Anti-Venom Unleashes Permanent New Power We're Begging the MCU to Adapt

Published Aug 22, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Adam has been writing in the entertainment news space for over a decade. Beginning his career of covering film and TV at CinemaBlend, he has also appeared on The Flash Podcast and done several radio spots. Though Eddie Brock briefly served as the first Anti-Venom when traces of his Venom symbiote were combined with Mr. Negative’s powers and fused into his white blood cells, Flash Thompson has served as Agent Anti-Venom for close to a decade now. Originally, Flash achieved this form through a replica of the original Anti-Venom symbiote. However, after that one died at the same time as he did, a third version of the symbiote was brought into existence during the King in Black crossover when Flash was resurrected. As Anti-Venom, Flash boasts many of the same powers he did as Agent Venom, including super strength, enhanced speed, webbing generation, wall-crawling, and a Spider-sense. Additionally, the third Anti-Venom symbiote has the same healing touch that its predecessors did, and unlike standard symbiotes, it’s immune to fire and sound. Now, an additional ability has been permanently added to Anti-Venom’s arsenal, and it’s more than worthy of being adapted for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Agent Anti-Venom Can Now Become A Symbiote-Dragon Whenever He Wants Marvel Comics The third Anti-Venom symbiote had a bombastic debut in King in Black. The codex of Flash from the Symbiote Hive Mind bonded with the consciousnesses of Knull’s symbiote dragons to emerge as a white symbiote dragon, which in turn let him reanimate his physical body. Five years after the crossover concluded, he’s shown pulling this off again in Queen in Black: Defenders of Light and Dark #2, written by Tom Waltz, and illustrated by Ze Carlos. The five-issue limited series, which is part of the larger Queen in Black event, sees The Defenders being reformed into two factions: Team Dark, consisting of Agent Anti-Venom, Iron Man, Cable, Darkstar, and Cloak; and Team Light, consisting of Beta Ray Bill, Photo, Gunfire, and Dagger. Team Dark faces off against the resurrected Knull, who’s now powered by Lightforce energy. During the battle in Defenders of Light and Dark #2, Flash turns into a white-symbote dragon to attack one of Knull’s new symbiote dragons. Since Flash retains his awareness while in this gigantic winged form, that means he’s fully in control of the symbiote dragon’s power, allowing him to fly and breathe fire. Like the standard symbiote dragon, this means he’s also mighty enough to kill a god in this form, if not do so more easily if he ever finds himself in such a conflict. Whether that will be enough to help take down Knull and Hela remains to be seen. How The MCU Could Pull Off A Dragon Symbiote Marvel Comics So far in the MCU, Venom has only been acknowledged at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, when Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock accidentally left behind a piece of his symbiote before being transported back to Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. While Tom Holland is confident that one day the Venom symbiote will return, for now, the only MCU-related project that’s set to spotlight Venom is Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2, which is set in an alternate timeline. However, if/when the day comes that Holland’s Peter Parker bonds with the symbiote, then rejects it, then the MCU could easily leapfrog past Eddie and have Tony Revolori’s Flash Thompson become Agent Venom instead. From there, he could either retain that form, or become Anti-Venom, leaving the Venom symbiote to bond with either a different version of Eddie or even Michael Mando’s Mac Gargan, a.k.a. Scorpion. Regardless, then the trick would be adapting the King in Black event for the MCU. That was teased to happen in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe franchise in Venom: The Last Dance’s post-credits scene, where Andy Serkis voiced Knull, but now it’s unlikely that will be realized. If Serkis’ Knull could be transported to the MCU, or if the franchise starts over with the character, then this King in Black adaptation could set the stage for Agent Venom/Agent Anti-Venom to achieve his dragon form, be it black or white-colored. If Marvel Studios spared no expense in doing this, then Flash could conceivably become one of the most iconic dragon characters. Queen in Black: Defenders of Light and Dark #2 is now available from Marvel Comics. Anti-Venom