Summary
- Venom may finally interact with a version of Spider-Man in Venom 3: The Last Dance, making it a crucial final chapter for fans.
- Possible appearances by Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, or even a new Peter Parker could shake up the story.
- Tom Holland's Spider-Man could potentially cross realities and face Venom as well, providing a long hoped-for showdown for fans.
Venom: The Last Dance could very well be the last true chance for some version of Peter Parker to interact with Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock. Confirmed to be the last film featuring the titular anti-hero set in Sony's Spider-Man universe, the symbiotic Lethal Protector has yet to clash with the iconic Webslinger. That said, perhaps that could all change with this culminating chapter of the Venom trilogy.
Beginning with 2018's Venom, Tom Hardy has played both Eddie Brock and the alien symbiote who became his unlikely partner. Based on the classic Marvel Comics character, Venom is most commonly associated as a villain turned anti-hero who has frequently fought and joined forces with Spider-Man, the Venom symbiote's original human host in the original comics. To that end,
here are 8 ways in which some version of Peter Parker might be featured in Venom: The Last Dance.
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Venom Could Travel Back To The MCU And Face Tom Holland's Spider-Man He's Already Been There Once Close Having been teased in Venom: Let There Be Carnage's post-credits, an encounter between Venom and the MCU's Spider-Man (Tom Holland) was teased. However, Eddie Brock and Venom's time in the MCU proved to be quite uneventful and short-lived. Although he was inadvertently transported to the MCU alongside other villains from other realities thanks to Doctor Strange's botched spell in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Eddie Brock was in Mexico the entire time, getting drunk before being sent back to the Sony universe right when he had thoughts about finding and meeting Spider-Man.
Despite being pulled back to his home reality,
perhaps Venom could make his way back to the MCU for The Last Dance. After all, a piece of the symbiote was left behind in the MCU before he left. This could establish a continued link to the MCU, one that could lead to Venom and Spider-Man finally clashing for the first time on-screen since 2007's Spider-Man 3 with Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker.
Venom's Peter Parker Could Be Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man Same Universe As The Amazing Spider-Man Movies? Close Sony has remained committed to being noncommittal about which Spider-Man exists in their universe that's connected yet still independent of the MCU. While the Venom movies and Morbius both have their ties and references to Spider-Man, Peter Parker has yet to truly make an appearance in Sony's universe. As such,
a prevailing theory is that Sony's universe could also be the home of Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man movies.
Having preceded Tom Holland and his Spider-Man role in the MCU, The Amazing Spider-Man movies certainly left Andrew Garfield dealing with intense loss and grief. To that end, an encounter with the Venom symbiote could prove to be quite dangerous if Garfield's Parker and his movies are indeed set in the same reality as the Venom movies. It would certainly be exciting if Garfield's Spider-Man found himself at risk of a dark Venom-infused corruption arc, effectively giving him a version of his very own Symbiote Saga.
Venom Could Encounter Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man It Wouldn't Be His First Symbiote Brawl Close In the same vein, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker certainly has his own chances of being featured in The Last Dance just as much as Garfield or Holland. He's also had the most and only experience dealing with a version of Venom. Having ditched the symbiote that first came to him as it did in the comics before coming to recognize its corruptive nature in Spider-Man 3, the Venom symbiote bonded with Maguire's Peter Parker before ultimately bonding with Topher Grace's Eddie Brock.
By all accounts, Spider-Man 3 was not very well-received and has still been widely panned.
That said, it would still be interesting to see Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker getting another shot at fighting Venom nonetheless. Although the odds are low, the more-experienced Spider-Man played by Maguire could offer a unique take on Sony's newest version of the Venom symbiote on the big screen.
Venom 3 Could Feature Madame Web's Version Of Peter Parker Peter Parker As A Kid? Close While connections to other movies and an established Spider-Man were ultimately cut, Sony's Madame Web still debuted a version of Peter Parker. Working as an EMT, Dakota Johnson's Cassandra Webb had a partner who was none other than a young Ben Parker played by Adam Scott. Likewise, Emma Roberts plays a pregnant Mary Parker in Madame Web, Ben's sister who ultimately gives birth to a son by the film's end.
Sony's Madame Web is set in the year 2002, while the Venom movies are set in the present day.
As such, it's not out of the possibility to suggest that Eddie Brock's Venom could encounter a grown-up version of Peter Parker who was born 22 years prior in Madame Web. However, this is under the assumption that Madame Web is part of the same reality as the Venom trilogy, Morbius, and the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie set to release in December 2024.
Related Venom: The Last Dance Confirmed: Everything We Know So Far The last hint of Tom Hardy"s Eddie Brock and Venom came in a mid-credits scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and now they"re both returning for Venom 3.
