From Spider-Man and Eddie Brock to Groot and Sub-Mariner 2099, the Venom costume certainly gets around.
Ive split it into three different types.
Then there are the others, who wore the costume in continuity, but are considered more like footnotes.
Lastly, its the ones that happened in alternate realities.
What he unknowingly got was an alien parasite kept in a prison.
It jumped onto him and took to him, wanting to live in a symbiotic relationship.
Spider-Man rid himself of the creature, only to be antagonized by it for years.
That led to a cool take where he had goo-based octopus tentacles coming out of him.
When praying for forgiveness for considering suicide while at a church, Spider-Mans discarded symbiote jumped onto him.
From there, the two brought out the worst in each other and fueled their mutual hate-on for Spider-Man.
As an antihero, Venom was essentially a less-competent Punisher.
A monster using his vigilante status to justify his bloodlust, all while seeing himself as Adam West Batman.
When he did come back, it was for the sake of passing the torch to the next host.
Since then, Eddies been given a new lease on life as Anti-Venom and later Toxin.
Neither identity lasted too long and he eventually rubber-banded back to being Venom.
PATRICIA ROBERTSON
Ugh.
In a fight with the Fantastic Four, Venom lost his tongue.
He is also made of nanites.
All according to plan.
Further reading: 15 Craziest Venom Moments in Marvel History
He was never mentioned again, nor was Patricia.
We didnt see if she died, escaped, or what.
Eddie Brock was slowly dying of cancer and decided he just wanted to end it all.
Angelo Fortunato was the lacking son of a high-ranking mobster.
…Mark Millar wrote this, remember.
The symbiote disgusted with his cowardice removed itself from his body and sought out a new host.
Further reading: Venom, Riot, and the Life Foundation Symbiotes Explained
Angelo was inmid-swingduring that decision.
He…ummm…he did not survive.
Instead, the Venom symbiote found him.
Gargan gladly became the new host, much to Osborns initial chagrin.
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Mac Gargan went back to being the Scorpion and nobodys cared about him since.
The government decided to make him the new host for Venom, though with enough precautions.
He could only wear the symbiote for 24 hours before being separated.
As Agent Venom, he did the governments dirty work while keeping it a secret from loved ones.
Flashs initial status quo didnt last too long and he became a fugitive from the law for a bit.
Afterwards, Flash started having solo space adventures as the Agent of the Cosmos.
His second ongoing just ended with him back on Earth, where the two ended up splitting up.
Flash has moved on and found a new identity as Agent Anti-Venom.
Lee was put in prison for a stretch until being let off on a technicality.
He and his gang captured the Venom sidekick Mania and stole her costume.
Lee Price became Maniac and made another go at ruling the world of crime.
SHE-VENOM (ANN WEYING)
Ann was Eddie Brocks ex-wife.
As a lawyer, she became the target of a new Sin-Eater, who put her in critical condition.
Eddie coaxed the symbiote into bonding with Ann and healing her.
While that was happening, a couple of scavengers broke in and beat down Eddie.
Ann, in the form of the voluptuous She-Venom, horrifically tore the two interlopers to pieces.
Its suggested that she was a more violent host than even Eddie.
Ann donned the costume once more and her experiences as the host drove her to madness.
Coincidentally, Bendis would also write a symbiote invasion in New York storyline that ignored this.
Eddie reluctantly recombined with the symbiote and the three went and fought off the invasion.
Then The Suit zapped him and put his super-powered cell phone into Wolverines chest cavity.
Wolverine grumbled, Can you hear me now?
because we all have to suffer sometimes.
One of these stories, written by Reed, had Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel take on Mac Gargan Venom.
The symbiote then simply attached itself to Carol and took over her mind.
What we got was a flying Venom with fiery Kirby dots exploding out her head.
Spider-Man fought his possessed friend and freed Carol via kicking her into some power lines.
The symbiote then went back to Gargan and the big battle continued.
RED HULK (THADDEUS ROSS)
Remember the New Fantastic Four?
After our heroes were taken out by Blackhearts forces, they were brought back by Mephisto.
Too bad there was no easy way to give him Wolverine claws, but such is life.
The pure brute force alone didnt stop Blackheart, but they ultimately beat him and saved the world.
Red Hulks upgrades were returned back to their proper hosts and they all went their separate ways.
