Agent Venom is eventually recruited by General Thaddeus Ross to join his team, The Thunderbolts. This team consists mainly of reformed villains, including Baron Zemo and Taskmaster. The Thunderbolts use violent methods to carry out their missions, the Venom symbiote bonded to Flash craves this kind of brutality. After being exposed to the Thunderbolts the symbiote begins to gain more control, it influences Flash into eating people and causing him to become disenchanted.
