Carrion (comics)

Carrion
Interior artwork from Spider-Man: The Jackal Files vol. 1, 1 (August 1994 Marvel Comics). Art by Guy Dorian.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	As Miles Warren's clone: Spectacular Spider-Man #25 (December 1978) As Malcolm McBride: Spectacular Spider-Man #149 (April 1989) As William Allen: Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand (April 1997)
Created by	Bill Mantlo Jim Mooney Frank Springer
In-story information
Alter ego	- Miles Warren (clone) - Malcolm McBride - William Allen
Team affiliations	Carnage Family/Maximum Carnage (as Malcolm McBride) S.H.I.E.L.D. (as William Allen)
Partnerships	As Malcolm McBride Shriek Carnage Doppelganger Demogoblin
Notable aliases	Miles Warren Malcolm Mcbride William Allen
Abilities	Telepathy Levitation Density control Ability to disintegrate organic matter at a touch

Carrion is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man.

The Miles Warren clone version of Carrion first appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #25 and was created by Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney, and Frank Springer. Carrion emerged as part of a storyline that was a sequel to the original Clone Saga and as a result has one of the most complicated histories of any Spider-Man villain which has been retconned several times as successive writers changed the status of the various clones, the plans and motivations of Professor Miles Warren and other aspects from the stories. Often these changes took place in stories which did not directly involve Carrion, resulting in further stories trying to tie up gaps. No fewer than three separate incarnations have been encountered.

The original Carrion first appeared seeking to destroy Spider-Man, somehow knowing that his secret identity was Peter Parker. He unsuccessfully approached the Maggia with a plan to kill Spider-Man. He attacked Peter Parker, blaming him for the death of Gwen Stacy.

Carrion sought to destroy Parker/Spider-Man several times before capturing Spider-Man and revealing to him that he was a decayed clone of Professor Miles Warren, also known as the Jackal. Warren had created the clone and left it in a capsule to mature to full development; however Warren had then (seemingly) died and the clone was left developing in the capsule with artificially accelerated age. Something went wrong and the clone's body became like a living corpse. As Warren's clone, Carrion blamed Spider-Man for the deaths of both Warren and Gwen Stacy and sought to bring him to justice. Carrion captured Peter Parker and prepared to kill him with a giant "Spider-Amoeba" created by cloning cells from Parker. However Parker freed himself and became Spider-Man. In the subsequent fight a fire consumed the laboratory whilst the amoeba latched onto Carrion. The Spider-Amoeba suffocated Carrion, smothering him to death, and then unable to escape it perished in the fire.