The new trailer for "Venom: The Last Dance" confirms that a being known as The King In Black will take over as the movie's villain. And if you don't know him, rest assured: He's way more than nothing.
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00:00The new trailer for Venom the Last Dance confirms that a being known as the King in Black will
00:05take over as the movie's villain, and if you don't know him, rest assured, he's way more
00:09than nothing.
00:10What's his name, then?
00:12No!
00:13Yes!
00:14Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:15Yes, the weirdest comic book sub-franchise is, somehow, about to get even weirder.
00:20The Marvel Cinematic Universe has stood at the top of the mountain for well over a decade
00:24at this point, while its main competitor in DC Studios has struggled to keep pace.
00:28Sony, though, has taken the if-you-can't-beat-em-join-em approach with its standalone Spider-Man franchise,
00:33folding both Sam Raimi and Mark Webb's Spider-Man films into the MCU with Spider-Man No Way
00:37Home.
00:38And then there's Venom, which has complicated the multiverse beyond all logic and reason,
00:43having a grand time in the process.
00:45The upcoming third movie in the series, The Last Dance, adds an even more massive wrench
00:49to the gears.
00:50Sony released the final trailer for the film on September 12, 2024, and shockingly, the
00:55reveal of a Venomfish wasn't the most noteworthy thing about it.
00:59After weeks of playing coy about who would serve as the movie's antagonist, the trailer
01:02makes him known, and it's not even close to what anyone expected.
01:06Previous guesses centered around other symbiotes like Lasher or Toxin, which would make sense
01:11given that the previous two movies found Venom facing other symbiotes, namely Riot and Carnage.
01:16But The Last Dance takes things up many notches to bring one of the most powerful figures
01:20in the Marvel comics, the father of symbiotes.
01:23Joel is one of the very few characters who could be considered on par with the Mad Titan
01:27Thanos himself.
01:29Leave it to Venom to inadvertently bring an eldritch god to the cozy confines of Earth.
01:33The marketing for Venom, The Last Dance, has already established that the symbiote's latest
01:36threat brings things full circle, as he explains once again in a snippet of ominous dialogue.
01:41My home has found us.
01:45Venom then says a monster was sent by his creator, as images flash by of the symbiote
01:49homeworld, Klyntar, and a glimpse of an imposing throne.
01:52This lines up perfectly with the Marvel canon, which depicts Knull's long and epic journey
01:56from essentially the most ancient and powerful force of evil in existence and the creator
02:00of the symbiotes into exile.
02:02First introduced into the pages of Marvel Comics in 2018 in Venom 3 by writer Donnie
02:07Cates and artist Ryan Stegman, Knull is a relatively new character.
02:11In the one quick look at Knull the trailer provides, he seems to have his gnarly comics
02:15appearance with long white hair.
02:17Various artists clearly envisioned Knull as a primordial and almost elemental force of
02:21darkness, initially living in a cosmic void empty of all light.
02:25He's got a slew of powers that include superhuman strength, the ability to manipulate dark energy,
02:30near invulnerability, regenerative healing, time travel, and even the capacity to create
02:35life through the symbiotes.
02:37The invasion of Celestials kicked off his quest to branch out into the rest of the universe
02:41and use his terrible creations as a weapon against any who would stand against his mission
02:45to bring everything under the domain of the Void.
02:48After being trapped on Klyntar for centuries, Knull would eventually attack Earth itself
02:52a second time.
02:53He's eventually destroyed by Eddie Brock.
02:55Venom The Last Dance probably won't maintain all of that backstory, but the key details
02:59remain the same — the throne, Klyntar, and Knull's godlike status.
03:04Perhaps shockingly, Stegman posted on ex-formerly Twitter that he had no idea Knull was going
03:09to be in the movie until he saw the trailer.
03:11He wrote,
03:12Yes, I did co-create Knull.
03:13No, I didn't know until today that he was going to be in Venom The Last Dance.
03:17Yes, I do expect to finally be able to afford that lazy river moat around my house.
03:21Venom The Last Dance will swing into theaters on October 25th.