Andi Benton

Andi Benton is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Andrea Benton

Mania

When Mania confronted Ogre in his penthouse, the mob boss stated he had a chemical bomb in his chest that it would go off and unleash a death-cloud that would kill many innocents if he died. Mania called his bluff and attempted to kill him, but was stopped by Venom, and their argument was interrupted by Crossbones and agents of the Department of Occult Affairs, which Agent Venom had been investigating. One of Crossbones' allies, Master Mayhem, opened a dimensional portal in his chest which summoned numerous demons that attacked Mania, Venom, and Ogre - the latter of whom was killed. During the battle, Mania discovered the hell-mark gave her control over the demons and ordered them to turn on Crossbones. Venom and Mania escaped while Crossbones and his allies were fighting the demons. (Venom v2 #41) Venom and Mania contacted Mephisto in order to remove Andi's hell-mark, though the demon refused to do so. When Crossbones located them once more, Mephisto helped the heroes battle him by summoning the Monsters of Evil, a legion of demonic monsters at the command of whoever had the hell-mark. When Crossbones and his allies were defeated and before disappearing, Mephisto stated that the hell-mark was not Andi's, but the symbiote's, and that Andi's symbiote was actually the Venom symbiote's long-assimilated clone. Flash promised he would help Andi remove the hell mark at any cost. (Venom v2 #42)

Now knowing that Eddie Brock was Venom's current host and reading about their actions in the newspaper, she offered to help Flash find them so that he could be Agent Venom again. However, Lee Price — a former Army Ranger who had bonded to the Venom symbiote for a short period of time — and his allies attacked Andi and separated the Mania symbiote from her using a sonic disruptor and flamethrowers. Price took the Mania symbiote for himself and used it to build his own crime organization as 'Maniac', sharing the symbiote with its members to control them. Badly injured by Price's attack, Andi was sent to a hospital, where she was visited by Flash and informed him about what had happened. (Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha v1 #1)

Silence

Back in Philadelphia, Andi struggled to adjust to civilian life and cope with the death of her mentor, either graduating from or dropping out of high school and obtaining a job at Mitch's record store. Still living with her Aunt Sarah, she began suffering from recurring nightmares and hallucinations of the Mania symbiote attacking her and those around her. While the nightmares and hallucinations got worse over time, Andi dismissed them as a form of phantom limb syndrome until she was attacked by Carnage, who killed her aunt and attacked her to claim the remnants of the Mania symbiote in her body. Andi used the Hell-Mark to summon the Monsters of Evil and transform into a demonic form of her own, but the symbiote-augmented serial killer proved immune to their hellfire - having been empowered by Knull, the god of the symbiotes - and slaughtered the demonically-augmented monsters. Andi managed to escape through Hell, and set out to New York to find and warn Eddie Brock. (Web of Venom: Funeral Pyre v1 #1)

She was by the Alchemax building when the Doppelganger escaped leading to Scream battling the creature and succeeding in capturing it. Andi attempted to interrogate the monster but then her mind was overwhelmed by the presence of Carnage where she came to learn that Cletus Kasady did not die and that his presence was within the Symbiote hive. From there, he looked to gather an army of Symbiotes under him as part of his schemes and called upon the Scream Symbiote as well. This resulted in him turning Scream against Andi who was forced to call upon the power of the Hellmark thus burning the Symbiote. As a result, the Scream Symbiote bonded to her was destroyed whilst the remains joined Carnage's hive and fell under his influence. (Extreme Carnage: Scream v1 #1)

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Andi Benton was a young woman of athletic build with short, choppy black hair streaked with purple and a punk-inspired fashion sense that reflected her rebellious personality. She had fair skin, blue eyes, and a sharp, angular face often framed by dark eyeliner and piercings. When bonded with the symbiote as Mania, her form became sleek and black with a glossy, tar-like texture, featuring jagged white patches on her chest and elongated claws on her hands. Her most distinguishing features were her menacing fanged grin and long prehensile tongue, inherited from the Venom symbiote’s genetic lineage. When she bonded with a piece of the Venom Symbiote she began to take the name Mania. (Venom v2 #38)

Powers and abilities

Andi Benton was a human host bonded to a symbiote fragment, granting her superhuman powers and a vast enhancement to her physical capabilities. The Mania symbiote provided her with superhuman strength, agility, reflexes, and durability, allowing her to lift heavy objects, leap great distances, and endure damage far beyond human limits. It also granted her regenerative healing, organic web generation, and the ability to form tendrils and bladed constructs from her body. In addition, her connection to the Hell-Mark gave her limited mystical abilities, including hellfire projection and demonic detection. Despite its violent nature, Andi learned to synchronize with the symbiote, using its powers with precision and restraint to uphold the values instilled in her by Flash Thompson. (Venom v2 #42)

By tapping into the full power of the Hellmark and transforming into a demon, Andi conjures a suit of demonic black and red armor. (Web of Venom: Funeral Pyre v1 #1)

Notes

• Andi Benton was created by Cullen Bunn and Declan Shalvey where she made her first appearance in Venom v2 #31 (April, 2013).

Appearances

• Venom v2: (2013)
• Venom: Space Knight v1:
• Absolute Carnage: Scream v1: (2019)
• Scream: Curse of Carnage v1: (2019)
• Extreme Carnage: Scream v1: (2021)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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