Doctor Venom

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Doctor Venom is a Cobra-aligned human from the G.I. Joe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Doctor Venom (pronounced, he insists, "Phe-nom") is a heroic humanitarian, happy to serve his country in any way he can. Well, that's how he tells it, anyway—with a name like that, it shouldn't come as any surprise to know that his words are poison of the worst sort. As icy as a serpent's cold blood, with a tongue just as wicked, Venom is a smarmy, slimy, self-aggrandizing customer with an overdeveloped vocabulary who bides his time, and will spin any situation to his advantage with a carefully-placed lie that he's willing to go to any lengths to "prove"—including murder. Worst of all, he's actually got the scientific skills to back up his bluster, which always makes him useful to whomever he wants to be working for.

Sometimes his real name is Archibald Monev.

No, Dial-Tone, not "Venom"--it's pronounced "Phe-nom" as in "phe-nomenon--{{#if:We're in American waters. V is V, like victory. Like venomous snake. In my phonebook, your name is mud.|We're in American waters. V is V, like victory. Like venomous snake. In my phonebook, your name is mud.}}{{#if:Doctor Venom and Dial-Tone"Funeral for a Friend"|Doctor Venom and Dial-Tone{{#if:"Funeral for a Friend"|, "Funeral for a Friend"|}}|}}

Fiction

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Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

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Warning: the following comic contains graphic violence (which may be unsuitable for children)

Doctor Venom developed "Project Creeper" for Cobra, but when G.I. Joe raided Cobra's temple base and put a stop to his experiments, he smugly professed that the terrorists had been forcing him to create the weapons for them. The Golden Boys Taken into Joe custody, Venom was confined to the science deck of the USS Flagg and put to work creating a line of robotic troops for the Joes. Guarded by Dial-Tone and Shipwreck, he worked diligently, insisting all the while that he was on the Joes' side, happy to serve his country, hoping his good behaviour would grant him the opportunity to examine the remains of Soundwave, an alien robot whose corpse the Joes had recently obtained. When the forces of Cobra attacked the Flagg, Dreadnok Buzzer was inserted into the vessel to recover Venom... but when he handed Venom a gun so he could join in the escape effort, Venom responded by shooting him point-blank in the head. This murderous display begrudgingly convinced General Flagg of Venom's apparent good intentions, and he allowed the doctor to work on Soundwave, hoping the scientist could reanimate the robot into the Joes' service. Funeral for a Friend

General Flagg donated the "Bumblecycle" the Joes had constructed from the Autobot Bumblebee's headless body to Venom's efforts, and Venom put it to use in an arcane experiment that seemed more sorcery than science, which also involved strapping some Joe grunts into some painful-looking machinery. Reading in the Cybertronian tongue from Cobra's holy text, the Decepticobranomicon, Venom reanimated the Bumblecycle, Form Follows Function turning it into a suit for armor that he used to binary bond himself to Soundwave's body.

Venom had just completed his dark work when Optimus Prime tore his way into T.H.E. P.I.T., intent on recovering Bumblebee, and the pair engaged in a battle that soon spilled out into the streets of New York City. Eventually, Prime wrenched Bumblebee's body from atop Soundwave's shoulders, taking Venom with it; Venom, of course, immediately began singing Prime's praises and offered to help him however he could. Expelled from the Garden Paying no heed to the Doctor's words, Prime returned to Cybertron, where he confronted Scorponok. Believing Prime was doomed, Venom hauled himself out of his Bumble-armor and legged it. Headmasters

Clad in a suit of S.N.A.K.E. armor, Venom accompanied Cobra Commander to Cybertron, where he encountered Destro. At Cobra Commander's bidding, he broadcast a secret kill-switch, wilting the creepers that had entangled Megatron. Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12 Venom watched from the sidelines as Hawk and Destro dueled one another, interfering only to remove a javelin from Destro's wound. He was amused when Hawk died. He was less amused when Duke shoved a grenade into his mouth, killing him. The War Never Ends

Beast Wars: Uprising

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At some point in the late 20th or early 21st century, Cobra was defeated. Doctor Archibald Monev was among the 731 Cobra scientists and operatives subsumed into US intelligence agencies to help deal with the threat posed by Transformers as a part of Operation Staple Gun. In the late 24th century, Rapticon and Ne'll compared him and Brian Bender to Wernher von Braun. The Inexorable March

Energon Universe

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Notes

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  • Venom's hairstyle is designed to resemble the Cobra insignia, with two distinctive fang-bangs.
  • Venom was, of course, originally created for the Marvel G.I. Joe comic by Larry Hama. He ended up in a rivalry with the mercenary Kwinn, who once threatened to shove a live grenade down the good doctor's throat (much as Duke actually did in the Transformers vs. G.I. Joe series). Kwinn eventually did kill Venom with a grenade, though dropped from his hand as he died and landing at Venom's feet. By the time of the G.I. Joe and the Transformers miniseries, Doctor Mindbender had taken Venom's place as Cobra's resident mad scientist.
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