After all, Venom: Let There Be Carnage’s mid-credits ... Enter the Xenophage, an ungodly CGI mash-up of a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, the skittering arachnid bugs from Starship Troopers ...

Avengers is still playing the crossover standard of unexpected but retrospectively obvious mashups: A Weyland-Yutani corporate takeover of Stark Industries, the Venom symbiote taking a facehugger ...