Cut Venom Content From Marvel's Spider-Man 2 May Be Saving Up For Carnage

29.11.2023 - 12:09 / screenrant.com / Tony Todd / Peter Parker / Miles Morales / Harry Osborn / May Be

Tony Todd has revealed that a huge amount of the work he did for was cut from the final game. The horror icon appeared at Fan Expo San Francisco over the past weekend to talk about his role as Venom in the acclaimed superhero sequel and offered an insight into another storyline involving the symbiote and Miles Morales.

[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2]

According to Todd, 90% of his performance as Venom wasn't used in the finished game, which seems like an extraordinary amount. Although the Venom character only truly appeared in 's third act after bonding with Harry Osborn, Todd voiced the symbiote at times before that. Todd's Venom voice could be heard influencing Peter Parker occasionally during his time with the symbiote suit as the superhero got more aggressive, with some audio mixing taking advantage of the speaker built into the PS5's Dualsense controllers to play this inner voice, depending on players' settings.

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In the mainline Marvel comics, Miles Morales hasn't bonded with the Venom symbiote as much as Peter Parker, with the main instance being in the alternate universe Earth-TRN891 during the limited comic series. As reported by , this almost wasn't the case in Insomniac's story as Todd revealed that he recorded dialog for scenes where Miles Morales had a symbiote in .

Miles bonds with both the Venom and Carnage symbiotes at the same time in the comics to grant him a different form of protection in a world without electricity.

Miles has bonded with the Carnage symbiote in the main Marvel Comics continuity, however. This occurred in Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman's 2019 event, which saw Cletus Kasady returning and featured every Marvel character who had used a symbiote up to that point. During this story, Miles Morales was also infected briefly by the Carnage symbiote, transforming him into a six-armed Carnage doppelganger.

Both Miles' and suits are unlockable in .

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It's possible that most of Todd's cut dialogue could be saved for a potential DLC storyline, despite the apparent destruction of the Venom symbiote and the others under its control at the end of. At the end of 's "" side missions, former police captain turned vigilante, Yuri Watanabe, reveals the identity of a sadistic cult's leader to be none other than Cletus Kasady, who Spider-Man fans will know better as Carnage.

Although introduces Kasady in his non-symbiote form, his "" shows a ritual to become a red monster as part of an event called "." To achieve this, The Flame cult acquires one of Oscorp's symbiotes, and Kasady is last seen