No Way Home Is A Huge Disservice To Tom Hardy’s Venom
The Spider-Man: No Way Home Venom appearance in the brief mid-credits scene is a huge disservice, and it's not the way fans wanted Tom Hardy's Venom in the MCU. No Way Home followed Peter Parker (Tom Holland) as he dealt with the aftermath of his identity being revealed to the world by Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal). Peter enlisted the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), which escalated the situation to a multiversal crisis. Unfortunately, after such a big buildup, Tom Hardy's Venom was an afterthought in the mid-credits scene.
The multiverse element of No Way Home's plot allowed for the inclusion of five villains from past Spider-Man franchises, not to mention the previous Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. What Marvel Studios and Sony put together in No Way Home is the closest they have come to adapting the Sinister Six on the big screen. With the help of Maguire and Garfield's Spider-Men, the MCU's Spider-Man was able to cure Green Goblin (Willam Dafoe), Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina), Electro (Jamie Foxx), Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), and the Lizard (Rhys Ifans) and ultimately send them back to their respective universes. Venom's absence from this roster was anticlimactic, especially after the post-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnageteased a Venom versus Spider-Man fight in the MCU. The Tom Hardy No Way Home post-credits cameo left a lot of viewers who were hoping to see Venom interact with Tom Holland's Spider-Man disappointed. It felt as though Venom's presence in the film was only meant to serve a specific purpose, which further cheapens the antihero's appearance.
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