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* AlternateSelf: The events of ''Venom'' #17 result in [[spoiler:time breaking, creating two different versions of Bedlam. One goes on to attack Dylan and continue the time-loop, while the other is defeated by Darkoth, ejecting Eddie's codex into the depths of the Symbiote Hive-Mind and leading to Darkoth being taken over by the symbiote]].
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** The events of ''Venom'' #17 result in [[spoiler:time breaking, creating two different versions of Bedlam. One goes on to attack Dylan and continue the time-loop, while the other is defeated by Darkoth, ejecting Eddie's codex into the depths of the Symbiote Hive-Mind and leading to Darkoth being taken over by thesymbiote]].symbiote]].
** In ''Venom'' #29, it's revealed that the resurrected Eddie confronting Bedlam in Baywater created another split in the timeline--one where everything proceeded as Meridius planned, with Bedlam cooling his heels in the Renegades' bar until he turned into Wilde, and another where Eddie defeats Bedlam in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind and convinces his violent counterpart to team up with him.
** ''Venom'' #30 creates yet another offshoot of Bedlam when the timeloop is broken. Eddie's Bedlam and this new Bedlam attempt to kill each other to determine who the ''real'' Bedlam is, leading to a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind that lasts until they're convinced to pull an EnemyMine against Carnage. [[spoiler:The new Bedlam is killed by Carnage using All-Blood, but Eddie's Bedlam survives and rebonds to him.]]
** The events of ''Venom'' #17 result in [[spoiler:time breaking, creating two different versions of Bedlam. One goes on to attack Dylan and continue the time-loop, while the other is defeated by Darkoth, ejecting Eddie's codex into the depths of the Symbiote Hive-Mind and leading to Darkoth being taken over by the
** In ''Venom'' #29, it's revealed that the resurrected Eddie confronting Bedlam in Baywater created another split in the timeline--one where everything proceeded as Meridius planned, with Bedlam cooling his heels in the Renegades' bar until he turned into Wilde, and another where Eddie defeats Bedlam in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind and convinces his violent counterpart to team up with him.
** ''Venom'' #30 creates yet another offshoot of Bedlam when the timeloop is broken. Eddie's Bedlam and this new Bedlam attempt to kill each other to determine who the ''real'' Bedlam is, leading to a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind that lasts until they're convinced to pull an EnemyMine against Carnage. [[spoiler:The new Bedlam is killed by Carnage using All-Blood, but Eddie's Bedlam survives and rebonds to him.]]
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* TheBrute: Issue #10 reveals that Bedlam isn't particularly loyal to Meridius, attempting to kill him for his part in turning him into a rage-fuelled monster before being manipulated into believing his time would be better spent maiming Dylan and Venom.
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* TheBrute: Issue #10 reveals that Bedlam isn't particularly loyal to Meridius, attempting to kill him for his part in turning him into a rage-fuelled monster before being manipulated into believing his time would be better spent maiming Dylan and Venom. As the embodiment of Eddie's rage and hatred, with all but his earliest memories having been erased, he's also the least intelligent and analytical of the Brock offshoots.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: In ''Venom'' (Vol. 5) #30, Eddie's Bedlam retains the spider chest and back insignia to differentiate himself from the insignia-less Bedlam created by the time-loop being broken.
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* IHatePastMe: Issue #9 reveals that he's an Eddie Brock, with Issue #10 [[spoiler:revealing that he's Eddie's future self relapsed into his bloodthirsty rage-fuelled state, consumed by hatred for his "weak" past selves and his cruel and manipulative future self Meridius]].
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** Issue #9 reveals that he's an Eddie Brock, with Issue #10 [[spoiler:revealing that he's Eddie's future self relapsed into his bloodthirsty rage-fuelled state, consumed by hatred for his "weak" past selves and his cruel and manipulative future selfMeridius]].Meridius]].
** In Issue #30, Eddie's Bedlam [[spoiler:gets into a fight with his new AlternateSelf created from the time-loop being broken over which of them is the ''real'' Bedlam. When they prove equally matched physically, they engage in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind by merging their faces together]].
** Issue #9 reveals that he's an Eddie Brock, with Issue #10 [[spoiler:revealing that he's Eddie's future self relapsed into his bloodthirsty rage-fuelled state, consumed by hatred for his "weak" past selves and his cruel and manipulative future self
** In Issue #30, Eddie's Bedlam [[spoiler:gets into a fight with his new AlternateSelf created from the time-loop being broken over which of them is the ''real'' Bedlam. When they prove equally matched physically, they engage in a BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind by merging their faces together]].
