Venompool

Venompool is an alternate universe amalgamation of Deadpool and Venom created for the mobile fighting game, Marvel: Contest of Champions, based loosely on varying What If stories featuring similar concepts. Venompool was born into existence by mistake when Deadpool, left in charge of the Battlerealm by The Collector, accidentally created a clone of himself merged with the Symbiote during an attempted fake cooking show. Venompool, confused and hostile over its creation, went berserk and began tearing through the Battlerealm, prompting Deadpool to recruit The Summoner to help stop the rampage before The Collector returned.

After his defeat, Venompool would join The Summoner's roster of fighters and aided them in battling foes from across a multitude of time and space. Later, Venompool would join Kingpin and a team of other villains in an alliance known as the Black-ISO Mafia, who intended to use ISO-8 to create clones of other fighters to create a powerful black market army for sale to the highest bidder, beginning by using Massacre as the template for a new "Goldpool" soldier. The Mafia was confronted and dismantled by The Summoner, Deadpool and his Mercs for Money team, defeating Venompool once again.

Venompool Build-A-Figure (2020)
Venompool was added to the Marvel Legends toyline in the 2020 Venom themed series, originally intended to release alongside the theatrical Venom: Let There Be Carnage film, before the Covid-19 Pandemic delayed the release of the film out of the original 2020 release window. The figure is based on the exaggerated proportions of the character as depicted in the Contest of Champions mobile game, though it lacked any of the traditional "Gamerverse" branding used by Marvel to denote characters from their games media. The figure is an entirely new sculpt, featuring significantly more texture work than is traditional on a Legends figure, including subtle patterning to denote the difference between the red costumed pieces and the slimier Symbiote nature of the black portions of the suit, as well as extensive molded stitching throughout.

Unlike most BAF figures, Venompool actually includes several accessories. He includes a separately molded web-gear harness with built in sheaths that is packed in with his torso piece. He includes two exaggeratedly large katana blades, both based on new, original molds which can fit into his hands or sheath into slots on the back of his webgear. Finally, Venompool includes two pairs of hands; one pair posed into a gripping shape to wield the weapons, and an alternate pair splayed outwards and displaying his symbiote claws.

As a Build-A-Figure, the pieces were distributed across most of the figures from the wave. The head was packed with Carnage, the torso and swords with Ghost Spider, an arm and alternate hand with both Morbius and Miles Morales and both legs included with Phage. The sixth figure in the wave, Venom did not include a Build-A-Figure part of any kind.

Funko Pop! Gaming #300 - Venompool (2018)
Venompool saw his first figure made as part of the hyper-stylized chibi Funko Pop! vinyl bobblehead collectible figure line, released as part of a set based on Contest of Champions in February 2018. The figure, while based on the same art style, size and general look as every other Pop in the line, features an entirely original sculpt, though the design is actually less stylized than the exaggerated proportions of the source material. As a figure based on the mobile game instead of the comics or films, the figure was made part of the "Pop! Gaming" subline instead of the general "Funko Pop!" or "Pop! Marvel" lines and numberings, where it was numbered figure #300.

Funko Pop! Gaming #302 - Venompool (With Phone) (2018)
Released concurrently with the Venompool numbered Pop! Gaming #300, Venompool (With Phone) is a slight remold of the original release of the Funko Pop figure, with different arms. The right arm is now molded holding a cellphone, while his left arm is gesturing to give him a moment, replicating his pose taking a phone call mid battle during his Level 3 Special Move in-game. As a slightly different mold, with a different name, the figure is released under a different number in the Pop! Gaming subline, holding #302 instead.

The figure was released exclusively at Gamestop stores in February 2018, alongside the rest of the Contest of Champions figures and retail exclusive variants.

Venompool (2020)
Part of the Video Game Masterpiece sub-line of Sideshow's premium Hot Toys sixth scale action figures, Venompool is an incredibly detailed, 14.5" tall replica of the character as depicted in Contest of Champions, featuring an entirely original sculpt and tailored costume pieces in order to best capture the appearance of the character. The figure uses a unique head system that features two different swappable tongue pieces, and three pairs of interchangable eye pieces allowing one head to represent a multitude of expressions at will. While most Hot Toys figures feature intricate, multi layered costumes of varying material to replicate costumes to exacting detail, Venompool's design makes this less viable, and he instead features a singular costume overlay on top of an original body, with individual costume pieces for his harness, belt, thigh pouch, and the rings for his wrists and ankles.

The figure also includes eight pairs of hands, including one pair of hands curled into closed fists, one pair of hands molded to wield katanas, one pair of hands in splayed out claw poses, and two alternate left hands - one for wielding a pistol and one with an extended pointing finger, which can be used to replicate the "one moment" gesture seen in the game during Venompool's super move. Also included are two katana blades with matching sheaths, a pistol, a smartphone, and two bendable wire Symbiote tendrils which can be plugged into the back and posed at will.

Like many Hot Toys figures, Venompool was released in two formats- a normal release and a Sideshow web exclusive, which included additional accessories. In Venompool's case, the Sideshow exclusive version included an alternate headsculpt pre-posed to feature a large, toothy smile with no visible tongue. The figure was announced for pre-order at SDCC 2019, and released in the third quarter of 2020 for $405.