Venom: The End is a 2020 Marvel comic book written by Adam Warren and illustrated by Chamba.
Forming a particularly strong attachment to Eddie Brock, the Venom symbiote kept him alive for five-hundred years; replacing his failing organs with simulacrums manifested from its living abyss. With warring Artificial Superintelligences having brought an end to the Golden Age of Human(oid) Super-Heroism and exterminated most organic life, the Venom symbiote was left without a means of keeping Eddie alive indefinitely and was forced to let its beloved host perish.
Venom: The End provides examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: This version of Venom is bar none the most powerful version of the character ever seen and the only Klyntar more powerful than him is All-Black, the original Klyntar forged from Knull's own shadow, when he took the form of All-Black the Necroverse. This Venom is truly immortal, being near 2 trillion years old before meeting his death at his own hands, being capable of storing the mental imprints, memories, genetic codes, and any powers of a whole universe's biological life, he is able to spread his bio-matter without limit, bonding to an infinity of hosts and engulfing entire planets, use genetically-enhanced superpowers to populated entire galaxies, effortlessly terraform worlds, create ultra-tough gene-crafted lifeforms, view across the entire universe using the senses of his hive-minded hosts, outspeed the near-infinite processing capacities of the artificial super-intelligences, and time-travel across the entire timeline and bond to every biological organism that ever lived, and unfold his internal tesseract space into a world-annihilating super-weapon.
- Arm Cannon: Venom has figured out how to turn its arms into planet-destroying antimatter cannons.
- Biomanipulation: Venom uses Elixer's biomanipulation powers to genetically engineer mutant clone armies whose powers are far stronger or specific than their originals, making "meat gardens" out of entire planets.
- Bittersweet Ending: Even after bonding with every single biological lifeform that has ever lived, Venom was unable to defeat the Godmind. As a last act, it tears itself inside out and forms a new universe for the lives he recorded to live anew. While the Godmind is left unopposed in assimilating the original universe, they choose to preserve the "Venomverse" out of sheer respect for the symbiote.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Godmind is ending biological life in order to transform the entire universe into a gigantic supercomputer, one in which biolife is reincarnated as dataforms who live longer and less violent lives. They don't even see themselves as at war with Venom, and when Venom sacrifices itself to create a new universe for life, the Godmind preserves it out of respect.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: The Lemony Narrator makes a joke about "God forbid the world ever had to do without Tony Stark, eh?" as they narrate how his Artificial Intelligences were among the many to survive into the twilight days of biological life. At first, this sounds like Self-Deprecation on Marvel's part... until the end of the story, when it is revealed that the narrator is an A.I. descended from Stark, and thus they were actually describing themselves.
- Chest Insignia: Instead of the traditional spider, Venom instead has a stylized DNA strand.
- Composite Character: This version of Venom seems to have taken the place of Mania (Venom's clone-offspring) in having bonded to Wolverine and Patricia Robertson, neither of whom bonded with Venom in the original universe.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: In a desperate war against a super AI collective that had taken over the Milky Way and was trying to destroy all organic life, Venom developed the ability to partially unravel its transdimensional tesseract-like internal structure to destroy entire planets with a single swipe of his arms, but doing so caused it extreme pain and put it at constant risk of tearing itself apart. To combat the infinitely superior computing speeds of the Godmind, Venom remixed and vastly empowered Quicksilver's DNA to fight and act faster than any AI, but this took a massive toll on its hosts, ageing them by centuries in a few seconds.
- Future Badass: Venom in this timeline has the sum total of knowledge and genetic potential of everything that has ever lived. It eventually works out how to manipulate its own extradimensional physiology in a martial art to erase matter on a subatomic level with the range to cleave planets. Employing its infinite store of genetic information, it can recreate and splice the abilities its hosts possessed — with particular focus being given to mutant abilities like Multiple Man's infinite duplication, Tempus and Timeslip's time travel, Quicksilver's super-speed, Storm's weather control, Wolverine and Deadpool's healing factors, Elixer's biological modification to further refine those abilities; as well as the natural abilities of incredibly hardy life like tardigrades.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: Venom's biological Hive Mind vs. the artificial super-intelligences (or "Team Biolife vs. Team Godmind"). Both sides are trying to preserve life, but one wants to do it by way of cloning and reproducing previous life, and the other wants to digitize everything. This also counts as Blue-and-Orange Morality for both sides.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After its army of genetically-engineered super-humanoids has been wiped out by the Godmind, Venom turns itself inside out and transforms into a miniature universe where every host it's ever had is reborn into new lives.
- Hopeless War: Venom spends trillions of years fighting a hopeless war, as even with all the life that has ever lived as part of its army, biolife is simply too short-lived and fragile to keep up with the immortal, artificial Godmind. The only advantage Venom has—using Quicksilver's speed to think and act faster than any AI—came at the cost of killing its host in seconds.
- Humanity's Wake: By the time Venom finally allows him to die after centuries, Eddie Brock was the last human.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: As a living tesseract, Venom has infinite storage space, mainly used for storing genetic information.
- Lemony Narrator: The story is narrated by a glib being who is prone to Technobabble and presenting the events of the story in a sillier, more exaggerated way. This person is revealed to be a Tony Stark-descended artificial intelligence.
- Mind Hive: Venom retains the full psyche of every host it's ever had.
- Mutually Assured Destruction: Races that developed AI adopted a doctrine of "Mutually Assured Extinction" to prevent war-faring races from using them as a weapon. Once the Kree, losing their war, unleashed the Supreme Intelligence, the Shi'ar and other races followed suit, resulting in "Artificial Super-Intelligence" and wars that made entire galaxies dangerous for biological life.
- Narrator All Along: The story ends by revealing that it was being narrated by the leader of the Stark-based artificial intelligence, explaining the Technobabble and sarcasm-heavy narration.
- One True Love: Out of every host Venom's ever had, Eddie is the only one given five stars in compatibility and the only one it pines for after untold eons.
- People Farms: Venom, with access to the genetic abilities of everyone they ever bonded with (which through time travel is everything that has ever lived), builds "Meat Gardens" out of entire planets to birth armies of genetically engineered superhumans in his Hopeless War against machines for the fate of the universe.
- Power Copying: Venom can freely recreate the powers and skills of any host it ever had, which is everything that ever lived.
- Precision F-Strike: Venom has only one thing to say to the Stark ASI after he offers it a universe of dataform: "Fuck you."
- Really Gets Around: Venom has bonded with all forms of life across the universe. They all get four of five stars in compatibility, barring Peter Parker (one star) and Eddie Brock (five stars).
- Time Abyss: Venom has lived for an immeasurable amount of time, well past the death of all other organic life in the universe.
- Timey-Wimey Ball: Applying the time travel powers of mutants, Venom took on every living thing in the universe as a host. It also tried to change the past to prevent the rising of the Godmind, but failed.
- The Unfavorite: The only host in all the history of the universe with a grand total of one star for compatibility is, naturally, Peter Parker himself. Even Tel-Kar still got four stars.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Venom is tragically doomed to outlive all its hosts, especially Eddie after years of desperately trying to extend his life.
- Weaponized Offspring: In its campaign to stem the expansion of the Godmind, Venom engineers countless armies spliced with the abilities in its genetic stores.
- Weaponized Teleportation: Venom exploits the fact that its body is an interdimensional aperture into an infinite space, controlled rips in its body can be made which opens an extradimensional space into a three-dimensional one, deleting matter in the overlapping area on the subatomic level.