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: When bonded to Eddie Brock [[spoiler:or merged with his alternate self]], Bedlam has four arms that greatly increase his offensive capabilities.
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* NothingButSkinAndBones: Without his symbiote-armor, Knull is most-often depicted as an emaciated entity with too-long arms and legs.
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* BequeathedPower: Eddie Brock killing him at the end of ''King in Black'' makes him the new King in Black and gives him a measure of Knull's power--though his mortal body can't properly handle the strain and he has to learn how to use it.
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* GruesomeGrandparent: Being the creator of the symbiotes, he considers himself [[spoiler:Dylan Brock's]] grandfather, intending to turn him to his side. The gruesome part is an understatement.
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* GruesomeGrandparent: Being the creator of the symbiotes, he considers himself [[spoiler:Dylan Brock's]] grandfather, true father, intending to turn him to his side. The gruesome part is an understatement.
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* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: In ''King in Black'', Knull could have easily destroyed the Earth like he had countless other planets, but he doesn't because he wants to get his hands on Dylan Brock. This gives Earth's heroes time to regroup and strike back against him, which results in Knull losing his advantage, being severely weakened, and ultimately having his physical body destroyed.
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** In ''ComicBook/SilverSurferBlack'', Norrin Radd notes that he stands zero chances against Knull, especially in his weakened state, but both times they fight Knull holds back out of a desire to claim Norrin as his "Void Knight". Both times he gets frustrated by Norrin landing a blow on him, then swiftly overpowers the Surfer.
** In ''King in Black'', Knull could have easily destroyed the Earth and slaughtered its heroes like he had countless other planets, but he doesn't because he wants to get his hands on DylanBrock.Brock and add the heroes who pique his interest to his army. This gives Earth's heroes time to regroup and strike back against him, which results in Knull losing his advantage, being severely weakened, and ultimately having his physical body destroyed.
** In ''ComicBook/SilverSurferBlack'', Norrin Radd notes that he stands zero chances against Knull, especially in his weakened state, but both times they fight Knull holds back out of a desire to claim Norrin as his "Void Knight". Both times he gets frustrated by Norrin landing a blow on him, then swiftly overpowers the Surfer.
** In ''King in Black'', Knull could have easily destroyed the Earth and slaughtered its heroes like he had countless other planets, but he doesn't because he wants to get his hands on Dylan
* OhCrap: When Eddie is resurrected by the God of Light, Knull is unimpressed and mockingly asks his ancient nemesis if it choosing a man he's killed twice is supposed to scare him. Eddie grabbing Thor's Mjolnir and the Silver Surfer's board -- thereby adding their powers to his own on top of the Enigma Force -- causes Knull to turn tail and flee.
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* PredecessorVillain: Knull was the creator and first wielder of All-Black the Necrosword, Gorr obtaining it from him after he was seemingly killed in battle. In ''Thor: God of Thunder'', the Volstagg of the distant future even mocked Gorr for being oblivious regarding the identity of the being whose legacy he was continuing.
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* PredecessorVillain: Knull was the creator and first wielder of All-Black the Necrosword, Gorr obtaining it from him after he was seemingly killed in battle.battle, and fittingly Knull is shown to be able to do more powerful versions of all the things Gorr was shown doing. In ''Thor: God of Thunder'', the Volstagg of the distant future even mocked Gorr for being oblivious regarding the identity of the being whose legacy he was continuing.
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* TheSacredDarkness: Zig-zagged. According to the Eventuality in ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5) #18, the power and position of the King in Black isn't inherently evil and the Onyx Kings are meant to maintain the universes of the Multiverse from within using the Living Abyss. However, when Knull--and by extension his various multiversal incarnations--was chosen as the King in Black, he embraced the power but wanted nothing to do with the responsibilities it came with, attempting to use his power over the Void to corrupt and destroy the Multiverse instead.
