[230][231][66], Knull: An ancient deity who created the symbiotes, Knull is able to mentally influence and dominate them, driving them insane with bloodlust and enslaving them to his will. It was interrupted by the Grendel symbiote - which had been imprinted with the personality of the original Carnage symbiote, and soon threatened to take over Eddie and force him to kill the Avengers. A.Venom: You haven't won yet! [153], When the Maker revealed that he had extracted a codex - trace remnants of symbiote biomass left in former hosts - from a sample of Flash's blood, and that he intended to exhume and vivisect Flash's corpse in order to extract more; the Venom symbiote went berserk and attacked him. Peter offers to use the Venom symbiote to heal him, but Flash refuses, worrying that it would die with him and knows Peter needs an edge over Norman's new powers. Harry rents a condo just for Flash, in order to help him out. With Spider-Man's help, Ms. Marvel was able to eventually force the symbiote off herself by flying into some power lines and expelling all the energy she had absorbed from them. Night Vision 18. Before they could come to blows, Elektra intervened and proposed they work together until they could vanquish the Marrow God. Flash replies that he sees "two different radio stations playing in the same frequency". However, its growing rage and bloodlust, coupled with its possessiveness towards Eddie, led to it violently lashing out at and trying to kill those it perceived as threatening its bond with him, such as a priest who suggested Eddie reconsider re-entering into a previously abusive relationship. Agent Venom appears as a playable character in the, Agent Venom appears as a playable character in, Agent Venom and Agent Anti-Venom appears as separate playable characters in, Agent Venom appears as a team-up character in, Agent Venom appears as a playable character in the match-three mobile game, Agent Venom appears as a playable "paywall" character in, This page was last edited on 25 February 2021, at 05:04. While in university, Flash joined the United States Army and serves in the Vietnam War (although this was later retconned to unspecified overseas conflict due to Marvel's floating timeline). This is a Unique Synergy which does not stack with duplicate synergies. Robocop is then unable to move, and is webbed against a large fuel generator. [69], In James Cameron's aborted script treatment for Spider-Man, "Flash" is named Nathan McCreery, instead of Eugene Thompson.[73][74][75][76]. [26][27] However, its desire to permanently bond to him made it increasingly reluctant to separate itself from him even for short periods. [71] The Ararat Corporation intended for the bloodthirsty and sadistic clone to be assimilated by the original symbiote, whereupon it would induce the gestation of an army of symbiotes to exterminate all life on Earth. While bonded to the Venom symbiote Flash gains the ability to reproduce his legs as well as gains all the abilities of the symbiote that had once bonded with Spider-Man. When Flash suddenly wants to talk to Peter alone for a moment on at least two occasions, Peter turns him down rather furiously, believing he just wanted to bully in private. Accepting that the symbiote had changed for the better, Spider-Man volunteered to help Venom find Mania, and assisted in capturing her before returning to New York. [18] While Deadpool worried that interfacing with his twisted mind would have adverse effects on its sanity,[22] he attempted to have a positive influence on the creature and persuade it to let go of its rage and hatred. When Peter asks him why he'd be willing to go after the effects the previous war had on his father, Flash says that he believes it's what Spider-Man would do. [81] To Gargan's dismay, the symbiote tried to abandon him and return to its former host, who had been cured of his cancer by Martin Li. However, for a time Thompson could only stay bonded to the symbiote for forty-eight hours, or the symbiote would begin to take him over. Eddie and Dylan met the Maker at his warehouse to question him about Dylan's powers. Eugene "Flash" Thompson is the nephew of actress Lea Thompson[5] and a bully of high school classmate Peter Parker. [42], Venom then becomes the new intergalactic ambassador of Earth and an Agent of the Cosmos. [98] Dispatched to Doverton, Colorado as backup for the Mercury Team, the symbiote was accidentally separated from Flash and took over a silverback gorilla that had escaped from a zoo, using it to