Fans have been anxiously waiting for the symbiotic serial killer known as Carnage to make his live-action debut on the big screen for years and were finally rewarded with a first look at the character in the trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the sequel to the Tom Hardy-led adaptation.
While it's exciting to see the long-time enemies face-off in live-action, the first movie already featured symbiote vs. symbiote action, and there were quite a few other enemies of Venom that could have been introduced to further tease Carnage as the climactic series villain.
10 Code: Blue Was A Specially Trained NYPD Squad That Hunted Supervillains
Lt. Marc Stone organized a highly-trained squad of NYPD agents to serve alongside him as Code: Blue, a team tasked with responding to superpowered threats in the city, which saw them work alongside a number of heroes.
While Code: Blue and Venom didn't have too many interactions in the comics, the cinematic version of the character is still very much an anti-hero and would undoubtedly bring the attention of New York's finest down on Eddie Brock and his new symbiote buddy.
9 The Xenophage Is A Powerful Alien Hunter That Feeds On Symbiotes
Venom: The Hunted by Larry Hama and Duncan Rouleau introduced another alien known as the Xenophage that arrived on Earth and began feeding on brains, which led the police to believe that Venom had turned into a serial killer. Venom soon discovered that he was also being targeted by Phage, whose alien species was specially adapted to eating symbiote's brains.
Phage had a paralytic venomous spit that rendered symbiotes inert, dragging the host down and making them easier to hunt though Venom teamed up with fellow symbiote Scream to take Phage out. His inclusion on the big screen would further explore the symbiotes' existence off-planet and provide a visually impressive villain as well.
8 The Jury Were Armored Mercenaries On A Mission Of Revenge
While Venom quickly found his calling as a lethal protector of the innocent, he did start off as a violent criminal bent on revenge who killed a security guard during a prison break. That guard's father was General Orwell Taylor, and he assembled an armored crew known as the Jury to help him take out revenge on Venom.
The Jury included other revenge-seeking soldiers and former guardsman that became known as Sentry, Bomblast, Firearm, Ramshot, Screech, and Wysper who all wielded weapons that weakened the symbiote to even the field.
7 Pyre Was An Undercover Reporter Who Gained Microwave-Based Powers
Venom and The Punisher starred in Carl Potts and Tom Lyle Venom: Funeral Pyre, which saw reporter Gray Russell working with Venom as he found himself stuck undercover with a gang. He was forced to commit a fatal drive-by after Venom was a no-show due to his run-in with The Punisher who was hunting down the gang.
Russell's father had been working on a failed Hydra super-soldier project that the gang was using as an abandoned base, which transformed Gray into the microwave-powered villain known as Pyre who was especially dangerous to Venom given the symbiote's weakness to fire.
6 Sin-Eater Was A Recurring Villain Who Was Tied To Venom's Origin
Eddie Brock was only a reporter when the Sin-Eater first began murdering people. Due to a false confession, he erroneously reported on the masked killer's secret identity, which cost him to lose his career (after Spider-Man captured the real Sin-Eater.)
Not only was the character tied to Venom's comic origin, but new versions of the Sin-Eater that ranged from hired hitmen to supernatural demons reappeared over the years. The ghost-like Emil Gregg version of the Sin-Eater would be the most visually appealing on the big screen and could be adapted to fit with the cinematic origin as well.
5 The Stalkers Were Human Mercenaries Taken Over By Alien Robotic Parasites
Eddie Brock encountered quite a few alien threats over his years as Venom, which included a team of mercenaries known as Stalkers who were armed with alien technology that first appeared in Howard Mackie and Ron Lim's Venom: Nights of Vengeance that teamed Eddie Brock with the Ghost Rider villain named Vengeance.
The alien tech worn by the Stalkers was revealed to be alive and assimilated their hosts to take them over so that they could hunt down Venom and Vengeance. The Stalkers ultimately combined together to form the Ultimate Stalker to take the fight to the short-lived teammates.
4 Demogoblin Was A Demonic Monster Who Hunted And Killed "Sinners"
Venom has had quite a few run-ins with the demonic monster known as Demogoblin, beginning with his part in the Maximum Carnage storyline as one of Carnage's family and continuing in Bruce Jones and Bob McLeod's Venom: The Enemy Within, which also featured Morbius the Living Vampire.
Demogoblin first appeared to Jason Macendale/Hobgoblin with a bargain to increase his power that ultimately led to his possession. Demogoblin was later separated to follow his mission of cleansing the world of anyone he deemed a sinner, which was almost everyone. Demogoblin rode a fiery glider and used dark weaponry in a horrifying take on the classic Goblin villain.
3 The Suit Was An Agent Of Aliens Who Started The Ararat Corporation
Daniel Way and Francisco Herrera's Venom ongoing series introduced the powerful Ararat Corporation that was able to create a clone of the Venom symbiote, which escaped to take Patricia Robertson as its new host. Ararat employed a government-looking agent known as The Suit with powerful electrokinetic abilities to take back control of the clone while dealing with Venom as well.
The Suit was actually a race of alien robotic spiders that had spent centuries planning to wipe out humanity and acted like nanotechnology to power and repair themselves, which would look great on the big screen. The inclusion of Patrica Robertson along with The Suit could also lead to the cinematic debut of Scream, who was the second host of the Life Foundation symbiote.
2 Figure Was A Zombified Human Transformed By A Horrifying Alien Experiment
The monstrous zombie known only as Figure had been bonded to a group of alien parasites by the leader of the U-Foes, Vector. The parasites fed on his body and forced him to seek out his own victims in order to feed the resulting hunger, which brought him up against both Flash Thompson and Eddie Brock in Cullen Bunn and Declan Shalvey's run on Venom.
Brock had been forcibly bonded with and taken over by the Toxin symbiote and he used Figure to lure Thomson's Agent Venom into a battle before biting his head off and ending the sad but beautifully designed monster's life. Figure would lean into the horror aspect of the cinematic Venom a bit more while giving Eddie Brock the chance to be the hero or the villain.
1 Jack O'Lantern Is One Of Venom's Most Demented And Evil Enemies
The sadistic Halloween-themed villain known as Jack O'Lantern is another of Flash Thompson/Agent Venom's enemies, though one of the original versions of the character was Jason Macendale who had a few run-ins with Eddie Brock over the years.
Jack O'Lantern chose to make Agent Venom his arch-enemy and started to hunt down and torture those closest to him in order to drive Flash Thompson as insane as he was and create a lasting rivalry. Jack O'Lantern used both a flying disk and a rocket-powered broomstick over the years, along with dangerous themed weaponry that would have prepared Venom for Carnage's insanity.