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* HeelRealization: After having been an antagonistic force towards symbiote characters post-''ComicBook/KingInBlack'',[[note]]Her Guardsmen being shown attacking symbiotes and their hosts with lethal force, and Liz herself betraying Sleeper and Dylan Brock to perform inhumane experiments on the latter after having previously treated him like a second son.[[/note]] the final issue ends with Liz Allan [[spoiler:shuttering Alchemax's symbiote weaponization projects, instead intending to rehabilitate them instead after being disgusted by how far Carlton Drake was willing to go]].
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* HeelRealization: After having been an antagonistic force towards symbiote characters post-''ComicBook/KingInBlack'',[[note]]Her Guardsmen being were shown attacking symbiotes and their hosts with lethal force, Andi Benton was captured and almost turned into a test subject by one of her xenobiologists in ''Extreme Carnage'', and in ''Venom'' (Vol. 5) Liz herself betraying betrayed Sleeper and Dylan Brock to perform inhumane experiments on the latter after having previously treated him like a second third son.[[/note]] the final issue ends with Liz Allan [[spoiler:shuttering Alchemax's symbiote weaponization projects, instead intending to rehabilitate them instead after being disgusted by how far Carlton Drake was willing to go]].go to create the Symbiotechs]].
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* PullingThemselvesTogether: Due to the Anti-Venom and Carnage symbiotes trying to kill each other and regenerating at the same time, the Misery symbiote's hosts--Grace the chimpanzee and Liz Allan--are able to be torn to shreds and reattach their severed body parts, or even liquify and reconstitute their bodies.
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* ArtificialZombie: The Symbiotechs are corpses that the Life Foundation reanimated with symbiotes and cybernetics for use as {{Super Soldier}}s. They are quite powerful, but have a rather glaring weakness in the form of shutting down immediately if the tubes on their backs are severed, which is exactly what happens during their fight with Spider-Man.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Madness rams his entire arm (which is ''massive'') straight through Queen Cat's torso. Lily not only survives this, but apparently sustains no lasting injuries, as Dr. Hakim is shown telling Liz that he will call her once (not ''if'') Lily comes out of her ConvenientComa.
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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Liz deliberately sends the Misery symbiote to amalgamate into the Madness symbiote, adding Carnage and Anti-Venom's consciousnesses into the mix on top of Scream, Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Toxin's. This--combined with Anti-Venom's general incompatability with other symbiotes, completely overloads Corwin Jones and causes him to have a FreakOut..
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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Liz deliberately sends the Misery symbiote to amalgamate into the Madness symbiote, adding Carnage and Anti-Venom's consciousnesses into the mix on top of Scream, Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Toxin's. This--combined with Anti-Venom's general incompatability with other symbiotes, completely overloads Corwin Jones and causes him to have a FreakOut..FreakOut.
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* MythologyGag: Corwin's appearance as Madness is evocative Venom's mutated form from ''Venom: The Madness'', where he bonded to a sentient mercury virus that mutated the Venom symbiote--causing it to sprout extra heads--while wreaking havoc on Eddie's sanity. Likewise, bonding to six symbiotes--who unlike the Hybrid symbiote or Misery symbiote have zero intention of playing nice--doesn't go well for Corwin.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Spearhead spends the entire series entirely unware that is fighting his own employer, the Life Foundation.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Spearhead spends the entire series entirely unware that is fighting his own employer, the Life Foundation. [[spoiler:This ends up possibly getting him killed when Carlton Drake sics his cyborg symbiote supersoldiers on the intruders.]]
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* VillainRespect: When Corwin asks why Carlton Drake doesn't want him to just kill Liz Allan, Drake responds that he respects her and is attempting to "help" her succeed.
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* VillainRespect: When Corwin asks why Carlton Drake doesn't want him to just kill Liz Allan, Drake responds that he respects her and is attempting to "help" her succeed.by taking the symbiotes off her hands, saying he knows from personal experience she can't afford to fail with them.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Spearhead was Carlton Drake's NumberTwo in ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5), but is shown working for Alchemax on-loan from the Life Foundation. When Liz Allan mysteriously goes missing, Spearhead--seemingly unaware his boss is responsible--teams up with Spider-Man to find out what happened to her and ends up being seriously injured--and possibly even killed--when Carlton siccs a squad of symbiote-augmented cyborg supersoldiers on him and Spider-Man when they get too close to the Life Foundation's hidden base.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Spearhead was Carlton Drake's NumberTwo in ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5), but is shown working for Alchemax on-loan from the Life Foundation. When Liz Allan mysteriously goes missing, Spearhead--seemingly Spearhead--[[LockedOutOfTheLoop seemingly unaware his boss is responsible--teams responsible]]--teams up with Spider-Man to find out what happened to her and ends up being seriously injured--and possibly even killed--when Carlton siccs a squad of symbiote-augmented cyborg supersoldiers on him and Spider-Man when they get too close to the Life Foundation's hidden base.
