Dr. Venom | |
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G.I. Joe character | |
First appearance | 1983 |
Voiced by | Michael Emerson (Renegades) |
Affiliation | Cobra |
Specialty | Scientist |
File name | Dr. Archibald "Venom" Monev |
Dr. Venom is a fictional character that appears in the Marvel G.I. Joe comic series. He is a scientist who is the inventor of the Brainwave Scanner.
Dr. Venom is the first scientist employed by Cobra. His first major invention for the organization is the Brainwave Scanner. He gets a chance to show off the evil device when the Baroness captures Snake Eyes, Scarlett, and Zap and brings them to Cobra headquarters in Springfield. Dr Venom tries to break through Snake Eyes' resistance and manages to see flashes of several of the Joe's memories including his time in Vietnam and the mission that scarred his face. When Venom is distracted by Scarlett and Zap's attempts to escape, Snake Eyes uses breathing techniques he learned in Japan to simulate his death. When Venom and a guard unstrap Snake Eyes from the scanner, the Joe revives and knocks both of them out. He then meets up with his friends and the trio escape.
Dr. Venom begins work on a plague toxin at a lab in Sierra Gordo. Snake Eyes, Stalker, Breaker and Gung-Ho track down the lab and almost capture Venom, but all four are captured instead by Kwinn the Eskimo. Venom beats Snake Eyes severely and leaves him to die in a burning warehouse as payback for what happened in Springfield. Snake Eyes escapes and tracks everyone to a meeting with the Baroness and Scar-Face on a small island. Baroness, Scar-Face, and the other three Joes escape the island while Snake Eyes, Kwinn, and Venom do battle. Kwinn notices Baroness divebombing the island and pushes the other two into an armored bunker. The island is then bombed out of existence.