While Morbius’s new trailer is the kind of conventional plot-exhibiting montage that—in an arguably self-defeating manner—overshares enough to make viewers feel as they’d seen the entire movie, it also happens to continue its predecessor trailer’s touting of intriguing timeline teases. Indeed, as if the state of Sony’s Marvel Cinematic Universe-adjacent Spider-Man movies wasn’t already convoluted enough, the latest clip adds even more Spider-Man timeline elements, with Easter eggs now revealing connections to the continuities of the Venom and The Amazing Spider-Man movies, solidifying the film’s connectivity to three existing Spider-Man timelines.

We’ll go through these references, starting with the latest. But first check out the new Morbius trailer just below.

Morbius’s Venom Connection.

Thus, the newspaper version of the Bugle was unique to the Venom movie timeline—at least, it was before the new Morbius trailer. In this instance, the Bugle, bearing the headline, “Dr. Michael Morbius Apprehended for ‘Vampire Murder,’” is a device used to convey an idea that was already hinted in the previous trailer, specifically that the disease-cured, but newly-vampiric Morbius will find himself in an involuntary custodial situation with the authorities over his (literally) bloodthirsty exploits. However, the paper Bugle clearly confirms that Morbius takes place in the same timeline as Venom; a notion made even clearer when Agent Rodriguez (Al Madrigal) says, presumably at the scene of a Morbius-related incident, “We haven’t had anything this good since that thing in San Francisco,” which is an obvious setting nod to the events of Venom.

However, the film’s most vexing of Venom links was saved for last. As Morbius is using his enhanced strength to interrogate a man who’s apparently forging bills, he is posed with an iconic question familiar to the comic book movie genre of “Who are you?” Yet, rather than providing the traditional answer of “I’m Batman,” Morbius (as played by former onscreen Joker Leto) instead answers “I’m Venom.” Indeed, with the film’s shared-universe status with Venom now established, the idea of him answering in that way might just be a tongue-in-cheek moment that’s flying too close to the proverbial meta sun.

Morbius’s Amazing Spider-Man Connection.

This element is nowhere near as meaty as the Venom references, but it’s still rather clear. As the trailer transitions between its showcased scenes, we catch a glimpse of a fictional New York City skyline that potently includes one particular skyscraper, Oscorp Tower, specifically brandishing a logo that’s straight out of Sony’s Andrew Garfield-starring duo of The Amazing Spider-Man films. Thusly, the film could be indicating the continuity’s presence of the Osborn family, the patriarch of which, Norman Osborn, happens to be Spidey’s archnemesis, the Green Goblin.

However, before we get too far ahead of ourselves, all we really know for certain is that this Oscorp is a version of the building and eponymous conglomerate. Therefore, its presence doesn’t necessarily confirm that Morbius—and, by proxy, Venom—takes place in The Amazing Spider-Man timeline, although that might be left open to interpretation. What we do know is that Sony has long chased a spinoff megamovie centered on Spider-Man rogues gallery The Sinister Six, for which that version of Oscorp—as teased at the end of 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2—was set to be the tech-supplying home base. While those teased plans never came to fruition, Sony still has its eye on that particular megamovie ball, which makes the Oscorp Easter egg even more intriguing.

The Morbius connections we already knew.

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Morbius is scheduled to swoop its way into theaters on Jan. 28, 2022.