Who Is Carnage? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Carnage is a Marvel comic book character, with over 780 comic issue appearances. Carnage is the offspring of the alien symbiote Venom. It bonded with the crazed serial killer, Cletus Kasady, thus creating one of Spider-Man's most murderous, brutal, and lethal adversaries.

Who is Carnage?

Note that this page deals with the Carnage symbiote itself. For more information on the various hosts go to their respective pages. Origin Carnage When the Venom symbiote returned to bond with an imprisoned Eddie Brock again, it unwittingly left behind the symbiote's offspring (The symbiotes reproduce asexually, once per generation. The children are then of no consequence to the parent. Thus, the Venom symbiote felt no need to inform Brock of the existence of the new symbiote). This Venom offspring got into a cut on Brock's cellmate Cletus Kasady , an insane serial killer, thus bonding with his blood and transforming him into Carnage (also causing his symbiote to turn red). He escaped prison, and began a series of murders, and at the scene of each crime, he wrote "Carnage Rules" on the walls with his own blood. Creation Carnage was created by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley and first appeared fully in Amazing Spider-Man issue 361 (1992).

Key facts

Carnage is of alien origin and first appeared in "Gun From The Heart!". The character is published by Marvel. With 780 recorded issue appearances, Carnage ranks among the most featured characters in comics.