Marvel Definitively Proved Venom's Greatest Host Was Never Spider-Man
Even though Spider-Man was the first host fans ever saw Venom bond with, Marvel Comics definitely proved Peter Parker was never the best one. Despite how popular and famous Spider-Man's time with his black suit was, it was always destined to be a poor pairing.
It has become a common misconception that, due to his superpowers, Spider-Man was the perfect host for the Venom symbiote and Eddie Brock was just a rebound vessel to fuel the alien’s revenge. Many of the symbiote's early appearances hint at this, as the symbiote is obsessed with getting revenge on Peter Parker for rejecting it. Spider-Man even became darker than Venom in the alternate timeline of Spider's Shadow. However, in one comic issue that tackles the inner workings of Venom’s mind and lays every bit of information about the symbiote’s life functions in a literal format, it becomes clear that Spider-Man was never the perfect host he’s been made out to be.
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In Venom: The End #1 by Adam Warren and Jeffrey Cruz, readers are given a look into a distant future of the Marvel Universe where Artificial Intelligence has taken over every corner of the universe with Venom being one of the only biological life forms alive. To survive, Venom used the codexes of every person the symbiote inhabited and recreated them, giving his own new-formed hive mind offspring hosts and giving himself an army he could use to fight the A.I. conquerors. While going through all of the prominent hosts Venom had possessed over the years, this comic gave each a star rating based on their level of compatibility with Venom. While Eddie Brock got five stars which indicated perfect symbiosis, Peter Parker only received
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