Spawn had them first, though since Todd McFarlane basically recycled Venom's design, symbiote suit and all, and spliced it with Ghost Rider's origin (deal with the devil resulting in hellish superpowers), it made sense. As for Venom with chains instead of webs, that was Dylan Brock's thing after bonding with the symbiote following King in Black.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Yea but it just feels so stupid to trade out Venom’s webs for chains while he’s using essentially the same design of Venom that Eddie is known for which holds an association to the webs. If they were gonna change the weapon, they should have given Dylan his own Venom look from the start. Kinda like how no one is gonna bat an eye to Flash using weaponry as Venom due to his version having a military tactical gear design to it. And even then, he still would use webs in addition to his guns.
Ben,Norman,and Eddie all got their personality changed thanks to outside forces
So judging from what's been leaked from the X-Men tie ins
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Maddie has a chance for redemption ahead of Ben
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