Respect Carnage! (Marvel, 616)
Respect Cletus Kasady, AKA Carnage!
BIO
Long before he ever acquired his powers, Kletus Kasady was a deranged serial killer who murdered because he could. He grew up in a foster home after his father killed his mother (and then was sentenced to death on Kletus' testimony) and was subject to terrible abuse. As his first act of murder, he burned down his orphanage and killed one of the staff. Later in life he went on a series of killings that eventually ended up with him in jail, sharing a cell with Eddie Brock (who was separated from the Venom symbiote at the time. Eventually Eddie's symbiote came to break him out, but unbeknownst to any of them it had left behind a larval symbiote in the cell, which bonded with Kasady and turned him into the monster known as Carnage. Using his newfound power, Carnage easily escaped from his prison and went on a series of mass killings, often battling with Spider-Man and other heroes.
POWERS AND ABILITIES
Carnage is far stronger than Venom and Spider-Man combined, and has fought and defeated both of them multiple times. He possesses the standard symbiote superpowers but at a much higher level than most others. These include shapeshifting, regeneration, super speed and strength, size alteration, and more. All symbiotes have some weakness to sonic attacks and extreme heat, but Carnage is much more resistant to both of these weaknesses than other symbiotes.
STRENGTH
One of Carnage's main aspects is his incredible strength, which outclasses all other symbiotes with the exception of his spawn Toxin.
- Flings Venom across a city
- Swings between buildings while carrying venom with one tentacle
- Rips the Bloodstone out of Man-Wolf
- Leaps out of a falling bus and catches onto a bridge while carrying a woman
- Cracks a tabletop while only partially transformed
- Hurls a man through a window and across the street with one tentacle
- Overpowers Spider-Man and Venom and hurls them off of him
- Throws an oven at Spider-Man, which smashes through a wall and flies for some distance
- Smashes through the wall of a building
- Smashes through his reinforced cell wall hard enough for the fragments to kill three guards
- Smashes through the wall of a prison
- Tears apart a ceiling
- Tears out an adamantium Sentinel's eye
- Pushes a car over with his tentacles
- Punches a man's eye out of his skull
- Hurls several cars overhead
- Smashes Venom through a wall and then supports him with a tentacle
- Rips the bars off of a prison cell
- Sends Superior Spider-Man flying with a punch
- Beats the crap out of the Wizard
- Smashes the Wizard through a prison wall
- Knocks out Nightcrawler with a kick
- Pulls a security guard through the bars of a prison cell
- Flings Spider-Man around with his face
- Tears a reinforced door off of its hinges
- Tears apart the roof of a car
- Overpowers Venom
- Pulverises a marble wall
- Shoves a woman through a marble wall
- Kills a group of civilians
- Kills Doppelganger with a kick
- Rips a sink out of the floor and hurls it
- Pulls his way out of Cloak's dimension
- Smashes his way through an office building
- Bites through Wolverine's (bone) claws
- Rips Deadpool out of a construction vehicle and sends him flying
- Lifts a man with one tendril
- Overpowers Power Man
- Lifts a car and hurls it
- Lifts and throws a helicopter
- Smashes through a wall of special glass
- Grabs Venom with a tentacle, swings him overhead, then smashes him through the floor
SPEED
Carnage is extremely fast and often abuses his speed when fighting slower opponents.
- Able to swing across the city like Spider-Man by using his stretching abilities
- Catches Nova (Sam Alexander)
- Dodges Spider-Man and the grabs and throws him
- Tears apart some goons before they're able to react
- Deflects a hit from Deadpool and then counterattacks
- Blitzes a squad of soldiers through a vent on a pipe
- Demolishes Deadpool before he's able to react
- Catches a punch from Venom and then tears up his arm
- Catches a leaping Spider-Man in his tentacles
- Easily sidesteps Doppelganger's strikes
- Evades Firestar's beam
- Jumps out of the way of Shriek's sonic blast
- Senses an attack by Doppelganger and then clubs it away with a tentacle
- Catches a falling woman
- Backflips over a speeding car
- Catches Spider-Man and flings him
- Blitzes a group of Microverse warriors
DURABILITY
Aside from his regenerative abilities, Carnage is highly resistant to damage.
