>>149279238
That was the original concept, not the one that made it into the comics. The symbiote in 616 doesn't leach, pervert, corrupt, or feed on

Only later in the 90s during Planet of the Symbiotes did they then say that symbiotes as a race feed off adrenaline of the host, but that Venom was a unique case because it only wanted to bond with a host and not use them up