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Carnage is the name of a supervillain in the Spider-Man comic book published by Marvel Comics. He was once a serial killer known as Cletus Kassidy, and became Carnage after merging with the offspring of the alien symbiote called Venom during a prison riot at which Eddie Brock/Venom and Kassidy were both present. The symbiote not only made Kassidy more dangerous physically, it amplified his psychotic nature making him even less mentally stable than he had been previously, making him even more dangerous to innocent people.
The alien symbiote.suit is made of tough, flexible fibers of organic polymers which have the ability to mimic any type of clothing whatsoever and provides the wearer with nearly limitless pocket-storage. It also has a limited capability to change the wearer's appearence. The costume also dampens Spiderman's spider-sense, making Carnage (as well as Venom) nearly undetecable to Spidey until they are in his direct sight. Similarly, Venom's ability to "detect" Kassidy's presence is hindered by the suit's abilities.
In addition to the above abilities, the suit gives Carnage the ability to adhere to most surfaces with his hands and feet, a power which the Symbiote adopted from it's first victim/user, Spiderman. Also adopted from Spidey is the ability to project a web-like substance. However in the form of Carnage, the web substance can be projected from any part of the costume/body, not just the hands/wrists. He can also separate parts of his costume from himself and use them as weapons, but they disapate after a very short time, again similar to the artificial webbing Spiderman uses, which dissolves after a period of time.
The most famous storyline in which he appears is Maximum Carnage in which Venom and Spiderman had to team up to stop Carnage. Although Sipder-man has succesfully thwarted Venom a number of times, Venom is technically more powerful than Spidey and has used this several times to win an upper hand. Carnage, however, is actually more powerful than Venom, and it took both he and Spidey to stop Carnage during the "Maximum Carnage" series.
In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Carnage has a somewhat different origin (combining the origin of Ultimate Venom with elements of the Scarlet Spider), and murders Gwen Stacy.
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