Carnage

*"We will all have our revenge. Small thinkers. We have an opportunity to make a mark on this world so inedible our names will be history itself. All humans are pestilence. We can create a new race, part human, part symbiote that will rule the world. A new breed. All else that is not of our blood must be expelled."*
―Carnage[src]
**Carnage** was a murderous Symbiote and the off-spring of Venom. It was spawned from Venom and later bonded with serial killer Cletus Kasady. Cletus acquired the symbiote through biting a reporter's hand, leaking a tiny bit of Venom. At the moment of its birth, it despised its father Venom and sought to eliminate him with the help of Kasady, making a deal to free Kasady's lover Frances Barrison and then kill both Venom and Eddie Brock, Venom's host. After Barrison kidnapped Anne Weying and Patrick Mulligan and brought them to a cathedral in order to lure Brock and Venom, Venom and Carnage then fought each other, with Carnage gaining the upper hand, but just as he was about to kill Venom and Brock, Venom made Barrison scream one final time to separate the two Symbiotes from their hosts. Carnage attempted to bond again with Kasady but Venom, who re-bonded much quicker, devoured it along with its host.

## Biography

### Birth of Carnage

#### Spawning from Venom

*"I've tasted blood before, my friend, and that is not it!"*
―Cletus Kasady to Eddie Brock[src]
Carnage was conceived in a violent place at a violent moment, as convicted serial killer Cletus Kasady was just put on death row, he talked to reporter Eddie Brock, who was the host of the Venom symbiote, at San Quentin State Prison.

Cletus angrily taunted Eddie during their conversation by saying that he wishes heartbreak to him before his death, even mentioning Eddie's deceased mother, which provoked Venom to attack him. After this, Cletus bit Eddie's hand and instead of getting blood, the serial killer got an offspring of the Venom, that would later be known as Carnage.

#### Escaping from Prison

*"Something wicked this way comes!"*
―Cletus Kasady[src]

During the supposed final moments of Cletus Kasady, the Carnage symbiote suppressed the drugs he was put through for the lethal injection process. The symbiote then started to manifest itself through Cletus' body, much to the horror of everyone present. After a huge explosion, the symbiote and Cletus completely merged into one entity and quickly started to rampage across the prison.

Just as Carnage was about to murder the prison warden, an alarm disturbed the symbiote and let him escape. After destroying the alarm, Carnage killed multiple prison guards and freed all the prisoners from their cells. The psychotic symbiote killed everyone that was standing in their way to freedom until they eventually caught up to the warden and brutally killed him before escaping from San Quentin State Prison.

### Continuing the Rampage

#### Searching for Shriek

*"You are real."
"I am. And once I kill that thing that made me, we will be indestructible."
"I know where to find him, but first, I need you to help me find something I lost."
"Deal!"
"Deal."*
―Cletus Kasady and Carnage[src]

After Carnage killed another person so that Cletus could steal his clothes, Cletus found a car and took it while Carnage talked to its host, saying that they needed to kill Venom so they can be unstoppable, with Cletus agreeing to do it as long as Carnage helped him find Shriek. Both then drove to the Ravencroft while destroying many cars on their way.

En route, they eventually arrived at a gas station where Cletus brutally beat the worker to death and used the employee computer that was there so that Carnage could enter the Internet and search for the inmates in the top secret Ravencroft files, finding out that Shriek was indeed alive.

#### Infiltrating Ravencroft

*"She does that again, I’ll eat her face."*
―Carnage to Cletus Kasady[src]

Carnage managed to infiltrate the Ravencroft institute and enter Shriek's cell, the symbiote then brutally choked the head doctor, Camille Pazzo while Cletus reunited with his lover. Shriek was introduced to Carnage as the symbiote freed her from her cell and Cletus kissed her.

All of them then got in the car and escaped while being chased by the San Francisco Police, during the chase, Carnage used his tentacles to grab the car on the air during their escape as well as destroying the choppers and cars that were following them. However, Carnage was deeply disturbed when Shriek attacked the police with her sonic scream, until Cletus told her to stop, saying he's sensitive to sound, with Carnage threatening Shriek by saying that if she ever did that again the symbiote would "eat her face".

### The Red Wedding

#### Kidnapping the Guests

*"A wedding?"
"Three guests."
"One for each of us."
"The cop who took my eye."
"Eddie Brock."
"And Venom. A red wedding."*
―Carnage, Cletus Kasady and Shriek[src]

After Carnage helped Cletus and Shriek burn down the St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children, the symbiote then learned that his host wanted to marry Shriek at a cathedral and the three decided to get guests as gifts for each of them. Carnage went to kidnap Patrick Mulligan, a cop who shot Shriek's left eye years ago and was the guest that she chose for their wedding, while Shriek kidnapped Anne Weying to lure Venom and Eddie to them. They also kidnapped a priest to properly perform the ceremony. The two then presented their gifts to each other at the cathedral and prepared to get married.

