Symbiotes (Marvel)
The Symbiotes were a parasitic species that featured in Marvel Comics.
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History
Comic Continuity
Spider-man Cartoon Continuity
Spider-man Unlimited Continuity
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.
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 and the natue of the Synoptic were never explained.
Background
Comic Continuity
Spider-man Unlimited Continuity
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 spony 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.
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