The highly anticipated Venom movie is finally out, and, well, it hasn’t been getting the
best of reviews.
For those of you out of the loop, the movie, starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, isn’t
affiliated with Marvel Studios or the MCU, but rather, is a Sony film, and leading up
to its release, had given fans some promising expectations thanks to Venom’s aesthetic,
matching the Todd McFarlane style of the character from the comics.
According to Tom Hardy, a large chunk of the movie was cut in the editing room, including
his favourite parts, which many feel may be the reason why some critics are giving it
lack lustre reviews.
But all that aside, there is one part of the film that has people really excited, and that’s
the end credit scenes.
It may not be an MCU movie, but it sure as hell brought fans the same kind of gusto that
the franchise is known for once the credits start to roll.
So let’s break it down.
And of course, major spoiler warning for the rest of this video.
There’s two post credit scenes, but let’s start with the first, which appears mid way
through the credits.
It features Woody Harrelson, who many believed prior to the films release would be playing
Cletus Kassidy.
And that guess was spot on.
Why is this a big deal?
Because in the comics, Cletus Kassidy is the host of Venom’s archnemesis Carnage.
In the scene, Harrelson shows up, wearing a really unfortunate wig that we won’t talk
about because, ugh, cringe.
Anywho, Harrelson has requested to be interviewed by Eddie Brock specifically.
Eddie is visiting the San Quentin State Prison, where Kassidy is being kept, and he’s there
to interview him, where he’s known as the prison’s most dangerous inmate.
In the scene, Cletus tells Eddie, “When I get out of here- and I will- there’s going
to be Carnage.”
Yes, quite literally, we suspect.
Earlier on in the movie, we find out that the bluish symbiote that we saw briefly at
the life foundation has gone missing.
It’s touched on briefly, in a comment from Jenny Slate’s character and Riz Ahmed’s
Doctor Carlton Drake, but isn’t talked about afterwards.
Now this could imply that the symbiote, which is missing, has found a new host in the form
of Cassidy, hence why Cassidy has specifically requested for Eddie to interview him.
He could already be aware that Brock is the host of the Venom symbiote.
But this could also mean something else, if that symbiote isn’t the one who bonded with
Cletus, considering Cletus is still in prison.
In the comics, Carnage’s origin story is as follows.
Eddie is incarcerated.
He ends up in the same prison as Cletus, who is his cell mate.
Cletus is a notorious and quite brutal serial killer.
And when Venom resurfaces in Eddie, Eddie breaks out of prison.
But, Venom does something Eddie is unaware of.
He leaves behind one of his seeds.
Klyntar, with their offspring, are not parental at all.
They give birth to them in form of seeds and then abandon them immediately.
And each offspring is innately stronger than its parent symbiote, which is why this seed
is such a threat.
Thinking it won’t be an issue, Venom never communicate this to Eddie until afterwards
when its revealed that this symbiote has bonded with Cletus after Eddie had escaped.
Cletus becomes Carnage, and goes on a killing spree, murdering people and then writing his
name in their blood at each crime scene.
If that origin were to play out, this could mean one of two things.
The first being that the symbiote in the Life Foundation in the film that got away was already
spawned from Venom, and has now found its way to Kassidy.
Or it could mean that when Eddie is in the prison interviewing Cletus, Venom drops off
the symbiote seed there, and that’s how Cletus ends up with it.
This would make more sense because a, that means Eddie doesn’t have to go to prison,
and b, the symbiote could be red in colour as opposed to going with that bluish one from
earlier in the movie.
Regardless, we know we’ll be seeing Carnage in the sequel film, if a sequel is made.
The other post credit scene is actually just a preview for another film, Spider-Man: Into
the Spider-Verse, and is introduced with the caption ‘meanwhile, in another universe’.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Venom, and was likely a choice made in order to promote
the upcoming film, which people are really hyped for already.
Anyway, what do you all think?
If you haven’t seen the film yet, are you going to go catch Venom in theatres?
And how do you think Carnage will be introduced in the sequel movie, if there is one?
Give us a shout in those comments below and let us know!
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channel and come check that out when it goes live.
In the meantime though, thanks for watching friends!
I’ll catch you all in the next video.