Anne Weying
Anne Weying is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Anne Weying
This led to her marrying him where she was happy being Anne Brock for a number of years. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375) While Eddie became a journalist for the Daily Globe, Anne became a successful lawyer. However, Anne became disgusted by Eddie's vengeful fixation on Spider-Man following the Sin-Eater incident, and - unable to put up with his inability to accept responsibility for his actions - she ultimately looked to separate from him. (Venom: Dark Origin v1 #3) As time went on, she came to notice a change in him as she felt he was no longer the man he married which led to their divorce. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375)
After Eddie became the symbiote-augmented supervillain Venom, Spider-Man approached her looking for information on him; and she helped by sharing some of Eddie's history. She was stunned to see what her ex-husband had become and tried to convince him that he had a choice in his life. Anne told Eddie that he did not have to be Venom but he would ignore her advice. Instead, Brock was attacked by Silver Sable's Wild Pack, who had been hired to bring him in. A 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. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375)
When the third Sin-Eater attacked, killing Rhodes, Anne was shot and only managed to avoid being killed outright by blocking most of the buckshot with her briefcase. (Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #1) Anne was hospitalized and given surgery, but the Sin Eater tracked her down - intent on finishing her off. Venom intervened and took Anne to the old bomb shelter he'd once used as a lair, though he realized she was bleeding internally. Eddie informed Anne that the Venom symbiote could heal her, but she refused - blaming it for his transformation into a monster. As the symbiote covered her, however, Anne acquiesced and the Venom symbiote simultaneously bonded to them both. This proved insufficient to save her, and as Anne's vital signs declined the symbiote reluctantly separated from Eddie and bonded to her. (Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #2) At this point, a slovenly pair of itinerant thugs entered the shelter and subdued Eddie, who attempted to drive them off. Before they could kill him, Anne awakened and transformed into the monstrous She-Venom, threatening to eat the thugs unless they left. When the thugs were undeterred and eagerly declared their intent to rape her, Anne embraced the symbiote's bloodlust and brutally slaughtered them despite Eddie's horrified protests. When Eddie managed to compel the symbiote to return to him, Anne came to her senses and was horrified by what the symbiote's dark will had caused her to do. Eddie's protests that the symbiote couldn't make someone do something they didn't already want to only traumatized Anne more, and she fled after declaring that she hated Eddie and wanted nothing more to do with him. Anne returned to her apartment, where she was attacked and taken hostage by the vengefully insane mother of Kristin, a girl whose boyfriend had been crippled following an altercation with Venom. (Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #3) When Eddie was incapacitated, the symbiote reluctantly left him and bonded to Anne a second time. As She-Venom, Anne nearly devoured the woman and threw Eddie into a wall when he tried to stop her. The Sin Eater's arrival resulted in a short three-way battle between him, Kristen's mother, and She-Venom; though the Sin-Eater was mortally wounded and the symbiote returned to Eddie to prevent him from being shot. Kirstin arrived to stop her mother and tackled the Sin-Eater out the window when he activated a bomb-vest, Venom saving her; while Anne incapacitated Kirstin's mother. (Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #5)
In the aftermath, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son named Dylan Brock. However, she never revealed this to Eddie as she saw him as a monster and instead turned to his father Carl Brock where she asked him to care for the boy. She promised she would return but that she was not in a state to care for a child. (Venom v4 #12)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Anne Weying was a blonde haired woman who sometimes wore glasses. When she married, she took the name Anne Brock but after she divorced Eddie she return to her family name of Anne Weying. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375) After bonding to the Venom Symbiote, she came to be known as She-Venom. (Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #2)
When she was younger, she and Eddie Brock fell in love with her finding him smart, witty and possessing a boyish charm that swept her off her feet. It was this that led to her marrying him but she came to notice a change in him over the years with the eyes of that boy being gone by the time he lost his job as a reporter. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375) From the brief time they bonded, she became pregnant with Eddie's child named Dylan Brock. However, she never revealed this to Eddie and could not deal with this development at the time. This led to her leaving the child in the care of Eddie's father Carl Brock where she promised she would return. However, she died and the child was raised by Carl who claimed that he re-married with Dylan being his second son. (Venom v4 #12)
Powers and abilities
She was noted to had studied and practiced law for a number of years. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375)
At one point, she came to be bonded to the Venom Symbiote and gained all the powers inherent in the parasitic organism. (Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #2)
Notes
- Ann Weying was created by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley where she made her first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #375 (March, 1993).
- She was briefly turned into She-Venom by Larry Hama and Greg Luzniak in Venom: Sinner Takes All v1 #2 (September, 1995).
Alternate Versions
- In Venom v4 #28 (2020), an alternate version of Anne Weying appeared in a reality designated as Earth-TRN811 in the Multiverse. This version was also involved with Eddie Brock but on her Earth he committed suicide at the church with Anne mourning him. She blamed the reporter Peter Parker for his death and went to the church where she was bonded with the Venom Symbiote that was lying in wait. Afterwards, the Symbiote started spawning in preparation for a coming threat where during this time she was drafted into an elite unit by President Eugene Thompson where she worked alongside other hosts bonded to Symbiotes that were led by Rex Strickland until his and the President's death at the hands of Codex.
In other media
Films
- In The Amazing Spider 2, Anne Weying was referenced in the setting of the live-action film through the viral marketing website through Daily Bugle Articles. She was a defence attorney appointed to Dr. Curt Connors where she was unable to sway the jury to her side leading to her client being sent to Ryker's Island.
- In Venom, Anne Weying appeared in the setting of the 2018 live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Michelle Williams.
- In Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Anne Weying appeared in the setting of the 2021 live-action film sequel where she was once again portrayed by actress Michelle Williams.
Video games
- In Spider-Man: Unlimited, Anne Weying as She-Venom appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
Novels
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1993)
- Venom: Sinner Takes All v1: (1995)
- Venom v4:
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