Some say that insanity is in the blood. This was true of Carnage because the symbiote had bonded with Cletus Kasady down to the blood level. And Cletus Kasady was a sociopath. But when Bentley Wittman decided to put together a new iteration of the Frightful Four, he envisioned a new pairing with the symbiote and Dr. Karl Malus. But The Carnage persona proved to be too much for Malus and Wittman himself stepped in to control the symbiote.

This left Bentley Wittman, the criminal super genius known as The Wizard, in possession of (possessed by) the vampiric alien entity known as Carnage. For all intents and purposes The Wizard had become Carnage. And while trying to fend off the entity’s sociopathically warped alien mind, Wittman was thrust through an inter dimensional portal to another world.

*New world! Bring the pain!* Carnage’s mind screamed inside Wittman’s own. “You will not bring the pain,” Wittman commanded in defiance. “You will submit to my superior intellect!”

*Kasady always says to bring the pain!* The symbiote resisted and for a moment there was a psychedelic effect inside Wittman’s own brain but fortunately for the master of science, he had dealt with similar effects before and was able to push his way beyond it by sheer temerity. “Submit!” Wittman commanded again and this time the symbiote fell silent.

Wittman needed time to inspect his new surroundings. It was clear that some form of energy anomaly had opened an inter dimensional rift and deposited him and his new alien partner onto an alternate world, but there was more to it than that. Wittman had an innate sense that he somehow belonged to this world. That he had now fully taken the place of his alternate self in this reality. There was even a set of identification cards bearing his likeness. One of which seemed to be a security key card to an office operated by his alternate self under the name Wittman Solutions. Perhaps there he could find the technological components needed to create a new ID machine and place the symbiote under subjection once and for all. And with all that power under his command, Bentley Wittman, let this world call him Carnage, would be unstoppable.