Warning! Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: No Way Home

While Spider-Man: No Way Home featured several villains from past Spider-Man films, one foe, in particular, sabotaged the chance for a true Sinister Six team. In the final film of the Homecoming trilogy, Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Lizard, and Sandman all come to the MCU, arriving from different universes thanks to a spell cast by Doctor Strange which Spider-Man accidentally ruins. However, the film’s post-credits scene reveals that there could have been a sixth member to round out the team of villains, but they neglected to show up.

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Although Doctor Strange’s spell was meant to make the world forget that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, Peter’s request for exceptions (such as his loved ones) broke the spell. This results in the imminent danger of an infinite number of people across the multiverse who know that Peter is Spider-Man coming to the MCU. While Strange managed to contain the spell, a handful managed to get through such as notable villains from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man franchises. Villains such as Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) and Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) appeared in the MCU moments before their deaths, and while the five villains were eventually brought together by Spider-Man there was one Peter Parker never even knew about.

As revealed in No Way Home‘s first post-credits scene, Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock and his Venom symbiote were seen drinking in a bar, playing off a prior post-credits scene at the end of Venom: Let There Be Carnage where Eddie and his other half were seen entering the MCU. However, the post-credits scene reveals that Eddie simply spent his time getting drunk while getting a crash course from the bartender about the MCU, learning about Iron Man, the Hulk, and even Thanos and the five-year Decimation. Unfortunately, right as Eddie decided he was going to talk to the “spider guy” Venom seemed to recognize, Spider-Man and his allies saved the day and sent all the villains home. This sadly includes Eddie who never got the chance to join the rest of the villains to create the Sinister Six from the comics, let alone meet Spider-Man before Venom’s exit from the MCU.

As entertaining and satisfying as it would be for comics fans to see the Sinister Six fully realized on the big screen, Venom would have certainly been the odd one out amongst the other villains. Firstly, Tom Hardy’s Venom is very much an anti-hero rather than an outright villain. Secondly, Eddie’s symbiote recognized Spider-Man through the symbiote hivemind which spans time and space and was therefore connected to Spider-Man most likely through Topher Grace’s Venom from Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 3. As such, it’s definitely the loosest connection to the Webslinger when compared to the other foes, considering Eddie and his specific symbiote have never directly met a Spider-Man themselves. It also doesn’t help that while the rest of the villains all appeared in New York as that’s where they were either about to die or were currently living, Eddie and Venom were still on their island getaway.

While there were technically six villains/rivals who traversed the multiverse to come to the MCU, Venom sabotaged the culmination of a true Sinister Six. Apparently, he only had enough time to get drunk and have his MCU history crash course before being sent back. That being said, Eddie’s symbiote did leave a piece of himself behind, so perhaps a new Venom could join a Sinister Six team in the future following Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Key Release Dates
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  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)Release date: May 06, 2022
  • Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)Release date: Jul 08, 2022
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever/Black Panther 2 (2022)Release date: Nov 11, 2022
  • The Marvels/Captain Marvel 2 (2023)Release date: Feb 17, 2023
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)Release date: May 05, 2023
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)Release date: Jul 28, 2023
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