2 Years Later, Marvel’s Most Horrific Avengers Redesign Is Still Undefeated

Published Oct 31, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jared is a writer, editor, and Communications Studies graduate who loves popular nerd culture (almost anything to do with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings) and the interactive storytelling medium. Jared's first console was the PS1, wherein he fell for Spider-Man, Spyro the Dragon, and Crash Bandicoot. Sign in to your ScreenRant account Whether they’re between iconic characters in a shared universe/continuity or a wildly unexpected and dissimilar franchise, crossover events are Marvel Comics’ bread and butter. The stranger the better, too, because it’s exhilarating seeing both universes having to reconcile the existence of the other. That’s why Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles, the upcoming Star Wars and Marvel Comics crossover, is arguably unsatisfying at the conceptual level: the Marvel universe knows what Star Wars and Disney are, and that meta aspect of the narrative will erode any possible immersion the limited series might’ve had. A crossover that’s earnest has the potential to be fantastic. For example, Aliens vs. Avengers is a four-issue limited series from writer Jonathan Hickman, artist Esad Ribić, color artist Ive Svorcina, and letterer Cory Petit that was released in 2024–2025 and tells a story where Prometheus’ David 8 unleashed Xenomorphs on the Multiverse. Here, Miles Morales’ Spider-Man receives a costume that’s a bizarre mixture of both the Marvel Comics and Aliens universes’ sci-fi horrors. Spider-Man Once Had A Facehugger Symbiote Costume Locking herself inside a lab after having been implanted with a Chestburster embryo and failing to produce a virus intended to kill Ovomorphs, Valeria Richards dies as the Chestburster erupts from her torso and evolves into a full-fledged Xenomorph, unbeknownst to this universe’s surviving Avengers, consisting of much older versions of Bruce Banner, Carol Danvers, Miles Morales, Steve Rogers, and Tony Stark. A loose Facehugger suddenly leaps at Miles, coiling its tail around his neck and seemingly being successful in incubating him with a Chestburster embryo. However, it’s revealed that Miles’ mask was not penetrated, and the Facehugger had been intercepted by none other than the black Venom symbiote, which was apparently bonded to Miles all along. The symbiote plucks the Facehugger from his head and takes it as its host, turning it black and giving it a red spider logo. Lastly, it latches onto Miles, whose base costume beneath the symbiote is plain white, and the Facehugger becomes his suit’s new logo. Thus, Spider-Man gains a white, black, and red Facehugger symbiote costume. It’s Official: The Venom Symbiote Is Too OP For The Aliens Universe Spider-Man’s icky new costume is neat, but it doesn’t actually serve a purpose beyond being a unique look for the purposes of the crossover miniseries. Rather, it’s the fact that Miles had a symbiote at all that’s significant here, and it comes in handy once more as a deus ex machina against a terrifying new Marvel supervillain. Not only can the symbiote reject a Facehugger, but it’s also able to use a Xenomorph as a host in order to slay a crimson Xenomorph that had burst from a Sinister and is imbued with mutant DNA/abilities. This design for Venom is simply a hulking Xenomorph with Venom’s iconic tongue. It’s fun that Spider-Man got a costume redesign for this crossover, as he now has a suit that can represent his brief and largely tangential role in Aliens vs. Avengers. This series also only barely scratches the surface regarding the storytelling potential of a Multiverse that both franchises intersect and interact in, and Marvel Comics’ most recent Alien crossovers, Alien vs. Captain America and Alien vs. X-Men, are proof of how much more brilliant ore there is to mine. Movie(s) Spider-Man, Spider-Man Strikes Back, Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse TV Show(s) Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Spider-Man Unlimited, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Spider-Noir Comic The Amazing Spider-Man First Film Spider-Man First TV Show Spider-Man Genres Superhero, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama, Coming-of-Age Cast Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Shameik Moore, Zendaya, Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, Rosemary Harris, Sally Field, Jacob Batalon, J.K. Simmons, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Favreau, Tony Revolori, Laura Harrier, Angourie Rice, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicholas Hammond Director Sam Raimi, Marc Webb, Jon Watts, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson Writers Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Brian Michael Bendis, jonathan hickman, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Created by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko