#xenophage

[the-desolated-quill]

Okay, so I imagine a lot of you didn’t pick up on this, and I could be mistaken so don’t quote me if I’m wrong, but that creature that attacked Venom on the plane didn’t look like a symbiote, and I think I know what it is:

It’s called a Xenophage. They first appeared in the 1996 comic series Venom: The Hunted. They’re alien shapeshifters that eat symbiotes. They are also immune to pain and their saliva can paralyse prey.

[halhalhalu]

⚪Day five: Monsters and Extras⚪

Cerberus title: Sonny, Cher [chickens from the movies] and Princess [carnage dog from the comics], guard chickens of the underworld

Hydra title: Xenophage [movies and comics], serpentine lake monster

Hade's Pegasus form: Vorse [venom horse, movie], a Vegasus! ft Eddie [Kore]

Eddie brock's Kore mode [spring and summer, prince of spring] and Persephone mode [winter and autumn, king of destruction]

batch five! these were fun to do! one last batch to go and then something exciting 😊

[hydrahound87]

Somethin somethin somethin at the same damn time

Was told this would do numbers on tumblr so hii lol

[shoddystitches]

This too, is yuri

[gebo4482]

Xenophage VFX - Venom: The Last Dance #2

Artist: Marco Gifuni / Simon Green

[haydieks]

Sooo, haha, @venomtoad420 told me there's quite a chance that this thing is xenophage, and I went googling it to refresh my memory, and what I found was...interesting. 🤔

In short, xenophages eat symbiotes as a delicacy, and the longer symbiotes were bonded with their hosts, the tastier they are due to their connection. And since symbiotes in Sonyverse usually do not seek the true bonding and use their hosts as consumable material (pun intended), that means Venom is a particularly desirable dessert. He's been bonded with Eddie for literal ages, their connection is really strong and unique, and they became truly symbiotic which is extremely rare.

(Also I might have found clues to TLD plot there. Some details feel similar to what we saw in the trailer. So yeah, probable inspiration for the script writers.)

[sepublic]

I was skeptical about them introducing Knull when he’s way too cosmic-level for our protagonists, but in the end I think Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy did a good job at keeping things reasonable; The solution is not defeating Knull himself, just keeping him from being released. But with his character being established, it gets that introduction and setup out of the way for future films to build up to proper power-scaling in fighting Knull, if we get more films.

So yeah, Knull felt tacked on and that’s probably for the better. And it really makes me wonder if he was some begrudging executive mandate because tbf…

You could easily imagine a version of the script without Knull. The Xenophages are just Symbiote predators who have chased their prey across the galaxy, and that’s why Riot selected Earth as a safe haven. In the comics, they find Symbiotes with a longer bond with their host to be especially tasty, so instead of the codex being the result of Symbrock, it’s just them being a desirable meal. A bond like this (specifically a resurrection) creates a chemical that Xenophages can smell.

This is why the other Symbiotes go from agreeing Symbrock must die to helping them live; Even if they died, the Xenophages would just move onto the rest in their hunger. Likewise, Strickland suggests feeding all of the Symbiotes to the Xenophage to satisfy them… Cut to a scene where the Xenophage is shown to subsist just fine on human flesh as a substitute. Instead of Knull summoning more Xenophages, it’s just revealed that there were more that arrived on Earth, and they were across the globe so it took them a while to finally catch up to Eddie and Venom.

I’m not saying this is what Marcel and Hardy wrote before having to adjust for Knull’s mandated presence for the sake of fanservice. It’s just that Knull is very unobtrusive to the plot and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because the writers didn’t care for him (Neither do I tbh). In their sole comic appearance, the Xenophages have no connection to Knull either, debuting about twenty years before his introduction.

[crazymuffin1]

did the symbiotes get any names or do we get to pick ones as a fandom? ive only come up with some names for the xenophages so far chip(woodchipper), shredder, miller(grain miller), and mangie(mangler) ive seen some call the green one christmas but i feel like dasher (as in santas reindeer) would also be a fit. and sounds more like a symbiote name hehe (maybe its too close to lasher though) the fiery one could be blaze.

idk anyone else have any thoughts?