Warning! Spoilers for Venom War: Spider-Man #3!Spider-Man has had a lot of dark possible fates, including futures where he ends up entirely alone after accidentally killing Mary Jane and futures where he's killed while trying to save people. But the darkest possible future for Peter Parker has to be where he becomes the King in Black and uses his webs to try and hold together a crumbling universe.

Readers got to see Spider-Man's shocking new form in Venom War: Spider-Man #3 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Greg Land. Spider-Man is shown a possible future where Spider-Man didn't avoid his destiny of becoming the King in Black. In this twisted future, Peter uses his webbing to hold a crumbling universe together, trying his best to protect whoever he can, even if he has to use lethal force to do it.

This dark fate has resulted in several former friends and family, including his own daughter, ri against him to try and remove Peter's iron grip on the universe. Unfortunately, Peter's power is far too great, and he ends up slaughtering all of his friends and remaining family in a brutal fashion. Peter tried to create a universe full of structure and order, and all he ended up doing was murdering those closest to him.

Spider-Man Peter Parker Was Always Meant to Be the King in Black

Spider-Man: Venom War #3 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D'Armata, and Joe Caramagna

It's no secret that Peter Parker is immensely important to the Marvel Universe. Time and time again, Peter is at the center of everything, and his existence truly matters. He's one of Marvel's greatest heroes, so it's surprising that he seemed destined to become its greatest villain, as confirmed by Eventuality, a god-like version of Venom who seems to know everything related to the symbiote's past and future. Eventually, it states that if Peter had never given up the Venom symbiote, he would've become the next King in Black.

This future was avoided when Peter managed to free himself of the Venom symbiote, rejecting it and also, unknowingly, rejecting the horrific future that awaited him. Instead, that fate was ed on to Eddie Brock, who was the next Venom host. While Peter certainly didn't mean to do this, it seems he has doomed Eddie to the very fate he managed to avoid. Visions of the future have shown that Eddie Brock will eventually go on a genocidal rampage across the universe, begging to be killed and released from the King in Black role that Peter unknowingly doomed him to.

The King in Black Seems Doomed to Misery

Knull, Peter Parker, and Eddie Brock All Suffered as the King in Black

It seems that no one can be happy as the King in Black. Knull tried to end all light in the universe to escape his responsibilities. When Peter becomes the King in Black, he ends up killing the majority of his friends while trying to maintain a sense of order and peace in the universe. When Eddie Brock becomes the King in Black, far in the future, he goes on a rampage across the universe, killing everything he comes across. While Spider-Man has escaped this awful future, he might have just doomed Eddie Brock to it in his place.

Venom War: Spider-Man #3 is available now from Marvel Comics!