V.E.N.O.M.
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V.E.N.O.M., short for Vicious Evil Network Of Mayhem, is a criminal organization formed by Miles Mayhem. The sinister opposite of the heroic M.A.S.K., Mayhem's team utilizes Cybertronian-derived transforming vehicles in their bid for personal profit and world domination!
The team consists of:
Fiction
[edit]2005 IDW continuity
[edit]V.E.N.O.M. began as a top-secret black-ops division within the anti-Transformer "Project Spectrum" initiative, a prospective team assembled from the most ruthless members of the M.A.S.K.. program, but, under Mayhem's auspices, quickly evolved into something more sinister—a network of operatives loyal to him and him alone. M.A.S.K.: Revolution Indeed, Mayhem kept his true goals a secret, even from his prospective recruits, during the crisis spurred by Optimus Prime's annexation of Earth, The Divine Source of Liberty but after the battle against Baron Karza, the future agents of V.E.N.O.M. disappeared after Prime's space bridge exploded and took advantage of their presumed deaths to go underground. Valley Forge
While on the run, M.A.S.K. operative Matt Trakker and his team battled Mayhem's team of villains, and, at one point clashed over Astrotrain's remains when they fell to Earth. The Deathstone Eventually, Miles Mayhem reconnected with his old friend Joe Colton, joined the new supervillain cabal known as the "Iron Ring," A Little Bit of Mayhem and took part in their failed invasion of Cybertron. First Strike issue 1 The other members of the team fell in with the newest iteration of Cobra, and lent their advanced technology to aid their new allies during a string of museum heists. When G.I. Joe intervened during their attack on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the group unveiled their powerful new "King Cobra" mech, a fusion of V.E.N.O.M. and Cobra technology that nearly defeated the heroes, until Skywarp and Salvo successfully brought it down. Though the other members of Cobra escaped with their stolen artifacts, the three V.E.N.O.M. agents were left behind and taken into police custody. G.I. Joe: First Strike M.A.S.K.: First Strike
Notes
[edit]- V.E.N.O.M., like the rest of M.A.S.K., was originally created by Kenner. Thus it was acquired by Hasbro along with the company in 1991, and later could be licensed to IDW Publishing for inclusion in the IDW Hasbro universe.