Symbiote Invasion

The **Symbiote Invasion** was a huge invasion battle from Marvel's *Spider-Man*. It deals with Spider-Man and his team fighting to stop Venom and his species, the Symbiotes from invading Earth. The Battle takes place during Season 3 and ended on the series finale episode, "Maximum Venom."

## History

### Background

It all started when an alien slime creature called a Symbiote crash-landed on Earth with an alien seed near New York City. The Symbiote was discovered by the New York City Space Administration and given to the founder and principal of Horizon High, Max Modell for further study who named it the V-252. Max experimented on the Symbiote planning to make it an Element on the Periodic Table not knowing that it was alive. Max later gave it to Peter Parker and his classmates; Miles Morales, Anya Corazon, and Gwen Stacy for a group class project for the Stark Expo. However, the Symbiote bonded to Peter as Spider-Man during a fight with Sand Girl and Hammerhead which increased his power and allowed him to defeat them. After that, Peter decided to keep the Symbiote for himself which made him good at crime fighting. However, the Symbiote started to take over his mind and made him act viciously and aggressively towards others. Seeing the dangers of the Symbiote, Spider-Man unbonded from it, gave it back to Max as Peter, and tried to warn Max about the dangers of the Symbiote but Max wouldn't listen as he was overcome with the glory of making it an Element on the Periodic Table. That wasn't until the Stark Expo when the place was under attack by a supervillain named Ghost who used to work for Iron Man. During the fight, Spider-Man reluctantly rebonded with the Symbiote again to stop Ghost which made Max see how alive and dangerous the Symbiote was. After Ghost was defeated, Max and Iron Man convinced Spider-Man to unbond the Symbiote again which he did with help from Iron Man and Flash Thompson. The Symbiote was then contained and returned back the the Space Administration for safekeeping where it was placed under containment control. However, some of it bonded to Flash Thompson when he was helping Spider-Man which turned him into a supervillain named Venom. Venom had all of Spider-Man's powers and was terrorizing New York City but Flash was unaware of it because he was sleeping when the Venom Symbiote was active. Venom specifically attacked certain people that Flash had a grudge against because of the stress he had from trying to ace a test so he could stay on the football team at Midtown High. Spider-Man fought off Venom and was trying to find out who he was until he found out it was Flash from when he was helping him study for the test as Peter. Venom then attacked the football game Flash was playing at one night and with Spider-Man's help, Flash was able to unbond himself from the Venom Symbiote then they froze up its remains which were reclaimed by Max.

The Venom Symbiote later bonded to a man named Eddie Brock who was Peter's rival reporter from his job at the Daily Bugle when he was illegally taking pictures of it at the Space Administration thus making him the new Venom which caused Eddie to gain the Symbiote's powers as well as Spider-Man's powers and memories. From them, Eddie learned that Spider-Man was Peter and tried to fight him but was defeated but then he tried to reveal Peter's identity as Spider-Man after he was fired at the Daily Bugle but Spider-Man stopped him and saved his identity from being revealed. Afterwards, Venom was arrested and taken to the Space Administration after being put in a coma from his fight with Spider-Man. But some time later, the Venom Symbiote unbonded from Eddie and tried to attack Spider-Man but faced off against Superior Spider-Man at Midtown High who was Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man's body. Venom knew Superior Spider-Man was an imposter when he tried to bond with him so he tried to destroy Superior Spider-Man but Peter in the Living Brain saved him and in return, Doctor Octopus swapped brains back with Peter. With Peter as Spider-Man again, he defeated Venom with help from a science teacher at Midtown High named Anna Maria Marconi. Afterwards, Spider-Man transferred Doctor Octopus' brain back to his own body but before Venom was defeated, Max gained a tiny sample of the original Venom Symbiote to experiment with. Later, Max used it to make a synthetic copy of the Venom Symbiote which could be controlled by its host's mind and it wasn't alive. Max wanted to test the Venom Symbiote on himself but he had to deal with a collage tour at Horizon High first so Max tested it on Peter instead who knew his identity as Spider-Man from the Goblin War and it formed a Symbiotic suit around him. Spider-Man used it to defeat a technology-eating robot called Technovore when it was attacking the school after being secretly unleashed by Dr. Curt Connors under orders from Norman Osborn who was still alive and planning to take over Horizon High to get revenge on Spider-Man using the Venom Symbiote. The next day, Spider-Man and Max continued to do more tests on the Synthetic Symbiote but then the real Venom Symbiote was released by Dr. Connors which bonded to him and turned him into Venom then Venom rampaged through the city to find the seed it arrived on Earth with. Spider-Man tried to stop him using the Synthetic Symbiote but Venom absorbed it which made him powerful enough that it no longer needed a host so he unbonded from Dr. Connors. Venom then escaped but Spider-Man was able to find him by tracking the energy from the Synthetic Symbiote which led him to Venom's original crash site where Venom got the seed which had been growing in the ground by absorbing Earth's energy ever since. Venom used the Symbiote Seed to try and destroy the Earth by causing a massive earthquake but Spider-Man was able to stop it using electricity with help from Max and a new student at Horizon High named Grady Scraps. This destroyed Venom and reduced the Symbiote Seed back to small size which Spider-Man later gave to Max but unknown to them a small part of Venom came out of the Symbiote Seed and hid in Max's bloodstream. Then to make matters worse, Venom actually used the Symbiote Seed to project a signal beam for his species to come and invade Earth. They first attacked and took over the Guardians of the Galaxy who sent Groot to Earth with a message on Star-Lord's tape player for Spider-Man so he could stop the Symbiotes.

