Leslie Gesneria
| Agony [Venom Spawn] | |
|---|---|
| File:Lesss.jpg Agony attacks | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Venom: Lethal Protector #4 |
| Created by | David Michelinie Ron Lim |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Agony [Venom Spawn] |
| Abilities | Superhuman strength, speed, agility and endurance Symbiote allows all of Spider-Man's powers Symbiote can be used to attack and can form bladed weapons |
Agony also known as Leslie Gesneria, is a fictional character and a supervillain from the Spider-Man comic books. She is one of six symbiote spawns of Venom. She is predominantly purple.
Fictional character biography
Leslie Gesneria was a mercenary who worked for a sinister corporation called the "Life Foundation", who was preparing for the M.A.D. nuclear fallout of the Cold War and sought to provide a comfortable underground life for their wealthy clients after the impending nuclear holocaust. The Life Foundation was experimenting with the Venom symbiote in the hopes of developing superhuman peacekeepers to watch over their imagined fallout shelter utopia. Leslie was one of two women who were chosen as hosts for Venom's forcibly-extracted symbiote spawn. Agony is defeated by Venom and Spider-Man in the storyline Venom: Lethal Protector. Her symbiote is artificially aged to dust and her body is presumed destroyed in a massive explosion that destroys the Life Foundation's main headquarters.
Agony was revealed to have survived in the mini-series Venom: Separation Anxiety. She mentions that she had wanted to be a hero, but like the other Life Foundation symbiotes was having trouble in controlling her symbiote. This lack of control over the alien inside her kept resulting in violence. Leslie and the others break Eddie Brock, Venom's secret identity, out of prison and kidnap him in order to make him teach them how to control their symbiotes. Leslie shows remorse and regret for her actions, just before she is murdered by her "sister" Scream, using a sonic knife.
After Agony is killed, what is left of her symbiote merges with its siblings (except Carnage and Scream) to and bonds with a man named Scott Washington to form a new antihero called Hybrid.
Powers and abilities
Agony's symbiote possesses all the powers the original Venom has, including suit -generated webbing, shape-shifting, superstrength and the ability to be undetected by Spider-Man's "spider-sense". Leslie Gesneria can also use her metabolism to spit acid, and can absorb chemicals (such as Spider-Man's webbing).
In other media
Agony is one of the six symbiote bosses in the video game Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety. She is encountered late in the game, and attacks mainly by extending her arms and spinning around.