8 Burning Questions We Have After Watching Venom

So Did The Life Foundation Find The Symbiotes Or Did They Come To Earth Willingly?

Venom kicks off with The Life Foundation’s spaceship crashing in Malaysia with the symbiotes captured onboard. Dora Skirth later explains to Brock that the ship came across the symbiotes on an asteroid and Drake decided to bring them back to study them. Towards the end of the film, though, it’s revealed that Riot plans to bring the rest of the symbiotes to Earth to conquer it. So, which is the correct turn of events?

Presumably, the symbiotes that the Foundation found let themselves be captured by Drake’s goons so that they could be taken to Earth, giving them a fresh new supply of hosts to feed on. Drake, however, didn’t know he was being played until he was possessed by Riot himself. At which point he apparently decided to go along with their plan to wipe out humanity for some reason. We’re not really clear on that part.

The flaw in this explanation, however, is that it doesn’t explain how Drake’s already an expert on symbiotes before they’ve even landed on Earth. Perhaps his astronauts gave him some data on the creatures that helped him understand what they were? Otherwise, it’s vaguely possible he had prior contact with the symbiotes – though that seems pretty unlikely.