Patrick Mulligan later known as Toxin is a major character in the 2021 film Venom: Let There Be Carnage and an upcoming character in it's upcoming 2024 sequel Venom: The Last Dance.
History[]
Past[]
Mulligan was an SFPD Officer. During his early days, Mulligan was responsible for taking Frances Barrison out of St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children and transporting her to Ravencroft. While inside the police van, Mulligan was attacked by Barrison's sonic scream which deafened him on one of his ears, in his desperation and struggle Patrick also shot on her right eye, knocking her out which allowed them to successfully take her to Ravencroft, though the cop did not know that and believed he killed her.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage[]
In the present day, Mulligan, now a detective in San Francisco, contacts Eddie Brock to speak to Kasady, a serial killer who refuses to talk to anyone other than Brock.
Kasady's execution fails when a red symbiote emerges and blocks the injection. It introduces himself as Carnage and goes on a violent rampage through the prison, freeing inmates and killing the guards. Kasady and Carnage then make a deal: Carnage will help Kasady break out Barrison from Ravencroft, and Kasady will help him eliminate Venom. Mulligan calls Brock and warns him about the situation.
Mulligan, suspicious of Brock due to his interactions with Kasady before Carnage emerged, takes Brock to the police station. Brock refuses to answer Mulligan's questions and contacts Weying as his lawyer.
Kasady takes Mulligan hostage, and Barrison captures Weying after failing to find Brock. With Kasady and Barrison planning to get married at a cathedral, Venom appears and fights Carnage. Barrison in turn seemingly kills Mulligan with her sonic powers.
While Brock, Venom, Weying, and Dan Lewis escape, unbeknownst to them a still-living Mulligan's eyes flash blue.
Venom: The Last Dance[]
Presumably an unknown symbiote called Toxin spawned during the conflict involving the symbiote known as Carnage, Toxin came to Patrick Mulligan's aid during the battle at Grace Cathedral after he was attacked and hung by Shriek. Taking over Mulligan as his new host so he could survive the assassination attempt, this is which made the detective's eyes glow blue while he whispered the word "monsters".
Carnage's spawn actually perished, but as Mulligan had been taken into custody in a secret facility in Area 51, he was given a replacement Symbiote to save his life. The new Symbiote gave cryptic but gradually more clear warnings about Knull, as well as explaining that Knull needed the Codex in Venom, which could be prevented with the death of either Symbiote or host.
When Eddie is taken to Area 51 as a prisoner, he saw Mulligan in an opposite cell and was shocked due to believing the cop had died in the fight against Shriek.
The Xenophage penetrated the facility, so Mulligan transformed into his suited state to hold back the hunter; while the creature killed him, he gave a small window of time that allowed Venom to rally a small defense of Symbiotes to counter the Xenophage.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Possession: Toxin could transfer itself from host to host upon physical contact with them, as it was able to secretly go into Patrick Mulligan’s flesh as if intangible.
Abilities[]
- Expert Marksman: Mulligan shot Frances Barrison in the eye with his pistol.
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Trivia[]
- In the comics, Toxin is a symbiote that was an offspring to Carnage. After giving birth to Toxin, he sought to kill it, but instead bonded it to a former New York City Police Department police officer named Patrick Mulligan so he could kill them both, but was saved by Venom. Toxin then became an ally to Venom and Spider-Man.
- In 2018, it was announced that Reid Scott would portray Patrick Mulligan in Venom, but his character was revealed to be Dr. Lewis.
- Tom Hardy posted on his Instagram a photo with the surname of Mulligan, confirming his appearance in Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The post was then quickly deleted.
- Vinny O'Brien and Sam Durrani were stunt doubles for Stephen Graham in the role of Patrick Mulligan.
- Unlike in the comics Toxin reveals to be green rather than either red or orange, especially after fans believe the green symbiote is Lasher who is in Venom: The Last Dance which their only half right when Lasher did appear after all only to possessed Sadie Christmas as a female version.