Venom Is Somehow Involved
Day 3 was the day that every Spider-Man fan on Twitter fell into a total frenzy. Webb Tweeted the above picture showing a locker with the number 14 on it. Simple enough right? Not at all. This is far from just a cool looking picture. This was the day that everyone realized there may be secrets to be found in Webb’s cryptic posts.
See, this locker looks eerily similar to a panel from one of the Spidey comics in which Venom is introduced. In case you aren’t familiar, have a look at the panel below and compare it to the picture above.
Far too similar to be a coincidence if you ask me. Thus the Venom rumours began to swirl. Fans started freaking out wondering how Electro, Rhino, and Venom were all going to fit into one film. They started freaking out about who was going to play Venom. They started freaking out that they would have to wait over a year to official see what this Tweet meant. There was pure pandemonium. Rioting in internet form went on for days as people began to delve into the details of this one image.
But then, people looked at the Tweet again, and they started to realize it possibly has even more meaning than originally thought. There’s a hashtag included with the picture: #happybirthday. I have to be honest here, the first few times I looked at the Tweet, I was so excited about the picture that I failed to even notice the text that accompanied it. Happy Birthday? What could that mean? Well one internet search gives a conclusion that doesn’t seem like much of a stretch at all.
This Tweet went out on February 6th. Dane DeHaan, aka Harry Osborn, was born February 6th. So if Webb’s saying happy birthday, it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch that it’s to one of the stars of his film. But wait, if Webb is including a picture of a Venom-filled locker and saying happy birthday to DeHaan, does that mean that Harry Osborn becomes Venom in the next film? Gah! It’s almost too much to take.
And then there’s more. The locker in the picture is number 14. It’d be too big of a stretch to assume that 14 is just Webb’s favorite number or something along those lines, so there has to be a deeper significance. Well try this for deeper, issue #14 of Amazing Spider-Man is where the Green Goblin is introduced. Wait a second, Harry, as Venom, as the Green Goblin? Well one of DeHaan’s other directors happened to refer to him as the Green Goblin. I originally dismissed that comment as the director misspeaking, but what if he actually knew what he was talking about and was letting serious information slip?
There are a ton of possibilities as to what this picture is telling us, but regardless of the actual meaning, this was the moment that Webb really got people talking, and gained a ton of new Twitter followers in the process.