Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
Venom is Iconincally an Anti-Hero. That's what the fans know him as and what he is by default.
That's not what iconic means.

For another comics example, the big dumb stupid "gets angrier as they get madder" Hulk is THE ICONIC HULK even though you could point to a bunch of comics and probably make a strong case that "dumb Hulk" actually appears in a minority of Hulk comics.

Because that is what people think of when they think of the Hulk.

And hey, guess what, [/i]that's the version all the adaptations use[/i], just like "villain Venom" is the take almost all of the adaptations use.