Warning! Spoilers for Venom War: Spider-Man #3!Spider-Manhas had a lot of dark possible fates, including futures where he ends up entirely alone after accidentally killing Mary Jane and futures where he’s killed while trying to save people. But the darkest possible future for Peter Parker has to be where he becomes the King in Black and uses his webs to try and hold together a crumbling universe.
Readers got to seeSpider-Man’s shocking new form inVenom War: Spider-Man#3by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Greg Land. Spider-Man is shown a possible future whereSpider-Mandidn’t avoid his destiny of becoming the King in Black. In this twisted future, Peter uses his webbing to hold a crumbling universe together, trying his best to protect whoever he can, even if he has to use lethal force to do it.
This dark fate has resulted in several former friends and family, including his own daughter, rising up against him to try and remove Peter’s iron grip on the universe. Unfortunately, Peter’s power is far too great, and he ends upslaughtering all of his friends and remaining family in a brutal fashion. Peter tried to create a universe full of structure and order, and all he ended up doing was murdering those closest to him.
Spider-Man Peter Parker Was Always Meant to Be the King in Black
Spider-Man: Venom War#3 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D’Armata, and Joe Caramagna
It’s no secret that Peter Parker is immensely important to the Marvel Universe. Time and time again, Peter is at the center of everything, and his existence truly matters. He’s one of Marvel’s greatest heroes, so it’s surprising that he seemeddestined to become its greatest villain, as confirmed by Eventuality,a god-like version of Venomwho seems to know everything related to the symbiote’s past and future. Eventually, it states that if Peter had never given up the Venom symbiote, he would’ve become the next King in Black.
“The Arachniote”: Venom Reveals New Symbiote So Powerful, Even the King in Black Feared It
Knull was the god of the symbiotes and one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel universe, but there’s one symbiote that even he feared.
This future was avoided when Peter managed tofree himself of the Venom symbiote, rejecting it and also, unknowingly, rejecting the horrific future that awaited him. Instead, that fate was passed on to Eddie Brock, who was the next Venom host. While Peter certainly didn’t mean to do this, it seems he has doomed Eddie to the very fate he managed to avoid.Visions of the future have shown that Eddie Brock will eventually go on a genocidal rampage across the universe, begging to be killed and released from the King in Black role that Peter unknowingly doomed him to.
The King in Black Seems Doomed to Misery
Knull, Peter Parker, and Eddie Brock All Suffered as the King in Black
It seems that no one can be happy as the King in Black. Knull tried to end all light in the universe to escape his responsibilities. When Peter becomes the King in Black, he ends up killing the majority of his friends while trying to maintain a sense of order and peace in the universe. When Eddie Brock becomes the King in Black, far in the future, he goes on a rampage across the universe, killing everything he comes across. WhileSpider-Manhas escaped this awful future, he might have just doomed Eddie Brock to it in his place.
Venom War: Spider-Man#3is available now from Marvel Comics!
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is the name given to several individuals who have employed a spider-moniker throughout Marvel Comics. Typically gaining their powers through a bite from a radioactive spider, the different Spider-Man heroes employ super-strength, agility, and intellect while utilizing webbing to swing and tangle up their foes. The most notable of these Spider-Men is Peter Parker, who remains one of the most popular superheroes throughout the world.