escape from a horde of other animals being controlled by the Carnage symbiote. Flash eventually leads the rebellion to successfully stop the Spider Queen, but at the cost of his own life (due to requiring the symbiote to possess the Spider Queen to take her down). [113][13] However, following the symbiote briefly bonding to Mercurio, it began to relapse back into its bloodthirsty, hate-filled state. The symbiote was eventually bonded to a soldier named Tel-Kar, and underwent months of training alongside him before they were dispatched to fight in the Kree-Skrull War, acting as a deep-cover spy, saboteur, and assassin. With the symbiote's power, Otto was able to fight evenly with them, but he realized too late that the symbiote had been undermining his will and was soon taken over by it. Mary Jane, thinking Peter had been overtaken by the symbiote, contacted the Avengers,[105] who then engaged Venom in a fight just as he was about to kill some of Hobgoblin's gang members. Prompting Miles to electrocute him with the Venom Blast, which blasted him into the open. Eugene is a complex, wounded human being. The Riot Symbiote manages to escape, but Venom and the other two are subjected to extensive testing by Carlto… Although Flash was absent from the strip for months at a time, his frequent stateside visits kept him familiar with the readers. [125], Before the suit could be handed over to Alpha Flight, Brock broke it free and became Venom once again. [91][108][107][109], The Venom symbiote has a habit of abandoning its current host to return to a prior one or to seek out a stronger one: attempting to abandon Eddie Brock on several occasions to return to Spider-Man; seeking to leave Mac Gargan and Flash Thompson to return to Eddie Brock once his cancer was cured;[82][93] and returning to Spider-Man once separated from Flash Thompson. [119], After Agent Venom was struck by a beam that separated the symbiote from its host, it relapsed into its corrupted state and abandoned Flash. [volume & issue needed], Spider-Man: Life Story features an alternate continuity where the characters naturally age after Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man in 1962. [199] When Flash Thompson tried to reclaim it from Eddie Brock, the symbiote was torn between its two favorite hosts and tried to bond to both of them at the same time, but ultimately chose Eddie due to Flash becoming Agent Anti-Venom. Knull subsequently stripped it from Eddie and attempted to connect it to his hive mind, turning its eyespots red; but it returned to Eddie after Knull was attacked by Morales. The symbiote was concerned at feeling emotions contradictory to those of its host, such as feeling joy in contrast to Eddie's anger when he was unable to sell the television. [165] However, its experiences with Knull had made Venom realize how urgently they needed to stop the symbiote god, making the symbiote leave Eddie behind when his desire to protect Dylan surpassed his desire to kill Cletus and bonding with Hulk in the hopes of gaining enough power to defeat Carnage once and for all.[168]. The rampaging symbiote attempted to devour Eddie, who was able to temporarily curb its hunger using chocolate. However, the codex eventually burnt out and the symbiote returned to its mindless state. The level is set when connecting that Super Power to a character. Despite both Flash and the symbiote protesting that they didn't want to fight, Spider-Man separated the symbiote from Flash, preparing to imprison it in his lab. [120], In search of a new host after being separated from Flash Thompson, the symbiote came across former Army Ranger Lee Price when he was about to be gunned down in a shootout between Tombstone's gang and Black Cat's gang. He turns to Alchemax to make a serum to help him out, but the medicine being created there is still experimental and may have some side effects. [22][23], Once back on Earth, the symbiote was initially content to play the part of a sophisticated costume capable of shapeshifting into civilian clothes; helping Spider-Man fight crime by augmenting his abilities. Before it could fully recover from the sonic attack, the Venom symbiote sensed Dark Carnage infecting the inmates with the Grendel symbiote and began screaming in terror inside Eddie's head. After Price was arrested, Flash finally came to the conclusion that the Venom symbiote was safe with Eddie Brock and brokered an uneasy truce between Spider-Man and Venom. Following Romita's take in place, Flash was made into a more sympathetic