Venom
Venom is a comic book character that first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8
Venom the alien symbiote that enhanced Spider- man's powers before he released the damage it was doing to his psyche. Other hosts have been called Venom such as Eddie Brock, and now Mac Gargan.
Origin
The Symbiote's imprisonment
The alien Symbiotes were a conquering race who had no feelings unto themselves. They fed off the emotions of those they conquered and forced them to do spectacular feats in order to feel the adrenaline rush. Eventually, the beings would be sucked dry and left for dead. One Symbiote was placed in a prison and condemned to death by disintegration when it was discovered that he focused more on bonding and communicating then on dominating. That Symbiote will forever be known as the Venom Symbiote.
Spider-Man
When the Beyonder created Battleworld, the crime fighter known as Spider-Man released the Symbiote when his familiar red and blue costume was ripped into tatters, believing it to be an alien clothing generator. When Spider-Man grabbed the little black ball, it instantly slithered over his body, covering him from head to toe. But it did not pattern itself after his red-and-blue costume. Rather, it took on the appearance of the garment worn by the super heroine Arachne, whom Spider-Man had been admiring. The webslinger was amazed at the properties of his new suit, but never questioned the mechanisms behind them. For instance, it could mimic any type of clothing whatsoever, making
Eddie Brock
Soon after, Brock began an intense physical workout program hoping to reduce the stress his life had become. However, such physical exertions only increased his violent obsession with Spider-Man. Although his body had been honed to near-perfection, Brock’s mind was reduced to an all-consuming vessel of hatred. It was this fierce emotion that attracted the empathic parasite. In order to survive, the alien costume had to feed off the nearest and greatest source of emotion. The Symbiote joined mentally and physically with Brock, whose emotions overwhelmed the already confused alien. The dominant thought on both their minds was that of Spider-Man. But Brock’s sheer hatred for the crime fighter twisted the Symbiote’s feelings to a similar extent. In effect, Brock’s emotions drove the Symbiote insane, just as their bonding may have driven Brock over the edge. Brock soon discovered that the costume gave him all the powers of Spider-Man, and more. It also added bulk to his already large frame and increased his strength to superhuman levels. Calling himself "Venom," Brock directed the costume to sprout a hideous grin and plotted his revenge. Through the costume, Venom learned a great deal about Spider-Man, including his secret identity.
Brock taunted Peter Parker with minor assaults, such as pushing him in front of a moving subway train. The alien costume could cancel out the wallcrawler’s spider-sense presumably by projecting conflicting frequencies upon Spider-Man's brain waves. Venom finally made a bold move when he confronted Parker’s wife, Mary Jane, at their old Chelsea apartment. Although Venom’s twisted sense of morality did not allow him to physically harm Mary Jane, Spider-Man immediately realized the nature of this threat. Taking the time to retrieve the sonic blaster from the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man challenged Venom at Our Lady of Saints Church. Although he fired the blaster at Venom, Spider-Man soon discovered that the Symbiote could not be separated from Brock because it had completely bonded with him. Trying to escape and rethink his options, Spider-Man was caught unaware by Venom. He captured Spider-Man and secured him to the inside of the church bell with a considerable amount of webbing. Spider-Man narrowly escaped the bell’s crushing clapper before defeating Venom by forcing him to deplete his webbing supply, of which the alien Symbiote was actually comprised. Before the alien could regenerate enough of its mass to become a renewed threat, Spider-Man brought Venom to the Fantastic Four who imprisoned him in a sonic containment cell. The Fantastic Four then shipped Venom to the government super-prison in the Colorado Rockies called the Vault. A young guard who had just been assigned to the Vault was fooled into thinking that Venom was a fallen colleague and released the gate mechanism, which imprisoned the criminal. Venom killed the naive guard and escaped to New York City, where he once again confronted Spider-Man. This time Spider-Man used psychological warfare upon Venom, by taunting the alien Symbiote to return to him. The alien, torn by its love-hate relationship for Spider-Man, tried to leave Brock and to re-establish its link with its original owner. But the trauma of trying to detach itself from Brock’s nervous system was too much to bear. The alien costume and Eddie Brock were both knocked unconscious and were subsequently returned to the Vault, where they were incarcerated. Since then, Venom has gone through many changes.
