To tie in with the Absolute Carnage storyline, Anthony & Doc tackle Carnage himself, CLETUS KASADY! What treatment is there for a deranged, amoral serial killer bonded to a symbiote? Doc has the answers! Listen now!
SHOW NOTES:
Intro
Shoutout to Cage's Kiss podcast – Every episode covers another Nicolas Cage film
Background (02:36)
Cletus Kasady created by David Michelinie and Erik Larsen in The Amazing Spider-Man #344 (March 1991)
Created because Michelinie wanted to kill off Eddie Brock in ASM 400, but he was too popular – Aunt May killed off instead
Born in Ravencroft Asylum, but his heart stopped for a few minutes until he was revived by an ancient evil who foresaw that Cletus would be the one to free him
As a child, he pushed his grandmother down a flight of stairs and killed her, threw a hair dryer in the bathtub with his mother, and killed his mother's dog with a drill
His father went to jail for beating his mother, so he was raised in an orphanage, which he burned down after killing the administrator
Grew up to become a serial killer, and shared a cell at Ryker's with Eddie Brock – when the Venom symbiote rebonded with him, a piece broke off and merged with Kasady, creating Carnage
Spider-Man and Venom teamed up to defeat him, and the symbiote was thought to be destroyed, but it was bonded to his blood
"Maximum Carnage" - he broke out of the Vault and joined other villains to take over New York, until he was defeated by a collection of heroes
Later being held in the Raft – escaped, but grabbed by Sentry, flown out of the atmosphere, and ripped in half
Repeatedly captured, breaks out, and kills again
AXIS – morality inverted and becomes a hero who sacrifices himself to save humanity from the inverted X-Men
Absolute Carnage – symbiote returns and bonds with the aforementioned ancient evil to wreak havoc
Issues (10:20)
Displays Conduct Disorder as a child – intervention could have prevented further problems
Nihilist mindset – believes laws are meaningless, and only chaos is true freedom (26:15)
Symbiote and its impact on his mental state – (34:30)
Break
Plugs for Deleter, Play Comics, and Popcorn Psychology
Treatment (39:55)
In-universe
Out of universe (47:10)
Skit (54:29)
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