It's a result of the spell Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) casts at the end of No Way Home, but a spot of Venom's symbiote is left behind on the bar after Eddie has left. The scene means No Way Home does technically feature the Sinister Six.
In the final moments of the mid-credits scene, we see that a piece of the symbiote responsible for Venom actually separated from Eddie as he vanished, and landed on the bar. After a moment, we also see that it's very much still active, as it crawls off — presumably to find its MCU host.
Essentially, the Venom 2 post-credits shows Eddie Brock sitting in a hotel suite, then being randomly transported to a new universe and finding out, via J. Jonah Jameson on television, that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. We originally assumed that scene was taking place in the MCU.
Venom is transported into the MCU, along with a host of other familiar faces, because of a Doctor Strange incantation gone horribly wrong. Think about that spell for a minute, and how it worked. The idea was to make everyone forget Peter Parker's connection to Spider-Man.
In the comics, the Venom symbiote came to Earth with Peter after the extremely silly '80s crossover event Secret Wars (which was really just a 12-issue ad for a toy line). He rejected the alien and left it for dead.
And in particular, there's the fact that Spider-Man 3 included Venom (Topher Grace), which gets dropped in casually during the movie proper by Tobey Maguire's Peter.
So, what's the deal? According to No Way Home co-writer Chris McKenna, it all comes down to what Venom says about his species' "hive knowledge across universes" that could fry Eddie's tiny human brain. “The idea is that the Symbiote has knowledge of other universes," McKenna explained to Variety.
Venom gets zapped back to his universe
Spider-Man appears on TV, and Venom salivates. No doubt, Doctor Strange's spell that accidentally opened up a pathway between parallel universes sucked Venom from his world into that of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
As mentioned above, Venom 3 has been confirmed, but we're still waiting for an official release date. Sony has a busy couple of years ahead with its Spider-Man universe with the releases of Kraven the Hunter (January 13, 2023), Madame Web (July 7, 2023) and El Muerto (January 12, 2024) already confirmed.
It's a result of the spell Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) casts at the end of No Way Home, but a spot of Venom's symbiote is left behind on the bar after Eddie has left. The scene means No Way Home does technically feature the Sinister Six.
While Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock/Venom does pop in the recent Marvel movie – albeit in a post-credits scene – it turns out there were more plans for appearances throughout the main events of No Way Home. Speaking to Empire, McKenna explained: "So Eddie Brock makes it to the MCU but he never makes it out of a bar.
“Buried in his brain is some knowledge of that connection.” So, we know that in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man universe, Venom knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. And if the symbiote retains knowledge from all of its doppelgängers, then it would make sense that Tom Hardy's Venom knows who Spider-Man is as well.
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But why does Venom lick the TV with Peter's face on it? Besides communicating the apparent fact that Venom wants to eat brains — and Peter's looks tasty to Venom — Venom's hunger appears to be proof of an intrinsic attraction to Peter Parker.
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However, it looks like Marvel Studios might just have new plans for Hardy's anti-hero. A new report by Culture Spider on Twitter states that fans will allegedly witness Tom Holland's Spider-Man being pitted against Hardy's Venom in the upcoming Spider-Man 4.
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