The author really did not expect that "Venom 2 Massacre Begins" would be so bad! The whole film is like staying up late to watch the boring ball, the two sides shot so many times, and finally it was a draw. In addition to the Venom and Massacre Showdown at the end of the film, the most exciting thing about "Venom 2" is indeed the final Easter egg, but the author did not expect that this Easter egg is actually related to the multiverse!
Before talking about Easter eggs, let's talk about the plot of Venom 2. The plot of this movie is fairly simple. The general idea is that Tom Hardy continues to play Eddie Bullock and Venom, whose identities have not yet been revealed after the last film's great war.
But because Eddie wrote a report, he suddenly became a well-known journalist, so he joined Marvel's largest print media", the "Horn Newspaper". That's why Eddie interviewed Kletus Cassadi, played by Woody Harrison, the host of the future symbiote slaughter.
With Venom's super memory ability, Eddie found the burial place of Klatus's serial killer, and finally let the court successfully sentence him to death.
Then Eddie was inexplicably lost in love, because he was in a bad mood, the second time he went to see Kletus in prison, he and Venom ran out with Venom, Kletus took the opportunity to bite Eddie, and the massacre began. In order to rescue his girlfriend Anne Weiying, Klatus killed her along the way.
Unlike in the comics, Scream Annie is a mutant whose ability is to spray ultrasound with her mouth, which happens to be one of the biggest weaknesses of the symbiont.
In short, the massacre obviously did not go well with screaming, and it tried many times to cross Kletus to kill screams. This move eventually forces Kletus and Scream to join forces with Eddie and Venom, eventually killing the massacre.
After the decisive battle, screaming and dying, the massacre was swallowed up by venom, and Kletus was seriously injured, and finally the venom directly chewed off his head. After that, Eddie and Venom's identities are exposed, and they flee to Mexico together and hide.
After that, it's the Easter egg at the end of the film. Venom told Eddie that it had a history of eight billion years in the universe, just showed Eddie, a burst of white light, the decoration of the room changed significantly, the TV reported the Dutch brother's version of the spider, the identity of the "Horn Daily" debunked the news, obviously traveled to another universe.
The plot of "Venom 2" is quite dragonfly, but it is a pity that several actors perform hard, and many stories are not clear. For example, screaming is set up as a mutant, and this detail is very confusing. The origin story of Klatus in the film has been greatly downplayed, and there are many differences from the comics.
Limited by space, the author will not list in detail, only to mention that the film mentions that Kletus is not a mental illness, but he was physically and mentally abused in his childhood, which did make him have psychological problems.
The depictions of Kletus's childhood killings and psychological depictions in the comics are far darker than in the movies. Remember what Klatus mentions in the film that he often beat his father? In the comics, Kletus' last adoptive father before he is sent to the juvenile detention center is actually one of the few people in the story who is kind to him.
But how did Kletus do it? When he almost succeeded in killing his mother, his mother resisted and took a knife and pointed it at Kletus. At this time, the stepfather, who was a carpenter, happened to enter the door, but mistakenly thought that his wife was going to kill his son with a psychosis, so he smashed his wife to death with a hammer in his hand. Then the police arrived and asked Kletus what was going on. Kletus said it was his father who killed his mother for no reason.
Interestingly, when Klatus became an adult, he was not very proud when he talked about how his father was sentenced to life imprisonment for him. Maybe it was because he didn't like it, the case he had committed was recorded in someone else's name, or maybe there was indeed a trace of humanity in his heart. Unfortunately, the film's writers didn't adopt any of the details of the comics' side-writings of Kletus's humanity. On the contrary, in the Marvel drama "Hawkeye", a graffiti in the toilet resonated with the audience.
Next, I will tell you more about the Easter egg of "Venom 2"! As mentioned earlier, the author really didn't expect that Eddie and Venom would become the first characters of the MCU to officially begin the multiverse. However, in the comics of the Ultimate Universe, it is mentioned that symbiotes have a purpose, that is, to protect organisms through the multiverse. So they may have been taken along to the MCU's 19999 universe.
