History:(Venomverse I#2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point in the past, Rocket was a member of the Guardians (see comments).
VENOM ROCKET
Reality-18197
Real Name: Rocket
Identity/Class: Alternate reality
(Reality-18197) extraterrestrial (Halfworld) anthropomorphic animal
Occupation: Adventurer;
former bounty hunter
Group Membership: The Resistance (Agent Venom
of Earth-16348, Ant-Venom/Scott
Lang of Earth-12240, Black Panther/T'Challa of Earth-21673, Captain
Venom/Steve Rogers of Earth-17084, Carnage/Cletus Kasady of
Earth-32231, Deadpool/Wade
Wilson of Earth-41715, Doctor Strange of Earth-22249, Groot, Host Rider/Robbie
Reyes of Earth-53912, Mania/Andrea Benton of Earth-616, Old Man
Venom/Logan
of Earth-17673, Spider-Man/Peter
of Earth-28242, Spinneret/Mary Jane
Watson-Parker of Earth-18119, Venom/Eddie Brock of Earth-616,
Wolverine/X-23 of Earth-24398);
formerly the
Guardians (Gamora,
Groot,
Quill)
(see comments)
Affiliations: The
Guardians, the Resistance
Enemies: Captain
America (Carol
Danvers), the Poisons of Reality-17952 (Poison Bullseye, Poison Captain
Venom, Poison Green Goblin, Poison Groot, Poison Gwenpool, Poison
Hawkeye, Poison Hulk, Poison Iron Fist, Poison Kraven, Poison Rhino,
Poison Sabretooth, Poison Silver Samurai, Poison Spiral, others)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: "Rodent"
Base of Operations: Mobile throughout
Earth-22249;
formerly Our Lady of Saints Church, New York City,
New York, Earth-22249; mobile throughout space in Reality-18197
First Appearance: Venomverse I#1 (November, 2017)
Powers/Abilities: Like his Reality-616 counterpart, Rocket Raccoon, Venom Rocket is extremely agile and possesses razor-sharp teeth. He is also a capable tactician and fighter, especially in the use of firearms and explosives.
Rocket is an experienced inventor, able to create explosives from just about anything, as well as a skilled hacker, especially in regards to alien computer systems.
Venom Rocket is also bonded to an extraterrestrial symbiote that provides seemingly infinite storage space, which Rocket uses to hide all sorts of large artillery, weapons, jet packs and explosives, and the symbiote allows Rocket to project symbiote "webbing" to grasp objects or swing on should he need to be airborne.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 4'0")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 55 lbs.)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown with white and black streaks
History:
(Venomverse I#2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point in the past, Rocket was a
member of the Guardians (see comments).
(Venomverse I#3 (fb) - BTS) - During his time, Rocket
traveled to many worlds and fought in many hopeless wars.
(Venomverse I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Rocket was bonded to an alien symbiote.
(Venomverse: War
Stories#1/4 (fb) - BTS) - The
newly-dubbed Venom Rocket became a solo bounty hunter, using his
symbiote to boost his ability to hunt down bounties.
(Venomverse I#5 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Rocket
owed money to some intergalactic ruffians.
(Venomverse: War Stories#1 - BTS) - After losing much of their Resistance against the extraterrestrial Reality-17952 Poisons, Earth-17084's Captain Venom returned to Earth-22249's Dr. Strange to report the mission failure and Dr. Strange looked across the Multiverse for new recruits, witnessing Earth-18197's bounty hunting Venom Rocket among others.
(Venomverse: War Stories#1/4 (fb) - BTS) - Upon
learning of a large bounty on the Earth heroine Captain America by the
Kree, Venom Rocket sought to claim the bounty on Captain America, dead
or alive.
(Venomverse: War
Stories#1/4) - Above Avengers
Mansion, Venom Rocket consulted his computer system, which identified a
target inside the Mansion. Questioning whether the computer was
correct, Venom Rocket reminded the computer that, in their last
mission, the computer had confused A-Bomb with the Thing. Joking that
it seemed as if the computer was trying to kill him, Rocket asked if
the computer was waiting for the robot uprising and planning to take
Rocket out, to which the computer replied affirmative. Admitting he
liked the computer, Rocket leaped from his ship but his grav thruster
malfunctioned and he crashed through the kitchen window of Carol
Danvers. Commenting that he had trouble telling humans apart without
flashy costumes, Rocket asked if Carol was Captain America and when she
replied yes, Rocket unleashed a massive arsenal weapons and announced
that the Kree bounty on Carol's head was the largest he had ever seen.
