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Spider-Man Vol 1 6
(cameo)
Modern Comics:
Spider-Man Vol 1 10
(first full appearance)
History
Eldritch Origin
The Klyntar, also known as the Symbiotes, were a symbiotic species that originated from a group of creatures living in the Earth-like planet known as Klyntaria, located in the edge within the Venenum System of the Andromeda Galaxy. Around 252 million years ago, during the planet's earliest stage where an abundance of life has yet to flourish, invasive and voracious multiversal being of dark origin — specifically a Great Old One subspecies called S'raphh — known as Null, the Living Darkness fled from the Celestial Builders after a battle as it made it way landing on the planet, reproducing his antibodies Nullifiers within the deepest crust of Klyntaria in the purpose of succeeding and evolving the S'raphh due to their near-extinction during the war. After years of healing, Null eventually left the planet to escape the wandering Celestial Travelers as it leaves this universe and continued to venture into millions more as it intends to proliferate its slowly waning species.
However, the unstable climate of the planet only gradually changed the genetic of the structure of the physical-bodied Nullfiers into more amorphous, symbiotic creatures through the process of natural selection in order to survive the never-ending storms underground. In the next hundreds of millions of years when civilization emerged on the planet wherein they were buried, they were eventually discovered and retrieved by a group highly-intelligent and highly-civilized humanoids known as the Klyntarians, specifically by a renowned but an infamous and unethical Klyntarian scientist named Knull, who was named after the being due to his family's belief and praise that Null would bring blessing on their planet in its return. However, instead of treating the newly-discovered creatures a peaceful home to thrive in after millions of years hiding underground, several of the symbiotes were only captured and mercilessly experimented upon by Knull and his rogue council of fellow scientists.
Weaponed in Wars
They were eventually used by the Klyntarian Military only a few years after its first discovery due to Knull's continuous experimental breakthroughs on the symbioses, developing the latter as a biological, proto-plasmic suit used for fighting Klyntarian rebels and criminals. The Klyntarian manages to almost killed or arrested most of the terrorists, until one of the Klyntar subjects gets out from its enclosure and escapes the recently-abandoned lab. The subject manages to latch on a host, who was a wanted terrorist and covers him entirely, taking over the host. Now realizing that the he's more powerful than he was before, he immediately attacks a nearby town, killing, consuming, and injuring several civilians, soldiers and other livestocks, immediately getting the attention and concern of the Great Klyntarian Authority and their cautious military. The symbiote together with the host was eventually killed, when both of them were burned to death by a cowardly turned meticulous Klyntarian soldier, after its weaknesses were officially found out to be two main weaknesses: heat, like fire, and sonics, notably large vibrations.
Era of Oppression
In the wake of the Terrorist Symbiote Attacks, the Great Klyntarian Authority then finally decided to officially decommissioned the military's "Symbiote Project," causing for one of the military's more considerate yet just as mentally unstable scientist, which was infamously known as the grandson of the late Knull (something that Grendel despises being acknowledged as family), to secretly banish and save a special group of symbiote subjects, which the scientist had impregnated these symbiotes with the same variety of dormant genes from millions of other Symbiotes during his experiments, thus serving them as the carriers of their race and their future. The scientist, Grendel, intended to sent the fertile subjects into the planet's orbit, inside a prototype space pod after revealing that a planet about the size of Earth's moon is about to hit the planet in about several days. The scientist decided to launch the pod a day before the rogue planet would collide with Klyntaria. It was only the 1930s on the planet Earth, in accordance to the Gregorian Calendar, as the planet Klyntaria was already on the brink of their very end.
