History Characters / VenomRoguesGallery

* AintTooProudToBeg: This Jack is a coward at heart, and when cornered by Venom after shooting a cop he begs for mercy. Unfortunately, Venom was in Knull's thrall at the time and gouged his eye out while snarling that "God is coming!" After getting the Dreamstone beaten out of him during the War of the Realms, he begs Venom for mercy. Fortunately for him, Venom decides he's NotWorthKilling.

* LegacyCharacter: He's an unnamed thief who found a stash of his predecessor's gear and thought it would be a good idea to take up the identity. After being beaten by Venom twice, he gives up the identity.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: While this Jack is actually fairly timid and not particularly good in a fight, getting a Dreamstone causes him to act just as AxCrazy as his precursor did.

--> '''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.''

** ''King in Black'' #4 reveals that the antithetical "God of Light" Wraith's father discovered is actually the Enigma Force. The Enigma Force was born spontaneously as a response to Knull's existence, but it initially spread itself too thin trying to amass armies like him. Instead it learned to focus all its power through one host, Captain Universe.

* PhysicalGod: Like Eddie, he is a King in Black -- making him a god of the symbiotes. And unlike Eddie he's had millennia to master his powers, declaring himself a TimeMaster.
* PunyEarthlings: While impersonating Eddie Brock in issue #5, Meridius inwardly overwrites Dylan Brock's speech bubbles with disdainful substitutions conveying just how contemptuous of humans he is.

!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Unknown

!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Unknown

* AxCrazy: Bedlam is noted to be extremely volatile by the other Kings in Black, trying to kill Finnegan purportedly just for finding him annoying, and trying to eat Eddie's avatar in Issue #5. When fighting Venom, he notes it would be all too easy to kill Dylan and the Venom symbiote, but that his mission to make Venom stronger through suffering takes precedence.

* TheDragon: Bedlam is loyal to Meridius, and his codex is called back in time to antagonize Dylan Brock and the Venom symbiote.

* NotQuiteDead: At the end of ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'', [[spoiler:Eddie rips Knull's symbiote off, flies him into the Sun, and vaporizes his body with the Uni-Power. Knull's consciousness tries to take over Dylan Brock's body using the living abyss inside him, but Eddie uses the Uni-Power to rip Dylan's symbiote essence out and destroy it -- seemingly killing him for good. Despite all that, ''ComicBook/{{Thor|2021}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Venom|EwingAndRamV}}'' strongly imply that ''King in Black'' isn't the last we've seen of him. After all, darkness never dies and there's only so much of it one can throw into the Sun before the star turns black]]...

* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: Made up one with [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ichor]], [[EvilIsVisceral Encephalon]], and X-666.

* TranslatorBuddy: Able to understand [[TheUnintelligible Encephalon]].

* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: Made up one with [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ichor]], [[EvilIsVisceral Encephalon]], and [[TheCheerleader X-666]].

* GodIsEvil: Knull is a primordial god of darkness so evil that [[EveryoneHasStandards even the symbiotes he's not brainwashing hate him]], and in ''Thor: God of Thunder'' the few gods who remember him remark that even Gorr doesn't compare.

* OverarchingVillain: Serves as this for ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'', as the plot involves him even when he isn't taking the BigBad status of a given arc.

* GameFace: Knull's face is humanoid in appearance while he's calm, save for six openings in his cheeks. When he's angry or bloodthirsty, however, his mouth transforms into a fanged maw with a long, prehensile tongue. When the Silver Surfer [[spoiler:conjures a star right in his face]] in ''Silver Surfer: Black'' #5, Knull's enraged face resembles a symbiote's -- lacking a nose, lips, or cheeks.

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll:Knull is presented as being unstoppably powerful, but in ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' [[spoiler:Thor burns a hole through one of his hands -- albeit indirectly -- and smashes his lower jaw off with Mjolnir. However, Knull quickly regenerates from both attacks -- temporarily forming a prosthetic lower jaw with living abyss]].

* SupernaturalFloatingHair: In ''Silver Surfer: Black'' he's shown with his hair undulating around him as though underwater.

** In ''Silver Surfer: Black'' #2, after the Silver Surfer breaks free of his control and flies away, Knull lets out a scream of rage and turns the Symbiote Throneworld into a flurry of arms trying to grab him, before regaining his composure.

