10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Carnage

During the 1990s, Venom's spawn fused with a murderer called Cletus Kasady, creating a new supervillain called Carnage. According to Venom's host, Eddie Brock, Kasady is "the worst serial killer to ever walk the Earth. Body count only dictators and plagues can dream of".

His mother went through electroshock therapy while she was pregnant with Kasady, meaning he never stood a chance of having anything that resembled a normal life.

Born without the ability to feel compassion, guilt, remorse, or pity, Carnage grew up to become evil incarnate. He has killed children, turned hundreds of people into slaves, and forced a town of citizens to pull out their own teeth.

Carnage was such an instant hit in comics, he spawned the series, Maximum Carnage, which inspired games for the Super Nintendo and the Mega Drive. He was also one of the Big Bads in the 1994 cartoon, Spider-Man, and was the last adversary the wallcrawler faced in the season finale.

However, there is a lot of things people don't know about Carnage. We know he's evil and powerful but few comic fans knows how his powers work or who else has worn his Symbiote. So, let's have a look at the misconceptions everyone makes about Carnage.

Eddie Brock became the supervillain, Venom, after he encountered a black gooey alien known as a Klyntar, or otherwise as a symbiote. After Brock lost his symbiote, he was sent to jail, where he shared a cell with the serial killer, Cletus Kasady.

Eventually, the creature found Brock and bonded with him once more. After Venom left, Kasady noticed the symbiote had left a liquid goo behind. This “goo” was Venom’s offspring and it bonded with Kasady, turning him into Carnage. This may be common knowledge to Marvel fans, but very few people know that Spider-Man destroyed the Carnage symbiote after one of his battles with Kasady.

So, how did he get it back? Well, the alien warlord, Blastaar, launched an invasion of Earth through a series of portals. One of the portals led to a dimension called The Negative Zone, where a dormant Klyntar awaited. As the portals opened, Kasady was naturally drawn to them as he sensed a symbiote lay on the other side. Kasady managed to locate the alien, and bonded with it to become Carnage once more.

Because these circumstances are somewhat convoluted, the idea that this symbiote is not the original Carnage has been dismissed in some stories.