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| “ | Kasady is gone! There is only CARNAGE! | „ |
| ~ Cletus Kasady upon becoming Carnage. |
Cletus Kasady, better known as Carnage, is a supporting antagonist in the 1994-98 superhero television series Spider-Man. Kasady was an infamous criminal before Dormammu recruited him and gave him his symbiote.
He was voiced by Scott Cleverdon. When possessing Peter Parker of Earth-98311, the symbiote was voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes, who also voiced Electro in the 2012 Ultimate Spider-Man series, and Vulture in the Spider-Man Unlimited mobile game.
Personality[]
| “ | Jonah, Kasady's not a man. He's a monster. He's done things even the post wouldn't print. | „ |
| ~ Robbie Robertson to J. Jonah Jameson about Kasody. |
While not quite as horrendous in personality and actions as his comic book counterpart, due to the show being targeted towards a younger audience, Cletus Kasady was ever as monstrous with or without the symbiote. As Robbie Robertson put it, he was much more of a monster than he was a man. He displayed no concern for the lives of others, including his own, as shown when he was willing to bomb a whole city, which would have killed him as well. Upon becoming Carnage, he corrupts the alien parasite into manifesting his own destructive personality, which made for a very dangerous combination for both Spider-Man and Venom. Kasady was so insane that he bonded perfectly with the symbiote, to the point where he would refer to himself as "I" instead of "we", like Venom does. The symbiote was so subservient to Kasady that it drove Peter Parker from Earth-98311 into acting almost exactly like Kasady upon bonding with him, thus creating the murderous Spider-Carnage.
Once Carnage was given the powers to drain souls by Dormammu, he became even more bent on chaos, draining the lives of at least 12 innocent people and taking sadistic delight in doing so. Carnage also displayed very perverted behavior, such as when he threatened to bite Venom's lover, Dr. Ashley Kafka after he asked her for a kiss, and also hated Venom for the love he had for Ashley. Carnage was completely apathetic when he caused an explosion that almost killed Ashley infront of Venom during his fight with War Machine and Spider-Man. He was also perfectly willing to murder his symbiote father for the pettiest of reasons-and even tried to kill him after they brought the Probe to Mordo's lair.
Although he followed Dormammu at every order, it was only out of the joy he would gain upon seeing Dormammu destroy Earth, and was not out of any true loyalty to him. Carnage was also shown to be incredibly hypocritical, as he called Venom an "ingrate" for refusing to follow through on freeing Dormammu, despite the fact that everything Carnage did for the dark lord was out of self-interest, which he made perfectly clear to Baron Mordo when the latter warned him not to "go back on [his] word".
Biography[]
Background[]
Cletus Kasady was an infamous and mentally unstable criminal who apparently committed several atrocities that nobody would put on newspaper. While not too much is known about his past, it's implied that he was abused as a child, considering he refers to the apartment he was raised in as "a real house of horrors". At some point he was swarmed by the NYPD in his apartment building. When Lieutenant Terri Lee broke into his room to apprehend the criminal, he attacked her and then nearly blew up an entire city block before Spider-Man intervenes and saves the day. Kasady was arrested and sent to the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane.
Becoming Carnage[]
After Eddie Brock re-bonded with his symbiote and thus became Venom again, Kasady was visited by Baron Mordo, who made him swear permanent allegiance to Dormammu in exchange for Venom's offspring, the Carnage symbiote. This was the same deal he made with Brock after he had brought the symbiotes back, in his plan to release Dormammu from his dimension. Kasady accepted, saying Dormammu "sounds like [his] kind of guy", and bonds with the symbiote, becoming Carnage. He then attacks many guards before breaking out.
Carnage then meets up with Venom at Stark Industries, defeating Spider-Man and War Machine before stealing a portal device and retreating to Mordo's lair, though not before he and Venom try to kill each other over who would defeat Spider-Man. Venom leaves Dormammu, who assigns Carnage with stealing human souls in order for him to exit his home dimension. Carnage manages to drain at least 12 people (including Dr. Ashley Kafka and Lieutenant Terri Lee), but Spider-Man, Iron Man and Venom go to their lair and stop Dormammu from entering their world, thus returning the souls back into their bodies.
However, Dormammu's portal was still open because he linked himself and Carnage together, thus leading Venom to sacrifice himself by throwing himself into the said portal to stop Carnage from pulling his lover Ashley in there with him. Cletus Kasody's fate after that is left unknown.
