User blog comment:Spdr man/is carnage vampiric/@comment-4651179-20120906190031

That thing of absorbing energy was only used in the Spider-Man: The Animated Series, for two reasons:


 * In-story, Carnage was absorbing vital energy of people to empower Dormammu (Earth-92131), this ability was given to Cletus by Baron Mordo.


 * Reality, due to extreme censure over this time, the creators of this show decided to avoid certain things that couldn't pass censorship, like punching someone in the face, mentioning the word "death" and the appearance of guns (with one exception). If you couldn't make a character say "death" or "die", how could you let Carnage kill people?