A symbiote, in Marvel Comics' fictional universe, is a living, sentient, alien organism that bonds with other living organisms in order to survive. Since it has no classifying name, it is referred to as a symbiote because of its symbiotic relationships. Often symbiotes are called "living costume" because of the way the amorphous creatures envelop their hosts.
The symbiote enhances the physical attributes of its host, commonly increasing their strength and speed to superhuman, or higher, levels as well as granting them a range of other powers such as transformation and mass-alteration.
The first appearance of a symbiote occurs in Secret Wars #8 in which it bonds with Spider-Man. Eventually the symbiote attempted to permanently bind itself to the character and had to be forcibly removed after which time it bonded with Eddie Brock to become Venom. Since then numerous symbiotes have appeared, many of which are the offspring of the original Venom symbiote and possess similar or even greater powers. The second symbiote was the Carnage symbiote which bonded with Cletus Kasady to form Carnage
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