Thread:ADour/@comment-25192437-20150121220930/@comment-25192437-20150122054204

ADour wrote: You got it, more or less.

In Guardians of the Galaxy #23, the Kylntar were not created as bio-armors or anything, they just were. Yes, their ultimate goal is to bring peace to the universe and such, for which they attempt to use the symbiosis to bond to worthy hosts and make them the ultimate pure warrior. However, as the host needs to be a perfect balance between mind and matter, if the symbiosis is not perfect, both the Klyntar and the host end up corrupted.

In the issue there's no specification as how the corrupted symbiotes started being, but only that they happened. And that a corrupt symbiote is able to break its connection to the Klyntar as a collective. And because the universe is big, they manage to go around consuming hosts, and growing in number.

Luckly, is not really a retcon-retcon. I mean, now the Symbiotes are not originally blood-thirsty monsters, but now there's one step before that. It's more or less as if we discovered there was something before the first Hominoidea (apes). Everything after them is still the same.

I've updated the page of the Symbiotes with this new information, if you want to take a look. In a way, this actually brings them back closer to how the Venom symbiote was initially portrayed before the 1994 animated series, The Hunger, and Planet of the Symbiotes retconned it into a corrupting force: as a benevolent entity wanting to bond to Peter Parker to empower and protect him before his rejection out of fear and Eddie Brock's hatred towards Spider-Man drove it insane with bloodlust.