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This is a Character Sheet for the new incarnations of Venom introduced in Venomverse, Venomized, Extreme Venomverse, Edge of Venomverse Unlimited, and Death of the Venomverse; as well as the antagonists of those stories and any supporting characters important to them.

For other incarnations, please see the Alternate Incarnations of Venom page.


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Venoms & Allied Symbiotes

The Resistance

    Venom 
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AKA: Eddie Brock
Universe: Earth-616
Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #299
A disgraced reporter and a vengeful alien symbiote that had formerly been bonded to Spider-Man, uniting to initially act as one of Spider-Man's archenemies before developing into an anti-hero.
Please see the Eddie Brock and Venom pages for more information.

    Captain Venom 

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AKA: Steve Rogers
Universe: Earth-17084
Debut: Edge of Venomverse #1

A variant of Steve Rogers who bonded to the Venom symbiote, going by the alias Captain Venom.


  • Deadpan Snarker: When Old Man Logan is teleported in the middle of his Anguished Declaration of Love and says "I love you..." to him, Captain Venom quips that that's sweet of him, but they have a war to win.
  • Face–Monster Turn: He's consumed by a Poison impersonating Sharon Carter, though he sees through the illusion.
  • Frontline General: He leads the charges against the Poisons, in some cases barely escaping with his life.
  • Heroic Host: Captain Venom is a stoic super-soldier who is doing his best to lead his team in a losing battle against the Poisons.
  • Kiss of Death: The Poison who consumes him inpersonates Sharon Carter in order to give him one of these, and when he berates it the Poison indignantly remarks it was trying to make being assimilated as painless as possible.
  • The Leader: He is the tactician and field commander of the Venomized heroes and antiheroes, leading them into battle and personally greeting/recruiting the new recruits when they're teleported over.
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His iconic vibranium shield has been augmented by symbiote biomass.
  • Quit Your Whining: When X-23 Venom lashes out over being taken from her friends, who are defenceless against the Facility's soldiers, he tells her to suck it up because they have a war to win.
  • Super-Soldier: He is a World War II veteran who is both augmented by the super soldier serum and bonded to a version of the Venom symbiote.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can alter the eyespots on his mask to make them solid white, rather than with black lenses over his eyes; cover his helmet in chitinous spines, and can transform his mouth into a fang-lined maw.

    Venomized Doctor Strange 

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AKA: Stephen Strange
Universe: Earth-22249
Debut: Venomverse #1

A variant of Doctor Strange who founded the Resistance and is responsible for summoning the Venoms over to fight the Poisons.


  • The Archmage: Doctor Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme, the most-powerful magic user of his dimension. However, even he has been left burnt-out by the Poisons' constant attacks.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices himself to send the Venoms back to their home dimensions just as the Poisons' ship explodes.
  • The Leader: While Captain Venom is the de facto leader, Doctor Strange is the one who discovered the Poisons and began assembling the army.
  • Living MacGuffin: The Poisons want to use him to summon more Venoms for them to consume, and capture him with the intent of wearing down his magical barriers and then consuming him.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When Poison Scarlet Witch and Poison Doom point out that all he's done by assembling the Resistance is give the Poisons more symbiotes to consume and alert them to the existence of the Multiverse, Strange is horrified.
  • Redshirt Army: He tells Captain Venom they need an army of cannon fodder to hold the Poisons at bay, but Captain Venom rejects this strategy.
  • Thinking Up Portals: He's responsible for recruiting Venoms from across the multiverse, but laments he doesn't have the strength to recruit more than a few at a time and that the Poisons are eating them faster than he can recruit.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Constantly having to scan the multiverse to summon new Venoms has left him utterly exhausted.

    Venomized Wolverine 

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AKA: Laura Kinney
Universe: Earth-24398
Debut: Edge of Venomverse #1

A variant of Laura Kinney who bonded to the Venom symbiote while escaping the Facility.


  • Anti-Hero: Laura detests violence, but fights because it's the only thing she can do to keep herself and her friends safe.
  • Asteroids Monster: The Venom symbiote distributes pieces of itself to Laura's friends, enabling them to fight back when the Facility comes calling. In order to fight at full strength, it calls these pieces back to itself.
  • Back for the Dead: In Death of the Venomverse #1, Laura is killed and her symbiote absorbed by Carnage.
  • Determinator: Laura made four unsuccessful bids at escaping the Facility, and only succeeded on the fifth because she found the Venom symbiote.
  • Get Out!: When Kiden, Bobby, Tatiana, and Lil' Bro hide from Zebra Daddy in her lair, Laura tells them to get out.
  • Go Through Me: She tries to do this to protect her friends from the Facility's soldiers... just before being warped away.
  • Kubrick Stare: Laura is a Perpetual Frowner who constantly sports a menacing glare... even when eating French fries in an elevator full of dead security guards.
  • In Spite of a Nail: In the main Marvel Universe, Laura was given her name by her mother, Sarah Kinney, after Laura was forced to fatally wound her with the trigger scent. Sarah appears not to exist (or doesn't play the same role in her escape) in Venomverse, but Laura still comes by her name regardless. Her Venom costume is also inexplicably similar to Earth-616 Laura's All-New Wolverine costume, despite this Laura having never joined the X-Men or even met the original Wolverine of her universe. It for some reason even has an "X" belt buckle.
  • Older Alter Ego: She looks like a preadolescent, yet her Venom form has the appearance of a fully-grown adult.
  • Professional Killer: As with the mainstream X-23, she was trained to be an elite assassin as a child.
  • Talking to Themself: The symbiote communicates to Laura via thoughts and impulses, but Laura talks back to it out loud, confusing and alarming the street kids whom she is trying to dissuade it from eating.
  • To Serve Man: The symbiote suggests eating the homeless kids who wander into her lair — especially Kiden, whom it finds annoying — though Laura refuses and tries to intimidate them into leaving instead.
  • Wolverine Claws: Like other versions of X-23, she has two retractile claws in each hand and one in each foot.

    Logan Venom 

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AKA: James "Logan" Howlett
Universe: Earth-17673
Debut: Edge of Venomverse #4
A variant of Old Man Logan who bonded to the Venom symbiote following a failed assassination attempt by Hulk Jr., Archangel, and Spider-Bitch.
  • Alternate Self:
    • The Mania symbiote — a clone of the Venom symbiote — briefly took over the Logan of Earth-616.
    • The Old Man Logan of Earth-807128 temporarily bonded to an incarnation of the Venom symbiote that had become a Horseman of Apocalypse, though his appearance was completely different.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: Even after Hulk Jr. tries to kill him and declares his intent to take over his father's criminal empire, Logan can't bring himself to kill him and stops the symbiote from doing so, saying that he still loves him. Unfortunately, he's teleported before he can finish, resulting in him accidentally saying "I love you..." to Captain Venom.
  • Betrayal by Offspring: Logan adopted and raised Bruce Banner Jr. — whose father he killed — for fifteen years before revealing the truth, prompting him to beat Logan to a pulp and storm away. Banner Jr. subsequently meets up with Spider-Bitch and Archangel and concocts a plan to kill Logan to avenge his father, her criminal organization, and the X-Men respectively.
  • Body Surf: After the Venomized T. rex eats Logan, the symbiote immediately separates from the dinosaur and forces itself down its throat to bond to him.
  • Cool Old Guy: Old Man Logan is over 200 years old and is starting to look his age, but he can still kick ass.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: After breaking free, Logan feeds Spider-Bitch to the Venomized T. rex, then takes the Venom symbiote and kills the dinosaur from the inside. With his augmented powers he kills Archangel with his own Feather Flechettes, and effortlessly defeats Hulk Jr., though he stops the symbiote from killing him.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": He gets annoyed when Eddie Brock at one point refers to him as "Wolverine."
  • Eaten Alive: He's swallowed whole by the Venomized T. rex, but the symbiote promptly transfers to him and he rips his way out of its stomach.
  • Power Degeneration: Logan's healing factor has weakened in his old age, although bonding to the symbiote helps him overcome that.
  • Uncertain Doom: He's not shown being returned to his home dimension, making it unclear if Strange sent him back to his home dimension or if he died when the Poisons' ship exploded.
  • You Are in Command Now: After Captain Venom is captured, Logan Venom takes over the Resistance. However, Venompool derides his leadership and ultimately defects to what he thinks is the winning team, and Earth-616 Venom leads the final charge.

    Venomized Spider-Man 
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AKA: Peter Parker
Universe: Earth-28242
Debut: Venomverse #1
A variant of Spider-Man who took the Venom symbiote back from Eddie Brock.
  • Alternate Self:
    • The Peter Parker of Earth-9811 remained bonded to the Venom symbiote after being stranded on Battleworld and was assimilated by it until only his bones and psyche remained.
    • The Peter Parker of Earth-70134 was overtaken by the Venom symbiote after rejecting the Other's offer of resurrection, with the symbiote snuffing out his psyche and renaming itself Poison.
  • Face–Monster Turn: Just as it seems like Spider-Man and Venom will become Fire-Forged Friends, a Poison impersonating Aunt May consumes and assimilates Peter.
  • Headbutting Heroes: Symbiote Spider-Man assumes that Earth-616's Eddie Brock is every bit the irredeemable, unrepentant supervillain that the Eddie Brock of Earth-28242 was, and Eddie-616's temper and general dislike of Spider-Man doesn't really do anything to help matters... and just as Symbiote Spider-Man realizes he was wrong about Eddie, he's consumed by a Poison.
  • Heroic Host: While more bitter and aggressive than the mainstream Spider-Man, he remains dedicated to fighting the good fight and is opposed to recruiting a man who — on his Earth — was an unrepentant sociopath.
  • Noodle Incident: In an interview with The Venom Site, Cullen Bunn revealed that this Spider-Man's animosity with his universe's Eddie Brock escalated to the point where something happened that led to him reclaiming the Venom symbiote, with the implication being that he killed Eddie.
  • The Rival: This version of Spider-Man had a long, antagonistic relationship with his version of Eddie Brock, who never progressed beyond being an outright villain, and assumes Earth-616 Eddie Brock is the same. This leads to a terse confrontation that is broken up by Agent Venom. Tragically, Spider-Man is assimilated by a Poison just as Venom proves him wrong by saving him from Poison Doctor Octopus.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He's assimilated by a Poison at the end of the first issue.

    Venomized Black Panther (T'Challa) 

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AKA: T'Challa
Universe: Earth-21673
Debut: Venomverse #1
A variant of the Black Panther who bonded to the Venom symbiote, and was summoned to fight against the Poisons while at an international summit.
  • The Good King: He is the ruler of Wakanda, and was summoned into the war against the Poisons just as he was about to deliver a speech announcing a new accord before an international summit. Mania is impressed, due to having been in detention when she was summoned.
  • Heroic Host: He is a superhero and the benevolent ruler of his country, Wakanda, as well as the host of his world's version of the Venom symbiote.
  • Only Sane Man: He tries to stop Carnage's summoning, but Eddie belays his order.

