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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Space Knight'' Vol. 1 12 [[note]]First mentioned in ''Venom: Space Knight'' Vol. 1 8[[/note]]
* AxCrazy: He was selected by the Agents of the Cosmos to be the Venom symbiote's first host, but used it to slaughter his homeworld instead of becoming a hero.
* ChestInsignia: For reasons that aren't entirely clear, he had giant white spider-emblems on his chest and back...
* TheCorrupter: He used the Venom symbiote to carry out a genocide against his homeworld, corrupting it with bloodlust and an addiction to rage.
* HerosEvilPredecessor: He is the evil predecessor to the (anti)heroic Symbiote Spider-Man, Symbiote Deadpool, Venom, and Agent Venom.
* NoNameGiven: His name is unrevealed, with the Venom symbiote only remarking on what he did using it and to it.
* OmnicidalManiac: He killed every living thing on his homeworld, reducing it to a frigid, barren graveyard.
* PredecessorVillain: He precedes Eddie Brock, Mac Gargan, and Lee Price as an evil host for the symbiote.
* {{Retcon}}: The 2018 - 2019 ''Venom: First Host'' miniseries seems set to retcon either this individual's status as the symbiote's original host or his status as a villain.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Space Knight'' Vol. 1 12 [[note]]First mentioned in ''Venom: Space Knight'' Vol. 1 8[[/note]]
* AxCrazy: He was selected by the Agents of the Cosmos to be the Venom symbiote's first host, but used it to slaughter his homeworld instead of becoming a hero.
* ChestInsignia: For reasons that aren't entirely clear, he had giant white spider-emblems on his chest and back...
* TheCorrupter: He used the Venom symbiote to carry out a genocide against his homeworld, corrupting it with bloodlust and an addiction to rage.
* HerosEvilPredecessor: He is the evil predecessor to the (anti)heroic Symbiote Spider-Man, Symbiote Deadpool, Venom, and Agent Venom.
* NoNameGiven: His name is unrevealed, with the Venom symbiote only remarking on what he did using it and to it.
* OmnicidalManiac: He killed every living thing on his homeworld, reducing it to a frigid, barren graveyard.
* PredecessorVillain: He precedes Eddie Brock, Mac Gargan, and Lee Price as an evil host for the symbiote.
* {{Retcon}}: The 2018 - 2019 ''Venom: First Host'' miniseries seems set to retcon either this individual's status as the symbiote's original host or his status as a villain.
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%%* AncientEvil: It terrorized Earth during the early medieval period, attacking the Geats and fighting Beowulf, before being sealed away.
%%* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Its host appears to be a dragon.
%%* TheSymbiote: It is an ancient, extremely powerful corrupt symbiote able to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy control lesser symbiotes]].
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* EldritchAbomination: It is an ancient and extremely powerful symbiote worshipped as a malevolent deity of madness and death by the already Lovecraftian symbiotes, infecting them with insanity, speaking in an ancient tongue that inflicts SensoryAbuse on humans who hear it, and travelling the cosmos to terrorize other planets.
* MindRape: It corrupts symbiotes under its influence, driving them insane with bloodlust; and can forcibly seize control of them -- causing their eyespots to transform into a jagged red spiral, protruding red veins to appear on their arms and legs, and porous holes to appear all over their bodies.
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* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Its awakening causes symbiotes and their hosts to have recurring nightmares of its rampages.
* TheSymbiote: It is an ancient, extremely powerful corrupt symbiote able to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupt and control lesser symbiotes]].
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* AmbiguousSituation: It isn't shown what happened to him after the Poisons busted him out of jail.
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* EatenAlive: She and her symbiote [[spoiler:were consumed by a Poison, becoming Poison Killer Thrill]].
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Combat and bloodshed is a ''major'' turn-on for her, to the extent that she constantly flirts with her opponents and considers torture to be a form of foreplay.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: When Venompool declares his intent to eat her brains, she gleefully quips that if he weren't a mark she'd take him up on that offer. She's also kinky enough to use her symbiote as a sex toy.
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During one of his escapes from the Vault, Venom murdered a guard named Hugh Taylor, having deemed the man "acceptable collateral." Hugh's grief-stricken father, General Orwell Taylor, proceeded to use his connections and resources to equip Hugh's brother and several of his comrades with enhanced Guardsman armor so that they could make Venom make.
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During one of his escapes from the Vault, Venom murdered a guard named Hugh Taylor, having deemed the man "acceptable collateral." Hugh's grief-stricken father, General Orwell Taylor, proceeded to use his connections and resources to equip Hugh's brother and several of his comrades with enhanced Guardsman armor so that they could make Venom make.
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An alien of indeterminate origin, Killer Thrill's father had her constantly fight and imperil herself to hone her psychic powers, which she put to good use as a bounty hunter after she murdered her parents "while they were hugging me!" Killer Thrill eventually partnered with another hunter named Ora, who abandoned her to die during a mission after she found out that Killer Thrill was secretly massacring people, including entire families, behind her back for no real reason other than to amuse herself. Killer Thrill survived the brush with death and later came into conflict with Deadpool and the Venom symbiote after the Collector hired her to capture the latter. That job ended in failure and with Killer Thrill losing her left arm, but Killer Thrill got a shot at revenge when she and her new crew used poached symbiotes to ensnare the Starjammers, attracting the attention of the Young X-Men and Venom (now bonded to Eddie Brock).
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When a freak space warp manifested near Gramos it altered the planet's polarity, making it so that only the extremes of the electromagnetic wavelengths could penetrate its atmosphere. As many Gramosians began to go mad and die due to this phenomenon, Mercurio volunteered to try and find a solution to the problem by venturing to Earth, the electromagnetic fields of which he decided to steal using power siphoned from Donald Blake's transformations into the Mighty Thor. While Mercurio eventually succeeded in finding alternative means of saving his homeworld, his adventures gave him a thirst for conquest that led him to become a ruthless warlord intent on establishing a galaxy-spanning Gramosian empire.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Picking a fight with Venompool resulted in her left arm becoming a symbiote snack. She replaced it with the limb of a Flora Colossus (Groot's species), but it was destroyed by Drax.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Picking a fight with Venompool resulted in her left arm becoming a symbiote snack. She replaced it with the limb of a Flora Colossus (Groot's species), but it was destroyed by Drax. Bonding to a symbiote allows her to replicate it using its biomass.
* TheSymbiote: Likely inspired by her run-in with Venom, Killer Thrill buys a symbiote from Haze Mancer to make up for her lost ''Flora colossus'' prosthetic.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''ComicBook/XMenBlue Annual'' Vol. 1, #1
* ArmsDealer: He's an arms-dealer who specializes in capturing symbiotes from Klyntar and weaponizing them.
* BadassLongcoat: Haze Mancer, a master arms-dealer who deals in symbiotes, sports a duster coat to go along with his wide-brimmed hat, giving him a Western look.
* TheCorruptor: He marinates the symbiotes he captures in chemicals designed to corrupt them and speed up the bonding process.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Haze Mancer once captured and weaponized the Venom symbiote, but it doesn't remember this encounter.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''ComicBook/XMenBlue Annual'' Vol. 1, #1
* ArmsDealer: He's an arms-dealer who specializes in capturing symbiotes from Klyntar and weaponizing them.
* BadassLongcoat: Haze Mancer, a master arms-dealer who deals in symbiotes, sports a duster coat to go along with his wide-brimmed hat, giving him a Western look.
* TheCorruptor: He marinates the symbiotes he captures in chemicals designed to corrupt them and speed up the bonding process.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Haze Mancer once captured and weaponized the Venom symbiote, but it doesn't remember this encounter.
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* FreudianExcuse: Played with; she's a TykeBomb whose partner left her to be taken captive by other aliens who tortured and experimented on her, but it's also repeatedly implied that Killer Thrill was always screwed up, as TrainingFromHell aside her parents were inferred to have been otherwise normal (Killer Thrill offhandedly mentions that she murdered them "While they were hugging me!") and the reason why Ora abandoned her is because she found out that Killer Thrill was murdering innocent people (including children) behind her back.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Her first and thus-far only other appearance was facing off against Drax the Destroyer.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Her first and thus-far only other appearance was had her facing off against Drax the Destroyer.Destroyer, and in "Poison X" she's moved from one Venom to another, bedeviling Eddie Brock and the [[ComicBook/XMenBlue Young X-Men]], coming complete with [[https://i.imgur.com/IrBWggE.jpg a new upgrade]] to even things out.
* AtrociousAlias: Nobody takes "Screech" seriously.
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* MotiveDecay: General Taylor eventually put the whole "gotta avenge my dead son" thing on the backburner and started caring only about the money that he could make whoring the team out as HiredGuns.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Firearm's real name isunknown.unknown.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Their backup story in ''Sinner Takes All'' was obviously setting up a Jury series that never materialized.
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* VillainHasAPoint: During his first run-in with the gang, Venom begrudgingly admits that General Taylor has every right to hate and want him dead, so he spends most of their fight doing evasive maneuvers and defending himself, rather than actually fighting them. He at some point got over this, though, going out of his way to try and kill them in ''The Arachnis Project''.
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** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} somehow convinced him to help in the fight against Red Onslaught.
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* {{Expy}}: A criminal with a sadistic sense of humor who gets a kick out of {{troll}}ing his archenemy, who has a disfigured face, and who survived a fall into a vat of toxic chemicals. Sounds pretty similar to the SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, doesn't it?
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* {{Expy}}: A criminal with a sadistic sense of humor who gets a kick out of {{troll}}ing his archenemy, who has a disfigured face, and who survived a fall into a vat of toxic chemicals. Sounds pretty similar to the SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, ComicBook/TheJoker, doesn't it?
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Four biomechanical alien parasites, the Symbiote Slayers were discovered by Vector, who tried to market them to the Crime Master, who in turn had them implanted in an unnamed man who later escaped. Driven to cannibalism by them, their host came into conflict with Agent Venom, who attempted to get the man to surrender in order for a cure to be found. Toxin interrupted just as the man was acquiescing and ate him, causing the four symbiote slayers to escape and and take over a group of homeless people. The symbiote slayers traced Venom and Toxin to the high school where Flash worked as a teacher, and Eddie and Flash were forced to work together to destroy them. One Symbiote Slayer was shown to have survived, but nothing's come of it since.
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Four biomechanical alien parasites, the Symbiote Slayers were discovered by Vector, who tried to market them to the Crime Master, who in turn had them implanted in an unnamed man who later escaped. Driven to cannibalism by them, their host came into conflict with Agent Venom, who attempted to get the man to surrender in order for a cure to be found. Toxin interrupted just as the man was acquiescing and ate him, causing the four symbiote slayers to escape and and take over a group of homeless people. The symbiote slayers traced Venom and Toxin to the high school where Flash worked as a teacher, and Eddie and Flash were forced to work together to destroy them. One Symbiote Slayer was shown to have survived, but nothing's come of it since.
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* GenreSavvy: He knew Betty was lying when she said she'd join him.
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* FacialHorror: He's missing his nose and most of his teeth, and his head is covered in burns. Eating a live grenade will do that to you.
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* ThrillSeeker: Partially as a result of her psychic powers being adrenaline-activated, partially due to insanity, she's a thrill-seeking mass-murderer.
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* CurbStompCushion: While she and Guzz got a couple of decent blows in during their final battle against Venompool, they were soundly defeated and barely escaped with their lives.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: When Venompool declares his intent to eat her brains, she gleefully quips that if he weren't a mark she'd take him up on that offer.
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--> ''"Take this guy, er... girl. Whatever. Take this thing, for example, Dragon-Poo. Can I call you Dragon-Poo? Hm. Would I have to capitalize that if I were writing? Anyway, this goof right here is weak. No matter how tough or scary it looks, it's all mush and peas on the inside. It's our job to show things like this that they ain't so big and scary when the inside peas are on the outside. Are you taking notes? Everything is weak. Everything bleeds, and we make 'em bleed!"''
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* CrusadingWidower: Wysper applied for the Jury after her prison guard husband was murdered by the second Tarantula during a riot at the Vault that was instigated by Venom.
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* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Sentry was the leader, so he got to have unique armor while the rest dressed nigh-identically.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Drax'' Vol. 1 #6
* AlienBlood: She has bright blue blood, as revealed when Venompool cut her arm off.
* AnArmAndALeg: Picking a fight with Venompool resulted in her left arm becoming a symbiote snack. She replaced it with the limb of a Flora Colossus (Groot's species), but it was destroyed by Drax.
* AxCrazy: As her codename suggests, she is a thrill-seeking, maniacal sadist who delights in violence.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: She was tortured into insanity, turning her into a thrill-seeking sadist.
* BloodKnight: She greatly enjoys combat, at least when she's winning, and with reason: her powers are activated by adrenaline.
* BountyHunter: When she's not acting as a SpacePirate, Killer Thrill is an unscrupulous bounty hunter with no qualms about causing massive amounts of collateral damage.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: If her reaction to Venompool eating Coldwar is any indication, her team-ups with other bounty hunters tend to go south.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: She is an attractive (if you can get past the insanity) female alien with blue skin and pink hair.
