Carnage refers to wholesale slaughter; see massacre. The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ...
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Carnage was once a serial killer known as Cletus Kasady, and became Carnage after merging with the offspring of the
Carnage, however, is actually more powerful than Venom, and it took both him and Spider-Man to stop Carnage during the "Maximum Carnage" series.
During Maximum Carnage it is revealed that the Symbiote has become a part of Kasady's blood and is unremovable from him, Kasady only needed to be cut for the symbiote to flood out to become Carnage once again.
Embarking on a citywide killing spree, Carnage was confronted by Spider-Man. However, the wall-crawler's amazing arachnid-like abilities were insufficient to subdue the thrice-strong serial killer.
Facing the combined might of Spider-Man, Venom and the Fantastic Four, Carnage was captured and imprisoned at the Ravencroft Asylum.
Perhaps due in part to his insanity, Carnage's strength and abilities far exceed those of his predecessors, Venom and Spider-Man. Once, he even dispatched his symbiote through a phone line by reducing the alien to its cellular level.