One stormy night many years ago, Anne Weying turned up on the doorstep of Carl Brock's house in San Francisco, bedraggled, traumatized, and holding a baby boy. When a confused and concerned Carl asks what happened, she explains that Eddie had transferred the Venom symbiote to her in order to save her life -- transforming her into the monstrous She-Venom -- and for a moment they were simultaneously bonded to it, connected mentally and physically to each other.[1] After the symbiote returned to Eddie, Anne found she was suddenly and mysteriously pregnant (possibly having been raped by the symbiote while they were joined), and gave birth to the boy in her arms, whom she named Dylan. Telling Carl she can't properly care for her son -- having been traumatized by the experience -- she begs him to look after Dylan. When Carl protests, Anne says they both know that Eddie is a monster and can never know he has a son, and that Carl is the only family she has left at this point. Carl takes the baby, and Anne runs off into the rain promising she'll return for Dylan once she's recovered from her psychological trauma, though she never does and ultimately takes her own life.

In the present, the Maker expresses concern that Eddie won't survive being forcibly separated from the Venom symbiote. Encased in a web of sonic energy, Eddie tells him to turn it up and mentally berates the symbiote for having manipulated him, given him cancer, and betrayed his trust. The Maker complies and separates the symbiote from Eddie, dodging as the symbiote breaks free of the sonic web and smashes his machine, which promptly explodes.

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