Anti-Venom Suit

The **Anti-Venom Suit** is one of the primary suits used by Peter Parker in *Marvel's Spider-Man 2*. This is one of the few free suits in the game that is granted via mission progression. It permanently replaces Peter's Venom symbiote-related powers, including Symbiote Surge ability.

## History

A combination or chemical bond of the remaining Venom cells in Peter's body and Mister Negative's White Energy cells. The suit manifested, following the joint effort by both Miles Morales and Martin Li, giving Spider-Man a way to take on symbiotes permanently. He would even wield it against Venom himself, doing significant damage to the alien several times before being able to finally purge the symbiote off of Harry Osborn. After the main story, Peter keeps this suit, using its powers to fight against normal criminals.

## Characteristics

### Appearance & Capabilities

The Anti-Venom symbiote, given its shapeshifting ability, will vary in terms of the host. In Peter's case, it is a white Spider-Man suit with a black spider emblem, effectively being an inverted color scheme from the Black Suit and Symbiote Suit, as well as being almost identical to those of Advanced Suit series on the black design parts (including the spider logo). The eye lenses are sharp and wide, black outlines and white in the middle, The eye lenses seems to move to express the user's emotion. While it does offer many of the same benefits as the Venom symbiote, the Anti-Venom symbiote does not appear sentient nor does it twist the desires of its host.

The Anti-Venom symbiote was created, following Martin Li using his powers to save Peter from being re-infected into a rage form of the Black Suit. The symbiote traces left behind by Venom combined with the powers of Martin Li's negative energy created an all new suit, which possessed many similar abilities that Venom had, but also some it did not:

* **Shapeshifting:** Like Venom, Anti-Venom is capable of morphing its body into whatever the host desires. In Peter's case, is a Spider-Man styled suit and can even form gliding wings beneath his arms when he needs them. It can even turn itself into tentacles, much like Venom. It's also likely able to generate webbing from itself as well.
* **Regeneration:** Following the fight with Venom, Anti-Venom showed to have been damaged, but sometime later, the suit was restored. This is likely due to the fact that the suit is able to regenerate itself after sometime. It's possible the suit also allows for the regeneration of those it is bonded to, however this remains inconclusive.
* **Energy Generation:** Being originate from Mister Negative's power, Anti-Venom has the ability to generate powerful bursts of energy, which could damage other symbiotes and even purge their hosts of them. This ability was vital in the destruction of Venom himself.
* **Host Enhancement:** Like Venom, the Anti-Venom symbiote can also enhance the wearer's physical abilities. This enables Spider-Man to attack criminals and even symbiotes with far greater physical strength. It also likely enables him to sense Venom with his spider-sense. It also enhances his speed, such as when he's gliding in the air, allowing him to practically fly.
* **External Symbiote Rejection:** Anti-Venom is able to protect its host from being taken over by other symbiotes, even Venom. This was seen when Venom himself, was able to bind Spider-Man and attempt to infect him with a symbiote, only for the Anti-Venom suit to keep this from happening.
* **Sound Immunity:** Unlike most symbiotes, who are vulnerable to the effects of sound, Anti-Venom is immune to the effects of the species' weakness.

Unique Feature
As a symbiote suit, the suit uses tentacles for the Spider-Dash and Spider-Jump moves. After "Set Things Right" onward, it permanently replaces the Symbiote Suit as the Symbiote Surge transformation suit, and Peter's symbiote abilities are altered to be white, with the additional property of dealing extra damage to symbiotes. His webbing remains the usual white.

Notes: After completing the main story, Peter will be able to free-roam using only the Anti-Venom abilities, not the Venom abilities. Insomniac has confirmed that an option to toggle the tendril colors will come with a free update on early 2024.

## Original Appearances

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

While *Marvel's Spider-Man 2* marks the first time Peter Parker has donned the Anti-Venom symbiote, the symbiote itself debuted in *Amazing Spider-Man* #569 in August, 2008. The original Anti-Venom symbiote was born from Martin Li's attempt to cure Eddie Brock's cancer. In the process, Li accidentally infused the remnants of the Venom symbiote within Eddie's body with his powers and fusing them into Eddie's white blood cells.

The new Anti-Venom suit was created at Life Foundation in *Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Venom Inc. Alpha* in December 2017, where its creation begun when Eddie and Flash Thompson fighting over Venom symbiotes that cause it split into two halves, with Peter splash malic acid which hits the half of Venom that bond with Flash caused a chemical reaction, turning him into Agent Anti-Venom.