Talk:Carnage VS Lucy/@comment-26417457-20180802033708/@comment-31067519-20180802043139

Not that I know of. He's not like Lucy where he has some tragic past that explains why he's a psychopathic killer; He was born that way. He tortured and killed his family's dog, murdered his grandmother by pushing her down some stairs, and nearly killed his mother by means of dropping a TV in the bathtub she was bathing in. He doesn't care for things like "love", "hope", or "empathy". He sees the world as nothing but a cruel, immoral planet, and thinks that anyone could and would be just like him if they "had a little guts", which is to say that he believes the entire concept of morals to be horseshit. At his core, he's not meant to be a tragic character like Lucy or even sympathetic in the least; he loves murder and chaos, and if every living thing suddenly became immortal and unable to die or be harmed, I bet you he would do his best to kill himself ASAP to be away from such a world.

To be honest, I'm not sure why I prefer Carnage over Lucy, not just as a combatant to root for but as a character. He's pretty single-minded, as he only wants for endless murder and violence, but that's the whole point to him as a fictional character, while the "I am a superpowered freak who treated cruelly by regular humans therefore I'm a casual serial murderer" has been done time and time again with characters like Carrie, Psycho Mantis, Gaara and Lucy herself. Carnage's love for bloodshed and death, while lacking in emotional depth like the others I just mentioned and seems designed to make people dislike him rather than empathize, is still undoubtedly original and a fresh air from those other examples.