Symbiotes (Marvel)

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Symbiotes in Mighty Avengers v1 #7.

The Symbiotes are a parasitic species that feature in Marvel Comics.

History

Planet of the Symbiotes in Guardians of the Galaxy v3 #21.

They were also known as the Klyntars were native to the uncharted world known as the Planet of the Symbiotes that were a symbian race that sought out races in the cosmos in order to help them heal themselves. Members of their kind attempted to go into space to bond with the perfect host but were found flawed beings instead creating corrupt Symbiotes. They would become murderous and violent as they separated from the collective on their homeworld with their people gaining a reputation as monsters to the cosmos. (Guardians of the Galaxy v3 #23)

Their species at some point became a space travelling race who spread to other worlds and acted as intergalactic locusts. One of the worlds they had infested was visited by the Silver Surfer who was one of the Heralds of Galactus. After witnessing the parasiti race consume the planets inhabitants, the Surfer became disgusted by these creatures and summoned his master Galactus. The planet would be consumed by Galactus and destroyed with this event traumatizing the Symbiotes who would record it in their genetic memory. This led to them fearing Galactus and the wielders of the Power Cosmic who they also desired to kill. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #430)

The Life Foundation took an interest in the use of Symbiotes to be equipped to select individuals that would help police their future Utopia as they grew convinced of the destruction of society by nuclear war. This led to them capturing Venom and probing the Symbiote in order to extract the last of its five 'seeds' that would be cultivated to serve as guardians. The organisms were than bonded to five of the Foundation's top security personnel where they were given the code names of Scream, Riot, Phage, Agony and Lasher.

A group of Brood were infested by Symbiotes who took them to the S.W.O.R.D. station known as the Peak which orbited Earth. Once there, they took over the station's populace that included Deathbird who was being held captive. From there, they intended to devour everything in their path as they intended to create a powerful interstellar empire from their new base. A number of Brood were devoured during this time and the Symbiote infested crew used a Bamf generated teleportational gate to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning to invade it. Spider-Man along with the X-Men managed to go the station where they freed the crew from the Symbiotes. (Spider-Man and the X-Men v1 #5)

Overview

They had access to a genetic memory with descendants have access to the memories of their ancestors. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #430)

It was said that Symbiotes had evolved to kill one another with incapable of surviving in the same host body. (Carnage v2 #15)

When torn from their hosts, the Symbiotes anguish emitted a psychic scream that could be picked by others of their kind that could be detected across worlds to nearby planetary solar systems. (Venom Super Special v1 #1)

It was claimed that Symbiotes had no feelings of their own. Instead, they were addicted to the strong emotions of host creatures. Once the subdue a race, they forced their unwilling partners to take risks so that hey could share on the adrenaline rush. Hosts, however, suffered from limited utility with entire races used up meeting extinction before the Symbiotes experienced their vampiric rush-lust. It was for this reason that scoutships were dispatched to scour the galaxy to find suitable replacements. (Venom Super Special v1 #1)

Symbiotes had the mind and soul of a warrior but needed a host in order to act in a noble and virtuous way. To achieve their ultimate goal of making a great society, they sought out a perfect host and achieve a complete symbiosis. However, the host needed to be a perfect blend of both physical and moral ideals. As such, with the correct host, they could become the ultimate noble warrior. However, few were able to achieve this balance turning the Symbiote into a more monstrous being. These imperfect Symbiotes became corrupted and took a life of their own that separated from their collective. (Guardians of the Galaxy v3 #23)

One account held that the Symbiotes were a race of conquerors. (Venom Super Special v1 #1)

Members

Life Foundation Symbiotes in Venom: Separation Anxiety v1 #1.

• Venom :
• Carnage :
• Toxin :
• Phage :
• Scream :
• Scorn :

Notes

• The Symbiotes were created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz where they made their first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #258 (November, 1984).

