Venom (Guilty Gear)

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Venom
Official Guilty Gear XX Accent Core artwork for Venom.
Game series	Guilty Gear series
First game	Guilty Gear X
Creator(s)	Daisuke Ishiwatari
Voice actor(s)	Mikio Yaeda
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	England
Blood type	A
Theme song	"A Solitude That Asks Nothing in Return" (GGX -) "Keeper of the Unknown" (Korean XX #Reload)

Venom (ヴェノム, Venomu^?) is a character in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games who first appears in Guilty Gear X: By Your Side. Like many other characters in the series, Venom uses a very unusual weapon, a pool cue. Many of his special attacks involve the use of the stick and billiard balls. Of note, Venom is the only character officially stated as being homosexual (care of the latest Guilty Gear drama CD "Knight of Knives" released at the end of 2004), although this was heavily implied throughout his story sequences in the games and in the Guilty Gear novel "The Butterfly and Its Gale".

1 Story
2 Musical References

[edit] Story

[edit] Background

Venom was an orphan rescued by the Assassin's Guild. He showed promise except for one thing: he was reluctant to kill people. The Guild was prepared to execute him when he was rescued by the former leader of the Guild, Zato-1. Zato saw Venom's potential and took him in for his own apprentice. Venom is eternally grateful to Zato for this, and even pledges his loyalty to him even though Zato is dead.

[edit] Guilty Gear X: By Your Side

Around this time, Zato-1 goes missing, so Venom sets off to find his master. Eventually, he finds Zato-1, but Eddie has almost taken complete control of Zato-1. In one ending, Venom defeats Eddie, but Zato seems to be inert, if not catatonic. In the other ending, Venom feigns defeat to lure Eddie into his own body, whereupon he reveals his trickery to Eddie and indicates that he will sacrifice himself to kill Eddie and save Zato.

[edit] Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival

Venom's story mode begins with Slayer's dissolution of the Assassins Guild. Angry at the perceived disrespect for Zato-1's authority as leader of the Guild (albeit absent authority), Venom trains himself to eventually challenge Slayer, defending all that is left of Zato. In one of his endings, Venom defeats Slayer, although, as Slayer wryly points out, Venom is still not strong enough to destroy him. He then locks Slayer in an iron coffin. In another ending, Venom is distracted by a chance encounter with Eddie and chases him. Soon after fighting and defeating Eddie he collapses and dies. In his third ending he also meets Eddie by accident, but when he finds him Millia has already fought and won, and killed Zato as well. Enraged, Venom kills Millia then pledges loyalty and life to Zato's soul.

[edit] Musical References

Venom's name comes from the British heavy metal band Venom. His attack "Carcass Raid" could be a reference to the band Carcass, and his "Dark Angel" overdrive is a reference to the thrash metal band of the same name. Venom's background music, 'A solitude that asks nothing in return', is a near-copy of the song Breed to Breathe by Napalm Death, sans the lyrics and the intro. His Instant Kill, "Dim Bomber" is named "Dimmu Borgir" in Japan, the name of a Norwegian black metal band.