Anti-Venom

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Anti-Venom
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Eddie Brock as Anti-Venom, as depicted on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom - New Ways to Live #1 (September 2009).
Art by Mirco Pierfederici.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance The Amazing Spider-Man #569 (October 2008)
Created by Dan Slott (writer)
John Romita Jr. (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoVarious hosts
Species Symbiote–Human white blood cells
Abilities
  • All powers of the symbiote's first human host, Spider-Man
  • Limited shapeshifting and camouflage
  • Symbiote's autonomous defense capabilities
  • Undetectable by Spider-Man's "Spider-sense"
  • Immunity to fire, heat, and sound-based attacks
  • Produces curative antibodies

Anti-Venom is a fictional antihero appearing in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. It first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #569 (August 2008), and was created by Dan Slott and John Romita Jr. [1] The creature belongs to a race of amorphous extraterrestrial parasites known as the Symbiotes and is regarded as Venom's symbiotic brother. His physical features include white "skin", a black face, and spider symbol across his chest.

Contents

Hosts

Eddie Brock

The 2008 story New Ways to Die features the first appearance of Anti-Venom. [2] Eddie Brock gets a job at a soup kitchen under Martin Li, who unknowingly cures Brock's cancer using his Lightforce abilities. [2] After Brock is attacked by Mac Gargan (the Venom symbiote's current host), the Venom symbiote attempts to reunite with Brock, reacting with the remnants of the Lightforce and creating the Anti-Venom symbiote. [2] [3] During the Spider-Island event, Brock sacrifices the Anti-Venom symbiote to cure the Spider-Queen's spider-virus. [4]

Agent Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson)

In the "Venom Inc." storyline, Venom is captured by the Life Foundation and was experimented on. The Life Foundation accidentally pour hydrochloric acid on Venom, giving him a white appearance and new abilities, including intangibility. Venom escapes the Life Foundation and bonds with Flash Thompson, who uses it to become "Agent Anti-Venom". [5]

Powers and abilities

Anyone possessed by the Anti-Venom symbiote possesses superhuman strength, durability, and stamina, an accelerated and fast healing factor, genetic memory, detection of its Symbiote offspring, wall-crawling, web-generating abilities, spider-senses, immunity to Spider-Man's spider-senses, and camouflage.

The original Anti-Venom symbiote is immune to heat and sound-based attacks, the traditional weaknesses of symbiotes. In addition, the Anti-Venom symbiote can produce antibodies that can "cure" a person afflicted by things like radioactivity, parasites, diseases, and drugs. The new Anti-Venom symbiote used by Flash Thompson has the ability to heal physical injuries as well. [5]

Other versions

In What If? Peter Parker became Kraven the Hunter where Peter Parker killed Kraven the Hunter and replaced Kraven as the new hunter, Madame Web hired Anti-Venom, Spider-Woman and Mac Gargan to stop Peter. Despite being successful in mortally injuring him, they were all defeated. [6]

In other media

Television

Video games

Collected editions

TitleMaterial collectedPublished dateISBN
Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom - New Ways To LiveAmazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom - New Ways To Live #1–3, Extra #2 (Anti-Venom story)March 2010 978-0785141617

References

  1. ↑ DeFalco, Tom; Sanderson, Peter; Brevoort, Tom; Teitelbaum, Michael; Wallace, Daniel; Darling, Andrew; Forbeck, Matt; Cowsill, Alan; Bray, Adam (2019). The Marvel Encyclopedia. DK Publishing. p. 24. ISBN   978-1-4654-7890-0.
  2. 1 2 3 The Amazing Spider-Man #568 (October 2008)
  3. ↑ The Amazing Spider-Man #569 (October 2008)
  4. ↑ The Amazing Spider-Man #671 (October 2011)
  5. 1 2 Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha (December 2017)
  6. ↑ What If? Spider-Man one-shot (February 2011)
  7. 1 2 3 "Anti-Venom Voices (Spider-Man)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 18, 2025. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  8. ↑ Lainez, Kevin (June 23, 2020). "Spider-Man: Maximum Venom "Vengeance Of Venom" Review". Comic Book Revolution. Retrieved May 18, 2025.
  9. ↑ Kato, Matthew (March 31, 2011). "Save Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Edge of Time". Game Informer . GameStop. Archived from the original on April 3, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Champion Spotlight: Anti-Venom". Marvel Contest of Champions. Kabam. October 4, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  11. ↑ Chavez, Steven (December 5, 2017). "Venom, Black Widow, and Winter Soldier now available in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite". EventHubs. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  12. ↑ Swan, Cameron (October 26, 2023). "Marvel's Spider-Man 2: The Lore Behind Peter's Last Story Suit Explained". Game Rant.
  13. ↑ Fitzsimmons, Ben (October 24, 2024). "Fans Have Mixed Opinions On Marvel Rivals New Venom Skins". Sports Illustrated . Archived from the original on October 26, 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
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