Each version of poison, ranked from weakest to most powerful

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Each version of poison, ranked from weakest to most powerful

Marvel has many iconic characters, and Poison is by far one of the most popular. Having appeared in dozens of comics, video games and a film trilogy, what began as a simple Spider-Man villain has exploded in popularity. Which is why it’s no surprise that Marvel has explored dozens of variants of the symbiote antihero.

Marvel’s Multiverse has allowed for dozens of different versions of the same character, putting new spins on some of its biggest stars (Spider-Man and Wolverine chief among them). Because of the Venom symbiote’s ability to bond with almost anyone, the alien can be placed in any situation and always provide the opportunity for a compelling, new creation. across the multiverse, These are the most powerful versions of Venom ever created.

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‘Black Suit Spider-Man’ was the first to use the Venom symbiote

Multiversal designation: Earth-616

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Amazing Spider-Man #252

Randy Shuler, Jim Shooter and Mike Zack

Peter Parker was the first “Venom” and encountered the symbiote as part of Marvel’s secret wars event.

The first host of the Venom symbiote, Peter Parker, initially assumed it to be an advanced suit that had futuristic features. Eventually, Spider-Man realized that his awesome black suit was not just advanced, but an actual alien symbiote. This was a major moment in Peter’s history, and it set the stage for everything that came after.

Peter would eventually push the symbiote away, rejecting it, leading the symbiote to crave revenge (bonding with Eddie Brock and creating Venom, one of Spider-Man’s most dangerous villains ever). While Peter used the symbiote, he did not gain any of the abilities that Venom is known for now. But he’s still mighty strong thanks to the symbiote enhancing his classic powers, such as super strength and webbing.

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Dylan Brock’s gift is a worthy successor to his father

Multiversal designation: Earth-616

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Venom (Volume 4) #7

Danny Cates and Ivan Coello

The son of Eddie Brock, half-symbiote physiology.

Dylan hasn’t been Venom for long, but he’s proven to be quite adept at the role. Although he is not nearly as experienced as his father Eddie, he has an advantage thanks to the powers granted by his symbiote-created physiology. These powers allow Dylan to affect symbiotes in a variety of ways, such as physically repelling them if they attempt to bond with him, or forcing them to evolve and learn new abilities.

The powers make up for Dylan’s lack of experience as Venom, and the Venom War Event will decide once and for all whether Dylan or his father, Eddie, deserve the role. Although Eddie has been Venom for a lot longer and has greater mastery over the Venom symbiote, Dylan’s powers allow him to literally control and command any symbiote he wants, Which makes Dylan far more dangerous than his father.

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Mac Gargan was a wild poison

Multiversal designation: Earth-616

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Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #10

Mark Millar and Terry Dodson

The fusion of the Venom symbiote and the hardened criminal Mac Gargan.

Recruited by Norman Osborn to capture Mary Jane, Mac Gargan ends up meeting and bonding with the Venom symbiote. This led to one of the most savage and brutal versions of Venom. While Venom has eaten people in the past, this new version engages in cannibalism much, much more. Even more dangerous was the fact that Mack was fully aware of exactly what Spider-Man was. This version of Venom was an absolute monster, and one of the darkest periods in the history of the Venom symbiote.. While there have been other villain hosts in the past, Mac Gargan truly brought out the worst in the Venom symbiote.

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Eddie Brock is the most famous host of Venom

Multiversal designation: Earth-616

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Web of Spider-Man #18

David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane

A disgruntled former photographer who bonds with the rejected symbiote to seek revenge on Peter Parker.

By far the most famous symbiote host of all time, Eddie Brock was Venom for the majority of the character’s history. Eddie Brock started out as a villain to Spider-Man, evolved into an anti-hero, and eventually became a full-blown hero. Eddie is one of the greatest hosts the symbiote has ever had, and almost all hosts later are compared to him. While bonded to the symbiote, Eddie has incredible strength, agility and has access to all of Peter’s powers, except for spider sense.

With the upcoming poison war, It’s possible that Eddie’s time as Venom will finally come to an end and the mantle will be passed on to his son permanently. It’s hard to imagine a time when Eddie won’t be Venom because of how long he’s spent in the mantle. Eddie has since moved on to the role of the King in Black, which made him Much more powerful As he has always been like poison.

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Agent Venom is Venom’s greatest boss of all time

Multiverse designation: Earth-616


Agent Venom in Marvel Comics

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Amazing fantasy #15

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko

Flash Thompson gains the Venom symbiote after losing his legs from his tour in Iraq.

