Criminal empires are fine, but corporations really run the world. So I built Alchemax. A legacy for the the Osborn name.
Wait. You're changing your name to "Al Chemax"?
Shut up, fool! It's an empire--for my grandson! A monument that will live for centuries!
Or at least till 2099.
[3]
Alchemax is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered at Alchemax Tower, New York. Alchemax provides chemical, plastic, and agricultural products and services to consumer markets that include food, transportation, health and medicine, personal care. The President and CEO of Alchemax is industrialist Liz Allan.
History
Origin[]
The company was created after Liz Allan's company "Allan Chemical" was merged with stocks inherited by her son Normie from Oscorp, the last remaining properties of Horizon Lab after its destruction and the resources of Humanitech Robotics Inc., establishing it under the new name of "Alchemax".[4][5]
It was later revealed that Norman Osborn, under the guise of "Mason Banks," created the corporation in order to leave a strong empire for his grandson and establish an empire for the Osborn legacy. Following his defeat, Osborn was able to escape custody due to Liz "accidentally" activating a Spider-Sense jammer, prompting Spider-Man to keep tabs on them.[3]
Also, Spider-Man (Michael O'Mara), Ty Stone's future grandson from a timeline where Alchemax controlled society, started working undercover in the nascent Alchemax.[6]
Alchemax Genetics[]
A division of Alchemax under the leadership of Robert Chandler called Alchemax Genetics created ten clones of Laura Kinney, though they were considered failures as they did not inherit her healing factor or claws. Four of the girls later escaped with the help of Kimura, and began targeting Alchemax and its employees using equipment she provided. Kimura wanted revenge against Alchemax Genetics for stealing technology she considered her property, while the girls sought vengeance for the treatment they endured at their creators' hands. Chandler requested Wolverine's assistance in stopping the escapees, but when confronted, three of the girls — Gabby, Bellonna, and Zelda — claimed that they had nothing to do with the destruction of the installation where they were being kept and were merely trying to escape. However before they could reveal anything further, Laura and her "sisters" were attacked by Captain Mooney, Alchemax Genetics' head of security, who attempted to kill the girls alongside Taskmaster.
How much Alchemax's corporate headquarters knew about Chandler's activities is unknown. However Chandler expressed significant concern to Mooney about what might happen once his superiors learned the truth about their project after repeated, and very public, failures to recapture the clones.
Alchemax Genetics was ultimately destroyed by Wolverine and The Sisters, with Laura tipping off Maria Hill and S.H.I.E.L.D. of their activities and location.[7]
Symbiote Experiments[]
Over the course of several months, Eddie Brock unofficially allied with Alchemax to find a cure for the Venom symbiote's degrading physical and mental condition; cultivating a friendship with xenobiologist Doctor Steven, who developed a Anti-Venom Serum to cure the symbiote and helped it spawn its seventh offspring, Sleeper.[8] Liz also blackmailed Flash Thompson, aka Agent Anti-Venom, into working as private security for Alchemax.[9] During the Poison Hive invasion, Alchemax sheltered the heroes who'd been bonded to symbiotes; and after the war ended helped remove the symbiotes and began studying the remains of the Poisons.[10] Bonding to the Carnage symbiote, Norman Osborn attempted to threaten Liz into turning Alchemax over to him, though she refused and later obtained a sample of the Carnage symbiote she kept to study.[11] Although Venom's working relationship with Alchemax was terminated after the Kree warrior Tel-Kar stole the Venom symbiote and nearly killed Liz,[12] Liz and Harry allowed Eddie, his son Dylan, and Sleeper to stay at their house for a few weeks as a favor to Peter Parker.[13]
Warned by Eddie that the dark god Knull -- creator of the symbiotes -- was coming to invade Earth, Alchemax recreated the Anti-Venom Serum using samples of Flash's Anti-Venom symbiote and combined them with samples of the Grendel symbiote appropriated from Weapon V to create prototype Anti-Venom battlesuits.[14] In the wake of Knull's invasion, Alchemax--secretly manipulated by the Absent Throne--allied with demagogical Senator Peter Krane and established a paramilitary unit called the Guardsmen to kill or capture any symbiotes they came across;[15][16][17] feuding with the revitalized Life Foundation for jurisdiction.[18][19]
In their objective of fighting back against the symbiote infestation, Alchemax created the K-Chemical out of a radiation toxic to symbiotes given to them by the Absent Throne's head, Meridius.[20] As part of the K-Chemical, Alchemax developed K-43 which was supposed to make humans immune to symbiote bonding, but needed to test it first. In a reckless move, Alchemax released the untested compound in the water supply system to see how people reacted to it. This resulted in numerous people being poisoned, which led to many of them, mostly the weaker children, to perish, devastating the families. The victims' families managed to link the deaths of their loved ones to Alchemax, but were unable to prove it to the authorities. Unwilling to let the corrupt company get away with this atrocity, they organized into the criminal group Noname to exact revenge on Alchemax.[21]
Capturing Dylan and Sleeper, Liz Allan authorized tortuous experiments on the boy who'd once been like a son to her in order to study his unique human/symbiote hybrid physiology; though he was rescued by the Venom symbiote and rampaged through the lab before escaping.[22]
