Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Poison: the last danceVenom: The Last Dance features a wide collection of Easter eggs and Marvel references. Amid mass symbiote chaos and the introduction of Knull, the Symbiote God, in live action, the latest film in the Poison The trilogy starring Tom Hardy presents some very exciting nods. This includes references to the above. Poison movies, Marvel Comics and even the MCU.
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After his battle with Carnage in San Francisco and a brief visit to Earth-616, Venom: The Last Dance he sees Eddie and his other symbiote fleeing as fugitives. Not only are they wanted by the police and a government organization tasked with studying symbiotes, but the henchmen of Knull the Symbiote God (Andy Serkis) are also after Brock/Venom. To that end, here are the biggest Easter eggs and references that can be found on Venom: The Last Dance.
24 Knull’s Origins
Straight from Marvel comics
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Venom: The Last Dance begins with Knull trapped on the world known as Klyntar, the symbiote word for “cage.” Having been imprisoned by his own creations, the reveal that the symbiotes turned and trapped their creator is taken directly from the comics before Eddie Brock and Venom inadvertently freed the King in Black before 2020. king in black crossover in the comics of Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman.
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23 xenophages
Symbiote Killers
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They are confirmed to be the symbiote-killing monsters known as Xenophages in the original comics. Venom: The Last Dance Add in the twist that these creatures were also created by Knull after the betrayal of the symbiotes. However, Xenophages are simply another alien species in the comics, rather than being creations of the King in Black.
22 Eddie and Venom MCU Post-Credits Scene
A slight setback
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The story of Eddie and Venom begins with a retelling of the post-credits scene in late 2021. Spider-Man: No Way Home which reveals that the two were transported to the MCU, albeit in Mexico instead of New York like the rest of the Spider-Man movie villains. However, the last dance In this version, Eddie and Venom are shot through a portal instead of vanishing in a burst of light as originally depicted.
21 Sick of this multiverse bullshit
Venom agrees with Deadpool
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Returning to his own reality, Venom comments that he is sick of this.”multiverse shit“. Interestingly, this is a similar sentiment to Deadpool as seen in this year’s episode. Deadpool and Wolverine. Both are seemingly poignant comments on the increased influx of multiverse-focused superhero movies in recent years. After all, they are both part of the MCU’s ongoing Multiverse Saga.
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20 Eddie expelled from New York
A reference to Eddie’s comic book origins before Venom
Realizing that they have become fugitives, Eddie decides that he and Venom should go to New York, since he was a dirty judge who they can blackmail for help. He also mentions that he was expelled from New York as mentioned in the first Poison. As in the comics, Eddie ran into trouble with an editor at the Daily Globe, a key rival of the Daily Bugle, explaining his move to San Francisco.
19 Is He Still A Piece Of Symbiote In The MCU?
The poison can still live
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Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that the piece of the symbiote left in the MCU has likely not yet been recovered in Mexico. As such, this could have major implications for the future of both the Sony universe and Earth-616. Not only could this symbiote make its way to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man for his own Symbiote Saga in the MCU, but it could also be a means to reunite Eddie with Venom after the events of Venom: The Last Dance.
18 Eddie hanging upside down
You can’t not think of Spider-Man
While fighting the dogfighting gang, Eddie is shown talking to one of the thugs while hanging upside down from one of Venom’s tendrils. As such, it’s not hard to think of multiple iterations of Spider-Man constantly hanging upside down from their webs.
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17 The superhero who can’t fly
“Do you want to bet?”
After Eddie complains that Venom can’t fly, the symbiote suggests that he can. While the duo are later shown hanging off the side of a plane, this could also be a reference to Venom in the 2020s. king in black who grew his own dragon wings at the end of the crossover. Similarly, Venom also grew wings at the end of Insomniac. spider man 2 game. Perhaps the same could happen with live-action Venom when he ends up facing off against Knull.
16Rex Strickland
A symbiote host in the comics
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Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Rex Strickland in Venom: The last dance. While no bonding occurs in the film, the comics version of Rex did bond with a symbiote and served in Vietnam alongside Nick Fury and Wolverine, having been code-nicknamed “Tyrannosaurus” along with other symbiote-bonded soldiers.
