—Sliver[source]Anger. Guilt. Consuming. Here because of you. Here to help you. Weak. Broken. You need her. But she does not need--
History
A symbiote was spawned by the Venom symbiote when they were attempting to rescue an Alchemax employee abducted by a man called No One, who had a grudge against the corporation for the death of his son. In the wake of No One's warehouse burning down, Natasha Romanoff, who was conducting her own investigation into the group to which No One belonged, encountered the newly-spawned symbiote amidst the wreckage and bonded to it.[4]
We are Widow.
The symbiote assisted Black Widow in infiltrating an Alchemax facility, but while fighting the security forces the symbiote was unable to work with its host, forcing them to retreat. Back to a safehouse, Widow told her symbiote that they needed to work properly together if they were to uncover Alchemax's dark secrets. To fix this issue, the two went into their mindscape where they simulated her training back when Black Widow was in the Red Room. However, this training proved to be a bit too much for the symbiote, and so Natasha instead recalled her training with her friends Spider-Woman, Hawkeye, Winter Soldier, Nick Fury and Phil Coulson. The symbiote, in humanoid form, sparred with each of them, completing its training, and once finished decided to name itself Sliver. Back to the real world, the symbiote and Black Widow's bond grew stronger, and deemed themselves ready to attack Alchemax again. They managed to take down the guards and a Symbiotech, before going to a laboratory where they found a sample of a serum designed to kill symbiotes, and planned to give to someone trusted.[1]
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Infected
Attributes
Powers
- Memory Absorption: The symbiote is capable of absorbing the memories of others by eating their brains, allowing it and its host to know what kind of person its victims were and perfectly mimic them.[2]
- Living Hive: The symbiote can turn its mass into a swarm of spiders that are indistinguishable from real black widow spiders.[1]
Notes
- It is unclear how Venom could have spawned Sliver, as it had previously been stated to be all out of offspring and giving birth to Sleeper--noted to be an anomalous occurrence--almost killed it.[6] The Venom Symbiote also doesn't appear to consider Sliver one of its offspring, as it does not mention them among its other children.[7] Sliver also simply refers to Venom as "progenitor" upon meeting him for the first time, however Venom also refers to them as a "newborn" soon after.[2] Sliver's debut, as well as the introduction of each issue of Venom War: Venomous refers to Sliver as a "young Symbiote", however at one point Natasha also implies is may be an offshoot of the original Venom instead, saying to it at one point "I've been protecting myself long before you were a drop of Venom goo".[5] This leaves Sliver's status as an offshoot or offspring of Venom unclear.
See Also
- 16 appearance(s) of Sliver (Symbiote) (Earth-616)
- 55 image(s) of Sliver (Symbiote) (Earth-616)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Sliver (Symbiote) (Earth-616)