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But don't worry, maybe when this is all over... I'll switch to destroying all the Spider-Men!

—Carnage

Appearing in "The Rhythm of the Night"

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Synopsis for "The Rhythm of the Night"

While doing laundry, Kate Bishop picks up Jeff the Landshark's beloved Lockjaw plushy and notes it won't be long for the world if he keeps taking it through the park. As she loads it into the washing machine, muttering to herself that she's lectured him before but he never listens, she turns to see Jeff has suddenly bonded to a symbiote -- massively increasing his size. Fleeing in terror assuming she's going to be eaten, Kate grabs her bow and quiver and bolts into the street. She nocks an arrow, but can't bring herself to hurt Jeff even in his monstrous state. As she closes her eyes, the symbiote-enhanced Jeff playfully licks her face and rolls around on the ground, Kate realizes the symbiote hasn't corrupted him and he just wants to play. However, a jaunt through the park leaves devastation in their wake, Kate musing they'll need to find a way to get rid of the symbiote. Hearing a concert at a nearby stadium, Kate makes arrangements with the manager to have Jeff present. The sonic vibrations seemingly kill the symbiote, and Jeff and Kate are hoisted into the moshpit in celebration.

Appearing in "Field of Screams"

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  • Unnamed Symbiote Baseball Players (First appearance; dies)

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  • Earth-55595 (First appearance)
    • Earth (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
      • United States of America (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        • California (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
          • San Francisco (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
            • Unnamed Baseball Stadium (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
            • Ed Brock's House (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Hell (Invoked)

Synopsis for "Field of Screams"

In the past, Ben Parker asks his nephew Peter if he'd like a hotdog only to notice his wallet's gone missing. Hiding under the bleachers and stifling their laughter, Ed Brock and his cousin Richie sneak off to use the stolen wallet to buy food and drinks for themselves. In the present, Ed -- now a sports reporter -- recalls how he and Richie fell in love with baseball, but that that love got Richie killed. Breaking into the baseball field's facilities, Ed grimly remembers staring down at Richie's desiccated corpse, launching into an investigation that uncovered a scandal: the local baseball team has been juicing to make it to the playoffs, but not using conventional steroids. Bursting into the locker room, Ed finds the players injecting themselves with symbiotes. As they snarl that he's going to die -- just like his cousin did -- Ed dons a black baseball cap with a white spider emblem and pulls out a homemade bat. As black ooze seeps from the wood and engulfs him, turning him into a monstrous form similar to the players, Ed recalls that when he was 18 a meteor struck a tree in his back yard and he used the wood to carve a bat that gave him superpowers.

Noting that the players' symbiotes are offshoots of his own, giving their hosts power at the cost of having to feed on the life force of others, Venom fights them but is overwhelmed. Revealing that he swapped the water in the field's sprinkler system with gasoline, Venom sets it ablaze with a symbiote-enhanced home-run and strolls out of the flames to find a blonde woman bonded to an armored symbiote munching popcorn in the stands. Applauding him, the woman smirks and raises an eyebrow as she asks if he wants to play for the big leagues.

Appearing in "Spider's Eclipse"

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In his penthouse, Wilson Fisk seethes with rage at Spider-Man having gotten away with all the death and suffering he caused -- chiefly destroying Fisk's face while under the influence of the Venom symbiote. With Peter Parker now a beloved member of the Fantastic Four, Fisk notes that separating him from his teammates will require meticulous planning. Crushing an apple in frustration, Fisk turns as one of his aides tells him it's time to begin the procedure.

