Could Venom be part of Marc Webb Universe?

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20 Feb 2019, 10:27 am

We know that Venom isn’t part of the MCU (as far as we know) and clearly not the universe of the Sam Raimi trilogy as that universe already has it’s own Venom/Eddie Brock but has anyone ever thought that maybe the Venom movie could be canon to the Marc Webb Spider-Man movies The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2? True there isn’t really anything to say there is but not really much to say there isn’t. You could say the same for the MCU but that’s a much bigger expanded universe with major events that have happened that can’t really be ignored whereas the Webb Universe only has two movies. I know that Venom is suppose to be the first in a line of Sony Marvel Movies that are connected along with the upcoming Morbius with Jared Leto but it might be cool to establish an already existing or perhaps I should say existed Spider-Man instead of casting another one. Of course they could still get Tom Holland’s Spider-Man to crossover somehow like say dimension travel like what they did in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.



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20 Feb 2019, 11:14 am

tb86 wrote:
Could Venom be part of Marc Webb Universe?
No.

From the Wikipedia article:
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The original idea of a new costume for Spider-Man that would later become the character Venom was conceived by a Marvel Comics reader from Norridge, Illinois named Randy Schueller. In 1982, Jim Shooter, Marvel's editor-in-chief at the time, sent Schueller a letter acknowledging Marvel's interest in the idea, which they ended up purchasing from him for $220. Shooter came up with the idea of switching Spider-Man to a black-and-white costume, possibly influenced by the intended costume design for the new Spider-Woman; artist Mike Zeck designed it.

Writer/artist John Byrne says on his website that he conceived a costume of self-healing biological material when he was the artist on Iron Fist -- to explain how that character's costume was constantly being torn and then apparently repaired by the next issue. Byrne says explaining that he ended up not using the idea on that title, but that Roger Stern later asked him if he could use the idea for Spider-Man's alien costume. Stern in turn plotted the issue in which the costume first appeared but then left the title. It was writer Tom DeFalco and artist Ron Frenz who established that the costume was a sentient alien being that was vulnerable to high sonic energy during their run on The Amazing Spider-Man that preceded Michelinie's.

The Symbiote was first introduced as Spider-man's new black costume in The Amazing Spider-Man #252 (May 1984) as part of a story called "Homecoming!" The story takes place after Spider-Man's return from the events of the miniseries Secret Wars, where he first obtains the black costume. The full first appearance of Venom is in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988), after the Symbiote bonds with Eddie Brock.