History Characters / SSUVenomsEnemies

* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, the Riot symbiote was one of many that spawned from Venom. The relationship is barely explored, but they seemingly have no "relation" in this film.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: She is [[Franchise/XMen a mutant]] in the comics but can´t be called that thanks to copyright issues in the movie. The closest they get to calling her one is when she explains to Cletus that they are moving her to Ravencroft because of her mutation.

!!''[[Characters/CarnageCletusKasady Cletus Kasady]]''

* OedipusComplex: Eddie's journal notes speculate Cletus might have one, based on him digging up his mother's grave.

* NonActionBigBad: As Drake, he has no fighting skills, sending his men to do his job instead. As Riot, however, he becomes a match even for Venom itself. [[spoiler:As Drake, he gets in a brief scuffle with Eddie in the climax, but is quickly defeated.]]

* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: He's a PMC who's the head of the Life Foundation's security team and takes his job very seriously. Even the threat of being eaten by an alien monster doesn't deter him.

* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Characters/TheAmazingSpiderManSeriesExtracanonical Earth-120703]].

* EvilIsBigger: Riot towers over the already massive Venom, and is also far stronger.

* EvilIsBigger: Initially, Carnage seems to be the same size as Venom, but grows to be absolutely gigantic in the final battle, even more so than his predecessor Riot.

* DragonInChief: While Carnage needs Cletus as a host to function, it is clear that Carnage is the dominant one of the pair while Cletus is only a threat to Venom because of the symbiote, and has resort making desperate pleas to Carnage to get him under his control.

!!!'''Citizenship:''' British-American

* Ambiguously Brown: Aside from a throw away line abkut having British parents that immigrated to the US. Carlton's ethnicity is never clear or stated. Though is likely he is South Asian like his British Pakistani actor. His name does not indicate Asian heritage.

* AxCrazy: The man is so deranged that he has to be kept in a straitjacket within a smaller cell within his cell. When Eddie enters his cell, Cletus is writing "Welcome Eddie" with his blood. He ''claims'' he can turn the creepy-serial-killer act on and off, though, and mocks the idea of waxing lyrical about the beauty of arterial spray.

* OffWithHisHead: Venom says [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck this guy!"]] before finishing him off by biting his head off.

* CompositeCharacter: While this Carnage has some similarities to the original version of Carnage, his origins are very similar to Ultimate Carnage, being created when Venom's bio-matter is mixed together with another party, Ultimate Spider-Man in the comics and Eddie in the movie. He has a strong similarity to Anti-Venom, being created when some of Eddie's blood and a piece of the Venom symbiote mutate into a whole new symbiote after its host was exposed to an outside influence, Mr. Negative's Darkforce energies in the comics, and the lethal injection drugs in the movie, and he is a more powerful clone of Venom. Carnage's ability to interface with and hack technology is similar to that of Scorn, one of Carnage's offspring in the comics.

!!!'''Citizenship:''' American

* HorrifyingtheHorror: A subdued version. You wouldn't think much could bother Cletus as he's an unhinged cannibalistic serial killer, but he is genuinely distressed and concerned when he bites Eddie's hand and tastes the symbiote instead of his blood.

!!!'''Species:''' Mutant

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: She is [[Franchise/XMen a mutant]] in the comics but can´t be called that thanks to copyright issues in the movie.