The second Venom trailer made some pretty big waves when it was released during this
years San Diego Comic Con.
It was an exclusive at the Sony Pictures panel, so for those not in attendance, the rumours
were running wild as to what specifically appeared in the trailer.
We actually did a break down on it based off of an account from those who did see it back
when we were doing our coverage for the convention.
But, luckily, the trailer has FINALLY been released, and now everyone has gotten to see
what Eddie Brock’s Venom looks like in a full body shot; and its just as good as everyone
was hoping for it to be.
Aside from seeing Venom in his entirety, the trailer features a lot of other great content,
references and Easter Eggs that hint to what else may go down in the film.
So today, we’re breaking it down with our list of the top 10 Venom trailer Easter eggs.
10 Missing Insignia You may have noticed that Venom in the film
looks a whole lot like the way he appeared in Todd McFarlane’s 90s run with the character.
From how Venom towers over other characters to his sickening tongue, that’s pretty darn
awesome.
But, you may have also noticed he’s missing a pretty key part of his aesthetic; there’s
no white spider logo on his chest.
According to director Ruben Fleisher, this is because this Venom doesn’t originate
from Spider-Man, therefore there was no reason to have the white spider on his chest.
IGN actually pointed out that the symbiote’s look sans spider falls in line pretty well
with the Ultimate Spider-Man comics version of Venom.
9 Sonic Waves In the comics, one of Venom’s weaknesses
is sonic sound waves.
Generally they knock the symbiote off of it’s host.
And while these days, sometimes Venom is written showing resistance to sonic blasts, its typically
been his main weakness for a long time.
Now at one point in the trailer, we see Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock inside of a lab with
an MRI machine.
The next few shocks depict him squirming in pain, and there’s a bit of a flicker effect
on his body, with the symbiote flickering in and out.
This looks a whole lot like what a real life imagining of Venom freaking out over sonic
waves would appear as when they initially hit, or if it were affecting him at a lower
rate.
Side note, we actually did a list on the top 10 Venom weaknesses that you should definitely
check out after this video.
Some of them may surprise you.
8 Hong Kong This trailer returns once more to the crash
site that we saw in the previous trailer.
Except this time, there’s a new detail that’s apartment.
On a yellow van, we see that there’s Chinese written on it, which means the crash site
is likely in China.
During Drake’s speech about his villainous intentions, we see shots of Hong Kong, Glasgow
and London.
This suggests that perhaps the symbiotes all crashed onto earth around the same time, and
that’s what . We know that since the film isn’t exploring the symbiote’s origin
with Spider-Man, it will likely be diving into its alien origins from the planet Klyntar,
so perhaps Venom, along with the other symbiotes collected by the life foundation all crashed
onto Earth around the same time due to some sort of event that occurred with the Klyntars.
Perhaps they were evacuating their planet?
While that may sound like a set up for the Venomverse, it’s very likely the film won’t
be going in that direction just yet.
7 Pizza!
There’s a clip a scene in which we see Eddie using his symbiote powers for good, creating
a shield to prevent some people inside of an apartment from getting hurt.
San Fransisco natives may have noticed a nice little detail about that shot though.
So, the film takes place in San Fran, as seen at the very start of the trailer.
And in this scene, we see a pizza box on the table that has the label Pizzeria Delfina
on it, which is actually a really popular pizzeria in the city.
While it’s not really a big Easter egg as far as the comics are concerned, it’s cool
to see that the art department actually tried to make the film feel like it was in San Fransisco
with details like this.
In case you were wondering, Venom was shot in New York city and Atlanta.
6 Space Shuttle There’s a few hints to a space shuttle peppered
throughout the trailer.
In one shot, we see Venom dropping down, with what appears to be a space shuttle rocket
ship preparing for launch behind him.
Then, in the epic shot where Carlton Drake’s Riot and Venom are battling it out, we can
see in the background something that appears to look like that rocket again.
The world Life is visible, and the letters ‘of’, implying that it reads Life Foundation,
and that perhaps Venom’s intentions with the Life Foundation and fighting against it
may have something to do with what this launch may entail.