The next fight, Venom went after Spider-Man around the same time Jonathon Caesar, an insane and obsessed fan of Mary Jane Watson-Parker, sent two mercenaries Styx and Stone after the wallcrawler. Venom unintentionally became involved in the plot when the two attempted to follow him through the sewers in the hope of finding Spider-Man. Unfortunately for them, Venom escaped the sewers in his human guise. After yet another fight with Spider-Man, Styx and Stone found the two and attempted to kill Spider-Man. Fortunately for Spidey, albeit in a bad way, Venom would not allow anyone else to kill Spider-Man, save himself. Attacking the two, the fight ensued, before Styx, the living cancer, touched his Symbiote, killing it in the process. The Symbiote seemingly dead, Eddie Brock was sent to a normal prison.
However, later, it was revealed the Symbiote was merely sent into a comatose state, seemingly immune to Earthly diseases. Returning to Eddie Brock, the two easily escaped. In the breakout, however, the suit left a small spawn behind it, which would bond with Eddie's cell mate, Cletus Kasady. No one would no about this for months. Eddie brought Spider-Man to an island in the Caribbeans, away from people and innocents, in the hope of killing him alone. However, Spider-Man later realized that Venom would only be happy if he knew that Spider-Man was dead. Faking his death, Spider-Man made Venom believe that he had died. Happy at last, Venom thought there was no reason to return to civilization, having all he needed on the island, and stayed there.
A few months later, however, the megalomaniacal serial killer, known only as Carnag e, began a mass-murdering rampage throughout Manhattan, killing hundreds of people. Spider-Man attempted to stop him, but swiftly learned that he was greatly outmatched, despite his superior experience. Realizing that Carnage possessed a Symbiote, Peter reluctantly realized that he needed Venom's help in order to stop this menace. Contacting the Human Torch, they went to the island where they had left Venom. When Venom realized that Spider-Man was alive, he attacked the two. After a brief spat, however, Venom listened to what Spider-Man had to say. Promising to help Spider-Man stop Carnage in exchange for his freedom, Spider-Man reluctantly agreed, starting the first of many uneasy alliances with each other. Returning to New York, Venom and Spider-Man attempted to stop Carnage's rampage twice with equal failure. Finally, however, at Madison Square Garden, they stopped Carnage after trying to kill J. Jonah Jameson. Turning on the sound system to the max, Spider-man stopped Carnage, and reluctantly attempted to stop Venom, before Venom attacked him, still possessing enough hatred and strength to attempt to choke him. However, Venom was stopped by the Fantastic Four, who Venom realized was behind this all along. Venom's hatred for Spider-Man was greater than ever. After years of combating, however, Venom reached an understanding with Spider-Man, and made a truce.
After dealing a truce with Spider-Man and relocating to San Francisco, Venom was recruited via an ultimatum by the government to be a special operations counter-terrorist agent. Venom agreed, but one stipulation of the deal did not sit too well with him. A bomb was planted in his chest to assure complete and utter obedience. After a few missions, Venom became tired of the situation and had the Symbiote perform surgery on him and extracted the bomb. A brouhaha ensued wherein the end result was Eddie Brock lying unconscious and the Symbiote "dead," only to return later on and re-join with Eddie. Thus Venom was whole again and looking to square things with Spider-Man once again. He had lost his memory and no longer knew the secret identity of Spider-Man, but knew that a deep seated hatred resided within him for the webhead.
Shortly after the reunion, Venom joined the Sinister Six for a brief period in order to get at Spider-Man. After being scorned by the group, he hunted down certain members of the team for revenge (including Electro, the Sandman, and Alyosha Kravinoff. Later Eddie Brock approached his ex-wife Anne Weying, and at the thought of having the Symbiote back in her life, she jumped out of her apartment window and killed herself. Venom blamed Spider-Man, whom he had a skirmish with right before Anne died. Thus the hatred for the old webhead was fueled anew.
