SHOW NOTES:
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Intro
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Shoutout to Cage’s Kiss podcast – Every episode covers another Nicolas Cage film
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Background (02:36)
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Cletus Kasady created by David Michelinie and Erik Larsen in The Amazing Spider-Man #344 (March 1991)
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Created because Michelinie wanted to kill off Eddie Brock in ASM 400, but he was too popular – Aunt May killed off instead
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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
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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
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His father went to jail for beating his mother, so he was raised in an orphanage, which he burned down after killing the administrator
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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
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Spider-Man and Venom teamed up to defeat him, and the symbiote was thought to be destroyed, but it was bonded to his blood
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“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
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Later being held in the Raft – escaped, but grabbed by Sentry, flown out of the atmosphere, and ripped in half
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Repeatedly captured, breaks out, and kills again
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AXIS – morality inverted and becomes a hero who sacrifices himself to save humanity from the inverted X-Men
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Absolute Carnage – symbiote returns and bonds with the aforementioned ancient evil to wreak havoc
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Issues (10:20)
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Displays Conduct Disorder as a child – intervention could have prevented further problems
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Nihilist mindset – believes laws are meaningless, and only chaos is true freedom (26:15)
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Symbiote and its impact on his mental state – (34:30)
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Break
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Plugs for Deleter, Play Comics, and Popcorn Psychology
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Treatment (39:55)
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In-universe
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Out of universe (47:10)
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Skit (54:29)
- Ending
- Next episodes – Ultimate Reed Richards (Maker), Survivor’s Guilt
- We have a Discord!
- Anthony’s fundraiser night at George & Martha’s
- Listener survey
References:
- Doc’s column for Adventures in Poor Taste – Anthony (01:12)
- Eddie Brock episode – Anthony (03:52)
- The Bad Seed – Anthony (06:30)
- Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage – Anthony (08:24)
- Sentry episode – Anthony (08:37)
- Blazing Saddles – “‘Scuse me while I whip this out” (NSFW) – Anthony (11:45)
- The Dark Knight – Hospital scene – Anthony (31:50)
- Charles Manson family – Doc (47:20)
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