A month later, at the Midtown Hospital, Peter Parker attends the grand unveiling of new medical technology based on the late Reed Richards' inventions, thanking Congressman Esposito for his generosity in organizing a fundraiser. Taking Peter aside, Congressman Esposito tells him that a group of children are wanting to see Spider-Man in action, suggesting he take the elevator to avoid scaring any elderly patients. As the elevator door closes, Peter's spider-sense goes off. Peeling off the escape hatch, he realizes it's been sealed and he's walking into a trap. The elevator drops into the hospital's basement, where Wilson Fisk -- now fully-healed -- greets him, sneering that he blackmailed the congressman by threatening to reveal he'd accidentally let top-secret NATO documents fall into the hands of Hydra. As Peter complements Fisk's plastic surgeon, the Kingpin sneers that he arranged for his scientists to trick the Fantastic Four into travelling to the Negative Zone, leaving Peter all by himself. As Fisk grins and says the time has come for his revenge, Peter apologizes for what he did under the influence of the symbiote, then smirks and says that even without it he can still defeat Fisk any day. To Peter's shock and horror, Fisk reveals he's bonded to a surviving piece of the symbiote, renaming himself "King Pain". Fleeing through the hospital, Peter finds every exit has been sealed. Resolving himself to fight, Peter warns Fisk that he knows from personal experience that the symbiote will corrupt and take over him, King Pain sneering that Peter was too weak to fully embrace the symbiote's power and that there's no talking his way out of his reckoning.

Peter desperately attempts to pummel King Pain, the Venomized Kingpin unfazed by his attacks and slamming him to the ground. As King Pain gloats, slowly crushing Peter's skull, a crimson blade impales him from behind and a menacing voice mockingly coming from the ventilation shaft quips that it's hooked a big one. As a red and black symbiote oozes onto the floor, shaping itself into a humanoid monster similar to Venom, a confused Peter thanks it for saving him and escapes through a ceiling vent. As the crimson monster withdraws its arm-blade, King Pain snarls that he almost had his revenge on Spider-Man but it let him escape. Mocking him for having taken too long to finish Peter off, the crimson monster introduces itself as Carnage before tearing Fisk apart and assimilating his symbiote. Noting that this world's Venom symbiote feels dense, Carnage mockingly tells Fisk's corpse that when it's done hunting Venoms it just might start hunting Spider-Men.

Appearing in "Full Symbiote Panic"

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  • Unnamed Symbiotes (First appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for "Full Symbiote Panic"

Twenty years after First Contact, a pair of Symbiotes rampage through Neo-New York City. As Unit-2's signal goes dark, Commander Mayday Parker orders power to be diverted to Mobile Walker Unit-1. Seated in the cockpit, grizzled veteran Flash Thompson is told that he cannot allow the Symbiotes to make their way inland and breed. Unit-1 launches and arrives on the surface, a firearm being deployed for it to use. Opening fire on one of the Symbiotes, Unit-1 destroys its Symbocore, causing it to dissolve into black ooze. Confronting the second Symbiote, Unit-1's AI reports that the gun is out of ammo and requests permission to engage in close-quarters combat. However, the Symbiote proves more powerful than anticipated, easily ripping off Unit-1's left arm. Deploying a plasma sword, Unit-1 rams the blade through the Symbiote's chest but misses its Symbocore. Unit-1's AI reports it has only 90 seconds of power left, Commander Parker ordering Flash to bring the Symbiote down no matter the cost and saying that she's prepped an armament to help him.

Blasting the Symbiote with a back-mounted heat-beam emitter, Unit-1 makes a break for it while the Symbiote regenerates the hole in its side, the AI warning Flash of an energy spike from the Symbiote. Commander Mayday launches a replacement arm equipped with a powerful energy cannon as the Symbiote begins charging an energy beam in its maw; Flash equipping the arm-cannon and firing at the same time the Symbiote does. Unit-1 obliterates the Symbiote and narrowly evades its energy beam, but the ensuing explosion decimates several city blocks and leaves it badly damaged. Reporting that he's still alive, Flash exits Unit-1 and takes a seat to wait for Unit-3 and Unit-4 to pick him up. Grumbling to Unit-1 that he's getting too old, Flash pulls out a photograph of himself as a young man alongside Commander Mayday's late father Peter and contemplates the prospect of dying on the battlefield. Arriving to pick Flash up, Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales tease him over Unit-1 being all-but destroyed again, Flash quipping that he has to keep the rookies entertained somehow.

Solicit Synopsis

THE CONCLUSION TO EXTREME VENOMVERSE!

• Like every issue of the summertime symbiote celebration before it, this one introduces another awesome array of symbiotes!

• FIRST! JEFF THE LAND SHARK GETS VENOMIZED! From the awesome team behind the smash-hit IT’S JEFF! Infinity Comic, Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru!

• THEN! Hope this symbiote’s got a mitt and some bubble gum because it’s getting called up to the MAJOR LEAGUES!

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