Captain America quickly summoned
her shield to
deflect Rocket's gunfire and Rocket rushed in to attack physically,
lamenting on how one would think his symbiote would power up his guns.
Captain America managed to punch Rocket back but he fired a bomb and,
taking advantage of the distraction, Rocket tackled Captain America.
Gloating about how humans didn't have razor-sharp teeth for
versatility, Rocket was surprised when Captain America emerged from the
bomb rubble. Remarking that perhaps he should get himself a Kree
upgrade as well, Rocket refused to take the fight outside but Captain
America punched Rocket through the wall. Captain America then gave
Rocket thirty seconds to turn around and go home but Rocket responded
by again unleashing nearly every weapon in his arsenal and readying
them to fire. Before he could do so, however, Venom Rocket was pulled
into a mystic portal, promising not to kill Captain America if she'd
help him.
(Venomverse I#1 (fb) - BTS)
- Venom
Rocket was transported to Earth-22249 to join the Resistance against
the extraterrestrial Reality-17952 Poisons.
(Venomverse I#4 (fb) - BTS) - After reuniting with
some of his former, similarly symbiote-empowered, Guardians teammates (see comments), Venom Rocket was
emotionally hardened as both Gamora and Quill fell to the Poisons. When
a Poison transformed Groot's corpse into the Poison Groot, Venom Rocket
was forced to kill the Poison Groot, leaving Rocket obsessed with
avenging his fallen teammates.
(Venomverse I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Rocket considered
himself the last Guardian (see
comments).
(Venomverse I#1) - When
Earth-616's Venom (Eddie
Brock) was transported to Earth-22249 to assist the Resistance,
Earth-17084's Captain
Venom led him back to the Resistance, where Venom Rocket was tinkering
with a bomb as a few of the Resistance recognized Brock. As a few of
the Resistance argued against bringing Brock into the fold, Venom
Rocket grumbled that just because Brock seemingly brought out the worst
in his symbiote, it didn't mean Brock couldn't still be useful for
something like a suicide run. Moments after completing his bomb,
however, Venom Rocket and the rest of the Resistance were attacked by
the Poison Hulk, who had followed Brock and Captain Venom back to the
Resistance headquarters. Most of the Resistance fled into a nearby
tunnel and Earth-616's Mania ordered Rocket to seal the tunnel,
prompting Venom Rocket to complain that he had just finished his bomb.
As the Poison Hulk grabbed Captain Venom, Rocket reluctantly hurled his
bomb at the Poison Hulk, apologizing as the bomb exploded.
(Venomverse I#2) - After
backtracking to rescue
Venom-616 following the explosion of Venom Rocket's bomb, a small few
of the Resistance regrouped with Venom Rocket and the remaining
Resistance members. Spinneret then informed Rocket and the others that
their teammate, Spider-Man of Earth-28242, had been consumed by a
Poison, much to the disappointment of Rocket. Suspecting that Captain
Venom was also captured by the Poison Hulk and lost, the Resistance
decided to find a different headquarters in case Captain Venom led the
Poisons there and Rocket began gathering up his weapons as Old Man
Venom ordered them all to be ready to leave within five minutes. Rocket
then began telling everyone to take only what was needed, firearms and
explosives over food and meds, while Earth-22249's Dr. Strange
explained more of what the Poisons were to Earth-616's Venom. A short
time later, as the Resistance were traveling to the next headquarters,
Rocket agreed with Venom-616 that the Resistance should take the fight
directly to the Poisons instead of running from them, commenting on his
plans to destroy the Poisons with a large bomb he had devised. Venom
Rocket then grimly remarked on how he was now the last of the Guardians
after the Poisons took his teammates and he was going to get some
payback.
Once the Resistance arrived at
their new headquarters, Our Lady of Saints Church, Mania-616 suggested
that the only way they could stop the Poisons was with some sort of
doomsday weapon, at which point Rocket chimed in, asking what Mania
thought he was working on. He then remarked that if the Resistance
would stop forcing him to use his bombs to save them, his larger bomb
would have a much larger payload.
(Venomverse I#3) - Venom
Rocket walked and talked with Spinneret,
explaining that he had worked out all of the bugs on his biggest bomb
and how Ant-Venom was finishing up the wiring at ant size. Spinneret
questioned whether yet another bomb was necessary to destroy the
Poisons and Rocket replied that when one had fought as many hopeless
wars as he had, explosives were always necessary. Ant-Venom soon
emerged from the bomb and remarked on how he thought he had spliced the
correct wires together, as no one had died a fiery death. Rocket
replied that it wasn't so much fire they had to worry about, as his
bomb was set to emit enough concussive force that it would've vaporized
their flesh and blood long before the bomb's fire would have touched
them. Moments after Dr. Strange-22249 had summoned Earth-32231's
Carnage into the Resistance, a squad of Poisons led by the Poison
Captain Venom busted through the Church wall and Rocket lamented that
he had hoped he wouldn't have lived long enough to see the Poisons
utilizing his former teammate in such a way. During the battle,
Earth-53912's Host Rider suggested they get out of there while Carnage
had the Poisons distracted and Rocket agreed, insisting that he wasn't
going to waste his new bomb covering their escape. The surviving
Poisons were eventually forced to retreat and Rocket regrouped with the
remaining Resistance, only to realize that the Poisons had absconded
with Dr. Strange-22249.
(Venomverse I#4) - Venom
Rocket and the other Resistance members led
two Poisons, Poison Gwenpool and Poison Sabretooth, into a landmine
trap set up by Rocket. When Rocket gloated that the Poisons had not
seen the trap coming, the Poison Gwenpool fired at Rocket, who mumbled
about the Poisons taking everyone away from him and how he'd been
forced to kill a Poison Groot, and Rocket fired back, exclaiming that
the gunfire was for the Guardians. While Rocket kept the Poisons
focused on him, Old Man Venom and Wolverine/X-23 leaped into battle
against the two Poisons. When the Poison Sabretooth gloated that they
would soon be able to summon all the symbiotes they needed, Venom
Rocket yelled for the Poison Sabretooth to shut up and hailed the
Poison with gunfire, giving Old Man Venom and opening to kill the
Poison Sabretooth. The Resistance then took the Poison Gwenpool captive
and during her subsequent interrogation, Rocket asked the Poison
Gwenpool why the Poisons only seemed to be hunting those empowered by
the Venom symbiotes instead of others like Carnage. The Poison Gwenpool
explained that the Poisons merely went after the symbiotes that were
brought to them and they simply didn't yet understand the Carnage
symbiote.
(Venomverse I#5) - After the Poison Deadpool, still retaining some semblance of Earth-41715's Deadpool's personality, betrayed the other Poisons to aid the Resistance in an attack on the Poisons, Venom Rocket and Ant-Venom snuck into the Poisons' headquarters in a nearby ship (where Rocket secretly set up the bomb he'd been saving) while Poison Deadpool and Earth-32231's Carnage kept the Poisons busy. Rocket quickly noticed a lot of non-transformed Poisons but Ant-Venom covered the Poisons in ants, an act that Rocket found awesome, allowing Earth-616's Venom and Mania to enter the ship from below using an underground shaft. Once the rest of the remaining Resistance were inside, Venom-616 ordered Spinneret and Old Man Venom to stay there with Venom Rocket and Ant-Venom while he, Earth-21673's Black Panther and Mania rescued Dr. Strange-22249 before Rocket brought the whole place down by setting the ship to self-destruct. Venom then asked Rocket if he got all of the mission and Rocket replied that the entire headquarters was a ship with engines, reactors and fuel, which made for a fun recipe in Rocket's opinion. Mania warned that it wouldn't take long for the Poisons to realize something was wrong but Rocket assured her that Poison Deadpool and Carnage weren't the only distractions they had planned as he began to hack into the ship's systems.
Ant-Venom soon commented on how the ship's
systems made no sense and were all alien but Rocket, still hacking,
sarcastically asked Ant-Venom to look who he was talking to before
proclaiming the work to be "cake." Spinneret and Old Man Venom
suggested Rocket hurry up as a trio of Poisons entered the room. With
the Poisons right on top of them, Ant-Venom attempted to hurry Rocket
but Rocket instead activated the bomb he had secretly hid on the way
inside the ship, destroying several Poisons and causing a new
distraction. Unfortunately, Ant-Venom was soon led away by a Poison
posing as his daughter Cassie and despite Rocket's insistence that
Ant-Venom should know better than to fall for a Poison's trap,
Ant-Venom leaped off Rocket's shoulder and right into the arms of the
Poison. Despite wanting to save Ant-Venom, Rocket continued working,
knowing that he didn't have the time to stop to save Ant-Venom, and
when the Poison began devouring Ant-Venom was killed by the returning
Wolverine/X-23 of Earth-24398 before the Poison could fully devour him.
