Spider-Man archvillain Venom made it into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the mid-credits scenes ending 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home, but that’s as close as Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) ever got to Peter Parker (Tom Holland). The Sony-produced Venom sequel set up a quasi-crossover between Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and the Marvel Cinematic Universe when Eddie and his symbiote other half were magically transported from one cinematic universe to the other, where the alien, through a multiversal hivemind, recognized an unmasked Spider-Man. Eddie did appear, albeit briefly, in Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, which revealed he was at a bar in Mexico trying to understand the MCU (Iron Man? Hulk? A purple alien that loves stones?) during the events of the film, where a spell cast by the sorcerer Doctor Strange pulled multiversal Spider-Man villains from across the Spider-Verse into one reality.
And just as soon as he appeared, Eddie disappeared when he was returned to his home universe (as seen in Venom: The Last Dance), leaving a small piece of the Venom symbiote behind. RELATED: Spider-Man 4, Spider-Verse, and Slashers: What You Should (And Shouldn’t) Expect From Sony’s CinemaCon 2025 PanelAs it turns out, there were plans for more of a crossover between Sony’s SSU and Disney’s MCU with Hardy’s Venom and Holland’s Spider-Man. “We got close,” Hardy told The Discourse Podcast.
“We got as close as I could possi.
