Venom's Original Plan is Genuinely Horrifying, Even Today
Marvel Comics reveals that if Spider-Manhadn’t given up the black symbiote suit that would later be known as Venom, he would have suffered a grizzly fate as Venom’s original plan for Spider-Man is genuinely horrifying. Spider-Man first wore the black symbiote suit when he found it on Battleworld during Marvel Comics’ Secret Warsevent. In a timeline where the heroes never made it off Battleworld and instead made a life there, Spider-Man never takes off the symbiote costume and becomes consumed by its darkness, literally.
In What If…?#114 by Jay Faerber and Gregg Schigiel, the heroes and villains who fought on Battleworld including Wolverine, Storm, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Doctor Doom, and Spider-Man formed a life there rather than making their way back to Earth like in the original Secret Wars storyline. This issue picks up twenty-five years after Secret Wars and many of the original participants have had children within that time, including the villainous Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom’s son, Vincent von Doom aka Malefactor, assassinates his father as he plans to return to Earth and conquer it. When the other heroes find out about Vincent’s power-play, they assemble and attack Malefactor and his small army.
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During the battle between the Avengers and Malefactor, black suit Spider-Man is shot with sonic blasts, revealing the truly horrifying truth of what has become of Peter Parker after wearing the Venom symbiote for more than two decades. When blasted with high-frequency sound waves, the symbiote extends from Spider-Man’s body in pain and as it does so fans are shown that Peter Parker’s body is nothing but a skeleton. The Venom symbiote consumed
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