History Characters / Carnage

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!!Dylan Brock

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[[folder:Eddie Brock/Carnage]]
!!Eddie Brock/Carnage

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* YouDontLookLikeYou: When drawn by Ryan Stegman, it's black with a red face, a black spiral-shaped eyespot, red lower arms and legs. When drawn by Federico Vicentini, it's dark red with a yellow spiral, has bone fangs, and has spider-like chelicerae.

!Carnage's Spawn

[[folder:Carnage V]]
!!Carnage V

!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'' #1

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* NotQuiteDead: Dylan Brock used his powers to blow it up at the end of ''Absolute Carnage'', but a piece survived. Dylan kept it and wanted to tame it, but learned the hard way that EvilIsNotAToy and ended up killing it in ''[[ComicBook/DonnyCatesVenom Venom]]'' #25.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In the animated shorts tying in to ''Absolute Carnage'', it continually berates Norman Osborn as his original personality tries to reassert itself.
* WeaponizedOffspring: It's an offshoot of the Dark Carnage symbiote, which can remotely control it at-will.
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[[folder:Miles Morales's Symbiote]]
!!Miles Morales's Symbiote

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!! Other Characters

[[folder:Doppelgänger]]
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Infinity War'' #1

--> '''Doppelganger:''' Grrrr!
--> '''Carnage:''' That's my line--! I'm supposed to be the monster here!

Originally a "living geometric pattern" that resided in another dimension, Doppelgänger and several other members of his kind were turned into twisted duplicates of various superheroes by the Magus during the Infinity War. Unlike the other knock-offs, this one survived that event, and has periodically resurfaced to torment the real Spider-Man.

For more information on him, please refer to the Spider-Man '''[[Characters/SpiderManClones Clones]]''' page.

[[folder:Shriek]]
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Francis Louise Barrison
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' #1

--> '''Cletus, via the Carnage Symbiote:''' She screams her pain as death and hatred. She kills for me. I like it. When it gets boring, I'll put her down like my mother's dog. I am Carnage. Killing someone I love will make me happy. So happy.

As a child, Shriek was abused by her parents, especially her mother, whose cruelty drove her to drugs, overeating, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and heavy metal]]. Shriek's mental stability was further damaged when she was shot in the head during an altercation with the police, and when she had a run-in with heroes ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, whose powers did ''something'' to Shriek, giving her various superhuman abilities of her own. Now fully capable of taking revenge on the world she blames for her misery, Shriek found soul mates of sorts in the form of her "husband" Carnage, and "son" Doppelganger.

For more information on her, please refer to the Spider-Man '''[[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryItoZ rogues gallery]]''' page.

[[folder:Doctor Jenner]]
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!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Superior Carnage Annual'' #1

--> ''"You don't have to keep holding on. Carnage has no hold on you. You're your own man now. You can die a man's death. Doesn't that sound fine? After all... what good are you without the symbiote? Hmm? And the way you are right now... so weak... so pitiful... why would Carnage want you? Carnage wants a worthy host... not some bed-ridden has-been. I know it's coming... I know you can sense it. And when it gets here... it will find me waiting... and you--dead! Don't worry, Cletus. I'll take good care of Carnage."''

A therapist working at Kramer Penitentiary, Dr. Jenner requested to work with spree killer Cletus Kasady, who had been separated from the Carnage symbiote by the Superior Spider-Man. Under his guidance, Cletus was admitted into the general populace and finally seemed ready to sever psychological ties with the symbiote. However, Jenner secretly desired to become the symbiote's new host and hired an inmate to shank Cletus, smothering him when he learned the symbiote was on its way. When it reached the prison, Jenner offered himself to it, but it vehemently rejected him and resuscitated Cletus, who proceeded to kill Jenner along with the rest of the prisoners.
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Pun aside, when face-to-face with the symbiote he gushes about how he's dreamed of becoming its host. The symbiote is not amused.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He kills Cletus Kasady in an effort to convince the symbiote to take him as its next host. It doesn't work.
* PsychoPsychologist: He only agreed to be Cletus' shrink to become the next incarnation of Carnage, and had Cletus murdered when the opportunity presented itself.
* TheShrink: He was a therapist at the Kramer Penitentiary.

[[folder:Sin-Eater I]]
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Emil Gregg
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #107

--> '''Sin-Eater:''' I can smell your sin. Like a mountain so massive that merely contemplating it requires madness.
--> '''Carnage:''' I tried confession, but that really didn't work.

A man who contacted Eddie Brock claiming to be the Sin-Eater serial killer, but was seemingly exposed as a compulsive confessor. In the wake of Carnage's morality (or lack thereof) being altered by the events of ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'', he was found to have died, but returns as a sin-eating demon, and places the symbiote serial killer in his crosshairs after Cletus interferes with his mission to wipe out the press.

For more information on him, please refer to the Venom '''[[Characters/VenomRoguesGallery Rogues Gallery]]''' page.

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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #361

[[folder:Dark Carnage Symbiote]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom'' Vol. 4 #7

-> '''AKA:''' Cletus Kasady
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #344; ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #361 (as Carnage); ''Venomized'' #3 (as Carnage II and Poison Carnage); ''Web of Venom: Carnage Born'' (as Dark Carnage)

-> '''AKA:''' Benjamin "Ben" Reilly
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 1, #145; ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol., 1 #410 (as Spider-Carnage)

-> '''AKA''' Norrin Radd
-> '''Debut:''' ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #48; ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 1 #430 (as Carnage Cosmic)

-> '''AKA:''' Doctor Karlin "Karl" Malus
-> '''Debut:''' ''Spider-Woman'' #50; ''Superior Carnage'' #2 (as Superior Carnage)

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-> '''AKA:''' ComicBook/NormanOsborn
-> '''Debut:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #14; ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #796 (as Red Goblin)

-> '''AKA:''' Norman "Normie" Harold Osborn
-> '''Debut:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #263; ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #799 (as Goblin Childe)

!! Notable Alternate Versions of Carnage

[[folder:Bizarnage]]

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-> '''Universe:''' Earth-9602
-> '''Debut:''' ''[[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Spider-Boy]]'' #1

--> ''"You am going nowhere, Spider-Boy--except going to die!''"

When the events of ''Marvel vs. DC'' caused both universes to temporarily combine, Carnage was merged with longtime Franchise/{{Superman}} foe Bizarro. This union created Bizarnage, a crazed monster that was the result of Project Cadmus's attempt to synthetically replicate alien [=DNA=].

* BigBadEnsemble: His rampage through Project Cadmus in ''Spider-Boy'' #1 allowed King Lizard[[note]]King Shark + Lizard[[/note]] to escape his cell.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: His eyes look like nothing more than jagged empty holes.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: He's cited as having previously appeared in ''The Outrageous Spider-Boy'' #254 and ''Way-Cool Spider-Boy'' #37, neither of which exist in RealLife.
* FusionDance: When the DC and Marvel Universe combined into the Amalgam Universe, so did everything and everyone in them, including two enemies of their flagship superheroes. To wit, he has Carnage's appearance and powers with and Bizarro's skin conditions and mental faculties.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Yeah, Project Cadmus didn't intend for their experiment to create a killing machine.
* HulkSpeak: A holdover from Bizarro.
* KillAndReplace: His plan for Spider-Boy, as he so eloquently puts it.
--> '''Bizarnage:''' Me want to be like you, Spider-Boy! But there am only one Spider-Boy! So stop fighting so Bizarnage will kill you!
* PaletteSwap: Is identical to Carnage, but stark white with jagged black eyes.
* PsychopathicManchild: Bizarro's naivety mixed with Carnage's bloodlust.

