*Misery is a hybrid symbiote created as part of Alchemax's experiments weaponizing "strains" of the various symbiotes they had captured.

Noting that the Carnage symbiote strain they had obtained refused to amalgamate with any of the others, Doctor Steven and Liz Allan exposed a sample of it bonded to a chimpanzee named Grace to Anti-Venom serum. When terminally-ill Guardsman Corwin Jones went AWOL, having been hired by the Life Foundation to steal.*