Global InformationCletus Kasady information
| Cletus Kasady | |
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 Cletus Kasady as he appeared prior to becoming the symbiote Carnage's host, in Absolute Carnage #5 (November 2019). Art by Ryan Stegman | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #344 (March 1991)[1] |
| Created by | David Michelinie (writer) Erik Larsen (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Full name | Cletus Cortland Kasady |
| Species | Human/Symbiote Hybrid |
| Place of origin | Westchester County, New York |
| Team affiliations | Carnage Family Astonishing Avengers[2] Poisons Symbiote Imperium |
| Partnerships | Shriek Demogoblin Doppelganger Carrion |
| Notable aliases | Carnage The Red Slayer Poison Carnage Prophet of the Void |
| Abilities | Alien symbiote grants:
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Cletus Cortland Kasady is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer David Michelinie and artist Erik Larsen, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #344 (March 1991) as the first and most infamous host of the Carnage symbiote, an offspring of Venom. Originally a deranged serial killer, Kasady bonded with the symbiote while sharing a cell with Venom's human host, Eddie Brock, and broke out of prison using the super-human abilities granted by it. Since then, he went on to menace both Venom and Spider-Man, resulting in various unlikely alliances between the two to defeat him. Kasady and Carnage are a perfect match, as they both have sadistic personalities, and the symbiote only increases Kasady's already existent violent tendencies. After being separated from the redeemed Carnage symbiote in Absolute Carnage, Kasady nonetheless continued calling himself Carnage, bonding with Grendel, Mania and several other symbiotes to become Dark Carnage.
Since his original introduction in comics, the character has been adapted into several other forms of media, such as television series and video games. Woody Harrelson portrays Cletus Kasady in the live-action Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) films Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), bonding with Carnage in the latter film. In 2009, the Cletus Kasady version of Carnage was ranked as IGN's 90th-greatest comic book villain of all time.[3]
- ^ Misiroglu, Gina Renée; Eury, Michael (2006). The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9780780809772.
- ^ Avengers & X-Men #6
- ^ "Carnage is number 90". Comics. IGN. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2020.