Carnage (comics)

When Eddie Brock's Venom symbiote soon returned to be bonded again, allowing Venom to escape prison, the symbiote left its offspring in the cell; due to its alien mindset, the symbiote felt no emotional attachment to its offspring, regarding it as insignificant, and thus never communicated its existence to Brock via their telepathic link. The new symbiote then bonded with Brock's cellmate Cletus Kasady through a cut on his hand, transforming him into Carnage.[4][5] The bond between the Carnage symbiote and Kasady was stronger than the bond between Brock and the Venom symbiote. Cletus Kasady was also a serial killer and thought of as insane. As a result, Carnage is far more violent, powerful, and deadly than Venom.[6] Kasady and the symbiote would then be a main antagonist in "Maximum Carnage" and Kasady would continually be the most recurring character to use the Carnage symbiote in many publications.[7] [8]

It eventually transferred itself to Spider-Man—Ben Reilly at the time—when Ben bonded with it in order to prevent it from hurting any innocent people, creating Spider-Carnage. Ben's willpower held out against the symbiote's murderous desires long enough for him to return it to Ravencroft. Reilly subsequently attempted to destroy the symbiote by subjecting himself to a potentially lethal blast of microwaves, but it escaped back to Kasady after the microwaves forced it to separate from him.[9]

After Kasady was lobotomized, he was broken out of prison by the Wizard and Klaw, who intend to recruit him into the Frightful Four and turn him into their own version of Venom. After a failed attempt to control Kasady, Wizard transfers the Symbiote to Dr. Karl Malus. Dr. Malus was enraged and under the influences of the Symbiote tried to kill his teammates, but he was subdued by Klaw and controlled by Wizard, who renames him "Superior Carnage" and equips him with weapons.[10]

The trio are confronted by the Superior Spider-Man and during their battle the Wizard loses his control over Carnage and he is fatally injured once Spider-Man accidentally drops him due to the shock of finding out Wizard read his mind and knows about Otto Octvaius. Carnage, now free, goes on a rampage and starts to kill anyone in front of him. Klaw tries to stop him, but due to his weapon being damaged he fails and realizes that the only way is for the Wizard to take back control. Both Carnage and Klaw make their way outside. Carnage fights the Superior Spider-Man and admits that although he liked using weapons, for him ripping and slashing the bodies is better. Klaw tries to get the Wizard to control Carnage again, but is killed by Carnage and the explosion separates the Symbiote from its host, only to bond with the injured Wizard.[10]

Following the events of Secret Empire, the Carnage symbiote was stolen from an old S.H.I.E.L.D. storehouse by the then-powerless Norman Osborn.[11] He initially found himself overwhelmed by the symbiote's desire for mindless slaughter when he allowed it to merge with him,[12] but he has been able to 'persuade' the symbiote to let him take control of Carnage's powers to show it something other than 'boring' mindless slaughter.[13] Using this combination of powers during the "Go Down Swinging" storyline, Norman is easily able to tear through Human Torch, Clash, Silk, Miles Morales, and Agent Anti-Venom, with the combination of the symbiote and the Goblin serum rendering Carnage immune to its traditional weaknesses, eventually transferring part of the symbiote to his grandson Normie enough to turn him into a miniature version of Red Goblin.[14] The Carnage symbiote is seemingly destroyed by Spider-Man when he hits it with an exploding gas tank, however, because the symbiote was attached to Norman when Peter destroyed it, he wonders what sort of effect that might have had on his old foe's mind. Later as Spider-Man visits Norman in Ravencroft, it's revealed that Norman's mind appears to have been completely fried and now believes that Spider-Man is actually Norman Osborn and he is Cletus Kasady. It's not clear whether or not he's faking it or if he had actually lost his mind. Meanwhile, Harry manages to remove the Carnage symbiote from Normie. Not all of it has gone.[15]