Andrea Benton was both a neighbor and a student with a chip on her shoulder.
She was also quickly aware that Flash was secretly Venom.
Venoms arch-nemesis Jack OLantern appeared at Flashs apartment complex to cause trouble and murdered Andis father.
Venom attempted to protect her from noxious gas, but the symbiote did more than that.
It split itself and bonded with her.
As Mania, she became Venoms angry, teenage sidekick.
Flash later discovered that there was a reason why the symbiote split itself.
The clone symbiote was carrying the mark of Mephisto, meaning it was no longer Venoms problem.
Flash didnt see it like that.
When Venom went to space, Mania gradually lost control.
Venom was able to bring her back to her senses and promised hed find a way to cure her.
Eventually, Lee Price stole the symbiote from her and became Maniac.
Regardless, Andi retained her demon powers and currently uses them to help keep the peace in Philly.
US AGENT (JOHN WALKER)
Ooooookay.
This one is a little weird.
He lost both an arm and a leg during theSiegetie-in.
In this world, Hank Pym had been experimenting on the Venom symbiote and effectively lobotomized it.
DEADPOOL (WADE WILSON)
The Deadpool/Venom connection has been done a few times.
One moment showed that prior to Spider-Man stumbling upon the alien costume, Deadpool tried it on first.
It was a brief melding as the Klyntar couldnt handle Deadpools mind.
The suggestion was that he probably warped the symbiotes personality before anyone else.
There was also a Venompool in theVenomversestoryline.
It didnt make the trip without conflict.
Joined with Flash, Venom became more unpredictable until a fight with the other Guardians finally nullified the threat.
They kept the goo in a containment jar, which easily escaped when carried by Groot.
Constantly shouting, I AM VENOM!
the new hybrid alien took on the other Guardians of the Galaxy until being knocked out by Drax.
I checked Google Image Search for fanart of that very idea.
Theres a lot of it and Im really not far off.
He admitted that he didnt want to kill anyone, but he needed to commandeer the ship immediately.
The costume slinked off Rocket and jumped onto Drax.
The issue ended with the cliffhanger image of Symbiote Drax looking metal as fuck.
Smiling madly, Drax basked as they arrived in the Klyntar homeworld.
Through Drax, the symbiote said some cryptic stuff about their journey to Flash before leaving Draxs body.
Drax didnt take this well and nearly murdered Flash until Quill talked him down.
As part of the plan, Venom was captured.
Mercurio stripped the costume from Flash and wore Venom himself.
Venom split from Mercurio and viciously beat him down until Flash pleaded with him to stop.
Anyway, duringThe Apocalypse Wars, the X-Men got stranded a thousand years into the future.
Using the Fastball Special, Colossus threw the blobby creature onto Old Man Logan.
With Venom purged from Old Man Logans body, Iceman froze it in place.
Venom allowed Devil Dinosaur to eat him as a rope-a-dope.
The symbiote attached itself to Devil Dinosaur, undoing Stegrons psychic hold.
THE INKLINGS
When Lee Price became Maniac, he gained a new power.
He used his mind control to take over various super-criminals.
He also took over Spider-Man for a time.
Venom went back to fighting crime, though chose not to kill the lesser criminals.
Only with Eddie as a host did it feel optimistic that its offspring could be brought up well.
The symbiote briefly joined onto Spider-Woman to show her the truth.
Spider-Woman had recently given birth herself and understood to an extent.
For the time being, she would allow Venom to roam free.
An idea came to acquire that ability for the Kree empire.
A warrior named Tel-Kar went to the symbiote homeworld and discovered an outcast.
Going into a suicide run, Tel-Kar made the symbiote leave him so they could not be captured together.
Tel-Kar fought the Skrulls head-on, but survived in the end.
Years later, hed come to Earth to reclaim his old partner.
After several days, the controlled Spider-Man found the Hulk going on a monstrous rampage.
Symbiote Hulk laughed and jumped off into the distance.
Thor won, but the symbiote simply attached itself to him, which was the plan all along.
The two entities battled mentally while hiding out inside Mount Rushmore.
Reed Richards sent Black Bolt after them, who was able to overpower Symbiote Thor with one word.
The symbiote was then destroyed by Black Cat, armed with a sonic gun.
He had Spider-Man on the mind at the time and the symbiote latched onto him.
