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>And they had Flash as Venom for years, with another attempt to make Eddie a villain, and culling a lot of the other symbiotes

Flash as soldier venom looked really cool, and it gave us Mania who thankfully Marvel forgot about so they are less likely to fuck her up.
Eddie became Anti-Venom at the time and tried being an anti-hero. I think. It's been too long ago and too insignificant.
Culling symbiotes wasn't bad because they kept making more of them like all the ones I don't remember in Separation Anxiety.

And yeah then they did a full 180 with Knull and the space shit, I completely skipped all of that and I don't even see it being brought up in non-venom books at all (then again, neither was that one crossover Hercules stopped the Amatsu-Mikaboshi from eating the universe).
As far as I'm concerned the best symbiote origin story is still Planet of Symbiotes. It also gave us this awesome panel.