Flash Thompson
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Flash Thompson is a male comic character that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Military
Agent Venom
Space Knight
In this role, he operated as an Agent of the Cosmos who sought to help the innocent. (Venom: Space Knight v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Flash Thompson was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko where he made his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy v1 #15 (August 1962).
Alternate Versions
- In Spider-Island v1 (2015), a version of Flash Thompson as Agent Venom was shown to reside in the realm of Spider-Island on Battleworld. Similar to the main Earth, events saw Spider-Island occur whereby the Queen attempted to take over the city but in this version of events Flash was stopped from helping Spider-Man who was captured. Without Spider-Man, the city became infected and became hybrid spider creatures that served the Queen. Agent Venom with a small band of uninfected were the only survivors who waged a resistance against the Queen's rule.
- In Guardians of Knowhere v1 (2015), a version of Flash Thompson as Agent Venom was shown to reside on Knowhere that orbited Battleworld. He was a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy that occupied the slain floating Celestial head.
- In Spider-Gwen v2 (2016), Flash Thompson was shown to exist on Earth-65 who picked on Harry Osborn and gave him the mocking nickname of Green Goblin.
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Flash Thompson appeared in the 1994 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Patrick Labyorteaux.
- In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Flash Thompson appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Joshua LeBar.
- In Ultimate Spider-Man, Flash Thompson appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Matt Lanter with the younger kid version in "Beetle Mania" voiced by actor Logan Miller.
Films
- In Spider-Man, Flash Thompson appeared in the 2002 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Joe Manganiello.
Video games
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Flash Thompson appeared as Agent Venom who was a hero that featured in the Facebook game. His backstory noted him being Peter Parker's worst enemy and Spider-Man's greatest fan. It was said that he served in the military where he lost his legs but his superiors offered to become the new host of Venom symbiote. This resulted in his transformation into a super-soldier with enhanced strength, agility and restored his ability to walk as Agent Venom. However, he had to maintain constant mental discipline to prevent the symbiote from controlling over his body and dominating him forever.
- In Marvel Heroes, Flash Thompson as Agent Venom featured as a Team-Up hero for the MMORPG video game.
- In Marvel: War of Heroes, Flash Thompson as Agent Venom appeared as a playable card in the video game.
- In Spider-Man Unlimited, Flash Thompson as Agent Venom appeared as a playable character in the iOS video game. His backstory mentioned him as a former classmate of Peter Parker who he bullied relentlessly and was Spider-Man's biggest fan. In time, the two became friends with Flash going to college and joining the army where he travelled the world before being dispatched to Iraq. Whilst saving soldiers, he lost his legs during an enemy attack and later joined the top-secret Project Rebirth 2.0 program where he was bonded with the Venom Symbiote where he became Agent Venom.
- In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Flash Thompson as Agent Venom was introduced as a playable character in the iOS video game.
Appearances
- Amazing Fantasy v1:
- Amazing Spider-Man:
- Venom:
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