10 Most Brutal Comic Book Villains
2. Carnage
Across comic books, you've got rogues who kill solely for attention or just as a necessity in order to go through with whatever scheme they've concocted. But elsewhere, there are those villains who kill for the simple fact that they enjoy it. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where Cletus Kasady comes into the picture.
Long before he bonded with a symbiote and became the maniacal Carnage, Kasady was already a full-blown serial killer.
Cletus was actually born in prison, and the early alarm bells were ringing loud and clear when he pushed his grandmother down some stairs to her death. He'd also try to kill his mother with the classic 'hairdryer in the bathtub' trick, and then even more worrying was his decision to torture and murder his mother's dog with a drill.
And to think, all of this was before Cletus Kasady became Carnage.
Upon bonding with the symbiote - with Carnage often pegged as the 'offspring' of Venom - Kasady's intentions became even more nefarious, which in turn put him on the radar of Spider-Man and made him one of ol' Web-head's most fearsome and outright scary foes.
Carnage is the sort of villain who would think nothing of tossing a toddler out of a top floor window if the mood took him, and that makes him such a dangerous prospect for Spidey - and any other characters who Carnage takes umbrage with.