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As Extreme Carnage falls on the Marvel Universe, one genius may be Earth’s last hope to stop the lethal Spider-Man symbiote villain from taking over.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Extreme Carnage: Phage from Marvel Comics, on sale now.
Extreme Carnage has brought the most brutal symbiote back to the forefront of the Marvel Universe in a truly terrifying fashion. In the event, Carnage has clawed his way to the top of the food chain by infiltrating American politics, and he has also begun amassing his own incognito symbiote army. Even though the world’s heroes are already on the offensive, Carnage’s latest transformation has left them wondering how to start fighting him.
And now, Marvel’s foremost expert on symbiotes, Alechemax’s Doctor Steven, has returned in Extreme Carnage: Phage, by Steve Orlando, Gerardo Sandoval, Victor Nava, Chris Sotomayor and VC’s Travis Lanham, and he might be the only one who can figure out how to stop Marvel’s latest symbiote rampage
First introduced in 2017’s Venom #151 by Mike Costa and Gerardo Sandoval, Doctor Steven is the head of the astrobiology department at Alchemax, and he has grown quite accustomed to working with symbiotes. During his first appearance, Doctor Steven worked alongside Liz Allan to discover why Eddie Brock’s Venom symbiote was becoming increasingly violent, and he eventually deduced that the symbiote was suffering from toxic shock syndrome. Even though he has never bonded to a symbiote himself, his expertise and understanding of them on a scientific level made Doctor Steven to become an important figure in fending off the Poison invasion, delivering the Sleeper symbiote at birth and even stripping the Carnage symbiote from the young Normie Osborn.
After Carnage took control of her symbiote and forced her to burn it with hellfire, Andi Benton has been made one of Alchemax’s captives, he has a chance to help her, too. Doctor Steven knows that Scream is on the verge of complete destruction and sternly reminds another of Alchemax’s top lackeys that this is effectively a rescue mission above all else. This sort of dedication to empathy as well as science has made Doctor Steven such a remarkable ally to Earth’s symbiote heroes.
Unfortunately, the doctor has never been great in a fight, and that doesn’t change when Phage infiltrates Alchemax here. Doctor Steven is happy to point Flash Thompson in the right direction once the symbiotic superhero arrives, but there is little doubt that he will be accomplishing a lot more than that before Extreme Carnage is over.
When Phage and Andi finally come to blows, the symbiote shrugs off her hellfire and assures her that Carnage will be doing much the same from now on. This, coupled with Carnage’s recently exhibited ability to force his way into the minds of other symbiotes through the Hive, points towards concerning adaptability among the symbiotes. If that holds true, then Doctor Steven might be exactly the person to call on for a way to stop Carnage in his tracks.
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