Following the defeat of Cletus Kassady, Carnage and the gestalt symbiotes were absorbed by Eddie Brock who later is given an offer to join the Avengers, but in the middle of his big day Carnage is able to overcome Venom and takes over. Eddie leaves before things get out of hand leaving the Avengers with strange reactions. Eddie gets back home and tries to quiet the Carnage in a way he has done before with Venom, heavy medication. Eddie passes out and has a vision of Knull. This causes Eddie to take off and head towards the island where he long ago had thought he had killed Spider-Man and where he remained until the emergence of Carnage. But Carnage catches on to Eddie's thoughts and causes the plane to crash land. Separated from the Carnage symbiote, Eddie is ready to face it off[16], but after a narrow escape that cost him his left hand[17], Eddie was eventually rescued by the Avengers who promptly nuked the island to finally eradicate the symbiotes still on it.[18] Meanwhile in order to find his father, Dylan discovers a unique ability he has to track and control symbiotes, which he uses to find Eddie and learns a terrible truth: Eddie never left the island at all. Instead, he has been bonded against his will to Carnage.[19] Using the Venom symbiote, Dylan tries to separate his father from Carnage but only allows the Carnage symbiote to take Dylan to his father's mindscape. There, Dylan is able to finally free himself and Eddie from Carnage's control, but the symbiote survives the ordeal and is able to left the island too by bonding with a shark.[20]

There have been other, shorter term hosts for the symbiote.

Though bonded to Kasady's bloodstream the symbiote found a way to ditch its host by travelling through the Ravencroft Institute's water pipes overwhelming Ravencroft's chief, John Jameson. Carnage used him to commit further murders before eventually bonding with Spider-man, who was Ben Reilly at the time.[9]

During a subsequent rampage, the Carnage symbiote briefly attempted to take control of the Silver Surfer, who was visiting Earth at the time to welcome the Fantastic Four after their return to life following the battle with Onslaught. As it turned out, Galactus had consumed a planet that many Symbiotes lived on, and the species had made it a race memory so that each future Symbiote could remember it, as well as the Surfer who had been Galactus's herald at the time. Upon seeing the Silver Surfer, the Carnage Symbiote abandoned Kasady and bonded with the Silver Surfer, becoming the Carnage Cosmic. Spider-Man and the Surfer managed to return the Symbiote to Kasady, who was dying from stomach cancer, and then the Silver Surfer proceeded to seal both host and Symbiote in an unbreakable prison in an attempt to force him to reflect on his sins for eternity.[21]

After Carnage was ripped in half by the Sentry outside the Earth atmosphere[22] it is later discovered that, although the host was presumably killed, the symbiote survived by becoming dormant and returned to Earth, where it was discovered by Michael Hall, a competitor of Tony Stark. He brought Shriek and her doctor, Tanis Nevies, so he could use Shriek to keep the symbiote alive in order of using the properties of the symbiote, to create prosthetic limbs and exo-suits which respond in the same ways as a symbiote. One such person, Dr. Tanis Nieves, is outfitted with one of these prosthetic arms after she is caught in an attack by the Doppelganger, who tried to rescue Shriek.[8] When near the symbiote, her arm goes wild and forces her to kill several scientists before the symbiote forcefully bonds to her, becoming the new Carnage.[8] After the symbiote uses Tanis to break into a Hall Corporation facility, it is revealed that Kasady is alive (although both of his legs have been severed), his body preserved by the symbiote and repaired by Hall's prosthetics.[8] Kasady reclaims the symbiote and becomes Carnage once more, attempting to avenge his captivity while Spider-Man and Iron Man struggle to stop him. It is then revealed that Carnage was once again pregnant, and the suit's spawn briefly bonds to Tanis, but she removes it from herself and the symbiote bonds to Shriek before being torn from her. Scared of Shriek's malice, the symbiote arm then rebonds to Tanis, creating a new hero, Scorn, who defeats Shriek and forces her to use her sonic shriek to weaken Carnage, but he escapes.[8]

Ultimately, Spider-Man brings out Kasady's body to successfully draw the symbiote into it, which immediately devours Dr. Malus and then prepares to finish off the Wizard. However, Klaw ephemeral spirit focuses his sound manipulation powers one last time for a split second to create a powerful sonic blast that disables Carnage, allowing the symbiote to be recaptured. In the epilogue it is shown that the symbiote has managed to repair the Wizard's and Kasady's brain damage.[10]