Becoming Spider-Carnage[]
At some point, the Carnage symbiote was accidentally transported to an alternate reality, Earth-98311, by a device created by said reality's Kingpin. It was summoned when Ben Reilly, a.k.a. The Scarlet Spider, was trying to stop Kinpin in his plans but was interrupted by his clone, Peter Parker/Spider-Man. The Parker clone had held a grudge against Reilly due to the revelation that he had been a clone of him, the real Peter Parker, created by Dr. Miles Warren.
Once the symbiote arrived, it bonded with the Parker clone due to his grudge and hatred for humanity, driving the man insane and thus Spider-Carnage was born. Upon his birth, Spider-Carnage had teamed up with Kingpin, as well as Alistor Smythe, the Hobgoblin and Green Goblin-ordering the two goblins to massacre all of New York City. He puts his partners under the delusion that he wants them to steal some equipment from J. Jonah Jameson to build a machine that controls people's minds, when he's actually intending to use it to destroy the multiverse.
The Goblins' plans on stealing the equipment are somewhat interrupted by Spider-Man from the Prime Universe, who was brought there by the Beyonder, so Spider-Carnage tries to kill prime. However prime Spider-Man is teleported to Madame Web's lair by the Beyonder before Spider-Carnage can do any more damage. Madame Web then reveals that she had foreseen Spider-Carnage's plans as well as the results should this plan become successful, therefore she recruited Spider-Man from the Prime Universe, as well as four other Spider-Men in aiding Scarlet Spider to stop him.
Once they track down Spider-Carnage to Kingpin's lair, all the other Spider-Men engage in a fight in which Spider-Carnage's true plans are revealed to Kingpin. Enraged, Kingpin attacks Spider-Carnage, but the symbiote overpowers him. Spider-Carnage's plans in destroying the multiverse are thwarted by the following Spider-Men, however he manages to open a portal to the Armored Spider-Man's universe before the building explodes. The Spider-Men and Kingpin are transported to Madame Web's lair, and prime Spider-Man is taken to Armored Spider-Man's universe. Upon arriving there, he finds out that Armored Spider-Man is a billionaire scientist whose identity as Spider-Man is known to everyone.
After Spider-Carnage's attempt at killing prime Spider-Man with Armored Spider-Man's giant Spider-Robot fails, it is revealed that he manipulated Kingpin (who is Armored Spider-Man's lawyer) into kidnapping prime Spider-Man so he may pretend to be Armored Spider-Man in order to avoid suspicion as he attends Armored Spider-Man's party. However, prime Spider-Man is rescued by Armored Spider-Man's fiancé, Gwen Stacy, and he escapes to reveal Spider-Carnage's true identity to all of the party guests.
Spider-Carnage and prime Spider-Man engage in a fight, and Gwen manages to subdue Spider-Carnage with a sonic gun. However, Kingpin stops it. Upon recovering, Spider-Carnage kidnaps Gwen Stacy, threatening to kill her should anyone follow him to where he intends to finish the machine, and go through with his plans in destroying all of reality. Prime Spider-Man comes up with the idea of bringing Armored Spider-Man's uncle Ben to the rooftop where Gwen is being kept. Once there, Ben is able to reach out to the Peter Parker being controlled by the evil symbiote. Parker repents and tries to break free of Carnage, but the alien won't go down without a fight, causing Peter severe pain in the process. Parker is forced to use the device to open an unbalanced portal, so he may jump into and sacrifice himself, along with Carnage. The plan is a success and the portal is vaporized, killing both of them and putting an end to Carnage's reign of terror for good.
