10 Times Supervillains Quit
4. Venom Destroys Himself To Create A New Universe - Venom: The End
If you haven't read Marvel's recent one-shot, Venom: The End, do yourself a favour and find a copy. Although the entire story is told in a single, thirty-page comic, it is one of the most ambitious, psychedelic, and existentially profound science fiction tales, of any medium, in recent memory.
The story spans millions upon trillions of years, and shows us a future in which Venom is the last remaining hope for bio-life in our universe. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the cosmos is taken over by constantly advancing robots, wiping out all biological beings. The symbiote known as Venom is all that stands in the way of the complete extinction of nature, and he's not letting it go easily.
Venom is not only a symbiote, but a living genetic codex: he retains a piece of DNA from everyone he has ever bonded to. This also gives him any superpowers that person may have had. For example, after that one time he bonded with Multiple Man, he is able to repeatedly clone himself into an ever-growing army of one. Then, using the time travel powers of Tempus, Timeslip, and Magik, he splashes his way through the timestream, bonding with everyone and everything that has ever lived, and taking a little bit of their DNA along with him.
Realising he can never truly save this "corpse of a universe", he ultimately tears himself inside out, and creates a brand new universe from the DNA of the old one.