A question prompted by a very intense dinner conversation: are poison dart frogs poisonous or venomous? My understanding was always if it eats you and you die, it's venomous, if you eat it and you die, it's poisonous, but you touch it and you die doesn't seem to fit into that (admittedly probably oversimplified) rule.
Dendrobatid toxins are definitely poisons. The effect of being harmful to the touch is caused by that poison basically being absorbed by the skin, which is ingestion of a sort.
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flag id: a flag with 5 stripes, which are very light greenish-yellow, light yellow-green, green, medium dark cyan, and dark grey. end id.
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nuclewastoxin: a toxin (toxic-in-nature) gender related to nuclear waste from power plants. this gender has a green glow and a hazardous smell to it.
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for anon! the top three stripes represent nuclear waste, a green glow, and a hazardous smell, the fourth is from the toxin flag, and the fifth represents power plants. the term is 'nucle' from 'nuclear', 'wast' from 'waste', + 'toxin'!
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#eddie brock#he's gone through the cycle twice#no i will not elaborate#...unless someone asks Hey, Kita, I'm asking
(The original post, here, read: "I used to be a human then i was godlike and perfect for a while and then I got tired and now im an beast. you know how it is".)
So. We start at the beginning.
Man, still sorting out symbiosis. (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #26)
Godlike, justified in all his actions no matter the cost. (Amazing Spider-Man #300)
Beast, a true predator. (Amazing Spider-Man #347)
Man again, briefly, having found peace and reflection at last. (Amazing Spider-Man #362)
Godlike, having found purpose in a new place and a new role. (Venom: Lethal Protector [1993] #1 and #2)
Beast, as symbiosis falls apart. (Spectacular Spider-Man [2003] #1 & #3)
Human, as he loses what made him Venom, and is left only with himself. (Marvel Knights Spider-Man #6, and Amazing Spider-Man #568)
Godlike, when becoming Anti-Venom gave him the closest he's pretty much ever had to a true savior complex. (Amazing Spider-Man #569, Venom [2011] #7)
Beast, in the absence of the only thing that gave him meaning and direction in his life in the absence of his other - though in time it is something he learns to channel. (Venom [2011] #17, #35)
And human again, when he hands Toxin off to Jubulile and has to find some kind of peace with himself... (Carnage [2016] #15)
...until he finally rejoins with the Venom Symbiote. There is certainly a kind of divinity in Eddie's reunion with it. He is its savior, for once, rather than its would-be destroyer as he was for so long. He lacks the delusions of grandeur of past times, given his numerous reality checks since the last cycle, but his understanding, while imperfect, feels almost holy at times. There's a spiritual undertone to it all.
This era was, really, the joining of all three feelings - human. divine. beast. (Venom [2016] #150)
But the moment that tips the scales back to Beast is the return of Knull... (Venom [2018] #2-3)
...and ultimately, Eddie is shoved rudely back into his Humanity just long enough for death to claim him. (Venom [2018] #31)
Not even death can hold Eddie Brock, though, and so obviously his next phase is a tumultuous one, but it is Divine nonetheless as the King in Black... though sporting a look unexpected for him. (Venom [2021] #1)
Time is meaningless in Meridius' Garden, but there is a definite shift back yet again to Beast in the form of Bedlam. (Venom [2021] #20)
Until finally, he finds some semblance of all three - Human, Divine, Beast, in the forms of Eddie Brock, the Eventuality, and the as-of-yet-unnamed combination of the (more or less) resurrected Eddie Brock and the remnants of his battle with Bedlam. (Venom [2021] #18, #21)
I know originally I said this was two cycles... but really it's multiple. Eddie is trapped in this never-ending circle of just... over, and over, and over, never truly finding peace. So, really, what is he? Is he just human? Is he a savior? Is he a monster?
That's the question, isn't it? He certainly "knows how it is".
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