    Venompool/Poison Deadpool 

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AKA: Wade Wilson
Universe: Earth-41715
Debut: Edge of Venomverse #5
A variant of Deadpool who re-bonded to the Venom symbiote while being attacked by parasitic worms.
  • Alternate Self: The Deadpool of Earth-90211, the Deadpool of Earth-616, and the Deadpool seen in Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again have all bonded to the Venom symbiote. This Venompool more closely resembles the first one's appearance in Deadpool Kills Deadpool, though his mask is all-black with red eyes.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: When extracting prehistoric tapeworms from Deadpool, the symbiote grabs one with its tongue and snarls at it to leave its host alone.
  • Continuity Nod: This Deadpool spent some time as the host of the Venom symbiote previously, as when he bonds to it he sings a spoof of "The Sound of Silence" about how nice it is to reunite with it.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Giving in to despair and hypothesizing that the Poisons' human hosts aren't as erased as the others think, he leaves the group and offers himself to the Poisons. Ultimately averted as he maintains his individuality and helps the Venoms anyway. Then he seemingly loses control and attacks them to capture Carnage.
  • Fighting from the Inside: He is able to retain control of his body due to his insanity, using this to pass info on to the Venoms. However, Deadpool doesn't know how long he'll be able to hold out or how often he can do so.
  • Heroic Host: Venompool gleefully goes about St. MacReady's performing tasks like delivering babies, entertaining sick children, and transporting patients to colonoscopy appointments... oblivious to the fact that he's terrifying them. He's also the only heroic member of the Poisons.
  • It Has Been an Honor: When fighting alongside Carnage to buy time for the Resistance to rescue Strange, Poison Deadpool tells him that as disgusting as Cletus is, there's no-one else he'd rather die fighting alongside.
    Carnage: #$%& you.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: The spikes protruding from Venompool's back are the hilts of his symbiote-augmented katanas. Prior to bonding to the symbiote, he uses his swords to effortlessly decapitate the tapeworm-controlled scientists at Ripley Diagnostics, but it doesn't stick.
  • Spikes of Villainy: As a Poison he has a pair of curved, jagged grey spikes protruding from his back — which are the hilts of his crystalline katanas.
  • Take That Us: The solicit for issue 5 pokes fun at the already-large number of "Deadpool + Venom" variants.
  • Traitor Shot: He gets one of these when the other Poisons announce that they've captured Doctor Strange.

    Venom Rocket 

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AKA: Rocket Raccoon
Universe: Earth-18197
Debut: Venomverse #1

A variant of Rocket Raccoon bonded to the Venom symbiote, working as a bounty hunter.


  • Back for the Dead: In Death of the Venomverse #1, he's found by Agent Venom and Virus having been killed by Carnage.
  • Bounty Hunter: He accepts a Kree bounty on Carol Danvers shortly before getting teleported away.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Cullen Bunn stated that something tragic happened in this Rocket's past leading up to him becoming Venom. A few line of dialogue reveals that the other Guardians of the Galaxy had their own symbiotes but were consumed by the Poisons, forcing him to kill them to escape.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: He's an engineering genius, and is shown tinkering with a high-ordinence weapon.
  • Hyperspace Arsenal: He's stored dozens of high-power weapons inside his symbiote.
  • Impact Silhouette: When Carol Danvers — having taken over as Captain America — shield-bashes him through a wall, Rocket leaves a silhouette-shaped hole.
  • Motor Mouth: During his fight with Captain America he simply does not shut up, though she doesn't express anything beyond mild annoyance until he refuses to stop trashing her house.
  • Purple Is Powerful: His Venom symbiote is purple instead of the usual black.

    Host Rider 

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AKA: Robbie Reyes
Universe: Earth-53912
Debut: Edge of Venomverse #3
A variant of Robbie Reyes who bonded to the Venom symbiote, the alien allying with his Spirit of Vengeance to seize control of him.
  • Abstract Eater: Uses his Penance Kiss to drain and devour the sins out of his victims.
  • And I Must Scream: The Symbiote and the Spirit of Vengeance found a natural synergy, and teamed up against Robbie for control of the body. He's stuck inside them repeating "Don't harm innocents" endlessly. They call themselves the "Host Rider" for a reason.
  • Bad Powers, Bad People: While Robbie Reyes was a good person who sought to use his demonic powers for good, the addition of the Venom symbiote to the equation upset the balance. The demon and the alien united to overcome each others' weaknesses, and took over Robbie to become a new super-villain.
  • Chain Pain: One of his weapons is a symbiote-augmented chain covered in spikes.
  • Demonic Possession: Host Rider is the result of Robbie Reyes bonding to the demonic Spirit of Vengeance and the Venom symbiote. Unfortunately for Robbie, the demon and the symbiote united against him and have seized control.
    Host Rider: Do you know what it'sss like, Doctor, to be at war with yourssself? One part shrieking from the flames... another stifled beneath ssstarborn ssskin?
  • He Had a Name: When Carnage casually mentions killing him during an after-battle headcount, Mania indignantly declares "His name was Robbie!"
  • Mechanical Abomination: Robbie's car is demonically and symbiotically augmented, and has a fully-functional fanged mouth for a grille, which it uses to eat two mutant chimpanzees, Crossbones, and Dr. Hyde.
  • Mythology Gag: The panel where Robbie bonds to the Venom symbiote is identical to the panel where Eddie Brock bonded to the symbiote in Amazing Spider-Man.
  • Nominal Hero: Host Rider is a Sociopathic Hero who hunts other villains to feed on their sins, with no care to the innocents who get caught in the crossfire.
  • Playing with Fire: Despite the Venom symbiote normally being weak to fire, Host Rider's symbiote has no problem with Eli Morrow's hellfire. It's first appearance lampshades this, and it's a part of the synergy the two parasitic beings have.
  • Sssssnake Talk: He draws his S's out into a sibilant hiss.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Host Rider is the only outright villainous member of the main team, being a Serial-Killer Killer who doesn't care how many innocents get caught in the crossfire.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: His Poison form, at any rate, since Carnage kills him immediately after he's consumed.

    Ant-Venom 

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AKA: Scott Lang
Universe: Earth-12240
Debut: Venomverse #1
A variant of Ant-Man who bonded to the Venom symbiote.
  • Alternate Self: A variant appears in Death of the Venomverse #1, where he's killed and has his symbiote assimilated by Carnage.
  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: He takes the ant motif further than most incarnations of Ant-Man by having mandibles in place of a mouth.
  • Mercy Kill: A Poison impersonating his daughter snares him, forcing Wolverine to put him down before he can be fully consumed.
  • Sizeshifter: He can shift from being normal-sized to being tiny to being gigantic at will.
  • Too Dumb to Live: He leaps headlong into the arms of a Cassie Lang who randomly appears on the Poison's ship, despite knowing that the Poisons specialize in impersonating people's loved ones. Rocket (who reluctantly forgoes helping Scott in favor of continuing to work on making the ship self-destruct) even yells "Damn! You know better than this! You know—" at him.

    Venomized Spinneret 

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AKA: Mary Jane Watson-Parker
Universe: Earth-18119
Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (Vol. 1) #1

Please see The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows for more information.

    Mania 

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AKA: Andrea "Andi" Benton
Universe: Earth-616
Debut: Venom Vol. 2 #31

Please see Marvel Comics: Scream for more information.

    Venomized Doctor Doom 
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AKA: Victor von Doom
Universe: Earth-44173
Debut: Venomverse: War Stories #1
A variant of Doctor Doom who bonded to the Venom symbiote.
  • Determinator: When the symbiote tries taking over him, Doom crushes it with his will, leaving it completely subservient to him.
  • Hijacking Cthulhu: Doom maintains that he has done this to the Venom symbiote, but the symbiote disagrees. When it asks why he resists it, Doom replies that he does so out of principle and because he refuses to be a puppet to satiate its bloodlust. When the symbiote tries to take over him, he enslaves it. However, Doom was unable to do the same to the Poison that consumed him, becoming a loyal servant of the Hive.
  • I Surrender, Suckers: While it's unclear if Doom's offer of a peace treaty was genuine, the symbiote wants him to use this to blindside the Avengers.
  • Killed Offscreen: The circumstances behind Venom-Doom being consumed by a Poison are never shown.
  • Sorcerous Overlord: Even without the Venom symbiote, Doom is a powerful sorcerer and the ruler of his own country. Unlike the others, he's not summoned to fight the Poisons by Doctor Strange, but senses what's going on and ditches a battle with the Avengers to investigate of his own accord.
  • To Serve Man: When Doom offers a unilateral peace treaty between Latveria and the Avengers, the symbiote demands he use this to get their guard down and eat them.

    Venomized Punisher 

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AKA: Frank Castle
Universe: Earth-11171
Debut: Venomverse: War Stories #1

A variant of the Punisher who bonded to the Venom symbiote and used it as a living weapon in his one-man war on crime.


  • Abnormal Ammo: The Punisher's symbiote guns fire teeth as bullets.
  • Alternate Self: The Frank Castle of Earth-92164 entered Our Lady of Saints Church a few minutes before Eddie Brock and became the Venom symbiote's host. It initially dominated him, but he managed to overcome it and used it as a weapon in his one-man war on crime.
  • Costume Evolution: When he initially bonds to the symbiote he sports a coat with a Venomized version of his emblem and a skull-like mask, but over time he ditches both for an appearance more evocative of Symbiote Spider-Man's.
  • Deal with the Devil: He frames his bargain with the symbiote — he gets to use it as a Living Weapon in his one-man war on crime in exchange for carrying out a single hit of its choice — as such. While it upholds its end of the bargain, Castle refuses to uphold his when it demands he kill Spider-Man.
  • Killed Offscreen: Venomverse leaves his fate unknown due to him being whisked away by Doctor Strange at the end of his War Stories entry, but entirely absent from the main series. Venomized reveals he was consumed by the Poisons at some point prior to Eddie Brock being inducted into the Resistance.
  • One-Man Army: Castle notes he was once feared as the Punisher, but eventually ran out of resources, ammo, and luck. The Venom symbiote allows him to return to being this and achieve his goal of slaughtering all of New York's organized crime syndicates.
  • Skull for a Head: As Venom, Castle's mask is initially evocative of a skull, featuring a nasal cavity and four vertical lines instead of a mouth.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Castle uses the symbiote to Dual Wield biomechanical assault rifles that fire teeth, and later transforms it into a biomechanical sniper rifle.

