This article contains spoilers for "Venom: The Last Dance."

Dedicated followers of the superhero/comic book movies produced by Sony Pictures and its various production studios know how cinematic universe-minded the company has been for decades now. Sadly, a lot of their proposed ideas for combining their franchise characters into one film have been non-starters; we will never know what a "Sinister Six" movie would have looked like, and it's fair to say that we probably won't be seeing Dr. Michael Morbius or Cassandra Web again anytime soon. Right now, the only crossover movies Sony has under its belt is the Marvel co-production "Spider-Man: No Way Home" as well as "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and its sequel, "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse." With those latter two movies existing in the animation world, a live-action crossover movie that doesn't involve a Marvel Studios team-up is still an elusive beast, one even Kraven...