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Agony
Personal Info:
Real Name: Leslie Gesneria
Also Known As: No known Alias
Place Of Birth: Unknown
First Appearance: Venom: Lethal Protector Vol.1 #4 (1993) Modern Age Villain
Known Associates: Carlton Drake, Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher
Group Affiliation: Life Foundation
Base Of Operations: Mojave Desert, California
Grudges: Venom and Spider-Man
Creators: David Michelinie and Ron Lim
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Powers:

Enhanced Abilities: Agony’s strength, endurance, reflexes and durability are all enhanced by the alien symbiote.

Invulnerability: Agony has a degree of invulnerability to physical and energy attacks.

Wall-Crawling: Agony can adhere to vertical and upside down surfaces.

Webbing: Agony can fire parts of the symbiote like webbing from her wrists. Agony uses the webbing to make swing lines, ensnare opponents and fashion shields.

Healing Factor: Agony is capable of healing injuries at a faster rate than normal human healing allows.

Immunity - Spider Sense: Agony is completely immune to Spider-Man’s danger sense. She never triggers the sense when he fights Spider-Man.

Blending: The symbiote can change it’s appearance to mimic any other garment.

Metabolic Acid Generation: Agony can use her metabolism to spit acid, which can burn through most substances, however the full extent or limit and range of her acid projectiles are unknown.

Metabolic Chemical Absorption: Agony can absorb chemicals (such as Spider-Man's artificial webbing.) This ability has not been shown in any of the other LF symbiotes.

Origins:

The sinister Life Foundation a organization that was preparing for the M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) fallout of the Cold War or in the event of world chaos, sought to provide a comfortable life for their wealthy clients after the impending holocaust. Needing a superhuman police force to protect this Utopian future, the Foundation's leader Carlton Drake saw these futures guardians in the unborn offspring of the Venom symbiote and sent agents to capture Eddie Brock.

Once the Life Foundation had captured Venom, who was in San Francisco at the time, they brought him to their lab in Mojave Desert California. There, they forcible extracted five “seeds” from Venom and hatched them to give rise to a yellow-and-red symbiote, a green symbiote, a dark grey symbiote, a yellow-and-black symbiote, and a purple symbiote. Too young to control a host, the purple symbiote was bonded to Leslie Gesneria, a security force officer of the Life Foundation that comprised of cops, soldiers, and mercenaries. Together the purple symbiote and Gesneria, along with the other four hosts, would become the Life Foundation's Guardian Symbiotes.

Notes:

Agony I at Marvel Database

Agony I at Comic Vine