    Carnage (Venomverse

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AKA: Cletus Kasady
Universe: Earth-32231
Debut: Venomverse #3
A variant of Carnage from a universe where he'd successfully killed Venom, summoned as a last-ditch superweapon against the Poisons.
  • Alternate Self: He's not the Carnage from Earth-616, hailing from a world where he succeeded in killing Eddie Brock.
  • Always a Bigger Fish: Carnage was summoned to invoke this on the part of the Poisons. He doesn't care about their illusions, is able to attack the host-less Poisons without risking being consumed by using symbiote projectiles, and his greater strength lets him slash through the Poisons' crystalline exoskeletons with ease.
  • Ax-Crazy: Cletus Kasady was a nihilistic, chaos-worshipping sociopath long before he bonded to the Carnage symbiote, which only amplified his bloodlust and savagery.
  • Blood Knight: Carnage is delighted to have the opportunity to battle so many different versions of Venom all at once. He gets even more delighted when he learns that they summoned him to kill an army of twisted super heroes, even agreeing to a truce with the Venoms because of how much fun the enemies the Venoms attract are for him to kill.
  • Enemy Mine: Eddie tries to convince him to set aside their enmity and sate his bloodlust fighting the Poisons. Carnage would rather enjoy himself fighting all the Venoms at once. He only joins the Venoms when he realizes they wanted him to fight an army of monstrous superheroes, and repeatedly makes it clear that this alliance is temporary at best.
  • Kill Steal: He gets annoyed when he's "robbed" of the chance to kill the Poison versions of Sabretooth and Gwenpool.
  • Last Stand: He and Poison Deadpool die fighting side-by-side, taking on as many Poisons as possible.
  • Outside-Context Problem: None of the Poisons besides Doom were aware of the existence of other symbiotes besides the Venom one, so they freak out a bit when confronted by one who is stronger and faster, has more powers, and is able to shred them like cheesecloth.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Carnage symbiote is red and black due to having merged with Cletus's blood, and Cletus himself is an Ax-Crazy chaos-worshipping sociopath whose idea of a good time is killing everyone he comes across. Doctor Strange even compares his soul to the feeling of blood flowing through his fingers.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Carnage makes the worst member of the Resistance, the sin-eating Serial-Killer Killer Host Rider, look like a boy scout by virtue of being a nihilistic serial killer.
  • Scary Teeth: He has a Jagged Mouth with a huge underbite when his mouth is open, and is drawn without teeth on the side of his mouth, making him look strange even compared to other versions of the character.
  • Self-Made Orphan: He offhandedly remarks that he killed the Venom of his world.
  • Shapeshifter Weapon: Carnage is fond of transforming his limbs into weapons — usually a Blade Below the Shoulder — in contrast to Venom, who can do this but prefers to use his fists and claws.
  • Strapped to an Operating Table: He's bound to one by the Poisons, who make clear their intention to vivisect him in the hope of discerning how his symbiote works so that they may assimilate it like they do Venom ones.

Symbiote Squad

    Agent Venom 
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AKA: Anne Weying
Universe: Earth-1051
Debut: Venom (Vol. 4) #27
The Anne Weying of Earth-1051, on a mission to recruit as many Venom variants as possible to stop Carnage's omnicidal rampage.
Please see Alternate Incarnations of Venom for more information.

    Virus 
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AKA: Dylan Brock
Universe: Earth-1051
Debut: Venom (Vol. 4) #25
The Dylan Brock of Earth-1051, recovered from his coma and outfitted with Mac Gargan's old Virus armor.
Please see Venom: Rogues Gallery for more information.

    Symbiote Spider-Man / Venom 

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AKA: Eddie Brock
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #1
A variant of Eddie Brock who bonded to the repentant Venom symbiote after it unintentionally killed Peter Parker, becoming Spider-Man in his stead.
  • The Atoner: The symbiote was horrified that its possessive desire to be bonded to Spider-Man led to his death, and bonded to Eddie Brock out of a shared desire for atonement.
  • Heel–Face Brainwashing: In "The Best Part of Him", rather than bonding to Eddie over their shared hatred of Spider-Man, the Venom symbiote bonds to Eddie out of their shared desire for atonement — Peter Parker having perished attempting to force the symbiote off himself in this continuity. As such, the symbiote forces Peter's moral compass and sense of responsibility onto Eddie Brock, who doesn't really mind since it helps him become a better person in the process.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: The Point of Divergence between this reality and Earth-616 is that Peter Parker died trying to force the Venom symbiote off himself, leaving the symbiote distraught with remorse instead of consumed by rage. Rather than bonding with Eddie Brock over their shared hatred, the symbiote bonds to him out of a shared desire for atonement, turning Eddie into a new Spider-Man to carry Peter Parker's legacy forward.
  • Reformed, but Not Tamed: Without the symbiote influencing him, Eddie is able to commit more brutal actions than it would permit — like beaning Doc Ock in the head with a brick — but he willingly rebonds to the symbiote to continue acting as Spider-Man.
  • Super Mode: Bonding to the Dreamstone symbiote in Death of the Venomverse #4 turns Symbiote Spider-Man into Venom, though Carnage dismisses him as a pale imitation.

    Samurai Venom 
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AKA: Takemoto Tatsuya
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #1
A former employee of Alchemax turned ronin, Takemoto Tatsuya discovered a cursed sword that turned him into an oni-like samurai version of Venom.
  • Aborted Arc: With Takemoto being killed and his symbiote consumed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse, the promises Anne Weying made to him never come to pass.
  • Character Death: Takemoto is impaled by by Carnage—who also absorbs his symbiote—in Death of the Venomverse.
  • Cool Sword: Takemoto wields a katana that transforms him into an oni-like samurai version of Venom once drawn.
  • Evil Weapon: The Venom symbiote of Takemoto Tatsuya's universe takes the form of a katana that transforms its wielder into an oni version of Venom clad in black samurai armour, and which he struggles to control.
  • Rōnin: Takemoto's Venom form is samurai-themed, but he has no master — having defected from Alchemax — and wanders the country seeking answers regarding his symbiote.

    Teen Venom 
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AKA: Dylan Brock
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #1
A variant of Dylan Brock from a universe where Eddie and Anne are still married and all three of them are bonded to the Venom symbiote.
  • Character Death: He's impaled by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #2, killing him instantly. Anne is horrified, and Virus' attempts to comfort her only make it worse.
  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: After this Dylan's death, Anne mourns him and Virus tries to comfort her by saying he wasn't her version of Dylan — ironic considering Virus himself is later unmasked as Anne's version of Dylan. This doesn't help, as Anne snaps at him to stop talking.
  • Hive Mind: When Anne overcomes her fear of the Venom symbiote she's able to delve into the Symbiote Hive-Mind and free Dylan from his offshoot of the symbiote.
  • One-Winged Angel: Overcome with angst and rage, Dylan loses control over his portion of the Venom symbiote and goes berserk, leading to his mom and dad having to Venomize to stop him from eating an innocent homeless girl who gave him shelter.
  • Super Family Team: In "All in the Family", Eddie Brock, Anne Weying, and Dylan Brock are all bonded to copies of the Venom symbiote, though only Eddie has control over it. Dylan succumbs to its control and goes on a rampage, trying to eat Lia — a homeless girl he'd befriended. Anne overcomes her fear of it to gain control and help Eddie stop Dylan. The issue is notably the only one that ends without connecting to the Death of the Venomverse, showing the Brock family adopting Lia and walking off into the sunset together.
  • Troubled Teen: Dylan's just hit puberty and is going through more changes than most kids his age do: he inherited a piece of the Venom symbiote from his parents that tries to take over his body and go on a feeding frenzy.

    Symbiote Black Cat 
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AKA: Felicia Hardy
Universe: Earth-258
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #2
A variant of Black Cat who willingly bonded to the Venom symbiote shortly after it was first rejected by Spider-Man.
  • Affirmative-Action Legacy: Felicia Hardy, a bisexual woman, bonds to the Venom symbiote in "The Sinister Secret of Black Cat's New Costume" and fully accepts it as a kindred spirit, immediately developing a rapport with it that lets her harness its abilities to a level Peter wasn't. Peter is initially horrified due to believing the symbiote to be a corruptive monster, only to be bluntly told that the symbiote's perceived negative traits were a result of Peter's own personal defects.
  • Character Death: She's fatally impaled by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #2.
  • Not Brainwashed: Spider-Man attacks her on-sight assuming that the symbiote will take over and corrupt her the way he believes it was doing to him, but Black Cat calls him out on assuming the worst and points out that Peter was the one who was negatively influencing the symbiote.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Spider-Man attacks her believing she's being corrupted by the symbiote, Black Cat bluntly points out that it was Peter's own neuroses and bad habits that were negatively influencing the symbiote.

    Life-Model Venom 
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AKA: N/A
Universe: Earth-345
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #2
A variant of the Venom symbiote tricked into bonding to a Life-Model Decoy of Eddie Brock, turning to into a powerful cyborg Venom.
  • Arm Cannon: LMV can transform its arms into a variety of weapons, including plasma and sonic cannons powerful enough to force God-Butcher Carnage to retreat.
  • Captured Super-Entity: S.H.I.E.L.D. created the Eddie Brock Life Model Decoy in order to trick the Venom symbiote into bonding to it, thereby letting them capture and control it.
  • Character Death: LMV is Killed Offscreen by Carnage at the end of Death of the Venomverse #5.
  • Cyborg: After merging with the Life Model Decoy of Eddie Brock, LMV develops a cybernetic right arm and eye.
  • Robotic Reveal: In "The Prisoner", the Venom symbiote jubilantly rebonds to Eddie Brock only to discover it's bonded to an LMD, the real Eddie Brock having been murdered by his cellmate Cletus Kasady.

    Black Fang 
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AKA: Dilann
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #3
A variant of Dylan Brock; a teenaged cavewoman ostracized from her tribe who bonded to a symbiote to become Black Fang.
  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: Unlike most variants of Venom, Black Fang has a Smilodon motif, sporting a pair of massive canine teeth.
  • Character Death: She's unceremoniously killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #5, to show just how outclassed the Symbiote Squad is.
  • Distaff Counterpart: Dilann, the daughter of Brokk, is a young cavewoman who is exiled from her tribe due to being seen as cursed and eventually bonds to a symbiote, becoming the Black Fang. As her name suggests, she is a female alternate-universe counterpart to Dylan Brock.
  • The Exile: Dilann was cast out of her tribe due to her father Brokk having been seen as cursed, with the other tribe members believing she inherited it. Even after she saves them from being enslaved by the Kree, they pelt her with rocks.
  • Nubile Savage: As Black Fang, Dilann is a tall, muscular woman wearing nothing but animal furs over her chest and hips.