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* TheSacredDarkness: Zig-zagged. According to the Eventuality in ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5) #18, the power and position of the King in Black isn't inherently evil and the Onyx Kings are meant to maintain the universes of the Multiverse from within using the Living Abyss.Abyss, as counterparts to the Beyonders. However, when Knull--and by extension his various multiversal incarnations--was chosen as the King in Black, he embraced the power but wanted nothing to do with the responsibilities it came with, attempting to use his power over the Void to corrupt and destroy the Multiverse instead.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Twofold, his mind was sealed away in the body of a symbiote dragon he's projecting into, while his body was sealed underneath a ''planet's mass'' worth of his symbiotes. Turns out the word Klyntar is symbiote for cage. This turns out to be a LeakingCanOfEvil, as even while sealed Knull is still able to exert his influence over some symbiotes -- including the Grendel, Venom, and Scorn.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Twofold, his mind was sealed away in the body of a symbiote dragon he's he'd been projecting it into, while his body was sealed underneath a ''planet's mass'' worth of his symbiotes. Turns out the word Klyntar is symbiote for cage. This turns out to be a LeakingCanOfEvil, as even while sealed Knull is still able to exert his influence over some symbiotes -- including the Grendel, Venom, and Scorn.
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* WorfHadTheFlu: ''Return of the Valkyries'' has Jane Foster, the then-unnamed Rūna, Dani Moonstar, Hildegard, Brunnhilde, and the other Valkyries perform a ritual that severs Knull's connection to the undead Celestial whose head he'd used to forge All-Black, which the narration states was the source of the overwhelming majority of his power. Despite this handicap, Knull puts up a CurbStompCushion against Thor -- who at this time had most of the Power of the All-Father and remnants of the Power Cosmic. Eddie Brock, empowered by the Enigma Force, Mjolnir, and the Silver Surfer's Surfboard, inflicts a humiliating CurbStompBattle against Knull, but Knull having been severely weakened raises the question of whether Eddie's victory would've been so one-sided or even possible at all had that not occurred.
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* WorfHadTheFlu: ''Return of the Valkyries'' has Jane Foster, the then-unnamed Rūna, Dani Moonstar, Hildegard, Brunnhilde, and the other Valkyries perform a ritual that severs Knull's connection to the undead Celestial whose head he'd used to forge All-Black, which the narration states was the source of the overwhelming majority a significant amount of his power. Despite this handicap, Knull puts up a CurbStompCushion against Thor -- who at this time had most of the Power of the All-Father and remnants of the Power Cosmic. Eddie Brock, empowered by the Enigma Force, Mjolnir, and the Silver Surfer's Surfboard, inflicts a humiliating CurbStompBattle against Knull, but Knull having been severely weakened raises the question of whether Eddie's victory would've been so one-sided or even possible at all had that not occurred.
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* BigBad: Meridius is the primary antagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5), masterminding Eddie Brock's death and torturing Dylan Brock and the Venom symbiote.
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* BigBad: Meridius is the primary antagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5), masterminding Eddie Brock's death and torturing Dylan Brock and Brock, the Venom symbiote.symbiote, and his temporal counterparts/past selves.
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* TheChessmaster: With a little tutelage from Kang the Conqueror, Meridius becomes a genius strategist and rigs a complicated time-loop to both insure his own existence by systematically manipulating and breaking his past selves, and push the Venom symbiote to new levels of power.
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* TheChessmaster: With a little tutelage from Kang the Conqueror, Meridius becomes a genius strategist and rigs a complicated time-loop to both insure ensure his own existence by systematically manipulating and breaking his past selves, and push the Venom symbiote to new levels of power.power so he can claim it for himself to escape his destiny of becoming the Eventuality.
* EvilFeelsGood: He massacres a bunch of alien refugees Eddie had been trying to rescue just to destress from having to put up with Tyro's whining, and is revealed to have gleefully committed genocide on the Symbiote Hive to create the Garden of Time, noting that he's looking forward to gaslighting and torturing his temporal counterparts into insanity to ensure his own existence.
