So many theories and so much speculation, which all turned out to be for naught when the one actual post-credits scene in the movie—or mid-credits, if we’re being technical—involves not a single character who’s appeared in a previous Spidey movie. Nay the coveted scene is about… Tom Hardy as Venom?! Huh?!
Why Venom is Drunk in a Bar
After the pair broke up and got back together over the course of the Venom sequel, they decided to celebrate their renewed vows of affection by going on a bit of a honeymoon to a nondescript tropical paradise. But while Venom was attempting to teach Eddie one of the mysterious and ancient secrets of his symbiote culture in the stars, the pair become equally mystified as they’re teleported from their shabby hotel room at night into a much nicer suite during the early morning. Stranger still is the fact that they’re now in a universe where puny kids named Peter Parker are all over the television, because it’s just been revealed that they’re something called a “Spider-Man.”
“Aliens don’t care about stones” he whines. One assumes he will next say that aliens only care about eating brains, but the lovebirds are interrupted when the same magical effect which sent the Maguire and Garfield era villains home now sends Venom back to that hellhole from whence he came. And yet, almost like a threat to the quality control Kevin Feige exerts over the MCU, one sliver of symbiote got left behind… and it starts crawling off the bar, presumably in search of Tom Holland and a Spidey sequel. Poor kid.
How this all works is, of course, nonsense. The reason villains like Doc Ock and the Lizard (Rhys Ifans) showed up in the MCU is because Peter foolishly said mid-spell that “basically everyone who knew I was Spider-Man before” should still know. That apparently summoned everyone who’s ever known Peter is Spidey from across the infinity of the multiverse.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Trailer
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Well, given Raimi’s directing, let’s just hope evil Stephen says, “You’re good Strange, I’m bad Strange!”
There’s a lot more to unpack, of course, which we will do in the coming days when the trailer drops online…
