Greetings nerdy list affoicianados and it’s symbiote time once more.
Today we’re going to be exploring some origins and stories that may have slipped through
the cracks.
The thing with comics and their canon is that they’ve been ongoing and have been for a
long time.
Everyone is entering at different point or has jumped off at another point.
And also not everyone is following every comic so what may be common knowledge to one reader
is brand new information to another not everyone can be a level 100 comic nerd.
The time involved is immense.
So I’m Sasha and today we’re going to be looking at the Top 10 Symbiotes no one
understands is the title hyperbolic yes yes it is why it’s youtube, algorithms etc.
Please enjoy the symbiotes and hopefully some info on here surprises you or better yet enlightens
you.
10 - Phage – Phage first appeared in Venom: Lethal Protector #4 which was a six issue
mini series from 1993.
But he wasn’t named until 2012 in Carnage, U.S.A.#2 Phage is one of 5 symbiotes forcefully
bred out of venom.
The siblings Agony, Riot, Lasher and Scream.
The Phage would later combine three of it’s siblings Riot, Lasher and Agony to form the
better know Hybrid symbiote.
So from then on we’re dealing with Hybrid and Hybrid’s bondings.
This all came about because of the success of the first venom offspring carnage and well
people always want to repeat success however few of the symhbiote off shoots have proved
as popular or long lasting as Carnage.
Carnage first debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #361 (April 1992) as a full appearance like
Venom before him he had had a cameo the issue prior.
And also like Venom his host Cletus Kasady had been pre established all factors on top
of his design and absolute blood lust that made him much more of a memorable character
than Phage to most.
Still Marvel has been riding the more and more symbiotes ride ever since just look at
what they’ve got Cates doing with absolute Carnage.
9 - Rune-Venom – This symbiote comes to us from Rune vs Venom #1 (December 1995) and
has direct connection to "Planet of the Symbiotes" which was a 5 issue event from 1995 and actually
had to do with fallout over the creation of the 5 forcefully bred symbiotes.
Also the planet in question is earth don’t get excited runes is a murder mystery which
I am about to semi well ruin so heads up Rune venom involves a symbiote that survived the
seeming death of all invading symbiotes from the planet arc and bonds to Rune so who was
Rune, well Rune was an extreme vampire like creature created in the 90s who debuted in
Sludge #1 he begins framing Venom for murders around town by writing Venom in huge letters
next to the victim, copying carnage much.
Of course the media falls for it however Rune Venom runs into some problems not only when
real Venom comes to investigate but also when Rune begins to suspect some of his actions
are being influenced.
8 – Krobaa Krobaa first debuted in Venom: Seed of Darkness #1 (July 1997) are you picking
up on just how much Venom stuff was going on in the 90s there was no escape if you didn’t
like Venom godspeed.
Side note krobaa’s heading on the cover is the living darkness and inside the book
he’s called the abyss that walked pretty neat.
So this is supposed to be a story that occurs before the current timeline Marvel will do
this sometimes when they have a tale that really won’t slot anywhere but isn’t strong
enough for a what if or they’re going through a period where they’re not publishing what
ifs.
It’s a pretty simple story Krobaa bonds with a scientist doctor donlevy it tells him
that it will help him attain knowedge you know the usual but it tricks him.
It’s up to Eddie Brock to defeat him I’m kidding eddie isn’t venom in this story
he’s still a not as good as peter parker photographer so he observes and ponders on
the nature of man an monster.
This one is less hard to understand and more easy to miss.
7 – ZZZXX – a more recent addition who debuted in X-Men: Kingbreaker #2 (March 2009)
this symbiote it a klyntar and a mutant, and it eats brains.
It was discovered by the Shi’ar.. the most interesting thing about this symbiote aside
from it’s rather random letter centric name is how it was weaponized against the Charles
Xavier from the cancerverse.
Which was a realm introduced in the realm of kings crossover comic in 2010 a universe
rules by evil organic masses.
So the Xavier in this universe was a planer sized brain and for a brain eater like zzzxx
a match made in heaven.
They could really have hit the zombie element harder with this symbiote, but I mean they
have marvel zombies for that.