Considering Venom’s origin is exploring the Klyntar side of things, this does line
up pretty well.
5 Yellow Symbiote During a sequence where we see a few shots
at the Life Foundation Lab, we see a yellow symbiote swirling around in a containment
tube.
Many believe this is referencing the Scream symbiote.
She was one of the five Life foundation Symbiotes that were forcefully created from the Venom
symbiote, and she’s the only one who eventually didn’t merge into the hybrid symbiote; a
combination singular entity of the other four after Scream herself kills their human hosts.
Her host was Donna Diego, who also ends up dying, and the symbiote had a unique ability
because of Donna.
Scream could extend her hair-like tendrils to lash out or encircle enemies.
Eventually, Scream is defeated by Eddie Brock.
There is a woman in the trailer who appears to be making a weapon out of a symbiote on
her hand, so could that potentially be Donna?
The symbiote doesn’t appear yellow though, so it could be one of the other four if they
keep to the story.
4 Lethal Protector Speaking of Scream, the film is based off
of the Lethal Protector story arc from 1993, in which the Life Foundation develops those
five guardian symbiotes.
Riot is one of them, and we already know that Riz Ahmed’s character Dr Carlton Drake will
be playing Riot, who is the symbiote we see Venom going head to head to near the end of
the trailer.
But there’s another character who we see at the Lab get exposed to a symbiote; this
means that this character will either be Phage, Lasher or Agony if they keep to the story.
Agony had a female host, so she’s out.
But take a look at the colour of the symbiote that bonds with his man.
It has a slight blue tint to it.
So perhaps it could be lasher; Lasher was green, so it might not be a long shot.
3 Agony So that woman we mentioned earlier that could
potentially be Scream?
The one tossing around symbiote projectiles?
Well, let’s explore the idea that instead of Scream, she’s Agony.
This would match up significantly better in terms of the colour of the symbiote.
In the comics, Agony’s host is Leslie Gesneria, who works for the Life foundation as a part
of the organization’s security force.
In this trailer, the woman is wearing a jacket that reads EMT on it’s back.
The scene appears to take place in Hong Kong, so it could be that she may have been on the
scene where the Klyntars had crashed, and she became an unwilling host that’s let
loose in the city rather than being Leslie.
People also think this character may the same woman we see at the Life Foundation Lab in
captivity when Eddie Brock first breaks into it at the start of the trailer, but that’s
a bit questionable in our opinion.
Also worth noting, the symbiote blade she uses is very similar to the T1000 shape shining
robot from the Terminator 2 film from 1991, which is a nice little reference.
2 Face to Face One of the most memorable moments in the trailer
is when Venom comes out of Eddie’s body, kind of like a snake, and looks at him, face
to face, having a conversation.
It’s creepy AF, and it’s also taken directly from the comics.
In the panels in which it happens, Brock is fighting against Venom over similar reasons
as he is in the voice over that plays over the scenes shown in the trailer, with Brock
declaring that they’re not a monster after Venom just feasted on some guys brains.
Brock throws up, and Venom tries to explain it’s loneliness, and its craving for completeness
that feels like an addiction.
This kind of behaviour (the coming out of his host’s body) is not totally unheard
of.
Venom often pulls himself off of his host’s body to have a discussion when necessary.
1 The Prison In one shot early on in the trailer, there
appears to be a building that looks like a prison.
In the frame, the camera is beside Eddie Brock’s motorcycle, and the prison is in the distant.
So what’s so important about this building?
Well, we know that Woody Harrelson has been cast as in the film for an untitled Henchman
role.
This has many people speculating that he’ll be playing serial killer Cletus Kassidy, aka
the man who the Carnage symbiote bonds with.
At Comic Con, the cast and crew were very tight lipped about whether Carnage would be
making an appearance, and did not confirm whether he’d be in the film, so that leaves
that possibility still very open.
There we have it friends!
Are you guys excited for the Venom film?
It actually looks really good, doesn’t it?
I’d be curious to see whether it’ll eventually get sucked into the MCU once Disney officially
owns all of the character rights again.
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