For anyone who watched the first season of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and saw season 1 culminate in a little tease of Venom-y symbiote threats, the good news is that Marvel very much intends to pay that tease off. But anyone expecting Venom to burst into the live-action MCU will have to just keep on waiting.
“Hang on,” you might yell, “Venom was in Spider-Man: No Way Home, wasn’t he?” Again, kinda. Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock showed up in the Sony-Marvel movie’s post-credits scene, and we heard Venom’s voice, but we didn’t actually see him on screen. Instead, we saw a little bit of symbiote goo left behind after Brock was transported back to his own universe. Basically, the door was left open for some future symbiote shenanigans in the MCU, but none have actually transpired yet.
However, there are definitely some upcoming opportunities to introduce Venom in the MCU, with the next Spider-Man film, Brand New Day, leading straight into Avengers: Doomsday. While Doomsday might not be the best place for Venom, thanks to its already massive cast of characters, it is set to be a multiversal crossover movie that already boasts X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Loki somehow. Might there be room for a little Venom action? We shall see.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2 is set to release on Disney+ next fall.