[[folder:Spider]]

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->'''AKA:''' Peter Benjamin Parker
-> '''Universe:''' Earth-15
-> '''Debut:''' ''Exiles'' #12

--> ''"Yeah, you do that, buddy. God knows I can't wait to get back to my dimension and sit in prison for sixty-seven consecutive life sentences. Stupid jury."''

At some point, a teenage version of Spider-Man originating from Earth-15 merged with his world's Carnage symbiote, the two becoming a monster dubbed "the Spider". Incarcerated for the heinous crimes he went on to commit, the Spider was given a chance for freedom when he was drafted into Weapon X, a [[DarkerAndEdgier more]] [[AntiHeroTeam extreme]] counterpart of the reality-hopping ComicBook/{{Exiles}}.

* AlternateSelf: He is an alternate universe counterpart of Spider-Man from Earth-15, bonded to that universe's version of the Carnage symbiote.
* AntiHeroSubstitute: He and Weapon X were this for the Exiles, being given "unsavory" missions that could involve assassinations at best, and outright genocide at worst.
* AxCrazy: This version of Spider-Man was a convicted serial killer sentenced to ''sixty-seven'' consecutive life sentences.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His preferred method of attack was to morph his arms into long spikes, which he used to give Vanisher a TorsoWithAView.
* BoxedCrook: He was drafted into Weapon X after being arrested.
* CoDragons: He and an evil ComicBook/CarolDanvers were this for [[ComicBook/SquadronSupreme King Hyperion]].
* EnemyDetectingRadar: His Spider-Sense allowed him to locate others, including the Exiles.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: His idea of a joke was something Deadpool would have appreciated. Ironically, the Deadpool he was teammates with had NoSenseOfHumor.
* {{Expy}}: His dark sense of humor makes him a CompositeCharacter of both Carnage and Deadpool.
* JerkAss: Gambit orders She-Hulk to knock Hulk!Wonder Man into a portal, convincing her to do so by reassuring her that Spider will be able to reel her back in to safety. Spider doesn't lift a finger to help her, and can barely be bothered to come up with an excuse for why he didn't.
* KillItWithFire: The Firestar from Earth-3062 flambéed him [[TakingYouWithMe and herself]].
* NoMouth: Unlike the other versions of Carnage, he didn't manifest a mouth.
* OhCrap: Spider tries to get an alternate ComicBook/WonderMan to back off by threatening [=WM=]'s MoralityPet, the Scarlet Witch. This leads to him discovering that this Wonder Man is also the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk.
--> '''Wanda:''' He does everything in his power to maintain control, you imbecile! You're threatening me--you're setting him off!!\\
'''Spider:''' Crap.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He was 42 when he died, but still looked fourteen. The symbiote or his status as a member of Weapon X presumably retarded his aging.
* PsychoForHire: When King Hyperion usurped control of Weapon X, the Spider sided with him because Hyperion let him do whatever he wanted, namely kill and maim to his heart's content.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He had an entirely red costume with a black chest insignia and webbing-like veins stretching from it to his shoulders.
* RiseOfZitboy: With the symbiote retracted, he's shown to be quite pockmarked.
* SamusIsAGirl: He's stunned when one version of [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Sasquatch]] turns out to be a black woman named Heather Hudson.
* TheSociopath: He's a mass-murderer with a depraved sense of humor.
* TerribleTrio: Formed one with King Hyperion and Ms. Marvel, after they decided to stop listening to the Timebroker.
* YouAreNumberSix: His inmate number was 24739.

[[folder:Carnage (Animated Series)]]

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-> '''AKA:''' Cletus Kasady
-> '''Universe:''' Earth-92131
-> '''Debut:''' ''Spider-Man: The Animated Series ''Season 3, Episode 10
-> '''Voiced By:''' Scott Cleverdon

--> ''"Kasady is gone! There is only... CARNAGE!"''

A deranged madman who had committed crimes so severe even the Post refused to report them, Cletus Kasady was captured by Spider-Man after attempting to suicide-bomb a squad of police inside his booby-trapped house. Imprisoned at Ravencroft Asylum for the Criminally Insane, Cletus wound up in the cell next to Eddie Brock, who was doing time for his actions as the super villain Venom and undergoing therapy with Dr. Ashley Kafka. When [[Characters/DoctorStrangeEnemies Baron Mordo]], servant of the demon lord Dormammu, offered to return the symbiote to Eddie, Cletus eavesdropped and eagerly offered his services in return for power. When the symbiote later returned for Eddie and Venom escaped, Cletus watched in jealous frustration, but later on Baron Mordo revealed that the symbiote had reproduced, offering its spawn to Cletus in exchange for his fealty to Dormammu. Kasady gleefully accepted, bonding to the creature, and was dubbed Carnage by Mordo.

As Carnage, he helped Venom steal Tony Stark's inter-dimensional portal device, and following Venom's defection was given the ability to drain life force via physical contact, using it to fill an urn that would set Dormammu free. After rampaging through the city, Carnage drained enough life force to nearly fill the urn, When Mordo told him only one more person's life was needed to free Dormammu, Carnage was disappointed but chose Detective Lee, his arresting officer, as his final victim. Spider-Man intervened, but Carnage defeated him, draining Detective Lee's life force and Dr. Kafka's as well when she arrived, taking her to Dormammu's lair. There, Mordo used the urn to open a portal to Dormammu's prison, but Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Venom intervened. Spider-Man reversed the portal's flow, but was unable to close it due to the power Dormammu had given Carnage. As he was pulled through the portal, Carnage grabbed Dr. Kafka, determined to take her with him, but Venom sacrificed himself to save her, trapping both himself and Carnage in the void between worlds.

Some time later, the Carnage symbiote - or possibly an alternate version of it - made its way through a portal and into the hands of a nihilistic alternate version of Spider-Man driven insane by the existence of a clone named Ben Reilly, transforming him into Spider-Carnage. Spider-Carnage sought to destroy the Multiverse and nearly succeeded, but was stopped by a team of Spider-Men from other worlds. When confronted by an alternate version of Uncle Ben, Spider-Carnage realized what a monster he had become and sacrificed himself to destroy the portal machine and the symbiote for good.

See the ''Characters/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' characters page for more information.

[[folder:Carnage (Unlimited)]]

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-> '''AKA:''' Cletus Kasady
-> '''Universe:''' Earth-751263[=/=]Earth-7831
-> '''Debut:''' ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' Episode 1 ("Worlds Apart, Part One")
-> '''Voiced By:''' Michael Donovan

Cletus Kasady was imprisoned in a maximum security prison cell before being broken out by Eddie Brock, who gifted Cletus with a portion of his symbiote and turned him into the monstrous Carnage. An unknown amount of time later, Carnage attacked Colonel Jameson's shuttle to Counter-Earth alongside Venom, guided by an entity they called the Synoptic. On Counter-Earth, Carnage and Venom began working to further the Synoptic's goal of conquering Counter-Earth with symbiotes, at times working with the High Evolutionary, but most often against.

See the ''Characters/SpiderManUnlimited'' characters page for more information.

