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They've come and gone in the limelight of marvel lore, but it seems the symbiotes are quite 'back' as of late. The Mighty AND New Avengers are about to encounter a 'Venom-Virus' somehow involving Dr. Doom and a New York city chock full 'o' those crazy gooey suckers scraping and drooling at our most favorite marvel teamsters, and the self-proclaimed Aboutheroes expert on symbiotes (all of them) is here to lay it all down for you as all-encompassing and nutshell-esque as possible.

The symbiote first came to earth after Spider-Man, anybody who's seen Spidey 3 has a close version of what happened, but here's the skinny. Spidey was on the Beyonder's planet during the first Secret War when his costume got thrashed and he found what he thought was a new one. Nope! It's an alien that wants to crawl inside of you and eat your mind, or whatever, it seems to change depending on who's writing. Spidey finds out and gets rid of it. By going up to the top of a church and letting the bells inside of the tower rattle his noodle around a bit, thus weakening the symbiote, which is vulnerable to sonics and fire.

ENTER EDDIE BROCK! Reporter recently proven to be wrong about who the "Sin-Eater" was, who hated Spidey a lot. He's in church praying for forgiveness for what he's about to do (which is kill himself). Buuuut, the costume finds him as it slinks away, rejected by Spidey, and the two make a wonderful psychotic couple. Venom. La-dee-dah, Venom hates Spidey a lot and constantly pops up throughout the 90's falling into and out of various truces with the web-head, always upholding a twisted sense of brutal justice and earning himself the nickname, the Lethal Protector. While in after one of his earlier stints, Eddie (seperated from the symbiote) roomed up with crazy hillbilly killer, Cletus Kasady. Before you know it, the symbiote busts Eddie out of jail for more Venom-escapades, but not without squirting out an 'offspring' to bond with Cletus.

ENTER CARNAGE: One of the worst and best characters from the 90's, Carnage killed a lot of people because he thought it was fun. That's it. Venom first teams up with Spidey to right the wrong that his Symbiote did giving the madman the means to commit mass murder on such a vicious and epic scale. After repeated episodes of Spidey and Venom going after the Symbiote hillbilly, Venom busts into the cell where Carnage is being held, and proceeds to eat the symbiote. No more Carnage.

WRONG! Cletus breaks out and follows Spidey through a portal to some crazy space planet (haven't read the issue in quite some time) and finds another Symbiote! Woo! He's back! Buuuut, nothing that significant really happens with him before symbiotes go out of style...

RETURN OF THE SLIMY TONGUE KING: Venom comes back on the scene about 3 and a half years ago, only now he has cancer. Poor Eddie, the symbiote doesn't like him anymore. It wants to leave him. Tough Noogies! Spidey tricks it into staying with Eddie until Eddie's through. It's worth noting that there was a Venom series here where there was a Venom clone and it was all super-spy government laden and la-dee-dah, but trust me, it didn't make a wink of sense, forget it.

CARNAGE HAS A BABY! Carnage pops out a child that hooks up with a police officer making a symbiote named 'Toxin' that fights for good. Venom and Carnage team up (it's weird, it didn't make sense) to defeat him, cuz Venom hates anyone who likes Spidey, and Carnage....well Carnage hates everyone. Long story short, Spidey helps Toxin get his head straight and fight of the Toothy Family of Nightmarish Proportions. Toxin is now enrolled in the Initiative, nothing else has been released on him. (Funny note, Venom keeps referring to himself as the Grandpa of Toxin, but he isn't cuz he ate his 'son' and Carnage's symbiote was a new one from the far-reaches of space).

BENDIS HATES 90'S COMICS! And he shows it by having Carnage pop up in New Avengers only to be flown into space by the Sentry and ripped in half. Fuck yeah. Carnage = gone...for now.

MILLAR HATES ME! And he shows it by ripping the symbiote off of Eddie Brock and throwing it on the Scorpion. Eddie sees "Passion of the Christ" and decides he wants to die (again), so he auctions the symbiote off to the highest bidder and donates the money to charity. Then he slits his wrists and goes to the hospital, where, long story short, he still is, only he's batshit crazy without the help of the symbiote. The symbiote goes to the son of a mob boss, who sucks. The symbiote sees this and leaves him (midair, leaving him to fall to his death, ha!) and goes to the Scorpion.

THUNDERBOLTS HO! The new Venom now works for the Initiative as a member of the Thunderbolts.

Misc Characters:

The 5: 5 Symbiote offspring were extracted off of Venom and given to 5 employees of the 'Life Foundation'. Their names were: Riot, Phage, Lasher, Agony, and Scream. These people had seemingly 2 different outcomes. Some of them were eaten by a symbiote eating alien monster, but in another comic...

Hybrid: They remain intact until Scream kills their hosts and the remaining symbiotes all blurb together and then find a crippled ex raft employee. They all form on entity named 'Hybrid'. He ends up tooling around with the New Warriors for a bit, but quickly disappears, currently M.I.A..

And there you have it kiddies! That's pretty much the nutshell history of Symbiotes! There's a lot more small stuff but this is the stuff that really made any significant impact at all, at least in my opinion. And now you're all ready for any new Symbiote Action that comes up in comics now, be it a Symbiote Virus...or just crazy eddie trying to pull the plug on Aunt May. Seeya buds!

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