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* IHaveManyNames: Issue #5 reveals that "Meridius" is just one of many aliases and guises he's taken over the milennia, one he intends to discard once he's gotten his hands on the Venom symbiote.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: #29 shows that when he was Tyro he still wanted to save his son... [[spoiler:but then an encounter with the Eventuality and realizing his fate as the King in Black terrified him enough to turn to Kang the Conqueror for help. Kang built up Tyro's confidence in exchange for being supplied with symbiote soldiers, teaching him how to master his time-travel powers... and when Tyro witnessed the Venom symbiote's ultimate form he comes back to himself as Meridius--a callous, aloof sociopath who renounces everyone and everything Eddie Brock fought for and cared about, and is determined to take the Venom symbiote's power for himself and use it to escape his own fate. He then goads Kang into helping him commit genocide on the Symbiote Hive, shapes its remains into the Garden of Time, and kicks the time-loop that created himself into motion]].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: #29 shows that when he was Tyro he still wanted to save his son... [[spoiler:but then an encounter with the Eventuality and realizing his fate as the King in Black terrified him enough to turn to Kang the Conqueror for help. Kang built up Tyro's confidence in exchange for being supplied with symbiote soldiers, teaching him how to master his time-travel powers... and when Tyro witnessed the Venom symbiote's ultimate form he comes back to himself as Meridius--a callous, aloof sociopath who renounces everyone and everything Eddie Brock fought for and cared about, and is determined to take the Venom symbiote's power for himself and use it to escape his own fate. He then goads Kang into helping him commit genocide on the Symbiote Hive, shapes its remains into the Garden of Time, and kicks the time-loop that created himself into motion]].
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* IHaveManyNames: Issue #5 reveals that "Meridius" is just one of many aliases and guises he's taken over the milennia, one he intends to discard once he's gotten his hands on the Venom symbiote.
symbiote. Later issues reveal that Finnegan, Bedlam, Wilde, and Tyro are all past aliases he's taken, and that his real name is Eddie Brock.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: #29 shows that when he was Tyro he still wanted to save his son... [[spoiler:but then an encounter with the Eventuality and realizing his fate as the King in Black terrified him enough to turn to Kang the Conqueror for help. Kang built up Tyro's confidence in exchange for being supplied with symbiote soldiers, teaching him how to master his time-travel powers... and when Tyro witnessed the Venom symbiote's ultimate form hecomes came back to himself as Meridius--a callous, aloof sociopath who renounces renounced everyone and everything Eddie Brock fought for and cared about, and is determined about. Determined to take the Venom symbiote's power for himself and use it to escape his own fate. He fate, he then goads Kang into helping him commit genocide on the Symbiote Hive, shapes its remains into the Garden of Time, and kicks the time-loop that created himself into motion]].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: #29 shows that when he was Tyro he still wanted to save his son... [[spoiler:but then an encounter with the Eventuality and realizing his fate as the King in Black terrified him enough to turn to Kang the Conqueror for help. Kang built up Tyro's confidence in exchange for being supplied with symbiote soldiers, teaching him how to master his time-travel powers... and when Tyro witnessed the Venom symbiote's ultimate form he
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* ThatManIsDead: In ''Venom'' (Vol. 5) #29, Meridius renounces all connections to his past self, dismissing Eddie Brock as "[a] caterpillar of a man" and cementing his turn to evil by gleefully committing genocide against the Symbiote Hive so he can shape their corpses into the Garden of Time.
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A future King in Black with a grudge against Eddie Brock.
A future King in Black with a grudge against Eddie Brock.
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* DiminishingVillainThreat: Appearances of him (usually by alternates) after his event have him being vanquished far more easily to prop up a book's main hero or villain. Perhaps most amusingly, a version of him at the height of his power is slain by Carnage in ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheVenomverse'' due to combination of his wayward spawn's preparations and a cheap shot in the back.
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* AxCrazy: Bedlam is noted to be extremely volatile by the other Kings in Black, trying to kill Finnegan purportedly just for finding him annoying, and trying to eat Eddie's avatar and Finnegan in Issue #5. When fighting Venom, he notes it would be all too easy to kill Dylan and the Venom symbiote, but that his mission to make Venom stronger through suffering takes precedence.
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* AxCrazy: Bedlam is noted to be extremely volatile by the other Kings in Black, trying to kill Finnegan purportedly just for finding him annoying, and trying to eat Eddie's avatar and Finnegan in Issue #5. When fighting Venom, he notes it would be all too easy to kill Dylan and the Venom symbiote, but that his mission to make Venom stronger through suffering takes precedence. Even after teaming up with Eddie, Bedlam openly misses the good old days when he was a cannibalistic supervillain and happily chows down on any enemies he can get his fangs on.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Bedlam eats a Doombot that accosts Eddie when he attempts to enter Latveria.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: After ''Dark Web'', he ends up sulking in a small town in the middle of nowhere. On their rematch, Eddie even points out what a waste of time he's being.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: After ''Dark Web'', his fight with Dylan Brock in Baywater, he ends up sulking in a small town in squatting the middle burnt-out ruins of nowhere. On their rematch, Eddie even points out what a waste of time the Renegades' bar waiting for Meridius to call on him again, and in #29 it's revealed that he's being.meant to sulk there until his rage cools and he turns into Wilde. During his fight with the resurrected Eddie born from the timeline schism in Limbo, Bedlam declares himself to be the true Eddie Brock due to his opponent having grown beyond being a rage-fuelled revenge-obsessed villain--which Bedlam views as a weakness--but Eddie retorts that Bedlam is nothing but an incomplete amnesic shadow of his former self unfit to even call himself Venom.
