Knull is honestly not a bad enough idea. At least worse than any other generic>personification of cosmic elementtype of "character". The problem for me is that Cates just couldn't write a Nihilistic Space Elric, and just made a boring edgy schmuck. Space Vampire with Black Goo Monster Devils in his command is fine. It's just that for it to work the character of Venom needs to not be tied to some random retard like Brock, but to something akin to the FF. Knull as a concept/character isn't that bad, and he does look cool in a cliche edgy way. He just needed a better execution. He's far better than the Batman Who Keks in any case.
Everything about him feels so undeserved. His inserts himself into history and other characters backstories and makes lots of bold claims with nothing to back them up. He wins fights against characters that should be way above him for no reason, then loses to characters way below him for no reason, and in the end the result is a character that didn't know what they were, what they were doing or where they were going. I have never seen a character so undeservedly hype themselves up and make it apparent that their creator doesn't know the history and lore of the setting.Also the "Super ancient super alien being but they look like a Human and do Human things and wear Human clothes and have Human Mythology Monsters serving them" shit was just low effort.
>>151961794>"Hahaha yes, I am Knull, God of the Symbiotes and Onyx King of the Eighth Cosmos. I have finally arrived to kill your pathetic world and-">"Wait is that...an X-Man!? AIIIEEE STOP LOOKING INTO MY MIND NOOOOOOO!"
>>151962361>Also the "Super ancient super alien being but they look like a Human and do Human things and wear Human clothes and have Human Mythology Monsters serving them" shit was just low effort.Don't forget that he just so happens to bear the same symbol as Spider-Man's. They weren't even fucking trying.To be fair though, symbiote lore had been turned to shit even before with the Klyntar nonsense in Space Knight. It simply kept... getting worse.
>>151961794I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't the 8 millionth giga retcon to symbiote lore
Nothing about the symbiote beyond the original arc and Eddie getting it ever worked. I'd rather see it all retconned at this point.
>>151961794>Knull is honestly not a bad enough ideaDunno, naming the primordial evil dark god "Fuck" is pretty darn up there in terms of hilarious mistakes
>>151962361>Also the "Super ancient super alien being but they look like a Human and do Human things and wear Human clothes and have Human Mythology Monsters serving them" shit was just low effort.This is why I dislike a lot of anime.
>>151961794I think he would be more liked if he stayed in lane but they went on a campain of tying everything black and shadowy to him>All blackhim>the shadow thing from wraith Him>grendel and his momSymbiotes created by him>The void a being manefest by Sentry's bullshitHimProbably more that I'm forgetting. If the Inhumans didn't get banned from use Cares definitely going to make the Vox a knull thing. They were red and Black and oozed black stuff.
>>151964043Carnage is great
Every step away from Venom just being some mysterious thing from a bleak and unknown cosmos has been a misstep.
>>151965907Reminds me of Alien. Alien was great and had tons of mystery, Aliens added more aliens and lore but was still great (Maximum Carnage). The latter two Ridley Scott movies expanded the lore and killed some of the mystery (Cates Venom lore).
