Popular Characters Whose Gender Was Swapped Last Minute

VENOM

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Venom character creator, David Michelinie, envisioned the character as female with a rough backstory. The original story of Venom starts with a woman in her last trimester of pregnancy, loses her baby due to her husband being stuck and killed by a distracted taxi driver. The woman goes absolutely insane from her loss, so when she is released from the hospital, she bonds with the alien symbiote and seeks revenge. Sadly, Marvel editor Jim Salicrup thought a woman wouldn’t be intimidating enough for Spiderman. This is how Eddie Brock came to be. Thanks, sexism!

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Valerie Complex

Writer, film critic, anime lover. Extremely passionate about movies and equality on the big screen, small screen, and everywhere.

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