Venomverse Reborn #1 (2024)

Approached by an unknown person who arrives in the Un-Beyond, the Eventuality says they get five questions... but that since he's bored of answering the same questions over and over he'll bend the rules to give them a few freebies--explaining that they're in the Black Engine and that he is the ultimate apotheosized form of Eddie Brock, an amalgamation of every Eddie in the Multiverse who became Venom and ascended to the role of King in Black. After the freebies, the unknown person asks the question "What if Eddie Brock wasn't Venom?" Stating that it's a fair question, the Eventuality notes that if the unknown person had been paying more attention at around the time he first became the King in Black they would already know the answer. The Eventuality switches into his human form after looking at Earth-1048 and asks if the unknown person is from Earth-616, apologizing for trying to bait them into wasting a question and saying he should give them better answers. The Eventuality states that the answer to "What if Eddie Brock wasn't Venom?" is that Venom would be someone else doing similar things for different reasons. The Eventuality wonders if there's an Eddie Brock on Earth-1048, noting that he doesn't know since he doesn't have time to play games. Realizing he's broken the fourth wall, the Eventuality hurriedly says that he meant that metaphorically and decides to show them another reality so the unknown person gets their money's worth, but warns them that it will get kind of dark. The King in Black explains that that reality in which the Venom Symbiote killed the Avengers was a case in which nobody at all was Venom, saying that the symbiote would jump from person to person, consuming them from the inside out until it found a host it could use to rampage. He further explains to the unknown person that there are some realities like that out there that he prefers to avoid and shudders to think about what would happen if the Venoms of those worlds made it to the Un-Beyond. He decides to move on and tells the person asking questions to ask some more so he can show him more realities.