It became clear that Kevin Feige was actively seeking to distance himself from Sony’s Spider-Man Universe in the mid-credits scene of No Way Home, which was ultimately useless and ineffective in the long run bar the tiny little sliver of symbiote being left behind in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Fans lost their minds when the stinger of Venom: Let There Be Carnage shifted Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock into a new reality, one where Tom Holland was suited, booted, and swinging around New York City as the web-slinging superhero. However, despite the overwhelming sense of joy that came with seeing Hardy’s intrepid reporter appear in mainline MCU canon, he was sent packing back to his own pocket of the multiverse just as quickly.