Dark Carnage

Dark Carnage's History

When Eddie Brock and the Tyrannosaurus symbiote killed the symbiote dragon called the Grendel, a small piece of it survived. That piece was collected by agents working for the Maker, who intended to merge it with a sample of Earth-1610's Venom symbiote in order to stabilize it. However, a cult dedicated to worship the symbiotes' elder god Knull stole and bonded it to the decomposing corpse of Cletus Kasady, a serial killer who went by the name of Carnage, in order to use him as a vessel for Knull. Unfortunately, while both Knull and the reanimated Cletus fought for control of the latter's body, the Grendel offshoot assimilated Scorn's trace remnants of symbiotes by ripping out her spine. Since some of those remnants were from the original Carnage symbiote, it overwrote the offshoot's memories and personality with those of the original Carnage symbiote, effectively resurrecting it. Having lost his connection to Knull, Cletus dedicated himself to restabilizing it and freeing Knull from his cage, ultimately intending to steal Knull's powers and throne for himself.

By consuming hundreds of codices and even other symbiotes, Cletus was able to restore his symbiote's connection to Knull and apotheosize into a demigod. Eddie Brock - bonded to a powerful symbiote formed from numerous codices - killed Cletus to save his son Dylan and absorbed his symbiote into the Venom symbiote. However, Cletus' consciousness endured within the symbiote and it attempted to take over Eddie's body - forcing a showdown on the Isla de Huesos. Carnage briefly succeeded in taking over Eddie's body, but was forced off him by Dylan and the Venom symbiote. Seemingly destroyed, the symbiote escaped the island by bonding to a shark. During Knull's invasion of Earth, the symbiote transferred to a human host too late to take part in the battle, and was summarily executed by Venom - who had killed Knull and become the new King in Black.A piece of the symbiote survived and managed to rebuild its lost biomass, bonding to Arthur Krane as part of a plot to corrupt as many earth-bound symbiotes as possible and assassinate Senator Peter Krane to sow chaos and xenophobic paranoia. Despite the efforts of Agent Anti-Venom, Silence, Toxin, and Sleeper to stop him, Carnage succeeded in killing Senator Krane and assimilated Iron Man's Extrembiote armor when he joined the battle, transforming into a symbiote-dragon and escaping.Eventually having a falling out with Cletus, the Carnage symbiote was expelled from the Extrembiote and set out on its own to test the limits of its abilities and become a God Butcher, eventually succeeding through the creation of a new Necrosword called All-Blood.[