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* SapientEatSapient: He devours a Techno-Demon -- a demon transformed into a Technarch by the Transmode Virus -- in ''Venom'' #17, flipping the script since the demon was planning on consuming his life force after infecting him.
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* SapientEatSapient: He devours a Techno-Demon -- a demon transformed into a Technarch by the Transmode Virus -- in ''Venom'' #17, flipping the script since the demon was planning on consuming his life force after infecting him. After attacking Dylan, he spends his time in Baywater snacking on civilians and members of the Hell Hounds who piss him off.
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* ToServeMan: ''Venom'' (Vol. 5) #20 reveals that Bedlam set up shop in Baywater after wounding Dylan and took over the Hell Hounds, eating anyone who stood up to him and/or piqued his appetite.
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* ToServeMan: ''Venom'' (Vol. 5) #20 reveals that Bedlam set up shop in Baywater after wounding Dylan and took over the Hell Hounds, eating anyone who stood up to him and/or piqued his appetite. He also tries to eat Doctor Doom, and happily eats two of Kang's chrono-clones.
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* TragicMonster: Meridius started out as Eddie Brock, wanting to escape the time loop he'd trapped himself in and return to his son, but due to the machinations of his own future self was gradually worn down until as Tyro he decided the only way to do so was to join the winning side and become Meridius. #29 reveals the circumstances of his ultimate downfall. Even as Tyro he still missed his son Dylan and wanted to keep him safe, but--terrified after learning of the true nature of the King in Black--he sought Kang the Conqueror's help to escape his fate. While Kang was able to help Tyro regain his confidence and sense of self, [[spoiler:upon witnessing the Venom symbiote's apotheosis while attempting to check on Dylan, Tyro began coveting that power for himself and cast aside the remnants of his humanity to become the arrogant evil god Meridius: dismissing his own son as a brat only fit to be used as a pawn in his schemes, backstabbing Kang--who as Tyro he'd considered his only friend, committing genocide on the symbiotes to create the Garden of Time, and looking forward to breaking his past selves]].
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* FallenHero: [[spoiler:He was Eddie Brock, a long time ago. Eddie wonders in issue #18 if Meridius isn't simply a logical end result of how he treated the symbiotes on becoming the King in Black, but Eventuality states he isn't. #29 reveals how he came to be and set up the time loop: As Eddie Brock he arrived in the Garden of Time, was tortured by Meridius into becoming Finnegan after trying and failing to escape the time loop, transformed into Bedlam as a result of Chasm erasing his memories, transformed into Wilde when his rage cooled while squatting in the ruins of the Renegades' bar, transformed into Tyro out of despair at Eddie ignoring his warnings, and was reborn as Meridius with help from Kang the Conqueror. Renouncing all attachments to his past, Meridius bequeathed Kang with symbiote soldiers and then goaded him into helping commit genocide on the Symbiote Hive to create the Garden of Time--a trap and prison for his past selves to insure his own existence]].
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* FallenHero: [[spoiler:He was Eddie Brock, a long time ago. Eddie wonders in issue #18 if Meridius isn't simply a logical end result of how he treated the symbiotes on upon becoming the King in Black, but Eventuality states he isn't. #29 reveals how he came to be and set up the time loop: As Eddie Brock he arrived in the Garden of Time, was tortured by Meridius into becoming Finnegan after trying and failing to escape the time loop, transformed into Bedlam as a result of Chasm erasing his memories, transformed into Wilde when his rage cooled while squatting in the ruins of the Renegades' bar, transformed into Tyro out of despair at Eddie ignoring his warnings, and was reborn as Meridius with help from Kang the Conqueror. Renouncing all attachments to his past, Meridius bequeathed backstabbed Kang with symbiote soldiers and then goaded him into helping commit genocide on the Symbiote Hive to create the Garden of Time--a trap and prison for his past selves to insure his own existence]].
