Typically the two kissing and artist each exploring how a physical relationship would be shown between the two.

On AO3, Symbrock is the most written ship for both the Venom Symbiote and Eddie. It is also the most written ship in the Venom (Movie 2018) and Venom (Comics) tags, as well as the fifth most written in the Spider-Man (Comicverse) tag.

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Trivia

 * Several news outlets have written stories on the post movie ship, or the relationship between Eddie and Venom being interpreted in a romantic context
 * Vox.com described the 2018 film as "A fun twisted rom-com disguised as a bad superhero movie"
 * The Mary Sue reported on "'The Internet Is Shipping Eddie Brock/Venom," and how "We’re Feeling It Too".
 * The Atlantic called the film the "Strangest Romantic Comedy of the Year"
 * The Blu-Ray trailer marketed the film as a Rom-Com
 * Symbrock is apparently shipped by the Epic Voice Guy. Or just ScreenJunkies in general
 * Marvel released an article listing all the times that Eddie and the Symbiote broke up and even referred to them as a couple.
 * The Wikipedia article for the 2018 Venom film, the audience reaction talks about Symbrock "Shipping"