 The series also contained the four-part backup story, "Hybrid", with the Phage, Riot, Lasher and Agony symbiotes combining into a new symbiote which joins with former Vault guard Scott Washington to create the anti-hero Hybrid.The events of "Planet of the Symbiotes" take place during "Hybrid", with the defeat of the symbiotes in that story creating the Hybrid.A three-part series published between May and July 1996, it references the symbiote invasion in "Planet of the Symbiotes" as a symbiote-eating alien (the Xenophage) arrives on earth to hunt the remaining symbiotes.