Venom: The Last Dance spoilers: Post-credits scenes, ending unwrapped

Spoiler! We discuss important plot points and the ending”Venom: The Last Dance” (in theaters now), so beware if you haven’t seen it yet.

Many fans who went to see the latter The movie “Venom”. probably hoped for the appearance of Spider-Man. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, although moviegoers can say goodbye to an important character and say hello to a new space supervillain.

“Venom: The Last Dance” seemingly completed the superhero trilogy that starred Tom Hardy as both Eddie Brock and the main alien symbiote associated with him, the fan-favorite Marvel comic book villain Spider-Man who became the cinematic “deadly defender “. The new film finds Eddie and Venom on a trip as friends to New York to escape the authorities – as Eddie is wanted for murder – as well as the snarling space beasts sent by Venom’s creator, the evil Knull (played by motion-capture Andy Serkis). The long-haired blond and cruel symbiote god Null is locked away on an alien planet, and Eddie and Venom’s bond is the literal key that keeps him from escaping and unleashing a wave of destruction.

Let’s delve into the bittersweet ending, a couple of post-credits scenes, and the possibility that this really is Eddie and Venom’s last dance.

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What happens in the finale of Venom: The Last Dance?

En route from the Bay Area to the Big Apple and after a wild stop in Las Vegas, Eddie and Venom end up at Area 51, where the government houses and studies other alien symbiotes. Knull’s vicious creatures battle Venom and the symbiotes (who find human hosts among the rando scientists around), and Venom eventually sacrifices himself to save the day. He breaks away from Eddie and creates a web around the vicious beasts, allowing soldier Rex Strickland (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to douse Ven with a liquid that dissolves the creatures as well as our alien hero. (But not before he shares one last moment with Eddie.)

Eddie is pardoned by the government and finally makes it to New York, where he visits the Statue of Liberty, a landmark that Venom has been dying to visit. “I won’t forget you, my friend,” he says.

Is there a post-credits scene in the new Venom movie?

In fact, there are two of them – one significant, the other mysterious. After the first wave of credits, we see an additional scene with Knull in close-up for a villainous speech. “The King in Black has awakened,” he says, referring to the Marvel Comics storyline in which Knull looks down on Earth. “I will kill your world. Everyone will burn, and you will watch.” He’s not targeting anyone in particular, but considering he’s a Thanos-level threat in the comics, it’s probably not great for the universe as a whole.

Another extra scene at the very end after the end credits. It shows a cave in the desert, from which emerges a confused bartender played by Cristo Fernandez (from “Ted Lasso”), whom Eddie and Venom spoke to when they spent some time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Greetings?!” he shouts across a long strip of nothing, starting to walk. The camera zooms in on a nearby cockroach running past a broken test tube, and it looks a lot like the one squashed by scientist Teddy Payne (played by Juno Temple), who released the symbiote and turned her into a venomous speedster.

So what does it all mean? It is not clear. The area reminds Emptinessa purgatory that exists between different universes as seen in Loki and more recently Deadpool and Wolverine. This could be a sign that the symbiotes will play a role in future films, the bartender could be getting a new alien friend, or while Venom may be gone, the symbiote that is now Teddy is still alive.

Have we seen the last of Tom Hardy’s Venom?

Considering all this Knull, probably not. The post-credits scenes in the Sony Marvel movies didn’t lead to much – and given the bad feelings for both “Morbius” and “Madame Web”, probably won’t in the long run. But playing the Knull card means that someone in some universe has plans for him, and if he’s around, the symbiotes will come after him.

Moviegoers could see the return of Venom (and Knull) in the next Spider-Man movie, which will begin filming next summer with Tom Holland as the young, web-slinging hero. (The concept behind the film — directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, slated for release on July 24, 2026 — is “crazy,” Holland reports.) Maybe Eddie meets Peter Parker in New York, Venom somehow comes together, and the dynamic duo becomes an awesome threesome.