History
Rex Strickland's history presumably mirrors that of his Earth-616 counterpart with the exception of him not dying during the Vietnam War. As a decorated soldier and the first known human to bond to a symbiote, Rex was chosen to lead the Sym-Soldier Program initiated by President Eugene Thompson, recruiting Anne Weying and giving her military training. When Anne's son Dylan Brock succumbed to the control of Knull and became his acolyte Codex, Rex and Anne recruited a number of other symbiote-enhanced individuals to oppose him. However, Rex and his symbiote perished during the conflict with Codex and his Hive.[1]