UNDERDWELLERS
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Classification: Semi-humanoid extraterrestrial race 

Location/Base of Operations: The Great Eye, a volcano on an unidentified planet, unidentified star system (likely the Gorfin system), unidentified galaxy (see comments)

Known Members: None identified

Affiliations: Eugene "Flash" Thompson

Enemies: Gramosians under Mercurio,
    formerly "Flash" Thompson, the Wugin (notably Iqa)

First Appearance: Venom: Space Knight#3 (March, 2016)
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Powers/Abilities: Dwelling within the volcano known as the Great Eye, the Underdwellers appear to be rock-based life forms with a solid surface and a molten core, with an opening at the top, much like a volcano.

    Their rock-like forms likely grant them great durability and strength, although they may have been relatively slow-moving. They are presumably comfortable within the great heat, pressure and gas content of a volcano; they may or may not be vulnerable to cold, water, etc.

    It is unrevealed whether they can project magma from their forms, or if it just is contained with them, only spilling out through wounds or perhaps through the top of their heads.

    It is unrevealed whether the Underdwellers spoke, and it is similarly unrevealed whether they were male or female or just reproduced asexually, such as by budding, or perhaps they were born from the lava.

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Traits: The Underdwellers apparently have a hive-mind, acting as one and allegedly existing solely to protect the Great Eye volcano within which they dwelled.
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Type:  Bilaterally symmetric rock-based bipeds
Eyes: Two (on head; red (glowing like magma)
Fingers: Three (plus opposing thumb)
Toes: None (solid feet)
Surface color: Gray
Average height: Approximately 6'6" to 7'"?

History:
(Venom: Space Knight#4 (fb) - BTS) - The Underdwellers lived within the Great Eye volcano on a planet also inhabited by the Wugin.

(Venom: Space Knight#4 (fb) - BTS) - Gramos required vast quantities of energy to survive. When the Gramosians refused to take the energy from other planets, Mercurio went rogue and began amassing weapons and power from "all over the galaxy."

(Venom: Space Knight#3 (fb) - BTS) <Three cycles before the main story> - Mercurio's agents planted a device within the Great Eye volcano on the world of the Wugin and Underdwellers, causing its eruption and the befouling of their atmosphere.

    The Underdwellers blamed the surface-dwelling Wugin for the damage to their Great Eye and attacked them, and the Wugin fought back, led by their queen, Iqa.

(Venom: Space Knight#3 - BTS) - Hearing -- via the voice of the Cosmos -- of the plight of the people on the world of the Wugin, Flash Thompson traveled there in a "rumble suit" (some sort of atmospheric protection suit) leaving behind the Venom symbiote/Klyntar, as it was highly vulnerable to fire. However, the suit was estimated to be able to survive the heat of the fiery world for only 30 minutes.

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underdwellers-vsk-vthompson(Venom: Space Knight#3) - As the Underdwellers battled the Wugin, Thompson encountered Iqa, who told him of the comet landing in the Great Eye and causing it to open, as well as the Underdwellers' blaming of the Wugin for the Great Eye and attacking them.

     Iqa feared that if the cause was not removed, her planet would be destroyed.

    Flash told her that if she could get him through the mess of warring Wugins and Underdwellers, he would jump into the Great Eye and sort everything.

    Iqa joined Thompson in fighting their way past the Underdwellers, after which Thompson climbed to the summit and dove into the lava, en route using his sword to knock back Underdwellers attempting to stop him.

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(Venom: Space Knight#3 - BTS) - Thompson located and destroyed the Mercurian device.

    As Thompson re-surfaced, Iqa told him that he had succeeded, as their atmosphere had been restored.

(Venom: Space Knight#3 - BTS) - Flash returned to his ship, and his "rumble suit" crumbled into pieces.


Comments: Created by Robbie Thompson and Ariel Olivetti.

    There are not images of the Underdwellers without Wugin or Thompson in them, but I think it's pretty clear who is whom. The volcano-headed rock people are the Underdwellers, the snake-headed women are Wugin, and the human in the environmental suit is Thompson.

    It is unrevealed whether the Underdwellers only live within the Great Eye or whether they are present within other volcanos on the planet.
    If so, it is unrevealed whether they are they isolated or perhaps connected via subterranean caverns

    Underdwellers is the name the Wugin gave them. It is unrevealed whether they have a different name for themselves.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Underdwellers should be distinguished from:

The Great Eye has no known connection to:
The Great Eye

underdwellers-vsk-greateyeunderdwellers-vsk-greateye-summit (Venom: Space Knight#4 (fb) - BTS) - The Underdwellers lived within the Great Eye volcano on a planet also inhabited by the Wugin.

(Venom: Space Knight#4 (fb) - BTS) - Gramos required vast quantities of energy to survive. When the Gramosians refused to take the energy from other planets, Mercurio went rogue and began amassing weapons and power from "all over the galaxy."

(Venom: Space Knight#3 (fb) - BTS) <Three cycles before the main story> - Mercurio's agents planted a device within the Great Eye volcano on the world of the Wugin and Underdwellers, causing its eruption and the befouling of their atmosphere.

    The Underdwellers blamed the surface-dwelling Wugin for the damage to their Great Eye and attacked them, and the Wugin fought back.

    Iqa joined Thompson in fighting their way past the Underdwellers, after which Thompson climbed to the summit and dove into the lava, en route using his sword to knock back Underdwellers attempting to stop him.

(Venom: Space Knight#3 - BTS) - Thompson located and destroyed the Mercurian device.

    As Thompson re-surfaced, Iqa told him that he had succeeded, as their atmosphere had been restored.

--Venom: Space Knight#3


images: (without ads)
 Venom: Space Knight#3, story pg. 2 (battling Wugin);
       pg. 9, panel 1 (Great Eye);
       pg. 10, panel 1 (battling Wugin 2);
       pg. 11-12 (battling Thompson & Wugin);
       pg. 13, panel 1 (Thompson fighting off Underdwellers while scaling the volcano)
        panel 2 (summit)

Appearances:
 Venom: Space Knight#3 (March, 2016) - Robbie Thompson (writer), Ariel Olivetti (artist), Kathleen Wisneski (assistant editor), Jake Thomas (editor)

First posted: 08/24/2025
Last updated: 08/24/2025

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