Story by Grant Dillard, Staff writer

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“Venom” has been out in theaters for a few weeks now and has proven to be a box office hit. Though not receiving the best reviews from critics, audiences seem to enjoy this film. Given how many times moviegoers have gone back to see the movie, how many new details are they able to point out? Here’s a look at some of the Easter eggs and references found in “Venom” ranging from easy to miss to tough to spot.

John Jameson

In the opening scene of the film where the rocket carrying the symbiotes crashes in Malaysia, it’s revealed that the only surviving astronaut is named Jameson. This is a reference to Captain John Jameson, the son of J. Jonah Jameson: editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle and world famous hater of Spider-Man. In the comics, John Jameson also became the wolf creature known as Man-Wolf after coming into contact with a mystical ruby on the moon.

The Daily Globe Incident

While Eddie Brock has dinner with his fiancé, Anne Weying, the topic of Brock being run out of New York due to an incident at the Daily Globe is brought up. In the comics, Brock worked at the Daily Globe and wrote many articles about a serial killer known as the Sin-Eater, even doing a successful front page story about the Sin-Eater’s identity. However, Brock’s fame would come to an end when Spider-Man captured and revealed the true identity of the Sin-Eater. Brock was fired from the Globe, and thus his hatred for Spider-Man began. The film never delves specifically into what Brock did to get him fired from the Globe, but it could be possible that it was the Sin-Eater articles like before, only without Spider-Man to inadvertently prove Brock wrong.

Anne Weying’s Job

Still on the topic of former occupations, Weying’s job early in the film is as a lawyer for the offices of “Michelinie and McFarlane.” This is a reference to the creators of Venom, David Michelinie, who wrote the character and Todd McFarlane, who came up with the character design. Their names can be spotted on Weying’s laptop and outside the building when she loses her job.

She-Venom

After Eddie separates from the Venom symbiote and is captured by Carlton Drake’s forces, Weying has to bond with the symbiote to save Eddie from execution. Weying bonded with the symbiote before at some point in the comics, garnering the name “She-Venom.” In the film, her appearance is fairly accurate to the source material, minus the white spider emblem on her chest and back, much like Venom himself.

Carnage

This is the tease that audiences are the most excited about, and for good reason. In the mid-credits scene, Brock visits imprisoned serial killer, Cletus Kasady, for an interview. In the comics, Kasady shared a cell with Brock, and when the Venom symbiote came to break Brock out of his cell, it left behind its spawn. That spawn bonded with Kasady to become Carnage, who was one of the deadliest enemies that both Spider-Man and Venom would ever face. Kasady even states that when he gets out, “there’s gonna be carnage,” unsubtly hinting at his future alter-ego.