Aka Venom, is a investigative journalist whose life changes when he bonds with an alien symbiote. The fusion grants him superhuman strength, speed, agility, accelerated healing, and the ability to form weapons or tendrils from the symbiote’s living mass. When transformed, Venom’s appearance becomes monstrous, towering, with jet-black skin, a tooth-filled grin, and a long, serpentine tongue. The symbiote also grants wall-crawling, camouflage, and immunity to Spider-Man’s spider-sense.