character and his clean-cut image was similarly emphasized to give him an "All-American" persona. When Peter joins the basketball team, Flash's attitude changes, on account of his tendency towards loyalty to his teammates. It scolded him for suppressing it and revealed it had shunted the Hell-Mark onto its clone to keep the demon from taking over them. [62], In Venomverse a version of Agent Venom is part of the Venoms army gathered by a Venomized Doctor Strange to fight the Poisons. Over the years, the Venom symbiote has had a number of offshoots created using samples of its living abyss, though most of them have been short-lived: Throughout the symbiote's convoluted history, it has had a number of hosts both good and evil, each of whom had a profound impact on its psychology and personality. Venom's trademark green saliva is the symbiote's waste product. Every Super Power has a score (SPS) that is used to calculate the Class. [49] When corrupt corporation Scarmore Inc. hired the Juggernaut to act as an enforcer and kill Beck Underwood - a lawyer allied with the Underground City and Eddie Brock's girlfriend - the Venom symbiote was exposed to a sentient Mercury Virus engineered by Scarmore Inc., augmenting it but also driving it and Eddie insane. [96][97], With Red Hulk's testimony, Flash was pardoned by Captain America in recognition of his heroism and made a member of the Secret Avengers. [111], After being separated from Groot by Drax, the symbiote took over Rocket, transforming his arms into bio-mechanical multi-barreled guns and demanding the Guardians turn over their ship to it. 3. combined. ", Marvel Entertainment on Twitter: "It's time for #MarvelLIVE! Forced to face the fact that he is actually a brutal criminal rather than his perceived role as a hero after seeing the error of his ways, Flash takes action to confront Doctor Octopus and acquire the medicine for May, but subsequently turns himself in for Peter's death. Felicity, on the other hand, is aware of all of this and briefly assumed the Scarlet Spider identity in attempt to partner with Spider-Girl. When the latter tried to kill his neighbor Andi Benton, Flash sent what he thought was a small portion of the symbiote to protect her (though this would turn out to be the symbiote's clone), which bonded to her. Flash recently started dating Liz Allan again; this ended after she dumped him at homecoming for declaring his love to Mary Jane in front of the whole school. [20], The symbiote’s first human host was Deadpool, who came across its prison while on Battleworld and - hoping for a makeover - wore the creature for a few minutes before realizing it was alive and interfacing with his mind. [128], Together, they arrested criminals and the symbiote felt good to be a hero again. After Peter's apparent death as Spider-Man, Flash realizes that he is the only one who did not know that his former bullying victim and the young hero are the same person. After it attempted to devour a corrupt cop,[131] Kraven the Hunter,[66] and the Ringer, Eddie finally became fed up and returned to Alchemax to demand an explanation as to the diminishing effectiveness of the cure. [155] Believing himself to be Eddie's younger half-brother, Dylan tried to get Eddie's help to kill their physically-abusive father. [67], In "What if J. Jonah Jameson Adopted Spider-Man? He tried to convince them he wasn't an enemy, but Captain America insisted for him to separate from the Venom symbiote. Over the next few years, as the two became rivals for Liz Allan's affections, Flash was willing to confront Peter only when backed up by his friends. [109], Eventually, Captain America asked Flash to take Tony Stark's place as a liaison for the Guardians of the Galaxy. Sensing Knull's awakening through its connection to the hive mind, the Venom symbiote berated him for having doomed the universe, but remained bonded to him. ", "Remender, Hardman add Venom, Captain Britain to "Secret Avengers, "DisneyXD's ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN Renewed For 3rd Season, HULK-S.M.A.S.H. However, the drug was imperfect and unable to fully suppress the symbiote, which frequently used Flash's anger issues to seize control and revert to its monstrous form. [15] When Spider-Man bonded with the symbiote to defeat the Red Goblin, even disliking the idea, he forgave the symbiote for all that happened between them in the past, saying for it not to worry about him and to avoid the fire around them when they separated, showing he does care for it.