* GreenThumb: Her Flora Colossus arm prosthetic allowed her to form branches that act as spears.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When her arm was lopped off and eaten, all she did was complain that Venompool was being mean.
* OmnicidalManiac: Killer Thrill will gleefully render entire planets extinct on a whim.
* PsychicPowers: She has adrenaline-activated psychokinesis and telepathy that enables her to either MindRape or mind control people.
* PsychopathicManchild: She is extremely childish and immature in her actions.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Her first and thus-far only other appearance was facing off against Drax the Destroyer.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She sold her teammate Guzz to the Collector as a consolation prize, and even offered to wipe out the rest of his species on her way home.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Drax'' Vol. 1 #6
* AlienBlood: She has bright blue blood, as revealed when Venompool cut her arm off.
* AnArmAndALeg: Picking a fight with Venompool resulted in her left arm becoming a symbiote snack. She replaced it with the limb of a Flora Colossus (Groot's species), but it was destroyed by Drax.
* AxCrazy: As her codename suggests, she is a thrill-seeking, maniacal sadist who delights in violence.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: She was tortured into insanity, turning her into a thrill-seeking sadist.
* BloodKnight: She greatly enjoys combat, at least when she's winning, and with reason: her powers are activated by adrenaline.
* BountyHunter: When she's not acting as a SpacePirate, Killer Thrill is an unscrupulous bounty hunter with no qualms about causing massive amounts of collateral damage.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: If her reaction to Venompool eating Coldwar is any indication, her team-ups with other bounty hunters tend to go south.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: She is an attractive (if you can get past the insanity) female alien with blue skin and pink hair.
* GreenThumb: Her Flora Colossus arm prosthetic allowed her to form branches that act as spears.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When her arm was lopped off and eaten, all she did was complain that Venompool was being mean.
* OmnicidalManiac: Killer Thrill will gleefully render entire planets extinct on a whim.
* PsychicPowers: She has adrenaline-activated psychokinesis and telepathy that enables her to either MindRape or mind control people.
* PsychopathicManchild: She is extremely childish and immature in her actions.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Her first and thus-far only other appearance was facing off against Drax the Destroyer.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She sold her teammate Guzz to the Collector as a consolation prize, and even offered to wipe out the rest of his species on her way home.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Screech (Max Taylor) was TheUnfavorite whose life revolved almost entirely around appeasing General Taylor.
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* OffModel: Most of his appearances outside of ''Venom'' have him looking identical to the previous Jacks, right down to using a HoverBoard instead of the FlyingBroomstick.
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** BigBad: The Redeemer, the team's founder.
** CoDragons: Dementoid and General Wolfram, mostly by virtue of being the only ones besides the Redeemer to make it out of the group's first assault against Venom.
** EvilGenius: Doctor Everything, the ''self-proclaimed'' omniscient.
** TheBrute: Hippo, because he is a big bulky hippopotamus.
** DarkChick: Eleven, who is also the sole female member of the team.
** CoDragons: Dementoid and General Wolfram, mostly by virtue of being the only ones besides the Redeemer to make it out of the group's first assault against Venom.
** EvilGenius: Doctor Everything, the ''self-proclaimed'' omniscient.
** TheBrute: Hippo, because he is a big bulky hippopotamus.
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founder, though he's not actually evil.
**CoDragons: Dementoid and General Wolfram, Wolfram are the CoDragons, mostly by virtue of being the only ones besides the Redeemer to make it out of the group's first assault against Venom.
**EvilGenius: Doctor Everything, Everything is the EvilGenius, being the ''self-proclaimed'' omniscient.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Their cybernetic limbs were rentals, and their plan was to threaten Venom with legal action and kill him if he refused to their list of demands, which were fairly reasonable if absurdly naive. To say they failed miserably was an understatement.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Eleven's power. Unfortunately for her, Mac is able to FightOffTheKryptonite.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Their cybernetic limbs were rentals, and their plan was to threaten Venom with legal action and kill him if he refused to their list of demands, which were fairly reasonable if absurdly naive. To say they failed miserably was an understatement.
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The leader of the Quintas, a Mexican drug cartel based out of Rio Camundo. His gang's New York branch was attacked by Anti-Venom and the Punisher, leading to Valdez taking Anti-Venom's companion Jenna Cole hostage and taunting Eddie over her relapse into drug use. He was killed when Anti-Venom smashed a jeep onto him, then ran over his head.
* BullyingADragon: When the Punisher dumped Eddie off at one of the cartel's bases, Jorge made sure to inform Eddie that Jenna had relapsed into drug use and was "his girl" now.
* TheCartel: Valdez is the leader of the Quintas gang, a cocaine-smuggling cartel.
* BullyingADragon: When the Punisher dumped Eddie off at one of the cartel's bases, Jorge made sure to inform Eddie that Jenna had relapsed into drug use and was "his girl" now.
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The leader of the Baja-Moreno Quintas, a Mexican drug cartel based out of Rio Camundo. His gang's New York branch was attacked by Anti-Venom and the Punisher, leading to Valdez taking Anti-Venom's companion Jenna Cole hostage and taunting Eddie over her relapse into drug use. He was killed when Anti-Venom smashed a jeep onto him, then ran over his head.
* BullyingADragon:When Jorge threatened to rape Jenna to Anti-Venom's face, mocked the Punisher, and when the Punisher dumped Eddie off at one of the cartel's bases, Jorge made sure to inform Eddie that Jenna had relapsed into drug use and was "his girl" now.
* TheCartel: Valdez is the leader of theQuintas gang, Quintas, a cocaine-smuggling cartel.cocaine and heroin-smuggling cartel based out of Rio Camundo.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Anti-Venom crushes Jorge with the same jeep he tried to run him over with, puts his boot on his mouth, and runs over his head.
* BullyingADragon:
* TheCartel: Valdez is the leader of the
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Anti-Venom crushes Jorge with the same jeep he tried to run him over with, puts his boot on his mouth, and runs over his head.
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* NervesOfSteel: Even He had the guts to taunt Anti-Venom and the Punisher to their faces, and when Eddie was in full Lethal Protector mode, Valdez didn't flinch and kept trying to kill him.
* OhCrap: When a ricocheting shield takes out a number of men in the Quitas's Staten Island base, Jorge looks terrified at the thought of Captain America coming after him.
* OhCrap: When a ricocheting shield takes out a number of men in the Quitas's Staten Island base, Jorge looks terrified at the thought of Captain America coming after him.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom - New Ways To Live'' #1
The leader of the Quintas, a Mexican drug cartel based out of Rio Camundo. His gang's New York branch was attacked by Anti-Venom and the Punisher, leading to Valdez taking Anti-Venom's companion Jenna Cole hostage and taunting Eddie over her relapse into drug use. He was killed when Anti-Venom smashed a jeep onto him, then ran over his head.
* BullyingADragon: When the Punisher dumped Eddie off at one of the cartel's bases, Jorge made sure to inform Eddie that Jenna had relapsed into drug use and was "his girl" now.
* TheCartel: Valdez is the leader of the Quintas gang, a cocaine-smuggling cartel.
* DirtyOldMan: He kept a bunch of teenage-to-twentysomething girls as his personal harem, and added Jenna Cole to it to spite Eddie Brock.
* NervesOfSteel: Even when Eddie was in full Lethal Protector mode, Valdez didn't flinch and kept trying to kill him.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom - New Ways To Live'' #1
The leader of the Quintas, a Mexican drug cartel based out of Rio Camundo. His gang's New York branch was attacked by Anti-Venom and the Punisher, leading to Valdez taking Anti-Venom's companion Jenna Cole hostage and taunting Eddie over her relapse into drug use. He was killed when Anti-Venom smashed a jeep onto him, then ran over his head.
* BullyingADragon: When the Punisher dumped Eddie off at one of the cartel's bases, Jorge made sure to inform Eddie that Jenna had relapsed into drug use and was "his girl" now.
* TheCartel: Valdez is the leader of the Quintas gang, a cocaine-smuggling cartel.
* DirtyOldMan: He kept a bunch of teenage-to-twentysomething girls as his personal harem, and added Jenna Cole to it to spite Eddie Brock.
* NervesOfSteel: Even when Eddie was in full Lethal Protector mode, Valdez didn't flinch and kept trying to kill him.
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[[folder:Mercurio]]
-> '''Debut:''' [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] Vol. 1, #204
* IHaveYourWife: He's taken Pik Rollo's child hostage, forcing her to do his bidding.
* SpacePirate: He's a Gramosian space pirate who travels the galaxy enslaving species and disrupting planetary stability.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: According to Pik Rollo, his goal is to harvest energy for his homeworld, but his people are too pacifistic to go along with his extreme methods.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Mercurio's appearance is completely different from his original appearance as the [=4D=] Man in ''Thor''.
[[folder:Mercurio]]
-> '''Debut:''' [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] Vol. 1, #204
* IHaveYourWife: He's taken Pik Rollo's child hostage, forcing her to do his bidding.
* SpacePirate: He's a Gramosian space pirate who travels the galaxy enslaving species and disrupting planetary stability.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: According to Pik Rollo, his goal is to harvest energy for his homeworld, but his people are too pacifistic to go along with his extreme methods.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Mercurio's appearance is completely different from his original appearance as the [=4D=] Man in ''Thor''.
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!Other Antagonists
[[folder:Sin-Eater I]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Emil Gregg
-> '''Debut:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #107
--> ''"I am the held breath awakened, reborn again unto the city. Lust, Gluttony, and Greed abound in this seething cesspool of lies and sin. The lies have many voices. The sins, many faces. I take form, and will. I know what must be done. I am the dark at the end of the light."''
A man who contacted Eddie Brock claiming to be the Sin-Eater serial killer, but was seemingly exposed as a compulsive confessor. In the wake of Carnage's morality (or lack thereof) being altered by the events of ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'', he was found to have died, but returns as a sin-eating demon and he places the symbiote serial killer in his crosshairs after Cletus interferes with his mission to wipe out the press.
* AnatomyOfTheSoul: After killing his victims, he sucks what he claims is all of the sin out of their souls, it taking the form of monstrous green apparitions.
* BackFromTheDead: His corpse is discovered in a homeless camp, but he comes back as a sin-eating demon.
* BigBadEnsemble: He and his neighbor Stan Carter independently acted as the Sin-Eater during ''The Death of Jean [=DeWolff=]''. Since Stan was [[DetectiveMole a detective working the case]] and had actual superhuman (or very nearly so) abilities he was seen as the primary threat and the true Sin-Eater, with Emil being regarded as just some lunatic driven to copy him by the sound of Stan's arguments with himself emanating from the adjoining apartment.
--> '''Emil:''' It was the voices. I had to do it. Couldn't resist voices in the night. It was the voices... they said when and where. I didn't want to at first. I didn't think I had. But the people died. So it must have been me, right?
* BlondGuysAreEvil: He had blond hair when he was alive.
* CurtainCamouflage: He hides behind the curtains of Alice Gleason's apartment, but his shoes give him away. [[ImmuneToBullets Not that it matters]].
* DetectEvil: Apparently how he finds his victims. He states that Alice Gleason reeks of "sin, vainglory, selfishness and hubris".
* DramaticUnmask: When the mask comes off, it's revealed that all that's underneath it is a skull.
--> '''Chris Rollins:''' Oh, God... what are you?
* EvilOverlooker: On [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/imglib/0/0/1/AXISCARN2014003cov-b4ea5.jpg the cover]] of ''Axis: Carnage'' #3
* FaceFramedInShadow: Was almost always shown only in the shadows in ''Dark Origin''.
* HealingFactor: He regrows his skeletal head within seconds of Carnage destroying it.
* JackTheRipoff: When Carter is brought up, this guy claims to be the ''true'' Sin-Eater, asserting that "the imposter" is still dead. Alice later realizes that Emil Greg was the original after all and Eddie Brock was right all along.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Follows the Sin-Eater tradition of wearing a ski mask.
* NightmareFace: [[http://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Axis-Carnage.jpg The last thing]] Chris Rollins sees before he dies.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Appeared to have been shot to death by the mother of one Engelschwert's victims in ''Sinner Takes All'', but years later was revealed to have survived... only to die alone in a shantytown.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Cletus starts seeing him as [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/AXISCARN2014003-int2-3-4dc46.jpg the]] [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/AXISCARN2014003-int2-4-17344.jpg Devil]].
* PhlebotinumOverload: Absorbing all of Carnage's repressed evil gave him a power and size boost... and quickly overwhelmed him, causing him to explode and be reduced to a withered corpse.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The walls of his lair are covered in religious graffiti and stuff pertaining to the original Sin-Eater case.
* SerialKiller: He was a religious psychopath who targets those with "sin".
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Sin-Eaters love shotguns.
* SkullForAHead: As a demon he's very ComicBook/GhostRider-esque, though instead of being WreathedInFlames he has a SicklyGreenGlow. When he's wearing his mask, however, he appears to have skin and eyes.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: He contacted Eddie Brock and confessed to being the Sin-Eater. Spider-Man catching Stan Carter wearing the trademark green balaclava seemingly discredited Eddie and led to his humiliation, but it turns out he was right all along.
* TheUnfought: He was the one who started Eddie's descent into villainy, but ironically it was Cletus Kasady who took him out.
* UnknownRival:
--> '''Carnage:''' I'm coming for you, Alice! And you too, Green Ski Mask Guy!
* YourHeadASplode: Carnage makes the Sin-Eater shoot himself in the head, and leaves before he notices it reassembling.
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[[folder:The Jury]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Orwell Taylor, Edwin Cord, Bomblast (Kenneth Parmenter), Firearm, Ramshot (Samuel Caulkin), Sentry (Curtis Elkins), Wysper (Jennifer Stewart), Screech (Maxwell Taylor)
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Lethal Protector'' #2
--> '''Orwell Taylor:''' I had a son--Hugh. Fresh out of the army, he became a guard at the federal prison called the Vault. He was the first man you killed when you escaped from that institution.
--> '''Venom:''' We... we didn't want to hurt anyone...!
--> '''Orwell Taylor:''' And that makes it all right?! You murdered my son! That's why I put together the Jury! These warriors--including the ex-Guardsman who holds you helpless--we're Hugh's friends in the military. But now they're sole purpose, like my own--is killing you!
A group of VAULT Guardsmen organized by General Orwell Taylor to take revenge for Hugh Taylor, Ryan Stewart, and other Guardsmen killed during a jailbreak by Venom.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The ''Trial Run'' backup story from ''Sinner Takes All''.
* AmoralAttorney: Maxwell Taylor became the group's defence attorney.
* AntiHeroTeam: They're a squad of over-glorified prison guards aiming to kill Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote.
* DemotedToExtra: Despite all of their set-up, they only appeared thrice in Eddie's series, and two of those appearances were just in backup stories that did not involve Venom at all.
* HangingJudge: The role of the short-lived member "Gavel".
* KangarooCourt: After apprehending their target they try, sentence, and execute them without any real intention of finding them innocent.
* KnightTemplar: They aimed to "judge" Venom, Tarantula II, Spider-Man,[[note]]Ostensibly for bringing the symbiote to Earth, though this was later revealed to be a ruse to draw out Venom.[[/note]] and Abe Jenkins using lethal force, and while they've reformatted to be more representative of an American court of law they still use lethal force.
* ManOfKryptonite: Their suits were designed with symbiote weaknesses in mind, which is reflected by most of their codenames ([[LoudOfWar Bombblast, Wysper, Screech]], [[FireBreathingWeapon Firearm]]).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Firearm's real name is unknown.
* PoweredArmor: They all wear modified Guardsman armor, which itself was based on blueprints for Tony Stark's Iron Man armour.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They were demoted to this status while working for the Life Foundation in ''The Arachnis Project''.
* {{Revenge}}: Their goal is to avenge the comrades who were killed during one of Eddie Brock's escapes.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Jennifer Stewart is the only female member.
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[[folder:Pyre]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Gray Russell
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Funeral Pyre'' #1
--> ''"Turn me into a monster! Cripple me! It can't get much worse... Come on! Let's finish it!"''
A Californian reporter, Gray Russell learns that his dying father was once a scientist employed by Comicbook/{{Hydra}}, and that the laboratory he worked in is still standing, albeit now abandoned. Gray goes to the warehouse containing the lab in search of answers, and discovers that it is now being used as the headquarters of the Jadoo street gang, which Gray bluffs his way into becoming a prospective member of. Unfortunately, Gray learns afterward that joining the Jadoos is a lifetime commitment, and that he will soon have to kill a rival gang member to prove himself, or be killed in turn. Desperate, Gray gives a note requesting aid to a young boy, who in turn gives it to Venom. Unfortunately, run-ins with ComicBook/{{the Punisher}} leave Venom unable to reach Gray before the journalist is forced into committing mass murder by the Jadoos. When the Punisher storms the gang's warehouse, he mistakes Gray for just another Jadoo, which prompts the terrified Gray to seek shelter in a pod in the Hydra lab, which mutates him into a being capable of wielding microwave radiation. Unhinged by the combination of his mutation and status as a killer, Gray (now going by "Pyre") blames Venom and the Punisher for his woes, and attacks them, sparking a battle that brings the entire building down on him.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The machine that gives Pyre his abilities also turns his skin red.
* ContinuityNod: When Eddie, who had since become Anti-Venom, and the Punisher "team up" again in ''New Ways to Live'', Castle repeatedly sneers that he hasn't changed since they last parted ways.
* DistinguishingMark: A pink birthmark on the neck, which Venom uses to identify him.
* ImmuneToBullets: They melt before they can reach him.
* IntrepidReporter: Why Venom was so intent on helping him.
--> '''Venom:''' We're all on the same side here. But you're blowing our quiet little rescue--of a fellow journalist undercover in a local gang.
* ManOfKryptonite: Pyre's mere presence causes Venom excruciating pain.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Punisher's interference really screwed Gray over. Except for the part where Frank tried to nullify Pyre's powers, and only succeeded in making them ''stronger''.
* NotQuiteDead: As Venom and the Punisher leave the scene, coughs emanates from the rubble; Pyre's survival is confirmed in ''ComicBook/CivilWar: Battle Damage Report''.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: While fighting Venom, Pyre catches sight of his reflection, and becomes even more enraged.
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[[folder:Sin-Eater III]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Michael G. Engelschwert
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Sinner Takes All'' #1
--> '''Venom:''' [[HearingVoices Hear those voices]] yet, Sin-Muncher? Hear them going tweet tweet tweet?
--> '''Sin Eater:''' All I hear is the voice of the Lord... [[BoomHeadshot and it is the sound of sweet thunder!]]
A Gulf War veteran, the mentally fractured Michael G. Engelschwert was left homeless after the conflict and came to reside in a shelter, where he frequently bunked with Emil Gregg, the unstable man who had confessed to being the serial killer known as the Sin-Eater to Eddie Brock. Emil's nonstop religious rants wormed their way into Mike's mind, and he took up the mantle of the Sin-Eater, being even deadlier than his predecessor Stan Carter.
* AxCrazy: More so than Stan Carter, who had a MaskOfSanity.
* BadassBandolier: Lots.
* BadassLongcoat: Allowing for easy firearm concealment.
* BadassNormal: Has no special powers or gear, just lots and lots of guns.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Kirsten's mother in ''Sinner Takes All''.
* ChurchMilitant: He's even a former soldier.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: With exposure to other mentally ill vagrants making him worse.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Is tackled out a window after activating his explosive vest.
* EvilOverlooker: On [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/6/67663/3415768-01.jpg the cover]] of ''Sinner Takes All'' #1.
* EvilVersusEvil: Exterminates a group of militants, and gets into a fight with and is fatally shot by a crazy woman who has a grudge against Venom.
* FakingTheDead: He switches clothes with a hostage, and tricks Venom into killing the captive.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Makes it clear he's targeting Ann [[http://www.symbiote.fr/images/comics/venom-sinner0119.jpg simply because she's a lawyer]].
* FrameUp: Leaves Sin-Eater gear under Emil's cot, which leads to him being arrested, and later [[AcquittedTooLate killed]] by the mother an officer Mike had earlier murdered.
* GogglesDoNothing: He sometimes wears red ones.
* TheHeavy: While he and Kristen's mother share the villain role in ''Sinner Takes All'', the latter only becomes involved halfway through the series, whereas Mike is the main threat, and there from start to finish.
* {{Irony}}: Crazy old Emil Gregg was driven to try and become the Sin Eater by Stan Carter's conversations with himself, which he could hear through the walls of the apartment building they both lived in. Later, crazy old Michael Engelschwert was driven to become the Sin-Eater by Emil Gregg's conversations with himself, which he could hear in the homeless shelter they both lived in.
* ItsPersonal: Nearly kills Eddie's ex-wife, Ann. Venom is also just plain happy to take on the Sin-Eater, even if it isn't Stan Carter or Emil Gregg.
--> '''Venom:''' Here's one for you--'Exclusive! Sin-Eater Revealed!' Eddie Brock, aka--Venom!"
* JackTheRipoff: Of Stan Carter, the original Sin-Eater.
* MadBomber: Wears an explosive vest, and attempts to blow up the New York Stock Exchange.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Is introduced blowing away the man responsible for the ''[[TheMostDangerousVideogame Carnage Unleashed!]]'' game from the storyline of the same name.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: A reddish-pink balaclava, as opposed to the green one (which he does have on the covers) worn by Stan Carter.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: What could it stand for?
* OneManArmy: In the Gulf War, and against the authorities, up to and including SWAT teams.
* RealMenWearPink: His mask is kind of... pinkish.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Why he became indigent.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His main weapon is a shotgun.
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only survivor of a Black Hawk crash in the Gulf War. After the airplane went down, he managed to slaughter an entire troop of enemy soldiers by himself before being found.
* TalkativeLoon: Speaks almost entirely in Bible quotes.
* TakingYouWithMe: Dying from being shot, Mike decides to blow himself and everyone else present up. Mixed with a bizarre instance of PetTheDog:
--> '''Mike:''' ... But I can save you all! I am about to enter the kingdom, and I can take you all with me!
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Nearly kills Venom with tons of thermite and white phosphorus grenades.
* WalkingArsenal: Including anti-tank weaponry.
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[[folder:The Xenophage]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: The Hunted'' #1
--> ''"I must say that my sojourn on your [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet little blue planet]] has been a quite a little gastronomic adventure-and comparatively trouble free! Why, up until now, the local authorities didn't even know I existed!"''
A monstrous yet highly intelligent race of extraterrestrials, the Xenophages prey on symbiotes, and presumably originate from the same galaxy as them. In the aftermath of ''Planet of the Symbiotes'', an unnamed member of the species travels to Earth to devour the surviving invaders, bringing him into conflict with Scream (who he captures) and Venom (who is blamed for his killing spree). After a city-wide chase, the creature is brought down when Venom tricks him into eating a grenade, blowing his head off. Afterward, the Xenophage's spaceship is uncovered by Scream and a pair of teenaged skateboarders, who use it to help Venom and Wolverine defeat mutant supervillains Chimera and Dirtnap. The ship presumably remained in Scream's possession until her death at the hands of Eddie Brock.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: He's assumed to have eaten all of the surviving invaders (and their hosts) leftover from ''Planet of the Symbiotes''.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: No explanation is given for his SurprisinglyGoodEnglish.
* BrainFood: Goes for the brain first, which is why Venom is blamed for all the deaths.
* CombatTentacles: His entire lower half is composed of these.
* CoolStarship: It's BiggerOnTheInside, can shrink down to the size of a football without harming the occupants, travel to other dimensions, and track symbiotes anywhere.
* TheDreaded: Instinctively feared by symbiotes.
* FangsAreEvil[=/=]MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Just like his snacks.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Very eloquent.
* FeedItABomb: Venom creates a fake head containing a grenade, and tricks the Xenophage into biting it.
* FeelNoPain: "My exoskeleton is not equipped with pain receptors... [[SophisticatedAsHell unlike your face!]]"
* FoodChainOfEvil: A symbiote predator.
* HungryMenace: While obviously sentient, he doesn't care about anything but his next meal.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Where he tucked away Scream.
* LeanAndMean: His bottom half is nothing but tentacles, while his abdomen is skeletal with CreepilyLongArms.
* LightningBruiser: Very agile, despite his size.
* TheMerch: Surprisingly, he got an action figure, though the packaging referred to him as "[[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/2077379-phage_venom_front.jpg Phage]]".
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The villain of ''Venom: The Hunted''.
* MeaningfulName: Roughly translated, it means "alien devourer".
* NighInvulnerable: Nothing could lay a scratch on his exoskeleton.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name (if he had one) is unrevealed, so he's just called "the Xenophage" or simply "the Phage".
* TheParalyzer: He can temporarily disable symbiotes with his spit, turning them into dead weight for their hosts. Eddie compares getting doused to being put in a straitjacket.
* SuperSpit: It's an incendiary neurotoxin that paralyzes symbiotes, and enhances their taste.
* StarfishAliens: A gangly monster with an ornate golden face and mandibles, a body made up mostly of fur and tentacles, and the ability to perfectly emulate inanimate objects down to the finest detail.
* TentacleRope: Scream is entangled in them for most of the story.
* ToServeMan: While he feeds on symbiotes, he is able to sustain himself on humans, and presumably other beings.
* TraintopBattle: The final battle takes place on top of a subway train.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Able to flawlessly mimic a cabinet, complete with fine China.
* WouldHurtAChild: Attempts to eat some kids who try to help Venom and Scream.
--> '''Scream:''' What do you want with those kids? I thought you only ate symbiote brains!