The other Resistance arrived to regroup with Rocket and Rocket soon
finished rewiring the ship to self-destruct, effectively turning it
into one giant bomb. Venom-616 suggested Rocket set off the bomb while
Dr. Strange-22249 transported everyone back to their home realities but
Strange admitted he was not strong enough to send everyone home.
Knowing the mission was likely to be a suicide
run, Rocket proceeded to activate the bomb with a ten second countdown
and Old Man Venom ordered everyone to get out of the ship while he held
off the Poisons. Dr. Strange-22249 then began using what little power
he had left to transport the Resistance members and he succeeded in
transporting Spinneret, Black Panther, Rocket, Venom and Mania back to
their realities, leaving Carnage, the Poison Deadpool, Old Man Venom
and likely himself to die in the exploding ship. Appearing moments
later inside a space bar, a surprised Rocket was confronted by
n'er-do-wells who asked if Rocket had the money he owed them.
Comments: Created by Cullen Bunn and Iban Coello.
In Venomverse I#2, Rocket mentions that the Poisons had taken all of the Guardians and that he was the last one. However, that doesn't exactly make a lot of sense, given what we know about Venom Rocket's history. When we see Rocket get transported away to join the Resistance, he is a lone bounty hunter yet he also mentions in Venomverse I#4 that the Poisons had taken everything away from him including Quill, Gamora and Groot, suggesting that these Guardians were similarly symbiote-empowered, had joined the Resistance and were devoured by the Poisons. So either Rocket was alone before joining the Resistance because his Guardians had already encountered the Poisons way before he joined the Resistance or the other symbiote-powered Guardians were transported away to join the Resistance before Rocket, leaving Rocket to become a lone bounty hunter until he himself was transported away to reunite with his former Guardians teammates, now in the Resistance. Rocket seemed a bit more jokey before being transported away to join the Resistance, so I'm betting more on him reuniting with the other Guardians after he joined the Resistance, as one would think if he had already encountered the Poisons prior to joining the Resistance, he would've been more hard-edged after that and before being transported away to join the Resistance. Since we are never told clearly about Rocket's association with the Guardians, for the purposes of this profile, I am choosing to go with: he had been a Guardians member, they were all transported away leaving him to become a lone bounty hunter, he was eventually transported away as well & reunited with them in the Resistance and then they were killed, leaving him harder-edged and plotting a way to avenge his former teammates. Perhaps when the other Guardians were transported away, Rocket had found a way to avoid being transported, as he fought tooth and nail to keep from being transported away in Venomverse: War Stories#1 and even begged Captain America for help, suggesting he knew something bad was happening...
Venom Rocket only ever referred to
his previous team as the "Guardians," never as "Guardians of the
Galaxy."
While never actually stated, it
seems likely this Rocket was a Halfworld native just like his
Reality-616 counterpart.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Reality-18197's Venom Rocket should be
distinguished from:
| --Venomverse: War
Stories#1/4 |
| --Venomverse I#4 (fb) -
BTS |
| --Venomverse I#4 (fb) -
BTS |
| --Venomverse I#2 (fb) -
BTS(#4 (fb) -
BTS, |
| --Venomverse I#4 (fb) -
BTS |
Appearances:
Venomverse I#1 (November, 2017) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Iban Coello
(art), Devin Lewis (editor)
Venomverse: War Stories#1 (November, 2017) - "Tales from the Front
Lines" story - Cullen Bunn (writer), Annapaola Martello (art), Devin
Lewis (editor); "321" story - Magdalene Visaggio (writer), Alex
Arizmendi (art), Devin Lewis (editor)
Venomverse I#2 (November, 2017) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Iban Coello
(art), Devin Lewis (editor)
Venomverse I#3 (November, 2017) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Iban Coello
(art), Devin Lewis (editor)
Venomverse I#4 (November, 2017) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Iban Coello
(art), Devin Lewis (editor)
Venomverse I#5 (December, 2017) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Iban Coello
(art), Devin Lewis (editor)
First posted: 03/03/2023
Last updated: 03/03/2023
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