Spider-Man is arguably the most popular superhero in the world, and everyone wants a piece of the web crawler, from Sony to Disney. The battle over the rights to the character between the two studios has left Spidey’s onscreen fate somewhat uncertain. But that won’t stop us from dreaming of what could be. Like an epicVenom 3mashup of Venom, Spider-Man, and Carnage, as imagined in this awesome fan poster uploaded by ultraraw26 on Instagram.
The poster features a giant Venom, his gaping maw split wide open in his classic pose looking to devour his next victim as copious amounts of drool spill out from behind his razor-sharp teeth. From his mouth emerges Venom’s child/offspring Carnage in a manner reminiscent of the alien from theAlienfranchise. Finally,Spider-Man, decked out in his black Spider suit, can be seen swinging out of danger away from the two symbiotes.
It is a small taste of what could be if plans for theSpider-Manfranchise under Sony are not derailed. Initially, when Spidey was still in the MCU, Sony decided tokickstart their own Spider-Man cinematic universe, without having Spider-Man in it. To that end, they madeVenomwith Tom Hardy. Despite getting mixed reviews, the movie was a massive success at the box-office.
This encouraged Sony to come up with more standalone movies aboutside characters from Spider-Man’s mythology. Apart fromVenom 2introducing Carnage, theMorbiusmovie with Jared Leto is ready for release, and additional films based on Black Cat and Kraven the Hunter are planned.
Then came the news thatSpider-Manwas back under Sony’s umbrella, and would be continuing his adventures outside the MCU. The door was suddenly wide open for aSpider-Man/Venom crossover, which is said to take place in the thirdVenommovie, hence the title of the poster.
The question now is, how will the studio change the backstory for the two characters to bring them together? In the comics, the origin of the Venom symbiote is inextricably linked to Spidey. Peter Parker is the first human the symbiote attaches itself to, and thus Venom’s powers are developed as a copy of Spider-Man’s.
In the movie, this backstory was changed, and Venom’s spider-like powers were downplayed, while the symbiote went directly to Eddie Brock as its host, unlike the comics, where Brock and Parker were colleagues and frenemies, and Brock came into contact with the symbiote because of Peter.
With the trailer forMorbius, Sony has already started hinting at the existence of Spider-Man in Venom and Morbius’s world, through a poster depicting the superhero in one shot, and the introduction of Adrian Toomes aka The Vulture fromSpider-Man: Homecoming, played by Michael Keaton.
So the stage is very much set for the epic crossover imagined in the fan poster, which will be like seeing Batman squaring off against the Joker for Marvel fans. We can only hope some fresh legal problem doesn’t hit the budding Spidey cinematic universe to once again throw the studio’s plans into disarray.
