Venom mid-credit scene: Who is Carnage?

Tom Hardy stars as the eponymous anti-hero/journalist Eddie Brock, who bonds with an alien symbiote and is granted superpowers.

Together with the symbiote, Brock becomes Venom and the Jekyll and Hyde pair become a force for good. Sort of.

Their antagonist in the Venom movie is a man named Carlton Drake who is bonded with a symbiote to become Riot.

Venom, like all good superhero movies, has its own mid-credit scene to tease a potential sequel…

Warning: this article contains spoilers.

Who is Carnage?

The villains teased in the mid-credit scene is Carnage, aka Cletus Kasady.

Kasady is played by Woody Harrelson, and in the mid-credit scene, he is shown in solitary confinement at San Quentin prison.

In the Marvel comics, Brock is an out-and-out villain sharing a cell with Kasady when Brock’s symbiote comes to break him out of jail.

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Unknowingly, Venom leaves some symbiote behind which bonds with Kasady to create Carnage.

The Sony movie, however, has Brock as an anti-hero, not a villain, meeting Kasasdy for an exclusive prison interview.

Perhaps the same mistake will be made, with Venom somehow leaving behind a trace of himself to bond with Kasady.

Fans will have to wait till the Venom sequel to know for sure.

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The comics show Carnage making Kasady even more unstable and dangerous than before.

Set in New York City, the comics also see Venom and Spider-Man teaming up to defeat Carnage.

Movies based on comic books do tend to take liberties, and the Venom sequel will likely have to take quite a few to make up for the lack of Spider-Man in the Venom-verse.

Where the movie stays true to the comics was in Harrelson’s hair colour – the red curls are the same as the comic’s version of Kasady.

Harrelson closes out the mid-credit scene by uttering an ominous sentence.

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“When I get out of here, and I will, there’s gonna be Carnage.”

Harrelson himself signed on to Venom knowing he would only appear in a sliver of the first movie.

“I haven’t read [the Venom 2] script, but anyways, just rolled the dice,” Harrelson told Collider of signing on to Venom.

When Venom 2 finally comes around, fans will be treated to Harrelson’s take on the infamous villain.

Venom is in UK cinemas now and is out in USA cinemas on October 5, 2018.