Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, it's Jan here and in this video I'll be explaining everything
you need to know about the ending to Venom and how the various symbiotes in the movie
set up future sequels.
Plus keep watching to the end where I'll reveal some sneaky easter eggs and little details
you might have missed in the post-credits, as well as the details of my new Venom giveaway.
In case you hadn't already guessed, of course, I'll be talking spoilers, so take care if
you haven't seen the movie yet.
At the end of the film, Venom defeats Drake and Riot by sabotaging their rocket launch
causing it to explode, and Venom initially appears to perish during the flaming fallout
and says "Goodbye Eddie".
Eddie later has a reunion with Anne who believes he's free of the symbiote, but it's revealed
that Venom's still alive and there talking to Eddie in his head.
Anne gets a little suspicious as she notices Eddie appearing to talk to himself, but he
decides to not tell her yet.
Eddie clearly wants to get back together with her, and Venom chips in "You belong with us
Annie", a hint that we'll see She-Venom again in the potential sequel – and I'll talk
more about Anne's She-Venom shortly.
Eddie decides to keep Venom's existence a secret from Anne for the moment and this scene
reminded me of the end of the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movie where Peter Parker
hides his feelings from Mary Jane, although they eventually got together in the next movie.
So, what's the future for Venom and his fellow symbiotes?
Well, the ending sets up how Eddie and Venom will interact with each other going forward.
Earlier in the movie, we saw that often the symbiotes will eat their human hosts from
the inside which seems to be why they keep travelling from planet to planet devouring
their hosts until there aren't any left.
Venom is a bit different from his fellow symbiotes and he gains an appreciation for Earth after
he climbs up the skyscraper and looks out over the city in a rather Spider-Man-esque
moment.
Although Venom started off forcing his host Eddie to do whatever Venom wanted, by the
end of the movie, Eddie has found he can control Venom more and quiet him down.
Eddie also decides to teach Venom about right and wrong and how he can't eat or hurt good
people.
Venom needs to eat though, of course, otherwise he'll end up eating Eddie's insides, and we
discover Venom has a taste for Tater Tots and chocolate when they go to the store for
food.
Which leads to the scene where Venom eats the thug who's been shaking down Mrs Chen.
I guess this means that Eddie will have to keep hunting down bad guys as a way to keep
Venom's hunger at bay!
As for Anne's future, there a big hint to that in the scene where we discover she's
bonded with the Venom symbiote and has become She-Venom.
She saves Eddie as he's about to be killed by Drake's henchmen, then makes out with him
at which point Venom flips from her back to Eddie.
Venom's reply of "Not today" when she demands to join the fight against Riot is a tease
that She-Venom will be back for a much bigger part in a possible Venom sequel.
And, of course, Anne did end up fighting ugly, as she put it, when she disabled Riot temporarily
during the Rocket launch sequence by turning up the loudspeakers.
The Venom sequel is also going to have an even more powerful villain than Riot, which
I'll explain next, and I think Eddie and Venom will likely need Anne's She-Venom powers against
him.
OK, so Venom's next villain is set up in the first post-credits scene where we see Eddie
making his way to San Quentin Prison.
As he mentioned previously to Anne, he's got a job reporting again and has what he calls
the interview of a lifetime with serial killer Cletus Kasady.
In this scene, we finally meet Woody Harrelson who has said that his tiny role in this film
sets him up for a much bigger part in a Venom sequel.
The prison guard calls Kasady "Red" a little reference to the villain's red hair and the
red and black colour of the Carnage symbiote which bonds with Kasady in the comics.
As Kasady talks to Eddie, he threatens that when he gets out of prison there'll be carnage,
a very on-the-nose nod to the fact we'll be seeing Kasady become a host for the Carnage
symbiote in the next movie.
In the comics, Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady end up sharing time in prison together, something
the movie alludes to by the fact that the imprisoned Kasady asked specifically for Eddie
to interview him.
In the books, Kasady became Carnage when Eddie's pregnant symbiote gave birth and the spawn
attached itself to Cletus.
In the film, Eddie told Venom to keep quiet during the visit and I didn't see any hint
of the symbiote leaking out during what we saw of Eddie's time there.
So, unless Kasady's already been exposed to a symbiote off screen, how will he end up
as Carnage?
Well, we need to recap what symbiotes are still left by the end of the Venom movie and
how Kasady will be exposed to one.
The LIFE Foundation extracted 4 distinct symbiote samples from the comet.
There was the black one, Venom, who currently inhabits Eddie.
There was a blue one and a yellow one and each of those died in the movie when their
hosts died, one of which was Jenny Slate's character, Dr Dora Skirth.
The fourth sample was Riot, the symbiote which escaped after the LIFE Foundation's space
craft crashed in Malaysia.
Riot hopped around from host to host passing from the EMT technician, to the old woman
in the market, then to the little girl at the airport and finally on to Drake.
But Riot died together with Drake during the rocket explosion; remember there are just
two things which can kill a symbiote: fire and a sustained sound above a certain frequency.
What's even more important to recall though is that there are millions of other symbiotes
still on that comet that is presumably passing through or near our Solar System.
And debris that breaks off from comets often ends up as meteorites when they fall into
the Earth's atmosphere.
What if a red symbiote fell to Earth via a meteor?
It might even crash-land in San Quentin prison and help Cletus Kasady escape!
By the way, in the comics, Carnage is such a powerful villain that Venom has typically
teamed up with Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to combat the evil symbiote.
At the moment, Sony's deal with Marvel Studios means Spider-Man can only appear in the MCU,
not any of Sony's current films; however, after Avengers 4 and Spider-Man: Far From
Home, Tom Holland's Peter Parker will have appeared in 5 MCU movies and it's possible
that Sony could pull Spider-Man back into their own Marvel Universe to appear in a Venom
sequel.
Bonus easter egg time now: The way Kasady writes 'Welcome Eddie' in blood inside his
cage is a little hat-tip to how his character leaves the phrase 'Carnage Rules' in various
places in the comics.
If you didn't manage to stay all the way through the very long and pretty slow-moving credits,
you probably missed the second end-credits scene which was a tease for Sony's animated
Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse movie.
The scene begins with a comic-book pop-up graphic "Meanwhile in another universe" indicating
that the animated movie exists in a different reality to the Venom movie.
What we see next is not a trailer, but a full-length scene.
The animation on show looks fantastic, however, because it doesn't have any impact on Venom
or any future Venom sequel, it feels a little disconnected so it's basically just an extended
advert.
Of course, Marvel has simply shown scenes from upcoming movies as post-credit scenes,
however, they do all exist within the same universe so it doesn't feel quite as odd.
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