Venom Settles a Huge Fan Debate: Yes, Symbiote Colors Matter
Within the Marvel community, there has been an ongoing debate among fans of the Venom character as to whether or not symbiote colors actually mean anything. The debate grew some traction upon the release of the movie, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, where a scene implies the hierarchy of colors when Venom is afraid of Carnage at first sight just for the fact that, «that is a red one.» The actual comics, however, never established a consistent meaning for any of the differently colored symbiote characters.
Readers saw in Spider-Man Unlimited #1 by Tom DeFalco and Ron Lim, which marked the beginning of the Maximum Carnage storyline, that Carnage was originally red simply because he bonded with Cletus Kasady through his blood. Hierarchy-wise, Carnage is usually depicted as being stronger and deadlier than Venom, but it is never explicitly said that the reason is color-related. It's generally been accepted that symbiotes having separate colors is merely an easy way to distinguish one symbiote from another to a point that theMighty Avengers: Venom Bomb arc treats them as interchangeable.
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However, in the upcoming Venom #8 by Al Ewing and Bryan Hitch, Eddie Brock travels to the distant future where symbiotes have excessive power. He quickly discovers a much larger, seemingly stronger symbiote with noteworthy spikes sticking out of its body. Brock and Venom's first observation that alarms them? «That's a red one.»
At face value, Brock's mention of the enemy symbiote's red coloring is clearly a nod tothe aforementioned line from the Venom movie sequel. However, beneath the surface, this simple line helps canonize and legitimize the idea that colors actually do
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