After the pair broke up and got back together over the course of the Venom sequel, they decided to celebrate their renewed vows of affection by going on a bit of a honeymoon to a nondescript tropical paradise. But while Venom was attempting to teach Eddie one of the mysterious and ancient secrets of his symbiote culture in the stars, the pair become equally mystified as they’re teleported from their shabby hotel room at night into a much nicer suite during the early morning. Stranger still is the fact that they’re now in a universe where puny kids named Peter Parker are all over the television, because it’s just been revealed that they’re something called a “Spider-Man.”
At the time, it seemed pretty clear that Venom was teleported to the MCU by the same magical spell effect we saw Doctor Strange casting in trailers with the hope of making everyone forget that Peter is Spidey. Spider-Man: No Way Home confirms this with the same Venom 2 effects being used at the end of the movie to send villains like the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) and Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) away.
Hence why the post-credits scene of No Way Home is the surprise reminder that, yes, Venom really is in the MCU. And he’s apparently spent that entire time getting drunk at a tiki bar at the same hotel we left him. While sitting at said bar, Eddie is in total lush mode as he tries to wrap his head around the idea of the “Blip,” which caused half of all existence to vanish for five years. The Venom symbiote is also skeptical.
“Aliens don’t care about stones” he whines. One assumes he will next say that aliens only care about eating brains, but the lovebirds are interrupted when the same magical effect which sent the Maguire and Garfield era villains home now sends Venom back to that hellhole from whence he came. And yet, almost like a threat to the quality control Kevin Feige exerts over the MCU, one sliver of symbiote got left behind… and it starts crawling off the bar, presumably in search of Tom Holland and a Spidey sequel. Poor kid.
How this all works is, of course, nonsense. The reason villains like Doc Ock and the Lizard (Rhys Ifans) showed up in the MCU is because Peter foolishly said mid-spell that “basically everyone who knew I was Spider-Man before” should still know. That apparently summoned everyone who’s ever known Peter is Spidey from across the infinity of the multiverse.
But Venom never knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Hell, he still couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of a Peter Parker or a Spider-Man. So why is he in the MCU? (By the by, Jamie Foxx’s Electro shouldn’t have been in the movie for the same reason.) All that’s swept under the rug because the whole point of this scene is for Sony to continue threatening their Hardy/Holland crossover.
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