Poisons

The Poisons are a species of crystalline extraterrestrials spawned by the Poison Queen. Originating on Earth-17952, the Poisons spent an unknown amount of time as prey for larger, stronger creatures before discovering that they could assimilate Symbiotes and their hosts to become more powerful.[1] While hunting the Venom Symbiote,[2] they were discovered by an incarnation of Doctor Strange, who bonded to the symbiote and proceeded to recruit an army of Venomized superheroes, antiheroes, and supervillains from across the Multiverse to stop the Poisons. However, the Poisons saw this as an opportunity to swell their ranks, and most of these recruits were either killed or assimilated.[3] The Hive's second-in-command, Poison Thanos, dispatched a battalion of Poisons led by a Poisoned incarnation of Doctor Doom in order to crush the Resistance and consume Doctor Strange; intending to use him to summon incarnations of Venom from across the Multiverse, largely being unaware of the existence of other, more powerful symbiotes until the Resistance summoned an incarnation of Carnage.[4] Eventually, the Poisoned villains and heroes present during that conflict, along with numerous unbound Poisons, were killed when the Resistance - with the help of Poison Deadpool - infiltrated their ship to rescue Doctor Strange and rigged it to self-destruct. Poison Deadpool, Carnage, and Venomized Doctor Strange also perished during the explosion, but not before the latter managed to send the Venoms back to their proper realities. However, the Poisoned Doctor Doom escaped and reported back to Poison Thanos. Now aware of the existence of other realities, Poison Thanos declared his intent to assemble an even greater army and conquer the Multiverse.[5] Traveling from universe to universe, the Poisons developed a strategy of raiding the symbiote homeworld and attacking Earth, infecting its heroes and villains with symbiotes before consuming them.[6][7] Targeting Earth-616, the Poisons manipulated Kei Kawade into summoning Poison Fin Fang Foom, but the crystalline dragon was slain.[8] Arriving on Earth-616, the Hive consumed Killer Thrill, her crew, and the time-displaced Marvel Girl. The Hive employed the assistance of Haze Mancer,[9] a symbiote poacher, to locate the symbiote homeworld and raid it, resulting in the destruction of the Agents of the Cosmos and the abduction of every symbiote present at the time of the attack.[10] Arriving on Earth, the Poisons altered the symbiotes to make them more difficult for their hosts to remove and began infecting superpowered individuals with them, seeking out the individuals designated as anomalies in order to consume them before they became a threat: Kid Kaiju for his ability to summon monsters, and Carnage for his insatiable bloodlust.[6] The Hive located Cletus Kasady - who had been stripped of the Carnage symbiote - and forcibly bonded him to a new symbiote before consuming him to create Poison Carnage.[11] However, the symbiote-augmented heroes were able to locate the Poisons' ship and attacked it with help from Poison Marvel Girl - Jean Grey having been resisting the Poison Queen's control. To protect her friends, Jean Grey killed Poison Marvel Girl, siphoning the life force absorbed by the Poison Queen to become an entity of psionic energy. Jean subsequently killed the Poison Queen, causing the unbound Poisons to crumble and most of the bound Poisons to implode.[12] Of the two surviving Poisons, Poison Wolverine renamed itself Poison and established a begrudging symbiotic relationship with the consciousness of its host;[13] while Cletus Kasady was resurrected and restored by Knull - the god of the symbiotes.[14]