[[folder:Ultimate Carnage]]

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-> '''AKA:''' "Little Ben"; Gwen Stacy (genetic duplicate)
-> '''Universe:''' Earth-1610
-> '''Debut:''' ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #61; ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #98 (as Gwen Stacy)

--> '''Peter:''' Conners? What--have--you--done?

A protoplasmic entity created by Curtis Connors and Ben Reilly by combining a sample of Spider-Man's blood with a sample of his own - which contained traces of the Lizard Formula, and a sample of the Venom Suit. The creature's genetic code was incomplete, so to sustain itself it began attacking everyone it came across and draining them of all their vital fluids. Possessing fragments of Peter Parker's memories, it returned to his house, where it encountered and killed Gwen Stacy. Carnage later returned and attacked Peter, who led it away from his home into the city. After watching it transform into a monstrous replica of Richard Parker, Peter realized that it needed his DNA to become complete and, rationalizing that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman it wasn't alive to begin with]], immolated it in an industrial smoke stack. Dr. Connors was arrested for his role in creating it, and Ben Reilly was fired.

Otto Octavius and Ben Reilly later created a second Carnage using a sample of the original and DNA samples of Gwen as a base. The second Carnage, possessing Gwen's memories, sought out Peter Parker after escaping from SHIELD during the Green Goblin's breakout. When Eddie Brock threatened Peter in an attempt to get the Venom Suit back from SHIELD, Gwen intervened and transformed into Carnage. This caused the traces of the Venom Suit inside Eddie's body to reform, and after a brief fight he assimilated Carnage, spitting out the fully human clone of Gwen.

For more information on both Ultimate Carnages, please refer to the '''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''' page, and the adjoining [[Characters/UltimateSpiderMan characters]] page.

[[folder:Carnage Curl]]
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-> '''Universe:''' Earth-615.9[=/=]Earth-90211
-> '''Debut:''' ''What If? Venom Possessed Deadpool'' #3

--> '''Hairy Spranger:''' And this "lady" is--
--> '''Carnage Curl:''' I am the Carnage Curl. I am living death. I am twisted hair and broken hearts.
--> '''Hairy Spranger:''' I bet you are, sweetie.

InAWorld where the Venom symbiote bonded to ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, the Merc with a Mouth attempted to modernize his look by cutting off his Beyonder-inspired Jheri curls, not knowing that they contained the gestating spawn of his symbiote. Once separated from its parent, the baby symbiote assumed a human form, and became an enemy of Venompool.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: There's no indication that Carnage Curl has a host, she might simply be a BlobMonster that can somehow make itself look like a person.
* ArchEnemy: Carnage Curl went out of her way to make Venompool miserable after he rejected her.
--> '''Venompool:''' Do you know what she put me through? Do you?! Carnage Curl killed my great secret uncle, Buffalo Hopskotch! She blew up the laboratory where I worked for years to create diarrhea retardant Olestra! She left [[ExcrementStatement an upper-decker]] at my country time birthday hoedown. Everyone thought I left a stinker!
* DenserAndWackier: This being a [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool]]-centered ''WhatIf'' comic, she was born from a botched haircut, looked completely human, and was sleeping with two cosmic entities.
* MonsterIsAMommy: She was dating the Beyonder, but got knocked up by ''Galactus''.
--> '''Galactus:''' Behold--Galactus is the baby daddy! My revenge is finally complete, Beyonder!\\
'''Beyonder:''' No... [[ThisCannotBe it can't be]]... not him. Home-wrecking monster! [[TalkShowWithFists Let us solve our differences with fists!]]
* MostCommonSuperpower: She was incredibly buxom and not afraid of flaunting herself.
* OneWingedAngel: She's able to assume a form that resembles the mainstream Carnage, but with the addition of FemmeFatalons and PrehensileHair.
* OppositeSexClone: She was formed from Venompool's amputated Jheri curls.
* RetGone: Venompool erased her from existence with the Retcon Expungifier.
* SassyBlackWoman: As her shirt advertises, she took the appearance of a dark-skinned human woman.

[[folder:Carnage (Ultimate Animated Series)]]
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->'''AKA:''' Peter Parker (original); Otto Octavius, Iron Fist, Hulk, Agent Venom, Shriek, Mary Jane Watson (second)
->'''Universe:''' Earth-12041
->'''Debut:''' ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' Season 2 Episode 8 (original); ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' Season 4 Episode 13 (second)

The original Carnage symbiote was created by the Green Goblin from a modified sample of the Venom symbiote, and bonded to Peter Parker. Transformed into a berserk red-and-black monster dubbed Carnage by the Goblin, Peter was sent to kill Spider-Man and his team, and easily trounced them and a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents until Harry Osborn - the former host of the Venom symbiote, intervened and took the symbiote from Peter, becoming Venom once again.

Several months later, Doctor Octopus and Hydra scientist Michael Morbius acquired a sample of the Venom symbiote from Agent Venom and modified it to create a second Carnage symbiote. Originally bonding to Otto Octavius, the symbiote quickly developed the ability to speak and manifest a humanoid form without a host. Carnage battled Spider-Man and Agent Venom until it was blown up, scattering pieces of the symbiote across the city that proceeded to take over most of the populace. Seemingly destroyed by Anti-Venom, the Carnage symbiote instead reformed and infested Midtown High, where it took over Mary Jane Watson and turned her into the Carnage Queen. Hydra intended to control her and use her to spread the symbiote around the world, but Mary Jane was able to overcome and tame the symbiote to become Spider-Woman.

See the ''Characters/UltimateSpiderManAntagonists'' characters page for more information.

!! Carnage's Spawn

[[folder:Toxin]]
!!The Toxin Symbiote
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom Vs. Carnage'' #2

The first offspring of the Carnage symbiote. Cletus, disgusted at the notion of giving birth, forcibly bonded the infant symbiote, later named "Toxin" by Venom, to police officer Patrick Mulligan, who attempted to use it as a force of good, inspired by Spider-Man. Despite initial success, Patrick was murdered by the demon Blackheart, who cloned the symbiote and bonded them to clones of X-23. Agent Venom was blackmailed by the Crime Master into stealing the Toxin symbiote from Blackheart, although the Venom symbiote took control of Flash and tried to kill its progeny. Jack O'Lantern extracted the symbiote and took it to the Crime Master, who later forcibly bonded it to Eddie Brock. The symbiote initially took total control of Eddie's body and tried to kill Venom, but was ignited by Flash. It survived, still bonded to Eddie, and they agreed to work together until they could kill Venom before trying to kill each other.

