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Anti-Venom
Eddie Brock as Anti-Venom, as depicted on the cover ofAmazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom - New Ways to Live #1 (September 2009). Art by Mirco Pierfederici.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Amazing Spider-Man #569 (October 2008)
Created by	Dan Slott (writer) John Romita Jr. (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Various hosts
Species	Symbiote–Humanwhite blood cells
Abilities	All powers of the symbiote's first human host,Spider-Man Limited shapeshifting andcamouflage Symbiote's autonomous defense capabilities Undetectable by Spider-Man's "Spider-sense" Immunity to fire, heat, and sound-based attacks Produces curative antibodies

Anti-Venom is a fictionalantihero appearing inComic books published byMarvel Comics. It first appeared inThe Amazing Spider-Man #569 (August 2008), and was created byDan Slott andJohn Romita Jr.^[1] The creature belongs to a race of amorphousextraterrestrialparasites known as theSymbiotes and is regarded asVenom's symbiotic brother. His physical features include white "skin", a black face, and spider symbol across his chest.

The 2008 story"New Ways to Die" features the first appearance of Anti-Venom.^[2]Eddie Brock gets a job at a soup kitchen underMartin Li. Brock is unknowingly cured of his cancer by Li, who possesses the Lightforce abilities, and Brock believes it to be a miracle.^[2] After Brock is attacked byMac Gargan (the Venom symbiote's current host), the Venom symbiote attempts to reunite with Brock, at which point Brock's skin becomescaustic 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 specialantibodies (produced by hiswhite blood cells) due to Li's Lightforce energy.^[2][3] Eddie later sacrificed his Anti-Venom symbiote to cure people from theSpider-Queen's spider-virus during theSpider-Island event.

During the "AXIS" storyline, a new version of Anti-Venom is seen in the crowd of new heroes attending a "self help" style seminar being held byRoderick Kingsley (aka the originalHobgoblin). All the new heroes have been given heroic personas by Kingsley that already exist, but are no longer used. It is not shown whether the new Anti-Venom is indeed a symbiote or just a man in a suit designed to look like the original Anti-Venom symbiote. However, the speech bubble used for the character is stylized in a way to suggest a distortion of the character's voice similar to the way Eddie Brock spoke when bonded with the Anti-Venom symbiote.^[4]

In the comic "Venom Inc.", Venom was captured by The Life Foundation and was experimented on. The Life Foundation accidentally poured hydrochloric acid on Venom and gave him a white appearance. Anti-Venom possessed new abilities including the ability to phase through any solid object. He used it to escape the Life Foundation and bond with one of the scientists who happens to be Flash Thompson. Flash decides to use the symbiote for good and becomes "Agent Anti-Venom".

Anyone possessed by the Anti-Venom symbiote possesses superhuman strength, durability, and stamina, an accelerated and fast healing factor, genetic memory, detection of its Symbiote offspring, wall-crawling, web-generating abilities, spider-senses, immunity toSpider-Man's spider-senses, and camouflage.

Unlike the other Symbiotes, the original Anti-Venom symbiote used by Eddie Brock is immune to fire, heat, and sound-based attacks. In addition, the Anti-Venom symbiote can produce antibodies that can "cure" a person afflicted by things like radioactivity, parasites, diseases, and drugs. The new Anti-Venom symbiote used by Flash Thompson has the ability to heal physical injuries as well.^[5] Due to its failed attempt at curing Spider-Man's radiation-based powers, the Anti-Venom symbiote causes Spider-Man's powers to cancel out when they are too close to each other.

However, Anti-Venom does possess a few weaknesses of its own. It is vulnerable to high concentrations ofNorman Osborn's super-venom viaFreak's DNA. Additionally since Martin Li's Lightforce touch created the symbiote,Mister Negative'sDarkforce touch can interfere or halt Anti-Venom's healing abilities. Also as seen during the Spider-Island event, overusing his healing powers can cause Anti-Venom's powers to weaken.

InWhat If? Peter Parker became Kraven the Hunter where Peter Parker killedKraven the Hunter and replaced Kraven as the new hunter,Madame Web hired Anti-Venom,Spider-Woman and Mac Gargan to stop Peter. Despite being successful in mortally injuring him, they were all defeated.^[6]

• The Anti-Venom symbiote appears inUltimate Spider-Man, voiced byMatt Lanter.^[7] This version is created from a sample of theVenom symbiote, withHarry Osborn as its host. In its self-titled episode, the Anti-Venom symbiote is created byDoctor Octopus andMichael Morbius as a candidate for the former'sHydra-backedSinister Six. Anti-Venom nearly kills Agent Venom, only to be stopped by Spider-Man and Iron Patriot, leaving Anti-Venom inactive and Harry in a coma. In the three-part episode "The Symbiote Saga", Anti-Venom and Harry awaken when theCarnage symbiote attacksNew York. Though they neutralize the latter's various hosts, they are almost consumed by Carnage's "heart" until Spider-Man reveals his identity to Harry. Anti-Venom re-bonds with Harry and sacrifices itself to cure New York of Carnage's infestation, but its abilities are later claimed by theCarnage Queen.
• The Anti-Venom symbiote appears in theSpider-Man episode "Vengeance of Venom".^[8] This version was created afterMay Parker, atMax Modell's suggestion, uses a sonic device on a symbiote-infectedGroot to access the alien's pollination abilities and hybridize it with symbiote power to cure the Klyntar invasion force's hosts.

• The Eddie Brock incarnation of Anti-Venom appears as a boss inSpider-Man: Edge of Time, voiced bySteve Blum.^[9]
• The Anti-Venom symbiote appears as an alternate skin for Eddie Brock / Venom inMarvel Rivals.^[10]
• The Anti-Venom symbiote appears inMarvel's Spider-Man 2. This version was the result ofMiles Morales andMartin Li purifying trace amounts of the Venom symbiote that had been left behind withinPeter Parker as a result of his possession of it, granting him the ability to destroy other symbiotes along with enhanced power without the negative side effects.^[11]

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