Why did Venom only eat heads?

Why did Venom only eat heads? - Green Snake in Close Up Photography

Venom needs food for himself other than food taken by Eddie for himself. Sometimes Venom prefers human flesh as food while Eddie has no interest in it.

In one scene when Eddie crashed with his motorcycle and Treece was about to capture him, Venom takes over and tries to eat Treece,saying

Eyes. Lungs. Pancreas. So many snacks, so little time.

So that makes me think, that Venom is ready to eat whole body of a human and he likes all of them.

My question is, why he only eat people's heads even when he likes every organ and also eating whole body is more food rather than just going for the head.

I know in the scene I mentioned above, he ate head of the one Drake's thug and he didn't have much time for eat whole human. but in later scenes Venom had enough time to eat whole human but he just bites off heads and eats'em.

Even in the final scene, we see Venom's desires on eating humans and he expresses he like to eat all. (and I think he did ate the whole bad guy at Mrs Chen's shop).

We will eat both your arms, and then both of your legs, and we will eat your face right off your head. You will be this armless, legless, faceless thing,rolling down the street,like a turd,in the wind.

Then why we mostly see Venom eat/bites off just only heads?



Best Answer

As Venom is a comicbook adaptation, this is most likely a nod to the actual Venom comics where Venom is depicted as "needing a certain chemicals found in brains" and is actually shown eating a human head for brains (which he later pukes out). This is showin in "Venom: The Hunger" #1.

He also threatens Spider-Man by saying "We want to eat your BRAIN!" in the "Amazing Spider-Man" issue 333.

Source and images from the comic: https://www.cbr.com/did-venom-ever-actually-eat-brains/




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Can Venom survive without eating people?

No matter how much sense it makes for Venom, or any other symbiote to require living prey to recover and survive, the science of it never made sense. Whether people are being swallowed whole by Venom, as shown in the film, or swallowed up the symbiote's tendrils, that mass needs to go somewhere.

Did Venom eat the robber?

In the final scene of the movie, Venom-along with Eddie-swallowed the burglar in the store whole. After finishing up on this nice treat, Venom rescinds to give Eddie control of the body again.

Can Venom eat regular food?

Venom requires brains and chocolate to survive. Marvel's comics explain that Venom has a biological need for the two substances. In the comics, brains and chocolate are prime sources for phenethylamine, a compound that positively affects mood and that Venom needs to live.

Why do Symbiotes need phenethylamine?

In Venom (2018), the symbiote tells Eddie that he wants to eat chocolate before biting (and likely eating) the head off of the mugger. This is a nod to the comics: the symbiote requires a sufficient amount of phenethylamine to sustain itself, which is found in either chocolate or the human brain.



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