Venom 2 Trailer Shows Changes to Carnage’s Marvel Comics Origin

The new trailer provides a closer look at Cletus Kasady’s symbiote form

The Venom 2 trailer is out, and it has dramatically changed the origin story of Carnage. The story shown in the trailer is very different because it has eliminated many symbiote contrivances and coincidences. So, the fans are happy and more eager to watch Venom 2.

(Warning- Spoilers Ahead!)

Carnage is a supervillain who showed up in Amazing Spider-Man #360. He had a red body and resembled Venom. Spider-man knew that he was facing a more dangerous villain than Venom as Carnage was a combination of a serial killer Cletus Kasady and a new symbiote. Kasady appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #344 and was the cellmate of Eddie Brock. He had committed 11 murders.

In the comics, it was shown that Brock used a Symbiote to escape prison. At that time, the symbiote was kind of giving birth, so an offspring of the symbiote was left behind in the cell, and it bonded with Kasady. Hence, Carnage came into being.

In Venom 2, the story is different. According to the trailer, Brock is a journalist who visits Kasady in prison to interview him. Kasady apparently bites Brock and draws blood. In that process, Kasady ingests a part of the Venom symbiote, and it develops into Carnage. Though the theory shown in the trailer is also very unlikely to happen in real life, it is better than the comics. The screenwriters of Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage have tried to do something good.

There are a few factors that make the origins of Carnage in the comics less believable. The first is that the symbiote didn’t care for its young or have attachment for the offspring as it left it alone in prison while it escaped with Brock. Second, it didn’t tell Brock that it was pregnant. Third, the symbiote race didn’t have any familial attachments, as the Venom symbiote didn’t care how his children might be made more powerful if they were to mature on another planet.