With the Venom movie quickly approaching, it’s no surprise that fans of the superhero
genre are hungry to know all about everything and anything to do with the villain turned
anti-hero.
Venom has always been a character of great interest, but last year, the symbiote was
given one of his biggest stories yet – the Venomverse, which placed protagonist Eddie
Brock side to side with other Vemon alternates from across the Venomverse in order to protect
the symbiotes race, the Klyntars.
So, what exactly is the Venomverse?
Well, we’re going to break that down for you today with our list of the top 10 Venomverse
shocking facts!
10 Spider-Verse So where did the idea for the Venomverse come
from?
Back in 2014, there was an event called the Spider-Verse that featured alternate versions
of Spider-Man from across the Marvel multiverse, all of whom were being threatened by the villain
Morlun.
It introduced various versions of spider-Man, including Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen, aka
Gwen Stacey, who was the Spider-Woman of Earth 65.
There was also Spider-Ham, which was pretty great.
Anywho, it was a story arc that crossed over many different multiverses, and was the concept
that prompted the Venomverse, which operates in a similar fashion, featuring alternate
earths with alternate Venoms. 9 Origins
The background behind Venomverse is just as important as what happened within it.
The motivation behind the Venomverse story arc was to make Venom a more important character
in the Marvel universe, with editor Devin Lewis calling it “the biggest Venom story
of all time”.
Leading up to the story arc, back in 2016 there was a new Venom comic that was released,
and featured a different character as the host of symbiote – a dude named Lee Price.
That didn’t bode overly well with fans, and do to popular demand, Eddie returned in
issue 6 of Venom.
In addition to that, upon Eddie’s return, a new miniseries was announced, called the
Edge of Venomverse, which would star Venom alongside other alternates of Marvel characters.
It wasn’t until the end of Edge of Venomverse that Venomverse itself would kick in.
The story would continue into its sequel series, Venomized, where much of the resolution with
the Poisons, the antagonists in the series, would occur.
8 Doctor Strange & The Alternates While Eddie Brock was an important part of
the Venomverse story arc, he wasn’t the only key player.
The arc begins with Venom being summoned to an alternate Earth by an alternate Doctor
Strange in an attempt to recruit him in a war between the symbiotes and the Poisons.
More on them later.
The other alternate Venoms who take part in the fight are all familiar faces of other
Marvel characters who have become the symbiote’s host on their respective earths, like Ghost
Rider, Rocket Raccoon, X-23 and Captain America.
Strange had discovered the Poisons and the threat they possessed towards the Klyntar
upon crossing paths with a symbiote on the run from the race.
7 The Poisons The Poisons are a race of crystalline aliens
that prey on the Klyntars, and are considered to be one of their natural predators.
All Poisons are part of a collective group called The Hive, whose goal is to achieve
absolute dominion of the multiverse.
They’re a pretty tricky race – when hostless, they are capable of psychically fooling potential
targets by appearing as loved ones or bystanders to fool them, and when they come into physical
contact with a sybiote who has taken a host, they can permanently bond with them, assimilating
them, and, as with most cases, completely over take their mind and silence the minds
of both the host and symbiote in the process.
Their weakness, though?
Without a symbiote or a host, they’re incredibly frail.
6 The Resistance Doctor Strange, having bonded with the symbiote
he encountered, started to be hunted down by the Poisons.
This is when he started to recruit Venoms from across the multiverse, all to form the
resistance.
While at first it seemed to be a solid plan, this only further aided the Poisons in their
plan – assimilating the symbiotes and their hosts proved to be easy, and rapidly turned
the tide of the war against the Resistance.
Eventually Venom from Earth 616 was summoned – Eddie Brock – and thus began the story.
Eddie proved to be an incredibly vicious and valuable asset of the resistance’s, and
led to the capture and interrogation of a Poison in the process.
5 The Hive So who is it exactly that the Resistance is
fighting against in order to defeat the Poisons?
Well, the Poisons are capable of assimilating klyntar and their hosts in order to become
more powerful.
In the process, they also gained the hosts likeness, memories, powers and abilities,
and became a part of the Hive.
The poisons within the Hive were controlled by the Posion Queen, who was powered by the
life force of those who were consumed by the poisons.
Many individuals who fought in the resistance were assimilated into the Hive during the
process, and it wasn’t until Jean Grey killed the Poison Queen that the Hive fell – since
their lives were connected to the Poison Queen’s, they were all destroyed when she was.
4 Cullen Bunn The writer behind the Venomverse was Cullen
Bunn, who spearheaded the series alongside artist Iban Coello; the two had worked together
on the Deadpool & the Mercs for Money title prior to teaming up on this one.
He’s actually written A LOT of Deadpool comics in the past, including Deadpool’s
Secret Secret Wars, Deadpool Kills Deadpool and Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe.
Bunn doesn’t just work for Marvel, though.
He collaborated with Brain Hurtt on The Damned, which was published in 2007 by Oni Press,
and had a sequel titled Prodigal Sons, and later crafted a new series for the publisher
called The Sixth Gun in 2010, which ran until 2016.
He’s also been nominated for his fair share of Eisners and Bram Stoker Awards.
3 Poison Thanos The Poison Queen may be in charge, but her
second in command is not to be taken lightly – Thanos.
Poison Thanos believed the Poison Queen was actually Mistress Death, and sought to please
her.
Typical Thanos.
This led to him invading and assimilating in her name, with the Poison version of Doctor
Doom serving as his right hand man.
He’s also the one responsible for forcibly bonding Carnage with a new symbiote and having
him assimilated, creating Poison Carnage in Vewnomized.
Fortunately enough, he too died when Jean Grey killed the Poison Queen.
Cause heaven forbid Poison Thanos find his way to an Infinity Gem.
Still traumatized by Infinity War, sorry.
2 Deadpool Deadpool, who was originally known as Venompool
and was previously seen in Edge of Venomverse issue 5, appears in the series, and is from
Earth TRN649.
On his Earth, while he was investigating a scientist at the Ripley Diagnostics parasitology
lab, Deadpool’s body is invaded by a prehistoric tapeworm, and frees the Venom symbiote in
order to expel the tapeworm from his body.
During Venomverse, he works as a double agent of sorts, and realizes that there was a way
to prevent his mind from being consumed by the Poisons in order to help the resistance
– he pretends to deflect from the Resistance and joins the Poisons, and his insanity protects
his mind from being fully consumed, allowing him to function as himself despite becoming
a Poison version of himself.
He helps the Resistance infiltrate the Poisons lair, and is left for dead alongside Carnage
before the bomb set by the Resistance goes off.
1 Flame Immunity One of the Venom symbiotes most notable weaknesses
is fire.
Along with sonic waves, it’s the most common way that Venom has been defeated over the
years.
But, one of the more interesting facts about the symbiote is its ability to adapt, which
has led to various instants over the years when Venom has proven to be immune against
fire.
This is also the case with one of the characters who appears in Venomverse – Roberto Reyes,
the Earth TRN647 version of Ghost Rider, known, wonderfully, as Host Rider.
The character became Ghost Rider when character was possessed by Eli Morrow, the demonic ghost
of Reyes’ uncle, and when the symbiote showed up, it merged with Morrow, ultimately removing
the Klyntar’s weakness towards flames and heat.
All in all, that’s pretty cool when you can consider how adaptable that makes the
symbiotes to be, and why so many of these venomized alternates in the series were super
cool, having adapted to heroes with their own unique powers on alternate earths.
There we have it friends!
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