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Object Symbiote
The Symbiotes
A klyntar species that needs a host, and is much more agreeable about it than its reputation suggests.
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What it is
A klyntar: a species that needs a host to survive and is far more agreeable about the arrangement than its reputation suggests. Sony's films play it as a buddy comedy about two roommates who eat people; Raimi's Spider-Man 3 plays it as a costume that makes you worse, arriving by meteorite rather than by probe.
Where it turns up
Canonical timeline · 4 entries
Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.
Sony's Spider-Man Universe
A separate universe, in its own order-
Venom2018 · Origin
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021 · Major role
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Venom: The Last Dance2024 · Major role
Raimi's Spider-Man
A separate universe, in its own order
Beyond the screen1 from the comics · click to open
From the comics
It started as a costume
Peter picks up a black suit on Battleworld, wears it for four years of publication, and only then learns it is alive. Venom is what it becomes after Peter rejects it and it finds someone who hates him — a slow burn no adaptation has had the runway to reproduce.
Secret Wars #8 (1984); The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (1988), David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane