Symbiote War

The **Symbiote War** was a large inter-planetary war from Marvel's *Guardians of the Galaxy*. It deals with the feral alien parasitic creatures known as the Symbiotes as they travel to conquer other worlds across the Galaxy. The war takes place in the Season 2 three-part special, "Symbiote War."

## History

### Background

It all started with a benevolent race of symbiotic aliens called the Klyntar who could bond with any living creature they touched and shared a hive mind with each other. They lived peacefully on their homeworld, Symbiosis until one day, Thanos came to Symbiosis, captured the Klyntar, and vaporized the whole planet. Thanos then made an experimental lab on Planet X which was Groot's home planet until it was destroyed by Thanos when he attacked and invaded it. Groot was the sole survivor of his entire species and eventually became the last of his kind after that. But during the attack, he managed to obtain a special seed from the planet called the World Pod which could regrow his planet and entire species when he planted it in a sacred pool at the royal palace on Planet X. But it was drained off its full power when Groot used it to grow small copies of himself to save Earth from being destroyed by Thanos using the Cosmic Seed. Thanos used the lab on Planet X to try and process the Klyntar and remove their free will in order to make them into living weapons for his army to conquer the Galaxy and used the planet's rich soil to reproduce the Klyntar since it was filled with life energy. However, he instead corrupted the Klyntar and turned them into mindless and feral monsters filled with rage, thus transforming the Klyntar into the Symbiotes. Thanos then tested one of the Symbiotes on his daughter, Gamora when she was little which made her stronger, vicious, and destructive. But when Thanos realized he couldn't control the Symbiotes, he painfully debonded the Symbiote from Gamora using a special device he made and abandoned Planet X. As time went on, the Symbiotes reproduced on Planet X because of its rich soil and completely took over it. However, five of the Klyntar managed to escape their transformation and had been fighting off the Symbiotes to try and escape Planet X but they couldn't without any hosts to bond to. The Guardians of the Galaxy met some of the Symbiotes before at an old mining facility on another planet that were evolved by residual cosmic energy from the Cosmic Seed. They even tried to spread to the Kree homeworld, Hala after one of them snuck aboard the Guardians' ship, the Milano but the Guardians were able to destroy them. Then later, after Adam Warlock was awakened and both grew and matured to adult age, he used his powers to power up Groot's World Pod. After that, the Guardians went to Planet X so Groot could plant the World Pod in the sacred pool to revive both the planet and his species. Which made Groot so happy he grew plants all around the Milano and even made the Guardians a feast which they didn't like.

### The Battle

When they arrive on Planet X, the Guardians are immediately attacked by some of the Symbiotes but they try to fight them off with Rocket making a sonic weapon out of Star-Lord's tape player and using his Pocket Dimension Storage Vial. However, the Guardians are outmatched the Symbiotes and Rocket gets bonded to one of them but when Star-Lord gets attacked by one of the Symbiotes, he is saved by one of the Klyntar. Eventually, the Guardians make their way underground to the palace of Planet X then they come across Thanos' old lab where he made the Symbiotes where Groot rebuilds the debonding device that Thanos used on Gamora to try and save Rocket. The Guardians continue to fight off the Symbiotes and get Symbiote Rocket back to the lab where Groot uses the debonding device device to free Rocket from the Symbiote. However, Rocket reveals that while he was boned to the Symbiote, he learned through the Symbiotes' hive mind that all of Planet X is infested with Symbiotes and that they're all coming after Groot's World Pod. Gamora claims that the only way to stop the Symbiotes is by initiating the failsafe doomsday device that Thanos installed into Planet X to blow it up in case he couldn't remove the Symbiotes from his test subjects and they turned on him. Although both Star-Lord and Rocket want to simply just leave Planet X on the Milano, Groot feels it would be better to just destroy it than to abandon it to the Symbiotes which the other Guardians all agree on. The Guardians all take the elevator and make their way down through the tunnels to get to the doomsday device and Rocket sets it to go off in twenty minutes. However, when the Guardians get back to the elevator to escape Planet X the Symbiotes get through it and chase after them. But then the Guardians meet the Klyntar where one of them bonds with Star-Lord after he recognizes them as the ones who saved him from the Symbiotes before which allows it to communicate with the other Guardians. The Klyntar then help the Guardians fight off against the Symbiotes and one bonded to Star-Lord tells Rocket to seal off the tunnels from them which he does using explosives. After the Klyntar bonded with Star-Lord tells the rest of the other Guardians about his species' past, the Klyntar all agree to help the Guardians get off Planet X by bonding with them so they will all be strong enough to fight off against the Symbiotes which the other Guardians accept, except for Groot who doesn't trust the Klyntar. The Guardians and the Klyntar all manage to get through the tunnels and fight off the Symbiotes then they fly up the elevator and back to Thanos' lab. But in the process of fighting off the Symbiotes, the unbonded Klyntar gets fatally injured after saving Groot from one of them so Groot saves the Klyntar by reluctantly bonding with it and together they easily defeat the Symbiotes. The Guardians and the Klyntar then both get to the Milano and escape Planet X just in time before it explodes, destroying all the Symbiotes on it. Afterwards, the Guardians unbond from the Klyntar, Groot plants his World Pod on Planet Y instead, and the Klyntar all agree to guard and protect Groot's species when they grow back. However, a chunk of Planet X drifts off into space as a comet with some surviving Symbiotes still attached to it, ready to invade other planets so the Guardians go to stop it.

