King in Black: Planet of the Symbiotes #1

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Comments

[mastermahan]

It sure was a coincidence that Eddie Brock ended up being cellmates with the direct patrilinear descendant of the God of Symbiotes' favorite cultist.

[mistersandman]

I really hate the "destined hero/bloodline" trope, particularly in superhero comics. Is Carnage any more interesting because his great-great-great-etc. grandpa had ties to Knull? Is Plague any more interesting because Carnage is his descendant? It just makes the universe feel small and removes the agency of characters on a cosmic scale. Cletus had some cosmic destiny to become a serial killer, so his bad life choices lose their impact.

[themajesticmoose]

I'm pretty sure the new worlds first serial killer was actually Christopher Columbus

[gnarll]

Mind, they had a lot of human sacrifice going already.

[themajesticmoose]

"It's time I avenged my bloodline"

Ah yes, the grave injustice done to them

When a serial killer was punished for their actions.

Truly the world has wronged them gravely by not letting them murder innocent people for fun

[phantomfo]

In fairness, dude's a serial killer. He's not the best judge of right and wrong.

[themajesticmoose]

A fair point

[sabertoothlotus]

So... you're some huge, cosmic evil God and the person who killed the most in your name is a a human serial killer? How high could his body count actually have been? the hundreds? Maybe thousands (but given the time/place this seems unlikely)?

Knull never had any followers who wiped out entire planets/galaxies? Every other cosmic anything seems to have done that.