Gwendolyne Stacy (Earth-5340)

"We're more than the sum of your parts. No being comes close to us."

- Venom to Spider-Woman

Gwendolyne "Gwen" Stacy is a childhood friend of Mary Jane Watson and is the host of the Venom symbionte, a failed attempt at a cure for cancer by Lionel Luthor. When her father died alongside Mary Jane's parents, she, unlike her best friend, was sent to a orphanage where she became cold and manipulative.

After returning to her hometown of New York City after years, she met Mary Jane again, who was now secretly acting as the vigilante Spider-Woman. After discovering her friend's secrets, right in the time Jane attempted to remove the influence of the symbionte of her mind, she became bounded with the creature, turning into the psychotic murderer Venom.