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First appearing as merely a slick new costume forSpider - Manin 1984 ’s " Secret Wars , " the Venom Symbiote has become one of the rampart - crawler ’s most persistent foes . It ’s possessed more than a 12 hosts worth mention , and been everything from an outright terrifying villain , to an anti - Hero of Alexandria , to a place paladin . Its origins have only recently been explored , andits story is far from over .
Created by Todd McFarlane , Venomhas become one of Marvel ’s most popular character of all time . Not many villains ever get the chance to helm their own film , but Sony’sVenomhas beentalked up for years ; the simple beingness of the animal gives artists the chance to search character design in the Marvel Universe in extraordinary ways . Anyone the Symbiote meet turn to gold , as far as Marvel ’s finances are concerned .
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So who ’s played host to the conscious costume ? Here’sEvery Marvel Character That ’s Worn The Symbiote Suit .
Deadpool
Deadpool , the fourth - wall - breaking Merc with a Mouth , is no stranger to borrow other Marvel heroes ' schticks . He ’s held Mjolnir , he ’s wear off the Iron Man suit , andhe ’s even predominate out . His latest series , " Back In Black , " does n’t see him taking the black Symbiote out on loanword from anyone – it suggest that the Venom suit was Deadpool ’s to get down with . Even before Peter Parker make a appreciation of the alien Symbiote , Deadpool had a crack with the sentient ooze .
According to Deadpool , briefly after the original " Secret Wars " serial which find out Spidey first wear the black lawsuit , the fatal case came crawling back to the psychotic mercenary . partially to save itself from bounty hunter on the lookout for the Symbiote , it bonds with Deadpool in the thick of a pitched battle with Dansen Macabre and Aaron Stack , Machine Man . Predictably , thing get blinking , and Venompool slicing and dices a way full of cultist .
Peter Parker
" The hearsay are true , " enjoin the screen ofAmazing Spider - Man#252 as Spidey swung from rooftop to rooftop , rescue civilians under arm , all while wear a brand - Modern , black and white costume . It was the first major costume variety Spidey had ever received , all prompt by a sports fan ’s hint . Most comic reader , however , were not too happy with the fresh look , and requested Marvel change it back . So , in the ongoing " hidden Wars " issue , which report the costume ’s origin , it was revealed that the causa was really an alien lifeform , trying to bind for good with Peter . Using a equipment of Mr. Fantastic ’s , the brute was shell off of Spider - Man .
Fans can be fickle , however , and impression on the young courting turned irrefutable . The web - ass-kisser would go on to jade a mordant suit for four age , whether as an exotic goo or inert material . The sentient living slime , now known as a Symbiote , had become part of the Marvel universe , and would seek a new host once Peter had exorcised himself of it .
Eddie Brock
go in Eddie Brock . An aspiring journalist , Brock was mortify when Spider - Man got the exclusive on a story Eddie had adventure his career on . Abandoned by his wife and father , Brock rivet all his energy on chance on physical perfection , all while nurse his hatred for Spider - Man .
Eventually driven to attempt self-annihilation , Eddie Brock found himself at the same Christian church where Peter Parker had rid himself of the Symbiote . Drawn by Eddie ’s despair and adrenaline , the foreign lifeform bonded with the world . They give off each other ’s hate for Spider - Man , beat back each other insane ; neither had been so violent before . He dub himself Venom after what he was " paid to ptyalise these twenty-four hours " for tabloid newspapers . After set about to vote down Spider - Man on multiple occasion , Eddie finally became something of an anti - hero . After the Venom Symbiote had left , he went on to adherence with other Symbiotes , such as Anti - Venom and , most lately , Toxin .
Ann Weying
Ann Weying was the ex - wife of Eddie Brock . A successful attorney , she require urgently to help her former husband , and in so doing , put herself in horrendous risk . Trying to stop Venom ’s initial rampage , she provided Spider - Man with entropy on Brock .
Later , when she was shot by the baddie the Sin - Eater , Brock had the Symbiote bond with Ann in decree to mend her of her wounds . Once healed , Ann went on a violent disorder as She - Venom , kill several thugs in the process . Though she was horrified at what she ’d done , Eddie told her the Symbiote only allowed her to do the things she already want to .
When Ann was stop on ruff - up burster in rules of order to draw out Venom , she used her one headphone call to warn him of the cakehole . see red , and confuse by the limitations of telecommunications , Eddie sent the Symbiote through the telephone set line to Ann to help her leakage . Unfortunately , Ann , traumatized by the trial by ordeal , killed herself presently after .
Angelo Fortunato
The boy of a syndicate boss , Angelo Fortunato want urgently to bear witness himself to his Fatherhood . Winning an vendue for the Symbiote , his forefather bestowed Venom on his Word , giving him the opportunity to be the villain they ’d both always desire he ’d become . Showing impressive control over the Symbiote , Fortunato go on a hunting for Spider - Man .
