Carnage

Carnage (Cletus Kasady) is a fictional comic book supervillain in the appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually as an adversary of Spider-Man. The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #344 (March 1991), and was created by writer David Michelinie and artist Mark Bagley, based on elements of the precursor character Venom. In 2009, Carnage was ranked as IGN's 90th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. Writer David Michelinie created Carnage to be a darker version of Venom intending to have Venom's human alter ego, Eddie Brock, be killed off in Amazing Spider-Man #400 and have the symbiote continue to bond with a series of hosts. However, as Brock and Venom's popularity increased, Marvel would not allow him to...