>>84132704I don't mind what they did too much such as soon as I read the klyntar thing I immediately noticed a satisfying headcanon is space knight's developments have done nothing to contradict it, and even reinforce it in some places.
symbiotes in large numbers seem to err towards violently enforced groupthink since most offspring inherit the tendencies and mental contamination of their parent. venom got imprisoned for going against his 'clan's groupthink, being a mutant who failed to inherit anything, instead being born tabula rasa. it wanted true symbiosis rather than aggressive parasitism. it got mentally contaminated from Peter, then Eddie, then Mac, then Flash. three of them violent moralfags of varying degrees, one just a violent psycho that went insane due to psychic attack,
in come the klyntar, their groupthink is hard moralfaggotry. as we saw in the recent issues, they violently purge any members of the clan that go against that groupthink.
so my headcanon is that A) they didn't 'cleanse' Venom, they just overwhelmed it with their own groupthink via mental contamination,
and B) they aren't the 'true' symbiote homeworld. that's just part of their groupthink, and nearly every symbiote colony in the universe violently enforces the dogma that they represent the 'true' nature of symbiote-kind. even they way they psychically communicate 'missions from the cosmos' to their agents harkens back to the psychic scream Venom used to call for a nearby clan in Planet of the Symbiotes when it and Eddie were having a spat. and for a while after encountering this clan, Venom readily adopted their groupthink, but shook it off a while later and went back to 'normal'. Same as what happened in Space Knight