Carrion (Marvel)

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Carrion is the name used by several characters in the Marvel Universe.

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Carrion (Miles Warren)

Main Article: Miles Warren

Professor Mile Warren at some point created a clone of himself. (Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #31)

Originally, it was a serum created when Warren worked as an assistant to the High Evolutionary. In that time, he engaged in secret experiments to turn some of the New Men into fully human appearing individuals. For this work, he had collected DNA samples from human donors but something went wrong and the New Men subjected to the serum became living corpses, eventually dying as it ravaged their bodies thus inadvertently creating the Carrion Virus. (Scarlet Spider Unlimited v1 #1)

Carrion (Malcolm McBride)

Main Article: Malcolm McBride

Malcolm McBride was an Empire State University science graduate student. He applied for a research grant that went to Peter Parker instead. Resentful and feeling his rival was not a serious student, Malcolm followed Peter into the bowels of ESU's science building, to the wrecked secret lab formerly used by the Professor Miles Warren who had been the insane criminal known as the Jackal and the original Carrion who was a clone of Professor Warren. Peter, searching for the truth about the clones created by Warren, came away with a research journal apparently written by the Professor himself. Malcolm slipped in after and left with a vial containing the Carrion Virus. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #149)

Carrion (William Allen)

Main Article: William Allen

Carrion (Sentient Virus)

Main Article: Sentient Virus

Overview

The Carrion Virus in Clone Conspiracy v1 #5.

This version was a genetic virus capable of rewriting the DNA of its victims, turning them into genetic duplicates of Miles Warren. (Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #149)

The third strain of the Carrion Virus was a lethal airborne virus capable of instantly killing every human being that was not a clone. It had no incubation period and could shut down the respiratory system of its victims in just under thirty seconds. (Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage Alpha v1 #1)

The sentient Carrion virus is able to infect and control victims without altering their bodies, allowing it to hide within them. (Superior Spider-Man Team-Up v1 #1) If allowed to remain in one body long enough, it will be permanently bonded to it. The virus is resilient enough to reform itself after near-destruction. It can assume a bodily form of its own, one which resembles the previous Carrions. In this form, it can create a vapor that, when breathed in, allows him to control minds. (Scarlet Spider v2 #20)

A fifth strain of the Carrion Virus was the result of the flawed cloning process by New U Technologies. (Amazing Spider-Man v4 #20) It resulted in its victims into zombie-like mindless brutes that eventually died once the cellular break-down reached the point where it prevented their body from properly functioning. While the disease originated in people with cloned bodies or body parts, it was contagious by contact and could affect anyone. (Amazing Spider-Man v4 #21)

It was said that the completed version of the virus was intended to be used to destroy the world. (Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand v1 #1)

Reanimated clones were known to suffer from degeneration that resulted in them becoming into Carrion-like beings and bearers of the contagious plague. (Clone Conspiracy v1 #3)

Notes

  • The concept of Carrion was created by Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney and Frank Springer where it made its first appearance in Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #25 (December, 1978).
  • The original was shown as being a clone of Miles Warren who appeared in Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #25 (December, 1978).
  • The second Carrion was Malcolm McBride who appeared in Spectacular Spider-Man v1 #149 (April, 1989).
  • The third Carrion was William Allen who appeared in Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand v1 (April, 1997).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Video games

  • In Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, the Malcolm McBride Carrion appeared as a recurring enemy in the setting of the 1994 video game.

Novels

  • In Spider-Man: Requiem, Carrion appeared in the setting of the non-canon novel written by Jeff Mariotte and published by Simon & Schuster. The Cabal of Scrier came to acquire the Carrion Virus which they used to infect the body of the deceased Stanley Carter who was formerly the serial killer Sin-Eater. This reanimated him as the new Carrion where they dispatched him to steal the Darkhold from S.H.I.E.L.D. Spider-Man and the new Carrion battled for a while but eventually Carter began to fight with Carrion for control of his own body and when the Cabal of Scrier brought back the ancient god Chthon which would destroy the world. Carter/Carrion gave up his own life to stop the god. While Stanley was still alive, he had hidden from the authorities in his uncle Emory Carter's house and Emory had been infected by the Carrion virus when he was around Stanley. When Stanley died, Emory became the next Carrion but was later defeated by Spider-Man.

Appearances

  • Spectacular Spider-Man v1: (1978)
  • Spectacular Spider-Man v1:
  • Clone Conspiracy v1:

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