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• Venom: The Last Dance delves into Venom's Marvel origins, showcasing high stakes with extraterrestrial threats.
• Creative liberties are taken in Sony's adaptation of Klyntar from Marvel Comics, exploring symbiote powers.
• The Klyntar invasion in Venom 3 hints at a mix of antagonists, diverging from Knull's storyline in Marvel Comics.

Venom: The Last Dance is poised to explain Venom's Marvel origins in greater depth after featuring visitors from his home world: the Klyntar. As the name suggests, Venom: The Last Dance rounds out Tom Hardy's Venom trilogy in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, with distinctly high stakes delivered by both terrestrial and extraterrestrial threats. As the de facto flagship franchise of Sony's Spider-Man Universe, the pressure is one for Venom: The Last Dance to to stick the landing. A cataclysmic visit from Venom's homeworld, it seems, might be the way for the movie to accomplish this.
The Venom franchise has had to navigate Venom's mythos without treading on the toes of characters owned by Marvel that feature in the MCU. Now that Venom: The Last Dance will be taking the story into space, this will be even more difficult to achieve without some ample creative liberties being taken by Sony. Despite this, numerous mentions of Venom's home planet throughout his cinematic career suggest that Klyntar may feature heavily in his swansong movie.
2:47 Related Venom: The Last Dance Trailer Breakdown – 10 Biggest Reveals & Teases The first trailer for Venom: The Last Dance has arrived, featuring new reveals and teases for the final chapter of Tom Hardy"s symbiote trilogy.
Venom's Home Planet Klyntar Marvel Comics History Explained In Marvel Comics, Klyntar is an artificial planet on which Venom hatched and where the race of symbiotes ostensibly call home, though their tendrils extend instinctively across the universe. Both the symbiotes and the planet were creations of the primordial entity, Knull – a de facto god who preceded the creation of the universe and ruled within the "living abyss." The planet served as the "Symbiote Throneworld," created as a space from which Knull could rule and deploy his symbiote creations to snuff out all forms of light encroaching on the abyssal darkness to which his power was inextricably linked.
This put him in direct conflict with light-bringing Celestials, whose creations Knull would consume with his vast symbiote army throughout millennia. Eventually, intervention by Thor would cause some symbiotes to break from the hivemind and rebel against Knull, as notions of nobility and honor begin to "infect" a rebellious subset that would later dub themselves "Agents of the Cosmos." This would lead to the symbiotes imprisoning their creator within the center of the Symbiote Throneworld before calling the planet "Klyntar," the symbiote word for "cage," and using the same name for the symbiote race.
Though the god remained trapped in its core, the artificial Klyntar would appear as a natural planet like any other from which the symbiotes originated and would be visited by multiple Marvel characters over several years. Eventually, Knull was freed after Carnage's rampage on Earth (unwittingly brought about by Eddie Brock himself), whereupon he destroyed Klyntar and turned its composite symbiotes into an army of symbiote dragons. This gave way to one of the most monumental threats faced by Brock and the heroes of Earth in Marvel Comics, as Knull was free to inflict his dark will once more.
Klyntar Symbiotes Powers Explained Close Knull's symbiote creations took the same name as the planet on which Knull was imprisoned. The symbiotes all share similar powers to those displayed by Venom, with slight variations. Knull's intentions for the Klyntar race were to combat deities, bestowing them with a power capable of destroying planets, stars, and gods alike. All-Black the Necrosword, as seen wielded by Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder is one of Knull's most powerful symbiote creations designed specifically for this purpose.
Klyntar are amorphous and able to shapeshift and expand at will, almost regardless of the shape they are trying to manifest. The race is typified by their ever-expanding tendrils, which can be used as extra limbs to engulf, imitate Spider-Man's webbing or many other uses. The race is also synonymous with their need to find a host, however, which is where the designation of "symbiote" stems. When a suitable host is found, the Klyntar can demonstrate their full potential, which includes protecting and empowering their host.
Individual Klyntar powers can vary slightly; Carnage's unique ability to manifest weaponry, for instance, is not a skill that Venom typically shares. As is also the case with Carnage, a "genetic memory," means that asexually-reproduced Klyntar spawn can imitate and improve upon the abilities demonstrated by their parent. This usually makes younger symbiotes more fearsome than their parents, though symbiotes can improve their skills over time. Other shared powers include near-invulnerability, the ability to prolong their hosts' lives, super strength, and a strong situational awareness comparable to spider sense.
Klyntar Comics Changes Explained Close Though Sony's Spider-Man Universe has taken ample creative liberties thus far (including the conspicuous omission of Spider-Man), the franchise is not shying away from Venom's extraterrestrial origins and mentions of his homeworld. 2018's Venom saw Riot attempting to spark a full-scale invasion of Earth from Klyntar, which is something that Venom: The Last Dance is seemingly following up on. Yet there are a few key differences between the Klyntar of the comics and those of Sony's live-action franchise.
Klyntar In Venom Movies So Far
Debut Movie
Venom
Venom
Riot
Venom
Unnamed Yellow Klyntar
Venom
Unnamed Blue Klyntar
Venom
Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Toxin
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
For one thing, Venom being the only Klyntar not entirely hellbent on bloodlust and destruction does not gel with the notion that he is actually one of many symbiotes capable of empathy and a sense of honor after Knull's imprisonment. Instead, the movie franchise appears to be painting the Klyntar as a hostile alien race of which the Venom symbiote is a sole outlier. Furthermore, despite mentions of his homeworld and billions of years of hive knowledge, Venom has been noticeably mute on the presence of Knull – which, in the Venom mythos, is an omission as glaring as Spider-Man's.
Furthermore, the antagonistic creatures in the Venom: The Last Dance trailer don't resemble Klyntar as much as they resemble Xenophages. This alien race is similar to symbiotes but hunts them down as delicacies. The invasion, therefore, does not seem limited to Klyntar, suggesting that a mix of antagonists from outer space will be deployed as the main antagonists in lieu of Knull and his living abyss.
Related All Confirmed Symbiotes In Venom Movies Explained There"s a good number of alien symbiotes in the Venom movies beyond the one bonded to Tom Hardy"s Eddie Brock, and even more are coming in Venom 3.
Why Venom's Home Planet Is Attacking Earth In Venom 3 Close The implications of a Klyntar invasion are difficult to overstate. While it does not seem Venom: The Last Dance would be best placed to suitably convey the sheer scale and terror of the eldritch god, Knull, and his plans of domination, a Klyntar invasion of Earth is distinctly reminiscent of the "King in Black" run of Marvel Comics. In this run, Knull brings his newly reassimilated army of symbiotes to Earth and quickly dispatches Earth's Mightiest Heroes with them, including Marvel's answer to Superman: Sentry.
The scale of Knull's storyline is unlikely to be adapted in Venom, a franchise restricted to starring Spider-Man-adjacent characters. Instead, the Klyntar invasion of Earth may be more akin to Riot's motives in Venom, with motives that simply entail devouring planets and their inhabitants out of instinct reminiscent of the Marvel Comics symbiotes in their earliest forms. With that being said, Venom: The Last Dance could really turn things around for Sony by ending things with a bang and introducing one of Marvel's most terrifying villains to live-action for the first time, even if only briefly.
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