Uhh... It's- It's a long, complicated story. [So brace yourself, Kaine. Peter takes a deep breath.]

See, Dr. Connors - Curt Connors, if you have one of those - I gave him permission to do some tests with a sample of my blood. So he did, and- he made this... thing. This blood-red gooey thing that just went around sucking the life force out of people to survive. We never really gave it a name or anything, but with what it did? I guess Carnage would've been the most appropriate.