10 -Exiles – The
Spider – The exiles series first debuted in Exiles #1 (August 2001) and was an intriguing
premise it involved heroes from alternate universes being torn from their respective
timelines and lives to fix broken realities at least that was the premise at the start.
This series very premise meant that they went to alternate universes and met alternate versions
all the time so of course you know for us that means it’s our dream series.
On Earth 15 in exiles 12 we met Spider an alternate version of Carnage that had bonded
with Peter parker only peter was red haired and was a mass murderer.
So for some reason he had Cletus kassidy’s backstory.
He was drafted by the timebreakers into Weapon X.
What’s scary about this version of Carnage is that he just enjoys hurting people and
he’s been given licence to.
His gravestone is seen in exiles #44 so maybe he’s not causing terror anymore.
9 Venomverse Even when Carnage is on the side of good,
he’s still absolutely horrific.
Such was the case in the Venomverse story event, the one from 2017 that featured a bunch
of different venoms from across the multiverse being summoned by a venomized Doctor Strange
to fight against one of the symbiotes main predators; the Poisons, a race that preyed
on the Klyntar.
Strange uses his magic to transport a bunch of different venomized heroes to his own dimension,
creating a resistance against the Poisons Hive.
It’s not just Venom symbiotes and their hosts that are summoned though; Carnage was
also recruited, when the 616 Venom, Eddie Brock, suggested they bring him into the fray.
This Carnage is one who, on his world, managed to defeat and kill Venom, and despite being
utterly volatile at first, he ended up working with the resistance.
How come?
It gave him an opportunity to fight, I quote, “a buncha messed up super heroes.”
Despite being immune to the Poisions, he seemingly died when their Hive’s ship was blown up.
8 -Ultimate Carnage – Yes we of course have to take a look at the Ultimate marvel verse.
If you’ve been here for awhile you’ve heard us mention it before but for those who
are new and are wondering what is the ultimate verse let me explain.
Beginning in the year 2000 the ultimate marvel verse was a venture begun by Marvel comics
as an endeavor to get new readers interested in the books.
There was a sense that their history had become too large and convoluted and was intimidating
for new readers.
So with this universe everything would start fresh and they would also give the characters
new backstories and in some cases new looks so it wouldn’t just be a carbon copy of
the main 616 universe.
This world would be universe 1610.
In this universe carnage is a vampiric organism made up of a combination of spider-man’s
blood as well as the lizards and a little piece of Richard parkers symbiote suit research
project.
At first carnage just needs to feed to survive it has no thoughts it just seeks dna eventually
it takes on the form of Richard parker after it has amassed enough dna.
The symbiote arc in this universe was well like most things in the ultimate verse extreme.
So it involved Gwen and this really awful moment where gwen escape from norman Osborn
after experiments and is wearing carnages face.
It was also a bit convoluted not like clone saga level but very long to explain.
The point ultimate carnage and the mindlessness of it makes it scary.
Directed psychotic rage vs a need to just exist which is scarier you decide.
7 Carnage Cosmic
We may not have seen a whole lot of this number in action, but in theory, he’s absolutely
horrific.
A carnage symbiote who has taken Norrin Radd, aka the Silver Surfer, as his host?
Yeah, that’s got a whole lot of implications I can’t even comprehend.
Luckily, Carnage Cosmic was stopped before he caused too much damage.
He came to be when Carnage decided he would jump silver surfer’s bones while the cosmic
character was visiting the Fantastic Four on earth.
He went on a bit of a rampage around New York city until Spider-Man was able to contain
him and give the silver surfer an opportunity to de-bond from Carnage.
It works, and Silver Surfer locks Cassidy and Carnage up on a prison to reflect on their
sins.
6-Bizarnage – It’s happening the obligatory mention of the amalgam verse.
That is the universe created by the combination of dc and marvel superheroes I bet you’re
just thrilled we’re not mentioning dark claw again.
So Bizarnage was a combination of Bizzaro and Carnage.
It was the result of an experiment gone wrong at project Cadmus wherein the scientists were
attempting to replicate alien d.n.a as you do.
However the creature became crazy sentient goop their words not mine and had to be taken
down by Spider-Boy.
And then he got sucked into an energy containment unit.
Just something about the phrase sentient alien goop is scary to me but I mean that’s essentially
what venom is.
Don’t like symbiotes would be terrifying in real life.
5 Marvel 1602 Canice Cassidy is the host of Carnage from
the 1602 universe; a timeline that takes place on Earth 311, and is set in the year 1602,
primarily in Europe.
