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 Scott Washington as Hybrid. Artwork of the cover ofVenom vol 4 #18 (September 2019). Art byPatrick Zircher and Brian Reber. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | as Scott Washington:The New Warriors #21 (March 1992) as Hybrid:Venom: Along Came a Spider #1 (Jan. 1996) |
| Created by | Scott Washington Fabian Nicieza (writer) Mark Bagley (penciller) Hybrid Evan Skolnick (writer) Patrick Zircher (penciller) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Scott Washington |
| Team affiliations | TheNew Warriors The Guardsmen NYPD |
| Abilities | Alien symbiote grants:
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Hybrid (Scott Washington) is afictionalanti-hero appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. Washington first appeared inThe New Warriors #21 (March 1992) by writerFabian Nicieza and pencillerMark Bagley. The Hybrid symbiote first appeared inVenom: Along Came a Spider #1 (Jan. 1996) by writerEvan Skolnick and pencillerPatrick Zircher.
Created by writerFabian Nicieza and pencillerMark Bagley, Scott Washington appears inThe New Warriors #21 (March 1992), #25-26 and #36. In 1996, he is the main character Hybrid in the back-up stories in two miniseriesVenom: Along Came a Spider andVenom: The Hunted, all written byEvan Skolnick.
In 2007, he is mentioned inCivil War: Battle Damage Report #1. Hybrid is also mentioned at the conclusion of the first issue ofCarnage U.S.A. (2011), along withVenom,Anti-Venom,Toxin, andScorn, as being the next option to stop Carnage's rampage in the Mid-west after the Avengers are defeated.[1][2]
He has an entry inAll-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #5 - 'Gorgon to Jury' (2006) and an entry inThe Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z HC vol. 05 - 'Guardsmen to Jackal (Warren)' (2008).
Scott Washington was anAfrican-AmericanGuardsman involved in guarding and transportingJustice who had been arrested and sentenced to theVault prison forsupervillains.[3]
The Hybrid symbiote is an amalgamation of four symbiotes (Riot,Phage,Lasher andAgony) into a single symbiote entity. The fused symbiote seeks out Scott in the Vault's lab facility. While guarding the symbiotes, Scott realized that they are not malevolent or a threat and that the experiments are causing the organism pain, so he lets it go.[4] When his superiors discover that Scott had released the aliens he was supposed to guard, he is fired. Scott returns to theBedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, the gang-torn neighborhood in which he grew up. Following a basketball court scuffle with the Eazy X gang, Scott and his brother Derek were shot: Derek was killed while Scott became crippled, losing the use of his legs.[5]
The Hybrid symbiote located and bonded with Scott, which resulted in Scott regaining the ability to walk.[5] As Hybrid, Scott enacts revenge on the Eazy X gang that had crippled him.[6] Hybrid is targeted by theJury, a group of vigilantes, before being rescued by theNew Warriors. Justice offers Scott membership in the group, but he declined, citing more important work to do in his home neighborhood.[7]
Scott Washington was considered as a "potential recruit" for theInitiative program.[8]
Scott is hunted down and murdered byEddie Brock as part of a goal to eliminate the symbiotes' "evil" from Earth.[9] The Hybrid symbiote is later separated into the four symbiotes by a clandestine military group to be used by the U.S. government.[10]
LikeSpider-Man and theVenom symbiote, Hybrid has wall-crawling and web-slinging abilities, and can formpseudopodia or tendrils to create snares and bladed weapons. Hybrid also has the ability to camouflage, such as its ability to mimic clothes on the person it has bonded with. It also has a border-line warning sense and can "see" through symbiote itself. Hybrid can also detach a piece of itself to send messages to allies, and can change shape to form a membrane that allows it to glide through the air. The Hybrid symbiote can also absorb various materials and chemicals, such as Spider-Man's webs.
Like the Venom andCarnage symbiotes, the Hybrid symbiote has superhuman strength and speed. With Scott Washington as its host, he regained his ability to walk which he had lost during a gang fight.
Hybrid appears as a boss and unlockable playable character inMarvel Avengers Alliance.[11]
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