Angelo Fortunado
Mac Gargan
The Symbiote passed on to Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, and offered him additional powers. He agreed and Mac became the next host of the Venom Symbiote which he thought will give him the advantage he needs in defeating Spider-Man as well as being apart of the Sinister Twelve. But he was still defeated by Spider-Man with the help of other heroes. Even though he was incarcerated, it didn't hinder him as with his new powers he would be respected more as a powerful villain. He was later abducted by the Beyonder to participate yet again in another Secret War, but it was really the Stranger in disguise. During this events he thought he had killed Spider-Man but it was really the Space Phantom. All the participants were able to escape from the crumbling planet thanks to Gravity's sacrifice, he is seen mourning for his death.
After returning from another mission (it ended abruptly when Venom ate the target) the Thunderbolts were attacked by Captain Marvel. When Venom tried to stop him he was sent flying through a window and below Thunderbolts Mountain. It was later on discovered that Captain Marvel was a Skrull. Nobody knew what was happening except Osborne. Earth was at war. The Thunderbolts had been sent to protect Washington. When they arrived, Venom thrived in battle, eating as many Skrulls as he could. Later on he was attacked by a super Skrull, and they were both sent flying off they ship that they were on. They both landed among a crowd, and the Skrull quickly changed its shape. Venom, knowing it was hiding then began suffocating people in the crowd with tendrils, trying to find it. When Osborne saw this he reminded the Symbiote that while he was all for letting it fulfill its urges, there did have to be guidelines. Venom then continued to do what he was doing before. The Skrull saw all of this and, while changing back into its battle form, called Venom a monster saying that humans would liberate the Skrulls after seeing this. Venom then revealed that it was an act, and that the people had been able to breath the entire time. He said he did this to make the Skrull come out of hiding. Venom then proceeded to attack the Skrull. He badly wounded it with his claws and then started eating it. After Washington, the Thunderbolts continued on to New York, where Thor had summoned all the heroes and Skrulls for a final battle in Central Park. When they arrived, Osborne reminded the Thunderbolts that Skrulls were the target. Venom began to complain, saying that Spider-Man was nearby. He was quickly made quiet. Throughout the battle, Venom continued to kill and eat Skrulls, and was only seen harmed once when he was punched by a Skrull taking on the persona of Giant Man. Venom and the rest of the Thunderbolts made it through the Secret Invasion unharmed, excluding the death of Swordsman 's sister.
Venom's new formThe Sinister Spider-Man
When Norman Osborn became head of the superhero community, he form a new team of Avengers called the Dark Avengers, where he recruits Venom to be on the team. He first fed Venom with a skrull impersonating Spider-Man and fed him a medication that turns his monstrous form in to more humane look and named him the Spider-Man of the group. As a member of the Dark Avengers, their first mission is to come to the rescue of Doctor Doom who was being defeated by Morgan Le Fey. When Sentry decapitated her, he suddenly disappeared and Morgan seemingly came back from the dead. In her return, Morgan took control of Venom and started attacking his own teammates. After Morgan is defeated, Sinister Spider Man is returned to normal. Since this incident, Venom also played a part in Osborn's mutant plan, as he battled Colossus in the Utopia storyline.
Powers and Abilities
Symbiotes empower the natural abilities of a host to the point where they far exceed that of normal members of the hosts' species. These abilities include the following superhuman strength, speed and agility, Super enhanced durability, resistance to damage and healing ability, genetic memory, recalling information from previous hosts. Can expand to any size as long as they have something to grow on such as a host or an object. Symbiotes can get inside of small areas such as electric wires and the insides of cars and completely disable them. The Symbiote also reacts to the thoughts and will of the host. When Spider-Man was originally selected, he had been thinking about Arachne's costume. The Symbiote acted on this and formed a similar costume, the one seen on him and Venom. The Symbiote can sense the presence of other Symbiote within a certain distance and the ability to shape-shift, from mimicking clothing up to and including complete change of appearance and stature.