After the symbiote had died in captivity, a sample of the symbiote was being examined by Dr. Carla Unger, until the sample entered into her body. When she went home, the symbiote formed around her and then she with the symbiote killed her abusive husband. After that, the symbiote consumed her and went to other hosts to get back to Kasady. When the symbiote arrived to an injured Kasady, a scientist, who wanted the symbiote for himself tried to kill Kasady, but the symbiote rebonded to Cletus.[23]

The Earth-15 psychotic Peter Parker and Carnage combine to become the "Spider", and becomes a member of Weapon X in Exiles.[36] He is killed when Firestar explodes from her powers.[37]

In the MC2 future timeline, Carnage, also known as Specimen 297, bonds with Spider-Girl's friend Moose Mansfied, who wanted to use the symbiote to cure his father from cancer.[38] He also infects Spider-Girl's little brother, turning him into a miniature version of himself. Spider-Girl uses the sonic blasters of the villain Reverb to destroy all traces of the symbiote.

In a later timeline, samples of the symbiote are used to create Biopreds, living weapons that the government use to try to stop Mayhem, Spider-Girl's part-symbiote clone, who, after killing the real Spider-Girl, became a murderous vigilante, eventually killing the hero American Dream. The Biopreds run wild, however, decimating the world and its defenders. Mayhem, seeing the error of her ways, goes back in time and sacrifices herself to stop her past self from killing Spider-Girl, ensuring the events that led to the Biopreds' creation never occurred.[39]

The Ultimate Marvel version of Carnage is a self-regenerating vampiric organism. This version is created from DNA samples of both Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and the Lizard, and combined with samples from Richard Parker's symbiotic suit research. When first introduced, the organism was a blob of instinct, with no intelligence or self-awareness, with its only aim to feed on the DNA of others, including Gwen Stacy, to stabilize itself. After feeding on multiple people, Carnage turns into a damaged form of Richard. Carnage and Peter battle to which Peter throws Carnage into a fire factor steel chimney, killing the beast. But before its death, the organism splintered into a replica of Gwen's form.[40][41]

In Ultimate Spider-Man No. 98 "Gwen" appears to have no memory of her "death" and believes she was in a hospital, from which she has escaped. In issue No. 100, after a raft of revelations, the stress of the situation enrages "Gwen". She transforms into Carnage before leaping out the window. In the next issue, "Richard Parker" claims "Gwen" should not have met Peter at all, and was merely an experiment in stem cell research. This Gwen/Carnage fights with the Fantastic Four, Nick Fury, and the Spider-Slayers drones, until she is knocked unconscious by a beam of light, and taken into custody. In issue No. 113, Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin causes a massive prison break from the Triskelion. An inmate appearing to be 'Gwen' walks out amidst the chaos, disappearing in the shadows. It has been revealed the creature posing as Gwen Stacy is still the original Ultimate Carnage Spider-Man faced earlier in its run. After "devouring" Gwen, this incarnation of Carnage has gone on to mimic her "essence" and now believes itself to be Gwen Stacy.[42]

During the "War of the Symbiotes" storyline, Gwen/Carnage's back story in the Triskelion is revealed. It is shown Gwen has been taking some form of therapy with Tony Stark. However, when the Green Goblin broke out of the Triskelion, Gwen escaped and went to Peter Parker's old house in a confused and terrified state, with Carnage's face on her body. During an exchange between Peter and Gwen, Eddie Brock attempts to attack Aunt May and retake his symbiote. In a rage, Spider-Man engages Eddie on a nearby rooftop. During the fight, Gwen is shown to be able to use her symbiote to fight off Eddie, but Eddie's symbiote reconstitutes itself upon contact with Carnage and absorbs the symbiote, rendering Gwen an ordinary girl.

