Flash Thompson Fictional character
Corporal Eugene" Flash" Thompson is a fictional character, and later superhero in the Marvel Comics. He is a star high school football player who mercilessly bullies classmate Peter Parker but greatly admires Spider-Man, an irony in which the superhero takes some gratification. After graduation, he joins the United States Army and is haunted by his combat experiences, leading to alcoholism. After losing both of his legs in the war, he was bound to the Venom Symbiote as Agent Venom, an unwillingly anti-hero and now a full fledge hero, and the first to control the organism.The character has appeared in several other media adaptations (usually in his earlier bullying incarnation), portrayed by Joe Manganiello in the 2002 film Spider-Man and by Chris Zylka in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man.
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