| “ | Look around at the world… what do you see? A planet at the brink of collapse. Human beings… are disposable! But man, and symbiote—combined. This is a new race. New species. A higher lifeform. | „ |
| ~ Carlton Drake to one of his test subjects, explaining his motives. |
Dr. Carlton Drake is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Riot) of the 2018 superhero film Venom, the first installment in Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
He is based on the Marvel comic book character of the same name. He is the misanthropic CEO of the Life Foundation, who is bent on fusing humanity with Symbiotes in order to "save" the human race. This incarnation of the character is also noticeably more villainous than his comic counterpart.
He was portrayed by Riz Ahmed, who also voiced Riot in the same film.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He has no regard for human life whatsoever, due to hypocritically believing they are nothing more than parasites seeking to get away with feeding on each other. When his astronauts crashed to Earth in his probe, he cares more about the survival of the symbiotes they took with them than their lives; and he is also uncaring when his men cause several car accidents throughout San Francisco in their pursuit of Eddie Brock.
- After testing the symbiotes on defenseless animals, he experimented with them bonding to poor people, having the symbiotes devour them so he can learn how to control them. He even cruelly compares one of his victims to the story of Abraham and Isaac, adding insult to injury.
- When Dr. Skirth objects to his plans for testing the symbiotes on humans, he subtly threatens to kill her children should she get in his way.
- As a result of Carlton's crimes, Eddie Brock loses his job, and his relationship with his fiancé, Anne Weying, is tarnished because he tried to expose said crimes in an interview with him.
- Sent his men to kill Eddie Brock when he learned he had one of the symbiotes.
- Had Dr. Skirth killed by a symbiote when she tried to provide evidence against him to Eddie Brock.
- After merging with Riot, he embraced that power and killed many people in his path, trying to aid the monster in bringing other symbiotes to Earth to devour all of humanity.
- While he believed that he could save the human race by bringing the symbiotes to Earth, his actions would have likely caused the deaths of many human and symbiotes alike, as the film shows that some humans die because they aren't suitable hosts and symbiotes can't survive out of their homeworld without hosts. His desire to save humans despite his prejudice against them is nothing more than his own unruly egotism, and while he believes humans are short sighted and parasitical, he is an extremely rigid thinker who is frequently using innocent people to enrich himself. That said, his utterly hypocritical prejudice against his own species does not justify anything he does, with his actions likely pushing him well past whatever provoked his warped thinking in the past.
Trivia[]
- While he apologized to Riot for his failure to keep the other symbiotes alive, this apology holds little water, considering he couldn't careless about the ones that died from his experiments, and continued them despite this. It’s also very possible that, given his manipulative personality, he was just saying this to keep Riot on his side.
External Links[]
- Carlton Drake on the Marvel Movies Wiki
- Carlton Drake on the Villains Wiki
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