At various moments in Venom: The Last Dance’s trailer, Venom can also be seen taking on a huge monster that could spell bad news for the symbiote. This creature bears similarities to Marvel Comics’ Xenophage, an alien species with a taste for the brains of symbiote hosts.

The longer a host has been bonded to a symbiote, the more dopamine it releases, so Eddie Brock must taste rather delicious after several years accompanying Venom, making him a fine meal for the terrifying Xenophage. Titling the sequel The Last Dance is as big a tease as any that either Brock or Venom will die in the upcoming movie, but there is speculation that Venom could move to the MCU after Venom: The Last Dance.

One theory notes Venom could transfer his consciousness from his dead body in the SSU into the piece of the symbiote left in the MCU in Spider-Man: No Way Home. If this takes place, Venom can continue to have a live-action future, and could even battle Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, despite his death in Venom: The Last Dance.