* VillainRespect: Knull is mildly impressed when Eddie requests to be shown more of the symbiotes' backstory, having expected his feeble mortal mind to shatter from the eldritch truth. In ''Silver Surfer: Black'' he's impressed by the time-displaced Norrin Radd's legacy of planetary destruction, and becomes fixated on claiming the Surfer as his "Void Knight".

!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/ThorGodOfThunder'' Vol. 1 #6 (unnamed); ''ComicBook/{{Venom|DonnyCates}}'' Vol. 4 #3

* HateSink: The Spider-Man family, Thor, the Silver Surfer, the Celestials, Ego the Living Planet, Wraith, and even his own symbiote creations have come into conflict with him, and came away from those encounters with a rather low opinion of his character... if they came away at all.

* DemiurgeArchetype: Knull is a primordial god of darkness who came into being in the primordial Void before the universe was created, claims to be the incarnation of said primordial Void, and was enraged when the Celestials intruded into what he saw as his domain to create the universe. He created the symbiotes and their ilk to wage war against the Celestials and their creations, first seeking to destroy and later to corrupt all of existence. To drive the point home, Carlton Drake calls him the "Klyntar Demiurge" in ''ComicBook/{{Venom|EwingAndRamV}} (Vol. 5) #3.
* DraconicAbomination: Knull is capable of spontaneously creating wyvern-like symbiote-dragons, two of which -- Grendel (no relation to the dark elf Grendell) and Big Mother -- wound up on Earth. The Grendel was used to create an avatar he used to confront Eddie Brock, while Big Mother eventually adopted a humanoid form. He could also wreathe his avatar in it to become a humanoid dragon made of living darkness.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Knull may be an OmnicidalManiac, but he tends to be composed and regal in his bearing... until something makes him angry; whereupon he flies into a rage, manifesting a fanged maw and slavering tongue. Examples of this include him addressing the Venom symbiote as his child; and his interaction with Wraith in ''Web of Venom: Wraith'', where he apologizes for not noticing Zak-Del, is more confused than anything by Zak-Del's accusation of having stolen his soul, doesn't attack until Zak-Del tries to shoot him, and after stripping Zak-Del of his Exolon would have left him there had Zak-Del not attacked him again. He is endlessly kind to his symbiote spawn, treating them like wayward children he needs to "free" of other influences, but at the same time he "comforts" the Exolon bonded to Zak-Del by telling it that it was not abandoned out of hate, but that it was the [[FlawedPrototype "trash"]] from the process of creating symbiotes, seemingly not caring that it was an insult.

** And finally in ''King In Black'' #5 [[spoiler:Knull loses all composure as Eddie beats the crap out of him with his newly acquired powers, stripping him of his symbiote, destroying his necrosword, humiliating him before finishing him off by hurling him into the sun.]]

!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Thor: God of Thunder'' Vol. 1 #6 (unnamed); ''ComicBook/{{Venom|DonnyCates}}'' Vol. 4 #3

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[[folder:Bob]]
!!Bob
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 1 #10

The CEO of the Ararat Corporation, Bob was actually a colony of robotic alien spiders that had been stranded on Earth after a failed attempt to wipe out humanity with a massive flood. Attaining enormous influence within the governments and militaries of the world, Bob created a clone of the Venom symbiote and ultimately succeeded in having the original absorb it despite interference from the Suit -- a benevolent colony of the same species of robotic spiders sent to stop him, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and S.H.I.E.L.D. However, for unknown reasons Bob's plans failed to come to fruition, and neither he or the Ararat Corporation were seen again.

* AlternateSelf: Codex is an alternate-universe version of Dylan who effectively shows what would come to pass if Dylan honored his pledge to Knull from ''Web of Venom: The Good Son''. A ''possible'' alternate version of Codex controlled by the Carnage symbiote appears in the final issue of ''Carnage: Black, White & Blood''.[[note]]Ryan Stegman, the writer, was asked if the story was canon due to discrepancies between it and the ending of ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'' and responded that he wasn't sure but hadn't intended it to be so.[[/note]]

[[folder:The Grendel Symbiote]]
!!The Grendel Symbiote