In other media

Television

• In Spider-Man Unlimited, the Symbiotes were heavily involved in the plotline that took place on Counter Earth. The Symbiotes exhibit newer abilities then those demonstrated in their cartoon and comic continuities. They are capable of turning into a liquid state and disappearing into their surroundings in order to escape battle or ambush their enemies by appearing behind them. This liquid state also allowed two symbiotes to merge into a combined entity to provide extra strength as well as abilities. A symbiote was also capable of taking a part of its living material and placing it on another being where they engulf the body and turn the living creature into a mindless vessel under the control of the Synoptic. This change becomes apparent by their completely white eyes and a spongy greenish mass that covered parts of the body. There is apparently a guiding intelligence of the Symbiotes known as the Synoptic whose imperative asked the symbiotes to spread spores that would erupt into newer Symbiotes that would possess more hosts.Its revealed by the third episode that millennia ago, Counter Earth was dominated by dinosaurs at which point a swarm of meteors from space crash landed on the planet. Within the space rocks were insectoid creatures which were parasitic in nature and related to the Symbiotes. These parasites took control of many of the dinosaurs and the planet lived in harmony under the Symbiotes rule until the Catacylsm occurred where asteroid crashed into Counter Earth thus wiping out the dinosaurs. In the upheaval, many of the now hostless symbiotic insects went underground where parts of their bodies turned into a liquid substance creating a group mind known as the Synoptic. There it awaited for millennia until its liberators could arrive and bring about a new reign of the symbiotes on the planet once more. Venom and Carnage work together in this continuity and demonstrate add abilities that even Spider-man notes did not occur previously. Here they work to infiltrate John Jamesons space shuttle in order to smuggle themselves onto Counter Earth where they quickly begin plans to spread Symbiote spores around the planet under the directives of the Synoptic. At first, they quickly become an elite team of specialists that work for the High Evolutionary but quickly reveal that they have goals of their own to accomplish. Later on, they work on their own where they uncover the gigantic symbiotic biomass underground and free it. They begin their plans on spreading the Symbiote spores in order to take the planet over once more. By the end of the season, the Symbiote spores that were planted around the city by Venom and Carnage erupt and rain younger Symbiotes around the city. As the show was cancelled, the fate of the symbiotes was never explained.
• In Guardians of the Galaxy, Symbiotes were shown as antagonists in the episode "Hitchin' a Ride". They were black skinned fluidic shapeshifters that sought host bodies to take over and being adaptive as well as cunning. Symbiotes were shown to have a weakness to fire and sound with Gamora having encountered them before. A former mining world containing a number of Symbiotes once held the Cosmic Seed that mutated the creatures. They would attack the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Ravages when both groups sought the Cosmic Seed. These Symbiotes were shown as being stronger and sought to spread as well as infect the rest of the galaxy. Ultimately, they were destroyed by the Guardians before they could make their way to an inhabited world.

Video games

• In the Spider-Man video game, the Symbiotes were part of the plot made by Carnage who cooperated with Doctor Octopus. This involved Carnage attempting to create a Symbiote army to invade the city with this Symbiote Invasion encompassing the use of a gas that prepared human hosts for the alien symbiotes. These Symbiotes were engineered by Doctor Octopus and appeared as pink coloured creatures with no legs but moved through their symbiotic liquid form. They possessed a somewhat elongated face and two curved blades for hands. A greenish gas was being spread across the city in order to prepare the Human hosts for the symbiosis process.
• In Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, the meteor that brought Venom to Earth possessed numerous Symbiote fragments in them which Mysterio used to create the PHANTOMs.
• In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, the Symbiotes appeared as antagonists in the game when the Venom Symbiote began a mass spawning.
• In Marvel: Contest of Champions, the Venom Symbiote was shown on characters such as Venom, Agent Venom and Venompool. Non-playable foes known as Symbiods were introduced that resembled a mixture between a Symbiote and an Adaptoid.
• In Spider-Man Unlimited, various Symbiote characters appeared in the iOS video game.

Appearances

• Mighty Avengers v1:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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