    Madam Venom 
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AKA: Edna Brock
Universe: Earth-31913
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #3
The madame of a brothel in the American West, and a vigilante who dispenses ruthless justice to those who would harm the women under her care.
  • Dominatrix: With her whip, black getup, and domineering personality as Madam Venom, Edna humiliates and punishes the men who dare try to harm the women under her care.
  • Fortune Teller: She has a deck of tarot cards she uses to read people's fates—giving Web-Slinger a reading as thanks for him saving one of her workers. When Anne Weying shows up to recruit her, Edna reveals she already knows what's going on thanks to the cards.
  • Make an Example of Them: Edna leaves the whipped-to-death corpses of those who try to take advantage of the women under her care on display in the desert surrounding her property, as a warning for others who might do the same.
  • Miss Kitty: Edna Brock is the tarot card-reading proprietress of a brothel in Earth-31913. Those who break her rules or come looking for trouble find she moonlights as the whip-wielding vigilante Madam Venom, and is more than happy to doll out harsh Western justice.
  • Put on a Bus: She's one of the few Venom who debuted in Extreme Venomverse to not appear in Death of the Venomverse—also including Dylan's parents, Venom Bloom, and mech pilot Flash Thompson.

    Venom: Space Knight 
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AKA: Flash Thompson
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #3
A variant of Flash Thompson during his time as a member of the Agents of the Cosmos.
  • Character Death: He's impaled by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #3 when he rushes in to save Asgardia from being killed.
  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Despite knowing he's technically not her father, Asgardia still embraces him as such and is overjoyed to see him for the first time in years.
  • Revenge Before Reason: Upon hearing that Carnage killed a variant of Mania, Flash—who feels guilty over leaving his universe's Mania behind to join the Guardians of the Galaxy—is enraged and demands to be taken on the away missions to get revenge. This gets him killed when he charges headlong at Carnage to stop him from killing Asgardia.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: When he learns that Anne accidentally got their latest recruit killed and that said recruit was a version of Andi Benton, Flash furiously berates her for not taking him with her, and rebukes her for saying that it wasn't his Andi.

    Venom Noir 
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AKA Eddie Brock
Universe: Earth-90214
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #4
A variant of Eddie Brock; a Catholic priest with a gambling addiction who becomes a cannibalistic serial killer after bonding to the Venom symbiote.
  • Character Death: He unceremoniously gets his head ripped off by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #5, to show just how outclassed the Symbiote Squad is.
  • Frame-Up: With the police looking into him after he kills John Deward, Eddie frames the schizophrenic Emil Gregg for the murders he committed by bonding a piece of the symbiote to him.
  • Sinister Minister: He starts off as a lapsed Catholic priest with a gambling addiction and a sizable mob debt, but ends the issue as a cannibalistic serial killer.
  • To Serve Man: Embracing the symbiote's darkness, Eddie eats his old friend John Deward, and makes it clear that this is just the start of his killing spree.
  • We Used to Be Friends: The Eddie Brock of Earth-90214 was friends with mobster John Deward when they were younger and drinking buddies as adults, but when Eddie's gambling addiction got him deep in debt to John's bosses he was sent to collect, threatening to reveal Eddie's sins to his parishioners. After bonding to the Venom symbiote, Eddie pays John a late-night visit, the latter making it clear it's nothing personal and even offering Eddie a cup of coffee... only for Eddie to eat him.

    Necroko 
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AKA Ellie Ellison
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #4
A high-school student at St. Lutgarde's Academy whose symbiote lets her transform into a monstrous magical girl called Necroko.
  • Eating the Enemy: Her go-to means of dispatching enemies is dismembering and devouring them—most notably tearing out the throat of a Lizard that was about to eat Parker Piper with her fangs.
  • Horrifying Hero: Ellie Ellison is a high-school student who can transform into Necroko, who may have hair like cotton-candy, but has also got inhuman fangs and white eyespots, and a propensity for gratuitous violence that terrifies the very classmates she's trying to save from rampaging lizard-men. Even Parker Piper recoils from her before Necroko asks if she's alright.
  • Lipstick Lesbian: In contrast to the tomboyish Parker Piper, her crush, Ellie is very feminine—having long hair and wearing skirts.
  • Magical Girl Warrior: Ellie Ellison transforms into the magical girl Necroko using her magical hair-bow, in actuality the Venom symbiote. The symbiote bow transforms into a wand with its tongue acting as a whip, which Necroko uses to get around and fight while also using her hair as razor-edged tendrils and her fangs to rip out huge chunks of flesh from her enemies. At the end of the issue, Ellie's crush Parker Piper gets bitten by a magical spider, with Ellie daydreaming of fighting evil by moonlight alongside her.

    Venomized Jeff 
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AKA: Jeff the Landshark
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #5A variant of Jeff the Landshark taken over by the Venom symbiote.
  • All Animals Are Dogs: Even when taken over by the Venom symbiote, Jeff behaves like a puppy — wriggling around on his back for a tummy rub and playing fetch with Kate Bishop's arrows.
  • Non-Malicious Monster: After the Venom symbiote takes over Jeff — turning him from the size of a dog to the size of a polar bear — Kate Bishop panics and assumes he's going to eat her when he starts chasing her. Unable to bring herself to hurt him, she braces for the pain of being violently torn apart... only for Jeff to lick her face and want to play with her.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Kate Bishop separates Jeff from the symbiote and kills it via a rock concert at the end of "The Rhythm of the Night", leaving it when and how he rebonded to it and was recruited by Agent Venom unexplained.

    Major League Venom 
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AKA: Ed Brock
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #5
A variant of Eddie Brock; a sports reporter who created a baseball bat from a tree infused with the Venom symbiote, letting him transform into Venom when he unleashes it.
  • Batman Gambit: Ed confronts the symbiote-enhanced baseball players as they're juicing up, leading to them attacking him and sending him crashing from the changeing room into the field... and then reveals that he rigged the sprinklers to spray gasoline instead of water and timed the fight so they'd come on at that exact moment, leading to him blowing his cousin's murderers up and burning them alive.
  • Batter Up!: He wields a baseball bat made from the wood of a tree that had been imbued with the Venom symbiote. When Venomized, the bat transforms into a spike-covered instrument of death to accompany his own monstrous appearance.
  • Character Death: He's unceremoniously killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #5, to show just how outclassed the Symbiote Squad is.
  • Intrepid Reporter: He's a sports news reporter who uncovers a symbiote-doping scandal when his cousin Richie is murdered, and proceeds to — literally — blow the scandal open.

    Four-Armed Venom 
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AKA Charlotte
Universe: Earth-888
Debut: Edge of Venomverse Unlimited #1
A young woman from the early 20th century whose parents believe her to be possessed by a demon, locking her up and calling an exorcist.
  • Deadpan Snarker: When the priest tries to splash her with holy water, Charlotte — under the symbiote's influence — grabs the bottle and chugs it, then snarks that she was thirsty.
  • Demonic Possession: She's treated as though she's possessed by a demon, with her family locking her in a barn. When a priest shows up to exorcise her, she mockingly chugs his bottle of holy water.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Charlotte's Venom form has four arms, which she puts to good use in combat.
  • Put on a Bus: She isn't seen again after Agent Venom recruits her.
  • Self-Made Orphan: She eats her own father under the control of her symbiote, who berates him for having locked her up and tortured her.

    Twin Venom 
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AKA Edmund and Allen Harris
Universe: Earth-101
Debut: Edge of Venomverse Unlimited #6
Conjoined twins Edmund and Allen Harris, who discover they're bonded to the Venom symbiote when undergoing seperation surgery.
  • Conjoined Twins: Twin brothers Edmund and Allen Harris are joined at the shoulder. When their doctor discovers Edmund has a mysterious tumour (actually their world's Venom symbiote), she suggests they undergo separation surgery to prevent it from spreading to them both. While the twins reluctantly agree to the surgery, the symbiote lashes out and attacks the doctor for trying to separate its hosts from each other, only being stopped from killing her by Anne Weying's intervention.
  • Put on a Bus: They aren't seen again after Agent Venom recruits them.

    Agent Spider-Man 
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AKA: Peter Parker
Universe: Earth-1051
Debut: Venom (Vol. 4) #27
The Peter Parker of Earth-1051, a reporter for the Daily Bugle who joined Anne's rebellion against Codex.
Please see Venom: Supporting Characters for more information.

    Agent Deadpool 
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AKA: Wade Wilson
Universe: Earth-1051
Debut: Venom (Vol. 4) #27
The Wade Wilson of Earth-1051, a wisecracking mercenary who joined Anne's rebellion against Codex.
Please see Venom: Supporting Characters for more information.

    Agent Hawkeye 
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AKA: Clint Barton
Universe: Earth-1051
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
The Clint Barton of Earth-1051, an archer and former Avenger who joined Anne's squad to hunt down Carnage.

    Venomized Rhino 
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AKA: Aleksei Sytsevich
Universe: Earth-11964
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of Aleksei Sytsevich who joined the new Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man, who'd been taken over by the Venom symbiote; bonding to an offshoot of it after Kraven made a pact with the alien. Surviving the other members of the Symbiote Six when Carnage attacked, he joined Anne's Symbiote Squad to avenge them.
  • Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: He's the biggest member of the Symbiote Six and later the Symbiote Squad. While he survives the former, when their plan to rescue Knull falls apart Venomized Rhino is the first to die — being beheaded by an angry Knull.
  • Character Death: He's decapitated by an enraged Knull in Death of the Venomverse #5.
  • Enemy Mine: He's a super-villain through and through, but agrees to join the Symbiote Squad to avenge the other members of the Symbiote Six.
  • Nested Mouths: Aleksei's symbiote-covered face can be seen inside the fanged maw of his Venomized Rhino armor.
  • Sole Survivor: Due to his immense bulk and durability, he is the only survivor of Carnage's massacre of the Symbiote Six, and joins Agent Venom's Symbiote Squad to avenge the others.
  • Use Your Head: With and without his offshoot of the Venom symbiote, Aleksei's main means of attack is using the massive horn on his suit to ram and impale opponents.

    Dreamstone Venom 
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AKA: Eddie Brock
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #2
A variant of Eddie Brock from a universe where Midgard and Asgard merged during the War of the Realms. Keeping the Dreamstone symbiote, he has embraced the Viking warrior ethos and seeks a worthy death to go to Valhalla.
  • Character Death: He's impaled through the heart by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #4, asking Asgardia if he's worthy of Valhalla before being decapitated. His Dreamstone symbiote survives and bonds to Symbiote Spider-Man, turning him into Venom, but perishes in the following issue.
  • Death Seeker: Of a sort. He seeks an Honorable Warrior's Death and is worried he is unworthy of admission to Valhalla, asking Asgardia if he is worthy after being fatally injured by Carnage.
  • Horny Vikings: In his Super Mode his "helmet" sports a pair of downward-angled forward curving horns that accentuate his armor's Asgardian aesthetic.
  • Sinister Scythe: Unlike Earth-616 Eddie Brock during his time with the Dreamstone, this Viking Venom wields a scythe manifested out of his artificial symbiote's essence.
  • Super Mode: He draws on the Dreamstone's power to transform it into a Venomized suit of Asgardian armor, greatly amplifying his power... though not enough to save him from Carnage.

