Venom: The Last Dance featured a rather grim ending for the titular protagonist, leaving fans questioning Venom’s potential return. Although this is the final installment in Hardy’s Venom movies, fans are wondering if he is truly dead or alive.

These have been consistently messy, almost willfully bad movies, but Hardy’s performance has been a strangely compelling one-body buddy comedy. It’s one thing to throw a cape on and jump the sky. It’s another to run manically through the desert with an alien voice inside barking,

Tom Hardy, from the first "Venom" on, has chosen to offset the uncoolness of doing a comic-book franchise by putting his slumming in quotation marks, playing Eddie as a borderline doofus who talks like a grown-up version of one of the Bowery Boys.