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FairyLeviathan posted...

I think it's in more of an attempt to humanize him than anything. Comics have been reinventing their characters with origin stories to make them sound more realistic than "Cosmic radiation shining through a crystal at a museum gives man extremely specific set of powers"

Which is weird, because his actual origin is not that crazy. He's a social Darwinist who survived a brutal south American prison and trained to be super strong and smart. The venom powers are actually more of an after-thought. It's all the stuff that came later that turned him into a giant, mindless drug addict.