Quotes[]
| “ | Cletus: (cackling evilly) Policeman: Come out and nobody gets hurt! Cletus: Nobody gets hurt? Man, what fun would that be!? |
„ |
| ~ Cletus Kasady to the police while throwing a grenade. |
| “ | I was raised in this place. It was a real house of horrors! It still is, man! You'll see! (cackles maniacally) | „ |
| ~ Kasady ambushes Detective Terri Lee in his apartment building. |
| “ | Man, what a dump! No pool, no stereo, and weirdos everywhere you look! Aren't you gonna give me some therapy, beautiful lady? Don't I get a goodbye kiss, or are you afraid I'm gonna bite? | „ |
| ~ Kasady to Dr. Ashley Kafka when he first arrives at the Ravencroft Institute. |
| “ | Hey man...I could eat you for breakfast! | „ |
| ~ Kasady's first interaction with Eddie Brock. |
| “ | Kasady: What in the name of... Baron Mordo: It is my master, Dormammu who confers this gift upon you Kasady. Kasady: A gift? Baron Mordo: Remember. You wanted the same power that I offered Eddie Brock. Kasady: This is it? Baron Mordo: But to enjoy it, you must first swear to serve Dormammu forever. Kasady: No problem man! He sounds like my kind of guy! Let me have the power! What do I do? Baron Mordo: This is a symbiote. A living organism. It must bond with you. Kasady: And then I get to be like Brock? Baron Mordo: Similar but different. As different as you are from Brock. Once you bond it will reflect your hatred for humanity, your lust for destruction. Kasady: I'll take it! Baron Mordo: It must take you. |
„ |
| ~ Baron Mordo offers Cletus Kasady the Carnage symbiote in exchange for his service. |
| “ | Come on! What are you waiting for? I am YOURS, man! We're gonna wreak glorious carnage throughout the land! | „ |
| ~ Kasady before bonding with his symbiote. |
| “ | Venom: Who are you? Carnage: Your offspring! Venom: Offspring? Yes. Yes! We recall replicating. Carnage: Our flame headed friend sent us to get this. Call us... Carnage! |
„ |
| ~ Carnage and Venom joining forces. |
| “ | Think of the damage we can do now, man! (laughs) | „ |
| ~ Carnage to Spider-Man. |
| “ | You're just a sentimental old fool, dad! And we've got to do everything ourselves! | „ |
| ~ Carnage calls Venom a fool and then attacks Spider-Man and War Machine. |
| “ | We could leave you now. We've done our job, but we want a bonus! Dad! Ready for some father-son quality time? Between the two of us, there won't be enough left of Spider-Man to fit in a matchbox. But we'll try, won't we?! (cackles maniacally) | „ |
| ~ Carnage about to chop Spider-Man into tiny pieces with a symbiotic axe-hand. |
| “ | Guess I could say you axed for this, Web-Man! | „ |
| ~ Carnage about to kill Spider-Man. |
| “ | To heck with my word, man! I'm gonna bring this [the interdimensional probe] back. I can't wait to see the horrors Dormammu's gonna commit when he gets here! | „ |
| ~ Carnage before retreating from Stark Industries. |
| “ | That was good for an old guy. | „ |
| ~ Carnage fighting Venom. |
| “ | I hate havin' mah meals interrupted! | „ |
| ~ Carnage under fire from the military. |
| “ | Just like sardine cans. Snack time! | „ |
| ~ Carnage draining two soldiers' souls in a tank. |
| “ | I hope your life force isn't as useless as your life! | „ |
| ~ Carnage trying to steal Spider-Man's soul. |
| “ | Carnage: No, why isn't it working? Baron Mordo: Carnage. Your body can hold no more life force. Come back so that you can be drained. Carnage: (to Spider-Man) I'll catch you later for dessert! |
„ |
| ~ Carnage and Baron Mordo. |
| “ | Carnage: This is taking forever! I've got people to torment! Baron Mordo: The transfer is almost complete. Carnage: And then we can say hello to hot head. I mean Dormammu. Baron Mordo: The urn is not yet full. We need the energy of a few more lives. Carnage: Only a few? Too bad. |
„ |
| ~ Carnage and Baron Mordo. |
| “ | Good evening, Detective Lee. I told you we'd meet again... to settle old accounts. | „ |
| ~ Carnage ambushing Detective Terri Lee in her apartment. |
| “ | You ruined my surprise! I'm gonna shred you to pieces! Hot head gets your life force but I get the rest of ya. | „ |
| ~ Carnage fighting Spider-Man. |
| “ | Carnage: We needed one more life force and you're elected. Ashley Kafka: Kasady! Carnage: If one person deserves this more then him, it's you! |
„ |
| ~ Carnage draining life energy out of Spider-Man and then takes Ashley Kafka instead. |
| “ | Alright, hot head! We've been waitin' for ya! Do your stuff! | „ |
| ~ Carnage releases Dormammu from the Dark Dimension. |
| “ | I'm not going in there alone! | „ |
| ~ Carnage before being sucked into Dormammu's dimension, trying to take Ashley with him. |
Gallery[]
Images[]
.webp "Spider-Carnage (animated).webp (38 KB)")
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Had the series been renewed for a sixth season, Spider-Man would have fought Carnage in an alternate Victorian London, where he would be revealed as Jack the Ripper.
- In "The Rogues' Challenge" game on the DVD Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin for Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Stan Lee had stated that Carnage isn't much of a team player. Not only that, but the question was who replaced Mysterio in the Insidious Six (Vulture) and Carnage was still trapped in another dimension when Kingpin reunited them.
External Link[]
- Carnage on the Pure Evil Wiki.
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