>>113202215>So they're like Lantern rings but shittier.Not really. Also what that anon said isn't always true, but symbiotes are confusing in general and vary depending on the depiction...
Initially, the only symbiote around was Venom aka "the black suit" and it's only hosts were Spider-Man and Eddie Brock, they gave this explanation as to why it made Brock super strong and didn't seem to have an affect on Spider-Mans already super strength, which honestly never made a lick of sense...you could argue Spider-Man's strength was already as strong or stronger than the strength a symbiote can grant a normal person, but that's not true because Venom had always been portrayed as Spider-Man's physical superior....so the only way to make sense of it would be to say the symbiote simply didn't FEEL like it needed to enhance Spidey, but that makes no sense.
In more recent times, it seems like the most common thing is where when anyone hosts a symbiote seems to get a set level of strength of whatever that symbiote's strength is, but this depends on the writer and story like pretty much everything symbiote lore related. Sometimes it seems like just being bonded to a symbiote gives people a high or a rush as their consciousness merges with the symbiote consciousness, and this kind of makes sense with the original symbiote "backstory" that they were basically adrenaline junkies who want their host to go apeshit so they themselves can feel the rush, but I don't think that's a thing now but they still treat it that way sometimes.The weaker a host is mentally the more the symbiote itself will influence their behavior or possibly take them over completely, hosts with a more dominant psyche can dominate symbiotes to their own will completely, and others have a 50 50 partnership. In non comic stuff, it's usually a much simpler thing of "symbiotes make you really edgy" like a generic demon possession kind of thing, only with space goop.
