Respect Dylan Brock, the Son of Venom (Marvel, Earth-616)

#Respect Dylan Brock, the Chainbreaker

"I need you to understand... I'm not my father. If we're going to do this... I have to find my own way. He regretted it, y'know? All the darkness that came with being Venom. He wanted something else for me. Something different.

Dylan Brock is the son of Eddie Brock and Anne Weying. When Anne bonded to the Venom symbiote, she somehow became pregnant with Dylan. Leaving him as an infant with his paternal grandfather, Carl Brock, she would eventually commit suicide as she was traumatized by what she had done as She-Venom.

Growing up, Dylan believed Carl to be his father, and was shocked to learn he had an "elder brother" named Eddie. When Eddie came to their house to reconcile with his father, he was surprised to find out about Dylan's existence. Dylan decided to stay with Eddie until he had a hallucination and entered a coma. Haunted by his nightmares, Eddie discovered that Dylan was his son, so he decided to take Dylan with him, keeping this revelation a secret.

When Knull arrived on Earth, Dylan fulfilled his purpose, weakening Knull's connection to the symbiotes and freeing the heroes from his possession. When Eddie, who was briefly killed by Knull, was eventually revived by the God of Light and vaporized Knull, the dark elder god tried to possess Dylan. Fortunately, Eddie used his Uni-Power to remove his darkness from Dylan, rendering him a normal human. Unable to adjust to civilian life, Dylan tried to stop a mugging being committed by Jack O'Lantern and was fatally shot, forcing the Venom symbiote to bond to him to save his life; becoming the new Venom with Eddie's blessing.

Source key

• Venom vol. # - Vv#
• Absolute Carnage - AC
• King in Black - KiB
• Web of Venom: the Good Son - WoV:GS
• Ms. Marvel & Venom - MM&V
• Moon Knight vol. - MK

Other Venoms

• Eddie Brock
• Mac Gargan
• Flash Thompson

Scaling

• Bedlam
• Deadpool
• Captain America
• Gold Goblin

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#Dylan

Note: feats in bold are from while Dylan was using his powers during King in Black

#Physicals

Strength

• Caught symbiote Captain America's thrown shield with one hand^KiB ^#3
• KOd grown men with a fire extinguisher^Vv5 ^#4

Durability

• Still conscious after getting kicked in the face by Eddie when he hallucinated Dylan as Knull (Eddie wasn't Venom here, it was another hallucination)^Vv4 ^#10
• Got back up after Normie kicked him in the face hard enough to make him spit blood^WoV:GS
• Shoved aside by Knull^KiB ^#3

Other

• Escaped a heavily armed strike force ambushing his apartment^Vv5 ^#26

#Symbiote powers

Note: At the end of King in Black #5 Eddie destroyed the part of Knull inside of Dylan, removing his powers. Because of this I've split this section between his feats before and after this happened.

##Pre-King in Black

General

• Sleeper couldn't bond with him, getting hurt in the process^Vv4 ^#19
  • Just touching Dylan burned Sleeper later^Vv4 ^#25
• A piece of Carnage couldn't bond to him^Vv4 ^#23
• Dylan had a direct connection to Knull, with Knull regularly giving him nightmares^Vv4 ^#22 and once even controlling him^WoV:GS
• [Limit] Can't sense artificial symbiotes, such as Ultimate Venom^Vv4 ^#26

Symbiote control

• Took control of Sleeper, turning him into a wolf and siccing him on the Maker^Vv4 ^#19
• Destroyed Norman Osborn's Carnage symbiote^AC ^#5
• Took control of a small piece of Carnage, using it to spy on the full symbiote^Vv4 ^#23
  • Floated while doing this...somehow^Vv4 ^#23
  • Made it move around a room^WoV:GS
  • Took Normie's wrist tracker off^WoV:GS
  • Bonded it to a racoon^WoV:GS
  • Formed it into a gauntlet and punched Normie through a window^WoV:GS
  • When he ripped the piece of Carnage off it made the full Carnage symbiote explode^Vv4 ^#25
    • Carnage still survived though^Vv4 ^#25
• Turned the piece of Carnage into a portal(?) that allowed him to connect to the Venom symbiote^Vv4 ^#24
• Turned Venom into a t-rex^Vv4 ^#24
  • Tail slapped Carnage away^Vv4 ^#25
  • Stabbed in the mouth by Carnage^Vv4 ^#25
  • [Limit] Completely overpowered by Carnage when he got serious^Vv4 ^#25
• Entered Carnage's mind while fighting him, though Dylan couldn't beat his subconscious while there^Vv4 ^#25
• Pasted Scorpion's symbiote^Vv4 ^#29
• By touching an alternate version of himself he combined their memories into better ones, though the other him was put into a coma in the process^Vv4 ^#30
• Blasted the Extrembiote off Eddie^KiB ^#2
• Blasted the symbiote goo off Captain America's shield before destroying his symbiote, hurting Knull a little in the process^KiB ^#3
• [Limit] Can't affect symbiote matter Knull is directly controlling^KiB ^#3
• Freed a number of people from Knull's symbiotes with Thor^KiB ^#3
• Burned Knull, making him lose control of a number of symbiotes^KiB ^#4
• Could feel Knull dying in the sun, causing him pain^KiB ^#5

