Lasher

Lasher is one of five symbiote offspring forcibly spawned from Venom's symbiote by the Life Foundation, bonded to a host to serve as a living weapon. Distinguished by its green, tendril-whipping appearance, Lasher is one of a lethal quintet alongside Riot, Phage, Agony, and Scream.

Few symbiote characters have a debut as charged as Lasher's — bursting onto the scene in 1996's Venom: Along Came a Spider #1 courtesy of Larry Hama, Joe St. Pierre, and Tom Grindberg, right in the thick of Marvel's symbiote-saturated Copper/Modern Age. Lasher occupies a fascinating corner of the Venom corner of the Marvel universe, sharing pages with heavy hitters like Venom, Spider-Man, Riot, Phage, and Agony — a who's who of symbiote chaos. With appearances stretching across 25 years from that 1996 debut all the way to Extreme Carnage Omega in 2021, this is a character who has quietly endured well beyond the era that spawned them. Eleven catalog appearances may be a lean count, but for collectors who love the dark, tangled world of Marvel's symbiote mythology, Lasher is an essential, atmospheric piece of the puzzle.