Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)

Category:Marvel supervillains
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Category:Antagonists
Following a dark and disturbed childhood which culminated in him burning down an an orphanage, Cletus became a serial killer and was eventually convicted for eleven consecutive life sentences. Incarcerated at Ryker's Island Prison, Cletus eventually became cellmates with Eddie Brock, who had been separated from the Venom symbiote. When the alien returned to rescued Eddie, it left behind its asexually-produced offspring. The newborn symbiote bonded to Cletus and amalgamated with his blood, transforming him into the monstrous Carnage.
Over the years, Carnage became a recurring enemy to Spider-Man, Deadpool, the Avengers, and most notably Venom. Notoriously, Carnage once led a group of other killers and monsters on a rampage across Manhattan. Seemingly killed by the Sentry, Carnage eventually returned more powerful than ever and began harboring megalomaniacal ambitions of conquest and godhood.
Cletus perished while separated from his symbiote, but a cult worshiping the symbiote god Knull bonded him to a new symbiote linked to the dark god, reanimating him. The undead Carnage's plan to free Knull from his interstellar prison was opposed by Venom, who killed Cletus but freed Knull in the process. After destroying Knull as well, Venom became the new King in Black, but Cletus enacted a plan from within the Symbiote Hive-Mind to overthrow him. Absorbing Iron Man's Extrembiote, eventually Cletus and the Carnage symbiote had a falling out, the serial killer expunging it from the Extrembiote; as Carnage pursued its own dreams of godhood, Cletus assimilated the ruins of St. Estes into the Extrembiote, turning it into an extension of himself, confident the Carnage symbiote would see the error of its ways and eventually return to him.
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