Edward Brock (Eventuality) (Multiverse)

Eventuality
Name	Edward Charles Allan "Eddie" Brock
Current Alias	Eventuality
Aliases	Anti-All, Seventh Venom, Venom
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Symbiote Hive
Relatives	Bedlam, Eddie Brock, Meridius (past selves)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Strawberry Blond
Unusual Features	Manifests as a disembodied hand with burning fingers.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Convergence of Eddie Brock's temporal and multiversal offshoots
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Multiverse
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Occupation	King in Black, supervisor, god of the symbiotes
Base of Operations	Un-Beyond
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Al Ewing, Ram V, Bryan Hitch
First	Venom (Vol. 5) #1 (November, 2021)
First	Venom (Vol. 5) #1 (November, 2021)

 From here, I can see the whole map--the whole maze. So many choices you make from here, Eddie. So many paths...and every single one of them leads to me. 

—The Eventuality (Eddie Brock)

After Eddie Brock became the King in Black, he became dislodged in time and split into many time-displaced offshoots of himself, such as Finnegan, Bedlam, Wilde, Tyro, and Meridius. The Eventuality is Eddie's final self, who supervises his past selves in the Un-Beyond.

History

All paths lead to the Eventuality

As Eddie Brock and his variants travel through time as the King in Black, their timelines will branch many times over. Most branches will continue to perform the King in Black's work to maintain the universe from within, though some like Meridius unsuccessfully attempt to escape their responsibilities. Most of these variants and branches will work for longer than the lifespan of the universe before retiring to the Un-Beyond, where they converge and become the Eventuality. The Eventuality supervises and occasionally intervenes to stop his past selves from becoming as destructive as Knull.

Revealing himself to Eddie

When the 'prime' Eddie arrived in the Un-Beyond following his defeat in Limbo, the Eventuality greeted him. The Eventuality answered five of Eddie's questions, informing him of the status of his son Dylan, explaining the nature of the King in Black, telling Eddie that he became the King in Black because someone had to, revealing his identity as Eddie's ultimate future self, and telling Eddie that he had complete control over any body he inhabited, including his charred corpse. Explaining that his current duty is to supervise his past selves so that a new Knull doesn't arise, the Eventuality noted that once the Eighth Cosmos ends he might take up Knull's role in the Ninth Cosmos in order to find and test his replacement.

When Tyro fails to warn Meridius about branching timelines and possibility of a seventh Eddie, he decides to take destiny into his own hands and travel deep into the Symbiote Hive-Mind. Eventuality greets him there and informs him about his fate, which motivates Tyro to do everything he can to evade it and leads him to becoming Meridius.

As the Anti-All in the Ninth Cosmos

After Carnage killed Dylan Brock it pursued his soul into the depths of the Symbiote Hive in an attempt to find Eddie, catching a glimpse of the Eventuality. Carnage attempted to pursue the Eventuality, but ended up manifesting itself far into the future, within the Garden of Time, bursting through the chest of Meridius's temporal duplicate and absorbing his powers. Appearing before Dylan, the Eventuality gave him the same choice of five questions he gave Eddie, and when asked what would happen if Eddie were to reunite with the Venom symbiote he showed Dylan a vision of the possible future he outlined to Eddie.

Sometime later, a visitor arrived in the Un-Beyond and the Eventuality as per usual gave them five questions. Asked "What if Eddie Brock wasn't Venom?", the Eventuality showing the visitor a reality where Harry Osborn bonded to the Venom symbiote and encountered Knull of Earth-616. The Eventuality decided to answer "What if nobody was Venom?" for free to make up for trying to bait the visitor into wasting a question, and showed an alternate reality where the Avengers were picked off one-by-one by a starving Venom symbiote until only the Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow were left. Asked if Venom has a limit, the Eventuality replied that it doesn't. To elaborate, the Eventuality showed the visitor a Venom from the 9th century who killed a very important Norse king, resulting in numerous historical changes occurring; a reality in which a version of Captain America got the symbiote and recruited Venom to play an inter-dimensional basketball game with a Venom-possessed Thanos, a Venom-possessed Kang, and a Venom-possessed apotheosized Carnage; and a reality in which the Venom symbiote had traversed time and space trying to save organic life from being assimilated by artificial superintelligences called the Godmind, ultimately sacrificing itself to create a pocket universe where organic life could live in peace. Noting that the Godmind had hacked that universe to render it inaccessible from the rest of the Multiverse, the Eventuality was called out on having lied when he stated that every Eddie Brock who became Venom led to him, as the Eddie Brock of the reality he'd just shown had died. Revealing that there might be other things he'd bent the truth about, the Eventuality told the visitor to ask their next question and find out.

Personality

Having spent longer as the King in Black than the universe would exist, the Eventuality has settled into his role. He acknowledges that his job is too much to fairly assign to any person, but performs his duty anyway because he accepts that someone has to do it.

Attributes

Powers

As the future self of Eddie Brock and Meridius, the Eventuality possesses the powers of a King in Black.

• Symbiote Domination: The Eventuality can inhabit symbiote flesh and shape it however he wishes.
  • Mental Time Travel: Before arriving in the Un-Beyond, the Eventuality's past selves traversed the timestream through the symbiote hivemind. As a King in Black, he is nonlinear.
• Symbiote Physiology: Existing as a codex in the symbiote hive mind, the Eventuality's bodies are formed out of their substance and give him their innate abilities.

Notes

• The Eventually suggests that, in the next iteration of the cosmos, he may become the next "bad guy" like Knull for his replacement, the next King in Black, to overcome; which he shows a glimpse of to Dylan Brock in Free Comic Book Day 2024: Ultimate Universe/Spider-Man #1.
• According to the Eventuality, even if Eddie loses the power of the King in Black, he will regain it later. One way or another, possibly hundreds of different ways or more, Eddie will always become the Eventuality in the end.

Trivia

• Doctor Strange once invoked the "Onyx King" in a spell that prevents combatants from using external sources of power, such magic or the Eternity Mask, for 30 seconds.
• The Eventuality taking the form of Venom's left hand could be a reference to Eddie severing his left hand during the events of "Venom Island", while the added candle fire at his fingertips makes it resemble the Hand of Glory.
  • This could also reference the Left Hand Path in esoterism, in opposition to the Right Hand Path, two different self-complementarian approaches into magic; this is seen given the way it talks to the 'prime' Eddie as a form of initiation and his "sacrifice of Ego".
• The Eventuality is aware that Earth-1048 is a universe where video games take place.

See Also

• 13 appearance(s) of Edward Brock (Eventuality) (Multiverse)
• 3 minor appearance(s) of Edward Brock (Eventuality) (Multiverse)
• 2 mention(s) of Edward Brock (Eventuality) (Multiverse)
• 14 image(s) of Edward Brock (Eventuality) (Multiverse)
• 5 quotation(s) by or about Edward Brock (Eventuality) (Multiverse)