The Biggest Unanswered Questions In Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Check out this video clip and you can see Venom's reaction the first time it sees Carnage in the flesh. Instead of jumping into the climactic smackdown, the black symbiote recedes back into Eddie Brock's body as if he's Hulk and just saw Thanos.

"Whoa, where are you going?" Brock asks his companion.

"That is a red one!" a panicked Venom exclaims.

As comic fans know, many symbiote species have their own colors, with Venom being black, Scream colored yellow, Sleeper being green, and so on. The reason why Carnage is red is because it entered Cletus through his bloodstream. In the comics, Eddie was in a prison cell with Cletus when Venom's spawn accessed Kasady through a cut in his hand.

In the movie, a somewhat similar event occurs, even if it gets tweaked a bit. Although Brock and Kasady aren't in a cell together, the serial killer manages to bite into Eddie. "I have tasted blood, and believe me, friend," he declares, "that is not it."

Whatever "it" is, it is compounded when the state tries to put Cletus Kasady to death via lethal injection. Carnage uses the opportunity to finally seize Kasady, breaking free from the restraints and beginning his killing spree.

So, why is Venom so afraid of a "red one"? Well, for starters, anyone can see that Carnage is clearly bigger and seems to have more weapons at the ready. It's also generally accepted that each spawn of a symbiote is stronger than the one before it, so Venom knows right off the bat that it is at a disadvantage. Also, it never helps when the symbiote you're about to go up against has chosen a host who just so happens to be a ruthless serial killer.