    Chaos Engine 
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AKA: Unrevealed
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #2
A punk rocker who bonded to his universe's Venom symbiote, wielding an axe-guitar capable of generating sonic attacks.
  • Instrumental Weapon: Chaos Engine wields a guitar that doubles as a battle-axe, letting him exploit other symbiotes' sonic weaknesses by shredding riffs.
  • Loud of War: Chaos Engine mainly fights by playing riffs on his axe-guitar, which can generate sonic blasts.
  • No Name Given: His civilian name goes completely unrevealed.note 

    Kid Venom 
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AKA: Kintaro
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #2
A young samurai bonded to the cannibalistic symbiote Clinter, Kintaro protects the farming villages of Heian period Japan from monstrous oni—people and animals that have been infected by symbiotes.
  • Cannibalism Superpower: By consuming another symbiote, Clinter—and by extension Kintaro—gains whatever powers the symbiote obtained from its host.
  • Growing Wings: Having consumed a symbiote that had taken over a falcon, Clinter can allow Kintaro to sprout wings and talons to transform into a tengu-like form.
  • Heroic Host: Unlike all the other oni—what the symbiote-augmented people and animals are called—Kintaro and Clinter work together to protect the innocent.
  • Monstrous Humanoid: Kintaro's symbiote-augmented form looks more human than most symbiotes, with his transformation not doing much more than turning his skin jet-black, his eyes solid white, and giving him fangs, claws, and pointed ears. His concept art shows he can still open his mouth super-wide—his cheeks appearing to rip open in the proces—and extend his tongue like a snake.
  • Public Domain Character: He is an adaptation of the popular Japanese folk-hero KintarĹŤ.
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: Thanks to Clinter, Kintaro can speak to and understand animals whose symbiotes he's consumed, and makes a point of befriending them once he's pacified them.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: While Kintaro wears a kosode, he typically lets it hang down over his hakama pants and walks around shirtless.

    Silence 
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AKA: Andrea "Andi" Benton
Universe: Earth-616
Debut: Venom Vol. 2 #31
The Andi Benton of Earth-616, bonded to an amalgamation of the Scream and Anti-Venom symbiotes.
Please see Scream for more information.

    Asgardia 
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AKA: N/A
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #3
The daughter of Agent Venom (Flash Thompson) and Valkyrie (Brunnhilde), Asgardia inherited her mother's sword and her father's symbiote; protecting an Earth where Asgard and Midgard became one during the War of the Realms.
  • Cool Horse: She rides the Venom symbiote shapeshifted into a winged horse.
  • Cool Sword: She inherited her mother's Dragonfang and coated it in living abyss to turn it into a Necrosword.
  • Dual Wielding: In the final issue she wields both her Necrosword and Mjolnir to fight Knull's symbiote-dragons and God-Butcher Carnage.
  • Heinz Hybrid: She's half human and half Asgardian, being the daughter of Flash Thompson and Brunnhilde, with the Venom symbiote added into the mix.
  • Inadequate Inheritor: She sees herself as such when it comes to taking over her mother's mantle of Valkyrie, though in the final issue she overcomes her hangups and embraces the mantle when claiming Mjolnir.
  • Shock and Awe: She obtains Thor's powers by claiming Mjolnir, letting her summon divine lightning.

    Anti-Carnage 
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AKA: Cletus Kasady
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #3
A repentant variant of Cletus Kasady bonded to an anti-symbiote, Anti-Carnage seeks to atone for the sins he committed as a serial killer.
  • The Atoner: Anti-Carnage seeks to atone for the atrocities he committed as a serial killer, and sees killing Earth-616's Carnage as the perfect opportunity to do so.
  • Character Death: Carnage is able to kill him using Venoman-Thing's own Touch of Death, then assimilates his anti-symbiote to become immune to them.
  • I Hate Past Me: Much like Eddie Brock as Anti-Venom, Cletus Kasady as Anti-Carnage seeks to atone for his past sins and sees Earth-616's Carnage as the epitome of everything he's repenting.
  • Touch of Death: Having bonded to an anti-symbiote, Anti-Carnage is able to corrode and burn normal symbiotes just by touching them. He tries to use this to kill Carnage, but Carnage uses Venoman-Thing's own Touch of Death to incapacitate Anti-Carnage before killing him and assimilating his anti-symbiote.

Antagonists

Poison Hive

    General 

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A species of crystalline aliens able to permanently bond to symbiotes by consuming their hosts, gaining their memories and powers in the process.
  • Alien Blood: Both the unbound Poisons and the Poisons who have consumed a symbiote have green blood.
  • Alien Invasion: The Poison Fin Fang wanted to use Kid Kaiju as the conduit for a Poison invasion of Earth-616, but was thwarted. Unfortunately, the other Poisons still found a way there anyway and with Haze-Mancer's help plundered the Klyntar homeworld as the first step in their plan to overrun the Earth.
  • Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Poisons can psychically impersonate their target's loved ones as a defence mechanism. For example, the Poison that consumed Venpool impersonated Daredevil — who she had a crush on, while the Poison that consumed Spider-Venom impersonated Aunt May.
  • The Assimilator: They assimilate symbiotes — consuming the memories, bodies, and powers of their host — to become more powerful, and for this reason they are traversing the multiverse targeting incarnations of Venom.
  • Assimilation Backfire: Certain characters — Deadpool, Marvel Girl, and Carnage — are able to resist being consumed and turn against the Hive, with Jean Grey killing the Poison Queen and bringing about its destruction.
  • Bio-Armor: The Poisons take on the appearance of their hosts' costumes, but in a way that resembles crystalline, chitinous exoskeletons with sections of exposed symbiote biomass.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: In place of lower arms, they have sword-like blades.
  • Combat Tentacles: Poisons who have consumed a symbiote are able to use its biomass to form tentacles and tendrils.
  • Death of Personality: Poisons inflict this on the symbiotes they consume, reducing it to nothing more than an extension of their bodies.
  • Dem Bones: In their base forms, they are small crystalline skeletal creatures.
  • Dimensional Traveler: They're capable of interdimensional travel, but however they do it is apparently slow and tedious, which is why they wanted to capture and use the Summon Magic of Doctor Strange and Kid Kaiju.
  • Evil Counterpart: The Poisons are the polar opposites of the Klyntar symbiotes, which they assimilate to become more powerful. The one similarity is that they require hosts and mimic the appearance of their costumes.
  • The Faceless: Their heads consist solely of a huge mouth with no other visible sensory organs.
  • Healing Factor: They can recover from a severed limb or a punctured throat, but not from being stabbed through the heart or from having their head severed or destroyed.
  • Hijacking Cthulhu: An almost-literal case, as Venomized shows that they have a Poison Shuma-Gorath amongst their ranks.
  • Gem Tissue: Their bodies are comprised of a white crystalline material that — in their natural forms — is quite brittle, but once they consume a symbiote becomes extremely hard.
  • Glamour Failure: Their illusions tend to have an Undeathly Pallor and a duller color scheme than the people that they're impersonating.
  • Grand Theft Me: The Poisons pull this on both the symbiotes and the hosts they consume, causing them to cease as individuals while assimilating their memories. Even gods like Thor and eldritch abominations like Shuma-Gorath are susceptible, and only powerful psychics or people with severe psychological instability are capable of withstanding the process.
  • Jagged Mouth: In their default forms they have radial mouths that comprise the entirety of their heads. When bonded to a host, they have armor-plated mouths.
  • Let Them Die Happy: When he sees through its impersonation of Sharon Carter, the Poison that consumed Captain Venom tells him this is why they impersonate their targets' loved ones.
  • Never Be Hurt Again: They claim to have been nothing but weak prey animals for the entirety of their existence, hence their obsession with using symbiotes to become a race of "apex predators".
  • Mind Hive: The Poison Queen can speak and act through her offspring.
  • Soul Eating: Poison Host Rider existed only briefly, but a Poison being able to assimilate Host Rider at all indicates that they're somehow able to consume or at least suppress metaphysical entities like Eli Morrow's demonic ghost. Venomized reveals that the Poison Queen absorbs the life force of those consumed by unbound Poisons, and can speak through them and access their powers.
  • The Speechless: They never vocalize in their natural forms, only through their illusions and hosts.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: While they can assimilate any symbiote, they so far appear to only care about hunting Venoms. The reason for this is because the Poisons only recently discovered the symbiotes through encountering a Venom, and were largely unaware of the existence of other, more powerful symbiotes like Carnage.
  • Touch of Death: In their base forms, if they so much as touch a symbiote they will bond to it and consume its host. Conversely, so much as poking Anti-Venom causes them to shatter.

    Poison Hulk 

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AKA: Bruce Banner
Debut: Venomverse #1
A Poisoned version of the Hulk who lays waste to the Resistance's hideout and kills Agent Venom.
  • Back for the Finale: He's MIA for a while after seemingly being blown up by Rocket, but then reappears for the final battle... where he's he blown up by Rocket again.
  • Big Dumb Body: The Hulk tends to be the Dumb Muscle of any team he's on, and with a Poison controlling him he isn't any different.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: As tempermental and dangerous as the regular Hulk is, the Poison version is a malevolent monster with black sclera and green irises.
  • Face–Monster Turn: He's presumably the same Hulk who Captain Venom mentioned losing to the Poisons in Venomverse: War Stories.
  • One-Hit Kill: He kills Agent Venom with a single punch.
  • Shockwave Stomp: He uses the Hulk's signature Ground Pound to knock over Symbiote Spider-Man, Venom, and Host Rider.

    Poison Doctor Octopus 

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Debut: Venomverse #1
A Poisoned version of Doctor Octopus who attacks Venom and Symbiote Spider-Man.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Venom bites off one of his tentacles during their fight.
  • Combat Tentacles: He has four segmented vertebrae-like tentacles with claws made of symbiote biomass.
  • Cthulhumanoid: He has tentacles of symbiote biomass protruding from beneath a skull-like face.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He catches Spider-Venom off-guard and easily defeats him, but then gets a brutal beatdown inflicted on him by Venom in return.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Venom skewers his head with a rebar beam.
  • Mauve Shirt: He's killed in a single issue, but still got more lines and personality than most of the other Poisons.
  • Shapeshifter Weapon: He morphs the symbiote biomass on the end of one of his legs into a spike and impales Venom with it.

    Poison Spider-Man 
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Debut: Venomverse #1
A Poison that consumed Symbiote Spider-Man, becoming a recurring opponent for Earth-616's Venom.
  • Critical Hesitation Blunder: He hesitates when attacked by Venomized Spinneret, stammering her name. Venompool overhears this and theorizes that the human hosts aren't completely erased by the Poisons.
  • Killed Offscreen: Poison Spider-Man challenges Venom to a rematch that only the latter walks away from, but how Venom defeated him isn't shown.
  • It's Personal: He takes his rivalry with Eddie Brock very seriously, going out of his way to challenge Eddie to a rematch.
  • Light Is Not Good: Unlike Symbiote Spider-Man, Poison Spider-Man is white with black spider emblems made of symbiote biomass, contrasting Venom and giving him an uncanny resemblance to Anti-Venom.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Poison Spider-Man unleashes an absolutely brutal beatdown on Venom during their first fight, showing off just how much more powerful he is than the normal or even Venomized Spider-Man.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Poison Spider-Man delivers a verbal beatdown to Eddie Brock as well as Peter Parker while easily trouncing Venom at the beginning of the second issue, mocking Peter for never having had the guts to go through with killing Venom, and Venom for thinking he stood a chance.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: While he has Venom dead to rights, when the unbound Poisons accompanying him are destroyed and backup arrives, Poison Spider-Man decides to opt out of fighting multiple Venoms on his own and retreats.