#### Duel at Grace Cathedral

*"Father, one of us must die."*
―Carnage to Venom[src]

Just as Cletus' wedding with Frances concluded, Eddie arrived to stop their rampage, as Carnage reveals itself to its father, the Venom got scared and retreated into Eddie's body. After Eddie bribed Venom into transforming him again, Carnage tried to attack Venom but was blasted point-blank by one of Frances' sonic screams, Carnage backhanded her away and forcibly dragged the horrified Cletus back into itself when he tried to rush to his wife's side.

As the duel between the two Symbiotes and their hosts started, Carnage quickly overpowered Venom. After sending Frances to kill Mulligan and warning her to keep her mouth shut, Carnage went back to attack Venom and devoured the priest who had wed Cletus and Frances to power up itself. Carnage trounced its progenitor but was briefly weakened by Daniel Lewis, Anne's fiancé, who poured burning gasoline on him. Enraged, Carnage attempted to eat Dr. Lewis but was stopped by Venom until the church's bell began to toll which forced the two symbiotes out of their hosts until Carnage ripped out the clapper. As Cletus brutalized Eddie for having misrepresented his life-story and promised to make him suffer, Carnage retrieved Anne from where they had hidden her and planned to kill her.

Carnage scaled the side of the church, leaving Venom crushed beneath a chunk of debris, Frances then accused Carnage of going too far and told Cletus to stop, but the symbiote attempted to throttle her which caused Cletus to attempt to break away from it. With Frances seemingly dead, Carnage forced Cletus back inside itself, but the distraction had caused Venom to escape the rubble and arrive to impale Carnage through the head with a broken piece of scaffolding while rescuing Anne. As Carnage declared his victory, Venom provoked Frances to unleash a final scream that separated both Symbiotes from their hosts and collapsed the cathedral. As Cletus and Carnage separated while falling to the ground, the symbiote tried to rebond with the incapacitated Cletus but it was grabbed by Venom and promptly eaten, much to Cletus' dismay who was also killed by the Lethal Protector.

### Legacy

Despite being killed, the massacre left by Carnage and Cletus as well as their connection with Eddie caused the authorities to know of Eddie's connection with the Venom symbiote and hunt him down, which resulted in Eddie and Venom becoming fugitives and running away to a remote island.

## Personality

*"Let there be... CARNAGE!!!"*
―Carnage[src]
Carnage is a sentient being of pure evil, shown by how moments after the symbiote was born it wreaked havoc in Prison during its escape. Carnage also has a deep hatred for its father, Venom, wanting to kill him so that he could be the only symbiote on the planet and thus unstoppable. It can be also assumed that Carnage's malicious nature could've been partly inherited from Cletus' own yet at the same time devoid of the latter's restraints and likeable qualities.

The symbiote greatly enjoyed watching other people suffer, which at first coincided with his host Cletus Kasady, but they soon proved to not be a perfect match as the symbiote had no problem in attacking Shriek, something Cletus was against, though Carnage still forced Kasady to stay with him. Despite their disagreements, the symbiote still seemed to latch onto Cletus and would do anything to stay with him, even if Kasady wanted to leave.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"Oh, shit!"
"Uh, where you going? What are you doing?"
"This is much worse than I thought. That is a red one. Wow. Uh..."
"Red one?"
"We should leave immediately."*
―Venom and Eddie Brock[src]
* **Symbiotic Physiology**: The symbiote gives its host several superhuman attributes once they bonds with it. This symbiotic relationship increases the host's strength, durability, speed, agility and healing at superhuman levels so long they synch with one another.
	+ **Possession**: Carnage can phase into its host's flesh as if intangible in order to bond with it, enhancing its physical abilities to inhuman levels thus allowing them to overpower other humans with ease and heal from severe injuries such as broken bones and damaged tissue in seconds. Carnage can also suppress its host's consciousness in order to fully control it, especially if the host attempted to resist and proved incompatible. Due to its cross physiology, Carnage is internally connected to Kasady's bloodstream.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Carnage can enhance its host's strength to superhuman level, enough to grab and pull an helicopter, as well as destroy a car and tear every bars with such muscles.
	+ **Superhuman Mobility**: Carnage can enhance his host's speed and agility to superhuman level, allowing them to move several feet per second and scaling buildings, easily perform acrobatic and gymnastic stunts, as well as keeping up with Venom during the final battle.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Possessing absolute control over its mass and that of host it bonded with, Carnage can enhance their shared durability to the point of immune to bullets and sharp weapons as shown when their combined form easily shrugged off multiple bullets fired at the duo by Police.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Carnage symbiote can heal its host at accelerated rate.
	+ **Aerokinesis/Whirligigikinesis**: During the prison break-out, Carnage displayed the ability to create powerful tornadoes and air currents by rapidly spinning.
	+ **Technopathy**: Carnage can take control of machinery and computers to hijack them. He was able to start a vehicle by inserting its finger to the ignition.
	+ **Haemokinetic Shapeshifting**:      Due to peculiar circumstances that surrounded its birth (being the very fragment of Venom that regenerated into an entire new symbiote upon exposure to Kasady's biomass and awakened by lethal injection in the middle of latter's execution), Carnage was born with blood-like form in stark contrast of more goo-like regular symbiotes, but its full control over its mass was just as good as the latter, able to shape constructs and appendages from its very being which Cletus can exploit in combat. Carnage was capable of making a hole on the torso to allow the bullets fired by the guards to pass and hit the other.
		- **Haemokinetic Symbiotic Suit Manifestation**: Carnage can fully emerge from the body of Cletus to envelop its host's body to form its own that akin to a malleable yet resilient sort of combat full-body suit that has eyes, claws, an extendable fanged mouth with a long prehensile tongue. Unlike previous known symbiote hosts however, the transformation sequence involved Carnage rapidly manifested like rapidly growing tumor that warp Cletus' body from inside out as opposed of fluidly emerging and wrapping itself about him.
		- **Haemokinetic Construct Creation**: In the same vein with Riot, Carnage displayed great mastery over its shape-shifting ability that it can create bladed armaments such as swords, spikes, and darts can be used all at once.
		- **Haemokinetic Camouflage Capabilities**: Carnage's advanced shape-shifting ability also enables it to completely appear as any type of clothing or garment that Cletus wishes.
		- **Haemokinetic Tentacle Extension**: Carnage can also manifest a number of tentacles at will to bludgeon, impale, grab and smash or wrap and crush foes as well as quickly move from one place to the next. Combined with the aforementioned ability to create blade armaments from its blood mass, the symbiote can use them to launch sharp projectiles as the form of long-range attack
		- **Telepathy**: Carnage can communicate telepathically with its host which is inaudible to others.
		- **Fangs**: Carnage is granted a powerful jaw filled with fangs that can dismantle flesh and bones of any species.
	+ **Hunger empowerment:** In addition to his starvation, Carnage can achieve more strength that enables it to easily outmatch his own kind and grow significantly several times the regular size of the symbiote, allowing it to overwhelm and injury its parent.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: To be added
* **Expert Tactician**: As a tactician, Carnage was able to stab and injure his parent repeatedly, to the point of tiring him.
* **Skilled Combatant**: To be added

