Carnage (comics)

Carnage is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe, a supervillain and adversary of Spider-Man and Venom. Created by writer David Michelinie and artist Mark Bagley, he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #361 (April 1992). Carnage's human component, Cletus Kasady, was designed by Erik Larsen before Carnage; Cletus' design was based on The Joker.

Carnage is the result of a spawning of a separate extraterrestrial symbiote by Venom. This symbiote bonded with insane serial killer Cletus Kasady, creating one of Spider-Man’s most murderous adversaries. His ultimate goal is for a society based on murderous hedonism, with no law or moral order, and for people to have the freedom to do whatever they want, something uncommon among supervillains who most desire wealth, money, power or world domination.