War of Carnage

The **War of Carnage** was a huge war-like battle from Marvel's *Ultimate Spider-Man*. It deals with Spider-Man and his team trying to save the city from being destroyed by the Carnage Symbiote. The battle takes place in the Season 4 three-part special, "The Symbiote Saga."

## History

### Background

It started back when Doctor Octopus was working for HYDRA and had captured Agent Venom with help from Rhino to get the Venom Symbiote and recruit it for his Sinister Six with a new host. But Spider-Man and the Web Warriors helped Agent Venom get it back and it was upgraded with new armor it took from Kraven when he was bonded to it by Doctor Octopus. However, Doctor Octopus got a small sample of the Venom Symbiote and used it to create a new special kind of Venom Symbiote that he could command called Anti-Venom with help from a HYDRA scientist named Dr. Michael Morbius. When Spider-Man tried to stop Doctor Octopus along with Agent Venom and Patrioteer, the Anti-Venom Symbiote attacked Agent Venom and burned off some of the original Venom Symbiote from him. Then it bonded to Patrioteer and turned him into Anti-Venom who was very powerful and was attracted to Venom Symbiote to destroy it to the point where it seriously hurt Agent Venom. Doctor Octopus wanted Anti-Venom for his Sinister Six but Spider-Man was able to subdue Anti-Venom with help from Iron Patriot and Dr. Michael Morbius. However, in the process, Agent Venom was injured and lost his connection to the Venom Symbiote which turned him back into Flash while Patrioteer was put into a coma by the Anti-Venom Symbiote as Harry. Sometime after the Attack on the Triskelion, Mary Jane began to watch over Harry at Oscorp while he was in his coma then Flash got good news from Dr. Connors that he and the Venom Symbiote had fully recovered so Flash turned back into Agent Venom and started to run around New York City with Spider-Man following him. But then they are both attacked by Dr. Michael Morbius who was now wearing a high-tech HYDRA battle armor. Spider-Man and Agent Venom tried fighting him off but during the fight, Agent Venom started having trouble with the Venom Symbiote so Morbius took a piece from of it. Morbius then took the piece back to his lab where Doctor Octopus was after he became a prisoner of HYDRA for his betrayal. Under Crossbones' orders, Morbius tried to use the piece of the Venom Symbiote to create a new and more powerful Venom Symbiote to form a new special kind of weaponized armor for HYDRA with Doctor Octopus' help. Meanwhile, on their way back to the Triskelion the Venom Symbiote takes control of Agent Venom and takes him to Morbius' lab with Spider-Man following him. Spider-Man tried to get Agent Venom to control the Venom Symbiote because he wasn't ready to face HYDRA head on but it didn't work. After the new Venom Symbiote was completed, Morbius brought in some HYDRA Soldiers to take Doctor Octopus away now that HYDRA had no use for him anymore. But Spider-Man and Agent Venom arrived at the lab then Doctor Octopus broke free from the HYDRA Soldiers and injected Morbius with a bat DNA serum that mutated him into a human bat monster so in retaliation, Morbius threw the new Venom Symbiote at Doctor Octopus which bonded to him. Spider-Man and Agent Venom then fought off the HYDRA Soldiers then they fought off both Doctor Octopus and Morbius. But Agent Venom was still having troubles with Venom Symbiote until Morbius escaped so he helped Spider-Man fight off Doctor Octopus but then the Venom Symbiote retreated and turned Agent Venom back into Flash. Flash tried to change back but the Venom Symbiote wouldn't respond to him so he tried throwing stuff at Doctor Octopus until Spider-Man used a sonic wave generator to unbound Doctor Octopus from the new Venom Symbiote which also neutralized his nanobot enhancements and rendered him unconscious. But then the new Venom Symbiote took on its own form as a giggling red version of Venom and called itself Carnage.

### The Battle

Carnage attacks Spider-Man and Flash but Flash still can't get the Venom Symbiote to work so Spider-Man tries to use the sonic wave generator again but it doesn't work on Carnage then Carnage sees New York City and decides to go and attack it. Spider-Man tries to fight off Carnage outside of the lab but he is too strong until Flash decides to go fight off Carnage himself which allows him to regain control of the Venom Symbiote and become Agent Venom again who beats and subdues Carnage. But when it escapes, both Spider-Man and Agent Venom attack him with sonic wave generators from the lab which causes Carnage to explode which in turn destroys the lab. However, the pieces of Carnage spread and land on everyone in the city which transforms them all into Carnages because Carnage was actually a big Symbiote bomb.

