This new link between the symbiotes, the Guardians and now Asgard is going to take months to unpack, but it's a premise with undoubted promise. A Guardians and Thor team-up film could easily work wonders with the symbiotes as its focus, but even without a team up, Marvel could seed a coming together in each series' solo features as well.
Further still, if it turns out that Sony's Venom movie isn't connected to the MCU, then it allows them to offer their own take on the Symbiotes. Even if it does, a quick retcon that establishes that they're alien in origin would be easy enough to convey, and would provide a suitable connection between three of the franchise's principle series (those being Thor, Guardians and Spider-Man).
And though countless other villains have been mooted to take a starring role after Thanos, including the likes of Annihilus and Galactus, this most recent addition to the Marvel Universe possesses boundless onscreen potential. Have Knull be the focal point of a future phase, introducing the symbiotes in each solo film, and there's no doubt he could fit the Thanos-style role currently occupied by Josh Brolin somewhere down the line.
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.
