Biography
Biography
A race made of a viscous protoplasm, the Symbiotes graft themselves onto hosts, imbuing them with powers and creating the universe’s most deadly predators.
The Void
The Symbiotes are an extraterrestrial race composed of viscous protoplasm and created by the primordial deity Knull in his dark abyss known as the Void. The Symbiotes start as a blade, with Knull pulling its shape from his own and casting its edge in the fire of a dead Celestial that he felled. As he became God of the Forge, the first proto-symbiote and weaker creations of Knull’s fear the fire of the forge and the sound of the hammer beating their will into something he could wield: the All-Black, The Godslayer, the Necrosword. With the sword, Knull slays gods of light and creation until weakened and defeated, and his sword is taken up by the man who would become Gorr the God Butcher. Laying in a pit for a hundred or more years, he soon discovers he can create a symbiosis with lesser creatures and pilot their forms, drawing strength and information from them. Knull gathers a horde of Symbiotes, becoming its hive mind as the God-Host, able to control them from across the cosmos.
When the Symbiotes leave their planet millennia ago, they traverse the galaxy, leaving 100,000 extinct species in their wake. Addicted to strong emotions, the Symbiotes subdue a race and force them to take risks in order to receive a rush from the host’s stress hormones. Their domination would quickly kill the hosts and depopulate the planet. Uncaring, the Symbiotes leap from world to world, their scout ships constantly scouring the galaxy for suitable replacements. Galactus’ herald, Norrin Radd, AKA Silver Surfer, visits the Symbiote-controlled world of Joot and summons his master to consume it. The few survivors pass their desire for revenge through the genetic memory into every succeeding generation.
The Symbiotes then arrive on Earth and attack the ancient Norse people, who pray to their God of Thunder, Thor Odinson, AKA Thor, to save them. Thor answers, striking down the horde with his lightning, severing Knull’s connection with his creations. Knull’s Symbiotes unravel and seek new hosts, who infect them with their venom: notions of honor, nobility and light. The reformed Symbiotes return to Knull and overthrow their creator, trapping him in a Klyntar, or cage, of an infinite number of Symbiotes. They rename themselves the Klyntar and go on to seek hosts across the galaxy.
Bloodthirsty Beings
The Symbiotes are a bloodthirsty but otherwise emotionless race. Composed of viscous protoplasm, they graft onto the adrenal and nervous systems of other beings, using them as hosts from which they absorb memories, traits, emotions and DNA to complement their own incomplete DNA.
Symbiotes can convert themselves to energy, allowing them to travel through telephone lines; this may be a vestigial trait from a symbiote subspecies that subsists solely on their host’s positive emotions, and possesses electromagnetic energy-manipulation abilities. Symbiotes are susceptible to pain and injury from noise and fire; however, Symbiotes cannot be killed by conventional means, though they have been killed by conscious discorporation or by being eaten.
A Symbiotic Relationship
At first, the Symbiotes are controlled by their maker, Knull, until the connection is severed and they seek new hosts to bond with.
Symbiotes reproduce asexually by budding once per generation, though they produce up to six “seeds.” Although they share genetic memory, strength and powers with the newborn, they have no social structure or concept of family. The offspring become more formidable than their parent, but the thousandth generation child tends toward psychotic breakdown.
Superhuman Foes
The Asgardian Thor is the Symbiotes’ first foe as he disrupts their link to the hive mind and God-Host Knull.
The Symbiotes come into contact with many enemies, sometimes through their hosts, including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Dr. Stephen Strange, AKA Doctor Strange, Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, Robert Reynolds, AKA Sentry, and the Shi’ar empire.
While bonded to the Venom symbiote, journalist Eddie Brock often goes up against other Symbiotes to protect himself and those he cares about.
Unique Bonds
The Symbiotes are at first connected to a hive mind with their God-Host, Knull, as their leader. They bond to hosts and form a cooperative relationship, with Knull in control. The Symbiotes often take on their host’s personality traits.
When the Symbiotes become disconnected from the hive mind, they veer off on their own, seeking new hosts. The Venom symbiote and Carnage symbiote both form unique bonds to their hosts, Brock and Cletus Kasady, AKA Carnage.
