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Then there was a spark of an idea -- the beginning of a thought, when the dragons came. Then, under the rapture of a Klyntar god as we ran amok, we had a taste. Of the kind of power we had never imagined. Then Venom... Eddie Brock... they became the King in Black. Do you know how it feels to hold the power of a god in your hand and then watch someone you hate take it for their own? So Cletus began to think of a plan, a way we could elevate ourselves. If we could not be God, then we would be the thing that kills gods. We would be... Carnage.

—Carnage

Appearing in "The Empty Place"

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Synopsis for "The Empty Place"

Evading Carnage's attacks and filling the room with portals, the Spot incredulously demands to know why Carnage is attacking him; Carnage replies that it wants access to the Spotted Dimension. The Spot says that they could work together with no need for violence, but Carnage refuses, asking where the "carnage" would be in doing so. As the Spot retreats through a portal, Carnage fires a barrage of bladed tendrils into several portals, causing them to come out all around the room. As the Spot scoffs that Carnage will have to catch him first, Ken Neely tackles him and grabs onto him. As Carnage lashes out with a bladed tendril, the Spot flings himself through a portal -- dragging Neely into the tendril's path. As the tendril slices off Neely's left hand at the wrist, the Spot emerges into the path of another tendril, which plunges into a portal on his chest, pops out his back, and coils around him. Quipping that Dr. Ohnn has run out of spots, Carnage rips his body to pieces. As Neely screams in pain over his severed hand, Carnage remarks to Ohnn that much has been sacrificed in the pursuit of his goals, as he gathers the strewn pieces of Ohnn's body. As his body disintegrates, Ohnn's severed head gasps that he is immortal and will reconstitute himself within the Spotted Dimension. In response, Carnage rips the spot off Ohnn's face and absorbs it into itself, noting that he is counting on exactly that. Neely berates Carnage for lopping off his hand, but it sneers at him before noting that in giving up a piece of himself for it he's starting to understand what it means to be its host. Neely hopefully asks if that means it'll help him, but Carnage brushes off his concerns before opening a portal with the Spot's powers and carrying Neely through, saying they'll find a better way of patching him up.

At the NYPD's 7th Precinct, Jon Shayde leans against the sink in the bathroom and stares at the mirror as a voice talking inside his mind sneers that while he may be whole and hale on the outside, on the inside he's a mess. Jon returns to his desk as the voice taunts him for always following the rules, then snaps at it to shut up. As one of his fellow officers asks if he's OK, Jon replies that he just has a headache and the officer assumes it's due to overwork. As the cop walks away, the voice snarls that no-one there likely knows his name and suggests gouging his eye out with a pen. Jon retorts that the man's name is Stu Roper, the voice scornfully saying that it would've murdered Stu's parents simply for giving him such a stupid name. As the symbiote suggests checking if the lieutenant has porn magazines in his desk, Jon shouts for it to shut up and then storms out of the bullpen to the roof. The voice mockingly asks if he's going to kill himself, Jon snapping that he came to the roof to talk to it where the other officers won't think he's lost his mind. Quipping that it's too late for that giving his outbursts and that he could've just picked up a phone, the voice sneers that it's just a voice in his head. Jon snaps that he knows the voice belongs to the piece of the Carnage symbiote bonded to him and asks what it wants. Commenting that Jon's smarter than he looks, the voice responds that it's bored and wants to be entertained -- preferably through violence and bloodshed. Jon refuses outright, saying that even if he wanted to indulge it he's stuck at the precinct writing up retorts, but the voice scoffs at him for following the rules and says that he owes it for telling him what Carnage and Ken Neely are up to - something he ran up the ladder, leading to the discovery of bodies at the motel where Carnage and Neely had hid out. Jon retorts that he's good at catching bad guys, but the voice sneers that he hasn't even begun to comprehend what "bad" really is. As Jon sets out to the motel, the voice says that Carnage is the worst of the worst and Ken Neely isn't far behind, and that to stop them he'll have to start breaking rules. Jon asks what the voice gets out of it, but it replies that it's just a voice in his head. As Jon asks what he should call it, the voice replies that he can call it Cletus.