Ultimate Survival
The Klyntarian Global Extinction Event had fully exterminated all of life on the benevolent planet, including most of the Klyntar, rendering their kind into critical endangerment
Before the scientist could launch the spacecraft containing several experimented samples of the symbiotes, the military eventually finds out about his attempt, and sent the militiamen to apprehend the scientist, and even considering executing him if necessary had he not complied with their orders. They managed to shoot the scientist before he could attack the militiamen, but the scientist still managed to activate the launch sequence, right before he was repeatedly shot to his death, sending the pod launching into the air, leading into orbit. The militiamen tried to shoot the space pods using their rocket launcher. The rockets managed to hit and take most of the pods down, but the last living specimen manages to escape into the planet's outer orbit, almost escaping it.
A team of enforcers and researchers was sent by the authorities into orbit to capture the space pod, but when they opened the pod, one of the fertile symbiotes — the youngest one – viciously attacked the armed enforcers and and attached itself into one of researchers, causing for it to kill the rest of the team. Rejecting its symbiosis with the researcher as they were incompatible, the symbiote tries to consume its host on the inside to survive but not before the rogue planet collided with Klynataria, creating a massive blast and shock wave that would send the symbiote away from the orbit, sending him to travel outside the Andromeda Galaxy. The symbiote manages to escape its host and attaches itself into a large debris, where it hibernated during the planetary collision before it was sent outside the Andromeda Galaxy, where the wandering space debris somehow found its way into the vast neighboring area of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Landing on Earth
At some point during the mid-1980s on standard Earth years, the large debris containing the surviving symbiote eventually makes it way to the Sol System, located somewhere within the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, crashing down somewhere in the Gulf Coast of the United States, specifically in the state of Texas, where it was later found by a group of travelers, whose one of them were later revealed to be the son of a bio-engineer working at a classified organization. Investigating the incident on the very night of its crash out of curiosity, the hikers were suddenly attacked, desperately running and screaming for their lives as they were killed after being consumed alive by the symbiotic lifeform after possessing one of their friends.
Afterwards, the possessed host of the symbiote also couldn't stay alive for too long as he collapse right after slaughtering his friends under the symbiote's coercion, revealing that their symbiosis weren't compatible nor mutual enough to keep the host alive. Nevertheless of this horrific incident, the symbiote would later find itself falling into a trap by the time it entered a city in Texas, purposely set by the said classified organization of former host's father, the same incarnation of the organization that would be named as the Life Foundation in its later years. As a result, the last surviving Klyntar fell into the captivity of the scientific agency who would deem to study and explore more on the very nature and origin of its extraterrestrial kind at all costs, for the next few decades.
Birth of Venom
Subject Zero
When a man by the name of Edward "Eddie" Brock, Jr. continuously attempted to obtain his father's approval since he was a child, his persevere attempts would prove to be in vain when the father, Edward, Sr., had always been secretly busy with his bio-engineering related-experiments (with Eddie later discovering his old man's affiliation with the Life Foundation), though even after excelling in school, he only received half-hearted encouragements, whom Eddie saw as an insincere remark. Upon graduating, Eddie moved to New York City, and as a member of the Associated Press, he was honored after obtaining a decent job as a journalist for the Daily Globe, a notorious rival newspaper of New York City's Daily Bugle before its eventual dismantlement after the events of Ultimate War, later in the late of 2010s.
Growing up in the late 1990s, the young Eddie would later prove himself to be highly talented, though even this did not get his father's approval and his importance as a son was slowly forgotten by the latter as time passes by as Eddie grows up independently. Unbeknownst to Eddie himself, his father was closest into achieving a breakthrough in his obsessive study towards the naturally-bred specimen of the symbiotes reproduced by the Life Foundation, and thought of the never-ending delusion that his scientific career were one of the only remaining inspirations and motivations that he had left to keep on living, ever since his wife had died right after the moment of Eddie's birth, something that has already happened long ago.
