Symbiote Suit

The **Symbiote Suit** is one of the primary suits used by Peter Parker in *Marvel's Spider-Man 2*. It is the direct rage form of the Black Suit, serving as a Symbiote Surge transformation form during the second act, while also becomes an unlockable normal suit in the said act's "It Chose You". Its role as the Symbiote Surge form is then replaced by the Anti-Venom Suit in the third act onward.

## History

At first, the Black Suit can only temporarily transform into the Symbiote Suit whenever Peter uses its Symbiote Surge ability, empowering his attacks. However, after contact with the meteorite the Venom symbiote came from, the suit permanently adopts this form, corrupting Peter's mind, and even worse, shatters his friendships with his friends and remaining family when Harry Osborn starts dying again without it. Apparently, as Dr. Connors feared, longer periods of using the symbiote cause it to leave its fragments within its previous hosts' bodies to be re-bonded with them, and made them addicted with the suit, and Harry still has its fragment due to his longer period with the suit for years. Peter ultimately removes the suit and avoids its addictions, after regaining his senses with the help of Miles Morales, who prevents the suit from controlling Peter's body into killing Kraven. However, the suit manages to escape containment and re-bond with a now sickly, drug addled Harry, who uses it to kill Kraven and infects New York with the symbiotes before the rest of the world into a hive mind planet.

When a hordes of symbiotes re-infects Peter in an attempt to immediately re-enter into this form again, the full transformation process has been prevented by a combined effort of Miles and a redeemed Mister Negative, transforming Peter's Venom symbiote base form/Black Suit into Anti-Venom Symbiote Suit.

## Characteristics

Though directly a rage form of the Black Suit, the form and spider emblems' design-wise of this suit resemble those of its classic counterpart, but more visceral and jagged.

As it is a Venom symbiote alien suit, it sports the symbiote's signature black web colors. It also uses the symbiote tendrils for the Spider-Dash and Spider-Jump moves. While donning this suit normally after "It Chose You" until "Anything Can Be Broken", the Symbiote Surge transformation remains unchanged, until the transformation into this suit is replaced by Anti-Venom Suit as of "Set Things Right".

## Original appearance

*For more background of the Symbiote Suit throughout comic book history, see **all appearances of Venom** and the **original appearance of Venom** on the **Marvel Database***

The earliest instance of Spider-Man wearing a "Black Suit" came about due to a fan contest hosted by Marvel Comics in 1982, where the costume idea for the character was submitted by a fan named Randy Schueller, with the initial intent being that the suit would function as a costume for stealth purposes. Marvel's chief editor Jim Shooter, impressed with the pitch, bought the rights to the black costume from Schuller for $220.00. It made its first official appearance in a publication during the crossover event *Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars* (1984–85), which united the heroes of the wider Marvel Universe against a multiversal entity known as the Beyonder. During the events of issue #8 (Dec. 1984), Spider-Man's classic costume was damaged amidst his displacement on Battleworld with the other heroes, and Bruce Banner / Hulk informs Parker of a device that can generate any type of fabric from thought, leading him to test the machine for himself. The device generated a black sphere which began to wrap around Parker, creating the Black Suit. The machine would be retroactively established as a containment chamber for the symbiote created by the symbiote Hive on the planet Klyntar, who sought to outcast it for not consciously aligning with their morals to overtake hosts and instead vowing to protect them instead.

The Black Suit would be expanded upon in *The Amazing Spider-Man* #252 (Jan. 1984), now being established as an alien, symbiotic substance that would bond to Parker while sleeping and take him for joyrides while he remained unconscious, physically overexerting Peter beyond his natural limits. Knowing of the symbiote's desire to completely overtake him, Parker would visit the Baxter Building in issue #258 (Jul. 1984) to have it examined by Reed Richards and Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four, who deduced its weakness to fire and sound waves. Richards promptly used a sonic gun to force the symbiote off Peter, while Parker himself would have to resort to a makeshift costume in lieu of being unable to repair his original suit. He would repurpose a Fantastic Four uniform with a paper bag on his head, garnering the public nickname of "The Bombastic Bag-Man".

Unknowingly to Parker, the symbiote would resurface in *Web of Spider-Man* #1 (Jan. 1985) after escaping the Fantastic Four's custody and bond to his red/blue costume, causing him to travel to a nearby church and use its rooftop bell to expose the symbiote to the same sound waves that amplify its vulnerability. As established later in *The Amazing Spider-Man* #300, disgraced journalist Edward Allan "Eddie" Brock, who was previously humiliated by Parker's expose of his fraudulent reporting at the *Daily Bugle*, was present at the church as Peter was removing the symbiote from his body, seeking repentance for his suicidal tendencies. Upon removal, the symbiote would find its way onto Brock himself and leverage a combination of his self-loathing along with the substance's desire for taking revenge on Spider-Man, becoming the monstrous Venom in the process, and retroactively establishing the symbiote's name as also in reference to the character.