Carnage
Carnage is a comic book character that first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #344
Carnage is the result of a spawning of a separate extraterrestrial symbiote born from Venom. Carnage bonded with serial killer Cletus Kasady, creating one of Spider-Man’s most murderous and deadliest adversaries.
Origin
bonds with him again, and unwittingly leaves behind the symbiote's offspring (The symbiotes reproduce asexually, once per generation. The children are then of no consequence to the parent. Thusly, the Venom symbiote felt no need to inform Brock of the existence of the new symbiote.) which gets into a cut and bonds with Kasady's bloodstream, transforming him into Carnage. He escapes prison, and begins a series of murders, and at the scene of each crime, writes "Carnage Rules" on the walls with his own blood. Carnage unlike Venom says "I" instead of "we" because Kasady is so insane the symbiote bassicaly fused to his mind with Cletus Kasady in complete control of the symbiote unlike Eddie Brock who still puts up some fights with his symbiote. Kasady is later found by Spider-Man, at the burned down reamins of St. Estes Home for Boys. However though the hero proves to be no match for Carnage's powers. In desperation, Spider-Man makes a truce with Venom to fight Carnage.
Perhaps the most famous storyline in which Carnage appears is the 1993 Spider-Man event Maximum Carnage. Carnage ends up escaping from an asylum and attacks the doctors and breaks out a super villain named Shriek in which the two start a romantic bond with each other. Later on they get cadre of psychotic super-villains (consisting of Demogoblin, Carrion and Doppelganger) overtook New York in a twisted killed spree, but were driven back by Spider-Man, Venom, the Black Cat, Captain America, Nightwatch, Cloak And Dagger, Deathlok, Morbius and Firestar. His
partnership with Shriek and the other villains would fade and would later go threw a mental breakdown leading him to dig up his mother at a cemetery in which a final fight between him and Spider-Man and Venom would take place. Venom would drag Carnage into a big explosion defeating him.
In the 1996 "Web of Carnage" storyline, the Carnage symbiote escapes from the Ravencroft Institute where Cletus Kasady is incarcerated, seeking a stronger host. It takes over Ben Reilly, who had recently replaced Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Reilly has little previous experience with symbiotes, and is unprepared for an enemy that is immune to his spider-sense. Together, they become Spider-Carnage, and the symbiote attempts to force him, both mentally and physically, to kill Peter Parker (then powerless), and other innocent people. Reilly escapes the symbiote's control, barely, with help from Dr. Ashley Kafka and John Jameson, the administrators of Ravencroft.
Carnage starred in the miniseries Venom vs. Carnage, in 2005. The Carnage symbiote spawned a "child" symbiote, which he tried to kill without success. The "child" later bonded with police officer Patrick Mulligan, which was the host Carnage chose because he was nearest at the time. Carnage had the oportunity to kill the symbiote child then and there however Carnage was exausted because when he tried to kill his offpsring before it got birthed. Carnage felt nothing but hate for the young creature and attempted to kill it, while Venom defended it (oddly enough feeling protective of his "grandchild"). Venom named the new symbiote Toxin. Later Carnage yet again tries to kill Toxin and almost gets away till the Black Cat notices Pat Mulligan screaming hanging with an inch of his life on a building with Carnage veering close. Black Cat later stops Carnage and saves Pat Mulligun. Carnage yet again tries to kill Toxin and the Black Cat when Pat Mulligun's symbiote starts to go over him and he stops Carnage. When Toxin relized the power he has, he went off to kill Cletus Kasady and almost succeeded but stopped because he didn't want to sink to his levels. Venom then teams up with Carnage to kill Toxin once in for all, but are both stopped when Toxin, Black Cat, and Spider-man team up to defeat them. Mulligan has since attempted to steer the symbiote towards heroism instead of murder.
Carnage was one of several super villains trying to escape from The Raft in New Avengers #1-2. However the Sentry flew Carnage outside the Earth's atmosphere and ripped him apart. According to Iron Man 's computer Kasady might not have been inside the symbiote so whether Kasady is dead is still a Mystery.
Powers
Carnage powers are very similar to any other symbiote. He possesses super-human strength, speed, stamina, healing and resistance to injury, the ability to scale up the side of walls, make weaponry out of his symbiote, throw and shoot projectiles that is made from the symbiote only these projectiles only last for around ten seconds before crumbling to dust and all of witch very similar to Venom’s ability. In "Amazing Spider-Man" #362 (May, 1992), he was described as having greater physical strength than those of Spider-Man and Venom "combined". Unless this was an exaggeration this would estimate his strenght level to being able to lift over 35 tons. Now his strength is increased to lift over 90 tons
His way to travel around consists to create swing lines and as Marvel describe, he generate "snares" to trap or entangle foes in a very similar way as Spider-Man. His main characteristic to separate him from Venom is his ability to create sharp dagger-like objects with his body with help from the symbiote spawn. His symbiote can also mimic most things to perfection and got the power to block Venom’s ability to track his offspring. He is totally protected from regular bullet and most weapons. Carnage biggest weakness is the heat but he also is partially vulnerable to sonic wave.Although not to the affect that it has on Venom.
He is at his best when fighting Spider-Man. Carnage's special abilities allow him to, basically, nullify Parker's "Spidey-sense", and cause serious damage to the web-slinger. He truly is one of Spider-Man's most feared adversaries. Cletus even has the ability to simply nick or cut himself in a small way and turn into Carnage because the Symbiote is in his Blood Stream. It would also seem that when Carnage consumes or eats other symbiotes as he did in Planet of the Symbiotes, he would grow giagantic.
