Venom
The Venom Symbiote | Main hosts of Venom (Eddie Brock | Flash Thompson) | Other hosts of Venom | Alternate Incarnations of Venom | Supporting Characters | Rogues Gallery
Symbiotes in General
Symbiotes | Hosts to other Symbiotes
Other Symbiotes
Carnage (Character) (Cletus Kasady) | Toxin (Character) | Scream (Character)
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Main Characters
Andi Benton
Andrea "Andi" Benton
As Mania
As Scream
- "Venom? Puh-leeze! Let'cha in on a lil' secret, asswipes. I'm nastier. Angrier. And way scarier than Venom. He's a big softie. I'm Mania. I'm the vicious cat, and I came to scratch out some eyes."
A teenage girl who used to live in the same apartment as Flash Thompson, during his time as Venom. She acted as his sidekick, Mania, until the symbiote was taken from her. When Carnage invaded Earth, she found herself protected by Patricia Robertson when she was Scream, and then had the Scream symbiote passed onto her as Patricia died. Rather than witness more of Carnage's horror, Andi fled.
Scream
Scream
One of five symbiotes forcibly spawned from the Venom symbiote, Scream was originally partnered with Donna Diego, a schizophrenic private security officer. Donna's psyche altered the Scream symbiote and caused it to develop similar attributes, such as speaking in the voices of previous hosts. After its death alongside Donna, the Scream symbiote was resurrected during Carnage's attempt to resurrect Knull, and forcibly bonded itself to Patricia Robertson. The two fought off Carnage's influence and saved Andi Benton, but Patricia died in the process, with Scream bonding with Andi afterward. The two flee New York rather than face Carnage and his hoard.
Supporting Characters
Detective Henley
An NYPD detective investigating the strange goings-on involving Andi Benton.
- By-the-Book Cop: He's unwilling to break the rules of law-enforcement, at least not personally — to the frustration of May Parker. However, he's not above bending the rules to do the things he legally can't, like soliciting the help of vigilantes to save kidnapped kids when he's bound by bureaucracy.
- Jurisdiction Friction: Clashes briefly with the FBI's Anti-Symbiote Task Force when they claim jurisdiction over Big Mother's apparent corpse.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He suspects Andi Benton is the symbiote-augmented vigilante who's been prowling the neighborhood; and though he does put out an APB for her in a moment of frustration, rather than trying to arrest her, he tries to solicit her aid in helping track down missing homeless kids.
- Secret-Keeper: Henley deduces that Andi is Scream by the 6th issue, but rather than arresting her or turning her over to the Anti-Symbiote Task Force he extends the offer of being The Commissioner Gordon to her.
- Uncertain Doom: He was last shown confronting Demagoblin and her cult, and while they reappeared in King in Black, Henley did not, and in fact was not even mentioned, which does not bode well for him.
May Parker
Guinevere
- Ambiguously Gay: Guinevere was officially introduced in Scream: Curse of Carnage #6 watching Andi sleep, cheerfully brushed off Andi's attempts at being standoffish, and even sort-of invited her for a date to Cony Island's ferris wheel.
- Implied Love Interest: Guinevere was introduced acting overly friendly — even flirtatious — towards Andi, but the series was abruptly cancelled following her introductory issue. This kiboshed the development of any relationship between Andi and Guinevere, and when Clay McLeod Chapman was asked whether he'd planned to make Guinevere a love interest for Andi he teasingly replied that he would never tell.
- The Runaway: She ran away from home when she was young, and scornfully dismisses the thought of her parents missing her.
The Punisher
Veteran soldier Frank Castle's life was ruined when his family was killed by a mob shootout, leading to him embarking on a ruthless one-man war on crime as the Punisher.
See The Punisher
Antagonists
Carnage
Serial killer Cletus Kasady once bonded to the first spawn of the Venom symbiote to become the monstrous Carnage, and was later reanimated by an offshoot of the Grendel symbiote-dragon in service of the dark god Knull.
Big Mother
The Creeps
- Back for the Dead: The Creeps first appeared in Be X-tra Safe with the X-Men, a stranger danger PSA made by Marvel for Blockbuster back in the 1990s. They reappear in Scream: Curse of Carnage #6, only to be killed by Demagoblin at the end of the same issue.
- Card-Carrying Villain: They call themselves the Creeps, and seem to be aware on some level that what they do is wrong. They're also profoundly creepy, having originated in a stranger danger PSA comic.
- Evil Old Folks: They're an elderly couple who kidnap lost children and lock them in their basement until they starve to death in a twisted attempt to assuage their empty nest syndrome.
- Would Hurt a Child: They kidnap children and lock them in their basement until they die, then go out to kidnap more children to repeat the process.
Demagoblin
Knull
The dark elder god who created the symbiotes, Knull was trapped by his creations in a planet-sized prison called Klyntar. Unleashed by Carnage, Knull sought to exert his influence over his wayward children — including Scream.
