Whether it's actually for Venom 2 or something approaching a full-scale Maximum Carnage event remains to be seen.It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t that long ago when science fiction was considered niche – even being really into Star Wars was thought of as high-order nerdery.

While there are no hints of how Kasady would be infected - in the comics he's taken by a Venom seed while Eddie is also in prison, something that's likely going to be altered in light of the movie status quo (and Riot having many of Carnage's classic abilities) - this nevertheless establishes him as a major threat. Kasady is best known by his symbiotic alter ego, a more dangerous offspring of Venom turned into an unstoppable killer thanks to the murderer's already fractured psyche.

The meaning of this is incredibly simple: Carnage is coming. Read More: Venom's Post-Credits Scenes Explained Played by Woody Harrelson, this Annie-mopped psychopath has requested an interview with the once-again-successful reporter, declaring that once he's out there will be 'carnage'. This sees Eddie visit San Quentin State Prison to interview serial killer Cletus Kasady. This ethos was carried through into Venom's solo comic, with Lethal Protector - the first six-issue arc - establishing Eddie and Venom as a darker hero for San Francisco.īut She-Venom isn't the only symbiote host to expect in Venom 2, as teased in the mid-credits scene.

Indeed, at the end of the first Eddie Brock Venom arc in Spider-Man comics, he reached a deal with the wall-crawler to not kill anyone. Venom is best known as a Spider-Man villain, first his parasitic Secret Wars suit and later possessing Peter Parker's work rival, but that's all over 25 years old, in which time a lot has changed around the symbiote and its mythology. This may seem a rather odd endpoint given Venom is typically a villain even with the marketing drawing attention to this being an anti-hero film, this is a rather goody-two-shoes resolution. In reality, though, it's incredibly fitting. They're going to co-exist, working together to take down bad people - like the goon who robs Eddie's local minimart - shown best in the proclamation, ' We are Venom'. At the end of Venom, the central duo reaches a new status quo.

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