Sins of the Past
In Edward (Sr.)'s obsession towards the Klyntar, he was able get his hands on the main pure specimen, the very one that crashed into Earth approximately forty years in the past, something he had labeled as Subject Zero. Due to the relived experimentation of Subject Zero at his authority, Edward would sooner discover on how much he had unknowingly contributed in tormenting the pure specimen, along with the rest of the Life Foundation's overly-ambitious and careless scientists. Right after discovering its undiscovered nature that was the symbiote's form of emotions, Edward would explore various of ways to try and communicate with the unstable symbiote, which ended up becoming successful once he and the symbiote willingly latched on with one another, undergoing the process of what would later be called, "mutual symbiosis".
Though his attempt to communicate with Subject Zero became a success, Edward would later regret his actions and subsequently abandoned the Symbiote Project as its leader due to incomplete reasons, though it was hinted that the raging symbiote was able to give Edward "haunting visions" to how he became a failure and a disappointment to his loved ones his whole life, most especially to his own son, Eddie. In accordance to the revelation of the Life Foundation's stored archives, Edward went horrendously insane and eventually committed suicide, apparently due to his long exposure, communicating (empathizing and sympathizing) with the mysterious prime symbiote specimen.
On the bright side of it all, Edward was later revealed to have survived his suicide attempt, albeit he developed a serious case of amnesia following the incident, and was forced by the Life Foundation's head council to give him a new identity and a new life, as if nothing as ever happened. Later on, his now adult son Eddie, Jr. has yet to know the true whereabouts of his father, and the worst thing is that he may never ever get the chance to know. Ever since Edward's case was discreetly handled, the prime and pure specimen would later escape its tight container when it was supposed to be transferred to another facility in San Francisco, only to fully escape after its truck crashed during a brief battle between the witty vigilante Spider-Man and the Shocker in New York City, and finally made its way out of the Life Fountain's grasps, finally free as it now enters a larger world it has yet to fully explore and discover.
After experience a hum, Eddie decided to visit Our Lady of Saints Church in New York to beg forgiveness from God for this mortal sin before he decided on doing it. Once inside the church, he was caught by surprise when an symbiotic alien costume, the same one that escaped from San Francisco, which had earlier been discarded by Spider-Man in the church's bell tower, attacked and bonded with him, drawn by his despair, adrenaline, and fierce hate, on which it fed. The symbiote bonded mentally and physically to Brock, whose rage and hatred toward Spider-Man further corrupted it, causing it to become increasingly vicious and bloodthirsty for more brain and flesh to consume.
However, thanks to the two's unending exchanges of feud and alliances, both Eddie and the Venom symbiote was able to develop from a villainous force of nature, to a more anti-heroic journey after a tired Eddie himself contemplated and realized that he was no cold-blooded killer and looking back from his true journalistic reputation and genuine personality, he eventually got himself back onto his fatigue feet as he and Venom embraced each other's redeeming change of heart with Eddie returning as a freelance journalist, and with it, becoming a lethal (sometimes fatal) protector with Venom once during his times living and reporting in San Francisco, California.
Repopulation on Earth
As the symbiotic Klyntar species were able to effectively survive its slow yet progressing extinction by making its way on Earth in the form of the Venom, the latter would discover that it has ended up repopulating a plethora of Klyntar symbiotes, fulfilling the final will of the Klyntarian scientist Grendel to save the Klyntar species on another planet, onto the blue-green planet for the past several years, and it all was made possible thanks to Carlton Drake and the efforts of the Life Foundation who activated the millions of unique and fertilized dormant genes within Venom to be born from their experiments, as the lives of these newly-emerging offsprings would now last for generations to come, in which they originally aimed to rule the Earth as its dominant species, believing in desperation that it was the best way to escape their race's extinction.
War of the Symbiotes
Hive of the Darkness
Venom's first, malevolent offspring Carnage (who had the serial killer Cletus Cassidy as its merged host) knew that this moment would be to rise up and take the planet of Earth as their own new home and knowing how compatible this world was just like their homeworld, driving it to lead the symbiotes into their movement of turning Earth as New Klyntar, with Cletus morbidly describing that he and his fellow symbiotes would be painting the world into red, slaughtering and consuming every single life form that defies and disrupts their cause and existence. Because of Carnage's leadership on the lost symbiotes as Knull the Red, Carnage's enemies Venom and Eddie Brock must join forces with other new symbiotic users such as Toxin, Agent Venom along with the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man to fight the symbiote collective's hellish and malevolent leadership of Carnage himself, and suggest to each and their own kind a better solution to survive, instead of letting the symbiotes take over the planet.
