Phage was one of five Life Foundation symbiotes who extracted and incubated the "seeds" of the Venom symbiote.
- Carl Mach was a mercenary hired by the Life Foundation. In order to fulfill his role as a superhuman officer for the corporation's future utopia, he was granted an orange symbiote of the 5 symbiotes forcibly spawned from the Venom symbiote. Carl was later killed by fellow former Life Foundation agent and host to one of Phage's siblings Scream, Donna Diego. Although his symbiote managed to survive for a long time until it reached the U.S. Army where it would be known as Phage.