Venom

>    *"Don't you losers ever learn... that if you mess with Venom... you get your brains eaten!"*
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**Venom** is the only playable Villain in the first Marvel Villainous single villain expansion, *We Are Venom.* He is from American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane, and made his first full appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (cover dated May 1988).

## Objective

Venom must use Symbiote Tokens to reduce any Spider-Man in his Domain to 0 Strength.

In order to achieve this objective, you will eventually find at least one Spider-Man Hero and play them to your Domain. Afterwards, you will use Symbiote Tokens to reduce at least one Spider-Man Hero's Strength to 0. If at any point there is at least one Spider-Man Hero with 0 Strength in your Domain, you win!

If more than one Spider-Man Hero is in play, Venom only needs to reduce one of their Strengths to 0 and have that Hero in his Domain in order to win.

**A Spider-Man Hero is any Hero with "Spider-Man" in their name.** This includes Heroes such as Spider-Man Friendly Neighborhood, but does **not** include Heroes such as Scarlet Spider or Spider-Woman Jessica Drew.

In most cases, Venom will need to build up Venom Symbiote Tokens on Allies and Heroes in play, then transfer those Venom Symbiote Tokens onto a Spider-Man Hero.

## Domain

Venom's Domain consists of the following locations, from left to right.

* Daily Bugle
	+ Vanquish
	+ Relocate | Play a Card | Gain 2 Power

* Fallout Shelter
	+ Fate
	+ Discard Cards | Play a Card | Gain 2 Power

* Our Lady of Saints
	+ Gain 2 Power
	+ Play a Card | Fate | Play a Card

* Thrill World
	+ Discard Cards
	+ Activate | Play a Card | Vanquish

## Villain Deck

The following cards are in Venom's Villain deck:

* Internal Struggle (x3)
* Let's Visit Peter (x3)
* It's Me, Eddie (x3)
* Self Preservation (x3)
* Slander (x3)
* Gonna Eat Your Brains (x2)
* You Are Not Innocent (x2)
* We Are...
* Protecting Innocents
* The Last Thing You'll See
* Merging
* Riot Symbiote
* Scream Symbiote
* Phage Symbiote
* Agony Symbiote
* Lasher Symbiote
* Scorpion
* Rhino

These include 7 total Allies (Riot Symbiote; Scream Symbiote; Phage Symbiote; Agony Symbiote; Lasher Symbiote; Scorpion; Rhino), 20 total Effects (Internal Struggle; Let's Visit Peter; It's Me, Eddie; Self Preservation; Slander; Gonna Eat Your Brains; You Are Not Innocent; We Are...), and 3 Specialties (Protecting Innocents; The Last Thing You'll See; Merging).

## Unique Fate Cards

The following cards contain Venom's Targeted Villain symbol, and are generally the most effective against Venom:

* Symbiote Suit (x3)
* Spider-Man
* Mary Jane Parker
* Scarlet Spider
* Black Cat
* Silver Sable
* Anne Weying
* Sonic Blaster
* Maximum Carnage

### **Venom Symbiote**

**This set of cards contains a single Hero card (Venom Symbiote) that can be mixed into the common Fate deck of 15 cards with any game of Marvel Villainous. See Common Fate Cards for more information.**

These include 6 Heroes (Spider-Man; Mary Jane Parker; Scarlet Spider; Black Cat; Silver Sable; Anne Weying), 1 Item (Sonic Blaster), and 1 Targeted Event (Maximum Carnage).
These also include 3 total cards that are both a Hero and an Effect (Symbiote Suit).

## Symbiote Tokens

Symbiote Tokens begin the game as a separate pile near Venom's Domain, referred to as the pool. Each Symbiote token has two sides: a Venom side and a Spider-Man side.

Unless otherwise stated by cards, Symbiote tokens will always enter play with the Venom side facing up. Symbiote tokens are considered to be in play if they are on a card in play. Symbiote tokens in the pool are **not** in play.

### Symbiote Tokens on Allies

If an Ally in play that has at least one Symbiote token on them would be discarded as a result of being **defeated, by the result of being used in a Vanquish action,** or **by being** **used to resolve an Event**, you may return one Symbiote token (regardless of what side it is on) on that Ally to the pool instead of discarding that Ally.

### Venom Symbiote Tokens on non-Symbiote Characters

Each Venom Symbiote token on any character in play that does **NOT** have Symbiote in their name reduces that character's Strength by 1 for each Venom Symbiote token on them. This includes Allies like Rhino and Scorpion.

When a Hero with any Symbiote tokens is **defeated** or **removed**, return all Symbiote tokens on them to the pool.

### Spider-Man Heroes and Symbiote Tokens

**When Venom vanquishes any Hero with Spider-Man in their name, that Hero is not discarded, and instead must be relocated to any other location in Venom's Domain. This does not apply if the Spider-Man Hero is otherwise "defeated" or "removed" by other card effects.**

Each Spider-Man Symbiote token that is on a Spider-Man Hero acts as a +1 Strength token.

Venom Symbiote tokens can potentially be flipped to the Spider-Man Symbiote side by certain card text, meaning that this +1 Strength will apply. There is currently no way to flip a Symbiote token from the Spider-Man side back to the Venom side.