The Guardians follow the Symbiote Comet as it heads straight to Spartax very fast so Star-Lord tries to call Victoria to warn her about it. But General Glogug of the Spartax Military takes the call and tells the Guardians that Victoria is not to be disturbed and that Spartax is preparing to destroy the Symbiote Comet with a huge Spartaxian fleet. Star-Lord tries to warn him that if they destroy the comet it would cause the Symbiotes to rain down onto Spartax but General Glogug doesn't listen to him and hangs up. So Star-Lord tries to personally warn Victoria himself by flying out of the Milano and to her flagship but she dismisses his help claiming that she can handle it herself. When the Symbiote Comet approaches Spartax, Victoria orders everyone on the flagship to evacuate and prepares to smash the flagship right into the comet to destroy the Symbiotes using the flagship's fuel to burn them despite Star-Lord's pleads. Star-Lord soon gets an idea to deflect the Symbiote Comet away from Spartax by using the Milano to send it into a Sun with its tractor beam but during an argument with Victoria, the Guardians go with Star-Lord's plan which works. But in the process, Victoria's flagship gets stuck in the Symbiote Comet and starts to get infected by the Symbiotes as the comet heads straight for the Sun. General Glogug then takes full command of the Spartaxian fleet and prepares to blow up the Symbiote Comet until the Guardians tell him to stand down so they can try to save Star-Lord and Victoria who are trying to keep the Symbiotes out of the flagship's main control room where they are. But the Symbiotes are about to break through the doors so Star-Lord and Victoria prepare to fight them off with their Element Blasters until Star-Lord gets an idea to use his tape player to scare the Symbiotes away which works. But then the tape player gets messed up in the process which allows the Symbiotes to break into the flagship's control room and attack Star-Lord and Victoria. They fight them off with their Element Blasters and later hide in a ventilation shaft but then the Symbiotes take control of the flagship's engines and use them to redirect the Symbiote Comet away from the Sun and toward Spartax. So General Glogug prepares to destroy the Symbiote Comet with the Spartaxian fleet after being granted the full authorization to do it by the Galactic Council. As a result, Drax and Gamora go to rescue Star-Lord and Victoria and plan to turn on the flagship's shields inward to protect them while Rocket and Groot try to destroy all the Symbiotes on the comet with electricity by using antennas from a nearby satellite as lightning rods. Back on the flagship, Star-Lord, and Victoria fight off the Symbiotes and are then rescued by Drax and Gamora who turn on the flagship's shields inward but Rocket and Groot's part to electrocute the Symbiotes on the comet doesn't work so General Glogug has the Spartaxian fleet fire the missiles to destroy the Symbiote Comet. Rocket and Groot try to convince the Galactic Council to stop General Glogug's attack on the comet but they can't since their vote to have him do it was unanimous. However, Thor is the only abstention to the vote who helps Rocket and Groot by destroying the missiles with Mjolnir and uses his powers to destroy all the Symbiotes on both the Symbiote comet and the flagship. However, it also damages the flagship in the process and creates a leak of toxic mist on it but Victoria gets some survivor suits for her, Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax to survive the mist and escape the flagship. Victoria then calls off General Glogug's attack and orders the Spartaxian fleet to stand down claiming that anyone who fires another missile will be declared a traitor to Spartax. Later, the Guardians and Thor search the Symbiote Comet to see if any Symbiotes survived but find nothing on it. Thor then goes back to Asgard but a single surviving Symbiote secretly bonds to him as he travels thus taking the fight to Asgard.

