Why Spider-Verse 2 Can Fix Venom 3’s Villain Problem
Venom 3 has a villain problem now that it's been established that the Sony Spider-Man Universe is a distinctly different universe from the MCU, but Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse can help to fix this issue. Despite the critical failure and commercial underperformance of Morbius, Sony is pushing ahead with their Spider-Man Universe, and Venom 3 has now been formally announced. While Sony's villain movies are connected to the MCU multiverse, reusing a villain from previous Spider-Man/MCU movies could easily undermine and detract from Sony's universe-building.
One of the problems 2018's Venom and the 2021 sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage had was that the villains were essentially just twisted variations of Venom. Broadly speaking, there is little distinction between the symbiotes, especially in the action scenes, and having Venom go up against yet another symbiote in Venom 3 would likely feel repetitive and uninspired. Over the last two decades, Sony had worked its way through the A-list of Spider-Man's rogue's gallery. While there are still 60 years of comic history to draw from, Spider-Man's main villains such as Green Goblin, Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, and of course Venom himself are the ones that remain interesting in terms of character and abilities. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: No Way Home both used this to their advantage in telling a multiverse story with classic villains in different ways. However, to fix its villain problem, Venom 3 needs to forge closer ties to Spider-Verse 2 than the MCU.
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While Spider-Man: No Way Home successfully tapped into fan nostalgia for the classic villains seen in earlier
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