By the end of the great skirmish of the symbiotes on the fate of their survival on Earth, Carnage's malicous and violent faction that was the Hive of the Darkness as he was defeated by the alliance Venom was responsible for forming, and the last straw involved the main group of symbiotes, both those who defected from Carnage and those from the opposing alliance, to form together as the gestalt Hybrid in possessing the strong-willed Shriek into reluctantly unleashing her sonic scream to severely weaken Carnage before throwing him onto several fuel tanks set to explode and combust, mortally wounding Carnage in spite of his superhuman power as a merged being.
A New Home
A dying Carnage was completely dissolved and obliterated by Anti-Venom, with the modicum remains of the symbiote being devoured and absorbed back into the main group who defeated him, Venom included. Completely freed from the clutches of Carnage's hostile and coercive influence, the outcome of their battle ending with the mutual decision of both the alliance and the symbiotes to have most of the latter themselves ride on a rocket to leave Earth and find a new home on a planet somewhere in the Negative Zone under the guidance and leadership of Scream, wherein they were able to independently repopulate and flourish as well as peacefully reestablish more suitable colonies of New Klyntaria (simplified as New Klyntar) in the solar system within galaxy their first and main adopted home planet in the following millennia, as the time within the Negative Zone passes at a relatively "faster" rate if it were to be compared with the Positive Zone of the universe.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Ability to attach itself themselves to a host and use its powers
- Ability to sense the thoughts and emotions of sentient creatures
- Shape-Shifting
Abilities
- Ability to control the actions of their hosts at a certain point
- Genetic memory
- Dense body structure
- Ability to form tendril-like pseudopods
- Ability to process breathable gases when the host normally cannot breathe, including water and space
- Ability to expand to any limit in order to cover any host or object
- Ability to combine their constituent matter
Average Strength level
Limits remain unknown, although the larger they expand the more weight they can lift.
Weaknesses
- Fire and Heat
- Large Vibrations
- Extreme Hunger
Habitat
Habitat: Cold or lukewarm temperature and quiet atmosphere.
Gravity: Closely similar to Earth's
Atmosphere: Closely similar to Earth's
Population: Initially, their species are categorized as critically endangered after the Klyntarian Global Extinction Event, ending the majority of the planet's life, including the entire, if not, most of the planet's population. However, ever since Venom made its way onto Earth, its repopulated to thousands. Since most of the Klyntar have migrated to the Negative Zone, it was last estimated that the population of the symbiotes have risen to no more than 2,000,000 inhabitants of colony that New Klyntar has peacefully established across their galaxy in the Negative Zone.
Miscellaneous
Type of Government: None; Although several of them were captured by and experimented by the Great Klyntarian Authority, whose specific government type was a crowned republic, or crowned democracy. They were eventually used by the Klyntarian Military independently, developing the symbiotes as a biological suit used for fighting Klyntarian rebels and criminals.
Level of Technology: Formerly superior to Earth's technology
Cultural Traits: Violent, generally solitary
Representatives: Venom, Carnage, Toxin, Anti-Venom
Notes
- As of the death of Null the Living Darkness in the end of Supreme Journey, the rest of the Klyntar were finally and completely free from the clutches and psychic influence of their ancient malevolent creator. Especially since most of the Symbiotes have reestablished their new adopted colonies and repopulated in a galaxy the Negative Zone, they became more liberated as an independent species.
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Klyntar (Earth-61615)
- Race Gallery: Klyntar (Earth-61615)
Links and References
- None.