He Sony’s Spider-Man Universe has reached its inevitable end six years after its start. In total, the company has released six films focused on classic arachnid villains. Venom has been the main spearhead, culminating an entire trilogy starring Tom Hardy. The films of Morbius, Madame Web and the recent Kraven the Hunter. But, despite being characters that come from the wall-crawler comics, Spider-Man It has never appeared in them.
A surprising decision that many attributed to the fact that currently Tom Holland brings the character to life Marvel Cinematic Universewhich would complicate things. But, apparently, that is not entirely true. According to reports Varietya Sony source claims that the company’s agreement with Disney never prevented Sony from using Spider-Man in films that did not bear his name. They simply decided not to do it.
This would be due to the first movie Venom. Released in 2018, it was a surprising box office success despite poor critical reception. In total, the film grossed $856 million worldwide. A triumph that led Sony to believe that they could exploit secondary characters from Spider-Man without the presence of the arachnid in the movies.
“All these characters are famous because they face Spider-Man [en los cómics]”explains the analyst Jeff Bock. “Unfortunately for Sony, they tasted success with Venom and that ruined everything for them, because they thought they could make a spin-off of all these characters. I don’t think they realized that Venom He could carry out a franchise on his own, but the rest could not. Not having Spider-Man in these films it was the fatal mistake,” he sums it up.
Spider-Man in the Sony Universe of Villains
Throughout the six films in the saga, Sony has included numerous nods to Spider-Man. Without going any further, the last installment, Kraven the Huntershowed a hallucination in which the protagonist faced hundreds of spiders falling from trees. It is not the first time that a sequence of this style appears in the franchise, although there are much more explicit references.
In Madame Web the young versions of the Uncle Ben and of Mary Parkerthe mother of Spider-Manwho was also pregnant. At the end of the film, in fact, she gives birth to the one she is supposed to be Peter Parkeralthough it is not specified. On the other hand, throughout these years several more comic book characters have debuted, such as Rino and the Chameleon in Kraven the Hunterseveral Spider-Woman in Madame Web o numerous symbionts such as Killing, Riot o Agony in the tapes Venom.
Regarding connections with cinema, in Morbius directly appeared Vulture of Michael Keatonvillain of Spider-Man: Homecomingin a final scene that never amounted to anything. and the Venom of Tom Hardy I was going to travel to UCM at the end of Venom: There Will Be Carnage due to the events caused by Peter in Spider-Man: No Way Homealthough they never crossed paths.