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* HappyFunBall: Corwin Jones has an affinity for disguising bombs and drones as stuffed animals and dolls. Liz notes how creepy his vast collection of toys is even before they start attacking her.
* HowDoIShotWeb: When Liz tries web-swinging, which she assumes must be easy since the likes of Spider-Man and Carnage do it all the time, she immediately crashes into a water tower with so much force that she splatters all over the place ([[PullingThemselvesTogether not that it matters]]).
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Spearhead spends the entire series entirely unware that is fighting his own employer, the Life Foundation.
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** The final issue reveals that [[spoiler:the Order of the Goblin--making a comeback for the first time since the ''Revenge of the Green Goblin'' arc in 2000 and now being led by Kolina Frederickson--was responsible for Lily Hollister's recovery from her amnesia, and has its sights set on Stanley Osborn]].
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** The final issue reveals that [[spoiler:the Order of the Goblin--making a comeback for the first time since the ''Revenge of the Green Goblin'' ''ComicBook/RevengeOfTheGreenGoblin'' arc in 2000 and now being led by Kolina Frederickson--was responsible for Lily Hollister's recovery from her amnesia, and has its sights set on Stanley Osborn]].
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* BlessedWithSuck: Corwin Jones gets a combination of both third and fourth flavors of this trope when he [[spoiler: bonds with six different symbiotes. At first glance, having multiple symbiotes bonded to you should make you much more powerful. But it turns out, having multiple symbiotes bonded to you has the side effect of creating a MindHive in Jones that he simply cannot keep under control, as opposed to if he had just bonded with one symbiote and been able to keep his own mind and simply one symbiote under control. Because of all the different symbiotes messing with him, Corwin is driven to madness and Liz adding the Misery symbiote to his Madness symbiote is enough to completely overload him]].
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bonded to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other superhumans]].
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* SequelHook: SequelHook:
** [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bonded to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or othersuperhumans]].superhumans]].
** Corwin Jones and the Madness symbiote are still at-large, [[spoiler:the latter blackmailing the former into complying with its wishes by threatening his young daughter]].
** The final issue reveals that [[spoiler:the Order of the Goblin--making a comeback for the first time since the ''Revenge of the Green Goblin'' arc in 2000 and now being led by Kolina Frederickson--was responsible for Lily Hollister's recovery from her amnesia, and has its sights set on Stanley Osborn]].
** [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bonded to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other
** Corwin Jones and the Madness symbiote are still at-large, [[spoiler:the latter blackmailing the former into complying with its wishes by threatening his young daughter]].
** The final issue reveals that [[spoiler:the Order of the Goblin--making a comeback for the first time since the ''Revenge of the Green Goblin'' arc in 2000 and now being led by Kolina Frederickson--was responsible for Lily Hollister's recovery from her amnesia, and has its sights set on Stanley Osborn]].
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* FailureHero: During their JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, the Misery symbiote points out that Liz Allan has been defined by her suffering and failures: she failed as a nurse, she failed as a wife to both Harry Osborns, she failed as a mother to Normie and Stanley, and even her recent stint as a CorruptCorporateExecutive has been a failure. It then challenges her to rise above her failures and stop hiding behind her misery to ''become'' Misery.
* HealingFactor: Due to the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote constantly striving to destroy one another and regenerating, the Misery symbiote enables its host to recover from injuries as severe as being torn in half and spattering into a wall at terminal velocity.
* HealingFactor: Due to the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote constantly striving to destroy one another and regenerating, the Misery symbiote enables its host to recover from injuries as severe as being torn in half and spattering into a wall at terminal velocity.
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* FailureHero: During their JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, the Misery symbiote points out that Liz Allan has been defined by her suffering and failures: she failed as a nurse, nurse to her brother and husband, she failed as a wife to both Harry Osborns, she failed as a mother to Normie and Stanley, and even her recent stint as a CorruptCorporateExecutive has been a failure. It then challenges her to rise above her failures and stop hiding behind her misery to ''become'' Misery.
* HealingFactor: Due to the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote constantly striving to destroy one another and regenerating, the Misery symbiote enables its host to recover from injuries as severe as being torn in halfand or spattering into a wall at terminal velocity.