    Poison Doctor Doom 
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Debut: Venomverse #2
A Poison that consumed Venomized Doctor Doom, becoming the field commander of the Poison Hive and co-lieutenant of the Poison Queen alongside Poison Thanos.
  • Big Bad: He is the field commander of the Poisons and is following the "Gospel of the Spawning", which prophesies that the Poisons will consume all the incarnations of Venom in the Multiverse. The final issue reveals that he's nothing but the servant of a Greater-Scope Villain, specifically a Poison Thanos, with Venomized establishing them as Co-Dragons.
  • Expy: His role in Venomverse strongly parallels Solus' role in Spider-Verse, right down to following a prophecy that promises his kind will eradicate their prey.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: He implodes with the death of the Poison Queen, reduced to a few fragments of crystalline exoskeleton and a puddle of symbiote biomass.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: He has three tongues made of symbiote biomass that are always hanging out of his mouth.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He evacuates in an escape shuttle when it becomes clear the Poisons are going to lose.
  • Slouch of Villainy: He has a Throne Made of Crystals that he enjoys doing this on.

    Poison Captain America 
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Debut: Venomverse #2
A Poison that consumed Captain Venom, becoming Venomized Doctor Doom's field commander.
  • Assimilation Backfire: Not to the extent of Deadpool, but Captain America—like Spider-Man—is able to resist being consumed long enough to slip up when pledging allegiance to the Poison Hive. It doesn't last, however.
  • The Heavy: After consuming Steve Rogers, Poison Captain America becomes the field leader of the Poisoned heroes and villains.
  • Honey Trap: The Poison impersonates Sharon Carter in an attempt to convince Captain America to let it consume him. When he sees through it, the Poison tells him that the process is less painful if he doesn't resist and it wanted to spare him an agonizing death.
  • Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Even as a Poison, Captain America's shield — now made of symbiote ooze and Poison crystals — is his weapon of choice, and throwing it is his bread-and-butter fighting style.

    Poison Gwenpool 
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Debut: Venomverse #3
A Poison that consumed Venomized Gwenpool.
  • Character Death: She's killed by Poison Deadpool, who snarks at her for being a knockoff of a knockoff — a reference to her having been originally envisioned as a Deadpool variant of Gwen Stacy in the wake of Spider-Gwen's creation, and Deadpool (purportedly) having originated as a Captain Ersatz of Deathstroke the Terminator.
  • Honey Trap: The Poison impersonates Daredevil — who Gwen has a crush on — to lure her into an isolated location so it can consume her.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After being captured, she mocks Eddie Brock for being the most basic, uninteresting Venom present.

    Poison Ghost Rider 
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Debut: Venomverse #3

A Poison that consumed Host Rider, being killed by Carnage shortly thereafter.


    Poison Thanos 
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Debut: Venomverse #5
A Poisoned variant of Thanos who serves as the Poison Queen's second-in-command alongside Poison Doctor Doom.
  • Co-Dragons: He serves as the Poison Queen's general, alongside Poison Doctor Doom.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: He easily decimates Captain America's team of heroes, but is pushed back and stalemated by Kid Kaiju's monsters.
  • Eye Beams: He can fire powerful energy beams from his eyes.
  • Killed Offscreen: He presumably crumbles alongside most of the other Poisons after the Queen's defeat.

    Poison Fin Fang Foom 

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Debut: Monsters Unleashed Vol. 3 #6
A Poisoned version of Fin Fang Foom, who is the first Poison to make it to Earth-616.
  • Big Bad: He's this for the Monsters Unleashed tie-in to the storyline, psychically manipulating Kid Kaiju into bringing him to Earth-616 so that he can capture the boy and use him to bring the rest of the Poisons over for a full-on Alien Invasion.
  • Extra Eyes: This version of Fin Fang Foom has four eyes.
  • Good Lips, Evil Jaws: Unlike the normal Fin Fang Foom, who has lips, this malevolent version has fang-lined jaws.
  • Mirror Match: After his own monsters get pummeled, Kei brings in Earth-616's Fin Fang Foom to help combat Poison Foom.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: He is a Makluan — essentially an alien dragon — taken over by a Poison, making him an even greater threat.

    Poison Queen 

Debut: Venomized #2

  • Big Bad: As the Queen of the Poison Hive, she is the ultimate villain of Venomized.
  • Glamour: She appears to others — even those her spawn have consumed — in the form of their loved ones.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Poison Doom and Poison Thanos are her Co-Dragons, making her this for Venomverse and Poison-X.
  • Hive Queen: She is a massive multi-legged unbound Poison who controls the Hive, and killing her causes most of the Poisons to implode or shatter.
  • King Mook: The Poison Queen resembles her unbound spawn, but is much larger and more powerful.
  • Life Drinker: The Poison Queen absorbs the life force of those her spawn consume, increasing in power as she does so. In Venomized, Jean Grey is able to resist being consumed using her psychic powers and absorbs this stolen life energy to resurrect herself and kill the Poison Queen.

    Poison Carnage 
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Debut: Venomized #3
A Poison that consumed the Cletus Kasady of Earth-616 after he was tricked into bonding to a new symbiote. Cletus' madness enabled him to survive being consumed and seize control of the Poison, and he was eventually restored to human form.
  • Assimilation Backfire: Despite the precautions taken by Poison Thanos and Poison Doctor Doom, Cletus was able to do what Venompool had done and resist being consumed, seizing control of the Poison through sheer bloodlust.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Poison Carnage's arms are typically transformed into a pair of razor-sharp blades.
  • Character Death: While it survives the Poison Queen's death, it's shown shattering in a flashback scene in Web of Venom: Carnage Born to reveal Cletus Kasady's somehow-intact human body underneath.
  • White and Red and Eerie All Over: In contrast to Carnage's usual red and black color scheme, Poison Carnage is predominantly red and white, with patches of black symbiote biomass being visible.

    Poison Wolverine/Poison 
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AKA: Jimmy Hudson
Universe: Earth-1610
Debut: Venomized #4
A Poison that consumed Jimmy Hudson — the son of Wolverine of Earth-1610 — to become Poison Wolverine, later renaming itself Poison after it's reduced to being the sole surviving member of the Poison Hive.
  • Combat Tentacles: It can extend Jimmy's claws into razor-sharp Whip Swords.
  • Enemy Mine: Despite fighting for control of their shared body with Jimmy, the Poison agrees to work together with him when Magneto sends Daken to put him out of his misery.
  • Sole Survivor: The Poison that consumed Jimmy is the sole surviving member of the Hive after the Queen's death.
  • The Symbiote: Unable to fully assimilate Jimmy, the Poison fights him for control of their shared body before settling into a partnership similar to that of a traditional symbiote and its host.

Other

    Carnage (Earth-616) 
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AKA: N/A
Universe Earth-616
Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man #345
The Carnage symbiote of Earth-616, having parted ways with Cletus Kasady and embarked on a plot to usurp the throne of the King in Black.
Please see Marvel Comics: Carnage for more information.

    Alexander 
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AKA: N/A
Universe: Earth-31913
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #3
The leader of a band of outlaws who frequent Edna Brock's brothel.
  • Attempted Rape: He's introduced chasing Daisy, one of the prostitutes at Edna's brothel, in order to force himself on her when she refused to comply with his demands, though Edward stops him from "getting [his] money's worth".
  • Fat Bastard: He's an overweight brute of a man who leads a gang of violent outlaws and is introduced trying to rape a prostitute for having the audacity to refuse his demands, and according to Edna he has a history of being... rough... with the women he sleeps with. Incredulous that Edna's brothel "[treats] the product better than the customers", he tries to stab Edward before being disarmed by Web-Slinger, and later returns with a posse to burn Edna's establishment to the ground.
  • Karmic Death: He tries to beat Daisy, one of Edna's prostitutes, to death for not letting him do whatever he wanted to her, and ultimately meets his end at the business end of her shotgun.
  • Outlaw: He's the leader of a band of cruel gunmen who prey on the unfortunate and frequent Edna's brothel. She puts up with them because they're money's good, but the moment they cross her she and her girls kill them.

    Lord Titus 
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AKA: N/A
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #3
A space pirate resembling an anthropomorphic tiger, captain of a prison ship that harvests organs to sell on the black market.
  • Arm Cannon: He has a four-barrelled plasma cannon for a right arm, powerful enough to blast Space-Knight Venom a good distance away and stun him long enough to be grabbed by the vivisection machine.
  • Character Death: He blowns himself out the airlock with Agent Venom in an attempt to kill the Agent of the Cosmos, and suffocates in space.
  • Space Pirate: Titus captains a prison ship that goes from planet to planet abducting people and harvesting their organs on the black market.
  • Taking You with Me: After being cornered by Space-Knight Venom, Titus sacrifices himself by opening the airlock to suck Flash into space along with himself, hoping to take the Agent of the Cosmos with him.
  • Would Hurt a Child: The first thing Titus is shown doing is ordering a Kellrexian child to be vivisected for their organs.

    Symbiote Sluggers 
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AKA: Unrevealed
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Debut: Extreme Venomverse #5
A team of baseball players cheating by using symbiotes as performance enhancers.
  • Character Death: They're blown up by Ed Brock to avenge his cousin Richie.
  • Life Drinker: Their symbiotes consume the vital essence of others, leaving their victims nothing more than desiccated husks.
  • Muggle Sports, Super Athletes: They're a team of baseball players juicing by bonding to symbiotes.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: When Richie Brock found out about them cheating by using symbiotes, they killed him; and when Ed Brock — Richie's cousin — comes snooping around they try to kill him too.

    King-Pain 
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AKA: Wilson Fisk
Universe Earth-21619
Debut: Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow #2
A variant of Wilson Fisk from a universe where Spider-Man initially embraced the symbiote and became Venom. Mutilated by his nemesis, Fisk obtained a piece of the symbiote and bonded to it to become King-Pain.
Please see Alternate Incarnations of Venom for more information.