Initially, Frank didnt think much about the symbiotes origins.
He figured it was some slick SHIELD technology and went with it.
He even did away with the webbing ability and had the costume shoot bullets made of symbiote goo.
The symbiote gradually took over his life.
He started lashing out against Microchip and found himself trying to kill Spider-Man against his will.
Another version of Symbiote Punisher would show up inEdge of Venomverse.
That turned out to be Spider-Man.
Frank resisted the situation, but never got a chance to fight Spider-Man due to the events ofVenomversekicking in.
VENOM 2099 (KRON STONE)
Kron Stone!
Meet the Kron Stone!
Just your average man of vill-ai-ny!
From the… 90s future…hes a man from altered hi-sto-ry!!!!
So, like, a T-1000 made of xenomorph spit.
Miguel then beat him down and prepared to kill the creature until discovering Kron underneath.
He was also brought in and made a captive in Miguels lab.
Being that it was the end of the comic, they never followed up on that.
Just one of the many reasons why she and her father didnt get along.
putting Peter into a comatose state where he lived out his fantasies.
Using her symbiote, Mayday attached herself to her father and dove into his reality.
Afterwards, father and daughter bonded via bad jokes at dire situations.
It ended up possessing the middle-aged Peter the first time around, creating a Spider-Man/Venom hybrid.
Mayday helped him get over these feelings, although he still had a body full of hate-filled tattoos.
Normie overcame its influence and insisted not to have it destroyed.
Coincidentally, before leaving Normie, the symbiotes parting gift was removing all of his tattoos.
Upon turning on his powers, the creature freaked out from the fire and escaped.
Ancient wizard Kulan Gath transformed Manhattan into something more fitting to the Hyborian Age.
As Kulan Venom, he…um…I dont really know.
Having a symbiote doesnt really help out much when youre a sorcerer.
Its like if Magneto became Venom.
Whats he going to do, throw metal aroundangrier?
If anything, the so-called upgrade was Kulans undoing.
In the third issue, it showed Spider-Man defeating Venom with a sonic blast gun early on.
Although Eddie Brock was taken into custody, the symbiote wasnt apprehended.
Instead, it was taken in by a freshly-fired fashion artist.
He had the creature altered in a way that he could monetize it.
Six months later, Mary Jane was one of four models working for said fashion dude.
Peter brought Power Pack with him for the fashion show.
The models outfits were able to morph and all was going well until Mary Janes dress sensed Peter nearby.
All the models became full-on lady Venoms and mindlessly fought against the heroes.
Lightspeed flew circles around them fast enough to create a sonic boom.
That freed the models.
That had to chafe.
ENERGIZER (KATIE POWER)
After that fashion show incident, Spider-Man and the Power Pack left.
Unbeknownst to everyone, a surviving piece of Venom hitchhiked onto Katie Power.
Soon after, Katie started having nightmares about being Venom and capturing Spider-Man alongside the Sinister Six.
They really did have Spider-Man in captivity.
Spider-Man tricked Rhino into running into Electro, who accidentally zapped all his allies.
This fried the symbiote and freed Energizer.
It took place in a reality where Legion accidentally killed both Xavier and Magneto during his time-travel assassination attempt.
T-REX
The Venom symbiote has latched onto various different animals over the course of its history.
A husky, a bunch of cockroaches, and even a zoo gorilla.
The story dealt with Wolverine and Hawkeye going on a road trip in a destroyed world where evil won.
Later in the adventure, Venom Rex showed up and gave chase.
Basically, Black Bolt is the rock to Venoms scissors.
In the alternate reality whereAge of Apocalypsehappened, Wolverine became infected with Apocalypses powers and megalomaniacal sickness.
Calling himself Weapon Omega, this darker Logan had his own super team to carry out his orders.
No information on him outside of that.
Black Legion was kind of forgotten about in general shortly after that.
Looking less monstrous, a version of Venom America would lead the resistance inVenomverse.
At some point, Norman Osborn hired Dr. Conrad Marcus to recreate the accident that created Spider-Man.
As far as Marcus knew, his attempts were constant failures.
His first acts were murdering Betty and then blowing up an abandoned Osborn Industries lab.
Going by Bettys false information, Venom went after Jefferson Morales, thinking him to be the new Spider-Man.
