User blog comment:ADour/Welcome to the MCU, SPIDER-MAN!/@comment-4651179-20150212202158/@comment-1895174-20150213041808

''Street-level heroes, magic heroes, spy heroes, cosmic heroes. It's not necessary for them to have areas zones affect them. I'm not saying they can't pop up in those areas once in a while for a team-up or "fish out of water" adventure. I always felt Venom was pretty much an odd villain, considering of the classic Spider-Man villains, he's the only not to have a terrestial origin.''

Other than the other symbiotes and the Spider-Verse guys, that is very true. And if we were talking about a franchise that just had Spider-Man or at very least was centered around him, I'd agree with you. Venom's extraterrestrial origin is a bit out of place given all of Spidey's other villains. But in this case, Spidey's coming into a universe where that cosmic stuff isn't only already established, but where he'll be fighting Nebula before he even meets Scorpion or Kraven or Shocker or anyone else in his rogues gallery that isn't in that first movie. By the very nature of the way he's being introduced, MCU Spider-Man is going to have his toes in both the street level stuff and the more cosmic stuff. Why not take advantage of that and make him the bridge between those two parts of the MCU?

Maybe I wasn't clear at first, but I think we could still get the level of personal betrayal felt in Ultimate Eddie without the symbiote being at the center of it. Ultimate Eddie and Original Symbiote are not mutually exclusive.

And, let's just be realistic here, the only way MCU Richard and Mary Parker aren't connected to SHIELD is if they aren't a plot point at all. If they follow the original origin, they're SHIELD agents. If they follow the Ultimate, they're SHIELD scientists. Or at least Richard is. Could be both - scientist Richard and field agent Mary. Point is, it's almost unfathomable that Kevin Feige wouldn't take Richard and Mary Parker's connections to the characters they've already established and not run with it.