History
Jonathan "Jon" Shayde was born and raised in New York, visiting his grandparents in Shawangunk during the summer. When Jon was six, he went out to play in the wetlands and nearly drowned in a bog, leaving him with recurring nightmares of sinking into darkness.[2] As an adult, Jon became an NYPD detective who dedicated his life to his work, eschewing family and friends.[3] At some point, Jon and his partner Detective Clyde Polk confronted Wilson Fisk with allegations that the crime lord had murdered four state's witnesses to prevent them from testifying against him. When the Kingpin scoffed at their lack of evidence and threatened the hot-tempered Polk's family, Jon stopped his partner from shooting the crime-lord, promising him that the justice system would triumph.[4] After attending a memorial service for three witnesses and a cop assassinated by the Kingpin, Jon was nearly killed by Carnage during a brawl between the symbiote-enhanced murderer, Spider-Man, and Venom.[5] After Polk quit the force, disenchanted with Fisk having gotten away with his crimes yet again,[4] Jon was partnered with Detective Booth, with whom he developed a friendly rivalry.
Assigned to the case of a serial killer called "The Artist" alongside Detective Booth, Jon became obsessed with catching the unsub. While the Artist went dormant for a while, following Knull's invasion the Artist returned with a vengeance, reigniting Jon's obsession. When one of the Artist's victims survived and escaped, Jon discovered that the Artist was named Kenneth Neely and — deducing the pattern of Neely's murders — tracked him to an abandoned factory. Inside, Jon saw Neely in the company of the Carnage symbiote and a dying Hydro-Man,[6] whose body destabilized into a vortex of energy after Carnage ripped out his core and assimilated it. With no regard for his own safety, Jon hurled himself through the vortex — resulting in his body being destabilized — and tried to shoot Neely, but was stopped by Carnage. Impressed by the lengths Jon was willing to go to put a stop to the Artist, Carnage bonded a piece of itself to him in order to stabilize his body and challenged him to show him how far he was willing to go before escaping alongside Neely.
Jon awakened in a hospital two days later and was informed by Detective Booth that the FBI was pressuring the NYPD to find Hydro-Man's killer due to him having been a top-secret inmate, with the police chief blaming Jon for the scrutiny and inter-departmental friction. Jon lied that he couldn't remember what had happened and was told he'd been suspended until he recovered. Jon lamented that he had no life outside his work before discovering the symbiote offshoot that had bonded to him. The symbiote innundated him with the memories and bloodlust of its former host Cletus Kasady, Jon fleeing the hospital and revelling in his now-superhuman abilities. Travelling to Booth's apartment, Jon revealed that he remembered what had happened in the factory — withholding that he was bonded to a symbiote — and informed Booth that Carnage was the key to stopping Neely and was hunting superhumans whose power it sought to claim for itself.[3] The next day at work Jon tried to go about his day as if nothing happened but a copy of Kasady's consciousness kept talking to him through the symbiote, urging him to commit violent acts. While trying to work his case he found out from Detective Booth that he'd been taken of it due to him telling the higher-ups that superpowered individuals were involved, something that's deemed above the NYPD's paygrade. Ignoring this, Jon drove to Eastward, having figured out the location of Carnage's next target from a glimpse of a map at the scene of his last crime. Cletus recognized this as part of a plan he'd devised while he and the symbiote were still bonded, concluding it's going through with the plan without him. Jon asked what he means and Cletus' voice informed him that Carnage and Neely had gone after Dr. Johnathon Ohnn, but that they were too late to stop them. As Jon suggested calling it in, Cletus' voice said they'd lock him up in the Ravencroft Institute if they found out where he was getting his info from, suggesting they instead skip ahead to the next step in Carnage's plan, the Fuertes Astronomical Observatory, and see if they could head Carnage and Neely off. When they got there, they arrived just in time to see the symbiote controlling a wormhole machine; Jon's symbiote starting to engulf and transform him as he shouted for Neely to stop.[7]
Left stranded in deep space by the wormhole machine and kept alive by his symbiote, Jon was aggravated by his second failure to stop Neely, though the symbiote assured him that they were the unlikely heroes best-suited for the job -- and that if they failed Carnage would become a powerful dark god. Jon was abruptly pulled through a portal and found himself in the ruins of Loomworld on Earth-001, where Spiderling exposited the nature of the Web of Life and Destiny to him; explaining that what Carnage was doing was threatening the stability of the Multiverse itself, and that her Spider-Sense had told her that he was the only one who could stop it.[8] Sent to Niffleheim, Jon battled his way through Hel until he found Malekith the Accursed crucified for his crimes during the War of the Realms. While his symbiote insisted they kill Malekith to prevent Carnage from getting to him, Jon instead freed the dark elf warlord and attempted to help him escape the Norse afterlife.[9] When Malekith became sidetracked carrying out a genocide against the Rime Giants, Jon attempted to stop him; though their fight was interrupted by the goddess Hela, who had struck a deal with Carnage to bring it to Malekith.