After Eddie and Venom crossed, the first thing they saw was the news that the spider's identity was exposed. According to this judgment, the main plot of "Venom 2" should be parallel to the Marvel drama "Hawkeye", and the Easter egg after the crossing means that Eddie and others came to the time when "Spider-Man 3 Heroes No Return" occurred. Earlier rumors suggested that Eddie and Venom might be directly involved in spider-man's New York melee. Soon Marvel debunked rumors that they were at best Easter eggs for Heroes Of No Return. Spider-Man vs. Venom, the fastest can only be in Venom 3.
Also, is Massacre a one-time villain? In fact, it is not certain at present. In the comics, Kletus tore it up several times, and was eventually reborn as a result of the massacre. The regenerative power of the symbiote is evident in Venom 1.
In the second part, Kletus was born with just a drop of Eddie's blood, so after Venom swallowed the slaughter at the end of the film and chewed off Klatus's head, it doesn't mean that the two villains must be dead.
In the comics, in addition to the symbiote dropping on humans, which may produce new symbiotes, symbiotes can also give birth to new symbiotes by combining with temporary hosts. There is indeed a new symbiote in Venom 2, and that is Cop Patrick Mulligan, played by Stephen Graham.
In the comics, Patrick is involved in the Venom and Massacre Wars, accidentally producing a new symbiote, the toxin known as the strongest symbiosis. It is reported that it is very likely that this character will reappear in Venom 3.
Also don't forget that in "Venom 2", after Venom and Eddie quarreled and left, they changed back and forth with several hosts, so it is not excluded that when Eddie returns to his universe in the future, he finds that there have been many new symbiotes, and eventually triggers the symbiote war on his earth. So Eddie had to cross again, asking Spider and other heroes of the 19999 universe to help.
Another point, as early as watching "Venom 1", I believe that many viewers, like the author, are very curious about the earth where Eddie and Venom are located, is there any other superhero? After repeated research, in addition to finding Stan Lee's grandfather, everyone really did not find the shadow of other heroes.
In today's "Venom 2", there are a few lines that seem to make it clear that there should be no other heroes in their universe, not even S.H.I.E.L.D., otherwise Eddie and Venom should not be able to hide their identities all the time.
In the few movies after Marvel, some traces of meaning can also be found. First of all, in the Easter egg of Venom 2, the god of symbiotes, Nar, is explicitly mentioned. This evil god, who was born earlier than the Marvel Universe, has the strength to fight against the Celestial God Group, and he has a Black Death Sword, which is the original symbiote.
In the future "Thor 4 Love and Thunder" movie, the villain Gel of the god killer in the film is played by Christian Bell, and Gel's ability is from the Black Death Sword.
Don't forget, there's also the Guardians of the Galaxy in Thor 4, a squad that has dealt with Venom for years. In Doctor Strange 2, which is currently being remade on a massive scale, it is also likely that there will be clues to the symbiote battle. In this film, it is determined that the little spider will appear, and there should be an Easter egg from Venom 3. All of these connections add up to the long-standing "little spider universe."
Not long ago, Marvel suddenly admitted to the media that they were considering letting the Dutch brother play the little spider, like Robert Downey Jr., become a brother of the MCU and surround him to shoot a series of big events.
Combined with the above clues, marvel is quite likely to shoot symbiotes about big events, and it is also possible to show the grandeur of the full symbiosis on the big screen! Of course, they will not just let the spiders and venom fight alone, in addition to other parallel universe Spider-Man, as well as various heroes, slaughter and toxins are likely to return. After all, as a second- and third-generation mutant symbiote, slaughter and toxins have innate resistance to Nar's mental control.
However, if the story of the multiverse is not well filmed, Marvel might as well restart it directly! The quality of Marvel movies has declined significantly in recent years, and the enthusiasm of fans is naturally not as good as it was then. In summary, Marvel is really in urgent need of a new batch of blockbuster stories right now! Maybe starting from scratch would be a good choice.