Spider-Man: No Way Home Writers On End Credits Scene, How It Works in Universe (SPOILERS)

Warning: Some spoilers follow for Spider-Man: No Way Home.

The end credits for Spider-Man: No Way Home had one last multiverse moment, and the film’s writers discussed how the moment works in the narrative. Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers spoke with Variety and discussed the scene in which Eddie Brock is in the MCU, hanging out on a beach after being sucked into the universe at the end of Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

The spell cast by Doctor Strange in No Way Home inadvertently pulled people who knew that Peter Parker is Spider-Man into the MCU universe, and Eddie Brock doesn’t know this. However, McKenna and Sommers noted that the symbiote kind of does. This is something that the symbiote hints at in Let There Be Carnage’s end credits scene, when he tells Eddie that he has “80 billion light years of hive knowledge across universes” and seems to recognize Peter on a TV screen once they’re brought into the MCU.

“The idea is that the symbiote has knowledge of other universes. Buried in his brain is some knowledge of that connection,” McKenna said.

McKenna added, “The most important thing is this wasn’t just going to be a bunch of fan service. It wasn’t going to be just curtain calls for everybody. We had to figure out a way that this [movie] told the story of this Peter Parker right now, organically coming off of where we left the last movie. That was always our north star. Yeah, it’s a big fun idea. Let’s not forget Peter. You can’t get lost in the mix. It has to be his emotional journey.”

The two also confirmed that Jon Watts, who has directed the three Spider-Man MCU films, directed the Let There Be Carnage post-credits scene and that including Venom in the climax was “definitely discussed.”

No Way Home is a mega-hit, grossing $536.6 million domestically and $1.18 billion worldwide through Wednesday. It will remain atop the box office this weekend, with no new releases to compete against it.