- "Its like the armor's wearing you. Like a new employee wearing a tux."
- ― Akari (Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!)
The ability to use a living costume that is symbiotically bound to its wearer. Variation of Power Suit and Symbiotic Connection.
Also Called[]
- Symbiotic Apparel
- Symbiotic Armor
- Symbiotic Attire
- Symbiotic Clothing
- Symbiotic Exo-Entity
- Symbiotic Power Suit
- Symbiotic Suit
- Symbiotic Uniform
- Symbiotic Outfit
Capabilities[]
The user possesses a living costume that is symbiotically bound to them, thus becoming a symbiotic exoskeletal entity that generally grants them an enhanced condition and new powers and abilities, among other attributes. The nature of the costume can be organic, inorganic, elemental, technological, supernatural, etc, all fundamentally bound to the user serving it’s hosts ever desire needed in given situations from weapons, disguises, armor, apparel, etc, all made from the symbiotic substance the suit is made out of.
Applications[]
- Assimilative Evolution
- Amorphous Physiology
- Body Link
- Costume Refinement
- Dermal Armor
- Enhanced Dressing
- Living Clothing
- Malleable Anatomy
- Natural Weaponry
- Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Condition
- Personal Wardrobe
- Personal Weaponry
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Symbiosis
- Symbiotic Combat
- Symbiotic Connection
- Symbiotic Shapeshifting
- Symbiotic Substance Manipulation
Variations[]
- Alien Mind
- Bio-Technology
- Divided Mind
- DNA Replication
- Elasticity
- Life-Force Absorption
- Organite Manipulation
- Regenerative Empowerment
- Shapeshifting
- Symbiont Collective
- Symbiote Physiology
Types of Symbiote:[]
Associations[]
- Biological Symbiosis
- Bio-Metal Physiology
- Bio-Tech Manipulation
- Entity Exoskeleton
- High-Tech Exoskeleton
- Parasite Physiology
- Power Suit
- Powered Structure
- Remote Symbiosis
- Symbiosis
- Symbiote Creation
- Symbiote Manipulation
- Symbiotic Combat
- Symbiotic Connection
- Symbiotic Energy Manipulation
Limitations[]
- The symbiote and host may need each other to survive.
- Similarly, the host may require the entire suit in order to maintain conciseness.
- User may develop completely different personality due to symbiote being alive as well.
- User's life force may be used to power the symbiote.
- Symbiote might be weakened by a certain power or substance (Ex: Venom's symbiote is weakened by sound waves and fire)
Known Users[]
- Aika Sumeragi (Agent Aika)
- Galvanic Mechamorph (Ben 10)
- Ship
- Upgrade
- James "Alcatraz" Rodriquez (Crysis); via Nanosuit 2
- Jaime Reyes/Black Beetle (DC Comics)
- Sinister Splotch (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants)
- William Afton/Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy's, The Twisted Ones); via SpringBonnie costume
- Sean Barker (Guyver)
- Shō Fukamachi (Guyver)
- Guyvers (Guyver)
- Haunt (Image Comics)
- Hellspawns (Image Comics)
- Redeemers (Image Comics)
- Numbers (Kaiju No.8)
- Goku Uniform Users (Kill la Kill)
- Kamui Users (Kill la Kill)
- Dreadface (Marvel Comics)
- Klyntar/Symbiote Hosts (Marvel Comics)
- Scarlet Spiders/Team Red (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics); via Extremis armor and Endo-Sym Armor
- Rick Wilder/Combo Man (Marvel Comics)
- Symbiote Soldiers (Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite)
- Tobi/Spiral Zetsu (Naruto)
- Wario (Nintendo); via Super Wario
- Kelly Funk (One Piece); via the Jake Jake no Mi
- James Heller (Prototype 2)
- Walter (Sanctuary)
- SCP-2273 - Major Alexei Belitrov, of the Red Army's 22nd Armored Infantry Division (SCP Foundation)
- Ultimate Spider-Man (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
- Venomized Black Cat (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Venomized Electro (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Venomized Wolverine (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Darth Bane (Star Wars)
- Flex Fighters (Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters)
- Kakuja Users (Tokyo Ghoul)
- Mary Jane Waston/Spider-Woman (Ultimate Spider-Man 2012)
- D (Vampire Hunter D)
- Aric of Dacia/X-O Manowar (Valiant Entertainment); via Shanhara, a sentient Manowar class armor
- Donovan Wylie/X-O Manowar (Acclaim Comics); via the Artifact
- Rand Banion/X-O Manowar (Acclaim Comics); via the Artifact
- Wetworks (WildStorm Comics)
- Angelus (Witchblade)
- Danielle Baptiste (Witchblade)
- Darkness (Witchblade)
- Jackie Estacado (Witchblade)
- Sara Pezzini (Witchblade)
- Witchblade (Witchblade)
- Kit Taylor/Kamen Rider Onyx ("Kamen Rider Dragon Knight")
Gallery[]
Bizarnage (Amalgam Comics)
Ship (Ben 10) morphs into a battle armor for Julie Yamamoto.
Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle (DC Comics)
Venom (Marvel Comics)
Flash Thompson (Marvel Comics) is the perfect host for the Venom symbiote to become Agent Venom…
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… until it was replaced with Anti-Venom.
Carnage (Marvel Comics)
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Carnage (Marvel Comics) forcibly bonding with Ben Reily.
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Anti-Venom (Marvel Comics)
Toxin (Marvel Comics)
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She-Venom (Marvel Comics)
Hybrid (Marvel Comics)
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Scream (Marvel Comics)
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Phage (Marvel Comics)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
The Spider (Marvel Comics), an alternate Peter Parker bound to the Carnage symbiote.
Symbiote Wolverine (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
Symbiote Black Cat (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
Symbiote Electro (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
Mayhem (Marvel Comics)
Scorn's (Marvel Comics) symbiote is techno-organic.
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Poison (Marvel Comics) is the result of the permanent bonding of Venom symbiote to Peter Parker after he was in a state of dormancy when he rejected resurrection.
Tony Stark/Iron Man's (Marvel Comics) Extremis Armor was contained in his bones when inactive.
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Rick Wilder/Combo Man (Marvel Comics) possesses Carnage's symbiote powers.
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Mary Jane Waston/Spider-Woman (Ultimate Spider-Man 2012)
Al Simmons (Image Comics), like all Hellspawn, has a suit of living necroplasmic armor bonded to his central nervous system, that protects him even when he's unconscious.
Darth Bane (Star Wars Legends) wore an armor composed of orbalisks.
The Symbiotic Galvanic Mechamorph Upgrade (Ben 10)
The Mechamorph Armor (Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens)
With the power of the Jake Jake no Mi, Kelly Funk (One Piece) can transforms himself into a full-skin jacket that others can wear and control the wearer's body, potentially increasing their strength.
Spiral Zetsu (Naruto) had the ability to open up his top half entirely and use himself as a suit of sorts to encase someone in.
X-O Manowar (Valiant Entertainment) is a class of alien bio-technic armor of uncatalogued capacity.
The Nanosuit 2 (Crysis) is made of reverse-engineered alien nanotechnology and is so adaptable and advanced, it behaves more like a symbiotic organism than traditional armor.
Major Alexei Belitrov/SCP-2273 (SCP Foundation) is a Russian soldier from an alternate universe who has formed a symbiotic relationship with a biological exoskeleton created by "The Engineers" (SCP-1000) from the genetic material of houseflies.
The Guyver Units (Guyver)
The Symbiote Soldiers (Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite) are B.O.W.s augmented by bonding with symbiotes.
Sinister Splotch (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants)
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Black Beetle (Young Justice/DC Comics)
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Flex Fighters (Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters)
Kit Taylor/Kamen Rider Onyx (Kamen Rider Dragon Knight)
Symbiote (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
Max Steel (Max Steel)
Kintaro/Kid Venom (Marvel Comics)
Chaos Engine (Marvel Comics) is a sonokinetic bounded to a symbiote.
Videos[]
Guyver Rebirth Scene-2