Venom: 8 Most Powerful Symbiotes

6. Scream

Venom Planet of Symbiotes
Marvel Comics

The ultra rich came up with some hare-brained schemes during the Cold War with the aim of surviving it going white hot, and one of those schemes in the Marvel universe - cooked up by a group known as the Life Foundation - apparently involved creating a race of symbiotes loyal only to them to act as a sort of police force.

I'd explain how that worked out for them, but let's face it, you know perfectly well how it worked out for them.

This experiment resulted in five symbiotes, one of which was a symbiote named Scream, bonded to a woman named Donna Diego. And then Donna died. End of the line for Scream, yeah? Actually no, as it turns out that Scream was so powerful that it could just continue operating as normal, possessing Donna's corpse with Scream in the driver's seat all the time. Something that - if other symbiotes can do - they haven't brought up.

Without a human to get in the way with their silly sense of morality, Scream turns into an absolute monster on the battlefield, only being stopped during the King in Black storyline, when they all went up against a literal god.

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