Hybrid (Symbiote) (Earth 1)

The **Hybrid Symbiote** is an Symbiote and.

## Overview

Hybrid was one of five Symbiotes forcibly spawned from Venom by the Life Foundation to be used as guards/enforcers for them and their clients.

## History

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### Origin

After their original hosts were killed by Scream, the Life Foundation Symbiotes known as Riot, Phage, Lasher, and Agony were apprehended by the government and taken to the Top Secret Testing Facility (TSTF) #12, buried deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. There, they were constantly submitted to torturous experiments by Dr. Edmund Zwerling and other scientists who were studying their biology.

When the Earth was invaded by an army of symbiotes, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote set off a psychic shriek to wipe the alien invaders out. This scream was felt by the four Life Foundation symbiotes, and they combined in order to survive. While trying to escape, the composite symbiote briefly bonded to Scott Washington, an African-American man who was a Guardsman at the Vault before being transferred to the TSFT #12. Upon feeling their pain, Scott realized they were not evil at all and helped them to escape the facility, costing him his job.

Months later, the composite symbiote, having decided to turn Scott into its new host, located and bonded with him. Scott had changed since the last time they saw each other, as he was consumed with rage after his brother Derek was killed in the same gang attack that crippled him. Regaining the ability to walk, Scott rechristened himself as Hybrid and went after those responsible for his misery: the Easy X Gang.

### De-Fusion

When Eddie Brock started his hunt for symbiotes, he first targeted Hybrid. While Washington was patrolling the streets of his neighborhood, Brock paralyzed him with an electric discharge. A confused Hybrid asked why Brock was attacking him, and although he knew Scott was a hero, Brock shot and killed him.

The rests of Hybrid was found by the U.S. Army and separated into the original four symbiotes that composed it. They were subsequently bonded to the members of Mercury Team so they could go fight Carnage, who had taken over the small town of Doverton. Carnage was ultimately subdued and sent to prison.

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Some time later, Carnage escaped from prison and killed all the human members of the Mercury Team. In order to take revenge on their "brother," the four symbiotes bonded to Deadpool. Following the defeat of Carnage and his ally Shriek, Deadpool passed the amalgamated symbiotes to the dog Lasher.

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### Absolute Carnage

The dog started wandering the state - the Hybrid symbiote succumbing to Knull's corrupting influence - until it came across a young girl named Sadie, who was crying over her family. The dog comforted her and Sadie invited it inside, where - in response to Sadie's wish for a way for her family to stay together - the symbiotes separated and took over Sadie's parents, her brother Billy, and finally Sadie herself. After the family were separated from the symbiotes by the Maker and were being kept in the test tubes, they broke out and bonded to Maker, who then begun attacking Dylan Brock.

While Hybrid was distracted by the arrival of Spider-Man, Captain America, and the Thing, Dylan freed the Sleeper symbiote and seized control of it using his symbiote-powers. Doused in napalm by Sleeper, Hybrid was subsequently set ablaze by Hawkeye; though the Maker managed to escape the inferno and flee into the sewers.

### King in Black

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The four Life Foundation symbiotes survived and recovered, still in the thrall of Knull, and when he arrived on Earth they were once again sent to hunt for Dylan Brock. Coming across Scream - now bonded to Andi Benton - the four symbiotes merged into Hybrid and attempted to assimilate their estranged sister, but were blown apart by Scream's Hell-Mark. While Andi assumed she'd killed Hybrid, the gestalt symbiote surreptitiously reformed and escaped into the sewers.