Summary
Warning: contains spoilers for Venom #35!Venomhas been on a few teams since he became a hero, but the team he just formed may very well be the most powerful that Marvel has to offer. While there will always be the Avengers or X-Men to help protect the planet, now there’s Eddie’s team of Kings in Black.
Venom’s brand-new team is revealed inVenom #35by Al Ewing and Cafu.This team comprises alternate timeline versions of Eddie Brock, with each being a full-fleged King in Black, aka a god of symbiotes.While they originally believed themselves to be trapped in a time cycle, always leading to one becoming the next, it’s now been revealed that Eddie, Tyro, Wilde and Bedlam actually possess complete free will, freeing them fromthe leadership of the villainous Meridius.
No longer bound to the idea of what they must become, they’re all free to act independently,which they prove when several of the Kings in Black team up with Eddie to banish Meridusto the pre-historical era. With this team heading to Earth, fans just saw a literal alliance of the gods.
The King in Black’s True Opposite Has Been Revealed By Marvel
Venom #18 permanently redefines the role of the Kings in Black–by introducing the true opposites of the gods of the symbiotes.
Eddie Brock Assembles a Team of Symbiote Gods
Venom #35by Al Ewing, Cafu, Frank D’Armata, and Clayton Cowles
Eddie Brock is one of the most powerful characters in Marvel right now. After defeating the former King in Black Knull with the Enigma Force, Eddie has taken his place. With this new power, he seems virtually unkillable and can travel through time and space to controlanysymbiotic material he finds (as well as possessing total control over his human body, healing from any injury.) Knull was so powerful, he brutally killed multiple Celestials and held the entire Earth hostage, fending off a combined attack from Earth’s greatest heroes. When Eddie took his place, he wanted to turn that power to heroism, but he’s since found out that life on the cosmic scale is more complicated than that.
The only thing more powerful than Eddie Brock at this point isfourEddie Brocks. With the vicious Tyro, conniving Wilde, and savage,Hulk-like symbiote Bedlam by his side, Eddie is leading a team of gods who are essentially unkillable and have immense control over time, space and matter.Knull, the original King in Black, took the combined might of every hero team in New York just to stall him until the Enigma Force arrived, and now there arefourcharacters just as strong, working in concert.
A Single King In Black Nearly Decimated Earth
The Strongest Heroes On Earth Couldn’t Stop Knull… So How Will They Stop Eddie?
The Avengers and X-Men have faced some pretty dangerous enemies in their time, but they were completely powerless to defeat Knull. It was only because of Venom with the Enigma Force that the entire universe wasn’t destroyed by the original King in Black. Now that Eddie commands three other Kings in Black, there’s really no telling what they’ll be able to achieve with that level of power. Asthe Venom War eventlooms on the horizon, it’s hard to imagine how rival Venom host Dylan Brock can assemble a team that’ll be capable of standing up to the originalVenomEddie Brock’s new team.
Venom
Venom is a symbiotic alien entity bonded with various human hosts, notably Eddie Brock and later Flash Thompson. It grants superhuman strength, agility, and a shape-shifting black costume. Initially a Spider-Man villain due to its origins, Venom evolved into an antihero, battling both villains and his own dark impulses. The character embodies themes of duality and redemption within the Marvel Universe.