--> '''Xenophage:''' It's what I prefer, but any cerebral cortex will do in a pinch! In fact, I could do with a snack just about now...
* YourHeadASplode: His death.
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[[folder:Krobaa]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Seed of Darkness'' #-1
--> ''"Such... great... horror. A terrible abundance of sorrow. What monstrous Gods would create a race with so much buried greatness--yet curse them with souls born wounded?"''
While experimenting with dimensional and intergalactic travel, quack scientist Nigel Donlevy brought the symbiote-like alien Krobaa to Earth. A member of a benevolent empire, Krobaa merged with Donlevy (intending to do so only temporarily) to learn about the new planet he had been brought to, and its people. Unfortunately, the darkness within Donlevy (aka the human ID) drove Krobaa insane, and he went on rampage through a nearby town and industrial park. ''Daily Globe'' reporter Eddie Brock, alerted to Krobaa's existence by someone looking for burnt-out paranormal investigator [[Series/KolchakTheNightStalker Cal Carlchok]], travelled to the area Krobaa was laying waste to, and after evading the monster's attacks, realized it had an aversion to light. With the flashes produced by his camera, Eddie restored Krobaa to his senses; unfortunately, the extraterrestrial was so traumatized by what he had done and experienced that he committed suicide by reducing himself to dust and gas, expelling the hysterical Donlevy. Eddie submitted the story to his editor, only to have it dismissed (as Carlchok hinted it would be) as a "turn-off" for the average reader and advertiser. The disheartened Eddie was left to brood--"I'll make the big time eventually. I can feel it in my gut. Sooner or later--I'm going to strike oil".
* AVillainNamedZrg: The story was a throwback to the Marvel Monsters era, so of course this naming convention was used.
* BlobMonster: Krobaa was an amorphous blob of black goo, though he became slightly humanoid after taking over Donlevy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: An initially benevolent black blob from another world which was corrupted by exposure to humans, who it could bond to physically and mentally. Subtle.
** The resemblance is further strengthened by ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' asserting that symbiotes are inherently good, and only become evil due to external factors like imperfect hosts.
* EpisodeZeroTheBeginning: His issue was designated "''Venom'' #-1".
* HumanityIsInsane: Merging with a human causes Krobaa to lose it, and after returning to normal, he kills himself.
--> '''Nigel Donlevy:''' But he knew nothing of the primal beast that lurks within the human subconscious, the inner demon that Freud called the ID. He was overwhelmed, nearly driven mad--until your strobe light shocked him out of it. And then... I could feel his revulsion... his pity. Considering himself infected, he committed suicide rather than risk unleashing a plague of madness on the universe... our madness.
* WeakenedByTheLight: To the point that [[WeaponizedCamera a camera]] could disorient him.
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[[folder:Kulan Gath]]
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-->'''Debut:''' ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' #14; ''Spider-Man Red Sonja'' #3 (as Venom)
An evil sorcerer from the Hyborian Age. Kulan opposed Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, attempting to summon and control Shuma-Gorath. Kulan resurfaced in modern-day Manhattan, coming into conflict with Spider-Man due his wife Mary-Jane being possessed by Red Sonja. In one of these attempts Kulan enthralled Eddie Brock. In order to accrue additional power, Kulan stole the Venom symbiote and bonded to it, but the alien's attempts to abandon him distracted him long enough for Sonja to destroy his amulet.
* EvilSorcerer: Kulan Gath is an evil sorcerer who gets his powers from Shuma-Gorath.
* GrandTheftMe: Kulan is able to possess whoever wears the amulet that serves as his phylactery.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Kulan is a powerful sorcerer who stored his soul in a mystical amulet, enabling him to be resurrected several times.
* SoulJar: He used an amulet, later made into a necklace as a phylactery.
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[[folder:The Redeemers]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Doctor Shep Gunderson (Redeemer); Claude Cramer (General Wolfram); Jenni Pate (Eleven); Jonathan N. York (Doctor Everything); Mrs. Fluffy Lumpkins (Hippo); Richard Earle Amtower IV (Dementoid)
-> '''Debut:''' ''Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man'' #1
--> ''"All right, people! Let's go save Spider-Man!"''
A ragtag bunch of criminals and supervillains with one thing in common: a grudge against Mac Gargan for "[[IAmAHumanitarian amputating]]" one or more of [[AnArmAndALeg their limbs]].[[note]]Except for Doctor Everything, who removed his own arm to fit in with the others.[[/note]] Gathered together by the Redeemer, they swore to bring the Sinister Spider-Man to justice... and [[EatenAlive failed miserably]].
* AbsurdPhobia: Dementoid develops one towards buttocks and anuses after Gargan turns his rear end into a set of jaws and nearly eats him in reverse.
* AnArmAndALeg: With the exception of Doctor Everything, they all had a limb or two eaten by Venom.
* AffectionateNickname: In his diary-style [[PreviouslyOn summary of the previous issue]] in ''Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man'' #3, Mac has heart-shaped cutouts with photos of the Redeemers on them and little captions, referring to Redeemer as "Nerd", [[{{Foreshadowing}} Hippo as "Lunch", Eleven as "Dessert"]], Wolfram as "Midnight Snack", Dementoid as "Gassy", and Doctor Everything as "Naked. It's weird."
* BackFromTheDead: Despite being eaten by Venom, Hippo later reappears to fight Spider-Man and Luke Cage.
* BreakoutVillain: Hippo is apparently popular with someone, as he [[UnexplainedRecovery somehow]] recovered from being devoured by Mac, and went on to become a minor recurring villain for the real Spider-Man.
* CaptainErsatz: Doctor Everything is a blatant parody of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan]].
* CatchPhrase: Hippo's is "Pachyderm Power!" ... which doesn't make any sense given that he's not an elephant.
* CensorBox: Doctor Everything's junk is obscured by a [[TeenyWeenie small black censor bar]].
* EatenAlive: Hippo and Eleven are eaten by Venom during their first showdown.
* EvilOldFolks: General Wolfram is a World War II veteran.
* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: The Redeemer, the team's founder.
** CoDragons: Dementoid and General Wolfram, mostly by virtue of being the only ones besides the Redeemer to make it out of the group's first assault against Venom.
** EvilGenius: Doctor Everything, the ''self-proclaimed'' omniscient.
** TheBrute: Hippo, because he is a big bulky hippopotamus.
** DarkChick: Eleven, who is also the sole female member of the team.
* FullFrontalAssault: Doctor Everything remarks he has no need for clothes to Eleven when she complains about his nudity.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Hippo is an anthropomorphic hippo created by the High Evolutionary, and wears a pair of Hulk-sized green pants.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Their cybernetic limbs were rentals, and their plan was to threaten Venom with legal action and kill him if he refused to their list of demands, which were fairly reasonable if absurdly naive. To say they failed miserably was an understatement.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Eleven's power. Unfortunately for her, Mac is able to FightOffTheKryptonite.
* NemeanSkinning: Wolfram wears the skin of a wolf... with glowing red eyes.
* NoSell: Venom is [[InsanityImmunity immune]] to Dementoid's insanity-inducing touch, and when Doctor Everything covers his mouth with a metal plate he tries to use his ass to eat people.
* RealityWarper: Doctor Everything can warp reality, although his use of this power is limited to comedic effect, such as conjuring a metal plate over Venom's mouth. He's even arrested.
* SaveTheVillain: The Redeemer's professed goal is to save "Spider-Man"... by killing him.
* SinisterSchnoz: Doctor Shep Gunderson's nose was enormous.
* SkullForAHead: The Redeemer's mask is intended to invoke this.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Eleven is the only girl on the team.
* ThoseWackyNazis: General Wolfram was a Nazi scientist during World War II.
* TimeForPlanB: In the aftermath of their failed attempt to redeem or kill Mac, Dementoid and Wolfram visit the now quadriplegic Redeemer, who has them enact the backup plan - sending pictures of "Spider-Man's" [[IAmAHumanitarian innumerable crimes]] to J. Jonah Jameson.
* UnreliableNarrator: Wolfram claims to have been a wolf [[HumanityEnsues humanized]] by the Nazis, though the Redeemer points out that there are a lot of holes in that story. A much more competent and [[MadScientist science-oriented]] General Wolfram later appeared in a ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' story set during [=WW2=], and it's entirely possible this one based his persona off of the original or even that they are the same person since the original was subjected to Weapon X.
* UpliftedAnimal: Hippo is one of the High Evolutionary's New Men, or Beastials.
* VillainTeamUp: They're a self-help group for supervillains who lost limbs to Mac Gargan.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Eleven is introduced and killed within two issues, and none of the other members - except [[BackFromTheDead Hippo]] - have reappeared.
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[[folder:Crime Master]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Bennett Brant
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #11; ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #1 (as the Crime Master)
--> ''"An ode to Bennett Brand and his little sis, Betty Brant. To the family. A family that was stripped away from me. But don't feel too badly--crime is my family now."''
Introduced as a shadowy crime lord and Jack O'Lantern's boss, the Crime Master seeks to usurp control of the criminal underworld from the Kingpin, only to be opposed by Agent Venom. Blackmailing Flash into helping him acquire the Toxin symbiote, the Crime Master set up a team of super villains called the Savage Six and kidnapped Betty Brant. He revealed himself as Bennett Brant, her older brother who had been assumed dead for years. Bennett offered Betty a chance to join him before Agent Venom arrived, but just as he was about to kill Flash he was shot in the back by his own sister and died unmourned by anyone except [[ItsPersonal Jack O'Lantern]].
* AbductionIsLove: He kidnapped the boy who became Jack O'Lantern and raised him as an assassin.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He wore a pinstriped suit underneath his trench coat.
* BigBad: He was the main antagonist of Rick Remender's half of ''Venom'' Vol. 2, before being killed by his own sister.
* BrotherSisterIncest[=/=]VillainousIncest: His feelings for Betty weren't very brotherly, that's for sure.
* CoatHatMask: His outfit included a fedora, a black mask with white eyes and stripes, and a dark brown trench coat.
* CoolMask: A black mask with white eyes, a V-shaped strip over his nose, and two diagonal stripes parallel to the V going over his cheeks.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Prior to his return as the new Crime Master, Bennett's last appearance was in a 1964 story that ended with his apparent death.
* FakingTheDead: For years Bennett was assumed to have been killed by loan-shark Blackie Gaxton.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He went from a successful lawyer with gambling problems to a criminal mastermind. Also counts as FaceHeelTurn and TookALevelInJerkass.
* GenreSavvy: He knew Betty was lying when she said she'd join him.
* GraveMarkingScene: Betty visits his presumably empty grave in 1990's ''Web of Spider-Man'' #63
* InTheBack: He was shot from behind by his own sister.
* LegacyCharacter: He succeeded the Lewis family as the Crime Master, and was succeeded himself by an unknown individual who purchased the moniker from Hobgoblin. Additionally, Remender's run retconned things by revealing that the Crime Master identity was ''not'' created by Nick Lewis, but instead has existed for centuries, and has been used by people all over the globe.
* TheMaster: Of crime.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: He was opposed to Flash dating Betty out of a [[VillainousIncest twisted form of brotherly affection]].
* VillainTeamUp: He created his own rip-off of the Sinister Six - the ''Savage'' Six - by recruiting Richard Deacon (the Human Fly), Roland Burroughs (Death Adder), Gregory Nettles (Megatak), and turning Eddie Brock into Toxin.
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[[folder:Jack O'Lantern V]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #1
--> ''"Still, I wondered how long it would take, right? To earn a true arch-enemy you gotta hold a awfully personal grudge. And, guess what? I've got one. With you."''
The fifth person to assume the mantle of the Jack O'Lantern after supposedly killing the other surviving ones, this Jack served as TheDragon to the Crime Master and has established himself as Agent Venom's arch-enemy.
* AbductionIsLove: Was abducted by the Crime Master as a child on Halloween and became his loyal accomplice.
* AdorableEvilMinions[=/=]MechaMooks: Has a number of creepy puppet and doll-like robots who "wuv" to commit atrocities.
* AntiHeroTeam: He's a member of the Astonishing Avengers in ''AXIS'', and [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/REDSKULL2015001-int2-2-8283f.jpg a group]] condemned to hunt down the ComicBook/RedSkull in ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]''. [[spoiler:He and everyone else besides Magneto are immediately killed after being dumped in the Deadlands]].
--> '''Mr. Sinister:''' Hmmm, just like the pumpkin pie my granny used to make!
* ArchEnemy: Agent Venom's self-proclaimed one, and [[YouKilledMyFather Mania's as well]].
* AxCrazy: While it's unknown whether he's doped up on Goblin formula, but he's certainly just as crazy as any of the Goblins.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Even after being arrested he continues to plague Venom by remotely hypnotizing a security guard into taking on his identity.
* CallingCard: Jack has a habit of removing his victims' brains and leaving a lit candle in their hollowed out heads.
* TheDragon: Served as this to the Crime Master before his death.
