Riot

Riot is a symbiote villain from Marvel's Venom universe, one of several alien symbiotes spawned from Venom's own symbiote. Bonded to a human host, Riot possesses the characteristic shape-shifting and enhanced physical abilities of its symbiote species, making it a dangerous adversary in Venom's world.

Born in the pages of the landmark Venom: Lethal Protector #1 — and fittingly in its rare Gold Edition at that — Riot is a Copper/Modern Age Marvel creation brought to life by the celebrated team of David Michelinie and Mark Bagley in 1993. This symbiote character carved out a niche in Venom's corner of the Marvel Universe, sharing some of the wildest, most intense pages of the era alongside Eddie Brock, Venom himself, Phage, and Trevor Cole. Though Riot's catalog footprint is compact, the series they haunt — Venom: Separation Anxiety and Venom: Lethal Protector among them — are essential reading for any fan of Marvel's darker, symbiote-driven storytelling of the '90s. A character with genuine key-issue pedigree and a 24-year presence in the mythos, Riot is exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through Marvel's Venom saga so rewarding.