* AdaptiveArmor: After Eddie joins the FBI's anti-Carnage task force, the symbiote emulates Agent Venom by taking on the appearance of body armor.
* AmbiguousSituation: The Toxin symbiote seemingly perishes when [[spoiler:it is assimilated by Jubulile van Scotter's symbiote, which evaporates into wisps of pink and gold smoke after she fries Chthon with a massive beam of light. However, according to the writer's statement on Twitter it's possible that it might return in the future]].
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: When bonded to Eddie Brock, the symbiote's eye-patches are initially black with small white inner eyes.
* CloningBlues: Blackheart made duplicates of the symbiote and bonded them to copies of ComicBook/{{X 23}} to create an AmazonBrigade.
* CombatTentacles: When enraged the symbiote sprouts a mass of tentacles from its host's back.
* EnemyMine: Eddie told Flash that he and the symbiote had agreed to work together to kill Venom (and presumably Carnage as well), but after that they'd try to kill each other. They later come to an understanding and emulate Flash's appearance as Agent Venom.
* GoodCounterpart: To Carnage, its "father".
* GoodColorsEvilColors: When bonded to Patrick the symbiote was orange-red and blue, but when bonded to Eddie it's [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]].
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: While bonded to Patrick it was on the side of good, however this changed when Patrick was murdered by Blackheart and the Venom symbiote (while bonded to Flash) attempted to murder it, driving it to become bloodthirsty and vengeful. After it's capture by the Crime Master, it would use Eddie Brock as a puppet and willingly joined the Savage Six in a effort to kill Agent Venom resulting in it and Eddie almost burning to death. This resulted in Eddie gaining enough control to work out a deal with it, if the Toxin symbiote allowed Eddie to have control and serve as a lethal protector once again, they would work together until they successfully kill Agent Venom where they would then try to kill each other, which it accepted. This rematch with Agent Venom ultimately ended with it landing as a face after forming a truce with Agent Venom and it would later sacrifice it's life to save the world from Chthon.
* HulkingOut: When it took over Eddie - and when Eddie later lost control while fighting Flash - it [[{{Sizeshifter}} bulks up]] enough that Venom almost fits inside its mouth.
* LegacyCharacter: After Blackheart beat Patrick to death and took the symbiote, it was stolen again by the Crime Master and forcibly bonded to Eddie Brock.
* NoBiologicalSex: The symbiote has no gender identity.
--> '''Symbiote:''' What are you writing?\\
'''Patrick:''' None of your business.\\
'''Symbiote:''' "I'm a boy"--you think? Maybe it's time [[TheTalk I sat you down and talked about the birds and bees]], symbiote-style.
* NothingIsScarier: This concept is lost on the symbiote, despite Patrick's attempts at explaining it while the two were reading ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''.
* NotQuiteDead: The Toxin symbiote was lit on fire by Flash, but survived and recuperated alongside its host.
* OverlyLongTongue: Like its "grandfather" (and [[DependingOnTheArtist occasionally "father"]]), Toxin manifests a serpentine prehensile tongue. The main difference, though, is that Toxin's tongue is ''green''.
* {{Patricide}}: The symbiote wants to kill Carnage and Venom.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Toxin symbiote seized total control of Eddie's body when it first bonded to him, but they later work out an arrangement similar to the one he had with the Venom symbiote.
* PsychopathicManchild: Was supposed to be even ''more'' AxCrazy than Carnage and initially had the mentality of a child.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Toxin symbiote delivers one to the Venom symbiote for letting Flash and the Avengers lobotomize it.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Toxin goes from being red-and-blue when bonded to [[ByTheBookCop Patrick]] to red-and-black when bonded to [[UnscrupulousHero Eddie]]. As a result, after Eddie helps Flash take down the Symbiote Slayers, he's mistaken for Carnage by the media.
* SuperSenses: The symbiote enhances its host's sense of smell.
* ToServeMan: While Toxin hasn't voiced its grandparent's monstrous appetite, while bonded to it Pat came close to munching on a few bad guys, while with Eddie they possibly ate a group of SWAT officers who found Toxin after killing a bunch of criminals (while one panel has a closeup with Toxin's jaws the comic ends when the SWAT officers start shooting) and two of the Symbiote Slayers' hosts.
* TheVoiceless: Like Venom and Carnage were originally, the symbiote cannot speak unless bonded to a host.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When bonded to Pat, the symbiote spoke using slightly distorted blue speech bubbles with white text. When bonded to Eddie it speaks using red speech bubbles with jagged white text.
* WholeCostumeReference: On [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130118221216/marveldatabase/images/e/e4/Venom_Vol_2_33_Textless.jpg the alternate cover]] for ''Venom'' Vol. 2 #33, Toxin is shown looking identical to Eddie's Venom form as a MythologyGag to the cover of ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #316.
* YouMonster: The symbiote reads Pat's journal, throws a tantrum after being referred to as a monster in it, breaks the laptop, [[HilarityEnsues loots a store to get a replacement]] (thinking Pat wouldn't notice the difference) and gets into a skirmish with Spider-Man.

!!Toxin I
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-> '''AKA:''' Patrick "Pat" Mulligan
-> '''Debut:''' ''Venom Vs. Carnage'' #1; ''Venom Vs. Carnage'' #2 (as Toxin I)

Patrick "Pat" Mulligan was an [=NYPD=] police officer who had the misfortune of running across the supervillain Carnage, who had just spawned a baby symbiote. Too weak to kill them, Carnage bonded the infant symbiote to Patrick and left, intending to kill them once he regained his strength. When the symbiote matured, Venom named it Toxin, but when he realized that not only was it more powerful than both himself and Carnage combined but that it was unlikely to aid him in his crusade against Spider-Man, he joined with Carnage in trying to kill it. Pat accepted his bond with the symbiote and joined forces with Spider-Man and Black Cat in defeating them, and on a number of other occasions, leaving his family behind in order to tame the symbiote, eventually succeeding after stopping himself from killing Razorfist, who had killed Pat's father. Pat made a deal with the infantile symbiote: in exchange for complete control of its powers, it could take over his body for two hours a day, provided it didn't commit crimes. Pat was listed as one of the Civil War Initiative's potential recruits, but was ultimately beaten to death in a gutter by Blackheart, who stole the symbiote. Crime Master later re-stole the symbiote and bonded it to Eddie Brock, who was initially taken over by the symbiote but later tamed it himself and used it to return to his Lethal Protector lifestyle.