After Fortunato had ripped the heart out of a journalist dressed as the paries - crawler , Spider - Man know he could n’t carry back when it came time to battle the new Venom . Going all - out , he beat Venom to a pulp , causing him to fly . The Symbiote did not approve of Fortunato ’s cowardice , however , and as they were swing out between skyscraper , the alien separated itself from Angelo . The man would fall to a messy death , and the Symbiote would once again be on the lookout for a new master of ceremonies .
Mac Gargan/Scorpion
Mac Gargan was a nobody even when he was a supervillain . wear out a extra armor complete with stinger tail assembly and acid jets , Gargan paraded around as the costume baddie The Scorpio and faced Spider - Man on many affair , sometimes alone and sometimes in a group , only to be defeated every time . When Norman Osborne approached him with the chance to be the Venom Symbiote ’s next host , Gargan was only too glad to say yes .
Using a special serum to well control the noncitizen ’s trend , Gargan still let his wilder side open every now and then . As Venom , he was a appendage of the Thunderbolts and later the Dark Avengers . He was trigger-happy and ruthless , and occasionally devour his foes . Though initially gross out by the cannibalism , he came to love to it , in time . After the events of the Siege of Asgard , Mac was permanently stripped of the Symbiote and engage by for good .
Flash Thompson
After Mac Gargan ’s stay , the U.S. governing was in possession of the Venom Symbiote , and needed a trustworthy person to hold fast it to . Enter Flash Thompson .
A one - metre bully and eventual friend of Peter Parker , Eugene " Flash " Thompson has been a soldier through and through . Wounded in battle , his peg were amputated , leaving him with the skills to shoot down , but not the ability . When he and the Symbiote were joined , the creature replaced his leg , along with endow him a so far unknown young set of Symbiote powers . Like Carnage , this suit could make bladed arm , and shaped itself to resemble consistence armor at Flash ’s behest .
Together , they fought menace both terrestrial and galactic , connect the Avengers andGuardians Of The Galaxyon different occasions .
Doc Ock (in Peter Parker’s Body)
Shortly after Doctor Otto Octavius had trade mind with Peter Parker , provide the hero to pall in the Dr. ’s cancer - riddle consistence , he encountered the Symbiote ’s latest host , Flash Thompson . foretell to perform surgery that would graft automatonlike peg to Flash ’s consistence , Octavius or else forcibly off the Symbiote from Flash ’s soundbox and bring together it to himself . Thus was born the Superior Venom – a Rubia tinctorum , more powerful parasite , merge with the cruelty of Doc Ock and Spider - Man ’s power .
Superior Venom sound on to angrily berate Aunt May and MJ for criticizing his admirer ’s pinnacle , before incur a mob of bank robbers and nearly killing them . The Avengers arrived and , with the helper of Flash in an Iron Man suit , managed to off the Symbiote once again – but not before Otto escaped . Upon returning to Flash , the Symbiote could only convey that a dramatic modification had taken place in Peter ’s mind .
Spider-Gwen
Gwen Stacey : in the principal Marvel continuity , she was Peter Parker’sfirst erotic love , and the woman whose expiry haunt him the most . There exists another Gwen Stacey , though – a Gwen from Earth-65 , which see her get bitten by the radioactive spider , and not Peter . On that Earth , Gwen became Spider - Woman or , as we have it off her expert , Spider - Gwen .
This variation of Gwen debut in the " Spider - Verse " crossover event , and she was instantaneously , massively , popular . She now has her own on-going series which sees her stuck on Earth-616 , after hers was demolish in the events of " Secret Wars . "
We do n’t have intercourse much about her own variant of the Venom Symbiote . All we can say for certain is that creative person Robbi Rodriguez is go to sleep from comics , and the Gwenom spark will be his swan call . He told Newsarama , " In the custom of Spider - Gwen , we just made another Word of God out of a punning we came up with in a taproom . " We ca n’t wait to learn it .
Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel
During the events of " besieging , " in which Norman Osborne and his Dark Avengers attempted to take over Asgard , Mac Gargan in the Venom suit of clothes was cause chaos . Having fully hold in to his cannibalistic urges , Gargan was joyously chowing down on Asgardians when Spider - Man and Ms. Marvel , Carol Danvers , showed up to put a stop to him . Using her cosmic powers to pull Gargan our of the suit , Ms. Marvel thought the line was done – until the Symbiote bonded with her , becoming animmensely more life-threatening threat .
With her ability , the young and improved Venom was nearly unstoppable . While Spider - Man led Venom on a chase through townspeople , Carol was trying to regain control from within . She trick the Symbiote into using her powers too avariciously , blasting itself off of her in the cognitive process . It instantly re - bonded with Gargan , and the military blockade proceed .