On Earth-311, Canice Cassidy believed that he was bonded to a demon and formed the universe's version of Sinister Six called Sinister Sextet with Electro, Hobgoblin, Karnov (Earth-411's version of Kraven the Hunter), Magus (Earth-311's version of Mysterio), and Serpent (who is similar to Lizard) as its members. The dimension-hopping Web-Warriors who aid dimensions (who lost its Spider-Man) defeated Sinister Sextet, and as they round up their captives, they notice that Electro escaped, unbeknownst to the group, followed them to the Great Web.[43]

• During Spider-Verse, a version of Carnage is seen by Jessica Drew on the Web of Life and Destiny.[44]
• In the second volume of Spider-Verse during Secret Wars, Carnage was one of the mobsters taken down by that universe's Spider-Man and the Web Warriors.[45]

In Venomverse, when Venom and Eddie Brock from Prime Earth were recruited into a war between lethal protectors from across the multiverse and the symbiote-eating Poisons, the Venoms from the multiverse were on the ropes until Eddie had the bright idea to recruit the psychopath Carnage to their side. They summoned a Carnage that hailed from a world where he had succeeded in killing Venom, and while he was volatile at first, engaging in battle with the Resistance, when he realized he had the opportunity to fight "a buncha messed-up super-heroes" he decided to join the Venoms.[46] For some reason, Carnage was immune to the Poisons, and he helped tip the scales in their favor as one last ditch suicide run and was left for dead alongside Poison Deadpool, and was seemingly killed when the Hive's ship was destroyed, after the heroes were sent back to their respective dimensions.[47]

During the Secret Wars, when Elsa Bloodstone along with a child were in a world of zombified characters, they run into a zombie Carnage. He was killed when Elsa threw Carnage's head to a zombie Sauron.[48]

Carnage was also used in DC and Marvel's Amalgam Comics, where he was amalgamated with Bizarro into Bizarnage, an adversary of Spider-Boy who appeared in his only issue.[49][50]

• The Carnage symbiote appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and bonds with Cletus Kasady (voiced by Scott Cleverdon) and Spider-Carnage (voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes). Its original host appeared in the episodes "Venom Returns", "Carnage" and "The Haunting of Mary Jane Watson". This version was never shown killing anyone but still a deranged psychopath with a heavy criminal record. Cletus is captured by the police after planning to explode a bomb over New York. In prison, he shares a cell with Eddie Brock. After the Venom symbiote goes in their prison and rebonds with Brock and escapes, Baron Mordo appears in front of Cletus and explains that another symbiote has the same symbiotic powers. When Mordo makes a deal with this symbiote power in exchange for servitude to Dormammu, Cletus accepts the offer and bonds with the new symbiote, turning into Carnage and escapes the prison. Carnage and Venom are given vampiric powers to steal life energy so that Dormammu can escape into this dimension and consume. Carnage mockingly refers to Venom as "Dad". Carnage abducts Ashley Kafka, resulting in Venom teaming up with Spider-Man and Iron Man. After the final showdown, Carnage tried to drag Ashley into Dormammu's realm with him, but Eddie sacrificed himself to save Ashley and falls through the portal with Carnage. Carnage, Venom, and Dormammu are ultimately imprisoned in Dormammu's dimension. In the series finale, its second host appeared as Spider-Carnage.
• The Carnage symbiote appears in the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series, voiced by Michael Donovan (Cletus Kasady).[51] Like Venom, this version had the ability to change into a somewhat liquid form while the default appearance changes to appear taller, skinnier, and with boney protrusions.
• The Carnage symbiote was originally slated to appear if The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series had been renewed for a third season, but never appeared. Cletus Kasady however, does make a cameo in the Ravencroft Institute during a therapy session with other patients while wearing a Santa Claus hat.[52]
• The Carnage symbiote appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series,[53][54] voiced by Dee Bradley Baker (humanoid form),[55] and by Fred Tatasciore (various hosts and giant form).[56] The first version is a mutated form of the Venom symbiote. In its self-titled episode "Carnage", the original version is created when the Green Goblin injects Peter Parker with a symbiote sample to be a perfect Venom but Peter's spider cells makes an unstable organism that has a spiked tongue, makes screeching noises and can cause spikes to protrude from all over his body until Harry Osborn's sacrifice. The second iteration later appears in Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six as a completely different creature.[57] This version is the main focus in "The Symbiote Saga" three-parter as a weaponized symbiote for HYDRA. Created by Michael Morbius, the Carnage symbiote envelops Doctor Octopus as a host after Morbius is injected with Doc Ock's vampire bat serum, eventually being separated by Spider-Man and Flash Thompson. Upon gaining its own sentience as a hostless symbiote, Carnage fights with Spider-Man and Agent Venom which results in a symbiote bomb to spread to possesses multiple hosts (such as the Hulk and Shriek) until the Anti-Venom symbiote ultimately neutralized Carnage's swarm. However, Carnage's regenerated in a giant form that turned in a hive that Spider-Man, Agent Venom, and Patrioteer fought through in order to find the Carnage Queen in the center.
• The Carnage symbiote appears in the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series. It's seen in the episodes "Back in the New York Groove" and "Drive My Carnage".
• The Carnage symbiote alludes in the live-action series Jessica Jones; Karl Malus wears a pair of red glasses, which is a reference to Superior Carnage.[58]