* AngelFaceDemonFace: When Pat is calm he has NoMouth, but when angry he manifests MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ArchEnemy: Razor Fist, despite the hilarious power difference.[[note]]Razor Fist has blades for hands. That's literally it.[[/note]] He killed Pat's father, and tortured one of his friends nearly to death.
* ByTheBookCop: Led to some friction with ComicBook/BlackCat.
* ChainPain: His "web lines" look like chains.
* CostumeCopycat: When the symbiote was calm, Pat looked a lot like Spider-Man sans the webbing motif.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: When Patrick decides to help bring in the villains that Electro broke out of the Raft, he visits the imprisoned Mr. Hyde to get information on Hyde's ex-partner King Cobra.
* CurbstompBattle: Dished these out regularly, victims including a Venom and Carnage tag team, and half of the Wrecking Crew. He was later on the receiving end of one from Blackheart, who killed him and took the symbiote.
* CursedWithAwesome: Patrick really didn't want to become host to what was the most powerful symbiote ever at the time.
* DisappearedDad: Patrick abandoned his family to take care of the infant symbiote.
* DrivenToSuicide: Pat tried to kill himself by jumping in front of a subway train, but the symbiote saved him.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Pat was beaten to death in an alley by Blackheart, who took his symbiote and ate his family - all off panel to boot.
* {{Expy}}: Patrick is comparable to Hybrid.
* FastTunnelling: Stopped a bank robbery by burrowing into the building.
* HeroicBuild:
--> '''Meadows:''' S-so this is your infamous symbiote. N-nice six-pack, pal. Not that six packs turn me on or anything.
* IHaveAFamily: Patrick tried this on Carnage. It didn't work.
--> '''Pat:''' If you can understand me... please, please don't kill me! I-I've got a young wife--with a baby on the way.\\
'''Carnage:''' Correction. Ya got a young widow--with an orphan on the way!
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Pat left his wife and newborn to protect them from Venom and Carnage, and himself.
* JustJokingJustification: Patrick would go with this whenever he came close to eating someone.
* KilledOffScreen: Patrick disappeared for some time, and the symbiote resurfaced sans host in 2012. It was eventually revealed Blackheart had beaten him to death in a gutter to get his symbiote. And then there's what supposedly [[https://twitter.com/remender/status/200788585341927425 happened]] to his wife and baby.
* LightningBruiser: Was faster and stronger than Venom ''and'' Carnage combined.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Can spawn CombatTentacles and shapeshift his limbs into weapons.
* OddFriendship: Patrick's main confidante was Black Cat, a thief.
* OneSteveLimit: Patrick's son's name? Edward.
* PainfulTransformation: Patrick turning into Toxin rarely looked comfortable, what with all the wincing and grimacing and him exclaiming, "Aaghh!"
* {{Phlegmings}}: Patrick's drool was [[BadBlackBarf black]].
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: As long as he had something to go off of, like an article of clothing, he can track it.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Patrick arranged with the symbiote that they could alternate control of his body for two hours as long as it didn't kill anyone or commit any crimes.
* SuperReflexes: While still in human form, Patrick blocks all of Black Cat's attempts to knock him out, without even intending to.
* SymbioticPossession: Toxin had a unique relationship with Patrick where they alternated control over his body.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Patrick gave one to Razor Fist, claiming that he uses blades instead of prosthetic hands because it makes him feel disassociated from his crimes, and because he wants others to tend to his every menial need like a helpless child.
* ToThePain: In his first superhero outing, he nearly loses it on a gang of bank robbers who have surrendered.
--> '''Toxin:''' You are heartless killers. You killed a cop. Who no doubt had a family. Who'll be heartbroken. You deserve to die. In the most painful and heartless way imaginable. Your brains, maybe. Soft and eggy, no doubt. Evolved over thousands of years so you can waste them. I'll suck them out through your eye sockets.
* YouKilledMyFather: Patrick's father was murdered by Razor Fist. When Toxin goes after him, he tells Spider-Man that if he were to cross the line and kill Razor Fist, Spidey should "put me in Ryker's along with the other bad guys".
* WholeCostumeReference: When under control, Patrick as Toxin looks almost identical to Spider-Man, but without a webbing motif or spider emblems.

!! Toxin II
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-> '''AKA:''' Edward "Eddie" Charles Allan Brock
-> '''Debut:''' ''Web of Spider-Man'' #18; ''Venom'' Vol. 2, #17 (as Toxin II)

After giving up the Anti-Venom symbiote, Eddie Brock acquired an arsenal of advanced weapons and began hunting the symbiotes, believing them to be an evil that had to be exterminated at all costs. To this end he killed Scream and Hybrid, but when he tried to take out the fourth incarnation of Venom, Flash Thompson, he was incapacitated and captured by the Crime Master, who forcibly bonded him to the Toxin symbiote. Under the symbiote's control, Eddie became a member of the Crime Master's Savage Six, attacking Agent Venom before being incapacitated. During a rematch Flash attempted to incinerate the Toxin symbiote and free Eddie from it, but it latched onto Eddie and both seemingly perished. Both Eddie and the symbiote survived, working out a truce similar to the relationship Eddie once had with the Venom symbiote, and pursued Venom to Philadelphia for a rematch. Their fight was interrupted by the Symbiote Slayers, cybernetic parasites similar to the symbiotes themselves, and Toxin and Venom reluctantly teamed up to defeat the Symbiote Slayers. Impressed by Flash's determination, Eddie begrudgingly conceded that he will leave Flash alone as long he used the symbiote to do good, with a warning that the moment he slipped up Toxin would be there to put an end to him. Some time later, Eddie was captured by the FBI, who suppressed the Toxin symbiote and offered him a chance at permanent parole if he helped them put down Carnage once and for all. Eddie eagerly agreed, and partnered with FBI Agent Dixon, Colonel John Jameson, and Manuela Calderon to do so.

For more information on him, please refer to the [[Characters/{{Venom}} Venom characters page]].

[[folder:Scorn / She-Carnage]]
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->'''AKA:''' Doctor Tanis Nieves
->'''Debut:''' ''Carnage'' #1; ''Carnage'' #2 (as She-Carnage); ''Carnage'' #5 (as Scorn)

Tanis Nieves was a psychologist working to rehabilitate Frances "Shriek" Barrison, "wife" of the presumed-dead serial killer Cletus Kasady. When the Doppelganger attempted to free its mother from captivity, Tanis lost her right arm due to a stray blast, and was given a prosthetic courtesy of Hall Industries. However, it turned out that the prosthetic had been [[OrganicTechnology engineered]] from the Carnage symbiote, which Hall Industries had been experimenting on. The symbiote remotely seized control of Tanis' arm, forcing her to break it free and bonding to her in an effort to relocate its original host, who was still alive even after being torn in half and spending a year in orbit. After the Carnage symbiote had returned to Cletus, Tanis discovered it had left a spawn that had merged with her prosthetic. Initially terrified, she ultimately embraced it, dubbing it "Scorn", and used it to help Spider-Man and Iron Man repel Carnage. Under the direction of the military, Scorn joined the Mercury Team and trained her symbiote's unique ability to assimilate any technological object. When Carnage resurfaced in Doverton, Scorn was dispatched alongside the other members of Team Mercury, and with the help of Agent Venom succeeded in capturing her "father".

* AnArmAndALeg: Tanis lost her right arm during a shootout between the Iron Rangers and the Doppelgänger. She later cut off the replacement upon realizing it was "infected" by Carnage's spawn, though she allowed it to return to her.
* ArmCannon: Can fuse her arms to guns to give herself these.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Scorn reappears for the first time since ''Carnage USA'' as the head of the apocalypse cult worshipping Carnage. Carnage's first action upon his resurrection is to rip out her spine and devour it]].
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Engaged in one with the Carnage symbiote.
* BrainyBrunette: When not in symbiote form. [[CompressedHair Otherwise, there's no way to tell]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Implied with the symbiote, as it left Shriek because she frightened it, and it actually asked Tanis's permission to return to her.
* ChromeChampion: The symbiote has a silver-colored right arm and constantly shifting metallic silver markings.
* CurbstompBattle: Easily thrashed Shriek and Doppelganger in her debut appearance.
* CynicismCatalyst: The events of the ''Carnage'' miniseries were this for her.
* TheEngineer: While the Mercury Team scours Doverton, Scorn stays behind to work on a machine that will separate the Carnage symbiote from Cletus and the residents of the town.
* EvilHand: The Carnage symbiote escaped captivity by taking control of Tanis's prosthetic arm.
* FaceHeelTurn: In ''Web of Venom: Carnage Born'', [[spoiler:Scorn makes her return for the first time since 2011's ''Carnage USA'' having become the leader of a cult worshipping the dark god Knull. She uses the stolen sample of the Grendel symbiote to resurrect Cletus Kasady... and promptly gets her spine ripped out and eaten]].
* GadgeteerGenius: Due to the symbiote being able to interface with technology.
* GeneticMemory: The Scorn symbiote instinctively dislikes Spider-Man, despite having had no extended interaction with him.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The symbiote was initially red-orange, but became purple and silver after bonding with Tanis.
* MilitarySuperhero: Was drafted into being one, and is currently categorized as still in-training.
* MostCommonSuperpower: As Scorn, Tanis' bust is emphasized more than in her human form.
* NoMouth: The Scorn symbiote has yet to manifest its species' trademark MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily while bonded to Tanis.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Looks quite different from the other symbiotes, due to the smaller eyes, and not yet displaying fangs or {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s.
* OrganicTechnology: Her right arm was a prosthetic formed from the Carnage symbiote.
* PsychoPsychologist: As She-Carnage.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Scorn symbiote is purple, and even stronger than its "father" Carnage.
* SarcasmMode:
--> '''General Duggan:''' Doctor Tanis Nieves, I'm General Brandon Duggan. [[AsYouKnow You were the victim of a prolonged psychic assault by the Carnage symbiote, resulting in a permanent bond with its alien progeny.]]\\
'''Scorn:''' Oh yeah, thanks. It totally slipped my mind.
* ShootTheDog: She explicitly compared putting Shriek in a coma to this.
* SixthRanger: For the Mercury Team, being the only one of the group to not have a military background or Life Foundation symbiote.
* TheSmartGuy: For the Mercury Team.
* SpockSpeak: While building the anti-symbiote sonic weapon, the symbiote speaks using a sophisticated manner that comes across as a MachineMonotone bordering on RoboSpeak.
* {{Technopath}}: Because it spawned from Tanis' symbiote prosthetic, the Scorn symbiote doesn't distinguish between itself and technology, allowing it to merge with anything composed of metal.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: When Tanis rejected the symbiote, it joined with Shriek, but it soon left her and returned to Tanis because Shriek terrified it.
* TronLines: The symbiote has silvery vein-like markings on it.
* WarriorTherapist: Before her encounter with Carnage, she was TheShrink. Whether the army is continuing to let her practice is left unstated. Probably not.
* WideEyedIdealist: Originally was one to the point where she almost got herself killed saving the Doppelgänger.
* WingedHumanoid: Due to being augmented by her prosthetic the Carnage symbiote could form wings.