Sometimes the Symbiotes that bond with hosts team up with others, such as when the Life Foundation Symbiotes join with Paibok the Power Skrull, or when MacDonald Gargan, AKA Scorpion bonds with the Venom symbiote, and joins the Thunderbolts under Norman Osborn, AKA Green Goblin.
The Symbiotes are a bloodthirsty but otherwise emotionless race. Composed of viscous protoplasm, they graft onto the adrenal and nervous systems of other beings, using them as hosts from which they absorb memories, traits, emotions and DNA to complement their own incomplete DNA.
Symbiotes can convert themselves to energy, allowing them to travel through telephone lines; this may be a vestigial trait from a symbiote subspecies that subsists solely on their host’s positive emotions, and possesses electromagnetic energy-manipulation abilities. Symbiotes are susceptible to pain and injury from noise and fire; however, Symbiotes cannot be killed by conventional means, though they have been killed by conscious discorporation or by being eaten.
A Symbiotic Relationship
At first, the Symbiotes are controlled by their maker, Knull, until the connection is severed and they seek new hosts to bond with.
Symbiotes reproduce asexually by budding once per generation, though they produce up to six “seeds.” Although they share genetic memory, strength and powers with the newborn, they have no social structure or concept of family. The offspring become more formidable than their parent, but the thousandth generation child tends toward psychotic breakdown.
Superhuman Foes
The Asgardian Thor is the Symbiotes’ first foe as he disrupts their link to the hive mind and God-Host Knull.
The Symbiotes come into contact with many enemies, sometimes through their hosts, including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Dr. Stephen Strange, AKA Doctor Strange, Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, Robert Reynolds, AKA Sentry, and the Shi’ar empire.
While bonded to the Venom symbiote, journalist Eddie Brock often goes up against other Symbiotes to protect himself and those he cares about.
Unique Bonds
The Symbiotes are at first connected to a hive mind with their God-Host, Knull, as their leader. They bond to hosts and form a cooperative relationship, with Knull in control. The Symbiotes often take on their host’s personality traits.
When the Symbiotes become disconnected from the hive mind, they veer off on their own, seeking new hosts. The Venom symbiote and Carnage symbiote both form unique bonds to their hosts, Brock and Cletus Kasady, AKA Carnage.
Sometimes the Symbiotes that bond with hosts team up with others, such as when the Life Foundation Symbiotes join with Paibok the Power Skrull, or when MacDonald Gargan, AKA Scorpion bonds with the Venom symbiote, and joins the Thunderbolts under Norman Osborn, AKA Green Goblin.
The Asgardian Thor is the Symbiotes’ first foe as he disrupts their link to the hive mind and God-Host Knull.
The Symbiotes come into contact with many enemies, sometimes through their hosts, including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Dr. Stephen Strange, AKA Doctor Strange, Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, Robert Reynolds, AKA Sentry, and the Shi’ar empire.
While bonded to the Venom symbiote, journalist Eddie Brock often goes up against other Symbiotes to protect himself and those he cares about.
Unique Bonds
The Symbiotes are at first connected to a hive mind with their God-Host, Knull, as their leader. They bond to hosts and form a cooperative relationship, with Knull in control. The Symbiotes often take on their host’s personality traits.
When the Symbiotes become disconnected from the hive mind, they veer off on their own, seeking new hosts. The Venom symbiote and Carnage symbiote both form unique bonds to their hosts, Brock and Cletus Kasady, AKA Carnage.
Sometimes the Symbiotes that bond with hosts team up with others, such as when the Life Foundation Symbiotes join with Paibok the Power Skrull, or when MacDonald Gargan, AKA Scorpion bonds with the Venom symbiote, and joins the Thunderbolts under Norman Osborn, AKA Green Goblin.
Current Members
- Venom (Eddie Brock)
- Venom (Symbiote)
- Carnage (Cletus Kasady)
- Carnage (Symbiote)
- Toxin
- Scream (Donna Diego)
- ZZZXX
- Scorpion (MacDonald "Mac" Gargan)
- Flash Thompson
Former Members
- Knull