Carl Mach
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Venom: Lethal Protector #4 |
| Created by | David Michelinie Ron Lim |
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| Alter ego | Carl Mach |
| Abilities | Super strength, speed, agility and endurance. Symbiote allows all of Spider-Man's powers. Symbiote can be used to attack and can form blade weapons. |
Carl Mach is a fictional character, a supervillain from the Spider-Man comic books. He is one of six symbiote spawns of Venom. He is predominantly orange and has two connected eyes.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Carl Mach is a mercenary who worked for a sinister corporation called the "Life Foundation". The Foundation was preparing for the M.A.D. fallout of the Cold War and sought to provide a comfortable life for their wealthy clients after the impending nuclear holocaust. The Life Foundation was experimenting with the Venom symbiote in the hopes of developing superhuman peacekeepers to watch over their imagined fallout shelter utopia. Carl is one of three men who are chosen as hosts for Venom's forcibly-extracted spawn.
In the storyline Venom: Lethal Protector, Carl and his "siblings" are defeated by Venom and Spider-Man. His symbiote is artificially aged to dust and his body is caught in a massive explosion.
The miniseries Venom: Separation Anxiety reveals that Carl and the other symbiotes had survived due to efforts by the Life Foundation. They break Eddie Brock out of prison and kidnap him in a last ditch effort to communicate with their alien "others". In issue 4, Scream kills Carl with a sonic knife, believing that the symbiotes and any who host them are evil.
Carl's symbiote survives, and is imprisoned and experimented upon in The Vault along with its siblings (with the exception of Carnage and Scream). The symbiotes eventually merge together, and bond with a man known as Scott Washington to form Hybrid.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Due to the symbiote, Carl possesses all the powers the original Venom has, including suit-generated webbing, shape-shifting, superstrength and the ability to be undetected by Spider-Man's "spider-sense". His primary method of attack is forming his symbiotic suit into long serrated blades and slashing or stabbing his opponents. He can also cloak himself for a brief period of time, similar to Venom and Toxin.
[edit] In other media
[edit] Video games
Carl is one of the six symbiote bosses in the video game Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety. He appears in a brown color and fights the player with blades for hands.
