SPIDER-MAN 4: NEW HOME – FIRST TRAILER | Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire | Marvel Studios & Sony Pictures

As the MCU expands, and as it explores its multiverse deeper and deeper, it connects more with other Marvel universes, such as Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, where characters like Morbius (Jared Leto) and Venom/Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) live. The mid-credits scene in No Way Home served as a continuation of the one in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, in which Venom and Eddie were transported to the MCU and saw J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) talking about Spider-Man’s recently revealed identity on TV.

The scene in No Way Home saw Eddie trying to understand the MCU’s mainstream timeline and its many superheroes before Strange’s spell took him and Venom back to their timeline – however, the symbiote left a piece of itself in the MCU, making it possible for Spider-Man and Venom to finally meet in the near future. Spider-Man 4, then, is not only a chance for Spider-Man and Venom to cross paths but also for the MCU to fix Marvel’s past mistakes with Venom.

The symbiote made its big screen debut in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, but it failed to connect with the audience, and while the tease at the end of No Way Home was exciting, it didn’t do much good to Hardy’s Eddie Brock. Spider-Man 4 can make up for Raimi’s past mistakes while Sony continues to do its thing with the “main” Venom and the MCU builds its own story with the symbiote left by Venom and explores its dynamic with the current Spider-Man.