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Before you know it, Eddie and Venom are in another dimension with the television on. It was an especially nice touch to allow us to slowly realize this by seeing on the TV J.K. Simmons’ J. Jonah Jameson from the similar internet breaking post-credits scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home. Indeed, Simmons’ Jonah is plainly bald and without the flattop he sported in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, and his “news” show looks like a fictional version of real-life greasy conspiracy theorists’ social media rants. If you recall, earlier in Venom 2, Eddie read a newspaper article about Cletus Kasady in a more respectable looking version of The Daily Bugle. In Eddie’s world, it’s a real newspaper and not Info Wars: Superhero Edition.

But the real kicker came when Jonah revealed an image of Tom Holland, unmasked as Spider-Man and in public. Venom instantly takes a liking to the kid, licking the screen with a teenager on it in a way that’s more disturbing than Sony Pictures likely intended!

The revelation is a game changer for both the Venom franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There’s of course the obvious implication that we’re finally going to get a Spider-Man versus Venom film. Well, another one after the less than fondly remembered Spider-Man 3 back in 2007. Venom’s in the MCU, at last!

But if you dig further, there’s the question of how Venom got in the MCU and what that might mean for Spider-Man: No Way Home and beyond. We’re led to believe that the Venom symbiote willed itself and Eddie Brock into the MCU’s strain of the multiverse with its unexplained ancient power. However, the symbiote seemed as surprised as Eddie about their new digs in that hotel room.

Admittedly, Venom: Let There Be Carnage introduced a lot of inexplicable symbiote “powers,” including the ability to hack the entire internet in an instant by inserting itself into laptops and summoning indoor tornadoes as if it were the Wicked Witch of the West. Those powers, as well as being able to jump between dimensions at will, are not in the comics, our Venom scholar has assured me.

But what if the symbiote’s little magic trick for Eddie was not to take them to another random dimension? What if this was coincidentally caused by something else at the exact same moment like, say, Peter Parker screwing up Doctor Strange’s enchantment, as seen in the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer? That seems plausible enough, especially when you realize the JJJ broadcast in the post-credits scene is not the same one in Far From Home. Indeed, when JJJ broke news about Spidey’s identity, it was an open question whether Peter could deny the accusations. Now JJJ has a photo of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker unmasked and in the Spidey costume. Some stuff clearly went down between Far From Home’s post-credits scene and the one in Let There Be Carnage.

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