As Carnage.
While Carnage fought Malekith, Jon spotted Neely cowering nearby and attacked him, only to be subdued by Hela.[10] Released after Carnage and Neely moved on to their next destination, Jon gave into rage -- admitting his symbiote had been right all along -- and brutally killed the Rime Giant guarding the Hjortspring before pursuing them to Nidavellir.[11] Arriving in the Godmaker forge, Shayde was shocked to see Neely had turned on Carnage and was trying to kill it. Before he could fully process what was happening, his offshoot of the symbiote freed Carnage and abandoned him to merge with its progenitor. Dying, Shayde was helpless to stop Carnage from murdering Drorin Runehewer; the symbiote claiming him as its new host in "thanks" for him having accidentally saved it.[1]
Jon was mentally tortured by Carnage, which sought to break and corrupt him, though he managed to resist through sheer strength of will. Diverted to Earth-31 by the Web of Life and Destiny, Jon attempted to get Carnage to fight Earth-31's Cletus Kasady, who was the host of the Venom symbiote, but was unceremoniously abandoned. Nevertheless, Jon managed to hold his own against Venom long enough for Carnage to return, and was given the choice to return to Earth-616 or stay trapped on Earth-31. Jon, corrupted by his time with the symbiote, returned to Earth-616 and embraced his inner darkness to ruthlessly hunt down criminals with brutal efficacy -- not realizing a small piece of the symbiote was still bonded to him.[2]Personality
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Red-and-Black Symbiote: Shayde was bonded to a piece of the Carnage symbiote to save his life, granting him superhuman abilities.[3]
- Superhuman Strength: Shayde was able to smash through a hospital window and leap from rooftop to rooftop with ease.[3]
- Healing Factor: Shayde was able to recover from life-threatening injuries in the space of a few days.[3]
- Genetic Memory: The symbiote bonded to Shayde contains the genetic memories of Cletus Kasady, attempting to corrupt Shayde to make him more bloodthirsty and violent.[3]
- Constituent Matter Manipulation: The symbiote bonded to Shayde is able to form tendrils from its biomass,[3] as well as claws, fangs, and an arm-blade.[11]
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See Also
- 16 appearance(s) of Jonathan Shayde (Earth-616)
- 3 image(s) of Jonathan Shayde (Earth-616)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Jonathan Shayde (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carnage (Vol. 3) #10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Web of Carnage #1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Carnage (Vol. 3) #2
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Carnage (Vol. 3) #12
- ↑ Carnage Reigns Alpha #1
- ↑ Carnage (Vol. 3) #1
- ↑ Carnage (Vol. 3) #3
- ↑ Carnage (Vol. 3) #4
- ↑ Carnage (Vol. 3) #6
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Carnage (Vol. 3) #7
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Carnage (Vol. 3) #9