The highly anticipated trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, which is the concluding chapter to Tom Hardy’s Venom trilogy and the latest addition to Sony’s Spider-man Universe (SSU), finally dropped on June 3, 2024. It has already hit 21M+ views on YouTube and 29M+ plays on Instagram. But, in classic Sony fashion, it’s got the internet buzzing for all the wrong reasons. The trailer starts fine enough, featuring Eddie Brock (Hardy) sporting the same clothes he wore during his brief trip to the MCU in Spider-Man: No Way Home’s mid-credits scene. As the trailer progresses we see a cool action sequence where Eddie and Venom brutally take down some thugs — all while they comically struggle to say their signature catchphrase “We are Venom!“
But for longtime Marvel fans who’ve been keeping up with the MCU, things get murky from there. The trailer throws several curveballs with potential Spider-Man references and Sony’s overall multiverse plans, leaving viewers scratching their heads and eager for answers. So, read on as we break down why fans are frustrated with this latest Venom installment.
Venom: The Last Dance Ruins the Spider-Man: No Way Home Mid-Credits Scene
The post-credits scene for Venom: Let There Be Carnage showed Venom being teleported into the MCU, where he saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man on a TV screen, teasing a big showdown between the two. Then, the Spider-Man: No Way Home mid-credits scene doubled down on this, showing Eddie chilling in a bar in the MCU before being yanked back to his own world. However, a piece of the symbiote was left behind, leaving fans excited about a potential Black Spider-Man suit in the MCU and an epic fight between Venom and Spidey.
The Venom: The Last Dance trailer throws a massive wrench into those plans. We see Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays Mordo in the MCU, seemingly in the same MCU bar where Eddie left the symbiote. Now, if this is indeed the MCU, Mordo should be the same character we know — the rogue sorcerer from the Doctor Strange films. But the character in the trailer is wildly different, dressed in army gear and leading a gang of operatives to capture Venom. This suggests a whole new version of the character, entirely separate from the MCU.
So, what does this mean? Sony is essentially retconning the entire Spider-Man: No Way Home post-credits scene to have taken place in the SSU, and not the MCU. This is particularly frustrating because the mid-credits scene felt like a promise — a promise that Venom would play a bigger role in the MCU. Now, with no clear connection in sight, it seems like Sony might have just been teasing fans without any real plans to follow through.
The Trailer Confirms We’re Never Getting Spider-Man in the SSU
It looks fine the venom horse was cool, but all we asked was for a Venom Vs. Spider-Man movie why was that so hard to ask for Sony pic.twitter.com/oCmgaBX3tF
— ChillyChivy (@Tyler02442438) June 3, 2024
Ever since the first Venom movie, fans have been eagerly waiting for just one thing: a Venom vs. Spider-Man sequence. And after all those teases, Venom: The Last Dance was the best chance for a Spider-Man debut in the SSU. But the trailer confirms we’re never getting that in this trilogy — Spider-Man won’t be appearing in the SSU anytime soon and Venom won’t get the iconic white spider symbol. All that buildup was for nothing. All those post-credits scenes setting up the Sinister Six and Tom Holland’s Black Suit amount to absolutely nothing! Sony’s “Spider-Man” universe still doesn’t have the titular Spider-Man, and probably never will. And that’s a major letdown for the fans.
Sony’s Stunt Casting of TASM and MCU Actors Makes the Marvel Multiverse Even More Confusing
Ejiofor isn’t the only Spider-Man franchise actor that Sony has cast in a completely different role. Rhys Ifans, who previously played Dr. Curt Connors (The Lizard) in The Amazing Spider-Man and even reappeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home — a movie that also featured Eddie in its post-credits scene — is also playing a whole new character in Venom: The Last Dance. Why cast the actors who play Mordo and The Lizard in entirely new roles? It’s clear that Sony is trying to confuse audiences with clickbait. By featuring actors associated with the MCU and TASM franchises, they might be suggesting connections to those universes that don’t actually exist.
This wouldn’t be the first time Sony has done this. Remember the Morbius trailer? A “Spider-Man Murderer” poster (which did not even end up being in the movie) blatantly hinted at a link to the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home. They even snuck in a shot of Oscorp Tower from The Amazing Spider-Man in the same trailer, sparking confusion about whether the movie was set in the MCU, the Andrew Garfield universe, or the SSU. When it comes to Sony’s marketing, it’s better to assume incompetence rather than 4D chess. They just don’t know what they’re doing, throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. Unfortunately, none of it does. Should Andrew Garfield return in Avengers: Secret Wars? Find out!
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