* HealingFactor: Due to the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote constantly striving to destroy one another and regenerating, the Misery symbiote enables its host to recover from injuries as severe as being torn in half
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* HybridMonster: The Misery symbiote is a hybrid of the Carnage symbiote and the symbiote-killing Anti-Venom. It's only when they're both bound to the same host that the two strains can coexist.
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* HybridMonster: The Misery symbiote is a hybrid Alchemax has collected "strains" from numerous symbiotes that they've used to create clones, and has been working on hybridizing them.
** Dr. Steven notes that their sample of the Carnage symbioteand is proving difficult to hybridize as it kills the other strains they try to combine it with, before hitting on the idea of mixing it with the symbiote-killing Anti-Venom. It's only when they're both bound to Anti-Venom symbiote. The result is the same host that Misery symbiote, a red and white symbiote with the two Carnage symbiote's weaponization abilities, the Anti-Venom symbiote's cleansing touch, and healing abilities superior to both.
** After Corwin Jones steals Alchemax's Scream, Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Toxin symbiote strainscan coexist.and brings them to the Life Foundation, Carlton Drake outfits him with a new suit of Guardsman armor that combines all six symbiotes into a gestalt called Madness. Keeping control of them proves difficult, and when Corwin tries to add the Carnage and Anti-Venom symbiotes to the mix it backfires badly.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: After being captured by the Life Foundation, Liz is placed in a stasis pod. In her mindscape, the Misery symbiote helps her come to terms with her failures as a nurse, wife, mother, and CEO, as well as the DomesticAbuse that Harry Osborn inflicted on her during his descent into mental illness as the Green Goblin.
* MindHive: [[spoiler:Antagonist Corwin Jones, aka Madness, isbound bonded to six different symbiotes. All of their voices are in his mind and, as Liz points out, keeping them under control is no easy task. By the end of the series they're the ones controlling Jones, rather than vice versa]].
* MindHive: [[spoiler:Antagonist Corwin Jones, aka Madness, is
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* {{Retcon}}: In ''ComicBook/ExtremeCarnage'', Doctor Steven told Andi Benton that the Scream symbiote was beyond saving and had died from its injuries, its remaining biomass being salvaged into the Silence symbiote. However, here it's shown that he lied and was able to create a clone of it, as well as the other captured symbiotes, for use in Alchemax's bioweapons research.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bound to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other superhumans]].
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bound to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other superhumans]].
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who wasbound bonded to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other superhumans]].
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Once Grace masters the ability to speak, she berates Dr. Steven and Liz Allan for performing inhumane experiments on her--culminating in bonding her to a sample of the Carnage symbiote and then adding Anti-Venom to the mix--and vengefully attempts to kill them. Liz protests that the experiments were meant to find cures for human illnesses, but this only makes Grace angrier.
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* FailureHero: During their JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, the Misery symbiote points out that Liz Allan has been defined by her suffering and failures: she failed as a nurse, she failed as a wife to both Harry Osborns, she failed as a mother to Normie and Stanley, and even her recent stint as a CorruptCorporateExecutive has been a failure. It then challenges her to rise above her failures and stop hiding behind her misery to ''become'' Misery.
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* ContinuityNod:
** Carlton Drake mentions having previously loaned Spearhead to Alchemax in order to help them capture Dylan Brock, the current host of the Venom symbiote, in reference to ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5).
** A few allusions are made to Liz's eldest son Normie [[ComicBook/RedGoblin being the host of his own symbiote]], Rascal, though Liz is completely unaware of this.
** Carlton Drake mentions having previously loaned Spearhead to Alchemax in order to help them capture Dylan Brock, the current host of the Venom symbiote, in reference to ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5).
** A few allusions are made to Liz's eldest son Normie [[ComicBook/RedGoblin being the host of his own symbiote]], Rascal, though Liz is completely unaware of this.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Liz starts off maintaining an aloof and cold veneer as the perfect Osborn-adjacent CEO of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate involved in shady dealings and inhumane bioweapons research, and when she undergoes a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind after being captured her mindscape is even shown as a snowy fortress made of ice. After the Misery symbiote helps her come to terms with the different facets of her identity, as well as that she was a victim of abuse by Harry Osborn, she resolves to try to be a better person and [[spoiler:shuts down Alchemax's symbiote weaponization projects in favour of rehabilitating them instead]].
