Everyone Is a Target

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| Image                   = Everyone is a Target poster 001.jpg
| OfficialName            = Everyone Is a Target
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| Events                  = [[War of the Realms]]<br>[[Absolute Carnage]]

| Universe                = Earth-616
| Locations               = [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]
| Heroes                  = [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man (Peter Parker)]], [[Wade Wilson (Earth-616)|Deadpool (Wade Wilson)]]
| Villains                = [[Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)|Carnage]], [[Grendel (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Grendel Symbiote]], [[Knull (Earth-616)|Knull]]
| Others                  = [[Venom (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Venom Symbiote]], [[Phage (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Phage Symbiote]], [[Riot (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Riot Symbiote]], [[Agony (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Agony Symbiote]], [[Lasher (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Lasher Symbiote]], [[Thaddeus Ross (Earth-616)|Thaddeus Ross]], [[Benjamin Grimm (Earth-616)|The Thing (Ben Grimm)]], [[Felicia Hardy (Earth-616)|Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)]], [[Chewie (Earth-58163)|Chewie]]

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| Creators                = Clay McLeod Chapman
| First                   = Venom Vol 4 15
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| Description            = In the 1980's, a tourist from Indiana arrived in New York, unaware that a chance sighting of [[Venom (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Symbiote]] [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]] was a portent that could spell his doom.{{r|Symbiote Spider-Man Vol 1 3}}

Years later, serial killer [[Cletus Kasady (Earth-616)|Carnage]] was resurrected by an [[Church of the New Darkness (Earth-616)|apocalyptic cult]] and bonded to [[Grendel (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|a primordial symbiote]] to become more powerful than ever.{{r|Web of Venom: Carnage Born Vol 1 1}} Seeking to unleash the dark god [[Knull (Earth-616)|Knull]], Carnage assembled an army of symbiote-infected homeless people and animals, and began [[Absolute Carnage|hunting down everyone on Earth who has ever bonded to a symbiote]].{{r|Web of Venom: Unleashed Vol 1 1}}

As the [[War of the Realms]] ravaged the [[Earth]], Carnage and his army bided their time in the sewers and subways;{{r|Venom Vol 4 15}} meanwhile, Deadpool had a dream of the four [[Life Foundation (Earth-616)|Life Foundation]] symbiotes - [[Phage (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Phage]], [[Riot (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Riot]], [[Agony (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Agony]], and [[Lasher (Klyntar) (Earth-616)|Lasher]] - succumbing to Knull's control.{{r|Deadpool Vol 7 14}} After the War ended, [[Peter Parker (Earth-616)|Spider-Man]] realized something was amiss when he encountered a flock of symbiote-infected pigeons,{{r|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 24}} and Carnage's minions began roaming the country hunting for former symbiote hosts.{{r|Fantastic Four Vol 6 11}}{{r|Black Cat #2}}{{r|Avengers Vol 8 22}} Monitoring the whereabouts of [[Bruce Banner (Earth-616)|Bruce Banner]]'s known associates, the [[United States Hulk Operations (Earth-616)|US Hulk Operations]] discovered that the grave of [[Thaddeus Ross (Earth-616)|Thaddeus Ross]] - the former [[Red Hulk]], who had once briefly bonded to the Venom symbiote - had been disinterred, with traces of red-and-black symbiote ooze left behind.{{r|Immortal Hulk Vol 1 20}} [[Carol Danvers (Earth-616)|Carol Danvers]]' pet [[Flerken]], [[Chewie (Earth-58163)|Chewie]],{{r|Captain Marvel Vol 10 8}} was ambushed and taken over by the Grendel symbiote in preparation to claim her Venom codex; while a horde of symbiote-controlled homeless people and animals marched on [[Avengers Mountain]] to claim [[Steven Rogers (Earth-616)|Captain America]]'s Carnage codex.{{r|Invaders Vol 3 7}} Carnage sending his horde marching orders did not go unnoticed by the media, which proclaimed a "Homeless Exodus".{{r|Avengers Vol 8 22}}

| Issues                  = 
* {{c|Venom Vol 4 15}}
* {{c|Symbiote Spider-Man Vol 1 3}}
* {{c|Deadpool Vol 7 14}}
* {{c|Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 24}}
* {{c|Fantastic Four Vol 6 11}}
* {{c|Immortal Hulk Vol 1 20}}
* {{c|Black Cat Vol 1 2}}
* {{c|Captain Marvel Vol 10 8}}
* {{c|Invaders Vol 3 7}}
* {{c|Avengers Vol 8 22}}

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