##Post-King in Black

• His DNA breaks down other symbiotes when bonded to them^Vv5 ^#4
• The symbiote put Dylan's consciousness inside his mind after they got impaled, which is noted to be impossible for a human^Vv5 ^#11
  • Battled and killed a copy of Eddie Venom while there^Vv5 ^#12

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#Venom

*"So...you don't mind if I...if I use the name? I mean... you're Venom. I'm not-"

"No, son. You aren't Venom. And neither am I. We are...we are Venom. Together."

While walking home from school Dylan came across Jack O'Lantern mugging a woman and intervened, but was shot in the chest when the Venom symbiote attempted to scare Jack away. Out of desperation, the symbiote bonded to Dylan and they beat the shit out Jack O'Lantern together. Eddie approached them and remarked that he had anticipated Dylan becoming his successor, giving him his blessing to operate as the new Venom.

#Strength

Striking

• Beat the shit out of Jack-O'-lantern^Vv4 ^#200
• Jumped high into the air and kicked a helicopter's tail hard enough to push it into another helicopter^Vv5 ^#1
• Beat the shit out of all these soldiers^Vv5 ^#1
• KOd four men with one kick^Vv5 ^#2
• Solod an entire warehouse of bikers^Vv5 ^#6
• Beat up more bikers and trashed their bikes^Vv5 ^#7
• Pummeled Bedlam^Vv5 ^#7
• Beat up Blitz^MK ^#23
• Collided with Bedlam, sending him through a truck^Vv5 ^#15
• Floored Bedlam with a punch^Vv5 ^#16
• Webswing kicked Gold Goblin into a wall, cratering it and cracking his helmet^Vv5 ^#19
  • This broke a thick pipe on the other side of the wall^Vv5 ^#19
• Punched Gold Goblin through a wall^Vv5 ^#18
• Destroyed a water tower with a kick^Vv5 ^#22
• Slashed a mascot's head off and cut another in half^(Vv5 Annual 1)
• Impaled Deadpool with a sharp chunk of wood^(Vv5 Annual 1)

Lifting/Pushing/Pulling

• Picked up a jeep with one arm and threw it up a roof while affected by sonic grenades^Vv5 ^#2
• Grabbed Bedlam with his chain and yanked him off the ground^Vv5 ^#7
• KOd Tangle by throwing her at Blitz^MK ^#23
• Yanked Gold Goblin out of the air, smashing him through a brick wall^Vv5 ^#19

Arm blade

• Smashed a wall^Vv5 ^#6
• Stabbed Bedlam through the head^Vv5 ^#7
• Smashed a window^MM&V

Biting

• Bit a mascot's head off^(Vv5 Annual 1)
• Bit Deadpool's arm off^(Vv5 Annual 1)

Other

• [Limit] Couldn't break out of restraints made by Bedlam^Vv5 ^#7

#Durability

Blunt

• Smashed through a church tower and thrown into some cars by Bedlam^Vv5 ^#7
• Jumped through a window^MM&V
• Fine after a flesh creature tried to crush them^MM&V
• Smashed into some computer equipment by a flesh creature^MM&V
• Punched into two cars by Bedlam^Vv5 ^#15
• Pummeled by Bedlam hard enough to tear up the road^Vv5 ^#15
• Fine after crashing through a carnival stall^(Vv5 Annual 1)
• Kicked in the face by Deadpool^(Vv5 Annual 1)

Piercing/slashing

• [Limit] Fatally injured when Bedlam impaled them through the heart^Vv5 ^#7
• Had their back slashed by a flaming swarm of drone bugs^MM&V
• Slashed by Flexo^Vv5 ^#22
• Fine after Flexo shot him with a symbiote gatling gun^Vv5 ^#22