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* HeelRealization: After having been an antagonistic force towards symbiote characters post-''ComicBook/KingInBlack'',[[note]]Her Guardsmen being shown attacking symbiotes and their hosts with lethal force, and Liz herself betraying Sleeper and Dylan Brock to perform inhumane experiments on the latter after having previously treated him like a second son.[[/note]] the final issue ends with Liz Allan [[spoiler:shuttering Alchemax's symbiote weaponization projects, instead intending to rehabilitate them instead]].
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* HeelRealization: After having been an antagonistic force towards symbiote characters post-''ComicBook/KingInBlack'',[[note]]Her Guardsmen being shown attacking symbiotes and their hosts with lethal force, and Liz herself betraying Sleeper and Dylan Brock to perform inhumane experiments on the latter after having previously treated him like a second son.[[/note]] the final issue ends with Liz Allan [[spoiler:shuttering Alchemax's symbiote weaponization projects, instead intending to rehabilitate them instead]].instead after being disgusted by how far Carlton Drake was willing to go]].
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** The Madness symbiote is an amalgamation of Alchemax's copies of the Scream, Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Toxin symbiotes, with their heads jutting from Corwin Jones' body as a reference to Venom's mutated form from ''Venom: The Madness''.
* PlayingNiceForNow: After breaking free of her stasis pod and escaping Madness, Liz confronts Carlton Drake and threatens to kill him when he keeps pushing her buttons, forcing him to turn over the Life Foundation's symbiote research to Alchemax. When Spider-Man abruptly enters the room, Liz retracts her symbiote and the two pretend that they've just concluded a top-secret business deal.
* {{Retcon}}: In ''ComicBook/ExtremeCarnage'', Doctor Steven told Andi Benton that the Scream symbiote was beyond saving and had died from its injuries, its remaining biomass being salvaged into the Silence symbiote. However, here it's shown that he lied and was able to create a clone of it, as well as the other captured symbiotes, for use in Alchemax's bioweapons research.
** The Misery symbiote is a merger of the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote, granting it the weaponization powers of the former and the healing factor of the
** The Madness symbiote is an amalgamation of Alchemax's copies of the Scream, Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Toxin symbiotes, with their heads jutting from Corwin Jones' body as a reference to Venom's mutated form from ''Venom: The Madness''.
* PlayingNiceForNow: After breaking free of her stasis pod and escaping Madness, Liz confronts Carlton Drake and threatens to kill him when he keeps pushing her buttons, forcing him to turn over the Life Foundation's symbiote research to Alchemax. When Spider-Man abruptly enters the room, Liz retracts her symbiote and the two pretend that they've just concluded a top-secret business deal.
* {{Retcon}}: In ''ComicBook/ExtremeCarnage'', Doctor Steven told Andi Benton that the Scream symbiote was beyond saving and had died from its injuries, its remaining biomass being salvaged into the Silence symbiote. However, here it's shown that he lied and was able to create a clone of it, as well as the other captured symbiotes, for use in Alchemax's bioweapons research.
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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Liz deliberately sends the Misery symbiote to amalgamate into the Madness symbiote, adding Carnage and Anti-Venom's consciousnesses into the mix on top of Scream, Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Toxin's. This--combined with Anti-Venom's general incompatability with other symbiotes, completely overloads Corwin Jones and causes him to have a FreakOut..
* VillainRespect: When Corwin asks why Carlton Drake doesn't want him to just kill Liz Allan, Drake responds that he respects her and is attempting to "help" her succeed.
* VillainRespect: When Corwin asks why Carlton Drake doesn't want him to just kill Liz Allan, Drake responds that he respects her and is attempting to "help" her succeed.
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* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: In the final issue, Liz Allan [[spoiler:threatens to kill Carlton Drake unless he stops meddling in Alchemax's affairs and turns over all of the Life Foundation's symbiote research. He begrudgingly agrees, and the two them play nice when Spider-Man enters the room]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The final issue reveals that Corwin Jones, who happily backstabbed his coworkers at Alchemax and killed several of them, and maimed Liz Allan and spat in her face when she offered to help cure his terminal illness... [[spoiler:has a daughter who he cares deeply about, the Madness symbiote using this to blackmail him into doing what they want]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The final issue reveals that Corwin Jones, who happily backstabbed his coworkers at Alchemax and killed several of them, and maimed Liz Allan and spat in her face when she offered to help cure his terminal illness... [[spoiler:has a daughter who he cares deeply about, the Madness symbiote using this to blackmail him into doing what they want]].