[[folder:Raze]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Agent Claire Dixon
-> '''Debut:''' ''Carnage'' Vol. 2 #1

--> ''"No one controls me, Brock. I get it now -- the symbiote is a tool. It makes us who we truly are. That's why I never trusted you. The symbiote exposed you as the killer you were born to be. Me? I'm a weapon!"''

* AnArmAndALeg: Victoria Montesi cuts off her right arm to free Toxin when she and Carnage grab him. Claire regenerates it thanks to her symbiote.
* BackFromTheDead: She died in Eddie Brock's arms, but the power of the Darkhold resurrected her and is implied to be influencing her behavior.
* BadBoss: She is condescending and downright hateful towards Eddie Brock, and was more than happy to kill him if it meant Carnage would die as well. She also had Mac Gargan outfitted with a taser powerful enough to knock him out, in case he went AWOL like he'd done with the Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers.
* BadassBack: A Broodling of Chthon tries to attack her from behind while she's preoccupied with reading a journal left behind by 19th century whalers. The Raze symbiote promptly impales it on a dozen-odd tendrils without Claire even reacting.
* {{Depower}}: She's stripped of her symbiote by Jubulile, but she [[BroughtDownToBadass retains a measure of eldritch power courtesy of the Darkhold]].
* FaceMonsterTurn: She starts out as a but well-intentioned but prejudiced FBI agent, but is transformed into one of the very monsters she loathes... and outwardly embraces it. Inwardly, however, she suffers an existential crises as she tries to figure out where Claire Dixon ends and where Raze begins.
* FantasticRacism: She thinks Eddie Brock is just as much a monster as Cletus Kasady because of his actions as Venom, and because she thinks he willingly bonded to the Toxin symbiote.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When facing off against Spider-Woman, her eyes glow yellow as she draws on the Darkhold's power.
* HeroicSacrifice: When Carnage attempts to [[spoiler:impale the task force members with a flurry of tendrils, Claire shields her former team with her body and refuses to be healed afterwards]].
* JaggedMouth: As Raze, she has black teeth that blend into the rest of her face, to the point where it appears she has NoMouth.
* JustFollowingOrders: After returning from the dead she bears no ill-will to Eddie himself, capturing him because she was ordered to obtain his symbiote's latest offspring. Despite having a concussion, she saves Eddie from being killed by the Scorpion, and when told Venom's spawn was stillborn she sincerely apologized to him for his loss.
* LivingWeapon: She describes herself as being one after bonding to the Raze symbiote.
* OnlyAFleshWound:
** She's injured in a cave-in, but prioritizes putting a stop to Carnage over receiving medical treatment.
** Despite suffering from a major concussion, she makes her way to Alchemax's xenobiology lab in order to stop the Scorpion from killing Eddie before passing out from her injuries.
* PhraseCatcher: "Shut up, Brock." [[spoiler:It's also her last words until her resurrection.]]
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: She's captured by Carnage, who uses her as a guinea pig to test his eldritch symbiote powers, turning her into Raze.
* StartXToStopX: The FBI's plan was to use monsters (Man-Wolf and Toxin) to stop a monster (Carnage). Dixon isn't very gung-ho about it, especially viewing using Toxin as an absolute last resort.
* TranshumanTreachery: After becoming Raze, she declares herself to be a weapon. Her true thoughts on the matter are more complex, as she suffers an existential crisis due to Carnage's influence over her.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Claire pops back up in NYC helping the FBI recapture Eddie, who had since returned to being Venom. After she captures him, Eddie speculates that her exposure to the Darkhold's eldritch power through the Raze symbiote had something to do with it, and [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil that she's not entirely who or what she was prior to her death]].
--> '''Eddie:''' You died. On that island. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight You died in my arms]].\\
'''Claire:''' Think about your lifestyle, Brock. [[DeathIsCheap Who do you know who hasn't died and turned up again? Didn't you die once?]]
* UngratefulBastard: Eddie helped save her from being trapped in the mine, and she repays him by trying to bury him.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: She develops an interest in Jubulile van Scotter, who is also bonded to one of the Carnage symbiote's ''Darkhold''-altered spawn.

[[folder:Jubulile van Scotter]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''Carnage'' Vol. 2 #6

* AccidentalMisnaming: Cletus calls her Jujubee, to her annoyance.
* AttackBackfire: Cletus bonds her to a part of the Carnage symbiote to turn her into a minion. Instead it empowers her and enables her to escape him.
* CurbStompBattle: When she's attacked by a [[HumanoidAbomination Broodling of Chthon]], she easily defeats it using her symbiote-augmented strength.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Jubulile almost literally does so, [[spoiler:blasting the evil Elder God Chthon with a massive beam of light magic]].
* FailedASpotCheck: She failed to notice that Cletus's body had fully healed and his legs reappeared a few hours after she discovered him badly burned.
* LightEmUp: After her symbiote manifests, one of its powers is firing beams of light energy.
* OhCrap: Jubulile is understandably terrified when the man she rescued turns into a monster right in front of her.
* {{Protectorate}}: Eddie Brock seems surprisingly protective of her, considering she's bonded to a symbiote.
* PsychicLink: As a result of having been bonded to the Carnage symbiote's Darkhold-corrupted spawn, she can sense Cletus's emotions and presence, view his memories, and shares his pain when he's hurt.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: After she's infected by the Darkhold-altered spawn of Carnage symbiote, her eyes turn solid red when she taps into its power.
* SuperMode: When empowered by the Darkhold, her symbiote takes on the form of an angelic knight.
* TheSymbiote: Jubulile is infected with a Darkhold-augmented spawn of the Carnage symbiote, [[spoiler:which she amalgamates Hybrid-style with the Toxin and Raze symbiotes to create a pink flight-capable symbiote. When further empowered by the Darkhold, it transforms into a white angelic knight, but disperses into wisps of pink and gold smoke after Chthon is vanquished, leaving the Toxin symbiote's status up in the air]].
* TagalongKid: She's a sixteen year-old girl with no combat experience, accompanying a team comprised of a BadassNormal soldier, a soldier-turned-alien werewolf, a symbiote-augmented former serial killer, and the half-human child of an EldritchAbomination. Her navigational skills and ability to sense Carnage keep her from being TheLoad.