    Cletus Kasady 
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AKA: N/A
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of Cletus Kasady imprisoned in Ryker's Island, sharing a cell with Eddie Brock.
  • Aborted Arc: Carnage-616 notes that Cletus will soon become Carnage despite it having killed Venom just before his symbiote could spawn. Bunn stated that this would have led into an Extreme Carnageverse spin-off... but that Marvel's editorial said no.
  • Alternate Self: He is a variant of Cletus Kasady as he was in The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #345, the point of divergence being the Carnage symbiote from Earth-616 killing Venom just after Eddie and the symbiote reunite, assimilating the latter seemingly before it can spawn that universe's Carnage symbiote.
  • Serial Killer: Imprisoned for eleven murders, Cletus decides to make it an even dozen by killing his cellmate Eddie Brock... only for an alternate universe version of his future symbiote to beat him to the punch.

    Shriek 
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AKA: Frances Barrison
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #3
A variant of Frances Barrison from Chaos Engine's universe, seeking to avenge her lover's death.
  • Alternate Self: She is a variant of Shriek who outlived her universe's Cletus Kasady and seeks to avenge him by killing Chaos Engine.
  • Boldly Coming: She was in an intimate relationship with the Cletus Kasady of her universe, resulting in traces of the Carnage symbiote being left in her womb. Earth-616's Carnage eviscerates her in order to absorb them, then reduces her body to a charred skeleton with hellfire.
  • Character Death: Carnage lulls her into a false sense of security when she mistakes it for her universe's Carnage back from the dead, then impales and eviscerates her to absorb the traces of its counterpart left in her womb from having slept with Cletus.
  • Designated Girl Fight: While initially battling Chaos Engine, once the Symbiote Squad and Carnage arrive Shriek ends up fighting Symbiote Black Cat.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Shriek is hellbent on killing Chaos Engine for having killed her universe's Cletus Kasady.

    King in Black 
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AKA: Knull
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #4
A variant of Knull in the middle of conquering Earth.
  • Alternate Self: He is a variant of Knull found in a Close-Enough Timeline take on King in Black— with key differences including Thor wearing his old "armored cast" suit instead of the Herald of Thunder armor formed from the Power Cosmic, and Clea being the Sorceress Supreme.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #5, with Carnage absorbing the All-Black symbiote and all of Knull's power to complete his apotheosis.
  • Kamehame Hadoken: He fires a beam of red energy from one of his hands powerful enough to blast God-Butcher Carnage back.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: Fed up with Carnage being an even match and the Symbiote Squad's attempt to rescue him, Knull announces that he was holding back and is going to unleash his full planet-obliterating power... only for Carnage to fatally impale him while he's distracted.
  • Unwanted Rescue: Knull takes offence to the Symbiote Squad attempting to rescue him in Death of the Venomverse #5, and promptly beheads Venomized Rhino for daring to lay hands on him.
  • We Can Rule Together: Discussed and defied. Knull notes that Carnage would make an excellent lieutenant, but must die for daring to have attacked him. Carnage shares the sentiment, noting that Knull would make an excellent host... if it didn't consider the very act of bonding to a host a weakness.

    Son of Shuten Doji 
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AKA: Unrevealed
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #5
A mysterious white-haired warlord responsible for the oni attacks in Kid Venom's world.
  • Ambiguous Situation: His name is unrevealed, but given he's called the "Son of Shuten Doji" implies that he is an adaptation of Ibaraki DĹŤji. His bond to a red and black symbiote also implies he may be that world's version of Comic Book/Carnage, much like how Kintaro is that world's version of Venom.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Were it not for him being called the Son of Shuten Doji and calling himself the "True King" it would be possible to mistake him for a woman given his bobbed Hime Cut hairstyle and feminine facial features. If he is meant to be an adaptation of Ibaraki DĹŤji, this is fitting given the character's Ambiguous Gender.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He's introduced politely complementing the bear-king's strength before saying that he intends to take that power for himself—having already painfully incapacitated the bear-king with symbiote needles.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has red irises, accentuating that he's not quite as human as he appears.
  • Villain of Another Story: He's introduced as the Greater-Scope Villain and future Big Bad of Kid Venom's miniseries, being behind the outbreak of symbiotes.
  • White and Red and Eerie All Over: He wears a white haori over a grey kimono and red hakama pants, has red irises and white hair, and the symbiote he's shown infecting the bear king with is red and black.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair, which along with his red eyes and ability to control symbiotes are clues that he's not as human as he appears.

Supporting Characters

Unaffiliated Symbiotes

    Venomized Black Panther (Ngozi) 

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AKA: Ngozi
Universe: Earth-17995
Debut: Venomverse: War Stories #1
A teenaged athlete from Lagos, Nigeria, who was left paraplegic by a bus crash. She bonded to the Venom symbiote after watching T'Challa be murdered by the Rhino, avenging him and becoming the interim Black Panther of Wakanda.
  • Affirmative-Action Legacy: She succeeds T'Challa as the Black Panther and interim ruler of Wakanda after he is killed by the Rhino.
  • Amicable Exes: While she is initially enraged and vengeful towards Olu for robbing her aunt's wedding, after calming down she realizes he had a point and apologizes for nearly eating him and his friends. She's also disgusted when the government tears down the slum Olu and his friends were living in out of superstitious fear, and joins them in a protest march against police and government corruption.
  • Animal Motifs: Despite taking on the Black Panther moniker, she chose grasshoppers as her animal motif, transforming her legs into insectoid limbs and growing wings.
  • The Bus Came Back: She's the star of the final issue of Black Panther: Long Live the King.
  • Cincinnatus: Black Panther: Long Live The King #6 reveals that this is the case for her — she's only the interim Black Panther until the next member of the Wakandan royal family is ready to inherit to position.
  • Dirty Coward: Ngozi's symbiote is something of a wimp, being utterly terrified of the Rhino to the point of trying to abandon her when she wants to stand and fight, and even wanting to flee from the Dora Milja when they come to recruit her. It's implied to grow past this as they learn to fight together as one.
  • Game Face: Her normal appearance as Venom resembles her human form with white eyes and lips, but when enraged over T'Challa's death and later on after becoming the Black Panther, she sports a Jagged Mouth.
  • Handicapped Badass: She was a runner who lost the use of her legs in a bus crash, and after bonding to the symbiote — which let her walk again — she trained with the Dora Milja and was infused with the heart-shaped herb.
  • Heroic Host: She was a handicapped young woman who went on to become the protector and interim Queen of Wakanda.
  • Hollywood Atheist: Having spent a couple of years in the technologically-advanced Wakanda, Ngozi dismisses the belief in Lagos that mutants are people who sold their souls to the Devil as a cruel superstition.
  • I Know Mortal Kombat: She's a Bruce Lee fangirl, and kills Rhino with a flying kick to the face. The Dora Milja note she's a natural when it comes to combat, completing the Black Panther training in only a few weeks.
  • One-Winged Angel: When her ex-boyfriend Olu and his friends Setan and Adoro raid her aunt's wedding to steal the food and distribute it to the starving poor, Ngozi is so enraged by the theft that she loses control of the symbiote and transforms into a dragon-like monster.
  • Original Generation: She's the event's only completely new character, not just an alternate version of an existing one with a Venom symbiote or Poison. She's also the only one of the Venomized characters in the spinoffs not to be summoned by Doctor Strange. Aside from the Poisons, she's also the only new character to have appeared in subsequent comics.

    Venomized Gwenpool 
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AKA: Gwen Poole
Universe: Earth-71628
Debut: Edge of Venomverse #2
A variant of Gwenpool who bonded to the Venom symbiote.
  • Alternate Self: Discussed. Gwen assumes she's Gwenpool from Earth-616 until she notices that Daredevil is young and hot instead of being in his thirties, prompting the Venom symbiote to spell out that they're in a What If...?-style alternate universe and can therefore do whatever they want.
  • Character Death: She's consumed by a Poison masquerading as her crush Daredevil.
  • Medium Awareness: Both Gwenpool and her symbiote know they're fictional characters in a comic, which the symbiote tries to use this knowledge to persuade Gwen to let it do whatever it wants.
  • The Right Hand of Doom: As Venom, Gwen's hands are disproportionately massive compared to the rest of her body.
  • Spotting the Thread:
    • She notes that she thought Daredevil was older rather than a total hottie the same age as her, Venom spelling it out that they're denizens of an alternate universe rather than Earth-616.
    • When a Poison masquerading as Daredevil shows up, the Venom symbiote realizes that something is wrong and tries to warn Gwen that it's a trap... but by then it's too late and they're consumed.
  • To Serve Man: Gwen is more than happy to feed the symbiote all the Hand ninjas it can eat... which is a lot. The symbiote also tries to convince her to let it eat her jerk boss.

    Venom 1602 
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AKA: Hieronymus Skelton
Universe: Earth-311
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #2
A jester who bonded to the Venom symbiote.
  • Character Death: Hieronymus is force-fed the Carnage symbiote until he bursts, killing all the party-goers in the process.
  • Court Jester: Hieronymus Skelton serves as the court jester of Prince Ionello, who has secluded himself and the country's nobility in his castle and thrown a huge party. Even his Venom form is jester-themed.
  • Decomposite Character: An Earth-311 version of Venom — Edwin Brocc — already appeared in 1602 Witch Hunter Angela #2, having been merged with a demon by the Enchantress. "Masque of the Red Death" debuts a new version of Venom in the form of jester Hieronymus Skelton, who is bonded to a proper symbiote and ends up the first shown victim of Carnage's rampage.

    Venom Bloom 
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AKA: N/A
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #4
A flower infected by the Venom symbiote, creating a tree-like monstrosity.
  • Botanical Abomination: It is the result of vegetation being infected by a symbiote, though it later spreads to a city in a rather surreal ending to the segment.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: It's clearly horrified to see it's killed all the fairies in the forest.
  • Put on a Bus: It's not shown being recruited by Agent Venom, and doesn't make any further appearances.

    Mobile Walker Unit- 1 
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AKA: Flash Thompson
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #5A variant of Flash Thompson who pilots the Mobile Walker Unit-1 mech in a fight for humanity's survival against kaiju-sized symbiotes.
  • Arm Cannon: After one of Unit-1's arms is torn off, Flash has it replaced with an energy cannon.
  • Backpack Cannon: Unit-1 is equipped with a retractile shoulder-mounted heat-ray.
  • Humongous Mecha: Mobile Walker Unit-1 is a gigantic mecha used to fight symbiote kaiju.
  • Laser Blade: Unit-1 is equipped with a plasma sword for fighting symbiote kaiju up-close.
  • Old Soldier: Flash is a grizzled veteran mech pilot who fought alongside Peter Parker, and now serves under Peter's now-adult daughter May, and contemplates that he's getting too old for active duty.
  • Put on a Bus: With Unit-1 badly damaged, Flash isn't shown being recruited by Agent Venom.

    Venom-Head 
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AKA: Howard Stark
Universe: Earth-51412
Debut: Edge of Venomverse Unlimited #3
A variant of the Venom symbiote who bonded to Howard Stark and became trapped inside his cryogenically-preserved severed head.
  • Character Death: Carnage crushes it underfoot like a bug.
  • Losing Your Head: Howard Stark was decapitated by the car accident that killed him, with the symbiote being trapped in his cryogenically-frozen head until Carnage thaws it out.
  • Trampled Underfoot: In "Deep Freeze" (#3), Earth-51412's Venom is bonded to the severed head of Howard Stark, and scuttles about on crablike legs grown by the symbiote. Carnage ends the story by stomping it to death.

