Venom Trailer 2 Breakdown: 11 Things You Need To See
5. Another Lethal Protector?
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As has already been mentioned, Venom won't be the only symbiote to star in his own movie. Ahmed's Carlton Drake will become Riot at some point in the film, and those other symbiotes present at the start of the trailer confirm that at least two more are set to star as well.
With Eddie Brock, Drake, and the long-haired man at the start of the trailer all suiting up at one point or another, that leaves at least a few more symbiotes unaccounted for. Fortunately for us, when the trailer switches focus to a Chinatown setting we can see another character using a symbiote. Which one is still unclear, but they're able to fashion their arms into blades and unleash a barrage of spikes later on too.
Is it possible that this particular symbiote is Agony? Perhaps - though it's important to mention that the character sported a purple symbiote in the comics, and not the metallic, black/grey one shown off in the brief appearance made by the paramedic midway through the trailer.
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.