### The 1st Battle

After finding Groot and receiving the message with help from Doctor Strange after the tape with the message on it broke and dealing with both A.I.M. and Baron Mordo. Spider-Man prepares to fight off the Symbiotes with help from Spy-D, Iron Heart, Totally Awesome Hulk, Doctor Strange, and Groot who try to find other heroes to help them and keep an eye out for the Symbiotes. Spider-Man also leaves a special weapon from the Space Administration with his Aunt May to protect herself when the Symbiotes arrive. But then when the Avengers arrive back at Avengers Tower from their space trip, Spider-Man and his friends discover that they have all been taken over by the Symbiotes. Spider-Man and his friends fight them off with Spider-Man using the Stark defense systems that trap the Symbiote Avengers in electric cages but they are destroyed by Symbiote Iron Man who absorbed Iron Man's memories. Groot, Totally Awesome Hulk, Doctor Strange, and Spy-D then get bonded to some Symbiotes from the Symbiote Avengers but both Spider-Man and Iron Heart escape Avengers' Tower after Iron Heart blows up the Avenjet. Iron Heart soon finds out that a huge ship of Symbiotes is coming to Earth then the Symbiote Avengers gather up all the other heroes in New York City to Avengers Tower so the Symbiotes can bond with them as well. So Spider-Man and Iron Heart go to find Cloak and Dagger to try and help them transport the Symbiotes to another dimension but Cloak gets bonded to a Symbiote too and attacks them with the Symbiote Avengers but Dagger is safe. Spider-Man, Iron Heart, and Dagger then try to find a way to stop the Symbiotes after hiding out in a theater so Iron Heart tries to send out a signal to warn the other heroes about the Symbiotes but Symbiote Iron Man stops it. Then Symbiote Cloak and Symbiote Captain America find and attack them and Symbiote Cloak gets Dagger bonded to a Symbiote. Spider-Man and Iron Heart then escape and try to stop the Symbiotes by disrupting the Symbiote Seed before the Symbiote Ship arrives after Spider-Man finds out the true nature of the Symbiote Seed from Symbiote Dagger. So Spider-Man calls Grady to help him find the Symbiote Seed at Horizon High which he does while it's signaling the Symbiote Ship. Spider-Man then goes to get the Symbiote Seed at Horizon High while Iron Heart tries to hold off the Symbiote heroes but gets bonded to Symbiote in the process. But not before she is able to send the encryption codes for the Stark satellite to Spider-Man so he can track the Symbiote Ship. When Spider-Man arrives at Horizon High he is confronted by the Symbiote heroes and fights them off alone but then Spy-D arrives after taking care of the Symbiote that tried to bond with him. Who also brings Spider-Girl, Ghost-Spider, and Hobgoblin to help Spider-Man fight off the Symbiote heroes while Spider-Man goes into Horizon High. With help from Grady, Spider-Man tries to destroy the Symbiote Seed with the power of the school's big Arc Reactor to get the Symbiote Ship to leave. But then Spider-Man fights off Symbiote Iron Man for the Symbiote Seed and reveals to him that the reason the Symbiotes are invading Earth is to get revenge on Spider-Man for destroying Venom. But Spider-Man succeeds in destroying the Symbiote Seed with the power of the school's big Arc Reactor and tries to tell the Spider Team about it so they can save the other heroes. However, they all get captured by Symbiote Doctor Strange and then are bonded to Symbiotes by the Symbiote heroes then Symbiote Doctor Strange confronts Spider-Man and turns off the school's big Arc Reactor. This forces Spider-Man to retreat while the Symbiote Spider Team chases after him then Symbiote Doctor Strange fixes the Symbiote Seed which makes the Symbiote Ship continue towards Earth. When it arrives, the Symbiote Ship destroys itself, and all of the Symbiotes on it rain down on New York City taking over all of the people in the process.

