Extreme Venomverse #3 (2023)

After the death of her father Brokk, Dilann is cast out by the other members of her tribe due to them believing Brokk to have been cursed and that Dilann inherited it. However, Dilann clung to what her father had told her -- that she had been marked by the gods for greatness, though in her tribe's language the word for "greatness" also meant "catastrophe". While camping, Dilann is attacked by a sabre-toothed cat, only for a meteor to impact just before it can attack her. Emerging from the meteor, a symbiote investigates the sabre-toothed cat's corpse before bonding to Dilann, who accepts what she sees as a gift from the gods. Some time later, a group of Kree soldiers enslave Dilann's former tribe, one soldier complaining about how overseeing the imprisonment is beneath them. The soldier's comrade replies that the Supreme Intelligence determined that the species, while primitive, has enormous genetic potential. The disdainful soldier sneers that the planet's atmosphere is giving him indigestion and leaves to relieve himself, scoffing at his comrade's warning about dangerous predators. Walking off while singing an anti-Skrulls military song, the Kree soldier is ambushed and decapitated, his head left as a warning. Having bonded over their shared loneliness, Dilann and her symbiote see each other as soul-mates; the symbiote transforming her into a saber-toothed cat-themed humanoid monster called the Black Fang. Perching in a tree, the Black Fang surveils the invaders, who Dilann initially assumed to be gods, only for her symbiote to correct her that they are mere mortals. Despite her exile, Dilann decides to act as her former tribe's Lethal Protector, the Black Fang decapitating and dismembering the Kree soldiers. The Kree deploy a combat-mech, Dilann asking her symbiote if it is a god and her symbiote replying that it is only a tool that can be broken. Dodging the mech's energy-beams, the Black Fang attacks it, Dilann wondering if it's within their power to do so. Her symbiote replies that if she wishes for them to destroy the mech, they will do so even if it costs them their lives. Dilann tells her symbiote she wishes to save her people, the symbiote replying that they are its people too... as long as they deserve her. The mech grabs the Black Fang by the throat, but before it can fiinish her off its head is shot off. The Black Fang collapses, unconscious, and Dilann awakens to find a blonde woman bonded to a symbiote resembling body armor. As Dilann reacts in alarm and confusion, the woman tells her to calm down and that her symbiote interfaced with Dilann's to let them understand each other. Dilann thanks the woman for saving her, the woman replying that Dilann almost had it and that all she did was finish it off and free her people's shackles. Turning to her tribe, Dilann asks if they're alright and says that she saved them, vindicating her father's belief that she was destined for greatness rather than cursed. Her former tribespeople pelt her with stones, blaming her for the Kree invasion and telling her to leave before she brings more invaders down on them. As Dilann weeps at this final rejection, the Black Fang symbiote engulfs her and roars that they do not deserve Dilann or itself. As the Black Fang storms off, Agent Venom commiserates with Dilann's plight and offers her a place in her tribe, saying that her and her symbiote's strength will be needed against a threat that is coming for them and all others like them. The Black Fang accepts and welcomes the challenge, saying they will show their opponent the true meaning of greatness and catastrophe.