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Appearance
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 190 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Features: As Carnage, elongate jaw & "teeth", ever moving tendrils from various parts of his body, both of which are a part of the alien that is his costume.
Summary
Created By: David Michelinie, Mark Bagley, Randy Emberlin
Real Name: Cletus Kasady
Current Aliases: None
Former Aliases: None
Dual Identity: Publicly Known
Current Occupation: Prisoner/patient, Ravencroft
Former Occupation: Serial Killer
Citizenship: U.S.
Legal Status: Criminal record in U.S.
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mother (killed by father), Venom (symbiote parent), Father (deceased), Grandmother (killed by Cletus)
Known Confidants: Shriek
Known Allies: Shriek, Doppelganger, DemoGoblin
Major Enemies: Spider-Man, Venom, Cloak & Dagger
Usual Bases: Ravencroft Institute
Former Bases: Former site of the St. Estes Home for Boys, Brookln, New York
Current Groups: None
Former Groups: None
Education: High School
Powers & Paraphenalia
Strength Level: Unknown, shown to be significantly stronger than both Venom and Spider-Man
Powers: Has a symbiote costume simalar to Venom, but seems to be more powerful, possibely due to it's incubation on Earth. Kasady's symbiote can, like Venom's, mimic any type of clothing, but unlike Venom, Carnage has not been seen useing the costume as camoflage. The symbiote has augmented all of Kasady's physical abilities to super-human levels apparently higher than that of Venom's.
Abilities: Carnage animates his costume to create snares, swing line, and most often bladed weapons. Carnage can hurl these "blades" from anywhere on his body. They disinetgrate after about thirty seconds after they are thrown. Carnage also posses wall-cralwing abilities similar to Venom's. In some unknown manner, the symbiote can dampen both Spider-Man's spider-sense, & the Venom symbiote's in born ability to track its spawn.
Equipment: None
Weapons: None
Limitations: The symbiote is vunerable to both sonics(to a much lesser degree than it's parent) & heat based attacks (to a much greater degree than its parent).
Background
Cletus Kasady was serving 11 consecutive life terms in prison, in which he was Eddie Brock's (AKA Venom) cellmate. When the alien symbiote came to break Eddie out of jail, it left behind "child" that bonded with Kasady creating Carnage. Kasady then broke out of jail in attempt to spread his message of chaos. His thought being, if you have the guts, you can do anything. Up to, and including murder.
Spider-Man eventually encountered him, but was unable to stop him. He then enlisted the help of Venom and the Fantastic Four and was able to capture him and imprison him in Ravencroft asylum.
Carnage has escaped several times in attempt to spread his message. Most notably, his symbiote blended with both Silver Surfer and Spider-Ben. He has always ended up thwarted by Spider-Man and returned to the asylum, though.
Recently, Carnage lost his symbiote when Venom re-absorbed it. But Mackie couldn't let a character actually change, that would be too much like long-term plot development, so he had him discover another one just the same, in the Negative Zone.

Thanks To:
Some of the above information is extracted from the various versions of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe.
The assistance of the Marvel Chronology Project is gratefully acknowledged.

Character History

Feb 1991 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #344

"First Cardiac, Rhino"
... Appears as Cletus Kasady.

Mar 1991 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #345

"Venom Lives, Cardiac, Boomerang"
... Acquired spawn of Venom symbiote as Venom escaped prison.

Feb 1992 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #359

"Return of Cardiac (Part 1)"

Mar 1992 Cameo: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #360

"Return of Cardiac (Part 2), Carnage cameo"

Apr 1992 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #361

"First full appearance Carnage (Part 1)"
... Became Carnage, went on killing spree, battled Spider-Man, & Venom.

May 1992 App: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #362

"Carnage (Part 2), Spider-Man Rescues Venom"

... Here is the Full Appearance List (44 Apps)

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