Agony (comics)

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comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Agony
real_name=Leslie Gesneria
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut= #4
creators=David Michelinie
Ron Lim
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
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powers= Superhuman strength, speed, agility and endurance
Symbiote allows all of Spider-Man's powers
Symbiote can be used to attack and can form bladed weapons, Acid Spit|

Agony, is a fictional character and a supervillain from the "Spider-Man" comic books. She is one of six symbiote spawns of Venom. She is predominantly purple.

Fictional character biography

Leslie Gesneria was a mercenary who worked for a sinister corporation called the "Life Foundation", who was preparing for the M.A.D. nuclear fallout of the Cold War and sought to provide a comfortable underground life for their wealthy clients after the impending nuclear holocaust. The Life Foundation was experimenting with the Venom symbiote in the hopes of developing superhuman peacekeepers to watch over their imagined fallout shelter utopia. Leslie was one of two women who were chosen as hosts for Venom's forcibly-extracted symbiote spawn. She is defeated by Venom and Spider-Man in the storyline "". Her symbiote is artificially aged to dust and her body is presumed destroyed in a massive explosion that destroys the Life Foundation's main headquarters.

Agony was revealed to have survived in the mini-series "Venom: Separation Anxiety". She mentions that she had wanted to be a hero, but like the other Life Foundation symbiotes was having trouble in controlling her symbiote. This lack of control over the alien inside her kept resulting in violence. Leslie and the others break Eddie Brock, Venom's secret identity, out of prison and kidnap him in order to make him teach them how to control their symbiotes. Agony shows remorse and regret for her actions, just before she is murdered by her "sister" Scream, using a sonic knife.

After Agony is killed, what is left of her merges with its siblings (except Carnage and Scream) to and bonds with a man named Scott Washington to form a new antihero called Hybrid.

Powers and abilities

Agony possesses all the powers the original Venom has, including suit -generated webbing, shape-shifting, superstrength and the ability to be undetected by Spider-Man's "spider-sense". Leslie Gesneria can also use her metabolism to spit acid, and can absorb chemicals (such as Spider-Man's webbing).

In other media

Agony is one of the six symbiote bosses in the video game "". She is encountered late in the game, and attacks mainly by extending her arms and spinning around.

Relatives

* Venom (father)
* Carnage (brother)
* Riot (brother)
* Phage (brother)
* Lasher (brother)
* Scream (sister)
* Toxin (nephew)