• Woody Harrelson will portray the Cletus Kasady version of Carnage in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which is scheduled for release in the United States on June 25, 2021,[59] who previously appeared in the post-credits scene of the film's predecessor Venom as Kasady, foreshadowing his upcoming appearance.

• The Cletus Kasady version of Carnage was a boss character in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (1992), Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes, and Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety, and Spider-Man (2000) (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker).
  • In the 2000 Spider-Man video game, Carnage (Cletus Kasady) is helping Doctor Octopus with his plan to infest New York with symbiotes, which are cloned from Carnage's symbiote. Carnage serves as the game's penultimate boss and is fought immediately after defeating Doc Ock. After Spider-Man defeats Carnage using sonics, the symbiote attaches to Doctor Octopus instead, turning him into an out-of-control monster called Monster-Ock, which serves as the game's final boss. Monster Ock is too powerful to be fought directly, so Spider-Man is forced to run away from him through the underwater base. After a long chase, Monster Ock ends up destroying the entire base and is caught in the explosion, which removes the symbiote from Doctor Octopus.
• The Ultimate Marvel iteration of the Carnage symbiote appears as the penultimate boss in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game. Unlike the Ultimate Marvel comics, this version of Carnage requires a host to survive rather than being an entity of its own, in this case the host being Peter Parker, and is created by Trask Industries as a replacement for the Venom symbiote after they were unable to remove it from its host, Eddie Brock. When scientist Adrian Toomes injects Peter with this makeshift sample of the symbiote, Carnage is born as a much more aggressive, out-of-control, and unstoppable symbiote than Venom, which escapes and begins wreaking havoc in the Trask Industries building, knocking Toomes unconscious in the process. After Carnage arrives in the room in which Eddie is being held captive, he transforms into Venom and escapes as well, fighting Carnage through the building. After defeating Carnage, Venom absorbs the symbiote off Peter and the combination between the two suits gives Eddie complete control over the Venom symbiote, symbolized by a white spider emblem appearing on Venom's chest.
• The Cletus Kasady version of Carnage appears as a playable character in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe voiced by Fred Tatasciore. He is exclusive to the PlayStation Portable version of the game, but is still alluded at the end of all versions, when Nick Fury decides to call the study of the meteor shards responsible for all the events in the game "Project Carnage".
• The Ultimate Marvel iteration of Carnage appears as a villain in the final Ultimate segment in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, voiced again by Fred Tatasciore.[60] Derived from Spider-Man's DNA and the Venom symbiote, Carnage is an entity of its own, without a host, similar to the Ultimate Marvel comics. Carnage has been captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. and brought to the Triskelion along with a fragment from the Tablet of Order and Chaos, but S.H.I.E.L.D. foolishly making experiments on Carnage with the fragment behind Nick Fury’s back allowed the symbiote to absorb it, which increased his powers to new levels. After escaping from his containment, Carnage used his new powers to drain the life from numerous S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, which then reanimated into his mindless zombie minions (which slowly mutate into symbiote creatures like itself). After receiving an emergency call about what has happened, Spider-Man arrives at the Triskellion, which is now under Carnage's control and swarming with zombie agents, and pursues Carnage throughout the base's burning ruins, along the way dealing with the villain's numerous spawns and Spider-Slayers armed with flamethrowers (which identify Spider-Man as a threat due to the use of the Venom symbiote suit). Cornering Carnage in his nest, which is located on the Triskelion's highest floor, Spider-Man fights him and his spawns with help from several reprogrammed Spider-Slayers and finally defeats the symbiote, leaving it pinned under rubble, while he claims the tablet fragment. During the credits, Carnage is shown posing for pictures in prison.
