Who Is Carrion (McBride)? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Carrion (McBride) is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Malcolm McBride, with over 55 comic issue appearances. Malcolm McBride was a rival student of Peter Parker who became the second Carrion. Able to rot flesh with just a touch, Carrion became an adversary to Parker's alter-ego Spider-Man.

Who is Carrion (McBride)?

Origin The second Carrion was a rival student of Peter Parker by the name of Malcolm McBride . Malcolm would find a test tube of the genetic make-up of Carrion left years before by professor Miles Warren and accidentally exposed himself to the virus and becoming the next Carrion. Creation The second Carrion was created by Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema and first appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man issue 149 (1989). Although this character was obviously based on the original Carrion (Warren) created by Bill Mantlo . Major Story Arcs Versus Spider-Man After becoming Carrion, Malcom (controlled by the virus) would team up with Hobgoblin to kill Spider-Man but the plans would backfire after one of Hobgoblin's targets was Carrion's mother. With some of McBride's memories still inside him, he attacks Hobgoblin and Hobgoblin's bomb goes off defeating the two. Maximum Carnage Carrion would later come out of hiding when the Maximum Carnage event took place and would end up joining the Carnage family in the slaughter. But he would later be defeated by being turned back into McBride by the combined powers of Iron Fist , Dagger , and Deathlok and sent to Ravencroft with Carnage Family member .

Key facts

Carrion (McBride) is of infection origin and first appeared in "What About Carrion?!". The character is published by Marvel. With 55 recorded issue appearances, Carrion (McBride) ranks among the most featured characters in comics.