When Andi Benton was captured by Guardsmen after having killed the Carnage-corrupted Scream symbiote,[23] she was slated to be turned over as a specimen to Doctor Leonida. Appropriating her and the Scream symbiote's remains, Dr. Steven attempted to resurrect it; accidentally creating a new symbiote called Silence by amalgamating Scream's remains with Anti-Venom serum.[17][24] Continuing this line of research, Alchemax began cultivating "strains" of the various symbiotes it had captured and experimenting with hybridizing them to create new gestalt symbiotes, leading to the creation of the symbiotes dubbed Rascal and Misery.[25][26]
Meanwhile, Noname formed a plan to get back at Alchemax by finding a way to blackmail the company into admitting to what it had done. They began taking out several Alchemax employees and kidnapping their children, threatening to kill them as well if the company didn't as they said. One of the children kidnapped was Bren Waters, the son of Guardsman Ozkar, and planned for him and the others to be slowly submerged in the K-43 chemical which could only be stopped if Alchemax revealed its responsibility in the tragedy. Alchemax refused, and instead went to kill both Noname members and kidnapped victims to keep this entire matter under cover. Thankfully, Venom prevented Alchemax from killing any more people, while Black Widow convinced Ozkar to release all information regarding the K-43 incident, fulfilling Noname's request. Unfortunately, Alchemax managed to evade any prosecution and continued its work as normal.[27]
Venom War[]
Alchemax eventually fully absorbed the Life Foundation, causing its employees to be transferred over to their new parent company. Carlton Drake joined Alchemax's board of directors, and with him he brought Meridius to also join.[28] This caused a hidden project to be developed within Alchemax by the name of the K-Program which even the CEO herself Liz Allan was unaware of. The K-Program was meant to develop various armaments and chemicals which it hoped to use to neutralize the threat posed by the symbiotes,[29] though it also aimed to use them for the organization's benefit.[30]
With the Grand Garden Arena taken over by the King in Black, Eddie Brock, and his temporal duplicates in symbiote bodies, Alchemax expedited its anti-symbiote research, which led to the creation of the K-44 compound.[28] Black Widow and Agent Anti-Venom were alerted of this, and broke inside the Alchemax Tower to find out more. However, their break in inadvertently caused a horde of Zombiotes--corpses reanimated by symbiote matter--to be unleashed and wreck havoc across Manhattan.[31][32]
This prompted Meridius to unleash the Zombiote plague with Alchemax's board of directors and throwing Allan out Alchemax Tower's window, leaving him to takeover the company.[33] Allan, as Misery, teamed up with Black Widow to extinguish the Zombiote outbreak. The two symbiote-possessed women lured as many Zombiotes as possible back into the Alchemax Tower where Misery filled the fire sprinkler system with her Anti-Venom. Widow proceeded to activate the system which freed the still living people and dead corpses from the Zombiote plague. As Meridius had left, Allan took back control of Alchemax and vowed to change the company and use it for the betterment of the world.[34]Paraphernalia
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Notes
- Alchemax was the majority shareholder of Horizon Labs.[1]
- Their headquarters are housed in Oscorp Tower, the former base of Oscorp.[4]
Trivia
- This Alchemax would grow to become the mega corporation that would eventually control most aspects of daily life in a possible future.[35][36] Even after the future was rewritten,[37][38] Alchemax would remain in power.[39]
See Also
- 100 appearance(s) of Alchemax (Earth-616)
- 4 minor appearance(s) of Alchemax (Earth-616)
- 54 mention(s) of Alchemax (Earth-616)
- 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Alchemax (Earth-616)
- 11 image(s) of Alchemax (Earth-616)
- 28 member(s) of Alchemax (Earth-616)
- 6 item(s) used/owned by Alchemax (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Superior Spider-Man #17
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 5) #27
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Superior Spider-Man #31
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Superior Spider-Man #19
- ↑ Amazing Spider-Man #791
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ All-New Wolverine #1–6
- ↑ Venom #152–165
- ↑ Amazing Spider-Man #796
- ↑ Venomized #1–5
- ↑ Amazing Spider-Man #800
- ↑ Venom: First Host–5
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 4) #21
- ↑ Black Cat (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ King in Black: Planet of the Symbiotes #3
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 4) #35
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Extreme Carnage: Phage #1
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 5) #4
- ↑ Cult of Carnage: Misery #2
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 5) #39
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 5) #23–27
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 5) #3–4
- ↑ Extreme Carnage: Scream #1
- ↑ Extreme Carnage: Lasher #1
- ↑ Cult of Carnage: Misery #1
- ↑ Red Goblin #5
- ↑ Venom (Vol. 5) #26–28
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Venom War #1
- ↑ Carnage (Vol. 4) #7–8
- ↑ Black Widow: Venomous #1
- ↑ Venom War: Venomous #1
- ↑ Venom War: Zombiotes #1
- ↑ Venom War #2
- ↑ Venom War: Venomous #3
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 #1
- ↑ Superior Spider-Man #17–19
- ↑ Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 5) #34
- ↑ 2099 Alpha #1
- ↑ Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 4) #1