Life Foundation
The Life Foundation is an organization that appears in Marvel Comics.
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History
The Life Foundation was a corporation that came to form in the modern age on Earth. They were sophisticated and unscrupulous corporate survivalist group that were founded in response to Cold War paranoia. It was dedicated to constructing doomsday-proof communities for both its own members and society's elite who can reserve a spot in these facilities for a minimum payment of $5,000,000. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #299)
The Life Foundation hired Chance to steal European armaments being shipped to Manhattan, offering $25,000. Chance reports back to the Life Foundation after the heist, but is knocked out and taken prisoner by the group's leader Carlton Drake. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #298) Drake has Chance brought to his survivalist facility Sanctum Maximus in New Jersey, and orders that Chance be tortured into revealing how the mercenary's powered exoskeleton works to be mass-produced for the Life Foundation's benefit. Spider-Man discovers and releases Chance, and the two destroy the Life Foundation's base. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #299)
Treece International's CEO Roland Treece later has the Life Foundation assist in dealing with Venom interfering with Treece's search for a lost stockpile of gold supposedly buried somewhere beneath a park in San Francisco. (Venom: Lethal Protector v1 #3) At their Mojave facility, Drake has the Life Foundation experiment with the Venom symbiote which extracts five additional symbiotes which bonded with their own mercenaries: Scream, Riot, Agony, Phage and Lasher. The Life Foundation's symbiote enforcers commit random acts of violence throughout San Francisco to test their capabilities, drawing Spider-Man's attention to follows back to the Life Foundation situated in the Mojave Desert. (Venom: Lethal Protector v1 #4) Spider-Man and Eddie Brock team-up to combat the symbiotes, seemingly killing the creatures and depowering their hosts, a development that prompts the Life Foundation led by Drake into abandoning and destroying the Mojave facility. (Venom: Lethal Protector v1 #5) Unknown to the Life Foundation, their five symbiote enforcers somehow survive the explosion and rebel against before fleeing to New York City. (Venom: Separation Anxiety v1 #2)
Posing as a branch of the NSA, the Life Foundation hired Professor Toshiro Mikashi to conduct research into biogenics, intending to find a cure for Carlton Drake's terminal cancer. (Spider-Man: The Arachnis Project v1 #2) The Life Foundation used him to accelerate their research. Seeking to assassinate Drake and usurp control of the Life Foundation, Roland Treece injected him with the results of Professor Mikashi's research, instead causing him to mutate into a humanoid spider-monster. (Spider-Man: The Arachnis Project v1 #4)
In the aftermath, the company could not survive its chapter 7 bankruptcy. Mendel Stromm found an abandoned bunker used by the Foundation that was supposed to had held the Tri-Sentinel but the powerful machine had already activated before he could claim it. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #4)
The Life Foundation was able to recoup their losses and emerge as the preeminent authority on symbiote-related matters in a world traumatized by three major attacks by malevolent symbiotes in the space of a few months. The Life Foundation bankrolled an attempt to apprehend the Venom and Sleeper symbiotes that ended with the assassination of Eddie Brock and the deaths of dozens of soldiers at the hands of Eddie's son Dylan, who'd bonded to the Venom symbiote. (Venom v5 #1)
Overview
One membership option for employees was to enrol them into their Illuminati-plus rewards program with them being entitled to the best security measures to protect their survival gear. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #4)
Among their creations included:
- Symbiotechs :
Members
- Carlton Drake :
- Roland Treece :
- Leslie Gesneria :
- Ramon Hernandez :
- Carl Mach :
- Trevor Cole :
- Roland Treece :
- Donna Diego :
Notes
- The Life Foundation was created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane where it made its first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #298 (March, 1988).
In other media
Films
- In Venom, the Life Foundation appeared in the setting of the 2018 live-action film. It was depicted as a genetics corporation with an interest in space travel, Carlton Drake was the CEO/Founder whilst Roland Treece was the chief of security. The Life Foundation discovered the Symbiotes and performed illegal host experiments involving homeless people, motivating scientist Dora Skirth to expose the Life Foundation by finding disgraced reporter Eddie Brock.
Video games
- In Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety, the Life Foundation appeared in the setting of the video game. They were referenced as being the employers of the five Symbiotes and the Jury.
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1988)
- Spider-Man: The Arachnis Project v1:
- Venom: Lethal Protector v1:
- Venom: Separation Anxiety v1:
- Amazing Spider-Man v5:
- Venom v5:
- Cult of Carnage: Misery v1:
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