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* HeelRealization: After having been an antagonistic force towards symbiote characters post-''ComicBook/KingInBlack'',[[note]]Her Guardsmen being shown attacking symbiotes and their hosts with lethal force, and Liz herself betraying Sleeper and Dylan Brock to perform inhumane experiments on the latter after having previously treated him like a second son.[[/note]] the final issue ends with Liz Allan [[spoiler:shuttering Alchemax's symbiote weaponization projects, instead intending to rehabilitate them instead]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Spearhead was Carlton Drake's NumberTwo in ''ComicBook/{{Venom|2021}}'' (Vol. 5), but is shown working for Alchemax on-loan from the Life Foundation. When Liz Allan mysteriously goes missing, Spearhead--seemingly unaware his boss is responsible--teams up with Spider-Man to find out what happened to her and ends up being seriously injured--and possibly even killed--when Carlton siccs a squad of symbiote-augmented cyborg supersoldiers on him and Spider-Man when they get too close to the Life Foundation's hidden base.
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''Cult of Carnage: Misery'' is a 2023 limited series by Creator/MarvelComics, written by Sabir Pirzada with art by Francesco Mortarino.
The series us set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse and broadly linked into the ComicBook/SpiderMan franchise.
Whilst dealing with the theft of symbiotes from her company Alchemax, Liz Allen is bonded to a hybrid symbiote.
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!!''Cult of Carnage: Misery'' provides examples of:
* BloodKnight: Owing to it partially being comprised out of the Carnage symbiote, Dr. Steven notes that the Misery symbiote is extermely bloodthirsty and the only reason it's not having a negative affect on Liz Allan and Grace is that their inherent aggression lets them control it.
* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the first series starring Liz Allen, a long time supporting character from all the way back in ''ComicBook/AmazingFantasyNumber15''.
* HealingFactor: Due to the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote constantly striving to destroy one another and regenerating, the Misery symbiote enables its host to recover from injuries as severe as being torn in half and spattering into a wall at terminal velocity.
* HybridMonster: The Misery symbiote is a hybrid of the Carnage symbiote and the symbiote-killing Anti-Venom. It's only when they're both bound to the same host that the two strains can coexist.
* JaggedMouth: Like Anti-Venom, Misery's maw is lined with black fangs that blend into the rest of its face.
* MindHive: [[spoiler:Antagonist Corwin Jones, aka Madness, is bound to six different symbiotes. All of their voices are in his mind and, as Liz points out, keeping them under control is no easy task. By the end of the series they're controlling Jones, rather than vice versa]].
* ModifiedClone: The Misery symbiote is a merger of the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote, granting it the weaponization powers of the former and the healing factor of the latter.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bound to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other superhumans]].
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''Cult of Carnage: Misery'' is a 2023 limited series by Creator/MarvelComics, written by Sabir Pirzada with art by Francesco Mortarino.
The series us set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse and broadly linked into the ComicBook/SpiderMan franchise.
Whilst dealing with the theft of symbiotes from her company Alchemax, Liz Allen is bonded to a hybrid symbiote.
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!!''Cult of Carnage: Misery'' provides examples of:
* BloodKnight: Owing to it partially being comprised out of the Carnage symbiote, Dr. Steven notes that the Misery symbiote is extermely bloodthirsty and the only reason it's not having a negative affect on Liz Allan and Grace is that their inherent aggression lets them control it.
* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the first series starring Liz Allen, a long time supporting character from all the way back in ''ComicBook/AmazingFantasyNumber15''.
* HealingFactor: Due to the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote constantly striving to destroy one another and regenerating, the Misery symbiote enables its host to recover from injuries as severe as being torn in half and spattering into a wall at terminal velocity.
* HybridMonster: The Misery symbiote is a hybrid of the Carnage symbiote and the symbiote-killing Anti-Venom. It's only when they're both bound to the same host that the two strains can coexist.
* JaggedMouth: Like Anti-Venom, Misery's maw is lined with black fangs that blend into the rest of its face.
* MindHive: [[spoiler:Antagonist Corwin Jones, aka Madness, is bound to six different symbiotes. All of their voices are in his mind and, as Liz points out, keeping them under control is no easy task. By the end of the series they're controlling Jones, rather than vice versa]].
* ModifiedClone: The Misery symbiote is a merger of the Carnage symbiote and the Anti-Venom symbiote, granting it the weaponization powers of the former and the healing factor of the latter.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Grace, the chimpanzee who was bound to the Carnage and Anti-Venom blend at the very start of the story, escapes at the very end. It's implied that she'll become a future threat for Liz or other superhumans]].
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