    President Venom 
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AKA: Eugene "Flash" Thompson
Universe: Earth-654
Debut: Edge of Venomverse Unlimited #8
A variant of Flash Thompson who became Venom and was then elected to the Oval Office.
  • Character Death: Carnage reveals it had been impersonating Eddie Brock and then impales him, saying it interviewed him to understand how he came to be so beloved.
  • President Superhero: President Eugene "Flash" Thompson of Earth-654 is secretly the host of the Venom symbiote, which he attributes with him turning his life around and making something of himself. Despite worrying that his supporters finding out will ruin his chances of re-election, he reveals himself as Venom during his Fourth of July speech; and while his supporters are initially shocked, they quickly begin cheering for him.

    Clown Venom 
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AKA: Unrevealed
Universe: Earth-8819
Debut: Edge of Venomverse Unlimited #8
A clown bonded to the Venom symbiote, acting as an entertainer at a child's birthday party.
  • Character Death: Despite Clown Venom briefly gaining the upper hand by humiliating it with comedic gags, Carnage impales him through the heart and then rips off his head.
  • Expy: He's a comedic spoof of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from IT.
  • Monster Clown: Once annoyed by the kids at the party he's entertaining, he unleashes the symbiote to scare them.
  • Slasher Smile: After a kid bonks him on the nose, the Clown sports a serrated grin as he reveals he's bonded to the Venom symbiote.

    Puppy Venom 
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AKA: Unrevealed
Universe: Earth-97161
Debut: Edge of Venomverse Unlimited #8
A puppy bonded to the Venom symbiote, fighting against other symbiote-possessed animals.
  • Animal Superheroes: In "Chew Toy" (#5), Earth-97161's Venom is a puppy in a pet shop. By the end of the story, five more superpowered symbiote animals have appeared, each bonded to one of the Life Foundation symbiotes.
  • Happily Adopted: It breaks out of a pet store to track down a young boy who'd wanted to adopt it, and breaks into his house to snuggle with him.
  • Put on a Bus: While Agent Venom shows up at the end of the issue, she's not shown recruiting Puppy Venom to her squad.

    Venomized Bodega Bandit 
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AKA: Bodega Bandit
Universe: Bodega Beyond; assigned to Earth-6510
Debut: Spider Verse Unlimited #35
A Bodega Bandit bonded to the Venom symbiote, prowling an abandoned bodega in Brooklyn and terrorizing anyone who dares to enter it.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage—who absorbs his symbiote—in Web of Venomverse Unlimited #7.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He's a ghoulish figure who terrorizes the people who enter his bodega, but he doesn't actually hurt anyone and only seeks to fulfill his duty as a Bodega Bandit.
  • Expy: He's a pastiche of Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
  • Slasher Smile: His default facial expression is a menacing grin intended to terrify those who trespass into his derelict bodega.
  • Tombstone Teeth: Rather than having fangs, he has long, crooked yellowed teeth to accentuate his creepy appearance.

    Venomized Electro 
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AKA: Max Dillon
Universe: Earth-11964
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of Electro who joined the new Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man, who'd been taken over by the Venom symbiote; bonding to an offshoot of it after Kraven made a pact with the alien. He is killed by Carnage, who absorbs his symbiote to gain his electric powers.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #1.
  • Dirty Coward: Despite being one of the most powerful members of the Sinister Six, Electro spends most of Edge of Venomverse Unlimited's "The Hunting" arc wanting to nope out of their hunt for Spider-Man.
  • Psycho Electro: Electrokinesis is Electro's bread and butter, and bonding to a symbiote hasn't helped his mental state. He's introduced picking a fight with Carnage, who Tele-Frags him and then absorbs his symbiote to both gain his lightning powers and become immune to electricity.

    Venomized Kraven 
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AKA: Sergei Kravinoff
Universe: Earth-11964
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of Kraven the Hunter who joined the new Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man, who'd been taken over by the Venom symbiote; bonding to an offshoot of it after coming to see the alien as a fellow hunter and kindred spirit.
  • Alliance with an Abomination: With Spider-Man dead and the rest of the Sinister Six about to be eaten by the enraged Venom symbiote, Kraven proposes that he and the others will become its hosts. The symbiote accepts, and splits into six offshoots that bond to each of them.
  • Antagonist in Mourning: Despite having wanted to hunt Spider-Man to the death, Kraven rescues him from the Venom symbiote and is saddened when he passes away shortly thereafter.
  • Belly Mouth: Kraven's lion-head vest transforms into a fanged maw across his chest after he bonds to the Venom symbiote.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #2.
  • Egomaniac Hunter: Kraven is a big-game hunter by trade and has long seen Spider-Man as the biggest game in town. He initially resents being press-ganged into the Sinister Six, but eventually rescues the others by asking the Venom symbiote how it feels about hunting in packs.
  • Villain Protagonist: Kraven is the main character of Edge of Venomverse Unlimited's "The Hunting" arc, which tells how he and the other members of the Sinister Six came to be Venomized.

    Venomized Doctor Octopus 
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AKA: Otto Octavius
Universe: Earth-11964
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of Doctor Octopus who formed a new Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man, who'd been taken over by the Venom symbiote; bonding to an offshoot of it after Kraven made a pact with the alien.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #2.
  • Combat Tentacles: Like most Doc Ock variants, he has a set of cybernetic tentacles; and after he bonds to the symbiote they are augmented by its biomatter.

    Venomized Vulture 
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AKA: Adrian Toomes
Universe: Earth-11964
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of the Vulture who joined the new Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man, who'd been taken over by the Venom symbiote; bonding to an offshoot of it after Kraven made a pact with the alien.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #2.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: In Death of the Venomverse he only has a handful of panels and one line of dialogue before being killed off.

    Venomized Lizard 
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AKA: Curt Connors
Universe: Earth-11964
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of the Lizard who joined the new Sinister Six to hunt down Spider-Man, who'd been taken over by the Venom symbiote; bonding to an offshoot of it after Kraven made a pact with the alien.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage in Death of the Venomverse #2.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Even in the segment of Web of Venomverse Unlimited that tells the backstory of the Symbiote Six, Curt doesn't really do much of anything — Kraven and Electro being the primary focuses. In Death of the Venomverse he only has a handful of appearances that involve getting curb-stomped by the Monsters of Evil before being killed by Carnage.

    Mania 
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AKA: Andrea "Andi" Benton
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #1
A variant of Andi Benton still bonded to the Mania symbiote, hunted down by Carnage for her Hell-Mark.
  • Alternate Self: She's a younger variant of Andi Benton who's still Mania. Silence tries to befriend her when Mania is briefly manifested, but she tells her older alternate self not to get chummy since she's Living on Borrowed Time.
  • Character Death: Despite Agent Venom's best efforts to keep her safe, Andi goes charging into battle in an attempt to save Agent Spider-Man, Agent Deadpool, and Agent Hawkeye... and gets killed as a result.
  • Chest Blaster: Her Hell-Mark is emblazoned across her chest when activated, and she uses it to fire beams of hellfire.
  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Space Knight Venom—who feels guilty over abandoning his universe's Andi to join the Guardians of the Galaxy—is enraged to learn that she was killed by Carnage.
  • Mark of the Beast: Andi was branded by the Hell-Mark, a demonic sigil that lets her summon demons and conjure hellfire.
  • Playing with Fire: She tries to use her Hell-Mark's ability to conjure hellfire to immolate Carnage, but he blocks it with All-Blood.

    Venoman-Thing 
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AKA: Theodore Sallis
Universe Unrevealed
Debut: Death of the Venomverse #3
A variant of Man-Thing who bonded to the Venom symbiote, hunted down by Carnage to test its prowess and claim his corrosive touch.
  • Animal Eye Spy: Venoman-Thing sends out symbiote-infected insects to monitor and ambush Carnage, though it kills them.
  • Character Death: He's killed by Carnage—who absorbs his symbiote—in Death of the Venomverse #3.
  • Green Thumb: Venoman-Thing can create and control symbiote-augmented plant-life, which infests the overgrown ruins of the city where he's made his lair.
  • Touch of Death: Venoman-Thing retains Theodore Sallis' empathic corrosive touch, letting him corrode those who feel fear towards him. Carnage steals this ability upon assimilating his symbiote.

Other

    Edward 
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AKA: N/A
Universe: Earth-31913
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #3
Edna Brock's second-in-command.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if he's meant to be Eddie Brock or not, but he certainly looks the part. However, his boss — Edna — is the one bonded to the Venom symbiote.
  • Badass in Distress: Edward is a bulky man who can handle himself, but is beaten up and taken captive by Alexander and his posse
  • Number Two: He's Edna Brock's second-in-command and bouncer, dealing with unruly customers when she's otherwise occupied.
  • Red Herring: The comic frames him as being Eddie Brock's counterpart, only to reveal that the Venom symbiote's actual host is Edna Brock.

    John Deward 
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AKA N/A
Universe: Earth-90214
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #4
A childhood friend of Eddie Brock's employed by the Mob as a debt collector.
  • Affably Evil: Despite being a mobster and threatening to ruin Eddie's life if he doesn't repay his gambling debts, John offers Eddie a cup of coffee when he shows up unannounced at his apartment, apologizes, and says he's just doing his job.
  • The Farmer and the Viper: John invites Eddie into his apartment for a cup of coffee and to apologize for his harsh words earlier that day, but Eddie transforms into Venom and leaves his half-eaten corpse for the police to find.
  • Loan Shark: John is a loanshark working for the mob, having lent Eddie a significant sum of money and coming to collect. As Eddie is an old friend of his, however, John doesn't threaten to physically harm him... but instead threatens to tell Eddie's parishioners that he gambled their church donations away.

    Parker Piper 
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AKA N/A
Universe: Unrevealed
Debut: Extreme Venomverse #4
A tomboyish student at St. Lutgarde's Academy, Ellie Ellison's classmate and secret crush.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Complementing her tomboy appearance, Parker has short hair and could be mistaken for a boy.
  • Crush Blush: After admonishing her classmates for calling Necroko a monster, Parker quietly smiles at the photo she took of Necroko eating a Lizard and blushes.
  • Oh, Crap!: When one of the Lizards lunges at her, Parker can do nothing but recoil in horror as it's about to eat her. Fortunately Necroko eats it first, but Parker assumes she's going to have her for dessert and begs her for mercy until Necroko assures her that she's safe and asks if she's OK.
  • The Tease: She playfully flirts with Ellie and smirks as she runs out the classroom in a flustered state.

Alternative Title(s): Extreme Venomverse, Death Of The Venomverse, Venomized, Edge Of Venomverse Unlimited

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