Cassidy is possessed by a symbiotic demon called Carnage, and as she puts it in a very
1602 fashion, I quote, “I’ve got a demon in me no sacred place can quiet.”
Carnage would become the leader of the Sinister Sextet, which was made up of Electro, Hobgoblin,
the 311 versions of Mysterio and Kraven, and a character called Serpent who was very similar
to Lizard.
They were defeated while robbing a catherdral by the The Warriors of the great web, a group
of dimension hopping spider-man heroes from alternate earths.
4 -Earth (4126) – This symbiote is known only as red at first I dunno something about
that is just chilling, red is the colour of blood after all, and I am stating the obvious
all fear has left you now.
This carnage has an intriguing origin it’s creation was ordered by director of shield
phil Coulson as he wanted their own version of the venom symbiote but one under their
control so they could take down venom if they had to.
So they mixed some of venom with some of spider-mans blood and boom carnage.
Then they tortured it always a sound tactic in comics guaranteed to come to only good.
Through this torture it learned to live only off of hate and revenge it escapes like venom
did in the tom hardy masterpiece of a film.
Am I being sarcastic you’ll never know.
And then seeks out the John Jameson of this world cause here he’s full of hate and rage
just so few good things happen to john jameson bad things being j jonah’s son.
This carnage is out for blood but honestly with good reason.
3 MC2 Carnage The MC2 is an alternate Earth in which the
Age of Heroes started 15 years earlier than it did on Earth 616.
The Age of Heroes is generally marked by when the Fantastic Four first hit the scene.
So on this alternate earth, many of the heroes we know and love have retired, and a new generation
of heroes have stepped up.
So where does that leave our buddy pal Carnage?
Onj this earth, he’s known as Specimen 297, and bonds with the friend of the next gen
Spider-Man, Spider-Girl.
Her friend, Moose Mansfied, who wanted to use Carnage as a means of curing his father’s
cancer.
Here’s where it gets weird and freaky though.
While all this is going on, Spider-Girl’s little brother is also infected by the symbiote,
which turns him into a miniature Carnage.
I duno about you guys, but a mini carnage is straight up nightmare fuel.
That nightmare quickly comes to an end though, when Spider-Girl manages to use sonic blasters
from one of her villains to destroy Carnage.
2- Crossover Carnage – So this carnage appeared in the Batman and Spider-Man crossover story
distorted minds.
It follows a long if not frequent history of crossover comics between the characters
started with the superman vs the amazing spider-man comic back in 1976.
This one comes to us from 1995, and features both Carnage and the joker which is interesting
since Cletus kasady was modelled off of the joker so seeing them together is surreal at
points.
In this storyline a behavioral psychiatrist Cassandra Briar comes up with a behaviour
modification chip that will curb the homicidal tendencies of those who it is implanted in
permanently rendering them docile.
So somebody watched a clockwork orange basically only this version has computer chips.
Carnage undergoes the treatment but it doesn’t work cause she completely forgets oh right
alien symbiote it shorted it out right after it was installed.
No Cletus was pretending to be “cured” so he could meet and teamup with the Joker.
Yeah that’s terrifying Carnage’s goal is to work with the clown prince of crime
to create as much carnage as possible.
The best part of this comic is how sad Carnage is when the joker doesn’t like him and thinks
his ideas and motivations are lame.
Beautiful.
I dunno do you think these two should have hit it off.
1 Red Goblin Red Goblin isn’t just an alternate of Carnage.
It’s an alternate of Norman Osborn’s Green Goblin, combined with Carnage.
Two of Spider-Man’s deadliest foes as one.
How did this horrific amalgamation occur?
Well, for starters, it happened on 616 (so technically, you could say Osborn was just
one of Carnage’s regular hosts, but this creation is too scary to not include on our
list.)
After the events of Secret Empire (you know, the one where an alternate of Cap runs Hydra
and is a Nazi), Carnage, who was held at a SHIELD facility, was stolen by Osborn, who
at the time was powerless.
Bonding with it, he was a little overwhelmed by Carnage’s desire for slaughter, but eventually
he persuaded it to let him take the wheel, with the promise of letting it indulge in
a way that wasn’t just boring mindless killing.
Using the goblin serum, Osborn becomes the Red Goblin, and with the combination of both
villain’s powers, he’s able to defeat the Human Torch, Miles Morales, Agent Anti-Venom,
and more.
Eventually Carnage is blown up thanks to Spider-Man when he hits it with an exploding gas tank,
leaving Norman Osborn’s mind totally fried.
Or at least it seemed that way.