Anti-Venom
fictional character in Marvel Comics
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. 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.
Hosts
Eddie Brock
The 2008 story New Ways to Die features the first appearance of Anti-Venom. Eddie Brock gets a job at a soup kitchen under Martin Li, who unknowingly cures Brock's cancer using his Lightforce abilities. After Brock is attacked by Mac Gargan (the Venom symbiote's current host), Venom attempts to reunite with Brock, at which point Brock's skin becomes caustic to the Venom symbiote. Brock is enveloped in a new white "Anti-Venom" symbiote when remnants of the Venom symbiote in his body merge with his antibodies, which were enhanced by Li's Lightforce energy. During the Spider-Island event, Brock sacrifices the Anti-Venom symbiote to cure the Spider-Queen's spider-virus.
Agent Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson)
In the "Venom Inc." storyline, Venom is captured by the Life Foundation and was experimented on.
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