10 Comic Book Movies You Didn't Know Were Linked

4. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse & Venom Are Both Obsessed With A Chinese Messenger App

Venom's post-credits scene featured a sequence from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and beyond the two projects both being Sony movies, explicitly confirmed that they took place within the same "multiverse."

But there's one especially peculiar similarity between the two which dared to take this link one step further.

In Venom and Spider-Verse respectively, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) are shown to use the Chinese QQ instant messaging app on their phones.

This is a rather odd coincidence given that, in New York, who the hell uses QQ? The rub, inevitably, is that Venom was co-produced by Tencent Pictures, a subsidiary of Tencent, the Chinese conglomerate which owns and operates QQ.

It's not a huge leap to suggest that some QQ product placement dropped into Spider-Verse was solid compensation for the Spider-Verse post-credits scene being included in Venom.

But on a pure story level, the probability of two separate universes both using an esoteric (to Americans, at least) chat app are remote enough that we're left to consider whether Venom and Spider-Verse could somehow be taking place in the same reality, despite their stark visual styles.