Spider-Man Vs. Carnage: Who Wins from 10 Comic Book Fights?

Carnage is one of the most popular Marvel characters associated with Spider-Man. The two have fought each other on numerous occasions. So, how did that fights end up? Who won in the fights between Marvel’s Spider-Man and Carnage?

Despite the fact that Spider-Man has been more successful in their encounters, objectively speaking, Carnage is much more powerful than Spider-Man. He also has some additional powers and advantages against Spider-Man, so Carnage would win in a fight against Spider-man.

Speaking of Spider-Man vs. Carnage, there’s still a lot to be said. Throughout the rest of this article, we will look at 10 times the two fought each other in the comics and see how exactly the fight between Spider-Man and Carnage would play out.

Comparing the Powers of Spider-Man and Carnage

How Strong Is Spider-Man?

As for Spider-Man, his most pronounced human abilities are his intelligence and his resourcefulness, but this is all augmented by his superhuman abilities gained from being bitten by a radioactive spider.

Thus, Peter Parker gained a lot of spider-like abilities, such as wall-crawling, the ability to shoot webs from his body, an enhanced immune system and his famous Spider-Sense, used to detect approaching danger.

But, along with that, he has gained superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility and durability, along with a very specific healing factor that is always helpful in his fight against crime.

His strength has been the topic of much debate, since he’s usually perceived as weak (he also has a very slim body type). Yet, Spider-Man can – without any additional enhancements – lift an amazing 10 tons!

This has been proven in comics repeatedly, especially in some stories where he was – with enhancements – able to lift an incredible 130 tons! So, if you were ever doubting Spider-Man’s strength, just remember that he was able to support a building from crashing down on him.

How Strong Is Carnage?

Carnage is often considered to be one of the most powerful symbiotes in the Marvel Universe; his official stats give him higher potency than Venom and slightly lower than Toxin’s.

Carnage possesses superhuman reflexes and wields greater strength than Spider-Man and Venom combined; he can thus lift (or exert a pressure equivalent to) 80 tons. Much like Venom, he can scale any surface, regenerate, and escape Spider-Man’s “spider-sense”. He could also escape Venom’s ability to hunt down other symbiotes and their hosts.

He can change his physical appearance to mimic that of another person. Much like Venom – whose costume is a definite mass once he’s on the host – he can alter and extend his symbiote’s form at will, allowing him to project thread-like tentacles from the whole body (which replace the webs of Spider-Man and Venom), can also pierce other living beings or form symbiote weapons (such as axes or swords).

He is able to see through all parts of his body, the tentacles conveying visual information to Kasady. The latter is also immune to terrestrial diseases, such as cancer, since it is linked to its symbiote.

Like all Symbiotes, Carnage is vulnerable to sonic vibrations and fire. However, he later gained resistance to sonic vibrations.

Before we continue, let us see how the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z (2010) compares the two characters:

Spider-Man Vs. Carnage: Who Would Win?

As far as this clash goes, it is very similar to our comparison between Venom and Spider-Man. Sure, Spider-Man has managed to defeat Carnage in practically all of their encounters, although not without help, mind you, but we cannot shake off the impression that this is merely a consequence of Spider-Man being the hero and Carnage being a sadistic serial killer.

There is nothing in the stories to affirm that Spider-Man is objectively stronger than Carnage.

The numbers (see above), also confirm that and since we have established that Venom is, on a general level, stronger than Spider-Man and Carnage is, by just observing the numbers, even stronger than Venom, the situation becomes quite clear.

Carnage beats Spider-Man in practically all relevant aspects and he also has a lot of supernatural abilities that Spider-Man cannot counter. On top of that, as an offspring of Venom, he also has all the same advantages against Spider-Man that Venom has.

One might argue that Spider-Man could use Carnage’s weaknesses – sound and fire – to his advantage, but Carnage has since become immune to high frequencies, leaving fire as his only weakness. This means that Spider-Man could take one or two battles out of them, but – honestly – not more.

Carnage is simply too powerful for Spider-Man on every level and despite his known weaknesses, Spider-Man could be able to win only a couple of times out of ten battles, which is why we declare Carnage the winner of this comparison.

10 Best Spider-Man Vs. Carnage Fights

Here is a list of the 10 best fights between Spider-Man and Carnage as they have been portrayed in the comic books: