Scream (comics)

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Scream
Scream Art by Ron Lim
Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Venom: Lethal Protector #4 Created by David Michelinie Ron Lim
Characteristics Alter ego Donna Diego Affiliations Former allies of other "Guardian" symbiotes, former ally of Venom and Wolverine. Abilities -Superhuman strength, speed, agility and endurance -Symbiote allows all of Spider-Man's powers -Hair can be used to attack and can form bladed weapons

Scream (Donna Diego) is a supervillain (and later anti-hero) from the Spider-Man comic books. She is one of the six 'children' of Venom. Scream is the first female symbiote in the Marvel Universe. She is the "daughter" of Venom and has four symbiote "brothers", including Carnage, one "sister" and a nephew Toxin.

Contents 1 Fictional character biography 2 Powers and abilities 3 Trivia 4 Full Appearances List 5 Scream in other media 5.1 Theme Parks 5.2 Toys 5.3 Video games 6 External links

[edit] Fictional character biography

Scream was one of the five Life Foundation Symbiotes that were forcefully spawned from the Venom symbiote. She was their unofficial leader. Like the other five symbiotes, she was a volunteer for the Life Foundation Organization, an organization that was preparing for the M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) fallout of the Cold War and provide a comfortable life for their wealthy clients after the impending nuclear holocaust. The Life Foundation was experimenting with the Venom symbiote in the hopes of creating so-called 'super-cops' to watch over their imagined fallout shelter utopia. Donna was picked from the organization's security force, made up of police, soldiers, and mercenaries.

In Scream's first appearance, she ran into Spider-Man while terrorizing a shopping mall near Salinas, California. Quickly bested by the more experienced fighter, Scream escaped in a hovercraft which returned to the Life Foundation's base.

Unknown to her, Spider-Man had hitched a ride on that same hovercraft. Once inside he helped Eddie Brock (who was being held prisoner there) escape and rebond with his symbiote. Scream and the other guardian symbiotes then tangled with Spider-Man and Venom, but Venom turned an accelerated aging device on them. The age-accelerating machine appeared to make Scream and the other symbiotes age to dust. Venom and Spider-Man escaped and the Life Foundation blew up the base.

Later it was revealed that Scream and her "siblings" survived, and the Life Foundation was able to save them and their symbiotes. However, for some reason, the Guardians had a falling out with their previous employers and now were fugitives on the run, struggling to remain in control of their symbiotes. Scream led the others to New York City in search of Venom, hoping that he would help teach them how to control their symbiotes. Venom wanted nothing to do with them, and battled Scream. Venom disappeared, and Scream attempted to enlist the Scarlet Spider to help find him. When he refused, Scream experienced a psychotic break and began a rampage in Times Square. Humiliated by Venom (who ripped pieces of her symbiote off her) and narrowly saved by the Scarlet Spider, Scream disappeared again.

Undiscouraged, Scream rounded up her "siblings" and broke the now-powerless Eddie Brock out of prison, kidnapping him and imprisoning him in a Chicago warehouse. She once again asked for his help in learning to communicate with the symbiotes. Eddie once again refused and tried to kill them all, even though he had no symbiote to back him up. Eddie escaped, and soon after the Life Foundation symbiotes were murdered, one by one. Scream lead them to believe that Eddie Brock was the killer, while in fact, it had been her the entire time. She had come to the conclusion that all symbiotes are evil, and, "We're evil for bonding with them so we all have to die."

It was revealed that she was insane and had been hearing voices long before she became host to her "other" (suggesting that she was schizophrenic.) Eddie managed to re-bond with the Venom symbiote before Scream killed him. While he could not prevent her from murdering every other symbiote, Venom was nevertheless able to beat her in combat yet again, and Scream was taken in by the authorities.

Since the symbiote invasion of Earth in the Planet of the Symbiotes storyline, Donna is one of the few remaining symbiotes on earth and busied herself tracking down and helping benevolent symbiotic survivors. This is a significant change in character; Donna seeks to redeem herself for her past murders. After many of the symbiotes (and their human hosts) were murdered, Donna tracked Xenophage, a huge alien monster that devours both symbiotes and the brains of their hosts. Donna assisted Venom in slaying the beast, but was gravely injured.

Later she sought out the Xenophage's hidden ship to help her track down more of the symbiotic survivors. The ship transported her and others (including Venom and Wolverine) into another dimension where Scream was nearly killed once again by the villainous mutants Dirtnap and Chimera. Upon her successful return to Earth, she disappeared, presumably to continue her search for the few remaining symbiotes.

Donna's latest appearance to this date is in two panels of Marvel Super Hero Island Adventures comic giveaway from 1999, as she is shown to be a member of the Sinister Six. There she is referred the first and only time to as Scream in the comics. Scream is also pictured on the roller coaster of the Islands of Adventure ride called The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man .

[edit] Powers and abilities

Scream's superhuman abilities are due to her alien symbiote. The creature can mimic clothing and camouflage Donna. She often uses her 'hair' as a weapon, to wrap or tangle enemies, much like Medusa of the Inhumans. Like Spider-Man and Venom, Scream has wall-crawling

and web-slinging abilities, and also boasts an early-warning sense. Scream also possesses some degree of superhuman strength, the exact limits of which aren't known.

[edit] Trivia

The Scream alias was given to her first in a video game, Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety, then in the Venom action figures series and only after that in comics.

Donna's family name - Diego - was first established in "Civil War - Battle Damage Report" in 2007, many years after her first appearance as a character in the Marvel Universe. In these files she is quoted as beeing an "enemy combatant" to the forces of the Initiative.

[edit] Full Appearances List

• Venom: Lethal Protector #1-6 (1993 - Scream's first appearance in #4!)
• The Exile Returns (1994) (consists of: Web of Spider-Man #118 • Spider-Man #52 • Web of Spider-Man #119 • Spider-Man #53)
• Venom: Separation Anxiety #1-4 (1994)
• Venom: The Hunted #1-3 (1996)
• Venom: Tooth and Claw #1-3 (1996)
• Marvel Super Hero Island Adventures (1999)
• Spider-Man: Back in Black Handbook (2007)

[edit] Scream in other media

[edit] Theme Parks

Scream can be seen in the Islands of Adventure ride The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man as one of the villains.

[edit] Toys

Scream has her own action figure in the "Venom - Planet of the Symbiotes" 1996 action figure series by Toy Biz. It has a "living tendrils hair" feature.

[edit] Video games

Scream is one of the six symbiote bosses in the video game, Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety.

[edit] External links

• A Scream profile at Samruby.com
• A Scream profile at Spiderfan.org
• Brief Scream bio at the Spider's Web
• Brief Scream bio at Insania 1998
• Bio on the official site of Marvel