Marvel replaces Venom with a completely new symbiote who bonds with the original’s last host. Following a tumultuous era of separation where Symbiote bonded to Mary Jane Watson and Eddie Brock found himself forced to work with Carnage, Marvel’s greatest symbiote-human duo has finally reunited. Charles Soule and Tommaso Bianchi’s Venom #1 marks a new beginning for Eddie and Venom in their return to their street-level anti-hero roots. Meanwhile, Marvel’s entire symbiote lore undergoes a dramatic overhaul.
Queen in Black scatters the symbiotes into highly unexpected corners of the Marvel Universe and shakes up the active roster of hosts. Fred Myers, formerly Boomerang, takes on a heroic rebirth as Comeback, using his hyperactive new symbiote partner Passenger to become a Spider-Man-themed vigilante. Dylan Brock teams up with Toxin and develops his Chainbreaker persona, and elsewhere, Jessica Drew struggles to control Carnage’s bloodthirsty instincts in an attempt to prevent the red symbiote from manipulating the heroes of the Spider-Versity or weaponizing Norman Osborn’s Red Carnage alter ego. Most shockingly, the feline symbiote Sleeper becomes the supreme King in Black after Knull’s defeat.
Venom has returned to his most trusted host, but that doesn’t mean its previous human partner will be left without a symbiote of her own.
Mary Jane Watson’s Symbiote Is Called “Fang”
Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane ; Written By Ashley Allen; Art By Phil Noto
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Mary Jane bids farewell to her brief stint as Venom’s host by transforming the whole Earth into Venomworld to defeat Knull. Once Queen in Black ends, MJ returns to her job as an actress, but with a twist. Mary Jane’s black-and-gold jacket isn’t just a nod to her take on Venom, but also a brand-new symbiote called “Fang”. She uses Fang’s abilities to help people during her daily routine, and she summons its full power to fight Stilt-Man.
Although Fang is Venom’s off-shoot, it’s still a very weak symbiote. So far in Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane, Fang can only take the shape of MJ’s jacket, or a small puddle in his liquid form. When MJ uses Fang to punch Stilt-Man into submission, Fang isn’t thick or strong enough to keep MJ from hurting her own hand. Still, as other symbiotes have proved over the years, Fang is likely to evolve, increase its strength, get its own face and personality, and possibly develop unique powers of its own.
Friendly Neighborhood MJ’s Fang Symbiote Seems Like A Perfect Parallel To The MCU
Marvel Comics’ Current Symbiote Landscape Hints At A Similar Live-Action Development
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Similarly to how Mary Jane kept a tiny piece of Venom that evolved into a separate symbiote, Sony Spider-Man Universe’s Venom left behind a drop of his body in the MCU during Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s post-credits scene. While Venom: The Last Dance later showed government agents retrieving the scrap, that scene took place in the SSU’s version of the bar Eddie Brock attended, not its MCU counterpart. Somewhere in the MCU, the symbiote drop featured in Spider-Man: No Way Home is still free and possibly searching for its next host.
How Sony and Marvel plan to have Tom Holland’s Peter Parker meet Venom remains to be seen, as there are many different options. Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock could simply return through the multiverse and meet Holland’s Spider-Man in the MCU, ignoring the symbiote drop left behind. Otherwise, Marvel and Sony could draw inspiration from Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane and reunite the original Venom with Eddie Brock, while Venom’s offshoot develops its own identity and finds a symbiote of its own, potentially Mac Gargan or Peter Parker himself for a big-screen Venom vs Symbiote Spider-Man battle.
Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane is now available from Marvel Comics
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