If the end of the last film was no indication, the black symbiotic suit will be the focus of this film. This story will take place just a few weeks after the last film. What needs to be done here is to split the film equally. Peter should have the suit for a greater part of the first half of the film, and Eddie Brock should have the suit for the remaining half of the film. The suit should bond to Peter almost immediately (and the suit should appear as it does in the comics, not as a black version of Spidey’s original suit). Of course, Spider-Man needs a villain to face as he wears the evil suit. However, before the suit even clings to Peter, Quentin Beck will be introduced first (Peter will take Mary Jane to Beck’s effects show, where after the suit will cling on to Peter). Beck will get taken off of the theater’s billing after his show goes wrong (this being the show Peter attends, in which Spider-Man shows up to save the audience from Beck’s malfunctioning technology).
First off, Spidey needs to take on an average group of crooks to showcase the suit’s enhanced abilities. Eddie Brock begins to cause trouble at the Daily Bugle, writing an article that falsely reveals the identity of a local killer. Beck later attacks his former employers dressed as Mysterio.
The black suit causes Spider-Man to be much more aggressive with the petty Beck than necessary (however, the suit has just barely started to go to Peter’s head). Beck, being the showman he is, easily escapes from the back seat of the police car. Beck’s next escapade is much worse as he uses his effects technology to attack the Daily Bugle (the critics at the paper gave his show a bad review). Mysterio actually poses a threat this time, but is soon brought down by Spider-Man, who is even more aggressive this time. Beck, of course, escapes again. As all of this is happening, Peter is becoming less interested in Mary Jane, spending more and more time fighting criminals (since Mary Jane doesn’t know that Peter is Spider-Man, she assumes that he may be seeing another woman). Spider-Man reveals Brock as a fraud, leaving the fellow employee out on the street. Spider-Man’s last encounter with Mysterio leaves Beck in a vegetative state (Spider-Man, to ensure that Beck goes to prison this time, beats Mysterio to a pulp and throws him into an active transformer). Peter realizes soon after this that the suit is influencing his thoughts (though, he’s yet to find a way to part with it). Upon chasing a gang of thieves into a cathedral, the clanging of the church bell frees Peter from the suit. However, Brock happens to be in the same cathedral when this happens (he’s praying for death). The suit, needing a host to survive, clings to Brock turning him into Venom (this event ends the first half of the film).
In the second half of the film, Peter has patched things up with Mary Jane and goes back to being the “Friendly Neighborhood” Spider-Man. Before he makes a full appearance, Venom can be seen many times hiding in the shadows as Spider-Man takes on other problems (one problem with Venom is that he knows all of Peter’s secrets). Spider-Man is completely shocked when Venom does appear (Venom attacks out of nowhere and he doesn’t set off Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense).
Venom knows every move that Spider-Man is going to make and counters efficiently. Needless to say, Spider-Man doesn’t come out of the first fight victorious (at the same time, Venom hasn’t yet let on about his identity or the fact that he knows Spider-Man’s). Venom’s next move is, after beating Spider-Man to a mess, to force Spider-Man to stare at Beck’s lifeless body through a hospital window (one thing Venom will be good at in this film is playing mind games with Peter, here sending him on a guilt trip). Venom’s last hurrah is kidnapping Mary Jane. Venom takes Mary Jane to the top of one of the towers of the George Washington Bridge where he threatens to kill her (this is clearly a sensitive place for Peter, as it is where Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy). Once Spider-Man arrives, Venom spills the beans, revealing his identity, Peter’s identity, and reminding everyone exactly what happened on the bridge a few years before (Mary Jane isn’t as surprised by this news as Peter is). The longest battle of the film ensues and Venom is narrowly defeated. Brock is separated from the suit and is taken to an asylum (the separation from the suit drives him mad). The film ends with Peter proposing to Mary Jane to which she, of course, responds “Yes.”