The Poisons are the perfect cure for Venom and the symbiotes in the Marvel Universe, but exactly what are they, and where did they come from?
Hunting down an alien race as strong as the Klyntar just for fun is going to take some guts. The Poisons are the perfect antithesis to the Klyntar species, designed specifically to assimilate these symbiotes and turn them into soldiers for their maniacal ways.
The Poisons are an alien race of hive-mind originating from Earth-17952. Since their first appearance in Venomverse #1, by Cullen Bunn, Iban Coello, and Nick Bradshaw, they’ve garnered a large role in the Venomverse, so now’s the perfect time to look back at their history and some notable members.
History of The Poisons
Emerging from the shadows, the Poisons first started wreaking havoc by realizing their ability to assimilate with Klyntars, utilizing the Klyntar’s powers while simultaneously taking away the noticeable weaknesses that come with being bonded to a symbiote. While The Poison race was hunting symbiote, they came in contact with a venomized version of Doctor Strange. This version of Doctor Strange planned on bolstering the ranks of the Resistance by venomizing more heroes across the multiverse to fight the deadly Poisons. This inadvertent meeting led to a revelation for the Poisons involving hatching an ingenious plan of hijacking venomized Doctor Strange’s plan and assisting in injecting heroes across the multiverse with symbiotes, only to have Poisons assimilate with them and create an unconquerable army.
Poison Doctor Doom and Poison Thanos then schemed up a plan to crush Doctor Strange and his ragtag resistance by unloading a battalion of unbounded Poisons and Poison Doctor Doom. The Poison battalion was able to capture Venomized Doctor Strange in the hopes to utilize his magic incantations to search and summon powerful heroes across the multiverse, to have them assimilated and added to the Poison army. Fortunately, for Doctor Strange, a Poisoned Deadpool and resistance members were able to break out Venomized Doctor Strange allowing the heroes to fight another day.