The Amazing Spider-Man Exists in the Same Universe As Tom Hardy’s Venom

Can Andrew Garfield be given one more opportunity as Spider-Man…in a Venom sequel? Well, a fan theory suggests that Spider-Verse that is home to Tom Hardy’s Venom is the same as Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man universe, and while right now, it’s speculative, there’s certainly a lot of room to make it a convincing argument if this is what the filmmakers intended to do. To really dig deep into this theory, there will be some spoilers for No Way Home, so get ready if you’ve seen it and stay away if you haven’t.

Venom Exists In The Same Universe As Amazing Spider-Man!

For those who aren’t aware, Venom’s connection to the Spider-Man universe has been really dubious from the start. However, the comics see his origin getting tied into a universe-wide Marvel event. The symbiote was also an alternate costume for Spider-Man before he attempted to destroy it, but in the movies, this was never the case.

Here’s the theory by Redditor driku12:

“[Green Goblin] after the dinner scene in Spider-Man, Ock when Tobey unmasks himself and he tries to strangle him in Spider-Man 2, Sandman from an unclear time after Spider-Man 3, Lizard from right after he finds Peter’s camera in the sewer in The Amazing Spider-Man, and Electro from right when he achieves functional omnipotence for a split second before dying in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, thus figuring out who Spider-Man is,” the theory explains.

How’s this tie to Venom? Well…

“Venom got pulled through during the Venom: Let There Be Carnage post-credits scene right as Eddie was being connected to the hivemind, which has encountered Spider-Man various times across various timelines, thus making that his “moment” where he figures out who Spider-Man is, which is coincidentally also the first moment he even knows about Spider-Man at all,” the poster suggests.

It’s as good a theory as any as to why Venom popped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for sure.

“Functionally, in No Way Home, Venom was the sixth member of the Sinister Six, but being ‘kind of a loser,’ as he is, he spent the whole movie just chilling out in a Mexican bar instead of trying to hunt down Spider-Man immediately like everyone else, partially because of his chilled-out attitude, but also because he’s all the way across the country instead of in New York from the start like everyone else,” the theory states, adding, “Everyone else who came over was from the Raimiverse and the Webbverse respectively, in equal number. One Spider-Man from each, and three villains from ea– oh wait. There are only two Webbverse villains, but three Raimi villains and a Spider-Man from each reality. It would be strange for the spell to follow this pattern of picking a mostly equal number of people from only two specific universes and then pulling one random guy from a completely unrelated universe where Spider-Man doesn’t even exist. If that’s the case, why not pull across any symbiote that has access to the hivemind?”

Again — hardly a theory without any flaws at all, but it’s appealing from a logical point of view. And, as the original post suggests, “then [Andrew Garfield’s Peter] can finally fight an alien and be cool, like he wanted.”