Symbiotes

* Melee
* Grabber
* Ranged
* Rusher
* Behemoth

The **Symbiotes** are an antagonistic faction featured in *Marvel's Spider-Man 2*. After Venom defeats Kraven and his hunters, the alien symbiote begins infecting civilians, turning them into symbiotes to serve in his army.

## History

### *Marvel's Spider-Man 2*

Following his victory over Kraven, Venom started to capture people throughout the city and infect them with symbiotes of their own. He planned to create a symbiote army and use the powers of a meteorite that had crash-landed on earth years ago to “Heal the world", thus unleashing an alien invasion. Those he converted were sent out to infect more people and also guard his lair in central park, where the meteorite was hidden.

Both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, as the Spider-Men, fought against these symbiotes. Venom attempted to make Peter to join his symbiote army, having them infect and try to convert him. However, Miles and Mister Negative intervened and freed Peter from the symbiotes' control, creating an entirely new symbiote known as Anti-Venom. This symbiote proving itself as versatile and destructive as the symbiotes themselves but also held the ability to directly counter their strengths. Miles also created a sound-based grenade against them as well, exploiting their known weakness to hyper-sonic sounds. He gave several of these grenades and a sonic-modified stun gun to Mary Jane Watson, who used them against the symbiotes when sent into the nest of symbiotes to retrieve the meteorite.

After the trio defeated Venom and destroyed the meteorite, many symbiotes still roam about New York. Peter and Miles set out to defeat them, either single-handedly or together.

## Characteristics

Symbiotes, like other factions, consist of various enemy types and come in an array of colors with shark claws and big mouths full of teeth. Many of these creatures are taller than most humans. There are 5 main categories of Symbiotes. These include, Melee, Ranged, Grabber, Lasher, and Behemoth.

Melee symbiotes are composed of black and yellow goo.

Grabber symbiotes are made of red and black goo, similar to the Carnage symbiote. However, the two are not related. Unlike other symbiotes, Grabbers are the same size as regular humans.

Ranged symbiotes are pink and black in color, and can shoot weapons out of their body. These include symbiote bombs, dagger projectiles, and others. These ranged variants are the 2nd tallest symbiote rank.

Rusher symbiotes are comprised of green and dark green goo, with tentacles coming out of their backs. Notably, these Rushers are the only rank of symbiote that possesses no black colors. Since these symbiotes tend to walk on all fours, they are the shortest of symbiotes, standing around 3-4 feet tall.

The Behemoth symbiotes are made up of grey and dark blue goo, with marbling throughout. These are the biggest of ranks, having much more muscular builds and hunched backs, even rivaling Venom itself in height. Behemoths also have tendrils on their back and shoulders, but these disappear when they are affected by a Sonic Burst gadget. All of these symbiotes have weapon manifesting abilities, like tongues, spikes, goo bombs and more.

The faction mostly consists of citizens who have been infected by Venom. They all possess similar powers to Venom, such as advanced physical abilities, including superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility and durability. They also mimic other powers such as scaling surfaces like Spider-Man and possessing the ability to fire goo-like projectiles at their targets. They also possess a hivemind, only able to take orders from Venom himself.

However, they also share Venom’s weakness to high-frequency sound. They are also vulnerable to Spider-Man while wearing the Anti-Venom symbiote. The abilities of Mister Negative, which are also what created Anti-Venom, allow him to purge them from their hosts. When beaten, the symbiotes will leave their hosts, restoring them to normal while the symbiotes disintegrate.