The post-credits scene of Venom: The Last Dance is all about the future
The third film in Sony and Tom Hardy’s Venom trilogy has hit theaters, but it’s not really clear what’s next for the series. Like most superhero movies these days, Venom: The Last Dance doesn’t explicitly answer that question in its initial run – it’s set up to conclude the trilogy that started with 2018’s Poison. But no one ever dies permanently in comics, and it’s rare for a film franchise to definitively rule out the possibility of a sequel. Scroll through the credits and you might find a few clues about the future.
To make sure you don’t miss any important details, here’s everything you need to know Venom: The Last Dance‘s post-credits scenes, including how many there are and how long you’ll have to wait to see them.
Does Venom: The Last Dance have a post-credits scene?
It has both a mid-credits scene and an end-credits stinger, which is quite long. But if you want a little hint at what’s going on with the future of the Venom universe, you’ll have to stick around until the bitter end.
(Ed. remark: The rest of this post contains spoilers for Venom: The Last Dance.)
What happens in the post-credit scenes of Venom: The Last Dance?
The first of the credits scenes gives us the best look yet at Knull (Andy Serkis), the universe-threatening villain who was barely seen in this film. He sat in a chair and hung his head throughout the film, but for this scene he finally looks at the camera and reveals his face. (He looks angry.) He also says something about how the King in Black is now awake and there is no one left to protect the universe, seemingly implying that Venom’s death will somehow take him out of his will set you free from eternal prison.
That’s a weird way to play the ending, since Venom sacrificed himself specifically to prevent Knull from being released, and it’s assumed that there’s now no Codex for him to use as a key. It’s really just a bit of grandeur. It’s also annoying that Knull talks about the King in Black like he’s a new character or threat – unless something has been rewritten, Knull is the King in Black, and he just talks about himself in the third person and is grandiose .
The later post-credits scene, which seems more important to the future of the Venom franchise, shows the bartender from the beginning of the film escaping the wreckage of Area 51, and a cockroach scurrying toward a broken bottle. That bottle once contained a small copy of Venom, which General Strickland (Chiwetel Ejiofor) collected from that bar at the beginning of the film.
While the scene ends before anything else happens, the clear implication is that our favorite symbiote has left a piece of itself behind and is about to get the first in a series of new animal hosts that it can use to get back to its best friend Eddie. and that he is not as dead as the ending of the film suggested. Whether this means Venom and Eddie will ultimately get the cinematic reunion they deserve remains to be seen, and likely depends on whether Tom Hardy is up for more Venom adventures.
If not, the film also offers the possibility of a spin-off starring another symbiote. Dr. Paine (Juno Temple) and her new pink alien friend seem to have formed the symbiote pair Agony. And while The last dance doesn’t do much to make an Agony film seem like an interesting project, it’s in line with Sony’s Mrs. Webanother Spider-Man vehicle with peripheral characters that has set up sequels that no one seems to want.