## Weaknesses

*"He's sensitive to sound."*
―Cletus Kasady to Shriek[src]
* **Sonic Vibrations**: As powerful as Carnage is, he is vulnerable to extremely loud noise and even that of intense sonic vibrations as it drives the symbiote crazy like his father Venom.
* **Intense Heat / Fire**: Aside from the intense noise that causes Carnage to go crazy, he can also be injured through exposure to intense heat, such as from lasers, fire, etc just like his father.
* **Desynchronization**: Carnage and Cletus cannot function at fullest if the duo are not fully synch in mind as expected from those who hosted symbiote in their bodies even with their great compatibility. This proves to be their undoing as when Cletus and Carnage find themselves having a fallout due to the latter's attempts to kill Barrison, they unwittingly give Venom and Eddie the chance to defeat them once and for all.
* **Hostless**: Carnage cannot use its powers or feed without a host and becomes vulnerable.

## Relationships

Allies* Cletus Kasady † - Host
* Warden † - Victim
* Camille Pazzo † - Victim
* Frances Barrison/Shriek † - Former Ally
* Detective Mulligan - Attempted Victim
* Dan Lewis - Attempted Killer
* Anne Weying - Hostage and Attempted Victim

## Trivia

* In the Comics, Carnage is a Symbiote that was created when Eddie Brock broke out of jail. However, there was still a little bit of the symbiote left and it bonded to Cletus Kasady, Eddie's cellmate.
	+ Also in comics, Carnage is one with his symbiote in body and will. The film version established Cletus and Carnage as two separate minds. Carnage attempts to kill Shriek because of her sonic scream; which angered Kasady greatly.
* Carnage was teased in the mid-credits scene of *Venom* when Cletus Kasady mentions that once he escapes San Quentin State Prison, "*there's gonna be carnage.*"
* Carnage is the first known symbiote to be born on Earth.

## Behind the Scenes

* Carnage was originally going to make his Sony's Spider-Man Universe's debut in *Venom*.
* Woody Harrelson was reluctant at first to voice Carnage and requested *Venom: Let There Be Carnage* director Andy Serkis to do the voice, but Serkis encouraged him to find the right tone for his performance, resulting in a voice with which Harrelson ultimately found himself pleased.
* Arie Dekker was a stunt double for Woody Harrelson in the role of Carnage.

## References

The Sony's Spider-Man Universe Wiki has a collection of images and media related to **Carnage**.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *Venom: Let There Be Carnage*
2. ↑ How Sony Learned to Cede Control to Marvel on *Spider-Man: Homecoming*
3. ↑ *Venom 2*: Woody Harrelson Was Convinced to Voice Carnage

## External Links

* Carnage on Marvel Database
* Carnage on Wikipedia