Trevor Cole (comics) - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

Symbiotes empower the natural abilities of a host to the point where they far exceed that of normal members of the hosts' species. These abilities include the following:

• Superhuman strength, speed, endurance, agility, healing factor, and intelligence, enhances other natural attributes as well.
• Genetic memory, recalling information from previous hosts.
• The ability to negate damage caused by terminal illnesses and permanent injuries while not actually healing it. For example, Eddie Brock was able to survive indefinitely with terminal cancer, and Scott Washington was able to walk despite being paraplegic. While symbiotes can heal their hosts, they generally seek to force their hosts to depend on them and thus ensure the symbiotes' survival.
• Can expand to any size as long as they have something to grow on such as a host or an object. Symbiotes can get inside of small areas such as electric wires and the insides of cars and completely disable them.
• The symbiote also reacts to the thoughts and will of the host. When Spider-Man was originally selected, he had been thinking about Spider-Woman's costume in the Secret Wars. The symbiote acted on this and formed a similar costume, the one seen on him and Venom.

The following are functions that have been demonstrated from various hosts' wills (but are not limited to):

• The ability to block part of the host's mind.
• The ability to form fangs or simple bladed weapons out of their limbs.
• The ability to form tendrils from their body.
• The ability to project the surface of the symbiote to attack at a distance.
• The ability to shapeshift, from mimicking clothing up to and including complete change of appearance, regardless to the host's actual stature and bodily dimensions as the symbiotes are living tesseracts.
• The ability to stick to walls (adapted from Spider-Man).
• The ability to produce toxins and venoms, such as in the toxic bite Venom delivered to Sandman.
• The ability to produce webbing from its own mass (adapted from Spider-Man).
• The Venom symbiote also has empathic abilities, and is able to project desires and needs into the thoughts of its host or potential hosts; this ability can also aid Venom in detecting the truth from those he interrogates.
• Can sense the presence of other beings within a certain distance.
• Symbiote bonding protects the host from Ghost Rider's penance stare.
• Venom and its descendants all possess the ability to bypass the Spider-Sense, because the original symbiote was attached to Peter Parker (Spider-Man) first, it took his genetic information and spider-powers. This means that the symbiote attacking Peter would essentially be Peter attacking himself, which wouldn't set off his Spider-Sense (during the Clone Saga, this became complicated, as Venom and Carnage did set off Ben Reilly's Spider-Sense).
• The ability to create storage portals inside of them (this created easy access to Peter's camera).
• Each symbiote has their own unique ability, such as Carnage being able to see from every direction of his body (this is similar to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense).
• In some realities, Venom's symbiote has been shown to be able to replicate.
• In some realities, the symbiote feeds on the baser emotions of its host, creating an increasingly hostile personality. The longer the host is exposed to the symbiote, the more overpowering this state of mind becomes.