15 Mulligan’s original symbiote left him for dead
Toxin, the offspring of Carnage
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Patrick Mulligan is saved from fatal injuries received at the end of Let there be slaughter thanks to Project Imperium and Doctor Teddy Payne. Upon bonding with a new symbiote, it is revealed that the original symbiote left Mulligan to die. Having come from Carnage, it can be assumed that this first symbiote was Toxin from the comics, Mulligan’s symbiote on the page.
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14 Null spiral
The classic symbol of the Symbiote God
As Mulligan and his new symbiote reveal the dangers of Knull to Rex, Payne, and Sadie Christmas, a sequence on Klyntar reveals the codex needed to free Knull from his prison. Likewise, you can see the classic Knull spiral, the same symbol when the King in Black corrupts the symbiotes in the comics.
13 All Black The Necrosword
Also exercised by Gorr, the butcher god.
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Knull, the Symbiote God, is also shown raising his enormous sword above his head. This is All-Black the Necrosword, a powerful sword created by Knull that was lost in the comics, only to be wielded by Gorr the God Butcher (who recently debuted in the MCU played by Christian Bale). As such, it would be very exciting if a similar connection was eventually made on screen and across universes.
12 Rhys Ifans’ Martin Has A Possible Lizard Nod
On the side of the family van
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While Rhys Ifans played Doctor Curt Conners, aka The Lizard, in previous Sony Marvel films, he instead plays Martin in Venom: The Last Dancean alien-believing hippie who takes his family to see Area 51 before it is completely dismantled. While there’s no apparent connection to Connors, there is a “lizard person” in Martin’s van (which is covered in alien paraphernalia), and it may be a subtle nod to Ifans’ past Marvel villain role.
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11 “Don’t say his name”
Not unlike Harry Potter’s Voldemort
When Eddie asks Venom about his creator, the symbiote struggles to say Knull’s name and shushes Eddie when he says it out loud. To that end, it feels very similar to harry potter and the wizarding world’s fear of saying Voldemort’s name.
10 The origins of the codex
during the first Poison Movie with riots
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Venom confirms that the codex was created when he revived Eddie in his first film after Brock was stabbed by Carlton Drake/Riot. Likewise, the codex also exists in the comics, a means of retaining all of a host’s memories and consciousness within the greater symbiote’s hive mind (even after death).
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9 poisonous horse
He exists in the comics too!
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Needing a quick way to cross the desert, Venom teams up with a horse. Humorously, “Venom Horse” recently made its debut in the comics before Venom: The Last Dance as a multiversal variant (and is remarkably quite eloquent and informative).
8 Eight symbiotes in Area 55
Agony, Lasher, Fago and more
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Eight symbiotes are revealed in Area 55, which were contained by Project Imperium after they landed on Earth. Once the first Xenophage breaks into the facility, the symbiotes break free and join nearby humans, aiding Venom and fighting the symbiote hunter to ensure Knull remains trapped on Klyntar. This notably includes Sadie Christmas, who becomes Lasher, a security guard named Jim who apparently bonds with Phage, as well as Mulligan and his snake-like other, who was the first symbiote to be devoured by Xenophage.
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Juno Temple’s Doctor Payne joins Agony near the end of the battle. Additionally, Teddy Payne’s name is likely derived from Marvel Comics’ Thaddeus Paine, a Venom and Moon Knight villain on the page. There is also a red symbiote with fire powers, a silver-white symbiote, and two symbiotes that fuse into one, forming a two-headed version with their hosts.
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7 The end is Knull
A possible slogan for The King in Black crossover
During the warning of Mulligan and his symbiotes, he says that “The end is Knull“. This was almost certainly a promotional slogan that appeared during the release of Marvel’s king in black crossover and its various related problems.
6 you would be a good dad
Referencing Dylan Brock?
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While hitchhiking with Martin and his family, Venom tells Eddie that he would be a good father. As such, this could be a possible nod to Venom/Eddie’s son Dylan in the comics, a Venom host who is also known as Codex in a future timeline. Currently, Dylan and Eddie are facing off over the Venom symbiote in the current Marvel project. poison war crossing.
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5 Thelma and Luisa
Fugitives on the run
When they enter a Las Vegas casino, Eddie and Venom refer to each other as Thelma and Louise. This is quite appropriate, and Eddie and Venom’s self-awareness is very on point considering the 1991s. Thelma and Luisa It’s a classic runaway buddy movie.