Peter Parker (Earth-1400155)

## VENOM

Dr. **Peter Benjamin Parker** was an award-winning scientist who worked for Oscorp, alongside his wife Gwen Stacy, as the lead scientist behind Project VENOM.

Having indirectly killed his uncle by bonding him to a symbiote, he attempted suicide by smashing the original VENOM sample onto himself, only for the symbiote to permanently bond to his DNA.

Learning that Oscorp was simply using him to create symbiotic super-soldiers for the military, he began hunting down Norman Osborn to kill him out of revenge, until he accidentally released Scream from her containment chamber in Oscorp Tower and indirectly started a city-wide symbiote infestation.

Humbled by his actions and overwhelmed with guilt, he began to fight both the symbiotes and S.H.I.E.L.D. while searching for a way to end the outbreak. He was dubbed **VENOM** by the military.

## Biography

   Dedicating his life to the pursuit of curing cancer, partly because of his uncle's worsening blood cancer, he was allowed to continue his father's life work in Project VENOM, an attempt to use the venom of an Australian funnel web spider to create symbiotic suits that would kill the host's cancer cells.

Peter rushed the development phase of the symbiotes, and in his hubris, used Benjamin Parker as the first human test subject. Due to his old age, the symbiote killed Ben in the bonding process and reanimated him, attacking the observing scientists before being gunned down by the guards.

In a fit of suicidal guilt, Peter returned to his office and smashed the original VENOM sample created by his father at his feet, only for it to bond successfully with Peter and fuse with his biomass, permanently combining their DNA.

After realizing Oscorp had used him to develop a super-weapon for the United States military, Peter began murdering Oscorp board members out of revenge, ultimately seeking to kill Norman Osborn for manipulating him. However, during a scuffle with Osborn, Peter accidentally unleashed Scream, the original symbiote, a sample taken from an asteroid that crashed on Earth sixty years ago, bonded to Patricia Robertson.

Scream began to infect the citizens of Manhattan with symbiotes mass produced from her own biomass, and within days, the entire island was quarantined while the United States Marines and S.H.I.E.L.D. declared martial law.

### Aftermath of the Outbreak

With the deaths of both SCREAM and Nick Fury, the symbiotes became much less organized with the sudden death of their hivemind's leader, and the military lost their last incentive to risk their lifes by opening fire on VENOM, reluctantly allowing him to help clear out the rest of the infected.

Though VENOM was officially considered a terrorist by the government, many began to see him as a hero, helping the military fight back the infected and evacuating countless civilians from the Black Zone. When the last traces of the symbiote infection had been snuffed out, VENOM continued to watch over New York City as its new resident shapeshifting vigilante - or as some New Yorkers liked to say, their friendly neighborhood symbiote.

He eventually joined forces with the multiversal Spider-Army, fighting alongside his fellow Spider-Totems to defeat the spider-killing Inheritors. He adopted the white logo on his chest after meeting his fellow symbiote-bonded Spider-Men.

## Powers and Abilities

Upon bonding with the symbiote, Peter's body was essentially rebuilt to the molecular level by the symbiote, replacing much of his DNA and biomass with its own. Peter's body took an amorphous liquid-like form, able to change shape and face and become solid at will. Though his default form was now that of the symbiote's, he could shapeshift into a form resembling his original human body at will.
He could effortlessly use the symbiote's biomass for his own purposes, such as turning his arms into tentacles to swing across buildings with. After witnessing his fellow Spider-Totems in action, he began to produce strands of "webbing" out of his fingertips.

Along with the ability to shapeshift, he was now much more stronger, durable, and faster than a normal human, able to kill the average person with a single strike and punch dents in tank armor, survive missile impacts, and run fast enough to evade military helicopters. He could also use the symbiote to attach to surfaces, and could glide by burning off excess biomass to become lighter.

The symbiote repurposed Peter's cancer cells to create a molten metal-like substance that could change shape and harden over his limbs, creating weapons such as oversized blades and razor-sharp claws.

The most unusual part of his powerset was his ability to "consume" others, breaking down the biomass of living creatures to assimilate into his own body. This granted him both the memories of the being consumed and extra biomass to manipulate, along with whatever cancer cells the consumptionee possessed.