Warning: Spoilers for Carnage Forever #1!
For years, Marvel's symbiotes have needed a host to properly function as an efficient organism, but now Carnage has realized that he doesn't need anyone but himself! Cletus Kasady is no longer the host of Marvel’s meanest symbiote, and now that Carnage is fully and truly free, anything can happen.
Celebrating the character’s 30th anniversary, Carnage Forever #1 contains multiple stories about the crazed alien goo entity, with one, in particular, “Unmade In His Image,” by Ram V and Salvador Larroca, seeing Carnage breaking a steadfast rule of Marvel’s symbiote aliens. Recently losing Cletus Kasady as a host, Carnage has struck out on his own in the lead-up to his new series launching later this month, and he’s showing fans just how deadly he can be without a human dragging him down.
An extraterrestrial alien race known as the Klyntar, the symbiotes of the Marvel Universe have been kicking around for decades, made especially famous by the Spider-Man villain named Venom. And now with Carnage joining his King in Black brother as being one of the few symbiotes capable of surviving — and thriving — without a host, Carnage is becoming more than he’s ever been capable of before.
Infiltrating a prison where the Spider-Man rogue called Hydro-Man is kept, Carnage eventually reveals that he isn’t there to acquire a new host but to take his power from him. Saying, “I was with Cletus for so very long. I’ve only recently begun to understand the full extent of my own capabilities without my host. And I am curious to see just how far they can go,” Carnage tells fans that not only has he bucked the symbiote host rule, but is about to embark on a journey that will no doubt see him become a more powerful, brutal, deadly, unique — and above all else — independent being of unimaginable evil.
Much like how the bond between Marvel’s other iconic symbiote, Venom, and his host, Eddie Brock, has allowed Venom to develop differently compared to regular old symbiotes, Carnage has also surpassed his limits as an organism to become an independent pile of alien goo that can operate separately from his host in ways that other symbiotes simply can’t. And while it remains to be seen how similar Carnage sans Cletus will act and evolve in relation to Venom’s own journey as a semi-independent entity, the fact that he has broken the one rule of Marvel symbiotes is an impressive feat for a villain that might — as this issue’s title suggests — find a way to live forever without a host at all.
Symbiotes are a unique part of Spider-Man lore that have come into their own as an integral piece of the Marvel Universe, and with Carnage now a solo act, things just got even more interesting than usual. Carnage is back in a big way, so fans will have to stay tuned for his upcoming series to find out what he gets into next.
source https://screenrant.com/carnage-breaking-symbiote-rule-no-host/
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