* EnemyMine:
** When forced to team up with Agent Venom, Jack happily spent the duration of the trip repeatedly sledgehammering Flash's {{Berserk Button}}s.
--> '''Jack:''' I'd never poke fun about your drunk, dead, pig-cop dad. That would be very un-bro-like of me.
** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} somehow convinced him to help in the fight against Red Onslaught.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He viewed the Crime Master as his father.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: Jack is just as bad as any of the Goblins, if not ''worse''.
* {{Expy}}: A criminal with a sadistic sense of humor who gets a kick out of {{troll}}ing his archenemy, who has a disfigured face, and who survived a fall into a vat of toxic chemicals. Sounds pretty similar to the SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, doesn't it?
* FacialHorror: He's missing his nose and most of his teeth, and his head is covered in burns. Eating a live grenade will do that to you.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's generally cheerful and even downright friendly towards Flash at times, but that just serves to underline how much of a sadistic psychopath he is.
* FireBreathingWeapon[=/=]PlayingWithFire: He has flamethrowers installed into his suit, his helmet is wreathed in flames, and he's not adverse to using the exhaust from his broomstick glider as a makeshift flamethrower.
* FlyingBroomstick: Has taken up the Green Goblin's old broomstick glider, even using it to GoombaStomp Venom in their first fight.
* HeelFaceTurn: He's caught up in Doctor Doom's and the Scarlet Witch's Inversion Spell, which leads to him being deputized as an "[[AntiHeroTeam Astounding Avenger]]" by [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]].
--> '''Fan Edit!Steve:''' [[http://33.media.tumblr.com/fa6ea730498223911bd4b930dc73dceb/tumblr_nfd8c59u831skj50do1_1280.jpg Jack O'Lantern]]: [[CListFodder Most likely to be killed during this mission]].
--> '''Fan Edit!Jack O'Lantern:''' [[DoubleTake Wait]], what'd you just say?
* HypnoFool: Jack's robots remotely hypnotize a security guard into taking up his identity and persona. After being subdued by Venom and Mania, the guard lapses into a coma.
* GraveRobbing: In revenge for Agent Venom killing the Crime Master, Jack waits until Father's Day, exhumes Flash's father's corpse, [[CallingCard replaces his brain with a candle]], and hides him in the sewers. He then lures Flash there and mocks him over a PA system before blowing up the room.
* ItsPersonal: After the Crime Master is killed, Jack's rivalry with Venom became even more intense.
* JaggedMouth: The mouth of his brainwashed replacement's helmet was intended to invoke the classic serrated-mouth jack o'lantern look.
* KillAndReplace: Did this to the others who had born the moniker "Jack O'Lantern".
* LegacyCharacter: Is the fifth and current Jack O'Lantern.
* LetsDuet: Joins in on Flash singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's ''Free Bird'' while attacking him at the same time.
--> '''Agent Venom:''' ''I'm free as a bird now.''
--> '''Jack O'Lantern:''' ''And this bird you'll never change.'' *attacks him* ''And this bird you can not change.''
* LivingProp: He's inverted at the beginning of ''AXIS'', but spends the rest of the event quietly filling out crowd scenes, presumably in-between performing acts of heroism so selfless they would leave Flash's mouth agape were he not busy being in outer space.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: He boasts about murdering all of his surviving predecessors, which would be Daniel Berkhart, Maguire Beck, Steven Levins's brother, and the resurrected or imposter Jason Macendale from ''ComicBook/SecretWar''. Steven Levins, the second Jack O'Lantern, had previously been killed by ComicBook/ThePunisher, [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil then]] ComicBook/GhostRider.
* MurderInc: He's a member of the League of Assassins in ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}'' and ''M.O.D.O.K. Assassin''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is unknown and everyone calls him by his supervillain moniker.
* SerialKiller: Jack was trained as an assassin by the Crime Master, and turned to this in his spare time.
* SinisterScythe: His weapon of choice is a razor-sharp sickle. His brainwashed temporary replacement also used a miniature scythe.
* TheSociopath: Even as a child he mutilated animals.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Refers to himself as a bogeyman in conduction with his Halloween-themed getup.
* {{Troll}}: Jack happily antagonizes Flash for the sake of making him angry. This backfires when Venom tries to eat him, and it's only Jack reminding Flash that the Crime Master will kill his friends and family that gets the symbiote back under control.
* WeaponizedExhaust: Uses his glider as a makeshift flamethrower when fighting Venom.
* WholeCostumeReference: His outfit is based off the Headless Horseman, to a greater degree than any Jack O'Lantern prior.
* WreathedInFlames: His pumpkin-shaped helmet is wreathed in flames, but that doesn't seem to bother him.
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[[folder:The Evangelist]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #13
--> ''"We've done this dance before. I know all your weak spots, son. And there's a truckload. Can't beat me if you beat yourself. I know what you are."''
A demon created by H'elian's Mirror Cauldron to embody Flash's fears and flaws, the Evangelist took the form of a tall, skinny preacher in a black suit, carrying a demonic Bible full of razor-sharp pages. After he killed Red Hulk, Agent Venom strangled him to death.
* BadassLongCoat: Wears one as part of his preacher getup.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives Flash a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech stern, mocking lecture]], leaving him in a HeroicBSOD.
* CurbStompBattle: He easily takes out Venom with a few words during their first match, and later gave Red Hulk a TorsoWithAView with a sheet of paper, killing him.
* EvilCounterpart: He's the manifestation of Flash's fears and insecurities.
* MoreThanMindControl: Seized control of the symbiote and used it to taunt Flash during his BreakingSpeech.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: He's the manifestation of Flash Thompson's inner demons and takes the form of a stereotypical 19th-century Bible-thumping preacher.
* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: Made up one with [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ichor]], [[EvilIsVisceral Encephalon]], and [[TheCheerleader X-666]].
* PaperMaster: His demonic Bible can shoot razor-sharp pages like a Gatling gun fires bullets.
* SinisterMinister: His entire shtick is "creepy, evil priest".
* TranslatorBuddy: Able to understand [[TheUnintelligible Encephalon]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Flash doesn't have a good first impression of his opponent, declaring, "I ain't big on church, pops. And you look so... weak".
* WeHardlyKnewYe: After he kills Red Hulk, Agent Venom strangles the Evangelist to death.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He has snow-white hair and is a demonic preacher.
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[[folder:Symbiote Slayers]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #32
--> ''"C-can't stop us. The adaptation matrix is in our bloodstream. The lethality equation... changing us!"''
Four biomechanical alien parasites, the Symbiote Slayers were discovered by Vector, who tried to market them to the Crime Master, who in turn had them implanted in an unnamed man who later escaped. Driven to cannibalism by them, their host came into conflict with Agent Venom, who attempted to get the man to surrender in order for a cure to be found. Toxin interrupted just as the man was acquiescing and ate him, causing the four symbiote slayers to escape and and take over a group of homeless people. The symbiote slayers traced Venom and Toxin to the high school where Flash worked as a teacher, and Eddie and Flash were forced to work together to destroy them. One Symbiote Slayer was shown to have survived, but nothing's come of it since.
* BodyHorror: When they enter combat mode, the [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily results]] [[CombatTentacles are]] [[BladeBelowTheShoulder not]] [[ArtificialLimbs pretty]].
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: And your flesh, and your sanity. It's hard not to feel sorry for their victims.
* EatenAlive: Their original host and one of the Symbiote Slayers were eaten by Toxin. They attempted to return the favor, but were stopped by Venom.
* EatingMachine: They're carnivorous cybernetic organisms.
* {{Expy}}: They're quite similar to the Stalkers from the earlier Venom miniseries ''Nights of Vengeance''.
* HealingFactor: They can repair minor damage to their hosts.
* MechanicalLifeform: They appear to be biomechanical.
* MechanicalMonster: They are a cybernetic equivalent of the symbiotes.
* NoNameGiven: The hosts are all anonymous.
* NotSoDifferent: Agent Venom uses this argument to try to get the symbiote slayers' original host to calm down. It worked... until Toxin showed up.
* PuppeteerParasite: They take over their host in much the same way symbiotes do.
* RoboSpeak: They communicate in this manner, and judging by the font they use MachineMonotone and ComputerVoice apply as well.
* RobotMe: They have a lot in common with the symbiotes.
* ReluctantMonster: Their original host didn't want to kill and eat people. The metal monsters attached to his back made him do it.
* SoleSurvivor: One of them was revealed to have survived, but nothing's come of it since.
* StarfishRobots: When not bonded to a host they are a mass of segmented tendrils with blades poking out.
* ToServeMan: They have a taste for human flesh.
* WouldHurtAChild: They attack the high school where Flash works looking for Venom.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Its safe to say their hosts didn't volunteer to be turned into ravenous cyborg zombies.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the symbiote slayers escaped, and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Cullen Bunn intended to resolve the various plot holes in ''Venom'' Vol. 3, but [[AbortedArc it was cancelled before it was even started]].
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[[folder:Lord Ogre]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #36
--> ''"You come looking for Lord Ogre... and you'll find him. But this is a careful-what-you-wish for scenario, see?"''
Philadelphia's resident crime lord, who takes an exception to Agent Venom taking a bite out of his profits and places a bounty on his head. This sets off a chain reaction that leads to Andrea Benton becoming Mania and swearing revenge for the death of her father. He's killed by Crossbones and Master Mayhem.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has brown skin but his ethnicity isn't disclosed before he is killed.
* BadassBoast: When Mania cuts down his personal bodyguards, Ogre sneers at her and calls her a child wearing a mask.
* BaldOfEvil: He's bald and a really nasty piece of work.
* BullyingADragon: When he meets Mania for the first time, he sneers at her and calls her a little girl hiding behind a mask, knowing full well she could eat him. He also does the same to Agent Venom, although with the added precaution of a buttload of high-calibre firepower.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The bounty he places on Agent Venom attracts Jack O'Lantern, who kills Andi's father and tries to kill her. Flash accidentally turns her into Mania trying to protect her, and Andi swears revenge on Lord Ogre.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He mocks Venom and Mania, both of whom are more than capable of eating him alive, to their faces.
* TheDon: He's Philadelphia's number one crime lord, involved in everything from prostitution to drug running to human trafficking.
* EatenAlive: He's partially-devoured by demons summoned by Master Mayhem.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The guy calls himself "Lord Ogre" and while he's not an ''actual'' ogre, he can be just as brutal.
* OhCrap: When Mania is one claws-bredth away from killing him, he reveals he's rigged a biological weapon to go off if he dies. To his horror, she decides to call his bluff, reasoning her symbiote would protect her from the fallout.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: He's never seen without them, to the point where they appear to be fused to his face.
* SelfDestructMechanism: Installed a biological weapon powerful enough to devastate most of Philadelphia into his chest and rigged it to a dead man's switch, thinking it'd be enough to scare off assassins.
* StarterVillain: Served as one for Mania, as while he was a ruthless and cunning crime lord, he was only human and grossly outclassed by the likes of Crossbones and Master Mayhem.
* TakingYouWithMe: He installed a dead man's switch and a biological bomb so powerful he claims it would wipe out half of Philly into his chest, thinking it would prevent Mania from killing him.
* TattooedCrook: He has a number of tattoos on his face.
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See his characters page [[Characters/{{Carnage}} here]]
!Other Antagonists
[[folder:Sin-Eater I]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Emil Gregg
-> '''Debut:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #107
--> ''"I am the held breath awakened, reborn again unto the city. Lust, Gluttony, and Greed abound in this seething cesspool of lies and sin. The lies have many voices. The sins, many faces. I take form, and will. I know what must be done. I am the dark at the end of the light."''
A man who contacted Eddie Brock claiming to be the Sin-Eater serial killer, but was seemingly exposed as a compulsive confessor. In the wake of Carnage's morality (or lack thereof) being altered by the events of ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'', he was found to have died, but returns as a sin-eating demon and he places the symbiote serial killer in his crosshairs after Cletus interferes with his mission to wipe out the press.
* AnatomyOfTheSoul: After killing his victims, he sucks what he claims is all of the sin out of their souls, it taking the form of monstrous green apparitions.
* BackFromTheDead: His corpse is discovered in a homeless camp, but he comes back as a sin-eating demon.
* BigBadEnsemble: He and his neighbor Stan Carter independently acted as the Sin-Eater during ''The Death of Jean [=DeWolff=]''. Since Stan was [[DetectiveMole a detective working the case]] and had actual superhuman (or very nearly so) abilities he was seen as the primary threat and the true Sin-Eater, with Emil being regarded as just some lunatic driven to copy him by the sound of Stan's arguments with himself emanating from the adjoining apartment.
--> '''Emil:''' It was the voices. I had to do it. Couldn't resist voices in the night. It was the voices... they said when and where. I didn't want to at first. I didn't think I had. But the people died. So it must have been me, right?
* BlondGuysAreEvil: He had blond hair when he was alive.
* CurtainCamouflage: He hides behind the curtains of Alice Gleason's apartment, but his shoes give him away. [[ImmuneToBullets Not that it matters]].