The Venom Symbiote has also adapted the spider powers from Spider-Man and has been inherited by its offspring such as the ability to cling on walls and produce an infinite amount of webbing from its own mass and the ability to bypass Spider-Man's spider-sense. at his peak before contacting the symbiote he can lift (press) 700 lbs and As Venom Brock's strength allows him to lift (press) 15-25 tons , stronger than Spider-Man himself (Before having the Anti-Venom Symbiote to lift 86-100 tons). Gargan can lift twice than Spider-man he originally lift(press) 15-25 tons. The natural superstrength of Gargan combined with the strength of the symbiote allows him to lift(press) over 86-100 tons. The Symbiote allows the user limited shape-shifting. Norman provided Gargan a medicine that allows the symbiote to return to it's original form to mimic Spider-Mans's appearance. The medicine must be taken in between periods of times, or else the symbiote would take over Gargan. Gargan has the ability to switch between the Venom apearnace and the smaller Spider-man appearance.
Additionally, the symbiote is capable of healing injuries in the host at a faster rate than normal human healing allows. The symbiote is also capable of healing injuries and illnesses that current human medical care cannot such as cancer.
Characteristics -Eddie Brock
Height:6'4" (Brock)7'6 1/2'"(Variable,with symbiote)
Weight:277 lbs (Brock),795 lbs (Variable,with symbiote)
Eyes:Blue
Hair:Reddish Blond
Characteristics-Mac Gargan
Height:6'4"(Gargan);7''61/2"(variable.with symbiote)
Weight:278 lbs(gargan);895 lbs (variable,with symbiote)
Eyes:Brown
Hair: Brown
Alternate Versions
Ultimate Universe
Characteristics
Height:(Brock)5'11",(venom),7'8"Variable
Weight:(Brock)175 lbs,(Venom),2751 lbs Variable.
Eyes:(Brock)blue,(Venom)white
Hair:(Brock)Blond,(Venom)none
Marvel Zombieverse
In this reality, a virus spread throughout the world, turning all super humans into flesh-eating zombies. Eddie Brock who was possessed by the Venom Symbiote has become infected and the Symbiote is slowly dying because it needed a live host in order to survive. He was eventually defeated by a cosmically powered Spider-Man after eating that reality's Silver Surfer and Galactus.Earth X
In this universe, May Parker, the daughter of Spider-Man is seen controlling the Venom Symbiote, much to the dismay of her father.
MC2
In this alternate future, the Venom Symbiote is very much alive and has bonded with Normie Osborn, the son of Harry Osborn and grandson of the original Green Goblin, Norman Osborn. The Symbiote bonded with him and manage to control it, becoming a hero. The Symbiote died to protecting Spider-Girl and her father from Hobgoblin. 
Venom 2099Marvel 2099
In the far away future, Kron Stone was a rich, spoiled brat that tried to kill Miguel O'Hara or at least, harm him really bad. When Punisher 2099 almost killed him, he fell into the sewer and came in contact with an alien mutation that wanted to have a host, thus creating Venom 2099. This Venom also has acidic saliva.
House of M
Larval Universe
In this universe, Venom is an alien pig named Pork Grind.Marvel Mangaverse
In this reality, Venom is a human ninja employed by Kingpin and responsible for the death of the reality's Spider-Man's father, who happens to be the reality's Uncle Ben. When Venom and Spider-Man fought and Spider-Man won, he spared Venom's life. When an amulet of the Symbiote surface, it was worn by Spider-Man which made him very powerful, but when he tried to removed it, it almost killed him. Venom got hold of the amulet and wore it to sacrifice himself to return his debt to Spider-Man. Venom returned from the dead is now looking more like the Venom in the mainstream universe. He agreed to teach Spider-Man the ways of being the most powerful ninja. But when Peter found out the true origins of the Spider-Clan ninjas, he declined being the leader and pass the title to VenomVenom in other media
Spider-Man Animated SeriesEddie Brock made a few appearances in the series, and was voiced by Hank Azaria, he eventually joins with the Symbiote and attempts to torment Spider-Man, and
Spider-Man Unlimited
Eddie Brock made very few apperances in this series due to Venom being in control of him. But eventually he breaks free of him only to be bonded back with Venom.