The lab then becomes a Carnage hive and Spider-Man is knocked over the building and gets knocked out then when he wakes up, he gets a call from Mary Jane telling him that the Carnages are trying to get into Oscorp and that she needs his help. Spider-Man then sees a whole bunch of Carnages who turn people into more Carnages by bonding them with the Carnage Symbiote and attack the city who later attack him. Then after escaping the Carages, Spider-Man meets up with Captain America on the top of a building and they are both attacked by Carnage Hulk who destroys the building they're on. But Captain America and Spider-Man manage to escape and fight off Carnage Hulk on the streets until Captain America comes up with a plan to make Hulk angry enough for him to break free from the Carnage Symbiote by hitting him. But it doesn't seem to work so Spider-Man puts out a distress call and uses his taser webs to free Hulk from the Carnage Symbiote for a bit until the taser webs short out. They then fight off more Carnages until Cloak, Dagger, Iron Fist, and Agent Venom arrive to help after receiving Spider-Man's distress call. They fight off the Carnages and Dagger frees Hulk from the Carnage Symbiote with her powers but then more Carnages start coming after them. Cloak tries to contain the Carnages but it fails and he gets injured in the process so the heroes try to get to Oscorp to save Mary Jane and Harry but the Carnages have already invaded the place and are able to break into the room where Mary Jane and Harry are to get Harry. However, this causes Harry to transform back into Anti-Venom who grabs some of the Carnages and cures them by absorbing the Carnage Symbiotes into him since Anti-Venom was created to destroy Venom and the Carnage Symbiote was made from a sample of the Venom Symbiote. Then Anti-Venom tries to go after Agent Venom but the other heroes try to stop him but in the process, Dagger gets knocked out. Then Mary Jane arrives telling them to help Harry so Spider-Man asks her to help guide the remaining people who haven't bonded to the Carnage Symbiote using the Daily Bugle screens from the media lab at Midtown High which Cloak teleports her to and gets Dagger to safety. Spider-Man then comes up with a plan to lure Anti-Venom to the source of the Carnages at the Carnage Hive so he can burn them all away. Agent Venom uses himself as bait to lure Anti-Venom to the Carnage Hive while the other heroes fight through the Carnages then Mary Jane guides the remaining people to safety. The heroes make it to the Carnage Hive but then they are attacked by Carnage Shriek who Captain America fights off then both Iron Fist and Agent Venom get infected by the Carnage Symbiote until Anti-Venom cures them but they are rendered unconscious in the process. So Spider-Man takes Agent Venom to the Carnage Hive with Anti-Venom following them while a Carnage Symbiote bonds to Captain America. After fighting off some Carnages and Anti-Venom defeats Carnage Shriek, both Spider-Man and Anti-Venom get to the center of the Carnage Hive and find the Carnage Heart. Anti-Venom tries to cure the heart but then it starts to take over him so Spider-Man tries to get Harry to get out of the Anti-Venom Symbiote which he does by speaking to him as Peter Parker. Harry is able to free himself from the Anti-Venom Symbiote but it still needs a host for it to cure the Carnage Heart. Peter tries to bond with it but it doesn't work so Harry decides to let himself bond to the Anti-Venom Symbiote again to cure the Carnage Heart. Despite, Peter's objections, Harry lets himself become Anti-Venom again and destroys the Carnage Heart after getting both Spider-Man and Agent Venom to safety which works. The Carnage Hive gets destroyed and the people who are bonded to the Carnage Symbiote are all cured. Spider-Man then saves Harry from the remnants of the hive and even reveals to him that Flash is also Agent Venom. However, the remnants of the Carnage Hive and the Carnage Symbiote across the city start to come back together and form into another Carnage.