* DetectEvil: Apparently how he finds his victims. He states that Alice Gleason reeks of "sin, vainglory, selfishness and hubris".
* DramaticUnmask: When the mask comes off, it's revealed that all that's underneath it is a skull.
--> '''Chris Rollins:''' Oh, God... what are you?
* EvilOverlooker: On [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/imglib/0/0/1/AXISCARN2014003cov-b4ea5.jpg the cover]] of ''Axis: Carnage'' #3
* FaceFramedInShadow: Was almost always shown only in the shadows in ''Dark Origin''.
* HealingFactor: He regrows his skeletal head within seconds of Carnage destroying it.
* JackTheRipoff: When Carter is brought up, this guy claims to be the ''true'' Sin-Eater, asserting that "the imposter" is still dead. Alice later realizes that Emil Greg was the original after all and Eddie Brock was right all along.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Follows the Sin-Eater tradition of wearing a ski mask.
* NightmareFace: [[http://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Axis-Carnage.jpg The last thing]] Chris Rollins sees before he dies.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Appeared to have been shot to death by the mother of one Engelschwert's victims in ''Sinner Takes All'', but years later was revealed to have survived... only to die alone in a shantytown.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Cletus starts seeing him as [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/AXISCARN2014003-int2-3-4dc46.jpg the]] [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/AXISCARN2014003-int2-4-17344.jpg Devil]].
* PhlebotinumOverload: Absorbing all of Carnage's repressed evil gave him a power and size boost... and quickly overwhelmed him, causing him to explode and be reduced to a withered corpse.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The walls of his lair are covered in religious graffiti and stuff pertaining to the original Sin-Eater case.
* SerialKiller: He was a religious psychopath who targets those with "sin".
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Sin-Eaters love shotguns.
* SkullForAHead: As a demon he's very ComicBook/GhostRider-esque, though instead of being WreathedInFlames he has a SicklyGreenGlow. When he's wearing his mask, however, he appears to have skin and eyes.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: He contacted Eddie Brock and confessed to being the Sin-Eater. Spider-Man catching Stan Carter wearing the trademark green balaclava seemingly discredited Eddie and led to his humiliation, but it turns out he was right all along.
* TheUnfought: He was the one who started Eddie's descent into villainy, but ironically it was Cletus Kasady who took him out.
* UnknownRival:
--> '''Carnage:''' I'm coming for you, Alice! And you too, Green Ski Mask Guy!
* YourHeadASplode: Carnage makes the Sin-Eater shoot himself in the head, and leaves before he notices it reassembling.
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[[folder:The Jury]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Orwell Taylor, Edwin Cord, Bomblast (Kenneth Parmenter), Firearm, Ramshot (Samuel Caulkin), Sentry (Curtis Elkins), Wysper (Jennifer Stewart), Screech (Maxwell Taylor)
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Lethal Protector'' #2
--> '''Orwell Taylor:''' I had a son--Hugh. Fresh out of the army, he became a guard at the federal prison called the Vault. He was the first man you killed when you escaped from that institution.
--> '''Venom:''' We... we didn't want to hurt anyone...!
--> '''Orwell Taylor:''' And that makes it all right?! You murdered my son! That's why I put together the Jury! These warriors--including the ex-Guardsman who holds you helpless--we're Hugh's friends in the military. But now they're sole purpose, like my own--is killing you!
A group of VAULT Guardsmen organized by General Orwell Taylor to take revenge for Hugh Taylor, Ryan Stewart, and other Guardsmen killed during a jailbreak by Venom.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The ''Trial Run'' backup story from ''Sinner Takes All''.
* AmoralAttorney: Maxwell Taylor became the group's defence attorney.
* AntiHeroTeam: They're a squad of over-glorified prison guards aiming to kill Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote.
* DemotedToExtra: Despite all of their set-up, they only appeared thrice in Eddie's series, and two of those appearances were just in backup stories that did not involve Venom at all.
* HangingJudge: The role of the short-lived member "Gavel".
* KangarooCourt: After apprehending their target they try, sentence, and execute them without any real intention of finding them innocent.
* KnightTemplar: They aimed to "judge" Venom, Tarantula II, Spider-Man,[[note]]Ostensibly for bringing the symbiote to Earth, though this was later revealed to be a ruse to draw out Venom.[[/note]] and Abe Jenkins using lethal force, and while they've reformatted to be more representative of an American court of law they still use lethal force.
* ManOfKryptonite: Their suits were designed with symbiote weaknesses in mind, which is reflected by most of their codenames ([[LoudOfWar Bombblast, Wysper, Screech]], [[FireBreathingWeapon Firearm]]).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Firearm's real name is unknown.
* PoweredArmor: They all wear modified Guardsman armor, which itself was based on blueprints for Tony Stark's Iron Man armour.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They were demoted to this status while working for the Life Foundation in ''The Arachnis Project''.
* {{Revenge}}: Their goal is to avenge the comrades who were killed during one of Eddie Brock's escapes.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Jennifer Stewart is the only female member.
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[[folder:Pyre]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Gray Russell
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Funeral Pyre'' #1
--> ''"Turn me into a monster! Cripple me! It can't get much worse... Come on! Let's finish it!"''
A Californian reporter, Gray Russell learns that his dying father was once a scientist employed by Comicbook/{{Hydra}}, and that the laboratory he worked in is still standing, albeit now abandoned. Gray goes to the warehouse containing the lab in search of answers, and discovers that it is now being used as the headquarters of the Jadoo street gang, which Gray bluffs his way into becoming a prospective member of. Unfortunately, Gray learns afterward that joining the Jadoos is a lifetime commitment, and that he will soon have to kill a rival gang member to prove himself, or be killed in turn. Desperate, Gray gives a note requesting aid to a young boy, who in turn gives it to Venom. Unfortunately, run-ins with ComicBook/{{the Punisher}} leave Venom unable to reach Gray before the journalist is forced into committing mass murder by the Jadoos. When the Punisher storms the gang's warehouse, he mistakes Gray for just another Jadoo, which prompts the terrified Gray to seek shelter in a pod in the Hydra lab, which mutates him into a being capable of wielding microwave radiation. Unhinged by the combination of his mutation and status as a killer, Gray (now going by "Pyre") blames Venom and the Punisher for his woes, and attacks them, sparking a battle that brings the entire building down on him.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The machine that gives Pyre his abilities also turns his skin red.
* ContinuityNod: When Eddie, who had since become Anti-Venom, and the Punisher "team up" again in ''New Ways to Live'', Castle repeatedly sneers that he hasn't changed since they last parted ways.
* DistinguishingMark: A pink birthmark on the neck, which Venom uses to identify him.
* ImmuneToBullets: They melt before they can reach him.
* IntrepidReporter: Why Venom was so intent on helping him.
--> '''Venom:''' We're all on the same side here. But you're blowing our quiet little rescue--of a fellow journalist undercover in a local gang.
* ManOfKryptonite: Pyre's mere presence causes Venom excruciating pain.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Punisher's interference really screwed Gray over. Except for the part where Frank tried to nullify Pyre's powers, and only succeeded in making them ''stronger''.
* NotQuiteDead: As Venom and the Punisher leave the scene, coughs emanates from the rubble; Pyre's survival is confirmed in ''ComicBook/CivilWar: Battle Damage Report''.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: While fighting Venom, Pyre catches sight of his reflection, and becomes even more enraged.
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[[folder:Sin-Eater III]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Michael G. Engelschwert
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Sinner Takes All'' #1
--> '''Venom:''' [[HearingVoices Hear those voices]] yet, Sin-Muncher? Hear them going tweet tweet tweet?
--> '''Sin Eater:''' All I hear is the voice of the Lord... [[BoomHeadshot and it is the sound of sweet thunder!]]
A Gulf War veteran, the mentally fractured Michael G. Engelschwert was left homeless after the conflict and came to reside in a shelter, where he frequently bunked with Emil Gregg, the unstable man who had confessed to being the serial killer known as the Sin-Eater to Eddie Brock. Emil's nonstop religious rants wormed their way into Mike's mind, and he took up the mantle of the Sin-Eater, being even deadlier than his predecessor Stan Carter.
* AxCrazy: More so than Stan Carter, who had a MaskOfSanity.
* BadassBandolier: Lots.
* BadassLongcoat: Allowing for easy firearm concealment.
* BadassNormal: Has no special powers or gear, just lots and lots of guns.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Kirsten's mother in ''Sinner Takes All''.
* ChurchMilitant: He's even a former soldier.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: With exposure to other mentally ill vagrants making him worse.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Is tackled out a window after activating his explosive vest.
* EvilOverlooker: On [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/6/67663/3415768-01.jpg the cover]] of ''Sinner Takes All'' #1.
* EvilVersusEvil: Exterminates a group of militants, and gets into a fight with and is fatally shot by a crazy woman who has a grudge against Venom.
* FakingTheDead: He switches clothes with a hostage, and tricks Venom into killing the captive.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Makes it clear he's targeting Ann [[http://www.symbiote.fr/images/comics/venom-sinner0119.jpg simply because she's a lawyer]].
* FrameUp: Leaves Sin-Eater gear under Emil's cot, which leads to him being arrested, and later [[AcquittedTooLate killed]] by the mother an officer Mike had earlier murdered.
* GogglesDoNothing: He sometimes wears red ones.
* TheHeavy: While he and Kristen's mother share the villain role in ''Sinner Takes All'', the latter only becomes involved halfway through the series, whereas Mike is the main threat, and there from start to finish.
* {{Irony}}: Crazy old Emil Gregg was driven to try and become the Sin Eater by Stan Carter's conversations with himself, which he could hear through the walls of the apartment building they both lived in. Later, crazy old Michael Engelschwert was driven to become the Sin-Eater by Emil Gregg's conversations with himself, which he could hear in the homeless shelter they both lived in.
* ItsPersonal: Nearly kills Eddie's ex-wife, Ann. Venom is also just plain happy to take on the Sin-Eater, even if it isn't Stan Carter or Emil Gregg.
--> '''Venom:''' Here's one for you--'Exclusive! Sin-Eater Revealed!' Eddie Brock, aka--Venom!"
* JackTheRipoff: Of Stan Carter, the original Sin-Eater.
* MadBomber: Wears an explosive vest, and attempts to blow up the New York Stock Exchange.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Is introduced blowing away the man responsible for the ''[[TheMostDangerousVideogame Carnage Unleashed!]]'' game from the storyline of the same name.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: A reddish-pink balaclava, as opposed to the green one (which he does have on the covers) worn by Stan Carter.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: What could it stand for?
* OneManArmy: In the Gulf War, and against the authorities, up to and including SWAT teams.
* RealMenWearPink: His mask is kind of... pinkish.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Why he became indigent.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His main weapon is a shotgun.
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only survivor of a Black Hawk crash in the Gulf War. After the airplane went down, he managed to slaughter an entire troop of enemy soldiers by himself before being found.
* TalkativeLoon: Speaks almost entirely in Bible quotes.
* TakingYouWithMe: Dying from being shot, Mike decides to blow himself and everyone else present up. Mixed with a bizarre instance of PetTheDog:
--> '''Mike:''' ... But I can save you all! I am about to enter the kingdom, and I can take you all with me!
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Nearly kills Venom with tons of thermite and white phosphorus grenades.
* WalkingArsenal: Including anti-tank weaponry.
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[[folder:The Xenophage]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: The Hunted'' #1
--> ''"I must say that my sojourn on your [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet little blue planet]] has been a quite a little gastronomic adventure-and comparatively trouble free! Why, up until now, the local authorities didn't even know I existed!"''
A monstrous yet highly intelligent race of extraterrestrials, the Xenophages prey on symbiotes, and presumably originate from the same galaxy as them. In the aftermath of ''Planet of the Symbiotes'', an unnamed member of the species travels to Earth to devour the surviving invaders, bringing him into conflict with Scream (who he captures) and Venom (who is blamed for his killing spree). After a city-wide chase, the creature is brought down when Venom tricks him into eating a grenade, blowing his head off. Afterward, the Xenophage's spaceship is uncovered by Scream and a pair of teenaged skateboarders, who use it to help Venom and Wolverine defeat mutant supervillains Chimera and Dirtnap. The ship presumably remained in Scream's possession until her death at the hands of Eddie Brock.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: He's assumed to have eaten all of the surviving invaders (and their hosts) leftover from ''Planet of the Symbiotes''.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: No explanation is given for his SurprisinglyGoodEnglish.
* BrainFood: Goes for the brain first, which is why Venom is blamed for all the deaths.
* CombatTentacles: His entire lower half is composed of these.
* CoolStarship: It's BiggerOnTheInside, can shrink down to the size of a football without harming the occupants, travel to other dimensions, and track symbiotes anywhere.
* TheDreaded: Instinctively feared by symbiotes.
* FangsAreEvil[=/=]MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Just like his snacks.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Very eloquent.
* FeedItABomb: Venom creates a fake head containing a grenade, and tricks the Xenophage into biting it.
