18 Easter Eggs—and A Shocking Mid Credits Scene—From ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’

Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the newest Marvel movie from Sony Pictures, is out now, exclusively in theaters. It made $90 million in its first weekend, and it got better reviews than its predecessor, which all but assures that we haven’t seen the last of Eddie Brock. In fact, if we’re interpreting the mid-credits sequence at the end of the film correctly, we might be seeing a whole lot more of him very soon—but more on that later.

The great thing about the Venom films—and what distinguishes them from the MCU films, at least for now—is that the thrill factor is first and foremost. This is not a load-bearing film, designed to set up four other films and referencing three past films. This is a movie that ‘goes for it,’ and pays off its best moments in the same movie where it sets them up. 

It’s like in the comics when you get a massive splash across two pages. Sometimes, it’s good to cut loose and not worry about the bigger picture. No matter where the Venom franchise goes from here, there should always be room for superhero films like this one. Not every one of these has to be weighty and consequential; fun for its own sake has its place.

Here are 18 Easter eggs in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, along with a breakdown of that mid-credits scene, which may actually be bigger news than the movie itself.