With the whole city taken over by the Symbiotes, Spider-Man is left alone to fight them to stop them from taking over the rest of the Earth and he tries to search for Aunt May. But while searching for her at his house, Spider-Man gets confronted by Symbiote Doctor Strange who reveals to him that the other Symbiotes share the same memories as Symbiote Iron Man and that they all want to destroy Spider-Man. Then when Spider-Man is cornered by Symbiote People who Symbiote Doctor Strange summons, he is rescued by a man named Marc Spector. Who fights off the Symbiotes and takes Spider-Man to his safehouse through the sewers. Spider-Man thinks Marc could help him stop the Symbiotes but he refuses and claims that he only wants to survive the invasion. He also claims that he needs Spider-Man to help him get into a Stark Warehouse for supplies using a special Avengers encryption code. When they arrive at the safehouse, Spider-Man gets a call from Max who needs help and that he knows a solution to stop the Symbiotes. So Spider-Man makes a deal with Marc to save Max and in return, he'll give him the Avengers encryption code. Spider-Man later finds out that Marc was once a hero named Moon Knight but he refuses to accept that claiming that Moon Knight is no more. While traveling through the sewers, Spider-Man and Marc encounter some Symbiote Rats who chase after them but they manage to escape them. They then find Max at his house who shows them the solution to the Symbiotes which is Symbiote Groot that he was able to capture using ice cream treats. Max believes that Groot is the key to stopping the Symbiotes after studying Groot's DNA which has antibodies that makes the Symbiote bonded to him react slower to him. Max plans to get to the Space Administration and use the lab equipment there to isolate Groot's antibodies and make a cure for the Symbiotes called the Anti-Venom. But Marc refuses to help or believe that the cure will work because he has no hope for anything after revealing why he gave up being Moon Knight which was due to losing his family which Spider-Man relents to by giving Marc the Avengers encryption code. As Max and Spider-Man try to get to the Space Administration, Marc tries to get the supplies he needs at the Stark warehouse but is attacked by the Symbiotes who try to bond with him but he is saved by some surviving rebels led by Aunt May who uses the special weapon Spider-Man gave her to fight them off. Afterwards, Aunt May tells Marc about Peter and Uncle Ben and convinces him not to give up hope no matter how bad things get. Meanwhile, Spider-Man and Max arrive at Space Administration but the lab equipment there is destroyed then they are confronted by the Symbiote heroes who attack them. But then Marc arrives as Moon Knight and fights them off, driving them away but then they regroup so Aunt May's rebel group arrives to help fight them off and Max uses Aunt May's weapon to make the Anti-Venom from Symbiote Groot since it's from the Space Administration. As everyone fights off against the Symbiotes with some being bonded to them, Spider-Man and Max are able to create the Anti-Venom from Symbiote Groot using Aunt May's weapon to stop the Symbiotes. Symbiote Groot then produces seed pods of the Anti-Venom which spread throughout New York City curing everyone who was taken over by the Symbiotes including the heroes.

### 1st Aftermath

With the Symbiotes on Earth gone, Doctor Strange took Anti-Venom Groot to cure the Guardians of the Galaxy and to later remove the Anti-Venom Symbiote from him. However, the Symbiote Seed was still active and was later found and used by Dr. Conners to make a new Venom Symbiote which mixed with Jackal Serum to transform Norman Osborn into Dark Goblin. This was accomplished by getting Max kicked out of Horizon High and having Dr. Connors take over it by manipulating the school board into thinking that Max was doing dangerous experiments with the Venom Symbiote. But Dark Goblin was defeated by the Spider Team along with his minions the Jackal, Chameleon disguised as Tarantula, and Swarm and they were all arrested except for Dr. Connors who escaped after becoming Lizard again and Swarm flees after Spy-D found out that he was his dad. Max was also reinstated as principal of Horizon when Peter showed the school board evidence of Dark Goblin's evil plan. Everyone then decided to throw a dance to celebrate Max's return but during the week of preparation, Max was building a matter transfer device under the influence of Venom which Spider-Man helped with but was making Max tired in the process. However, while the Spider Team searched for Lizard they were confronted by Venom controlling Max who had now gotten bigger. Venom also told the Spider Team about a big plan he had for them, escaped, and changed back to Max without him even knowing. Meanwhile, Spider-Man was starting to how troubles about his future especially since he was offered a place on the Avengers by Iron Man after helping them defeat M.O.D.O.K. At the dance, Max introduced his new matter transport device which was some spheres that could make a portal that could transport anyone to anywhere imaginable including space. But then three Symbiotes appeared through the portal on an alien planet and Max transformed into Venom in front of everyone who now called himself Maximum Venom.

