Summary
Warning: SPOILERS forVenom War: Carnage #1
Carnagehas been on a mission to reach godhood for quite some time, and ss the mad symbiote moves up the cosmic ladder,he has finally shed his species' greatest weakness, developing an immunity to fire, the final step in his quest to become an untouchable deityin the Marvel Universe.
Venom War: Carnage#1– written by Torunn Grønbekk, with art Pere Pérez - marks the next saga in the Crimson Killer’s hunger for godhood. In the past several years, Carnage has already been imbued with Hellfire, absorbed electrokinetic powers, gained immunity to anti-venom antibodies, and developed a resistance to sonic weaponry.
Now, as theVenom Warpromises to changeeverything readers understand about Marvel’s symbiotes, Carnage has finally surpassed the last great weakness of the Klyntar, fire, making him a truly unstoppable threat unlike anything ever witnessed before.
Carnage vs Meridius Settles Marvel’s Most Powerful Symbiote (In Father vs Son Battle)
Carnage has always wanted nothing more than to kill Venom, and now during the events of Venom War, Carnage will be facing Venom’s strongest form.
Carnage’s Immunity To Fire Completes His Evolution Beyond An Ordinary Symbiote
Venom War: Carnage#1– Written By Torunn Grønbekk; Art By Pere Pérez, Erick Arciniega, & Joe Sabino
While sonic waves are a well-known infirmity to the Klyntar, fire has also proven to be a consistent weakness in their biology.
Seemingly back to the beginning of their journey together, Cletus Kasady and Carnage have begun investigating an Alchemax anti-symbiote weapon that even they aren’t resistant to. However, word has gotten out that the deadly duo is on the hunt and their prey is doing everything in their power tostop Carnage and Cletus at all costs. However, Carnage isn’t just all-powerful, but he’s patient. Meticulously so, Carnage has been kidnapping and experimenting on people to test what the weapon is capable of. Before beginning their final trial, a mysterious figure detonates an incendiary drone, incinerating the experiments and the symbiote.
As Carnage and Cletus are shattered into chunks of gory red carrion, the duo persists, revealing their new immunity. Consumed by flames, the classic symbiote weakness does nothing,with the issue’s narration stating:“The fire cannot kill the symbiote, it only fuels his fury.”Marvel’s symbiotes, also known as the Klyntar, are a versatile species with very few natural weaknesses. While sonic waves are awell-known infirmity to the Klyntar, fire has also proven to be a consistent weakness in their biology. However, these weaknesses, while potent against most symbiotes, aren’t technically physical frailties, they are psychosomatic.
Carnage’s Fire Immunity Confirms Symbiotes' Greatest Weaknesses Aren’t Physical
Mind Over Matter
A god in all but name, and now completely immune to the Klyntar’s natural weaknesses, Carnage will be an unmatched threat for all symbiotes in the ongoing war.
When Knull forged his first true symbiote,All-Black the Necrosword, he did so in a cosmic furnace built inside the severed head of a dead Celestial. Pulling off his flesh to forge the alien sword, Knull’s Celestial Hammer rang throughout the cosmos as sparks from the infinite fire clashed against the symbiote’s blade.Knull later informs Eddie Brock that locked in the genetic memory of all Klyntar remains a fear of the forge’s fire and the hammer’s violent ringing. It seems that in his ascension to godhood,Carnage shed himself of all fear and cast away his metaphysical chains.
Carnage and Cletus now hold the means to defy every weakness their kind possesses. Imbued with the powers of a god, and patient enough to stalk in the shadows, Carnage and his host are working toward something disastrousin the fledglingVenom War. While continuing their hunt for the source and purpose of the anti-symbiote weapon, there’s no doubt that the devilish duo will dive into something beyond their world. A god in all but name, and now completely immune to the Klyntar’s natural weaknesses,Carnagewill be an unmatched threat for all symbiotes in the ongoing war.