* FeelNoPain: "My exoskeleton is not equipped with pain receptors... [[SophisticatedAsHell unlike your face!]]"
* FoodChainOfEvil: A symbiote predator.
* HungryMenace: While obviously sentient, he doesn't care about anything but his next meal.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Where he tucked away Scream.
* LeanAndMean: His bottom half is nothing but tentacles, while his abdomen is skeletal with CreepilyLongArms.
* LightningBruiser: Very agile, despite his size.
* TheMerch: Surprisingly, he got an action figure, though the packaging referred to him as "[[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/2077379-phage_venom_front.jpg Phage]]".
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The villain of ''Venom: The Hunted''.
* MeaningfulName: Roughly translated, it means "alien devourer".
* NighInvulnerable: Nothing could lay a scratch on his exoskeleton.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name (if he had one) is unrevealed, so he's just called "the Xenophage" or simply "the Phage".
* TheParalyzer: He can temporarily disable symbiotes with his spit, turning them into dead weight for their hosts. Eddie compares getting doused to being put in a straitjacket.
* SuperSpit: It's an incendiary neurotoxin that paralyzes symbiotes, and enhances their taste.
* StarfishAliens: A gangly monster with an ornate golden face and mandibles, a body made up mostly of fur and tentacles, and the ability to perfectly emulate inanimate objects down to the finest detail.
* TentacleRope: Scream is entangled in them for most of the story.
* ToServeMan: While he feeds on symbiotes, he is able to sustain himself on humans, and presumably other beings.
* TraintopBattle: The final battle takes place on top of a subway train.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Able to flawlessly mimic a cabinet, complete with fine China.
* WouldHurtAChild: Attempts to eat some kids who try to help Venom and Scream.
--> '''Scream:''' What do you want with those kids? I thought you only ate symbiote brains!
--> '''Xenophage:''' It's what I prefer, but any cerebral cortex will do in a pinch! In fact, I could do with a snack just about now...
* YourHeadASplode: His death.
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[[folder:Krobaa]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom: Seed of Darkness'' #-1
--> ''"Such... great... horror. A terrible abundance of sorrow. What monstrous Gods would create a race with so much buried greatness--yet curse them with souls born wounded?"''
While experimenting with dimensional and intergalactic travel, quack scientist Nigel Donlevy brought the symbiote-like alien Krobaa to Earth. A member of a benevolent empire, Krobaa merged with Donlevy (intending to do so only temporarily) to learn about the new planet he had been brought to, and its people. Unfortunately, the darkness within Donlevy (aka the human ID) drove Krobaa insane, and he went on rampage through a nearby town and industrial park. ''Daily Globe'' reporter Eddie Brock, alerted to Krobaa's existence by someone looking for burnt-out paranormal investigator [[Series/KolchakTheNightStalker Cal Carlchok]], travelled to the area Krobaa was laying waste to, and after evading the monster's attacks, realized it had an aversion to light. With the flashes produced by his camera, Eddie restored Krobaa to his senses; unfortunately, the extraterrestrial was so traumatized by what he had done and experienced that he committed suicide by reducing himself to dust and gas, expelling the hysterical Donlevy. Eddie submitted the story to his editor, only to have it dismissed (as Carlchok hinted it would be) as a "turn-off" for the average reader and advertiser. The disheartened Eddie was left to brood--"I'll make the big time eventually. I can feel it in my gut. Sooner or later--I'm going to strike oil".
* AVillainNamedZrg: The story was a throwback to the Marvel Monsters era, so of course this naming convention was used.
* BlobMonster: Krobaa was an amorphous blob of black goo, though he became slightly humanoid after taking over Donlevy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: An initially benevolent black blob from another world which was corrupted by exposure to humans, who it could bond to physically and mentally. Subtle.
** The resemblance is further strengthened by ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' asserting that symbiotes are inherently good, and only become evil due to external factors like imperfect hosts.
* EpisodeZeroTheBeginning: His issue was designated "''Venom'' #-1".
* HumanityIsInsane: Merging with a human causes Krobaa to lose it, and after returning to normal, he kills himself.
--> '''Nigel Donlevy:''' But he knew nothing of the primal beast that lurks within the human subconscious, the inner demon that Freud called the ID. He was overwhelmed, nearly driven mad--until your strobe light shocked him out of it. And then... I could feel his revulsion... his pity. Considering himself infected, he committed suicide rather than risk unleashing a plague of madness on the universe... our madness.
* WeakenedByTheLight: To the point that [[WeaponizedCamera a camera]] could disorient him.
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[[folder:Kulan Gath]]
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-->'''Debut:''' ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' #14; ''Spider-Man Red Sonja'' #3 (as Venom)
An evil sorcerer from the Hyborian Age. Kulan opposed Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja, attempting to summon and control Shuma-Gorath. Kulan resurfaced in modern-day Manhattan, coming into conflict with Spider-Man due his wife Mary-Jane being possessed by Red Sonja. In one of these attempts Kulan enthralled Eddie Brock. In order to accrue additional power, Kulan stole the Venom symbiote and bonded to it, but the alien's attempts to abandon him distracted him long enough for Sonja to destroy his amulet.
* EvilSorcerer: Kulan Gath is an evil sorcerer who gets his powers from Shuma-Gorath.
* GrandTheftMe: Kulan is able to possess whoever wears the amulet that serves as his phylactery.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Kulan is a powerful sorcerer who stored his soul in a mystical amulet, enabling him to be resurrected several times.
* SoulJar: He used an amulet, later made into a necklace as a phylactery.
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[[folder:The Redeemers]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Doctor Shep Gunderson (Redeemer); Claude Cramer (General Wolfram); Jenni Pate (Eleven); Jonathan N. York (Doctor Everything); Mrs. Fluffy Lumpkins (Hippo); Richard Earle Amtower IV (Dementoid)
-> '''Debut:''' ''Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man'' #1
--> ''"All right, people! Let's go save Spider-Man!"''
A ragtag bunch of criminals and supervillains with one thing in common: a grudge against Mac Gargan for "[[IAmAHumanitarian amputating]]" one or more of [[AnArmAndALeg their limbs]].[[note]]Except for Doctor Everything, who removed his own arm to fit in with the others.[[/note]] Gathered together by the Redeemer, they swore to bring the Sinister Spider-Man to justice... and [[EatenAlive failed miserably]].
* AbsurdPhobia: Dementoid develops one towards buttocks and anuses after Gargan turns his rear end into a set of jaws and nearly eats him in reverse.
* AnArmAndALeg: With the exception of Doctor Everything, they all had a limb or two eaten by Venom.
* AffectionateNickname: In his diary-style [[PreviouslyOn summary of the previous issue]] in ''Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man'' #3, Mac has heart-shaped cutouts with photos of the Redeemers on them and little captions, referring to Redeemer as "Nerd", [[{{Foreshadowing}} Hippo as "Lunch", Eleven as "Dessert"]], Wolfram as "Midnight Snack", Dementoid as "Gassy", and Doctor Everything as "Naked. It's weird."
* BackFromTheDead: Despite being eaten by Venom, Hippo later reappears to fight Spider-Man and Luke Cage.
* BreakoutVillain: Hippo is apparently popular with someone, as he [[UnexplainedRecovery somehow]] recovered from being devoured by Mac, and went on to become a minor recurring villain for the real Spider-Man.
* CaptainErsatz: Doctor Everything is a blatant parody of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan]].
* CatchPhrase: Hippo's is "Pachyderm Power!" ... which doesn't make any sense given that he's not an elephant.
* CensorBox: Doctor Everything's junk is obscured by a [[TeenyWeenie small black censor bar]].
* EatenAlive: Hippo and Eleven are eaten by Venom during their first showdown.
* EvilOldFolks: General Wolfram is a World War II veteran.
* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: The Redeemer, the team's founder.
** CoDragons: Dementoid and General Wolfram, mostly by virtue of being the only ones besides the Redeemer to make it out of the group's first assault against Venom.
** EvilGenius: Doctor Everything, the ''self-proclaimed'' omniscient.
** TheBrute: Hippo, because he is a big bulky hippopotamus.
** DarkChick: Eleven, who is also the sole female member of the team.
* FullFrontalAssault: Doctor Everything remarks he has no need for clothes to Eleven when she complains about his nudity.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Hippo is an anthropomorphic hippo created by the High Evolutionary, and wears a pair of Hulk-sized green pants.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Their cybernetic limbs were rentals, and their plan was to threaten Venom with legal action and kill him if he refused to their list of demands, which were fairly reasonable if absurdly naive. To say they failed miserably was an understatement.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Eleven's power. Unfortunately for her, Mac is able to FightOffTheKryptonite.
* NemeanSkinning: Wolfram wears the skin of a wolf... with glowing red eyes.
* NoSell: Venom is [[InsanityImmunity immune]] to Dementoid's insanity-inducing touch, and when Doctor Everything covers his mouth with a metal plate he tries to use his ass to eat people.
* RealityWarper: Doctor Everything can warp reality, although his use of this power is limited to comedic effect, such as conjuring a metal plate over Venom's mouth. He's even arrested.
* SaveTheVillain: The Redeemer's professed goal is to save "Spider-Man"... by killing him.
* SinisterSchnoz: Doctor Shep Gunderson's nose was enormous.
* SkullForAHead: The Redeemer's mask is intended to invoke this.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Eleven is the only girl on the team.
* ThoseWackyNazis: General Wolfram was a Nazi scientist during World War II.
* TimeForPlanB: In the aftermath of their failed attempt to redeem or kill Mac, Dementoid and Wolfram visit the now quadriplegic Redeemer, who has them enact the backup plan - sending pictures of "Spider-Man's" [[IAmAHumanitarian innumerable crimes]] to J. Jonah Jameson.
* UnreliableNarrator: Wolfram claims to have been a wolf [[HumanityEnsues humanized]] by the Nazis, though the Redeemer points out that there are a lot of holes in that story. A much more competent and [[MadScientist science-oriented]] General Wolfram later appeared in a ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' story set during [=WW2=], and it's entirely possible this one based his persona off of the original or even that they are the same person since the original was subjected to Weapon X.
* UpliftedAnimal: Hippo is one of the High Evolutionary's New Men, or Beastials.
* VillainTeamUp: They're a self-help group for supervillains who lost limbs to Mac Gargan.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Eleven is introduced and killed within two issues, and none of the other members - except [[BackFromTheDead Hippo]] - have reappeared.
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[[folder:Crime Master]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Bennett Brant
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #11; ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #1 (as the Crime Master)
--> ''"An ode to Bennett Brand and his little sis, Betty Brant. To the family. A family that was stripped away from me. But don't feel too badly--crime is my family now."''
Introduced as a shadowy crime lord and Jack O'Lantern's boss, the Crime Master seeks to usurp control of the criminal underworld from the Kingpin, only to be opposed by Agent Venom. Blackmailing Flash into helping him acquire the Toxin symbiote, the Crime Master set up a team of super villains called the Savage Six and kidnapped Betty Brant. He revealed himself as Bennett Brant, her older brother who had been assumed dead for years. Bennett offered Betty a chance to join him before Agent Venom arrived, but just as he was about to kill Flash he was shot in the back by his own sister and died unmourned by anyone except [[ItsPersonal Jack O'Lantern]].
* AbductionIsLove: He kidnapped the boy who became Jack O'Lantern and raised him as an assassin.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He wore a pinstriped suit underneath his trench coat.
* BigBad: He was the main antagonist of Rick Remender's half of ''Venom'' Vol. 2, before being killed by his own sister.
* BrotherSisterIncest[=/=]VillainousIncest: His feelings for Betty weren't very brotherly, that's for sure.
* CoatHatMask: His outfit included a fedora, a black mask with white eyes and stripes, and a dark brown trench coat.
* CoolMask: A black mask with white eyes, a V-shaped strip over his nose, and two diagonal stripes parallel to the V going over his cheeks.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Prior to his return as the new Crime Master, Bennett's last appearance was in a 1964 story that ended with his apparent death.
* FakingTheDead: For years Bennett was assumed to have been killed by loan-shark Blackie Gaxton.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He went from a successful lawyer with gambling problems to a criminal mastermind. Also counts as FaceHeelTurn and TookALevelInJerkass.
* GenreSavvy: He knew Betty was lying when she said she'd join him.
* GraveMarkingScene: Betty visits his presumably empty grave in 1990's ''Web of Spider-Man'' #63
* InTheBack: He was shot from behind by his own sister.
* LegacyCharacter: He succeeded the Lewis family as the Crime Master, and was succeeded himself by an unknown individual who purchased the moniker from Hobgoblin. Additionally, Remender's run retconned things by revealing that the Crime Master identity was ''not'' created by Nick Lewis, but instead has existed for centuries, and has been used by people all over the globe.
* TheMaster: Of crime.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: He was opposed to Flash dating Betty out of a [[VillainousIncest twisted form of brotherly affection]].
