Venom: The Final Dance hit theaters in October 2024, however dialogue round Sony Footage’ Spider-Man spin-off reignited in late February 2025 after the film got here to Netflix.
What Occurred to Venom at the Finish of Venom: The Final Dance
Venom: The Final Dance launched a brand new idea with the Codex, which is created when a symbiote resurrects its host. As Venom introduced Eddie Brock again to life within the authentic 2018 film’s climax, he subsequently holds a Codex.
In phrases of why the Codex is so essential, that comes again to Knull, the king of the symbiote who had been trapped in an everlasting jail. A Codex presents the important thing to that jail, which might free Knull and permit him to unleash darkness upon actuality.
The Codex can solely be destroyed when the symbiote or host dies as their life forces are intertwined, that means Eddie or Venom should die to cease Knull.
All through The Final Dance, the Xenophages are searching Venom and Eddie within the hopes of liberating Knull, which in the end brings concerning the symbiote’s loss of life. In a showdown happening at Space 51, Venom realizes the Xenophages are “simply going to maintain coming,” and the Codex must be destroyed.
Finally, Venom makes the sacrifice to avoid wasting Eddie, absorbing the remaining Xenophages and sitting beneath an acid bathe, killing him with it.
The Final Dance‘s put up-credit score scene indicated a part of Venom could have survived as a black symbiote-bonded cockroach crawled via Space 51 wasteland. However this is not the one Venom goo crawling across the Multiverse, as a slither of him was left within the MCU after Spider-Man: No Manner House.
Learn extra about Venom: The Final Dance‘s ending and put up-credit score scene, together with what that may imply for the way forward for the MCU.
Is Venom Actually Useless After ‘Venom 3?’
Whereas shutting down rumors of a Spider-Man cameo, Tom Hardy acknowledged Venom 3 is the “final film” of the saga. As such, a fourth Venom film appears unlikely to occur, particularly given The Final Dance was the bottom-grossing but, regardless of bringing in a good $474.5 million worldwide.
Moreover, Sony seems to be hitting pause on its Spider-Man spin-off universe as reviews said Kraven the Hunter marked the tip of the franchise. Whereas Venom might definitely be an exception to that rule given the trilogy’s strong field workplace outcomes, there isn’t a indication of a sequel taking place anytime quickly.
However there’s each motive to suppose Venom can be again, as The Final Dance left the dangling thread of Knull coming to engulf the world in darkness. There have been rumors the symbiote king would return as Spider-Man 4‘s villain, probably uniting Tom Holland’s Peter Parker with Hardy’s Eddie Brock.
For now, the story of Eddie Brock and his symbiote companion seems to be over, however there are definitely sufficient dangling threads to choose it again up later. It is robust to think about the struggle with Knull being fought with out the assistance of Brock and Venom, so each time that comes about, he might be again.
There’s additionally the matter of the chunk of Venom that went crawling via the MCU after Spider-Man: No Manner House. In the future, that black goo will inevitably attain Peter Parker to start the long-lasting black swimsuit storyline, and maybe when it does, Hardy might proceed giving a voice to the symbiote.
Venom: The Final Dance is streaming now on Netflix.
