Venom 2 Already Explained Spider-Man: No Way Home's Credits Plot Hole

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home

Venom's brief appearance in the post-credit scene for Spider-Man: No Way Home is causing some confusion, but the "plot hole" was already explained in Venom: Let There Be Carnage. All the villains in Spider-Man: No Way Home were pulled across the multiverse because of their knowledge that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, but Spider-Man hasn't even appeared in Tom Hardy's Venom series, so how did he arrive there in the first place, and how did a piece of him get left behind?

Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Electro, Lizard, and Sandman were all pulled into the world of Tom Holland's Spider-Man after he made Doctor Strange botch a spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker was Spider-Man, and Venom was presumably there for the same reason, having been teleported during the post-credits scene in Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Everyone pulled in by the spell was sent back out when Doctor Strange cast a new spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker altogether, but a small piece of the Venom symbiote was left behind, presumably teasing a future Symbiote story for Tom Holland's Spider-Man.

Since Venom never met Spider-Man in his universe, some have labeled him being impacted by the spells a plot hole, but, as Venom told Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), he has "80 billion light-years of hive knowledge across universes." With access to that kind of information Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock Venom Symbiote doesn't need to have personally interacted with Peter Parker before in order to know who he is.

How Venom Knew Peter Parker Was Spider-Man In No Way Home

In fact, with the hive knowledge existing "across universes," it's likely Topher Grace's version of Venom in Spider-Man 3 could even be the source of that information. The Symbiote in Spider-Man 3 bonds with both Brock and Peter Parker, so he'd know enough to be pulled in just like the other Spidey villains, although surely there's other iterations of Spider-Man and Venom to have interacted with Spider-Man across the multiverse.

Venom actually shares a fraction of this knowledge with Eddie right before they hop universes, so it's possible Peter Parker's secret identity was a piece of that knowledge, explaining why it wasn't just Venom who was pulled across the multiverse, although, the nature of their bond could also explain this. That still leaves a question of why a piece of Venom stayed behind, however, the unique and ambiguous nature of Venom's multiversal hive knowledge separates him from the other multiverse characters, so while it may not be fully explained, there's enough revealed to show that the same rules don't necessarily apply to Venom.

Ultimately, just because it isn't fully explained doesn't make it a plot hole; however, audiences are likely willing to hand-wave any ambiguity in the logic for how a piece of the Venom symbiote is in the MCU if it pays off in an epic fashion in a future Spider-Man story. Venom: Let There Be Carnage's post-credit scene made it clear Venom is a big fan of Tom Holland's Peter Parker/Spider-Man, so whenever we see that plot continue next, maybe there'll be more clarification of exactly what multiversal knowledge the Symbiote knows and how it impacts the MCU after Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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