Last years Venom marked the first entry within the Spider-Man cinematic universe, that did
not feature our friendly neighbourhood spidey.
Fan favorite Venom was turned into an anti hero and the film made over 850 million dollars
at the box office.
This is why it really shouldn't be too surprising, that a sequel was announced shortly after
this achievement.
We would now like to talk about this upcoming sequel and of course its villain.
This is why we would now like to issue a spoiler warning.
You have been warned.
Venom 2 The sequel to Venom comes to no surprise given
the massive success of the first film.
But even before this achievement Tom Hary already confirmed to have signed on for three
feature films.
That means we will at least get to see his Eddie Brock two more times.
Director Ruben Fleischer will however not return for the sequel.
Writer Kelly Marcel on the other hand will once again be responsible for the script.
Venom 2 is rumored to hit theatres next year in october.
After all an untitled Sony-Marvel-Sequel is scheduled to be released around that time.
And since the first Venom was released last october it seems very likely that this mystery
project is in fact Venom 2.
The interesting thing regarding the sequel is the fact that we already know who the symbiote
from out of space will be up against.
During the mid credit scene we saw Eddie Brock visiting a dangerous prison inmate... a certain
Cletus Kasady who comic book fans recognized as the alter ego of supervillain Carnage.
Woody Harrelson, who plays the character in the mentioned scene has already confirmed
to return for the next film.
This is why we will now discuss the character of Cletus Kkasady and why Spider-Man might
have a cameo appearance in Venom 2.
Cletus Kasady
The story of Cletus Kasady isn't a nice one.
Since the he was born his life was shrouded in darkness.
After all he was born in the Ravencroft institute – marvels answer to dc's arkham asylum.
Cletus was a violent child who killed his grandmother by pushing her down the stairs.
He even tried to kill his own mother but failed.
He eventually lost her anyways since his dather killed her since she was not willing to help
him in court by testifying in his favor.
After that incident Cletus was sent to an orphanage...but even there he didnt exactly
behave like a little angel.
Quite the contrary actually.
Since he was abit of a recluse he was constantly picked on by the other children and even some
of the staff members joined in.
Cletus was eventually able to get back at them in his very own way.
He killed one of the staff members and even pushed a young girl in front of a bus since
she wasn't going to go out with him.
Eventually he ended up burning the entire orphanage to the ground.
Ever since that incident he started to reek havoc whenever he felt like it.
He saw ultimate freedom in the bloodshed and chaos he caused.
He was convinced to free the people he murdered from the burden of existing.
With these twisted ideas he became a notorious serial killer.
At some point in time he was convicted for the murder of 11 people and ended up in rykers
prison where he shared a cell with none other than Eddie Brock.
And this is where the story of carnage begins.
Carnage
You're probably wondering how Eddie Brock ended up in prison.
Well when he originally began his career as venom eddie was a proper super villain and
one of spideys arch enemies who tried to kill Parker.
But he failed and ended up in jail – to be more precisely he shared a prison cell
with Cleturs Kasady.
But the symbiote venom found Eddie in his cell and helped him escape.
Unbeknownst to Brock venom left a present for Cletus: an symbiote offspring that attached
itself to Cletus – turning him into Carnage.
The mid credit scene from Venom showed us more or less how Eddie and Cletus met one
another.
Eddie wants to write an article about him and thus visits him in his jail cell.
This could have been the start of the future tranformation from Cletus into Carnage.
The power of the symbiotes drives the already unhinged Cletus completely insane – and
this insanity enhances his abilities and powers in return.
Carnages powers are similar to those of Venom but he is much stronger.
When Spidey encounters Carnage for the very first time in the comic books, he is not able
to beat him.
In his most desperate hour, he turns to his arch nemesis venom for help – hoping they
can defeat this brand new evil together.
That is why we Venom 2 could potentially feature Spider-Man in a Cameo role.
Facing Carnage alone might be too much for Venom, which is why in the film version he
might ask Spidey for assistance.
2 against one might sound easy but Carnage must not be underestimated.
As his bloodlust increases – so does his power.
And one should notice, that Cletus and his symbiote have a much stronger bond than eddie
and venom.
The only ways to defeat him is to either expose him to heat or a certain sound frequency.
Carnage is the percect antagonist for Venom and could turn the sequel into a violent action
extavanganza.
Fans have their fingers crossed for an R rating to do the violent nature of the character
justice.
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