7 Ways Venom Could Join The MCU

Seriously - who DOESN'T want to see a team-up with Spider-Man?

by Ewan Paterson
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Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters (or SUMC, for short - we think), got off to a weird start this week with the release of Venom, a Ruben Fleischer helmed project with Tom Hardy in the role of the eponymous protagonist/anti-hero, Eddie Brock.

Fairing poorly with critics but almost certain to make a splash at the box office, Venom is set to herald a new beginning for the studio's relationship with Spider-Man. A veritable mish-mash of unnecessary spin-offs have already been announced, including a nauseating Morbius project fronted by Jared Leto, but there may be scope for Sony to integrate with their Disney counterpart, Marvel Studios.

Prior to Venom's release, Sony did their best to capitalise on the buzz surrounding the Marvel Cinematic Universe by claiming that Venom existed "in the same reality" as it. It was a tenuous statement, and tacit repudiations by Kevin Feige - together with a lack of references to the wider MCU in Venom - seemingly rubbish those comments.

However, the door has been left open for Brock's salivating symbiote to enter the MCU, should Marvel prove willing to cooperate. There's a lot to like about the new film, and with fans enthused by the prospect of Toms Holland and Hardy linking up as Spidey and Venom respectively, it makes sense to look at the ways the character could enter the MCU.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.