While Eddie Brock is the most famous host of all time, he is not the one Best one. The title seems to go to Flash Thompson. There’s never been a host more suited to the Venom symbiote than Flash, and even Eddie notes that. While visiting Flash’s grave, the Venom symbiote still pulls towards him, trying to leave Eddie for the corpse.. While connected to Flash, they were known as Agent Venom and Flash was able to help save the world several times.

Where Eddie tended to rely on pure brute strength like Venom, Agent Venom used weapons, mostly guns and other gadgets amplified by the symbiote. This gave him much more versatility in combat, and Eddie seems to think it proved he had greater mastery over the symbiote.

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Wolverine is one of the deadliest symbiote hosts imaginable

Multiversal Designation: Earth-1984


Wolverine is allied with the Venom symbiote, popping his claws with Venom's characteristic toothy smile and long tongue.

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What if…? Poison #2

Jeremy Holt and Jesus Hervas

Wolverine is bonded to the Venom symbiote.

Wolverine has bonded with a few different symbiotes over the years, but he formed a true bond with the Venom symbiote on the main 616 Earth. The same cannot be said for Earth-1984. It was here that Sabretooth managed to trick Wolverine into bonding with the Venom symbiote. What happened next was an absolute nightmare scenario, As the Venom symbiote quickly sealed Wolverine’s mind away, taking full control of his body.

With Venom in full control, it rampaged across New York and killed several people before Wolverine could regain control. When he did, he promised he would break the Venom symbiote and make it work for him. This version of Venom didn’t last long, but it had incredible powers, with the symbiote even calling Wolverine’s body “instructable.”

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Poison, the poison that claimed control of Peter Parker

Multiversal designation: Earth-70134


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What if? Spider-Man the other

Peter David and Khoi Pham

A Spider-Man completely destroyed by the Venom symbiote.

One of the darkest forms of Peter Parker was in What if? Spider-Man the otherWhen nearly killed, Spider-Man enters a cocoon to heal and be reborn. On Earth-616 this resulted in Peter coming back stronger than ever, but on Earth-70134, he remained in stasis. Seeing this, hHe Venom symbiote leaves Eddie Brock and goes after Spider-Manwho surrenders.

Peter emerges from the cocoon as the monster known as Venom, with the symbiote in complete control of Peter’s mind and body. This is one of the strongest versions of Peter that have worn the Venom symbiote, because it not only has all of Peter’s powers completely unrestrained by his morality, but also hybrid abilities never seen anywhere else.

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The Venomsaurus is Marvel’s most fearsome symbiote beast

Multiversal designation: Earth-66


Venom Dinosaur H Rex Marvel Comic

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Edge of Spider-Verse (Volume 3) #1

Carla Pacheco and Pere Perez

A version of Eddie Brock who is a dinosaur, and got the Venom symbiote.

There are few things cooler than dinosaurs, but a dinosaur with the Venom symbiote is probably the coolest version of Venom shown yet. This version of Venom has become a major threat to the other dinosaur heroes on Earth-66. Despite its villainous origins, the Venomosaurus would eventually give its life in the battle against Carnage during the Death of the Venomverse storyline.

This venom lacked the agility of other forms, but with its stings and the brutality of its dinosaur nature, it was able to put up a good fight against multiple enemies at once. What this version of Venom lacks in power, It absolutely makes up for in pure cool factor.

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Venompool was ridiculously powerful

Multiversal Designation: Earth-90211

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What if? Iron Man: Demon in Armor #1

Rick Remender and Sean Moll

Venom is connected to his first boss, Deadpool.

Most fans may not know that Deadpool was one of the first hosts of the Venom symbiote, even before Peter Parker. This recon is what partially explains the Venom symbiote’s initial insanity, as it was explained that Deadpool’s terrible mental state left a lasting impression on the Venom symbiote. But writers also explored the possibility of Deadpool retaining the symbiote, and becoming the terrifying Venompool. Deadpool is already unstable, so another crazy voice in his head wouldn’t do any good. With Venom’s powers and Deadpool’s healing factor, he would be almost impossible to stop.

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Miles Morales wore both the Venom and Carnage symbiote

Multiversal Designation: Earth-80763

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Dark Ages: #1

Tom Taylor and Ivan Coello

Miles Morales is possessed by the Venom and the Carnage symbiote.

The Dark Ages Universe has a lot of twisted aspects. After the death of Dr. Strange, a gate was left open that constantly released an EMP blast, disabling all electronics on Earth. While society collapsed, some villains saw their chance to seize power. One of them is Apocalypse. In some At some point during this, Miles bonds with the Venom symbiote, and is then forcefully bonded to the Carnage symbiote, which corrupts the Venom symbiote Symbiotes take over Miles’ body together, forcing him to serve Apocalypse. With Miles’ powers combined with both symbiotesHe is a great force.

