The Klyntar race is a dynamic and powerful parasitic race.
Because of its parasitic nature, symbiotes have the ability to jump around to different
hosts if they so choose, if they haven’t been permanently bonded that is.
Depending on where in the lineage of a symbiote family that particularly symbiote falls, they
can be incredibly powerful, or pale in comparison to their offspring, which has made for really
interesting dynamics between our favourite Klyntar, Venom, and others of his race over
the years in the comics.
So today we’re back at it again with our list of the top 10 strongest symbiotes, part
two!
In our previous list, we looked at the symbiotes from Earth 616 and ranked them in terms of
our picks for the top 10 strongest.
This time around, we’ll be looking at some alternate versions of the Venom symbiote from
other earths, as well as characters featured in
the Venomverse.
So with that in mind, let’s jump in!
10 Ant-Venom It’s the giant sized ant-venom!
This version of Scott Lang doesn’t get a whole lot of page time in the Venomverse story
arc, but is still quite entertaining all the same.
So, for context, the Venomverse was a limited series that occurred in 2017 which starred
Venom, and took notes from the successful Spider-Verse story event, written by Cullen
Bunn and drawn by Iban Coello, who had previously worked tofether on Deadpool and the Mercs
for Money.
It followed the story of a war between the Klyntars and a new alien race that was introduced,
the Poisons, who are their natural predators.
Described as the biggest Venom story of all time, it started with Venom being transported
to an alternate dimension to participate in this war, summoned by that earth’s Doctor
Strange.
Strange has summoned many other versions of Venom and his hosts to this earth, including
our pal Scott Lang.
Essentially, he’s a venomized version of Ant-Man, who has all of the same powers as
the regular Scott Lang has, plus the added bonus of all the fun horrifying things the
Venome symbiote is capable of.
The character is prominently featured in the kidnapping of a Poison version of Gwenpool
in Venomverse issue 4.
But unfortunately, the character was eventually killed off in Venomverse issue 5, and goes
in a pretty tragic way.
He was killed by his teammates as a means of preventing a Poison from assimilating him.
9 Venomized Gwenpool Gwendolyn Poole from Earth TRN646, much like
many of the other characters on this list, is essentially Gwenpool of Earth TRN565, but
hosting the venom symbiote.
In case you’re out of the loop about the very awesome Gwenpool, her home reality is
one in which she understands that the Marvel Unuverse is fiction, yet manages to manifest
herself within the Earth 616 universe.
This venomized version of her though first appearing in Edge of Venomverse issue 2 in
September of 2017, she decides to turn on her boss and lawyer Mr Melville after she
reveals to him Daredevil’s secret identity.
Her venom symbiote influences her to kill him, justifying the act as the only way to
keep Daredevik’s identity hidden from the public.
So she does, and it pays off because she works with Daredevil to fight the Hand.
But, unfortunately for her, she was eventually killed in the same issue as her appearance
by a Poison who was impersonating an alternate version of Daredevil, who then ate her whole.
Rough way to go.
8 Rocket Raccoon This venomized version of Rocket Raccoon made
its debut in the Venomverse as well, and is one of writer Cullen Bunn’s favourite venomized
characters.
In his home universe of Earth TRN652, Rocket was a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy
when he was bonded with Venom.
But, when the poisons attempted to assimilate all of the Guardians, he was forced to kill
his best pal Groot when he was turned.
Since then, he had become a bounty hunter during the duration of the war, taking on
contracts like killing his world’s Captain America, which is where the story begins for
him when he’s transported by Doctor Strange.
He easily found himself being one of the resistance’s tech experts, which involved him creating
bombs to use against the Poison threat, including the bomb that was eventually used to destroy
the Hive’s base
7 Host Rider Host Rider is, you guessed it, a venomized
Ghost Rider.
Hailing from Earth TRN647, and first appearing in Edge of Venomverse issue 3 in 2017.
This Ghost Rider is Roberto Reyes, the version of the character who was possessed by his
uncle’s demonic spirit.
When the symbiote bonded with him, it affected the control he had learned to maintain over
his uncle’s spirit, which caused an imbalance, and Roberto, his uncle and the symbiote all
fought for who had control over Roberto’s body.
Eventually, the spirit and the symbiote won over Reyes, calling themselves Host Rider
in mockery of Reyes.
Host Rider has some pretty sweet abilities thanks to his Venom symbiote.
The character can manifest a symbiotically augmented version of the Hell Charger directly
from his body, which has a fanged mouth that operates as a grille, but also can devour
Host Rider’s victims.
He also forms chains out of symbiote biomass, which is pretty neat.
But, like most on this list, he has an untimely end; the character dies in Venomverse issue
3 during the Poison Klyntar war.
6 Laura Kinney Laura Kinney’s venomized self is absolutely
terrifying.
First appearing in Edge of Venomverse issue 1, back in August of 2017, the character has
an interesting story; from Earth TRN645, the character’s origin is similar to her Earth
616 counterpart.
Raised as an assassin called X-23 in the Facility that cloned her from Wolverine, she continuously
attempted to escape imprisonment, and on her fifth try, she accidentally punctured a tank
that contained a confined Venom symbiote.
The symbiote bonded with her, and boosted her powers, allowing her to finally break
out of the Facility for good.
She fled to New York, made a derelict bank her home, which caused the locals to fear
that the building was haunted.