When Spider-Man and Agent Venom notice it, Spider-Man sends Harry to go find someplace safe and get help while both Spider-Man and Agent Venom follow Carnage to the center of the city where it forms into a Giant Carnage. They try to fight off the Giant Carnage but it's too strong then it starts heading for Midtown High so Spider-Man and Agent Venom try to beat it with electricity but that causes the Giant Carnage to explode and cover the whole school in the process with Mary Jane still inside it. Spider-Man and Agent Venom search the school for Mary Jane and find Stan who helps them fight off the Carnage Symbiote when it tries to attack them with big hands. After it shoves Agent Venom inside a locker, the school bell rings which scares away the Carnage Hands but it also causes Agent Venom to transform into Venom, burst out of the locker, and destroy it. Suddenly, they are attacked by Little Carnages and Stan is able to escape to safety through a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. escape hatch in a locker. During the fight, the Little Carnages start to hurt Venom after Carnage gained some of the Anti-Venom Symbiote. But Spider-Man and Venom manage to beat them and follow some footprints into the gymnasium where they find Morbius who attacks them and drains the life energy out of Venom which turns him back into Agent Venom due to Morbius' controlling his bat mutation. Morbius then sucks out both Spider-Man and Agent Venom's life energy but then Harry shows up as Patrioteer and defeats Morbius since his suit makes him immune to having his life energy drained. But then Carnage Spiders arrive and they all escape while Morbius leaves to look for something called the Carnage Queen. Spider-Man, Agent Venom, and Patrioteer all fight off the Carnage Spiders and escape to the media lab where they find another Carnage Hive and Mary Jane who has bonded to the Carnage Symbiote and becomes the Carnage Queen. Spider-Man tries to get Mary Jane to fight it but she refuses too and attacks them all until Morbius arrives and confronts Carnage Queen claiming to be her creator but she sends out her Carnage Bees to attack everyone. Morbius then takes control of Carnage Queen with a remote control device and has her attack Spider-Man, Venom, and Patrioteer but during the fight, Spider-Man takes the remote control from Morbius and uses it to try and free Mary Jane from the Carnage Queen Symbiote. But then Morbius gets the remote back and has Carnage Queen attack Spider-Man, Agent Venom, and Patrioteer again. She then knocks them all out and Morbius takes them to the secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base under the school and when Spider-Man wakes up, he is confronted by Crossbones who has both Agent Venom and Patrioteer in stasis tubes and uses Spider-Man to gain access to the base. Morbius also rearms the old confiscated HYDRA missiles in the S.H.I.E.L.D. with the Carnage Symbiote to attack and bond with the whole world. Morbius then commands the Carnage Queen to attack Spider-Man with the Carnage Bees but he is able to free her from Morbius' control. So Crossbones escapes with two of his HYDRA Soldiers but Morbius is left behind where he tries to drain Carnage Queen's life energy but it doesn't work so she drains his life energy instead. Spider-Man then frees Agent Venom and Patrioteer but they are all captured by the Carnage Queen until they all reveal their identities to her and with their talk, Mary Jane is able to free herself from the Carnage Queen's control and Agent Venom stops the HYDRA missiles from launching and bonding the whole world with the Carnage Symbiote.

### Aftermath

With Carnage completely gone, the city is safe again and Mary Jane is given treatment by Dr. Connors who helps her control her Carnage Symbiote abilities which she still kept to become Spider-Woman.

## Belligerents

### Web Warriors

* Spider-Man
* Agent Venom/Venom
* Patrioteer/Anti-Venom
* Captain America
* Cloak
* Dagger
* Iron Fist
* Stan

### Carnage Symbiote

* Carnage Queen/Mary Jane
* Carnage Hulk
* Carnage Shriek
* Carnage People
* Little Carnages
* Giant Carnage
* Carnage Hands
* Carnage Spiders
* Carnage Bees

### Other

* HYDRA
	+ Crossbones
	+ Morbius, the Living Vampire
	+ HYDRA Soldiers

## Videos

Ultimate Spider-Man Vs. The Sinister Six - Maximum Carnage - Official Disney XD UK-2Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 Season 4, Ep. 15 - Clip 1-2Ultimate Spider-Man Vs. The Sinister Six - Carnage Hulk - Official Disney XD UK-2Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 Season 4, Ep. 16 - Clip 1-2Ultimate Spider-Man Vs. The Sinister Six - Carnage Is Here - Official Disney XD UK-2Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 Season 4, Ep. 17 - Clip 1-2
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