- Survives a series of Nova Force blasts from Sam Alexander
- Unharmed by a collision with Nova
- Tanks a hit from two missiles
- Laughs off Spider-Man's hardest strongest punch
- Survives another missile
- Shrugs off the Mark of Kaine (I'm not too familiar with Kaine but from what I remember this attack involves fuming acid that he extrudes from his hand)
- Unharmed by thousands of volts of electricity
- Unhurt after being thrown extremely far by Toxin
- Gets right up after being run over by a truck
- Tanks Spider-Woman's bio-electric blasts
- Bullets bounce off of him
- Unhurt by having a log thrown at his belly by Spider-Man
- Survives a beatdown by Venom
- Wades through machine gun fire
- His symbiote keeps him alive in space for months after he gets torn in half
- Scarlet Spider is unable to harm him even when going all out
REGENERATION
Carnage repairs himself at an extreme rate. His power is not true regeneration, as no new tissue is grown, but since his body is so gelatinous he easily restructures himself, making him incredibly hard to put down.
- Reforms his face after being hit with the Wizard's blasts
- Reforms his entire head after it explodes
- Having his head cut off doesn't slow him down
- Regens after having a grenade explode in his mouth
- Repairs his broken neck like it was nothing
- Has his face globbed apart by Agent Venom, heals like it was nothing
- The Carnage symbiote is in his bloodstream, meaning that he can form it from a single drop of blood and reform it from a single scratch
SHAPESHIFTING/STRETCHING
Carnage has some pretty insane feats for stretching and manipulating his body mass. His signature move is to form bladed weapons out of his body.
- Stretches enough to go throughout an entire city and is still able to lift people with his tentacles
- Extends a lance out of his arm and spears a man
- Pours himself up a man's nose to kill him
- Forms his arms into weapons
- Spins Doppelganger around in his tentacles
- Traps Spider-Man in a cage of his lengthened fingers
- Extends a spike from his chest
- Splits his arm into two large blades
- Swings a blade from his chest
- Smothers a huge bomb with his body
- Extends multiple spikes from his body
- Seeps through vents and air ducts
- Forms huge claws from his hands
- Makes Sin-Eater shoot himself in the face
- Can cling to upside-down surfaces
- Grabs a man's gun
- Brings down a helicopter
- Kills a man with a spike from his face
- Stretches his neck very far like an eel
- Forms a mass of blades after pouring through a pipe
- Forms his hand into an axe
- Forms his hand into a mace (His opponents were shrunken at the time)
- Kills a man through a small hole
- Forms a parachute
- Seeps through a wooden wall
- Stealthily kills a group of guards
- Completely envelops a pair of people while restrained
"WEAKNESSES"
Carnage is much more resistant to Sonic attacks, fire, and microwave radiation than other symbiotes. He has evolved past his weaknesses.
- No-sells a hit to the face from Reed Richard's sonic gun and is only brought down by a combination of microwaves and sonics
- A weapon specifically designed to combat evil emotions fails at permanently affecting Carnage
- The symbiote survives the explosion of Klaw, who is made of sound
- Bounces back after a continuous stream of microwave radiation that would have killed him
- Tanks a hit to the face from Sunfire
- Fights Venom in a burning house
- Interrogates another symbiote that he has absorbed in his hand by holding it over a flame
- Tanks blasts from microwave projectors
- Fights Deadpool through a wall of fire
FEATS FOR THE SYMBIOTE
Even while separated from Kasady the Carnage symbiote can do some pretty cool stuff.
- Pours itself through plumbing to get to Kasady
- A small bit of it cracks a microscope slide and leaps into a woman's eye
- Escapes through a manhole to get away from Silver Surfer
- Forms wings and flies while on a different host than Kasady
- Kills a pair of Superior Spider-Man's henchmen
- Breaks out of a containment chamber
- Pours itself from host to host to get back to Kasady
- Can run pretty fast by itself
- Bonds with a group of zoo animals
- Grows gigantic after absorbing a ton of other symbiotes
- Pours itself through hairline cracks in glass to get back to Kasady
- Grows to immense size after consuming a herd of cattle
FEATS FOR KLETUS KASADY
The man without the symbiote actually has a few good feats.
- Kills a pair of police officers
- He's pretty agile
- And pretty damn strong
- Fights with Flash Thompson (Agent Venom) after both of them lose their symbiotes. Not that canonically neither of them has legs anymore
HOSTS
The symbiote has bonded with a fair number of different people over the years, including:
- The Silver Surfer (The Carnage Cosmic)
- Dr. Karl Malus (Superior Carnage)
- Ben Reilly (Spider-Carnage)
- The Wizard
- Dr. Tanis Nieves (Who later becomes her own symbiote called Scorn with technopathic abilities)
PROJECTILES
Just to showcase that Carnage has a few ranged attacks.
MENTAL POWERS
While not possessing true telepathy, Carnage has some ability to control people and mess with their minds, usually by infiltrating them with his symbiote.
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Posted Jan 23, 2016, 2:50 AM UTC · edited