Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Venom: The Last Dance contains examples of:

Adaptation Dye-Job: A Russian trailer reveals what is strongly implied to be Toxin, whose symbiote is colored a sickly green in contrast to its coloration in the comics—which is usually red and black, or sometimes red and blue.
Alien Invasion: In the trailer, Venom confirms that his species has found Earth as fireballs rain from the sky and symbiote monsters attack.
All There in the Manual: While they go unnamed in the trailer itself, the subtitles reveal that the blonde scientist played by Juno Temple is named Dr. Payne, and the line "As long as Venom lives, everyone... everything... will end." is spoken by the Toxin symbiote.
Aspect Ratio Switch: The IMAX version will have the aspect ratio opened up to 1.90:1 for several scenes in the movie.
Big Bad Ensemble: The final trailer reveals that the US military is attempting to capture the symbiotes to study and weaponize them, while Knull has sent one of his pets to hunt them down as well—Venom in particular having something he wants.
Catchphrase Interruptus: In the trailer, Eddie and Venom have some trouble with the timing when they announce "we are Venom" (despite nailing it at the end of the first movie).
Celebrity Paradox: Eddie bringing up Tom Cruise from Mission Impossible immediately leads to several across Marvel in general, like Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Ving Rhames (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) and Henry Cavill ().
Composite Character: The monster chasing after Eddie has the appearance of a Xenophage, but its origin story is closer to the Grendel — being a colossal symbiote-monster created by Knull to hunt down rogue symbiotes.
Continuity Nod:
- At the beginning of the trailer, Eddie is shown getting into an altercation with four thugs. When they refuse to heed his warnings, the Venom symbiote comes out and snares them with tentacles. As one of the thugs fearfully asks what Venom is, the symbiote partially retracts from Eddie's face and they try to do the "We... are Venom." bit from the end of the first movie... only for the symbiote to get the timing wrong multiple times, ruining the moment.
- In the first movie, Eddie and Venom hit a jump while moving at dangerous speeds while riding Eddie's motorcycle, and Eddie goes flying off — forcing the Venom symbiote to shoot out tentacles to tether him to the vehicle. In the trailer, the same thing happens while Eddie is riding a horse the Venom symbiote has taken over.
Darker and Edgier: While Let There Be Carnage took a Lighter and Softer approach save for everything to do with Cletus Kasady and Carnage, the trailer has a tone similar to the first film albeit retaining some comedic elements from the second such as Eddie's interactions with Venom.
Evil-Detecting Dog: In the trailer, Eddie confronting a bunch of criminals as himself somehow causes dogs in rows of cages to bark at him.
Fugitive Arc: Because of their brutal behavior and antics, Eddie and Venom wind up landing in hot water with the authorities of their Earth, shown on the run in the desert in the trailer.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: In the trailer, Venom is shown being attacked by a huge three-tailed alien monster with a maw bristling with countless rows of teeth.
Mugged for Disguise: Some trailers show Eddie hiding out in Las Vegas, wearing a tuxedo to blend in. The final trailer reveals he got it after Venom punched out a valet.
Multiple-Tailed Beast: In the trailer, the monster that attacks Venom atop the plane has three long Xenomorph-like tails.
Repurposed Pop Song: The first trailer is set to "Space Oddity" by David Bowie, and the final incorporates "Wild World" by Cat Stevens.
Retcon: While The Stinger of Spider-Man: No Way Home implied that a sample of the Venom symbiote was left in the MCU—teasing a Black Suit Spider-Man arc—the trailer shows a similar version of the scene occurring in the SSU, showing another sample of the symbiote being captured by the mysterious military organization just before it could bond to the bartender.
The Scottish Trope: In the final trailer, when Eddie says Knull's name aloud the Venom symbiote wraps a tentacle around his mouth and shushes him — clearly afraid of drawing the dark god's attention.
Shout-Out: While hanging off the side of an airplane, Eddie wonders aloud how Tom Cruise does it.
Super-Soldier: In the trailer, Venom is shown being hunted by a squad of soldiers in Powered Armor strong enough to let them fight evenly with Eddie despite his physiology being enhanced by the Venom symbiote.
Super-Speed: In the trailer, Venom bonds with a horse and enhances its running speed to such a degree that Eddie can barely hold on for dear life as they fly across the desert.
Viva Las Vegas!: The trailer sees Eddie encountering Ms. Chen in Las Vegas where she and Venom have a dance number.

"Eddie... the time has come."