Warning: Full spoilers follow for Venom: The Last Dance . The eternal irony of the Sony Marvel movies – a.k.
a. Sony's Spider-Man Universe – is that in a Hollywood where interconnected superhero worlds are a dominant force, the Spidey spin-offs that make up Sony’s slate really have very little to do with one another. And while most of those films have bigger problems beyond how they do or don’t connect to one another, in the case of the Venom trilogy – the, I suppose, crown jewel of the SSMU? – the lack of connective tissue to Spider-Man’s world has always been glaring.
The new and apparently final film in the Venom trilogy, Venom: The Last Dance , doubles-down on the “no Spider-Man” stance. And while there are many possible reasons why there’s never been a Tom Hardy/Tom Holland Venom/Spidey crossover – ranging from creative decisions to legal or contractual ones to maybe even the politics of the relationship between Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios and Sony – the funny thing is, the previous Venom movie and the previous Spider-Man movie each seemed to finally be setting up a connection between the two universes. But that set-up is just hand-waved away in The Last Dance as if to say, “Oh, you fans thought we were gearing up for something big? Nahhhh.
” 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage featured a post-credits scene where Hardy’s Eddie Brock/Venom was somehow seemingly transported to the MCU. Once there, the bonded pair see on TV that J. Jonah Jame.