Spider-Man 3
And then Eddie went to the Daily Bugle to sell some Spidey pictures to J. Jonah Jameson. Eddie got held up at the front desk laying some pick-up lines on Jonahs secretary till he got the chance to slide into Jonah's office. Jonah didn't even know who Eddie was and until another member of his staff had reminded Jonah that he hired Eddie. Eddie introduced himself and tried to sell his pictures till peter bust on the scene and tried to sell his pictures of Spidey. once again Eddie insulted Peter's pictures saying that photography isn't all about "flag poles". so Eddie and Pete each tried to convince Jonah to buy there pictures but Jonah decided to go with Eddie's picture since they were cheaper and Eddie complimented on Jonah's shirt. Then Eddie said some sob things to get a staff job. peter immediately struck back saying he deserved the staff spot more. Jonah couldn't decide so set peter and Eddie on a mission,who ever got the picture of spider-man with "his hand in the cookie jar" would get the staff job. The two headed out to get the picture.
Peter had gotten sucked into the symbiote and had on his black suit when he went to go fight the Sandamn. Eddie showed up and took pictures of black suit Spidey to complete the mission Jonah sent him and Pete off to do. Eddie got the pictures but in the black suit spider-man was more cocky and "evil" so to speak and threw eddies camera into a wall destroying the pictures he took of black suit Spidey. Eddie complained but then took out a digital camera and took pictures of some things and then cheated to get the staff job by taking a picture of spider-man and turning it black putting a money bag in spider-mans hand and had him slinging away from a bank. Peter knew that the pictures were fake and edited by Eddie so then went to the Daily Bugle and interrupted eddies celebration on getting the staff job and put Eddie up against a wall telling him he knew they were fake pictures.Eddie begged peter not to tell anyone but peter didn't listen and told the staff and proved that the picture was edited, Eddie was immediately fired by Jonah.
He later roams the streets of New York and gets attacked by Sandman who thinks he is Spider-Man. At that point Venom gets Sandman to team-up with him to defeat Spider-Man. Eddie disguised as a cap driver kidnaps Mary Jane and traps her in the cab suspended in a big web hanging on a building at a construction site. He and Sandman are then seen on the news by Spider-Man of them attacking the cops. As Spider-Man arrives to get Mary Jane, Venom attacks Spider-Man. Venom gets the upper hand by tying Spider-Man down while Sandman crushes him. This is stopped by Harry Osbourne. Later on Venom almost kills Spider-Man with Harry's glider but Harry jumps in front of Spider-Man getting stabbed instead. All of a sudden after some pipes falls Venom's symbiote starts weakening from the high pitch sound which Spider-Man uses as a weapon. Trapping a weak Venom, Spider-Man manages to pull Eddie away from the symbiote. Spider- Man then throws a bomb at it after it tries to attack, but Eddie jumps into the symbiote trying to save it before the bomb goes off. The bomb explodes and both Eddie and the symbiote are gone. Only a small piece of the symbiote remains, left in Curt Connor's lab.
The Spectacular Spider-Man
Eddie Brock appears in The Spectacular Spider-Man, voiced by Ben Diskin. He is a close friend of Peter Parker, who is greatly interested in science. He begins to develop a hatred for Peter and Spider-Man over time, and after eventually bonds and becomes Venom, he then attempts to make Peter suffer.
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (Video Game)
Spider-Man eventually finds Venom in the process of turning people into Symbiotes. He says that whatever happened during their last fight, it made him stronger and more powerful. He also says that Brock is no longer in control. After a long fight, Venom runs off. Venom's Symbiotes keep spreading until S.H.I.E.L.D. has to quarantine Manhattan, and blow up the bridge. After days of fighting, the Tinkerer creates a sonic transmitter which Spider-man pushes off the Trask tower at the last second when Tinkerer was about to start it up. Spider-man then said, "No more games, this time Venom dies." He then relized that Venom was on the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier. After setting up all the bombs, Venom confronts Spider-Man. Venom is now however a huge monstrous beast with five heads. He has no lower body and is like a giant slug. (Red Side) Venom later dies when Brock sacrifices himself to destroy the ship. (Black Side) Venom later dies when Brock reachs out for help from Spider-man, but Spider-man tricks him and webs Eddie up and gets the web stuck in the turbine and Venom plundges to his death.