Heat/energy

• Only tickled by an energy blast from Gold Goblin^Vv5 ^#19
• Fine after Deadpool shot him point-blank with a rocket launcher^(Vv5 Annual 1)

#Speed

• Jumped across rooftops around the same speed as embiggened Ms Marvel running before outpacing her^MM&V
• Jumped across rooftops with Red Goblin^Vv5 ^#16
• Quickly scaled a Ferris wheel^(Vv5 Annual 1)

#Abilities

Shapeshifting

• Formed strings that he used to trap some soldiers^Vv5 ^#2
• Helped restrain a flesh monster with tendrils^MM&V
• Picked a lock with a tendril^Vv5 ^#19
• Made themselves look like Iron Man^Vv5 ^#22
• Formed a shield that blocked a punch from Flexo^Vv5 ^#22

Chains

Dylan as Venom uses chains instead of webs. There's no practical purpose for it, he just read Spawn when he was younger^Vv4 ^#200

• Caught Gold Goblin's glider and yanked it out of the air^Vv5 ^#19
• Restrained Toxin and almost choked them out^Vv5 ^#23
• Can still use them as webs, firing some like a high-pressure hose that knocked Flexo off his feet^Vv5 ^#22

Healing factor

• Healed after getting shot in human form^Vv4 ^#200
• Healed a slash from Deadpool^(Vv5 Annual 1)

Hive powers

• Detected Toxin attempting to track them^Vv5 ^#23
• Mentally received information from Toxin and relayed it to Dylan^Vv5 ^#23
• Can sense when other members of their hive are in danger^Vv5 ^#26
• Can locate other symbiotes^Vv5 ^#26
• Protected Toxin by putting him in his mouth^Vv5 ^#27

#Weaknesses

Sonics

• Almost had the symbiote removed by sonic grenades^Vv5 ^#2
• The hostless symbiote was repeatedly hurt by a sonic spear^Vv5 ^#4
• Was briefly weakened by a sonic attack from some drone bugs^MM&V
• Was briefly weakened by a sonic frequency while in New York, allowing the New Enforcers to actually threaten them^MK ^#23

Fire

• Powered through some fire to save some people from a burning building^MM&V
• Hurt by a grenade that started a fire, though they powered through it to save some kids^Vv5 ^#23

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#Hostless symbiote

• Turned into a dog^Vv4 ^#200
  • Turned into a giant monstrous dog, though he still got pierced by a bullet^Vv4 ^#200
• Formed a nest for itself^Vv5 ^#3
• Turned into a monstrous version of itself^Vv5 ^#3
• Launched up a bridge by the Spearhead^Vv5 ^#4
• Fine after jumping off a bridge and onto a truck^Vv5 ^#4
• Seeped through a vent^Vv5 ^#4
• Can sense and track separated pieces of itself^MM&V
  • Had it rejoin him later^MM&V

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#Codex

"Dylan Brock is the name of Eddie's son. But I am not human. Venom is your name. I am not Klyntar. I am the broken chain. I know it now -- the truth. The meaning. I am not a cage. Not an eventuality, but an endless possibility. I am a key. A Codex."

Dylan Brock was broken. Mortally wounded by Bedlam, a future version of his father, he was only able to survive when the Venom symbiote brought Dylan's consciousness inside his body. Inside the symbiote's mind Dylan met and battled a copy of Eddie, who revealed Dylan's true origin to him. Now armed with this new knowledge, Dylan was rebonded to the symbiote and emerged with a new adult form. And so, Codex was born.

#Necrosword

General

• Cannot hold the form (or sword) for too long^Vv5 ^#16

Chain-breaking

• Separated Sleeper from the Hive^Vv5 ^#15
• Chopped Bedlam's hand off^Vv5 ^#15
• Cut out Bedlam's eye^Vv5 ^#15
• Impaled Flexo and freed him from the hive^Vv5 ^#22

Feats

• Burrowed through a concrete floor to the sewer below^Vv5 ^#22

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#Misc.

• Thinks Spider-Man's a menace^AC ^#1
• Briefly used one of the Maker's guns, destroying some containers with it^Vv4 ^#18
• Has Ms Marvel's approval^MM&V
• Moon Knight respects him^MK ^#23
• Is unbelievably edgy^Vv5 ^#16
• Hates Norman Osborn^Vv5 ^#19