- "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 one's body. Variation of Power Suit and Symbiotic Connection. Opposite to High-Tech Exoskeleton.
Contents
Also Called
- Symbiotic Armor
- Symbiotic Power Suit
- Symbiote Suit
Capabilities
The user possesses a living costume that is symbiotically bound to their body. Though not a superpower itself, it does grant powers to the user.
Applications
- Assimilative Evolution
- Amorphous Physiology
- Body Link
- Dermal Armor
- Enhanced/Supernatural Condition
- Malleable Anatomy
- Natural Weaponry
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Symbiotic Constructs
- Symbiotic Shapeshifting
Variations
- Alien Mind
- Bio-Technology
- Divided Mind
- DNA Replication
- Elasticity
- Life-Force Absorption
- Organite Manipulation
- Regenerative Empowerment
- Shapeshifting
- Symbiote Physiology
- Symbiotic Tattoos
Types of Symbiote:
- Ancient Symbiotic Exoskeleton
- Bio-Metallic Symbiotic Exoskeleton
- Enchanted Symbiotic Exoskeleton
- High-Tech Symbiotic Exoskeleton
- Spiritual Symbiotic Exoskeleton
- Symbiont Collective
- Technomagical Symbiotic Exoskeleton
Associations
- Bio-Metal Physiology
- Bio-Tech Manipulation
- Biological Symbiosis
- Parasite Physiology
- Powered Structure
- Power Suit
- High-Tech Exoskeleton
- 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)
- Goku Uniform Users (Kill la Kill)
- Kamui Users (Kill la Kill)
- Wetworks (WildStorm Comics)
- James Heller (Prototype 2)
- X-O Manowar (Valiant Entertainment)
- Tobi/Spiral Zetsu (Naruto)
- Kakuja Users (Tokyo Ghoul)
- Kelly Funk (One Piece); via the Jake Jake no Mi
- Klyntar/Symbiote Hosts (Marvel Comics)
- Scarlet Spiders/Team Red (Marvel Comics)
- Dreadface (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics); via Extremis armor and Endo-Sym Armor
- Ultimate Spider-Man (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
- Venomized Wolverine (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Venomized Electro (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Venomized Black Cat (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows)
- Rick Wilder/Combo Man (Marvel Comics)
- Wario (Nintendo); via Super Wario
- William Afton/Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy's, The Twisted Ones); via SpringBonnie costume
- Hellspawns (Image Comics)
- Redeemers (Image Comics)
- Haunt (Image Comics)
- Witchblade (Witchblade)
- Darkness (Witchblade)
- Angelus (Witchblade)
- Sara Pezzini (Witchblade)
- Danielle Baptiste (Witchblade)
- Jackie Estacado (Witchblade)
- Galvanic Mechamorph (Ben 10)
- Upgrade
- Ship
- Guyvers (Guyver)
- Shō Fukamachi (Guyver)
- Sean Barker (Guyver)
- D (Vampire Hunter D)
- Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes (DC Comics)
- Symbiote Soldiers (Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite)
- Sinister Splotch (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants)
- Walter (Sanctuary)
- Darth Bane (Star Wars)
- Black Beetle (DC Comics)
- James "Alcatraz" Rodriquez (Crysis); via Nanosuit 2
- Flex Fighters (Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters)
- SCP-2273 - Major Alexei Belitrov, of the Red Army's 22nd Armored Infantry Division (SCP Foundation)
- Mary Jane Waston/Spider-Woman (Ultimate Spider-Man)
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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/Agent Venom (Marvel Comics) is the perfect host for the Venom symbiote.
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)
Spawn (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.
William Afton in the Spring Bonnie suit in the 'The Silver Eyes Graphic Novel' (Five Nights at Freddy's)
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)
Spawn (Image Comics)
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