I wouldn't be so despondent yet, Jon Shayde. I do not know why you saved me. You can tell me along the way. There will be time for stories yet. But we will make it out of here alive and well. My strength is returning after an age of torture in Hel. I am Malekith the Accursed, after all. And I have broken out of Hel before. 
Appearing in "Carnage in Hell: Part One"
Featured Characters:
- Jon Shayde
- The Artist (Ken Neely) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- "Cletus Kasady" (Jon Shayde's symbiote)
- Malekith the Accursed (Ghost, soul or spirit)
Antagonists:
- Carnage's Hive (Main story and recap)
- Rosvelg (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Hela
- Hela's attendant (First appearance)
- Spiderling/Patternmaker (Annie Parker) (Mentioned)
- Black Bile Clan (Referenced)
- Lady Mazerot (Mentioned)
- NYPD (Mentioned)
- Cletus Kasady (Mentioned)
- Extrembiote (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Asgardians
- Draugr
- Hel-Snakes
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Symbiotes (Main story and recap)
- Symbiote Dragons (Mentioned)
- Wolf Gods
- Dark Elves
- Bog Tigers (Vision or hallucination)
- Gods
Locations:
- Prime Earth (Main story and recap)
- Ten Realms (Main story and recap)
- Niffleheim
- Earth (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- New York City (Only in recap)
- New York (Only in recap)
- United States of America (Only in recap)
- Nidavellir (Vision or hallucination)
- Ten Realms (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Hela's Throne
- Zeiste's dagger
Events:
- War of the Realms (Referenced)
- Absolute Carnage (Vision or hallucination)
- Extreme Carnage (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Carnage in Hell: Part One"
In Hela's throne room, an attendant alerts her to the arrival of Jon Shayde in Hel, saying that he was delivered to the waters of the Gjoll by an unseen hand. Hela asks if Carnage has arrived yet, the attendant replying that while she cannot see the symbiote yet it is being led by a Hellhound and has set its hunger on Malekith. As her attendant asks what they should do, Hela smirks and replies that while she is not one to deny others their ambitions she won't just hand Malekith over to either party. Remarking that Niffleheim is not a place of judgement but of trials, Hela states they must prove themselves worthy first.
Making his way through the frozen wasteland, Jon Shayde is abruptly swallowed by an enormous serpent. His symbiote mocks him for only tapping into the bare minimum of the power it can grant him, transforming his left arm into bladed talons, and Jon rips through the snake and emerges from its corpse. His eyes glowing red, Jon snaps at the symbiote to shut up and wonders where Carnage is.
Emerging through the Spot's portal at the frozen river of Elivagar, Carnage, Ken Neely, and the symbiote-corrupted wolf-god "Spike" find a horde of Draugr waiting for them. As Neely panics at the sight of the undead warriors, Carnage remarks that it shouldn't be surprising that they're expected after everything they've done.
Crucified with his eyes sewn open and mouth sewn shut, Malekith is forced to watch a vision of his child-self happily playing with his hounds and bog tiger - de-aged to puppies and a cub. His pride and resolve to remain unbroken cracking, Malekith finds himself hoping someone will show him kindness and end his torment. Approaching Malekith, Jon wonders what he did to end up there, his symbiote snidely listing the dark-elf warlord's numerous crimes before retorting that it doesn't matter. The symbiote reminds Jon that the only way to stop Carnage is by killing Malekith to destroy his soul. Looking down at his transformed arm, Jon expresses reluctance, citing that he's a cop, but the symbiote sneers that Jon's long since left being just a cop behind and suggests he make it a quick kill by slitting Malekith's throat with his claws.
As Carnage and Ken Neely fight the horde of Draugr, Rosvelg - an eagle-dragon hybrid who recounts and devours the sins of those damned to Hel - swoops out of the blizzard and descends on Neely. His beak gaping, Rosvelg blasts Neely with rings of blue light that force him to relive his sins with new clarity. Stripped of his hubris and vanity, Neely reels from the realization that he was never an artist, just a murderer coming up with sadistic rationalizations for his crimes. Snaring Rosvelg with tendrils, Carnage mockingly dares the recounter of sins to try it on for size and stabs a tendril into his brain. Initially elated to glut himself upon the symbiote's sins, Rosvelg is quickly overwhelmed and driven insane by the sheer magnitude of Carnage's bloodlust, the symbiote gouging out his eyes. As his mind shatters and he collapses into a coma, the divine bird-dragon has a vision of one sin Carnage has yet to commit: the endgoal of the symbiote's plans, which lies on Nidavellir.
Her mind connected to Rosvelg's, Hela's attendant is struck blind and collapses in agony, clutching her face as she reels from the vision. Chiding her for being melodramatic, Hela asks what she saw and smiles wickedly as her attendant relays Rosvelg's final vision of Carnage's ambitions.
Handing Neely a sword, Carnage tells him to finish Rosvelg off and revel in ending the life of a god. Neely hesitates, saying Rosvelg showed him he was no artist but a simple killer, asking if he'll end up in Hel after he dies. Carnage replies that only Vikings end up in Hel, and that Rosvelg sought to torture Neely by holding up a mirror and counting on him being afraid of his reflection. As Neely stabs the sword into Rosvelg and is drenched in the god's blood, Carnage sneers that Rosvelg didn't anticipate meeting someone abhorrent beyond their own reflection, and that now Neely is finally beginning to understand the sort of person Cletus Kasady was and what it takes to measure up to him.
Arriving at Malekith's crucifix, Carnage is furious to find it broken and the dark elf warlord gone, surmising that Cletus was behind it. As Neely asks how he can be sure, Carnage retorts that Cletus was the only one who knew of its plans, then pauses and notes that Spike is picking up the scent of a human and that Cletus had been far from human when they parted ways. Neely correctly guesses that Jon Shayde was responsible, Carnage begrudgingly admitting that Shayde has impressed it once again as they follow the trail of footprints through the snow.
As Jon helps Malekith walk, his symbiote angrily berates him for not killing the dark elf warlord. Jon informs Malekith that the symbiote wants to kill him, Malekith replying that he should tell the symbiote to shut up. As Jon retorts that the symbiote was the one who said they should be a hero, it sneers that it didn't think he'd be so stupid as to get lost in the Norse afterlife in the company of the person Carnage is after. As Jon replies that it's saying they're screwed, Malekith says that he sees no reason to despair: while he doesn't yet know why Jon saved him, his strength is slowly returning and he will see to it that they escape Niffleheim alive; smirking as he says he's escaped Hel before.
