Agent Venom was really where Marvel started to have fun with the Venom mythos, and though the wearer of the symbiote during this period was none other than Flash Thompson, it would be just as easy to substitute Flash for Eddie.
For those not familiar with the Agent Venom storyline, it basically involves Flash Thompson - an amputee and veteran of the War on Terror - as he's given the chance to serve his country with the aid of the symbiote, who the US government had recently acquired. From there on in, Thompson completes off-the-books wetwork for the US Army, before eventually heading to space to link up with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
For the MCU, it would be easy for Marvel to not only substitute Flash for Eddie, but to switch the 'government' for Nick Fury's new operation. Considering we've never really seen Fury link up with the symbiote before, on top of the fact Samuel L. Jackson's character is experiencing something of a resurgence as of late, and it seems like a no brainer to have the two properties interlink - especially now that Peter Parker is hanging around with the Colonel and his confidant, Maria Hill.
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.
