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Background
When Anne Weying met Eddie Brock, she thought he was he was intelligent and
witty, with a boyish charm. That ended after he was disgraced in the Sin
Eater
debacle, during which Eddie lost his job. This drove a rift between Eddie and
his father, Carl Brock. Eddie tried to gain his father's approval but the
latest failure finally created a permenent rift between father and son.
Soon after being fired from the Globe, Eddie was bonded to the alien symbiote
and became Venom. Anne filed for divorce and tried to stay out of the public
eye, tired of being hounded by reporters wanting to interview "Mrs. Venom." Her
peace and quiet was disturbed when she was visited by Spider-Man, who was
looking for any information that would help him find his kidnapped "parents."
(See: Harry Osborn.) Telling him everything that she knew about her ex-
husband made Anne wonder if she had really helped Eddie as much as she could
have. She hailed a taxi and went to the ruins of "Thrill World," Eddie's
favorite amusement park.
She was stunned to see what her ex-husband had become and tried to convince him
that he had a choice in his life. He didnt have to be Venom. Her advice didnt
have a chance to sink in, as Brock was attacked by the Wild Pack, who had been
hired to bring him in. The typical battle royal broke out, and Anne was nearly
crushed by a falling Ferris Wheel. It took the combined strength of Spider-Man
and Venom to keep her from being crushed. That incident, plus Anne's outrage at
Eddie's stubborn insistence to kill Spider-Man forced Venom to offer a truce to
the web slinger.
Meanwhile, a video game company created a game based on Carnage, which
enraged Brock and ended badly for Kassady. Afterwards, the president of the
video game company was put on trial for the damage he inadvertantly caused, and
Anne was his attorney. The trial was interrupted by the attack of a new Sin
Eater, who killed the president of the video game company and badly injured
Anne. She was sent to the hospital and was protected from the return of the Sin
Eater by Venom.
Venom and Anne escape, and go to an old fallout shelter, where the symbiote
goes to Anne and heals her. Eddie, helpless without the symbiote, is attacked
by bums and nearly killed when She-Venom puts a hurting on them. Eddie is
shocked by the violence, which is odd since its nothing that he hadnt done
before. (I guess without the symbiote affecting his mind, violence wasnt so
appealing.)
Anne kills the bums, and is disgusted by what she did after the symbiote left
her. She runs back to her apartment and is taken hostage by the mother of a
young woman that Eddie met while looking for Carnage. (The young woman,
Kristine, was dating a slimeball druggie. Venom decided to put a scare into
Clive, who fell out a window and was paralysed. Kristine's mother just happened
to be a hit woman, and she went after Anne to draw out Venom as payback for
injuring her daughter's idiot boyfriend.)
Venom fights Sin Eater, then goes to Anne's apartment, where he is taken down
by Kristine's mom. (Huh?) Eddie tells the symbiote to go to Anne, and mom and
She-Venom fight. Sin Eater shows up, the symbiote returns to Eddie, Sin Eater
gets blown up and mom gets knocked over the head by Anne. (You can see why the
90's Venom comics were not so great.) Next time, Anne is taken into federal
custody in order to draw out Venom, but Anne calls Eddie and tells him to stay
away. Eddie sends her the symbiote via the phone line and She-Venom takes care
of business. Spider-Ben gets involved somehow.
In her last appearance, Anne is in her apartment, too afraid to leave. Ever
since the symbiote bonded to her, her life was a nightmare. Her stablity didnt
improve when Eddie came back and wanted to have a relationship with her again.
She begged him to leave, but instead he threw open the blinds on her windows to
brighten her apartment. At that moment, Spidey was swinging by, wearing the
black costume. The sight terrifies Anne, and Eddie promises to take care of the
problem for her. Seeing the symbiote covering her ex-husband drives Anne over
the edge and while Venom is battling Spider-Man, she jumps from her window.
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