Venom And Eddie Could Travel The Spider-Verse Traveling Various Realities Featuring Spider-Man Close It's also possible that Venom himself could end up traveling the multiverse in The Last Dance. This would allow him to encounter multiple versions of both Venom and perhaps even Peter Parker. After all, it's already been confirmed that Venom and Eddie's universe is part of the greater Spider-Verse thanks to 2023's Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse.
In Across the Spider-Verse, Spot's experimentation with his powers results in his ability to travel the multiverse at will as a trans-dimensional being. This includes visiting a LEGO universe as well as Venom's reality where Spot encounters Mrs. Chen, the owner of the convenience store Eddie and Venom often frequent. As such,
this further establishes that Venom's reality is part of the interconnected Great Web of Life and Destiny, meaning that it's technically possible for Eddie and his Other to travel to other realities, just like they did in No Way Home.
Tom Holland's Peter Parker Could End Up In Venom's Universe Who Says The MCU Webslinger Can't Visit Other Realities? Close In the same vein, it's also possible that Tom Holland's Spider-Man could travel to other realities himself, including Venom's. At the moment, every other predominant movie Spider-Man has traveled the multiverse at this point except the MCU's. Miles Morales has interacted with other Spider-heroes from different realities and has also visited their realities in the Spider-Verse films. Likewise, both Maguire and Garfield's Spider-Men came to the MCU as seen in No Way Home.
Excluding the parallel pocket Mirror Dimension during his battle with Doctor Strange, Tom Holland's Spider-Man is the odd one out. Keeping that in mind, perhaps the time has finally come for Peter Parker to be inadvertently transported to another reality in the near future.
One can only hope that Venom's reality is the destination, providing fans with the long-hoped "Battle of the Toms" between Holland's Spider-Man and Hardy's Venom.
Peter Parker Could Appear Via The Symbiote Hive Mind Black Suit Spider-Man? Close It's also worth remembering that the Venom symbiote tells Eddie at the end of Let There Be Carnage that he's connected to the greater symbiote hivemind, possessing 80 billion years of "hive" knowledge that spans across universes. The symbiote also mentions elements of their past that they'd been keeping hidden from Eddie, while also seemingly recognizing Spider-Man on TV after they were involuntarily sent to the MCU ahead of the events of No Way Home.
While Eddie and Venom haven't yet encountered any Spider-Man, it stands to reason that other symbioses across the multiverse Venom's connected to have.
In Sony's universe, Hardy's Eddie Brock is the Venom symbiote's first host. However, that's not necessarily the case in other realities. As such, perhaps Venom and Eddie will encounter a version of Peter Parker who's still bonded to their Venom symbiote, just as Spider-Man was in the comics as the very first Venom host on the page. It would certainly be exciting if The Last Dance further explores the symbiote hivemind, resulting in an encounter with a black-suited Symbiote Spider-Man.
Venom Could Introduce An Entirely New Peter Parker Unlikely But Still Possible Close
It's also technically possible that Venom: The Last Dance could be the film where Sony decides to introduce a brand-new Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Putting aside Madame Web's baby Peter Parker which might not even be connected to Sony's other movies, the opportunity to introduce a new actor in the role of Peter Parker in The Last Dance would certainly be a bold choice. That said, it would finally give Sony the Spider-Man that's clearly been missing in "Sony's Spider-Man Universe", one who could encounter Venom in some fashion.
It would certainly be odd to not use one of the existing live-action Spider-Men whom the audiences have been begging to see more of, especially after the major blockbuster event that was Spider-Man: No Way Home. Sony has certainly earned itself the reputation for being unorthodox in its universe creation, often making very confusing decisions that have been met with quite a bit of criticism from fans over the years. However, perhaps audiences will be more forgiving if it means Venom can finally face Spider-Man in his final movie.
Venom: The Last Dance is set to release on October 25th, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance Not Yet Rated Adventure Sci-FiActionSuperhero Venom 3 is the third and final installment in Sony's symbiote trilogy starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock. It follows the events of Let There Be Carnage, where the anti-hero fought serial killer Cletus Kasady, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Brock was briefly transported to the MCU through the multiverse.
Director Kelly Marcel
Release Date October 25, 2024
Studio(s) Columbia Pictures , Marvel Entertainment , Pascal Pictures
Distributor(s) Sony
Writers Kelly Marcel
Cast Tom Hardy , Juno Temple , Chiwetel Ejiofor
Franchise(s) Spider-Man , Venom
prequel(s) Venom , Venom: Let There Be Carnage Expand Upcoming Marvel Movies
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