Instead, the actual Spider-Man Miles Morales, Jeffersons son appeared to fight him.
Venom escaped into the sewers, though he succeeded in gravely wounding Jefferson.
He reappeared at the hospital, demanding Jefferson be offered to him.
Spider-Man fought him and was briefly consumed by the hulking beast.
The authorities arrived and riddled Marcus to death with bullets.
Unfortunately, Rio was shot during the fracas and died in her sons arms.
KINGPIN (WILSON FISK)
Man, the Marvel 100th Anniversary month.
I totally forgot you even happened.
Honestly, the only one worth reading is James Stokoes trippyAvengersstory.
According to the recap, Venom had been biologically upgraded into being the Techno-Symbiote.
Then Wilson Fisk appeared and shot Eddie.
He did that to stalk the underwear-clad Parker through New York City for the remainder of the issue.
Mac Gargan was dead in this reality and wed see a mute Venom working on Captain Americas side.
He was finally identified as Clint and stopped factoring into the story.
I guess that would explain why his symbol looked like an arrowhead.
Pleading with the symbiote, Flash convinced it to leave his body and latch onto the queen.
Flash got smashed into a wall and took massive internal damage while the Spider-Queen desperately struggled with the symbiote.
That worlds Captain America led a protest against the fascist hybrids.
SENTRY/VOID (ROBERT REYNOLDS)
This comes from the gnarly multiversal seriesContest of Champions.
Another hero was the Sentry, who had a tendency to slip into his Void persona.
While infamously near-impossible to kill, he and Stick were seemingly wiped out by Punisher 2099s giant future gun.
Afterwards, Punisher 2099 separated the symbiote from Eddie and executed them with the same gun.
Unchecked, a remainder of the symbiote bonded with a remainder of the Void.
During the final battle, Stick revealed that he survived Punisher 2099s earlier ambush.
The experience freed the Sentry of both the Void and the symbiote.
Afterwards, Sentry was instrumental in bringing down Maestro.
SPIDER-WOMAN/SPIDER-GWEN (GWEN STACY)
So, the Spider-Gwen universe.
In one story, Harry Osborn was being turned into a monster via Lizard serum.
The Lizard serum was mixed with some of Gwens essence to create this realitys version of the Venom symbiote.
Gwen was quick to tame it, or so she thought.
With her father in a coma, she started becoming erratic and went after those responsible.
This one showed that the complex that experimented on Laura Kinney also experimented on the Venom symbiote.
She then befriended a handful of homeless youths and helped protect them by giving them pieces of the symbiote.
She was one of the few survivors ofVenomverseand returned to her home world.
Really fun issue, but GwensVenomversefate wasnt a happy one.
While Robbie tends to have that under control, this version was joined with the Venom symbiote.
Whatever it was about, it involved a capsule with the Venom symbiote in it.
Said capsule got loose and rolled up to Ngozis wheelchair.
As Rhino killed Black Panther, the symbiote oozed onto Ngozi and told her to run.
She instead used her newfound gift to turn herself into a half-woman/half-grasshopper and took down Rhino.
Venom wanted to help him crush his enemies.
Doom insisted that, There is no we.
Doom vanished as part of theVenomverseplot, but hed soon be assimilated by the Poison race.
This race was mostly harmless unless it touched a bonded symbiote.
The Poisons attempted to conquer the multiverse, led by Poison Thanos and Poison Dr. Doom.
Strange, Old Man Logan, X-23, Ghost Rider, Black Panther, Ant-Man, and Rocket Raccoon.
Only a handful of them survived.
As for listing the Poison hosts…yeah, Im going to pass.
Venom Vision only seemed to speak in ones and zeroes with only Valeria able to understand it.
The team helped the elderly Spider-Man and Deadpool fight a legion of Deadpool LMDs.
They were under the control of the LMD messiah Master Matrix.
The Venom symbiote went for a desperation move by leaving Vision for Reed, but it was no use.
The Deadpools tore Vision to pieces.
Master Matrix singlehandedly destroyed Reed and Last Devil.
Then he created synthetic symbiotes to enhance his LMD army.
Before being overtaken, Valeria sent Spider-Man and Deadpool back in time to prevent this future from ever happening.
Gavin Jasper writes forDen of Geekand wonders what kind of horrors would occur if Rogue became Venom.