U ltimate Spider-Man (Video Game)
The game starts with a short recount of Venom's first appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man comic books series. Eddie is next seen on a bench wondering how he managed to stay alive. The suit quickly takes control and begins eating a bunch of people in Central Park. Silver Sable and the Wild Pack try to capture Venom but fail.
The next day, Venom attacks an art museum and confronts Spider-Man. Before they do any serious fighting, Silver Sable shows up and shoots Venom with with some kind of neutralizing agent which knocks Eddie unconscious, allowing them to successfully capture him. Eddie is next seen in a containment facility owned by Trask Industries. The owner, Bolivar Trask, states that since they own the suit they wish to test it. When Eddie says that it is to much to control, Trask says that hey will find someone else to test it if he dies. If he is left to long in there without food, then the suit will consume Eddie until there is nothing left. Eddie gives in and agrees to help them test the suit.
His first mission is to break a prisoner out of Ryker's Island, namely Electro. He completes this task with ease. His next mission is to fight him, since the suit shows a weakness to electricity. However, as Venom and Electro start fighting, Spider-Man shows up and starts taunting Electro. However he was then knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning. Venom didn't want Spider-Man to be killed though he wanted to kill Spider-Man himself. So as he fought Electro, he also had to protect Spier-Man. After he him up, he turned towards Spider-Man and was about to kill him to when SHIELD agents surrounded him. Realizing that killing Spider-Man would have to wait, Venom fled. Even thought the SHIELD agents followed him, he managed to get away.
Back at Trask Industries, Eddie explains that whenever he is around Spider-Man, the suit feels more control, and that that makes him feel good. Eddie then exposes Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Trask decides to kidnap Peter, so he can help Eddie get more control over the suit. While captive, a scientist injected Peter with part of the suit. This gave Peter his own suit, which in the game has been called Carnage (not the same Carnage as in the comics though, this was its own entity). Carnage escaped, and quickly found Eddie. Venom and Carnage brawled for a while, until Venom grabbed the tired Carnage and ate the suit. A now scared Peter asked Eddie what was going on. Venom answered,"I have absolute, total, control"! . Venom decided to settle the score with Trask when Venom was about to go after Trask at his office Spider-Man kicks him out of the window then Trask tries to escape by helicopter, problem is he doesn't know how to fly the helicopter! and sitting inside it while at the mercy of a vengeful Eddie Brock. He tries to push the helicopter off the Trask building with Trask inside intending to let him fall to his death but Spider-Man was able to stop him and take Eddie down for the count, unfortunately he managed to escape without peter noticing before S.H.I.E.L.D arrives at the scene. Shortly after his battle with spidey Trask was taken to a state prison off the coast of the city and was sentenced to spend his time there for 3 years Eddie appears before him and presumably kills him when he was alone, He remains at large and whether he and peter will encounter each is unknown
Video Game appearances:
- Spider-Man (Sega Genensis, Sega CD)
- Spider-Man (Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo)
- Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis)
- Venom & Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety (Super Nintendo)
- Marvel VS Capcom (Dreamcast, Arcade)
- Spider-Man (Nintendo 64, Playstation, Playstation 2)
- Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation 2, X-Box)
- Ultimate Spider-Man (Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation 2, X-Box)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance (X-Box 360 Downloadable Content)
- Spider-Man 3 (Playstation 2, Playstation 3, X-Box 360, Nintendo Wii, PSP, PC)
- Spider-Man Friend or Foe (X-Box 360, Playstion 3, PC, PSP)
- Spider-Man Web of Shadows (X-Box 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, PC)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (X-box 360,PlayStation 3,PlayStation 2,Wii,PC)
| Super Name: | Venom |
| Real Name: | MacDonald Gargan |
| Aliases: |
Spider-Man Black Spider-Man Sinister Spider-Man Lethal Protector Edward Allan Brock Edward Charles Brock Jr. Eddie Brock Angelo Fortunato Anne Weying Mac Gargan Patricia Robertson Normie Osborn May Parker Peter Parker |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Alien |
| 1st Appearance: | Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8 |
| Appears in: | 589 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man goes dancing. He also fights Sandman and Venom.
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