Doctor Venom

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Doctor Venom is a male character who features in G.I. Joe.

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Biography

A Real American Hero

Doctor Venom was a male human who by the modern age came to be a scientist that worked for the U.S. government. This was until he was banned from working with them whereupon he retreated to his remote jungle laboratory. Whilst there, he began extracting plant toxins for use in mind-control experiments on the natives. After his funds ran out, he came to accept an offer to work for the Cobra Organization.

His first major invention for the organization is the Brainwave Scanner. He gets a chance to show off the evil device when the Baroness captures Snake Eyes, Scarlett, and Zap and brings them to Cobra headquarters in Springfield. Dr Venom tries to break through Snake Eyes' resistance and manages to see flashes of several of the Joe's memories including his time in Vietnam and the mission that scarred his face. When Venom is distracted by Scarlett and Zap's attempts to escape, Snake Eyes uses breathing techniques he learned in Japan to simulate his death. When Venom and a guard unstrap Snake Eyes from the scanner, the Joe revives and knocks both of them out. He then meets up with his friends and the trio escape. (G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero v1 #10)

Dr. Venom begins work on a plague toxin at a lab in Sierra Gordo. Snake Eyes, Stalker, Breaker and Gung-Ho track down the lab and almost capture Venom, but all four are captured instead by Kwinn the Eskimo. Venom beats Snake Eyes severely and leaves him to die in a burning warehouse as payback for what happened in Springfield. Snake Eyes escapes and tracks everyone to a meeting with the Baroness and Scar-Face on a small island. Baroness, Scar-Face, and the other three Joes escape the island while Snake Eyes, Kwinn, and Venom do battle. Kwinn notices Baroness divebombing the island and pushes the other two into an armored bunker. The island is then bombed out of existence. (G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero v1 #13)

He came to be based at the town of Springfield was a secret Cobra base where during a siege of one of their strongholds they came to capture Zap, Scarlett and Snake-Eyes of the G.I. Joe Team. Whilst in their custody, Doctor Venom began interrogating Snake Eyes by using the Brainwave Scanner in the hope of probing his mind and learning the location of G.I. Joe's headquarters. Snake Eyes though managed to resist the machine and faked his own death in order to get Doctor Venom to release him whereupon the trained ninja knocked the scientist out and stole a weapon which he used to help in his escape.

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Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Doctor Venom was born an ordinary human being with no inherent special abilities. By adulthood though, he came to be a scientist specialised in certain advanced technologies.

He was the creator of the Brain-Wave Scanner that was a device able to record the brain patterns of living beings.

Notes

  • Doctor Venom was created by Larry Hama where he featured in the setting of the G.I. Joe universe.

In other media

Television

  • In G.I. Joe: Renegades, a character by the name of Dr. Archibald Monev appeared in the animated television series in the episode "The Anaconda Strain" where he was voiced by actor Michael Emerson. He was a scientist that worked for Cobra Industries and worked under Dr. Kurt Schnurr on the Anaconda Strain virus. Secretly, he came to infect Dr. Schnurr with the virus so that he'd be out of the way when Cobra released the Anaconda Strain onto the populace and distribute the antidotes. Following the intervention of the Joes, Dr. Venom managed to escape.

Appearances

  • G.I. Joe:
  • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero v1: (1983)

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