TL;DR – As requested, we mapped all the locations featured in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe.

Mapping A Failed Experiment –

Whenever I post a map, I always ask for suggestions of pop-culture things that people would like to get mapped. Sometimes, you have interesting suggestions like Indiana Jones that make you think. Other times, it feels like someone wants to make you suffer. Well, today is the latter, as some of my readers have asked me to map Sony’s ill-fated Spider-Man Universe without Spider-Man in it. Now, for clarity, these are all the films that make up the Villain series of films, well villain-lite films, such as Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, Madame Web, Venom: The Last Dance & Kraven the Hunter. They don’t include the MCU Spider-Man films Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home & Spider-Man: No Way Home, which you can find on our MCU Map. Nor do they include the Spider-verse films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse & The Spider Within because they are their own thing.

So, with this map, I have tried to find every location that I could, but this has led to some issues. There are a lot of places where there are no precise locations. With that in mind, I have made some educated guesses, such as putting Chameleon’s Club in Soho. I have used the actual filming locations as a guide where possible, but there is not a lot of data on that, especially for the later films, and a lot of times, different cities are subbing in for another. For example, the car chase in Venom jumps from San Francisco to Atlanta and back again in between cuts. 

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While we do dip around the world in the later films, much of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe takes place on the two coasts of America, with Madame Web and Morbius on the East Coast and Venom on the West. Honestly, it was interesting to see just how conservative the early films were in their locations.

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We do eventually start to branch out, with Kraven the Hunter doing a lot of the heavy lifting as it galivanted across the world. I ended up having to rewatch Kraven the Hunter & Madame Web to find some of the locations because the online sources started to get a bit vague. One thing I did find interesting is that depending on where in Peru you put the Amazonian Camp, there is only one time that these films dip into the Southern Hemisphere. It’s even more interesting, given how quickly Madame Web jumps around in that film.

In the end, I am not sure if these maps will add much to the pop-culture discourse about these films, nor do I think that I will need to update this map in the future with new entries unless they want to try that soft-reboot Venom as even though the last film was called Venom: The Last Dance, they were the only ones that made any real money. Have you watched the Spider-Man Films? Let us know what you thought in the comments below. If you want to see all our maps, please see HERE, and if you would like us to map another part of Pop Culture, let us know in the comments below [please be kind].   

Credits –

– The World Map that we used as a base several iterations ago was created by ‘San Jose’ which is shared with a Creative Commons Licence.

– The Nation detail maps America, Antarctica, Australia 1, Australia 2, Canada, Caribbean, China, Cook Islands, Europe Relief, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert Islands, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Italy, Japan, Karachi, India, London, Los Angles, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Micronesia, , New York City, New Zealand, Netherlands, Northern Mariana Islands, San Francisco, Samoa, Scandinavia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tonga, Valley of Mexico, Vietnam & Washington DC that we used for reference were shared with a Creative Commons Licence or was in the public domain. They were originally created by Aotearoa, Alexrk2, Antigoni, E Pluribus Anthony, Fut Perf, Htonl, Koyos, L. Claudel, Li Chao, Maximilian Dörrbecker, Mrflip, NASA, NgaViet, NordNordWest, Saqib Qayyum, Shadowfox, Silver Spoon, Szczureq, The Emirr, Tubs, Tyk, United States Department of the Interior, Wikimedia Commons, Yavidaxiu & Yug.

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Twitter Here, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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