User blog comment:Spdr man/symbiotes/@comment-5447843-20120915105410

Trying to become an expert on them are we? Well let me help you out.

There are many other symbiotes besides these three and you've glossed over some very important differences between the symbiotes characters themselves. Firstly, the Venom and Carnage symbiotes are not, in themselves, evil nor insane. The extreme passions at bonding to Eddie is speculated to have drove Venom mad, fixating him completly on revenge against spiderman and violence. Carnage too was driven insane by Cletus' madness.

A key difference between all three are the relationships which they have with their hosts. While Venom and Eddie form a symbiotic relationship (a pedigree of We vs Me), constantly speaking in the "We" sense; Carnage dominates Cletus and when his costume manifests, it is Carnage who is fully in the driver seat with Cletus' psychopathic bloodthirst fueling his rampages. This is one of the reasons why Carnage is "stronger" then Venom, they have no limitations. Interestingly the bond between future Venom hosts becomes much more like the bond 'tween Carnage and Cletus until tiring of constantly cycling through hosts and choosing Flash. Furthermore, the relationship between Toxin and Patrick was a spoiled child v. appeasing father.

Btw, Anti-Venom wasnt a symbiote in itself. Just a manifestion of left over Venom cells in Eddies bloodstream that were taken out of dormancy by Mr. Negative (albeit unintentionally)

There are, however, more symbiotes of the Venom and Carnage lineage. Venom was forcibly made to produce i think 5 or 6 (im tired so I cant remember correctly) other symbiotes for the Life? foundation in the Lethal Protector arc. Carnage has also been forcibly made to spawn once again, producing Scorn, a purple and silver symbiote bonded to Prof. Tanice Neeves who, together, are basically mechanomancers.

Finally it is notable that another squad of symbiotes appears bonded with Special Forces agents in the Carnage USA arc, giving them each a unique power (a symbiotic war dog, superstrength, super speed and stealth, super accuracy respectively) It is also notable that Scorn invents a device on the fly that sonically rips Venom and Carnage from their hosts.