Lasher is actually a forced spawn of the symbiote known as Venom. He, along with five other symbiotes, were created by a sinister corporation called the Life Foundation. This corporation experimented with Venom in the hopes of developing superhuman peacekeepers to watch over their imagined fallout shelter utopia. One of the three men who were chosen as hosts for Venom's spawn was the mercenary Ramón Hernández.

Creation

Creation

Ramón Hernández was created by David Michelinie, Ron Lim, Sam DeLarosa and Al Milgrom in 1993 and first appeared in Venom: Lethal Protector #4.

The name "Lasher" derives from the character's action figure. In the comic books he was only known by his first name Ramón, with no superhuman alias. This name has since stuck however, as in 2012's Carnage U.S.A. Ramón's symbiote was officially identified by the name of Lasher for the first time.