Anti-Venom

== Anti-Venom==

The 2008 story "New Ways to Die" features the return of Brock. Matt Murdock convinces a court of law that Brock was not responsible for his actions while bonded to the symbiote and has criminal charges against him dropped.[79] Brock gets a job at the F.E.A.S.T. center soup kitchen under Martin Li. Brock is unknowingly cured of his cancer by Li, who possesses special abilities, but believes it to be a miracle.[79] Brock is later forced to fight the current Venom, Mac Gargan. The Venom symbiote attempts to leave Gargan to bond with Brock again. However, Brock's skin becomes caustic to the symbiote. Brock is enveloped in a new symbiote forged from the remnants of the Venom symbiote in his body bonding with his white blood cells charged with Li's healing energy,[79] becoming Anti-Venom. He engages Gargan in a fight, and after receiving some help from Spider-Man, weakens and nearly destroys the symbiote. When he detects remnants of the symbiote inside Spider-Man, he attempts to "cure" him, draining radiation from his body and nearly de-powering him.[80] Brock later saves Spider-Man from an attack by Osborn and works with him to retaliate.[81] [82] During the attack, Brock faces Gargan again, who is now equipped with a Scorpion battle-suit to protect his recovering symbiote. Gargan hits Anti-Venom with his stinger, injecting a poisonous formula that seemingly destroys Brock's suit. When Gargan attempts to kill Brock, the Venom symbiote prevents him from doing so. Brock's suit later reforms.[82]

Eddie eventually faces the villain Mister Negative and discovers that he and Martin Li are the same person. Discovering the man he idolized is also a supervillain causes a breakdown for Eddie, making him question his faith and become unstable, referring to himself as a monster.[83] Brock next appears in "The Return of Anti-Venom" (2011). Unable to expose Negative's true identity, believing no-one will trust him, Anti-Venom starts a crusade against Negative, attacking his criminal operations.[84] When Anti-Venom realizes that May also knows Li is Negative, he decides to attack Negative directly before he can silence her.[84] Brock teams up with Spider-Man and the new Wraith to fight Negative. Wraith uses her technology to publicly reveal Mister Negative is Martin Li, sending him into hiding. Spider-Man and Anti-Venom call a truce to their rivalry.[85]

During the 2011 Spider-Island event in which 99% of New York City's population are transformed into mind-controlled spiders, Brock is forced to sacrifice his suit—and being Anti-Venom—so that it can be converted into a powerful curative capable of healing the infected millions.[86] [87] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Amazing671_87-0" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">[88] In a 2011 New Avengers storyline, Brock joins Wonder Man's Revengers to destroy the New Avengers.