!! Other Characters

[[folder:Doppelgänger]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Infinity War'' #1

--> '''Doppelganger:''' Grrrr!
--> '''Carnage:''' That's my line--! I'm supposed to be the monster here!

Originally a "living geometric pattern" that resided in another dimension, Doppelgänger and several other members of his kind were turned into twisted duplicates of various superheroes by the Magus during the Infinity War. Unlike the other knock-offs, this one survived that event, and has periodically resurfaced to torment the real Spider-Man.

For more information on him, please refer to the Spider-Man '''[[Characters/SpiderManClones Clones]]''' page.

[[folder:Shriek]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Francis Louise Barrison
-> '''Debut:''' ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' #1

--> '''Cletus, via the Carnage Symbiote:''' She screams her pain as death and hatred. She kills for me. I like it. When it gets boring, I'll put her down like my mother's dog. I am Carnage. Killing someone I love will make me happy. So happy.

As a child, Shriek was abused by her parents, especially her mother, whose cruelty drove her to drugs, overeating, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and heavy metal]]. Shriek's mental stability was further damaged when she was shot in the head during an altercation with the police, and when she had a run-in with heroes ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, whose powers did ''something'' to Shriek, giving her various superhuman abilities of her own. Now fully capable of taking revenge on the world she blames for her misery, Shriek found soul mates of sorts in the form of her "husband" Carnage, and "son" Doppelganger.

For more information on her, please refer to the Spider-Man '''[[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryItoZ rogues gallery]]''' page.

[[folder:Doctor Jenner]]
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->'''Debut:''' ''Superior Carnage Annual'' #1

--> ''"You don't have to keep holding on. Carnage has no hold on you. You're your own man now. You can die a man's death. Doesn't that sound fine? After all... what good are you without the symbiote? Hmm? And the way you are right now... so weak... so pitiful... why would Carnage want you? Carnage wants a worthy host... not some bed-ridden has-been. I know it's coming... I know you can sense it. And when it gets here... it will find me waiting... and you--dead! Don't worry, Cletus. I'll take good care of Carnage."''

A therapist working at Kramer Penitentiary, Dr. Jenner requested to work with spree killer Cletus Kasady, who had been separated from the Carnage symbiote by the Superior Spider-Man. Under his guidance, Cletus was admitted into the general populace and finally seemed ready to sever psychological ties with the symbiote. However, Jenner secretly desired to become the symbiote's new host and hired an inmate to shank Cletus, smothering him when he learned the symbiote was on its way. When it reached the prison, Jenner offered himself to it, but it vehemently rejected him and resuscitated Cletus, who proceeded to kill Jenner along with the rest of the prisoners.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Pun aside, when face-to-face with the symbiote he gushes about how he's dreamed of becoming its host. The symbiote is not amused.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He kills Cletus Kasady in an effort to convince the symbiote to take him as its next host. It doesn't work.
* PsychoPsychologist: He only agreed to be Cletus' shrink to become the next incarnation of Carnage, and had Cletus murdered when the opportunity presented itself.
* TheShrink: He was a therapist at the Kramer Penitentiary.

[[folder:Sin-Eater I]]
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-> '''AKA:''' Emil Gregg
-> '''Debut:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #107

--> '''Sin-Eater:''' I can smell your sin. Like a mountain so massive that merely contemplating it requires madness.
--> '''Carnage:''' I tried confession, but that really didn't work.

A man who contacted Eddie Brock claiming to be the Sin-Eater serial killer, but was seemingly exposed as a compulsive confessor. In the wake of Carnage's morality (or lack thereof) being altered by the events of ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'', he was found to have died, but returns as a sin-eating demon, and places the symbiote serial killer in his crosshairs after Cletus interferes with his mission to wipe out the press.

For more information on him, please refer to the Venom '''[[Characters/VenomRoguesGallery Rogues Gallery]]''' page.

[[folder:Alice Gleason]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Axis: Carnage'' #1

--> '''Alice:''' What are you doing?!
--> '''Carnage:''' Taking a victory lap, babe! You can't rob a bank if burn it down first!
--> '''Alice:''' What are you thinking? You've made everything worse! Put out the fire!
--> '''Carnage:''' Jeez, okay, chill out, gawd...

* AmbitionIsEvil: She is an attractive but unscrupulous reporter who wants to take over the position of her deceased colleague ASAP.
* BerserkButton: Does not like the hair being mussed, as she indignantly yells at both Carnage and the Sin-Eater.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She pretended to be distraught over her co-worker's deaths, when in fact she, as the Sin Eater put it, reeks of "sin, vainglory, selfishness and hubris".
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Has to continually reel in the overzealous Carnage.
* KarmaHoudini: Presumably got rich and famous from the events of ''AXIS''.
* MoralityChain: Cletus latched onto her in much the same way Eddie Brock once latched onto Jenna Cole. Unfortunately for him, she proves to be a less-than-upstanding individual.
* NervesOfSteel: After an initial moment of panic, she seems quite alright hanging out with a nihilistic serial killer whose soul mate is a carnivorous alien parasite masquerading as a costume.
* ReallyGetsAround: She was sleeping with her co-worker, solicited a police officer who had been sent to guard her after said co-worker's murder, pretended to be interested in Kasady, and seemingly tried to seduce the Sin-Eater ("And I'm totally not wearing any underwear") to save herself even after seeing [[SkullForAHead what's]] under his mask.
* SpiritAdvisor: After being bombarded with missiles, Carnage has near-death experience involving an angelic Alice, who offers him sage wisdom:
--> '''Alice:''' You have great power, yes. And with great power comes great, like all kinds of, I don't know, stuff... so don't be a jerk. You're good now and you've got mad skillz. Be a hero! Save me!
* TagalongReporter: Is abducted by Carnage, who adamantly believes that she can teach him to be good. Alice goes along with it, due to the fame that can entail becoming close to a "cape".
* UngratefulBastard: After Carnage saves her from the Sin Eater, she thanks him by blowing off his head and screaming at the police to finish him off. Cletus interprets this as her teaching him that TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She hasn't been seen since the end of the ''AXIS: Carnage'' miniseries. Considering that Cletus had been hunting down those aware of his HeelFaceBrainwashing ''and'' she openly admitted to using him to his face, it doesn't bode well for her.

