37 Facts About Cletus Kasady

Cletus Cortland Kasady is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Originally a deranged serial killer, Kasady bonded with the symbiote while sharing a cell with Venom's human host, Eddie Brock, and broke out of prison using the super-human abilities granted by it.

The human component of Carnage's first host, Cletus Kasady, was designed by artist Erik Larsen, who modeled the character after the DC Comics supervillain the Joker.

Cletus Kasady is a deeply disturbed individual with a dark past: he was born in a psychiatric prison at Ravencroft, where his heart stopped for a few minutes until he was revived by Knull to be the one to free Knull from Klyntar.

Cletus Kasady gained revenge by murdering the disciplinarian administrator, pushing a girl in front of a moving bus, and burning down the orphanage.

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Cletus Kasady was then captured and sent to Ryker's Island prison for 11 murders — though he bragged about killing a dozen more — where he shared a cell with Eddie Brock, the host of the alien symbiote that turns him into the supervillain Venom.

The bond between the Carnage symbiote and Cletus Kasady was stronger than the bond between Brock and the Venom symbiote.

Cletus Kasady escaped prison, and began a series of murders, and at the scene of each crime, wrote "Carnage" on the walls with his own blood.

Cletus Kasady was found by Spider-Man, though the hero proved to be no match for Carnage's powers.

Cletus Kasady is taken to the Vault, a prison for super-villains—then Ravencroft Institute, a facility for the super-human criminally insane.

Later, Cletus Kasady was able to escape his prison when a new governor at Ravencroft decided to try and save money by turning off some of the defenses around Cletus Kasady's cell, underestimating the level of awareness the symbiote had of its surroundings.

The symbiote — driven to panic due to genetic memories of Galactus devouring a planet of symbiotes — parted from Cletus Kasady and bonded to the Surfer to stop him while Spider-Man was forced to take Cletus Kasady to the hospital.

Cletus Kasady later ended in the Negative Zone, where he was guided by a strange voice to another symbiote that was kept sealed somewhere in the Zone.

Cletus Kasady reveals that her device is meant to permanently remove the bonds from Carnage and Venom, but the hosts are still in there, leaving Kasady alone with a legless Flash Thompson.

The series ends with Cletus Kasady being captured and dragged into the back of a prison vehicle.

Cletus Kasady is defeated by Venom and Scarlet Spider, who use a sonic bomb from the Microverse to temporarily separate Kasady from the symbiote.

Piece of the symbiote escapes containment and sets out in search of Cletus Kasady, who is bedridden due to having been stabbed by a fellow prison inmate.

Cletus Kasady manages to convince Carnage by saying he'll cause more chaos by becoming a savior and so Carnage agrees.

Cletus Kasady is revealed to have cheated death again, though he lost the lower half of his body in the process, and went to Carefree, Arizona, to pay a visit to a new friend he made during the time he was inverted, a friend he was willing to "help", Sam Alexander aka Nova.

Cletus Kasady left a message signaling his return in the form of murdering a random bystander who he had asked where to find the boy as proof that he was reverted to his more natural moral axis.

Cletus Kasady then started to attack innocent people to try to get Nova's attention, which he got.

Cletus Kasady was then thrown by Nova, who had already realized Carnage's weakness to high sounds, into an Anthrax show nearby.

Cletus Kasady threw a car at Nova, who caught it midair, and took advantage of it to punch him.

Cletus Kasady was then tied in metal plates by Nova and left by his symbiote as he revealed he wanted to kill Nova because he wanted to erase any memory of his good deeds, from the time he had his moral axis inverted, from anyone who remembered it.

When Cletus Kasady escaped, as usual, he found out that one woman had survived one of his first slaughters.

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Cletus Kasady suddenly met a cult who worships Chthon and told him that he is part of the Darkhold prophecy and spilled his blood on the book giving Carnage new supernatural powers.

Cletus Kasady tried to infect her with his symbiote, but she proved to be immune to him and she exploded her boat to get rid of Carnage and then she got saved by the team.

However, while he was consumed by a Poison, due to his mental instability, Cletus Kasady was able to resist being assimilated into the Poison Hive and his consciousness persisted, only pretended to be loyal to the Hive.

Cletus Kasady battled both Venom and Spider-Man, nearly taking the head of the former and impaling the latter.

Cletus Kasady was ultimately tossed into space by Venom and Danger, becoming one of the few Poisons to survive the death of the Poison Queen.

Cletus Kasady's body was restored when they successfully implanted the Grendel symbiote and escaped from the chamber resembling at first the Ancient Venom, but this only lasted temporarily with Cletus Kasady ripping out Scorn's spine in order to consume the trace remnants of the Carnage symbiote leftover from her time as its host.

Cletus Kasady decided to assume command of the cult and help free Knull, setting out to hunt down and consume the codexes of the other symbiote hosts, living and deceased.

Cletus Kasady then impersonated Eddie Brock in order to discredit him and returned to Manhattan and allowed himself to be imprisoned in Ryker's Island.

Ultimate Marvel version of Cletus Kasady is alluded on a list of cat burglars on the Daily Bugle database.

Cletus Kasady appears in the series Spider-Man: Heroes and Villains Collection.

Cletus Kasady makes a few appearances in Marvel Mangaverse: Spider-Man.

Cletus Kasady appears in live-action films set in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, portrayed by Woody Harrelson.