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Reed Richards is one of the most dangerous poison hosts

Multiversal designation: Earth-21619


Reed Richard is taken over by the Venom symbiote

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Spider-Man: Spider’s Shadow #1

Chip Zdarsky and Pasquale Perry

Reed Richards is taken over by the symbiote.

During the events of Spider-Man: Spider’s ShadowReaders have to see What would have happened if Peter had never rejected the Venom symbiote. This culminates with Peter killing half of his rogues gallery and nearly being killed by the Evil Six, who form to stop him. After nearly being killed, Peter is able to free himself from the Venom symbiote, and in a fit of rage, the symbiote bonds to Reed Richards. This gives the symbiote full access to Reed’s wild intelligence, and it uses this to create several clones of itself, with which it infects most of the Fantastic Four and the Avengers.

It’s almost an apocalyptic situation, but thankfully, Spider-Man is able to kill the Venom symbiote and disable the clones. The Venom symbiote’s most prominent bondings typically focus on enhanced strength, but that’s not the case here. It wasn’t Reid’s powers that allowed the Venom symbiote to almost end the world, but his incredible intelligence that the symbiote turned evil.

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Venom Hulk is the physically strongest version of Venom

Multiversal designation: Earth-616

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Absolute Carnage #3

Danny Cates and Ryan Stegman

Hulk merges with the Venom symbiote to fight Carnage.

The Hulk is known for being one of the most physically powerful characters in Marvel’s universe, and this increased even further when Hulk gained the Venom symbiote. As Carnage tears through the Avengers, the Venom symbiote abandons Eddie Brock and merges with the Hulk, hoping that the extra physical strength will be enough to stop Carnage’s rampage. Unfortunately, Carnage manages to easily defeat Venom Hulk with little problem.

The fusion of Hulk and Venom created one of the most dangerous versions of Venom that readers have ever seen. Hulk’s physical power is some of the highest that Marvel has to offer, and the Venom symbiote not only enhanced this, but also gave him more mobility and ranged options thanks to the Venom symbiote’s tendrils.

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Ghost Rider gave poison hellish powers

Multiversal Designation: Earth-53912

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Edge of Venomverse #3

Simon Spurrier and Tigh Walker

Robbie Reyes is possessed by both the ghost of his uncle and the Venom symbiote.

Venom is already pretty strong, with the physical strength to overpower the juggernaut. With Ghost Rider’s powers on top, he’s practically impossible. In this twisted world, Robbie Reyes managed to subjugate the spirit of his vengeful uncle, gaining the power of Ghost Rider. At some point, he then encountered and bonded with the Venom symbiote.

At first, this results in a three-way battle for control of Robbie’s body, but eventually, Robbie’s uncle and the Venom symbiote team up. Taken over by the two of them, Robbie’s body is taken over, and now only the Host Rider remains.

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Venom World is Venom’s ultimate final form

Multiversal designation: Possible future of Earth-616


Venom #29, Eddie Brock time travels far into the future and discovers Venom World

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Poison #29

Al Ewing and Kafu

A version of Venom that eventually takes over the entire planet.

The final version of the Venom symbiote is the one that merges with an entire planet. Readers didn’t get to see much of the Venom world, as it was only seen in a few flashes from the future. It is likely that Venom eventually grows so powerful that he merges with the planet itself. Venom World would likely move through space, continuing to feed on planet after planet and adding them to its own load.

It’s a terrifying look at the ultimate full potential of the Venom symbiote. While the Hulk and Wolverine are certainly powerful and dangerous, they absolutely pale in comparison to an entire world that has become Venom.

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Poison consumes the entire universe

Multiversal Designation: Earth-23203

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Venom: The End #1

Adam Warren and Chambau

A version of Venom that rages a trillion year war against machines.

In this dark reality, a group of machines rose to power known as the artificial superintelligences. This AI eradicated most organic life, including Eddie Brock. The Venom symbiote, wanting revenge for its dead host, tried to spur the other symbiotes into a war to save what little organic life was left. This failed and resulted in the Venom symbiote genocide and consuming every other symbiote.

Venom then imitated the powers of James Madrox, the Multiple Man, and made infinite copies of himself, which it then transformed into thousands of living planets to house new forms of humans, which Venom then bonded with. While an entire planet made of Venom is impressive, nothing can beat a whole Universe of these Poison Symbiote.

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