What Happened To Everyone Who Killed Spider-Man?

Amongst the slew of Marvel-driven content heading to Disney+ in the future, one TV show many are eagerly anticipating is the animated What If...? series.

That small-screen offering will explore famed Marvel moments and tropes, just skewed slightly. For example, what if Peggy Carter took the Super Soldier syndrome and became Captain Britain, or what if Yondu came down and took T'Challa up into space rather than Peter Quill?

This animated series will pull plentiful inspiration from the comic book title of the same name, and one such What If? Spider-Man-driven tale resulted in the death of Peter Parker.

Back in 1989's What If? Vol. 2 #4, the question of the day revolved around what would've happened had Peter allowed himself to be fully consumed by the alien symbiote. In standard canon, Parker famously got rid of the black goo after he realised it had started to corrupt him, the symbiote then going on to bond with Eddie Brock to form in Venom.

In this alternative scenario, Peter and the symbiote fully bond and become a different take on Venom. That is, until, Reed Richards' observations cause the symbiote to bail and attach itself to the Hulk. Yes, there's now a Hulk/Venom hybrid running amok.

When Richards checks on Parker, our hero has prematurely aged after being attached to the symbiote for too long. As Reed offers up his help, Peter collapses and dies of age old.

The conclusion of this What If? story has a vengeance-seeking Black Cat eviscerate the symbiote with an energised blast.