• The Cletus Kasady version of Carnage appears as the final boss in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 voiced by David Agranov. Kasady first appears as a serial killer known as the "Carnage Killer", who is murdering other criminals; it is later revealed that Kasady was released from prison by Wilson Fisk to go on a killing spree and terrorize the citizens of New York so that they would support his plans to redevelop the city. After Kasady murders Dennis Carradine, Spider-Man begins working with Kraven the Hunter (who is secretly working for Fisk to take down his rivals, including Kasady, whose killing spree has begun interfering with Fisk's plans) to track him down and they eventually confront him just as he was preparing to kill a civilian. Kasady claims that he and Spider-Man are very alike and fights him, but Spider-Man ultimately defeats him, although he refuses to kill Kasady after Kraven urges him to, leading to his arrest and imprisonment at Ravencroft, where he becomes the test subject of an experiment funded by Fisk that has Kasady injected with a red liquid substance code-named "Venom", which was initially meant to cure Norman Osborn's illness. The experiment eventually gets out of control and allows Kasady to control the symbiote that he was injected with. Now calling himself "Carnage", he escapes and wreaks havoc at Ravencroft, infecting numerous other patients with his symbiote. When Spider-Man comes to investigate, he fights through the infected patients and eventually confronts Kasady. Despite being defeated by Spider-Man once again, Kasady fully bonds with the symbiote and becomes Carnage, serving as the final boss in the game. Spider-Man is able to defeat Carnage using fire, one of the symbiote's only known weaknesses besides sonics, and burns the symbiote off Kasady; he begs Spider-Man to let him die, but the hero refuses, saying that he and Kasady are very different and that he needs to face justice for his crimes. In the end, Kasady is returned to his cell, where the symbiote is completely removed from him.
• The Carnage symbiote appears as a playable character in the Spider-Man Unlimited mobile game via various hosts, most notably Cletus Kasady as "Carnage", and Ben Reilly as "Spider-Carnage". Carnage also serves as a boss in the limited time Symbiote World event.
• The Carnage symbiote appears as a playable character in many Marvel related games via its most notable host Cletus Kasady. These game include Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2,[61] Lego Marvel Super Heroes,[62] Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, Marvel: Future Fight, Marvel Puzzle Quest[63] Marvel: Contest of Champions,[64] Marvel Strike Force and Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.[65][66] He also appears as a boss in Marvel: Avengers Alliance and a team-up character in Marvel Heroes 2015.
  • The Carnage symbiote appears (in various forms) in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2.[65][66] When Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Spider-Gwen and Spider-Man 2099 break into Alchemax, the heroes start to fight scientists who have become possessed by the symbiotes of both Carnage and Venom. Later, Green Goblin 2099 uses a shard of the Nexus of All Realities to fuse the Venom symbiote and the Carnage symbiote into a new creature, dubbed "Carnom" by Spider-Man, who is being controlled by the Goblin himself. Carnom fights and is defeated by the heroes, who free him from the Goblin's control. As the heroes claim the shard, Carnom starts chasing after Goblin 2099 in retaliation for its abuse. Both the original Carnage (Cletus Kasady) and Carnom are available as playable characters in the game.

During the 2002 Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure featured a haunted maze entitled "Maximum Carnage". The maze was designed to be a trip through Carnage's hideout and contained all his henchmen and the bloody remains of various Marvel superheroes. The house was located at Marvel Super Hero Island under the scare zone "Island Under Siege". Carnage also was the icon chosen to represent that specific island for the event, as he killed all of the superheroes and took over the "island", allowing criminals, gangbangers, and villains to roam free with no regards to law and order. The event's main icon, "The Caretaker", chose him based on his disregard for life and desire to see total chaos.[67][68]

The comedy rock group Green Jellÿ would release a song called "Carnage Rules" for their album 333, which focuses on Carnage. It would later be used as the theme song for the video game Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage in 1994.

Carnage (Cletus Kasady) is played by Collin Baja in the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical, in which he is a member of the Sinister Six.[69]