[[folder:Manuela Calderon]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Carnage'' Vol. 2 #1

* ActionGirl: She's a soldier who served three tours of duty, and is agile enough to dodge Carnage's tentacles.
* AmbiguouslyBi: While it was implied that she might have had a slight attraction to Eddie Brock, in the end he gets the impression that she's developed a thing for the canonically gay Victoria Montesi.
* BadassNormal: She's an unaugmented human who is capable of keeping up with the likes of Toxin and Man-Wolf.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Victoria Montesi flirts with Manuela after she commiserates with her hellish backstory.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Manny was the SoleSurvivor of Cletus's first killing spree, and he intends to rectify that.
* OnlyAFleshWound: She's set on fire by Gleason but still manages to put up a good enough fight to steal one of the Darkhold's pages ''and'' put the fire out.
* ShipTease: She is sympathetic towards [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]], who himself seems to be infatuated with her. However, in the last couple of issues Victoria Montesi begins flirting with her and Manny appears to reciprocate, with Eddie joking that he may as well have been furniture to them.
* TakingYouWithMe: When Carnage is about to eat her, she presses a detonator to blow up a large amount of mining explosives. Toxin shows up in time to shield her from the blast.

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-> '''Debut:''' ''Carnage'' Vol. 2 #1

--> ''"Agent Dixon was a useful tool, but her usefulness--and yours--is drawing to a close. We--all of us--stand on the cusp of a new historical era. I'm grateful to you, agents. Your sacrifice, yours and your fellow agents', will make possible a new age. You've brought us the one who was foreseen in the prophecies of [[Characters/WerewolfByNight Aelfric the Mad Monk]]. At his hands the forgotten door will be reopened. Through him, he who sleeps shall wake, and all who live will tremble in the knowledge of his wrath."''

* BigBadWannabe: He's the evil mastermind behind the first arc of the 2015-2016 ''Carnage'' Vol. 2 series. He doesn't last long after Carnage catches him.
* KilledOffscreen: It's not shown exactly what Carnage did to him after/while interrogating him about the Darkhold, but it wasn't pretty.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When the sonic cannons open up a sinkhole that plunges Carnage and several FBI agents into the depths of his mine, Gleason protests he had no idea that would happen several times. Turns out he planned it all.
* OneSteveLimit: Despite having the same last name as the manipulative lady reporter in the ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}: Carnage'' miniseries, he's presumably not related to her.
* PlayingWithFire: He can summon a wall of flames using the Darkhold.
* ReligionOfEvil: He is a member of the Cult of the Darkhold, a cult that worships an ancient evil entity called Chthon.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: He possesses a copy of the Darkhold, a tome of dark magic written by the evil deity Chthon.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: His day job is the manager of a mining corporation, which he uses as cover for his night job is as a cultist to an evil deity.

[[folder:Cortland Kasady]]

-> '''Debut:''' ''Ruins of Ravencroft: Carnage'' #1

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-> '''AKA:''' Cletus Kasady
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #344; ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #361 (as Carnage); ''Venomized'' #3 (as Carnage II and Poison Carnage); ''Web of Venom: Carnage Born'' (as Dark Carnage)

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-->'''AKA:''' Peter Parker (original); Otto Octavius, Iron Fist, Hulk, Agent Venom, Shriek, Mary Jane Watson (second)
-->'''Universe:''' Earth-12041
-->'''Debut:''' ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' Season 2 Episode 8 (original); ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' Season 4 Episode 13 (second)

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* AngelFaceDemonFace: When the Pat is calm he has NoMouth, but when angry he manifests MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.

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* IAintGotTimeToBleed:
** She's injured in a cave-in, but prioritizes putting a stop to Carnage over receiving medical treatment.
** Despite suffering from a major concussion, she makes her way to Alchemax's xenobiology lab in order to stop the Scorpion from killing Eddie before passing out from her injuries.

* ChestInsignia: As its connection to Knull grows stronger across the leadup to ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'', it manifests a white version of Knull's dragon emblem on its chest.[[note]]Though many of the tie-in artists mistakenly drew it as Venom's spider emblem.[[/note]] After Cletus' death, it loses the emblem and appears almost-identically to the original Carnage symbiote.

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'''Symbiote:''' G-g-give it up! There's no "I" here! And green is out! There's only red! We're making everything red! They'll be soaked in it! Drenched in it! And we are -- Carnage! Hahahahahaaaa!

* NoSell:
** He's strong enough to casually shrug off Miles Morales' Venom Bolt, which has infamously struck down his Earth-1610 counterparts with ease.
** He also resists a full power blast from Clash and the Human Torch- proving how he is completely immune to a Symbiote's conventional weaknesses.
* OmnicidalManiac: Upon bonding to Osborn, the symbiote gleefully announces its intent to resume its mission to kill everyone in the world. However, Norman eventually manages to earn the Symbiote's favour by showing it that it can possibly do more harm through more intricate means, speculating that the Symbiote has actually gotten somewhat bored of mindless death and destruction.

* StoryBreakerPower: The Green Goblin formula? Turns you into a Spidey-level bruiser at the cost of your sanity. The Carnage symbiote? Turns you into a heavy hitter with a few specific weaknesses. The two ''combined''? Gives you a vastly-enhanced version of the Carnage symbiote's powers, and a combined HealingFactor that basically becomes Wolverine-Level, with ''none'' of the weaknesses. Spidey's allies (including Miles and his infamously overpowered Venom blasts, the Human Torch, and Agent Anti-Venom) drop like flies before him.

* AxCrazy: Due to the symbiote's influence, he's ''very'' eager to kill not just Spider-Man - who he's always seen as a villain out to ruin his family - but people in general.

* HeelFaceTurn: He realizes his father loves him and sees just how much of a monster his "Pop-Pop" really is when Norman tries to do to Liz Allan what he did to Gwen Stacy; turning on his grandfather and helping his dad and Spider-Man fight him.

* NotQuiteBackToNormal: While Dr. Steven seemingly removes the Carnage symbiote from Normie, a small amount still remains bonded to him.

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** Since the opposition had a version of Venom on their side, [[Characters/IncredibleHulk the Maestro]] considered recruiting Carnage to his ''[[ComicBook/ContestOfChampions Contest of Champions]]'' team, but abandoned the notion after catching a glimpse of what Cletus was currently up to.

A deranged madman who had committed crimes so severe even the Post refused to report them, Cletus Kasady was captured by Spider-Man after attempting to suicide-bomb a squad of police inside his booby-trapped house. Imprisoned at Ravencroft Asylum for the Criminally Insane, Cletus wound up in the cell next to Eddie Brock, who was doing time for his actions as the super villain Venom and undergoing therapy with Dr. Ashley Kafka. When [[Characters/DoctorStrange Baron Mordo]], servant of the demon lord Dormammu, offered to return the symbiote to Eddie, Cletus eavesdropped and eagerly offered his services in return for power. When the symbiote later returned for Eddie and Venom escaped, Cletus watched in jealous frustration, but later on Baron Mordo revealed that the symbiote had reproduced, offering its spawn to Cletus in exchange for his fealty to Dormammu. Kasady gleefully accepted, bonding to the creature, and was dubbed Carnage by Mordo.

** Cletus gave a piece of the symbiote to [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryMToZ Mr. Sinister]], who spliced it with DNA samples taken from Kraven the Hunter and the original five X-Men in order to produce "[[XMakesAnythingCool Xraven]]"

* HeroWithAnFInGood: Kasady is set to become a bonafide SociopathicHero following his Inversion. The inversion wave did actually awaken Kassidy's conscience, he's just comically inept at actually doing heroic deeds. For example, he tries to foil a bank robbery by burning the bank to the ground before the robbers can rob it.

* HeroWithAnFInGood: Kasady is set to become a bonafide SociopathicHero following his Inversion.