6 - Mania – Mania first debuted in Venom #1 (June 2003) this symbiote is a clone of
venom which given Marvel’s history with dragging out perfectly good clone sagas until
the entire creative staff behind them is permanently traumatized I’m amazed a direct clone like
this hadn’t happened sooner.
Also it was only named Mania in 2011 when Venom relaunched.
So this clone was created using a piece of venom’s tongue.
From the start this symbiote was sadistic refusing to bond with offered hosts instead
torturing and killing them sometimes by pulling up the worst fears from their memories and
then acting on those.
The thing with Mania is that it’s hard to track because a bunch of things that happened
such as it being reabsorbed into eddie’s symbiote are no longer considered canon.
Now Mania is just kind of around and brought out when necessary but since Cates and the
ridiculous amounts of symbiotes he’s been creating we’ll see how some of these other
symbiotes fare.
5 – Endo-Sym Armor – This first debuted in the Superior Iron Man #1 in 2014.
So in 2014 Marvel had an event called Axis which many do not remember too fondly cliffnotes
avengers and x-men vs the red skull controlling Xavier and onslaught.
After all of this Tony’s personality was flipped so now he was dark tony and so he
created the armour mark 50 a smart liquid metal mesh incorporating symbiote elements
what could go wrong.
It’s actually kinda sad this was a mindless artificial symbiote that was entirely controlled
via artificial intelligence and then cast aside when Tony’s personality flipped back.
Superior Iron Man was an interesting time 100% just existing because of how well Superior
Spider-Man had done but you know that one had stakes.
Shots fired I’m sorry I actually have a soft spot for the aesthetic of this armor.
4 - Magic Venom – getting real recent now magic venom debuted in Venom Vol. 4 #13 (June
2019) and has ties to the war of the realms event the one that people on the outside like
to make fun of cause the lead villain is malekith the dark elf from thor 2 the dark world well
he was from elsewhere but that’s where many now know him from.
War of the realms actually starts with him already having conquered all the other realms
so you’re stuck in the lamest one Midgard or earth again I live him give me alfheim.
Anyway everyone has to band together to stop him.
In this arc Eddie and venom are separated so he is given a dreamstone by a dark elf
who is hoping to recruit him the dream stone acts as an artificial symbiote but a mindless
one and Eddie ultimately uses pieces of the suit to save civilians.
3- Spider-Man: India – So spider-Man India was a mini series that lasted 4 issues in
between 2004 and 5 and blended elements of spider-man mythos with more mythological elements.
The concept was conceived of by director Satyajit Ray, who had met with Stan Lee to discuss
creating an indian superhero.
Symbiotes in this universe are demons, fanged tusked demons who once ruled but were captured
in an amulet, when the amulet was found it turned the host into the green goblin.
The demon would hop from the green goblin to spider-man but be expelled.
But before this it is called venom the amulet is destroyed but not venom.
He’s always a menace no matter the Earth.
2 - the Bee-Yonder, for this version we have to go to yet another one of marvel’s humour
issues that have brought us such gems as what if black panther was white.
Now I give you the bee yonder just let the pun wash over you live in it be the pun.
This comes to us from the what the ?! a self parodying comics series for silly jokes.
It’s tagline was "The Marvel mag of mirth and mayhem!"
The bee-yonder is this universes version of beyonder who gives Spider-Ham a version of
the black uniform but its not a symbiote.
I just wanted to tell you about the bee yonder.
It’s fun to say for me at least it’s probably not fun for you.
1 - Scorn – Scorn first debuted in Carnage #5 (August 2011) So Scorn was created out
of a piece of carnage left in space after Carnage was torn in half by the sentry but
he got better the Sentry may be one of the most powerful beings out there but carnage
has plot armour and sells comics so take that Sentry.
The pieces are collected to attempt to create prosthetic limbs so the first thing that the
symbiote bonds to is a prosthetic arm.
Because of this scorn can bond to technology.
Now this is an element that some find confusing.
Things like how Kasady was alive and had been preserved by carnage and repaired by these
prosthetics.
Scorn was eventually corrupted by Knull the symbiote God and started a cult to worship
him she was killed by carnage after offering herself to him.
Absolute carnage.
So those were some more obscure symbiotes and just some that people may not recognize
if they’re not up on all their symbiote history.
I hope this was a gateway and maybe gave you some stuff to check out.
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