As Jon exits his vehicle, Detective Booth spots him and says he shouldn't be there. Booth says that the Chief doesn't want him anywhere near this case, but Jon snaps that he brought Booth the case. Booth says that that's exactly why the Chief pulled him from the case, saying that Jon revealed a notorious supervillain is involved - something above the NYPD's paygrade. Jon protests that Ken Neely isn't a superhuman and that Booth is burying a perfectly good case, Booth saying this isn't the first time he's had to do so before asking why Jon's so hung-up on this. Jon says he needs this case, Booth saying he needs a vacation because he's starting to sound a little crazy. Jon has a hallucination of beating Booth to a bloody pulp, but snaps back to reality when Booth asks if he's OK. Saying he just has a headache, Jon gets into his car and leaves. Cletus' voice mocks him for not giving in to his rage, but Jon tells him to shut up and that he got what he needed - a glimpse at a map showing Carnage's next target, in a place called Eastward. As Cletus' voice gloats that Carnage is still following his plan, Jon asks what he means and Cletus' voice says that long story short Carnage and Neely have gone after Dr. Johnathon Ohnn, and that they're too late to do anything about it by now. As Jon suggests calling it in, Cletus' voice says they'd lock him up in the Ravencroft Institute if they found out where he was getting his info from, suggesting they instead skip ahead to the next step in Carnage's plan, the Fuertes Astronomical Observatory, and see if they can head Carnage and Neely off.

At the observatory, Neely tourniquets his arm's stump and angrily demands to know why Carnage is doing what it's doing, saying that the symbiote owes him an explanation in return for him giving up his hand. Turning to glare at him, Carnage gestures at the dead scientists and says they've given up much more than Neely did, asking if he thinks he's special. Neely immediately backs down and says he just wants insight into what it's planning so that he can better understand and help it, like Cletus would've. Sighing, Carnage says its plan was Cletus' idea; picking up Doctor Halliday, one of the surviving scientists, it explains that some time ago the two of them had watched her give an interview on Einstein–Rosen bridges and interdimensional travel. When Knull chose Cletus as his apostle, they were given a taste of divine power and desired to make it their own, but before they could do so Venom killed Knull and took the power of the King in Black for himself. Furious at his nemesis having stolen his shot at godhood, Cletus formulated a new plan to use the shard of Knull's power he possessed to become an opposite power to the new Symbiote God, but, for reasons unknown, never acted on it before parting ways with Carnage; this drove Carnage to wonder if, perhaps, Cletus had only been holding it back. Remarking that it intends to do what Cletus wouldn't and become a God Butcher, Carnage tells Doctor Halliday to fire up her wormhole machine while it uses the power it took from Hydro-Man and the Spot to to reach across space, universes, and dimensions. Engulfing the machine, Carnage offers to take Neely with it as thanks for him sacrificing his arm. As Carnage grabs him with tendrils, Neely nervously asks where they're going, to which the symbiote replies that they're going to kill gods. As the machine powers up and Carnage supercharges it with the power it stole from Hydro-Man, bolts of red lightning shooting skyward from the obervatory, Jon Shayde bursts into the room, his symbiote starting to engulf and transform him as he shouts for Neely to stop.

Solicit Synopsis

Years ago, Peter Parker spurned a puddle of black, extraterrestrial goo and inadvertently created one of the deadliest foes he's ever encountered: VENOM. Years later, Venom's offspring found a willing host in the form of Cletus Kasady, a dangerous serial killer, and together the two formed an even deadlier being called CARNAGE.

But what will become of the Carnage symbiote now, rejected by the only loving host it's ever known? And, like Venom before it, what new and terrifying creature will emerge on the other side?

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