Eventually, she encountered the Runaways, who were fleeing the gangster known as Zebra
Daddy.
Rather than listening to Venom and eating the group of kids, she aided them, killing
the gangster and his thugs, and sharing her home with the Runaways.
Her symbiote has been known to further separate itself into other pieces to bond with others
in order to protect the Runaways, who she gains a fondness for, but can always been
recalled.
Eventually though, agents from the Facility had hunted her down, but before she could
make a stand against them, she was summoned by the venomized doctor strange.
During the war, she would take up the alias of Wolverine, and managed to survive the battle
and return back home to her reality.
Also, another neat tidbit of information about her is that she would constantly be at odds
with her Venom symbiote, not wanting to fight or kill unless she had to.
And, well, that’s kind of Venom’s jam at times, isn’t it?
5 Venomized Logan This Logan has the same origin of the one
from Earth 807128; the one that killed the X-Men at the X-Mansion while under the control
of Red Skull.
This version though, years later, had been lured into a trap by Bruce Banner Jr, who
he had raised but also lied to about his parentage.
Along with Ashley Barton and Warren Worthington the third, Banner Jr tried to kill Logan and
use his remains to create an army of clones by utilizing the venomized t-rex that had
survived an encounter with Black bolt earlier.
Lots of details that we’re skimming over on this one, we know.
Anywho, the symbiote decided to jump ship from the dinosaur and bonded with Logan, who
was then unable to kill Bruce Banner Jr because he still saw him as a son.
He would then be summoned by Doctor Strange, and fought alongside our last number, although
he was potentially killed in the explosion of the Poison’s ship in Venomverse issue
5.
4 President Norman Osborn Norman Osborn of Earth 138, or rather, Ozzy,
as is his nickname, is one sick motherf***er.
Ozzy Osborn was the leader of a political regime in the US, and used his company Oscorp
to develop something called VENOM aka the Variable Engagement Neurosensitive Organic
Mesh.
In other words, using the venom symbiote to make America Great Again, which is something
he literally says.
His plan is to ‘clean up the country’ with all of his goons using his VENOM modified
symbiote to help perpetuate his fascist master plan, but luckily the pink rock Spider-Man
in this reality weakens them by using an electric guitar.
While the character on his own may not be the most powerful fella on the block (although,
we assure you he can throw his weight around), what makes him so powerful is his legion of
followers committed to his ideologies, which is impressive at the least.
3 Venomized Doctor Strange Doctor Strange on his own in any Earth is
a threat to be wary of.
But in the Venomverse, he’s the character who leads the resistance, and the one who
summons the Venoms from all of the other alternate realities to fight against the Poisons.
His story in the Venomverse starts when he stumbled upon a venom symbiote who was on
the run from the Poisons.
Being privy to the threat that the Poisons posed to the Multiverse, Strange concocts
a plan to build the resistance and take down the Poison Hive.
He’s eventually kidnapped by the Posions, and during the attempt to save him and destroy
the Hive, he dies, but not before he manages to teleport all of the resistance members
back to their own home realities.
What a guy.
2 Venompool Deadpool has been bonded to the Venom symbiote
prior to the Venomverse event; back in the day, he had actually tried on the symbiote
before Spider-Man had; something that was added into Deadpool’s lore long after the
symbiote had first appeared and bonded with Spidey in the Amazing Spider-Man issue 252.
Anywho!
According to Venomverse editor Devin Lewis, “Deadpool is one of our main venomized protagonists.
He’s got so much heart and he’s also a source of unpredictability, insanity and goofiness”
which sounds about right as far as Deadpool is concerned in general, really.
But he is right; Venompool is a massive part of the Venomverse arc, and because of his
persistent insanity, he’s one of the reasons why the resistance is successful in overcoming
the Poisons.
During the war, he noticed that when the Poisons took over Spider-Man, Spidey couldn’t bring
himself to kill the Venomized Spinneret, whose alter ego was Mary Jane Watson.
This gave him an idea.
He surrendered himself to the Poisons, believing that a host’s original persona still had
some agency while being under their control.
And he was right; his insanity gave him extra resilience to the Poisons, so even after he
was assimilated, his mind still remained his own, and he was able to suppress the Poison
that tried to take him.
He would then aid the resistance in infiltrating the Poison’s Hive, but was left for dead
before Rocket’s bomb went off, fighting alongside our next number,
1 Venomverse Carnage If our part one of this list made anything
clear, it’s that the Klyntar symbiotes grow stronger the further down the lineage they
go.
Meaning, Venom’s offspring will inevitably be innately stronger than he is.
This is why the Venomverse Carnage tops our list this time around.
For starters, this Carnage comes from an Earth in which he had successfully killed Venom.
When he was summoned to help fight in the war against the Klyntars and the Poisons,
he didn’t get along well with the resistance at first, and fought against them.
Eventually, he gave up on his volatile ways, realizing that this war gave him the opportunity
to battle against what he called “a buncha messed-up super-heroes”, eventually fighting
alongside the Venomized heroes.
Unfortunately for this Carnage, he was eventually used in a ploy against the Poisons by the
Poison turned Venompool in order to infiltrate the Hive’s spaceship, where he was essentially
left for dead, although it is unconfirmed whether or not he died when the Hive was destroyed
in Venomverse issue 5.
It seems likely though.
There we have it friends!
Out of all of the symbiote characters and alternate venoms we’ve mentioned, who would
you like to see in a fight against one another?
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