Cletus Kasady (Earth 130894)

Cletus Kasady, Carnage
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## **History**

*"However disgusting I may look is nothing compared to what you'll look like when I dismember your bowels and leave you lying in a pool of your own blood. For your own sake, show some fucking respect!"*

**Carnage during his battle with Venom and Spiderman.**

Cletus Kasady was a sadistic and malicious serial killer that had a long history of violence and abuse credited to his reputation.

He is first mentioned by NYPD Officer Jefferson Davies in The Reptile Kingdom being the reason that most of Force is depleted at the moment because they're having to expend all of their resources chasing (that psychopath) Kasady.

Kasady is then next mentioned and eventually encountered in Uneasy Alliance where the NYPD actually manage to locate him hiding in a run down apartment in Lower Harlem. Spiderman lends his assistance to the NYPD although it is initially rejected. Kasady uses this to his advantage and plays the two against each other, using the accusation that Spiderman was responsible for the death of a young Woman some few weeks earlier (although this later proven to be the Chameleon using Spidermans identity as a disguise).

Kasady announced that he had the building wired up with homemade explosives and attempted to ransom with the NYPD in exchange for safe passage out of New York and $50,000. This was proven to be false as Kasady actually only wanted to blow up the building for the thrill of it.

This plan was eventually thwarted when Captain Stacey allowed Spiderman to sneak in to the building and apprehend Kasady, disarming him of the detonator and allowing the building to be evacuated whilst the bomb disposal team stormed the building and disarmed the explosives.

Upon arrested, the maniacal Cletus Kasady laughed as he was placed inside a Police Car, vowing that he would reek "Carnage" when he eventually gets out. This in itself a foreshadowing for his next appearance.

### **Becoming Carnage**

After Venom had been kidnapped and experimented on by A.I.M, they managed to successfully clone the Alien Symbiote that had attached itself to Spiderman prior and Venom currently. Although once the combined forces of S.H.I.E.L.D , Spiderman and Iron Man managed to destroy the A.I.M facility and apprehend a majority of their scientists, the opposing forces of Tombstone and Kingpin's forces stole the cloned Alien Symbiote.

Almost immediately after, Elias Stone was informed by his scientists that this particular Symbiote required someone stronger and more unstable than Eddie Brock to bond with it, otherwise the Symbiote would burn through their life force in little to no time at all. Because of this, he orders Tombstone to break Cletus Kasady out of the Ravencroft institute where he currently resided after his arrest and brought him to the Kingpins base of operations where the Symbiote was also being held.

Kasady was then blackmailed by the Kingpin and conditioned to kill Spiderman in return for his early release and the gift of the Symbiote. Naturally, Kasady obliged as he wanted his own reasons for wanting to kill Spiderman. He bonded with the Symbiote successfully and the two henceforth became known as Carnage.

Although he was initially obedient, Carnage began his slaughtering spree as soon he was set upon the unsuspecting City of New York. When the Kingpin ordered him to concentrate on killing Spiderman only, Carnage turned on Kingpins men who had accompanied him and slaughtered them as well.

Carnage arranged the dead bodies to a form a message that read: "Told you so, CK". It was unclear who the message was actually intended for, but Spiderman nethertheless hunted down Kasady (unaware that he was bonded with the new Symbiote until their first encounter on a rooftop) and engaged him in battle. Unprepared and outmatched, Spiderman was beaten within an inch of his life, saved only by the arrival of Jefferson Davies and his SWAT team. Carnage retreated but vowed to return.

### **Final Fight with Spiderman and Venom**

Kasady carried on with his murdering spree when he was again located and attacked, this time by S.H.I.E.L.D forces, aided by Spiderman. Carnage managed to kill a few S.H.I.E.L.D agents and focused his attention on finally killing Spiderman. He was about to deliver the killing blow but was involuntarily halted when the Symbiote began sensing its 'other' that was close in proximity.

Venom confessed that although Carnage may be his spawn, he was created unnaturally and therefore regarded him as a disgusting recreation on perfection. Enraged by this, Carnage abandoned his assault on Spiderman and the others, instead focusing on his efforts on murdering Venom. The two seemed evenly matched, but Carnage proved too powerful for him. Realizing that Carnage may not actually be stopped, Nick Fury attempted to activate an experimental explosive device as a last resort. Carnage attacked and disarmed Fury of the device, only for Venom to detonate it while grappling with Carnage, causing an inward implosion that disintegrated both of them instantly.

## **Powers & Abilities**

Before bonding with the Carnage Symbiote, Kasidy was already a dangerous individual. He had a long history of violence and abuse, most of which came from his Father. When he was a young boy, he was apparently responsible for the death of the Family Cat. Going forward, he was obsessed with causing harm and chaos to whoever and whatever he could, finding pleasure in these acts.

Although he was tall, he was not especially lean or strong and thus not an expert in hand to hand combat instead preferring to use weapons to dispatch victims. He was skilled with sharp objects, knowing how to properly cut, slice and carve up bodies.

He also appeared to be a skilled engineer, as he was able to build homemade explosives from scratch using the materials at his disposal to create them.

After bonding with the Carnage Symbiote, he gained all of Spidermans abilities which seemed to have been inherited genetically from its parental Symbiote upon the spawns birthing. In addition to this, Carnage could create tendrils from anywhere on his body that he used in place of the traditional webs, much like Venom (unlike Venom who could only generate these in replacement of Spidermans webbing).

Carnage could morph his hands into weapons, such as pointed blades, axes and sharp claws which were capable of dismembering the arm of regular Human being given that it was applied with much force.

## **Appearances**

Kasady has appeared in a total of 2 stories, 1 chapter and 3 issues. He has been mentioned in only one.

First mentioned by Jefferson Davies in The Reptile Kingdom as being the reason for the depletion in the NYPD, as most of their resources are being focused on locating and stopping him. His whereabouts were currently unknown at this point but he already had murders credited to his name.

He was first encountered in Uneasy Alliance where he was threatening to blow up the apartments he was in when the Police arrived to arrest him.

His next and final appearance was in Blood Brothers where he bonded with the second Symbiote and became the entity known as Carnage. He was defeated and consequently murdered when Venom sacrificed himself to detonate an experimental incendiary advice developed by S.H.I.E.L.D that instantly disintegrated both himself and Kasady.

## **Notes & Trivia**

* Cletus Kasady was described by NYPD Officer Jefferson Davies as "that psychopath". Captain Stacey called him a monster and remarked that his daughter Gwen used to leave the room every time he was mentioned.
* Kasady was exceptionally cunning. He was aware that Spiderman and the NYPD were not on good terms and exploited it, taunting the NYPD for working with a 'murderer' to catch one.
* According to fellow inmates at Ravencroft, he would often try to psychologically torture some of the weaker prisoners and officers alike.
* He is shown to be very sadistic, slaughtering people and rearranging their bodies just to spell out a message.
* As Carnage, his sadism is multiplied as he was reported to have 'flayed' several of his victims.
* He is extremely mentally unstable, evident by his constant need to laugh after every sentence and talk to himself. He has only ever shown to deter from this persistent emotion when he was called 'disgusting' and 'disgraceful' by Venom upon their first meeting after Carnage embraced his parental Symbiote with open arms. This genuinely seemed to offend Carnage and caused him to abandon his pursuit of Spiderman and attack Venom in a fit of rage.
* He claimed that Nick Fury had earned his respect as he was prepared to take him on alone to risk it all trying to take him down with a bomb.
* Carnage almost kills Spiderman twice. He is one of the only supervillains to come close to actually murdering Spiderman, the others being The Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) and the combined efforts of the Sinister Six.