* VillainTeamUp: He created his own rip-off of the Sinister Six - the ''Savage'' Six - by recruiting Richard Deacon (the Human Fly), Roland Burroughs (Death Adder), Gregory Nettles (Megatak), and turning Eddie Brock into Toxin.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jack O'Lantern V]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #1
--> ''"Still, I wondered how long it would take, right? To earn a true arch-enemy you gotta hold a awfully personal grudge. And, guess what? I've got one. With you."''
The fifth person to assume the mantle of the Jack O'Lantern after supposedly killing the other surviving ones, this Jack served as TheDragon to the Crime Master and has established himself as Agent Venom's arch-enemy.
* AbductionIsLove: Was abducted by the Crime Master as a child on Halloween and became his loyal accomplice.
* AdorableEvilMinions[=/=]MechaMooks: Has a number of creepy puppet and doll-like robots who "wuv" to commit atrocities.
* AntiHeroTeam: He's a member of the Astonishing Avengers in ''AXIS'', and [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/preview/0/0/1/REDSKULL2015001-int2-2-8283f.jpg a group]] condemned to hunt down the ComicBook/RedSkull in ''[[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]]''. [[spoiler:He and everyone else besides Magneto are immediately killed after being dumped in the Deadlands]].
--> '''Mr. Sinister:''' Hmmm, just like the pumpkin pie my granny used to make!
* ArchEnemy: Agent Venom's self-proclaimed one, and [[YouKilledMyFather Mania's as well]].
* AxCrazy: While it's unknown whether he's doped up on Goblin formula, but he's certainly just as crazy as any of the Goblins.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Even after being arrested he continues to plague Venom by remotely hypnotizing a security guard into taking on his identity.
* CallingCard: Jack has a habit of removing his victims' brains and leaving a lit candle in their hollowed out heads.
* TheDragon: Served as this to the Crime Master before his death.
* EnemyMine:
** When forced to team up with Agent Venom, Jack happily spent the duration of the trip repeatedly sledgehammering Flash's {{Berserk Button}}s.
--> '''Jack:''' I'd never poke fun about your drunk, dead, pig-cop dad. That would be very un-bro-like of me.
** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} somehow convinced him to help in the fight against Red Onslaught.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He viewed the Crime Master as his father.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: Jack is just as bad as any of the Goblins, if not ''worse''.
* {{Expy}}: A criminal with a sadistic sense of humor who gets a kick out of {{troll}}ing his archenemy, who has a disfigured face, and who survived a fall into a vat of toxic chemicals. Sounds pretty similar to the SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, doesn't it?
* FacialHorror: He's missing his nose and most of his teeth, and his head is covered in burns. Eating a live grenade will do that to you.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's generally cheerful and even downright friendly towards Flash at times, but that just serves to underline how much of a sadistic psychopath he is.
* FireBreathingWeapon[=/=]PlayingWithFire: He has flamethrowers installed into his suit, his helmet is wreathed in flames, and he's not adverse to using the exhaust from his broomstick glider as a makeshift flamethrower.
* FlyingBroomstick: Has taken up the Green Goblin's old broomstick glider, even using it to GoombaStomp Venom in their first fight.
* HeelFaceTurn: He's caught up in Doctor Doom's and the Scarlet Witch's Inversion Spell, which leads to him being deputized as an "[[AntiHeroTeam Astounding Avenger]]" by [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]].
--> '''Fan Edit!Steve:''' [[http://33.media.tumblr.com/fa6ea730498223911bd4b930dc73dceb/tumblr_nfd8c59u831skj50do1_1280.jpg Jack O'Lantern]]: [[CListFodder Most likely to be killed during this mission]].
--> '''Fan Edit!Jack O'Lantern:''' [[DoubleTake Wait]], what'd you just say?
* HypnoFool: Jack's robots remotely hypnotize a security guard into taking up his identity and persona. After being subdued by Venom and Mania, the guard lapses into a coma.
* GraveRobbing: In revenge for Agent Venom killing the Crime Master, Jack waits until Father's Day, exhumes Flash's father's corpse, [[CallingCard replaces his brain with a candle]], and hides him in the sewers. He then lures Flash there and mocks him over a PA system before blowing up the room.
* ItsPersonal: After the Crime Master is killed, Jack's rivalry with Venom became even more intense.
* JaggedMouth: The mouth of his brainwashed replacement's helmet was intended to invoke the classic serrated-mouth jack o'lantern look.
* KillAndReplace: Did this to the others who had born the moniker "Jack O'Lantern".
* LegacyCharacter: Is the fifth and current Jack O'Lantern.
* LetsDuet: Joins in on Flash singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's ''Free Bird'' while attacking him at the same time.
--> '''Agent Venom:''' ''I'm free as a bird now.''
--> '''Jack O'Lantern:''' ''And this bird you'll never change.'' *attacks him* ''And this bird you can not change.''
* LivingProp: He's inverted at the beginning of ''AXIS'', but spends the rest of the event quietly filling out crowd scenes, presumably in-between performing acts of heroism so selfless they would leave Flash's mouth agape were he not busy being in outer space.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: He boasts about murdering all of his surviving predecessors, which would be Daniel Berkhart, Maguire Beck, Steven Levins's brother, and the resurrected or imposter Jason Macendale from ''ComicBook/SecretWar''. Steven Levins, the second Jack O'Lantern, had previously been killed by ComicBook/ThePunisher, [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil then]] ComicBook/GhostRider.
* MurderInc: He's a member of the League of Assassins in ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}'' and ''M.O.D.O.K. Assassin''.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is unknown and everyone calls him by his supervillain moniker.
* SerialKiller: Jack was trained as an assassin by the Crime Master, and turned to this in his spare time.
* SinisterScythe: His weapon of choice is a razor-sharp sickle. His brainwashed temporary replacement also used a miniature scythe.
* TheSociopath: Even as a child he mutilated animals.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Refers to himself as a bogeyman in conduction with his Halloween-themed getup.
* {{Troll}}: Jack happily antagonizes Flash for the sake of making him angry. This backfires when Venom tries to eat him, and it's only Jack reminding Flash that the Crime Master will kill his friends and family that gets the symbiote back under control.
* WeaponizedExhaust: Uses his glider as a makeshift flamethrower when fighting Venom.
* WholeCostumeReference: His outfit is based off the Headless Horseman, to a greater degree than any Jack O'Lantern prior.
* WreathedInFlames: His pumpkin-shaped helmet is wreathed in flames, but that doesn't seem to bother him.
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[[folder:The Evangelist]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #13
--> ''"We've done this dance before. I know all your weak spots, son. And there's a truckload. Can't beat me if you beat yourself. I know what you are."''
A demon created by H'elian's Mirror Cauldron to embody Flash's fears and flaws, the Evangelist took the form of a tall, skinny preacher in a black suit, carrying a demonic Bible full of razor-sharp pages. After he killed Red Hulk, Agent Venom strangled him to death.
* BadassLongCoat: Wears one as part of his preacher getup.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives Flash a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech stern, mocking lecture]], leaving him in a HeroicBSOD.
* CurbStompBattle: He easily takes out Venom with a few words during their first match, and later gave Red Hulk a TorsoWithAView with a sheet of paper, killing him.
* EvilCounterpart: He's the manifestation of Flash's fears and insecurities.
* MoreThanMindControl: Seized control of the symbiote and used it to taunt Flash during his BreakingSpeech.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: He's the manifestation of Flash Thompson's inner demons and takes the form of a stereotypical 19th-century Bible-thumping preacher.
* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: Made up one with [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ichor]], [[EvilIsVisceral Encephalon]], and [[TheCheerleader X-666]].
* PaperMaster: His demonic Bible can shoot razor-sharp pages like a Gatling gun fires bullets.
* SinisterMinister: His entire shtick is "creepy, evil priest".
* TranslatorBuddy: Able to understand [[TheUnintelligible Encephalon]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Flash doesn't have a good first impression of his opponent, declaring, "I ain't big on church, pops. And you look so... weak".
* WeHardlyKnewYe: After he kills Red Hulk, Agent Venom strangles the Evangelist to death.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He has snow-white hair and is a demonic preacher.
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[[folder:Symbiote Slayers]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #32
--> ''"C-can't stop us. The adaptation matrix is in our bloodstream. The lethality equation... changing us!"''
Four biomechanical alien parasites, the Symbiote Slayers were discovered by Vector, who tried to market them to the Crime Master, who in turn had them implanted in an unnamed man who later escaped. Driven to cannibalism by them, their host came into conflict with Agent Venom, who attempted to get the man to surrender in order for a cure to be found. Toxin interrupted just as the man was acquiescing and ate him, causing the four symbiote slayers to escape and and take over a group of homeless people. The symbiote slayers traced Venom and Toxin to the high school where Flash worked as a teacher, and Eddie and Flash were forced to work together to destroy them. One Symbiote Slayer was shown to have survived, but nothing's come of it since.
* BodyHorror: When they enter combat mode, the [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily results]] [[CombatTentacles are]] [[BladeBelowTheShoulder not]] [[ArtificialLimbs pretty]].
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: And your flesh, and your sanity. It's hard not to feel sorry for their victims.
* EatenAlive: Their original host and one of the Symbiote Slayers were eaten by Toxin. They attempted to return the favor, but were stopped by Venom.
* EatingMachine: They're carnivorous cybernetic organisms.
* {{Expy}}: They're quite similar to the Stalkers from the earlier Venom miniseries ''Nights of Vengeance''.
* HealingFactor: They can repair minor damage to their hosts.
* MechanicalLifeform: They appear to be biomechanical.
* MechanicalMonster: They are a cybernetic equivalent of the symbiotes.
* NoNameGiven: The hosts are all anonymous.
* NotSoDifferent: Agent Venom uses this argument to try to get the symbiote slayers' original host to calm down. It worked... until Toxin showed up.
* PuppeteerParasite: They take over their host in much the same way symbiotes do.
* RoboSpeak: They communicate in this manner, and judging by the font they use MachineMonotone and ComputerVoice apply as well.
* RobotMe: They have a lot in common with the symbiotes.
* ReluctantMonster: Their original host didn't want to kill and eat people. The metal monsters attached to his back made him do it.
* SoleSurvivor: One of them was revealed to have survived, but nothing's come of it since.
* StarfishRobots: When not bonded to a host they are a mass of segmented tendrils with blades poking out.
* ToServeMan: They have a taste for human flesh.
* WouldHurtAChild: They attack the high school where Flash works looking for Venom.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Its safe to say their hosts didn't volunteer to be turned into ravenous cyborg zombies.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the symbiote slayers escaped, and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Cullen Bunn intended to resolve the various plot holes in ''Venom'' Vol. 3, but [[AbortedArc it was cancelled before it was even started]].
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[[folder:Lord Ogre]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #36
--> ''"You come looking for Lord Ogre... and you'll find him. But this is a careful-what-you-wish for scenario, see?"''
Philadelphia's resident crime lord, who takes an exception to Agent Venom taking a bite out of his profits and places a bounty on his head. This sets off a chain reaction that leads to Andrea Benton becoming Mania and swearing revenge for the death of her father. He's killed by Crossbones and Master Mayhem.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has brown skin but his ethnicity isn't disclosed before he is killed.
* BadassBoast: When Mania cuts down his personal bodyguards, Ogre sneers at her and calls her a child wearing a mask.
* BaldOfEvil: He's bald and a really nasty piece of work.
* BullyingADragon: When he meets Mania for the first time, he sneers at her and calls her a little girl hiding behind a mask, knowing full well she could eat him. He also does the same to Agent Venom, although with the added precaution of a buttload of high-calibre firepower.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The bounty he places on Agent Venom attracts Jack O'Lantern, who kills Andi's father and tries to kill her. Flash accidentally turns her into Mania trying to protect her, and Andi swears revenge on Lord Ogre.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He mocks Venom and Mania, both of whom are more than capable of eating him alive, to their faces.
* TheDon: He's Philadelphia's number one crime lord, involved in everything from prostitution to drug running to human trafficking.
* EatenAlive: He's partially-devoured by demons summoned by Master Mayhem.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The guy calls himself "Lord Ogre" and while he's not an ''actual'' ogre, he can be just as brutal.
* OhCrap: When Mania is one claws-bredth away from killing him, he reveals he's rigged a biological weapon to go off if he dies. To his horror, she decides to call his bluff, reasoning her symbiote would protect her from the fallout.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: He's never seen without them, to the point where they appear to be fused to his face.
* SelfDestructMechanism: Installed a biological weapon powerful enough to devastate most of Philadelphia into his chest and rigged it to a dead man's switch, thinking it'd be enough to scare off assassins.
* StarterVillain: Served as one for Mania, as while he was a ruthless and cunning crime lord, he was only human and grossly outclassed by the likes of Crossbones and Master Mayhem.
* TakingYouWithMe: He installed a dead man's switch and a biological bomb so powerful he claims it would wipe out half of Philly into his chest, thinking it would prevent Mania from killing him.
* TattooedCrook: He has a number of tattoos on his face.
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