When the Guardians notice it, they follow Thor to Asgard to save him but the Symbiote completely bonds to Thor which makes him unworthy to wield Mjolnir. Heimdall then fights off Symbiote Thor but he beats Heimdall with a Mjolnir made out of the Symbiote then he heads for the Asgardian City and defeats all of its warriors. The Guardians and Heimdall try to stop Symbiote Thor with the Guardians using some Asgardian weapons with Rocket combining some with his blaster which frees Thor from the Symbiote for a bit but then it rebonds to him again when Thor tries to summon Mjolnir. Symbiote Thor then goes to himself with Yggdrasil the World Tree to make more Symbiotes but the Guardians and Heimdall fight him off to try and stop him. However, Symbiote Thor is able to bond with the World Tree which causes it to produce spores that create more Symbiotes that bond to everyone in Asgard. The Asgardian Symbiotes all head for the Bifrost to spread to the whole Galaxy so Heimdall sends Star-Lord, Gamora, and Rocket to the Chamber of Renewal to try and awaken Odin from his Odin-sleep to use his power the Odinforce to stop the Symbiotes. While Heimdall, Drax, and Groot fight off the Asgardian Symbiotes at the Bifrost to stop them from spreading across the Galaxy. While searching for Odin, Star-Lord, Gamora, and Rocket fight off some Symbiote Spores then meet Loki in an Asgardian prison. Star-Lord tries to convince Loki to help them stop the Symbiotes but he refuses to so Star-Lord has Rocket try to break him out so he can. After failing to break Loki out, Star-Lord, Gamora, and Rocket ask him where to find Odin which he reveals is upstairs. However, when they arrive at the Chamber of Renewal, they discover that Odin has bonded to a Symbiote too. Star-Lord, Gamora, and Rocket fight off Symbiote Odin but then they escape back to the Asgardian prison and beg Loki to help them which he agrees to in exchange for being pardoned for all his crimes at Odin's request when the whole thing is over which the Guardians reluctantly agree to. Then Loki easily escapes his cell by walking through it because since both Thor and Odin are taken over by Symbiotes, he is now the All-Father of Asgard. Loki then teleports the Guardians to an Asgardian Ship and they all head for the Bifrost to regroup with the others to stop the Asgardian Symbiotes. Gamora and Drax try to fend them off while the others get to the Bifrost but in the process, Gamora and Drax get captured by the Asgardian Symbiotes who bond with them. Then Loki double-crosses the remaining Guardians, attacks Heimdall, takes his sword, and tries to use the Bifrost to send all the Symbiotes to Midgard which is Earth. But Star-Lord and Groot are able to stop him and with help from Heimdall, Rocket uses both Mjolnir and Heimdall's Sword with his blaster to fight off the Asgardian Symbiotes just as they break through into the Bifrost. Rocket also frees Thor from the Symbiotes who gets back Mjolnir, escapes the Symbiote World Trees, fights off the other Asgardian Symbiotes, and uses his powers to free Odin from the Symbiotes too. After that, Odin uses his Odin-Force to destroy all the Symbiotes in Asgard which frees everyone from their control including the World Tree.

### Aftermath

After Asgard is saved and the World Tree is returned to normal, Odin praises the Guardians as heroes and asks to grant one wish for them. However, Loki makes them wish for his pardon due to a spell he put on Star-Lord earlier which Loki gets, and later escapes. Later, Groot's species grows perfectly on Planet Y and it even later becomes the home of Rocket's family. It would also become the resting place for Adam Warlock after the Attack of Magus where he will rest until he is needed again. However, while Odin may have destroyed the Symbiotes, most of them managed to survive as one of them was a prisoner of the High Evolutionary in Adam Warlock's pocket dimension. A stronger Symbiote called the Carnage Symbiote would also make its way to Earth from a chunk of Thanos' asteroid ship, the Sanctuary which later frees Thanos after he was buried into the center of the Earth from his last fight with the Guardians. But both he and the Carnage Symbiote were eventually defeated by the Guardians with help from Spider-Man using the Venom Symbiote. Loki would later be recaptured again but would be freed to help the Guardians again in the Conquest of Serpent.

## Belligerents

### Guardians of the Galaxy

* Star-Lord
* Gamora
* Drax
* Rocket Racoon
* Groot
* The Klyntar
* Victoria
* Thor
* Heimdall
* Odin
* Loki

### Symbiotes

* Normal Symbiotes
* Asgardian Symbiotes
* Symbiote Spores

### Other

* General Glogug
* Spartaxian Soldiers
* Galactic Council
	+ Nova Prime
	+ Rigellian Grand Commissioner
	+ Kree Supreme Intelligence

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