Alternate Realities
The Ultimate universes version of Carnage came into being when Curt Connors combined the DNA sequences found in a sample of Spider-Man's blood with DNA sequences found in Richard Parker's research (presumably on the project that created the original Venom symbiote).
When Carnage escapes from the lab it begins making it's way towards Peter Parker's home. In it's wake it leaves a trail of corpses that have been completely drained of their blood. Upon finally confronting Peter Parker it begins to take a new shape, revealing a face that is not unlike his own.
Peter then battles Carnage and eventually tricks Carnage into throwing itself down a smoke stack into the fire below. Carnage is not seen again until one of it's victims, Peter Parker's friend, Gwen Stacy is found alive again. With her reappearance, a series of Peter Parker clones appears. Nick Fury mobilizes the Spider Slayers to bring the situation under control and in the confrontation, the new Gwen Stacy reverts into Carnage and is shot by the Spider Slayers.
Earth-15
On Earth-15 the Carnage symbiote bonded with Spider-Man. His name is the Spider and is the member of the time traveling Weapon X. He was killed by Firestar and was buried in his native universe.
Earth-985
In this reality the Carnage symbiote bonded with Silver Surfer. The Surfer fought Spider-Man, the Avengers and Firestar. When she managed to injure the symbiote, Norrin gained enough control of himself and realize what is happening. When he knew that the Carnage symbiote will likely to control him again, He flew towards the sun, destroying them both.Earth-982
In the MC2 universe, Spider-Girl accidentally released the Carnage symbiote from its containment being care by SHIELD. It bonded to May's friend Moose Mansfield. Carnage later kidnapped May's father and baby brother, Peter and Benjy, respectively, who was later become possessed by the symbiote and became a little version of Carnage. Spider-Girl manage to kill the symbiote by using a sonic weapon of Reverb, but also caused his little brother to become deaf. May blamed herself for her little brother being deaf, but she was given hope when Normie Osborn opted to pay for the operation to fix Benjamin's ears.
Characteristics
Height: 6' 1"(Kasady); 6'9 1/2" (Variable,with symbiote)
Weight: 190 lbs (Kasady); 685 lbs (Variable,With symbiote)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York
Video Games
Spider-Man video game Playstation and N64
Carnage helped doc ock help spread symbiotes all over the city. When you fight carnage you must pull him into the sound barrier with your webbing and attack him when he's weakened. At the end of the game you have to run away from monster ock.
Ultimate Spider-Man Game
In the Ultimate Spider-Man game Carnage is actually Peter Parker. In the game a man named Trask is trying to control the Venom symbiote and at some point realizes that Peter's blood has bonds with the Venom serum. This being because his father used his own DNA to make the serum. Trask sets the suit free in hopes of it capturing Spider-Man. When they catch up with both Venom and Spider-Man they catch them by sending Silver Sable after them. She shoots them both with strong tranquilizer darts. When Peter wakes up he is strapped to a table and a man named Tooms is talking to him. He is explaining about the serum being apart of Peter and how they are going to speed up the growth process by injecting more of the serum into Peter's blood. No one would expect what was about to happen. When the serum gets injected into Peter he screams in pain then suddenly bust free of the table and becomes Carnage! Playing as Venom you must battle it out with Carnage who leads Venom into various rooms. After a long fought battle Carnage is cornered in a room where the R.H.I.N.O suit was being designed. Venom and Carnage must duke it out while maintaining life by feeding on the various guards in the room. After one heck of a battle Venom finally beats Carnage and immediately tries to feed on him. When Venom does so Peter is stripped of the Venom particles in his system and Eddie gets control of the Venom suit.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Carnage is a downloadable character, for X-box 360, PS3, Wii, and Nitendo DS. Carnage has many neat attacks, he can throw axes, enlarge his head, and you rank up points for when you kill people.
Other Media
Spider-Man the Animated SeriesCarnage appears as Cletus Kasady but is seen as a mad man more then a serial killer. He later gets sent to Ravencroft where he meets Eddie Brock who was in Ravencroft due to his actions as Venom. Cletus later witnesses the symbiote rescuing Eddie and turning him into Venom. Later on Cletus gets a visit from Baron Mordo who tells Cletus he will give him power like Eddie if he works from him in his efforts to free Dormammu. Cletus says yes and Mordo turns him into Carnage. Carnage then steals the life force of various victims and uses thm to free Dormammu from his dimension. He later ends up fighting Spider-Man, Iron Man, Venom in which he is defeated by being thrown into Dormammu's dimensional portal along with Venom.
Later in the series, in an alternate reality, the Carnage symbiote is scene escaping a dimensional portal and bonds with Spider-Man.
Spider-Man Unlimited
Carnage appears as one of the main villains in the series and is working with Venom. They had a plan to get the world infected with symbiotes. Later in the series Venom, and Carnage fuse together but are later beaten.
Spectacular Spider Man
So far only Cletus Kasady appears in a small cameo. He is not Carnage during the second season. He is at Ravencroft in a group seminar with other super villians.
| Super Name: | Carnage |
| Real Name: | Cletus Kasady |
| Aliases: |
Cletus Kasady Gwen Stacy Ben Reilly Norrin Radd Peter Parker |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Alien |
| 1st Appearance: | The Amazing Spider-Man #344 |
| Appears in: | 123 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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