Dylan Brock

Dylan Brock is the son of Eddie Brock, Anne Weying, and the Venom symbiote. When Anne bonded to the Venom symbiote, the will of the Symbiote Hive caused her codex to incarnate into a human form, with the intent of having the ensuing human/symbiote hybrid destroy their god Knull. Traumatized by the seemingly immaculate conception, Anne left Dylan as an infant with his paternal grandfather, Carl Brock, and would eventually commit suicide out of fear, paranoia, and trauma from what she had done as She-Venom.[9][10][11] Growing up, Dylan believed Carl to be his father, and was shocked to learn he had an "elder brother" named Eddie. When Eddie came to their house to reconcile with his father, he was surprised to find out about Dylan's existence. Dylan came to him so they could kill Carl, though later admitting he only wanted his "father" to stop physically hurting him. He decided to stay with Eddie until he had a hallucination of Knull and entered in a coma. Haunted by his nightmares, Eddie discovered that Dylan was his son, so he decided to take Dylan with him, keeping this revelation a secret.[12] When Carnage was collecting trace remnants of symbiotes from the previous hosts' spines, Dylan discovered he had powers similar to Knull's and that Eddie was purportedly his father; while Eddie learned that Dylan was Anne's codex incarnated in human form. To save Dylan from being killed by Carnage, Eddie killed his longtime nemesis and accidentally freed Knull from his Klyntar.[13] When Knull arrived on Earth, Dylan used his powers to free the heroes taken over by Knull's symbiotes and rejected the dark god's attempt to claim him as his son. When Eddie, who'd been killed by Knull, was revived by the God of Light and vaporized Knull, the dark elder god tried to possess Dylan. Fortunately, Eddie used the Uni-Power to remove his darkness from Dylan, seemingly rendering him a normal human.[14] Unable to adjust to civilian life, Dylan tried to stop a mugging being committed by Jack O'Lantern and was fatally shot, forcing the Venom symbiote to bond to him to save his life; becoming the new Venom with Eddie's blessing.[1] When Eddie's physical body was killed and his codex trapped in a time-loop caused by a future version of himself called Meridius, Dylan started assembling an army to rescue his father. Fatally injured by a future version of Eddie called Bedlam, Dylan's conscience was drawn into the Venom symbiote's mindspace and confronted by an astral projection of his father. Defeating it and deciding to step out of Eddie's shadow, Dylan learned of his origins as a Human/Symbiote Hybrid and was guided by Venom's voice to reclaim his sealed powers. As the Venom symbiote remerged with Dylan's body, he assumed his Earth-1051's counterpart identity as Codex and swore revenge on his father.[3]