### The 2nd Battle

Maximum Venom attacks Horizon High and all the students evacuate then the Spider Team disables the portal by shutting down the source of its power, the school's big Arc Reactor. The Spider Team tries to fight off Maximum Venom and save Max by trying to unbond him from the Venom Symbiote but Maximum Venom beats them all and heads for the big Arc Reactor where he turns it back. Then Maximum Venom puts up a huge forcefield around the big Arc Reactor to keep the Spider Team from turning it off again thanks to Max's knowledge of it. He also reveals to Spider-Man how he came back and took control of Max then he destroys the Arc Reactor controls so the Spider Team can't deactivate the forcefield. The portal later restarts and brings forth Maximum Venom's Symbiote Sisters; Scream, Scorn, and Mania who all plan to destroy the Earth instead of taking it over because they claim that the Humans are unworthy of bonding with their species. The Symbiote Sisters then lock down Horizon High, subjugate Maximum Venom as a servant for his failures to conquer Earth, and then fight off the Spider Team using the powers of their alien hosts. Scream then sends Maximum Venom to go through the portal to start Earth's destruction by bringing the World Killer from the alien planet but Spider-Man goes after Maximum Venom to stop him and save Max. Meanwhile, Mary Jane and Grady try to get back into Horizon High and help out the Spider Team while the Spider Team fights off the Symbiote Sisters but they get beaten by them then the Symbiote Sisters go to get the Symbiote Seed to destroy the Earth. Back on the alien planet, Spider-Man searches for Maximum Venom but gets attacked and captured by him so Spider-Man tries to bring Max back out of Maximum Venom using his words. Which seems to work at first, but Maximum Venom keeps overpowering Max and continues to attack Spider-Man. Then Mary Jane and Grady are able to get into Horizon High through one of Dr. Connors' secret entrances he put in back when he was principal. Where they hide from the Symbiote Sisters and overhear them looking for the Symbiote Seed which had grown big again so Mary Jane and Grady try to keep it away from them using Grady's robot assistant Bleet. Meanwhile, Spider-Man still continues to fight off Maximum Venom who gets the World Killer which is a giant Symbiote monster known as the Klyntar Dragon. It then crosses through the portal and destroys Horizon High while Grady is tricked into giving the Symbiote Sisters the Symbiote Seed after Scorn impersonates Spider-Man. Then the Symbiote Sisters power up the Symbiote Seed and feed it to the Klyntar Dragon while Spider-Man is fighting off Maximum Venom on it. This causes the Klyntar Dragon to blast out powerful red beams to destroy the Earth which it uses to attack New York City. Mary Jane and Grady then help out the rest of the Spider Team and tell them about the Klyntar Dragon so they all go to help Spider-Man stop it. Meanwhile, Spider-Man still tries to get Max to come out of Maximum Venom but when it still doesn't work, Spider-Man goes into Maximum Venom himself to try and save Max. While inside Maximum Venom, Spider-Man finds Max who wants Spider-Man to leave claiming he's not worth saving, and blames himself for all that has happened. But Spider-Man helps Max gain the will and courage to resist Maximum Venom and take control of him after Spider-Man gets spat out of Maximum Venom. The Spider Team then fights off the Symbiote Sisters while Spider-Man and Max beat through the Klyntar Dragon to get the Symbiote Seed. Then when Max gets the Symbiote Seed, he destroys it which destroys Maximum Venom, the Symbiote Sisters, and the Klyntar Dragon in a burst of light.

### 2nd Aftermath

With the destruction of the Symbiote Seed, all traces of the Symbiotes are gone but Horizon High is destroyed and Max chooses not to rebuild it, claiming there needs to be a new way to keep the spirit of it alive. But then Peter gets an idea with him and his friends to start their own science lab called Worldwide Engineering Brigade, or W.E.B. for short, with a building given to them by a grant by Iron Man after Spider-Man chooses to deny his offer to join the Avengers.

## 1st Battle Belligerents

### Spider Team

* Spider-Man
* Max Model
* Moon Knight
* Aunt May
* Surviving Rebels

### Symbiotes

* Symbiote Iron Man
* Symbiote Captain America
* Symbiote Thor
* Symbiote Captain Marvel
* Symbiote Groot
* Symbiote Totally Awesome Hulk
* Symbiote Doctor Strange
* Symbiote Cloak
* Symbiote Dagger
* Symbiote Iron Heart
* Symbiote Spy-D
* Symbiote Spider-Girl
* Symbiote Ghost-Spider
* Symbiote Hobgoblin
* Symbiote People
* Symbiote Rats
* Symbiote Pigeons

### Other

* Medusa
* Winter Soldier
* Prowler
* Grady

## 2nd Battle Belligerents

### Spider Team

* Spider-Man
* Spy-D
* Spider-Girl
* Ghost-Spider
* Max Modell
* Grady
* Mary Jane
* Bleet

### Symbiotes

* Venom/Maximum Venom
* Symbiote Sisters
	+ Scream
	+ Scorn
	+ Mania
* Klyntar Dragon/World Killer

## Navigation

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