Phase Zero
Characters

Patrick Mulligan

The detective

Patrick MulliganVenomEarth-688

A detective who shot a girl in the eye as a rookie, spends a career chasing the killer she loved, and ends up with a symbiote of his own.

Patrick Mulligan is a detective hoping to use Eddie Brock to find the remains of Cletus Kasady’s victims, and Stephen Graham plays him in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, with Sean Delaney as the young officer he once was. That young officer, in the opening, is the one Frances Barrison attacks with her scream on the way to Ravencroft; he shoots her in the eye, comes away with an injured ear, and believes for years that he killed her.

In the present he asks Eddie to speak to Cletus in San Quentin, grows suspicious of Eddie as the bodies pile up, and arrests him. Cletus and Frances take him and Anne Weying hostage at their wedding.

Minor spoiler

He survives Frances’s attempt to kill him, and is infected by a piece of Carnage. The Last Dance opens with his apparent murder making Eddie a wanted man, then reveals that he survived; he is captured by Strickland and bonded to one of the contained symbiotes, an unnamed green one Graham also voices, which tells Strickland what Knull wants. The Xenophage devours him in the last battle.

Played by
Stephen Graham, Sean Delaney
Role
Police detective, later a host
Affiliation
The San Francisco police, then Imperium's prisoner
What they can do
None, until a piece of Carnage gets into him.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021

    Asks Eddie to get Cletus Kasady talking, arrests him when it goes wrong, and comes out of the cathedral with something inside him.

  2. Venom: The Last Dance2024

    Not dead after all, captured, and bonded to a symbiote that talks to his captors.

Appears in

  1. Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
  2. Venom: The Last Dance2024

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 17, 2026