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Zombie and Dragon Symbiotes

The god of symbiotes makes an appearance in Donny Cates' Venom run.

By Just a guyPublished 6 years ago 4 min read
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Do you guys remember my post about the new Venom title by Donny Cates? If you don't then the two posts you're looking for will be at the bottom of this post because that is what this post is going to be about.

If you remember, Eddie Brock wakes up in a room with an older gentleman named Rex Strickland, who reveals to Brock that the Venom symbiote is not the first one to ever have a human host, and most definitely not the first symbiote to land on Earth. In fact, we find out that during the Vietnam War, S.H.I.E.L.D. discovered that there was a buried symbiote, and they extracted samples from the symbiote they found and bonded those samples to a few people in Rex Strickland's Squadron. Strickland reveals that all of them went insane because of the symbiotes and died. But here is the crazy part. The symbiotes can still function even though their hosts are dead. So in essence, Venom is forced to fight zombies that are bonded with symbiotes.

This is an interesting concept for Cates to bring up, considering that we've been told many times that the Symbiotes need a host to survive, and I guess we all just assumed that they were living hosts, but this doesn't seem to be the case. This raises a lot of questions as to how symbiotes work. Do they need a living host to survive? Then why can't they just bond to random objects? Or is it because symbiotes have a preference? Do some of them only like living hosts, or do some of them like using dead hosts as flesh? This revelation that Cates gives the reader is huge, and I feel like this is an interesting direction that Cates wants to take the story. And if you have questions now, then wait, because trust me, you are going to have way more.

When Eddie Brock first destroys the envoy containing the zombie symbiotes, he expects that the rest of the task (collecting the bodies of Rex Strickland's comrades) is going to be cake. It's not. That is when the symbiote zombies emerge from the wreckage, looking both cool and absolutely horrifying at the same time. You would think that there would be a cool fight with Venom and these zombies, but there isn't. In fact, the Venom symbiote pisses itself, separates from Eddie Brock, and runs away.

Yeah, the Venom Symbiote, which when bonded to a host, essentially has the strength of Spider-Man, runs away. Spider-Man always holds back and pulls his punches because if he punched someone with full force, they would die. When Doctor Octopus temporarily took control of Peter Parker's body, becoming Spider-Man, he punched someone in the face and BROKE THEIR JAW OFF. So when I say Venom is strong, Venom is STRONG. Just some quick info, symbiotes take attributes from each host and passes these attributes to the next host as long as they remain bonded. So theoretically, Venom is stronger than these dead zombie symbiote, so why is he scared? Well, let's continue with the story because I'll tell you what happens at the end of the issue and why it's important.

Brock, being on his own because his symbiote bolted, tries to fight one of the symbiotes, and gets impaled in the very next panel. Yeah, he stood no chance at all. As Brock lays there dying, there is thunder, lightning, and an earthquake in New York City. And it's revealed that the samples that S.H.I.E.L.D. took was a DRAGON. Not just any dragon, the dragon that Beowulf fought in the mythological stories. The final panel shows the dragon shooting into the air, and the Venom Symbiote says "God is coming."

Now here is where so many questions pop up regarding symbiotes. One, why is the symbiote referred to as God? Is it the God of the symbiotes? Or is that symbiote just bonded to a dragon? If the symbiote is just bonded to a dragon, why is the symbiote called god? Also is the symbiote actually bonded to a dragon or is it just a symbiote that is a dragon? Why is it making the Venom Symbiote go haywire? There's just so many questions that stem from this scene. Not just about the story, but about the Venom Mythos as a whole. Hopefully we get a bunch of our questions answered pretty soon.

That concludes this post. If you haven't read my previous posts on Venom, they are linked below. As always feel free to check out my profile on other comic book related posts. See you in the next post!

Note: I do not own the art, panels, or characters shown in this post. All art, characters and panels belong to respective owners.

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I like to read comic books, watch tv shows, and write about them. Ill also write about other things too!

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