
Techno-Hybrid: Since the Scorn symbiote's birth was linked to robotic arm, the symbiote is a machine/symbiote hybrid, thus being able to fuse itself with different kind of technology. Instead, Cletus ripped out and devoured her spinal cord, presumably killing her. While Cletus' connection to Knull proved temporary, Scorn informed him that absorbing codexes (trace remnants of symbiote biomass left inside hosts) could amplify it, and offered to undergo surgery to extract the codex that the Carnage symbiote had left inside her. To this end, she recovered the body of Cletus Kasady and bonded it to a sample of the Grendel symbiote - which Knull had indwelled - in the hopes of turning Cletus into Knull's avatar. Several years later, the Scorn symbiote was presumably affected by the awakening of the dark elder god Knull- the creator of the Symbiotes - and Tanis was corrupted, becoming the high priestess of an apocalyptic cult dedicated to fully reviving him. She managed to use sonic weaponry to separate the Carnage symbiote from Cletus, collecting a sample in order to deliver it to General Brandon Duggan. She was partnered with the Mercury Team, a group of special forces wielding weapons made of the separated symbiotes that once made up Hybrid. When Carnage first took over the town of Doverton, Colorado, Scorn was the only active symbiote who could be called on by the government to stop him after he defeated the Avengers, except for Spider-Man. Personality Compared to the other sisters, Scorn displays a quiet, stoic and task-driven behavior.
She has black eyes and is frequently shown grinning. She was taken into Iron Man's custody in hopes of getting leads on Carnage's location. Scorn is a purple and silver Symbiote with a slightly muscular build, with some part of her host's body being covered in a metallic, shiny material. This put her into a coma and gave Spider-Man and Iron Man the chance they needed to defeat Carnage. Pulling her by the hair, Scorn forced Shriek to use her sonic scream on Carnage. She scared the symbiote so it abandoned her to return to Tanis. With the new symbiote bonded to her arm, Shriek dragged her out into the streets where Carnage was fighting Spider-Man and Iron Man. Horrified by its hunger, she cut off her arm and Shriek claimed it for her own. It was later discovered that she was carrying Carnage's child, which was growing on her prosthetic arm.
Scorn obligated Shriek to use her sonic attack to debilitate Carnage, who later escaped with Doppelganger. It brought her to Cletus Kasady and abandoned her to return to him. Then, Nieves' prosthesis resulted to be a new spawn of Carnage, which turned her into a new symbiote called Scorn. Tanis Nieves was a psychiatrist assigned to Shriek before briefly wearing the Carnage Symbiote.