CENTIVROSCENTIVROS
Real Name: Possibly Centivros
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Microverse) apparent Insectivorid (see comments)
Occupation: Warrior
Group Membership: Leader of an unidentified group of assassins/agents (Null-Tron, Raidus Dren, Krevius, Verus, Xerxes);
Affiliations: Marquis Radu;
formerly Carnage (Cletus Kasady);
Enemies: Carnage (Cletus Kasady), Enigma Force, Enigma Force team (Bug, Flare, Marionette/Mari, Quark, Arcturus Rann), Nell Fletcher, Dr. and Ryan Ketola, Katy Kiernan, Redeemer, Scarlet Spider (Kaine); he guards at Thunderbolts mountain maximum security prison and those civilians injured, slain, and/or terrorized by Carnage following his escape
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
formerly various worlds in the Microverse;
possibly born on Kaliklak (see comments)
First Appearance: Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (December, 2012)
Powers/Abilities: Centivros had four arms (one
above the other on each side), each with two fingers and a thumb; each
of the digits ended in a sharp point; if he survived, he would be
missing half of his lower right arm (unless he could regenerate it). He
apparently has two forward-facing toes and one backward-facing (like
flighted birds).
His convex, multi-faceted eyes likely granted him enhanced peripheral vision.
Centivros may be able to cling to walls.
His antennae likely enabled
communication with others bearing antennae, and may provide heightened
sensory awareness with a limited degree of danger-sense.
Centivros’ speech is interspersed
with a “tik” sound presumably due to an Insectivorid’s chitinous
membrane in the throat.
He may or may not have a chitinous
exoskeleton granting him enhanced durability. He also may or may not
worn body armor at times (see comments).
He carries a rocket lance, which
can fire varying intensities of energy. It may or may not return to his
hand if thrown.
Centivros reportedly has been known to wield two rocket lances at a time (see comments), but he has not been shown doing so.
Height: Unrevealed; I would guess he has a
height equivalent to 6' (or possibly slightly taller)
(on Earth) 1"
Weight: Unrevealed; based on his build, I'd estimate about 210 lbs. (Earth equivalent);
(on Earth) .00056 lbs. (.009 oz.; 0.256 grams)
Eyes: Red (see comments) or light green (multi-faceted)
Hair: Sparse small black hairs on body and head, but not hair on the head like a person
History:
(Scarlet Spider II#11 (fb) - BTS / Venom II#27 (fb) - BTS) - Marquis Radu sought to both slay the Redeemer (the
former Acroyear), the living embodiment of the Enigma Force, and to
destroy the Enigma Force itself, after which he would rekindle the
Enigma Force under his control and rule as God.
(Scarlet Spider II#11 (fb) - BTS) - With the goal of
using Carnage (Cletus Kasady) to destroy the Redeemer and to replicate Carnage's
symbiote via the Body Banks, Radu sent his agents -- a squad of assassins led by Verus: Centivros, Krevius, Null-Tron, Raidus, and Xerxes -- to the
Earth dimension.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (fb) - BTS) - Radu's agents traveled to Thunderbolts Mountain maximum security prison in Colorado where they (presumably Verus) made the imprisoned Kasady a deal: If he killed someone for them, they would give him a new life and a whole new universe to kill people in (or so he subsequently paraphrased the offer).
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 - BTS) - Kasady accepted the offer.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (fb) - BTS) - Centivros and the rest of the squad violently broke Carnage out of prison.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (fb) - BTS) - Footage of Carnage's escaped showed insect-sized agents killing the prison guards.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 - BTS) - Radu's agents slew police officers who discovered Kasady driving on I-25.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (fb) - BTS) - Based on the footage of Carnage's escape, Venom ("Flash" Thompson) had his reporter friend Katy Kiernan investigate tiny killers, which led them to a report on the Prometheus Pit being built in Houston Texas by Dr. Ketola at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Seeking Dr. Ketola to travel to the Microverse, Carnage and
Radu's agents confronted Dr. Ketola's husband, Ryan, and slew her
mother,
Nell Fletcher.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 - BTS) - Rescuing Ryan Ketola, the Scarlet Spider (Kaine) learned of and sought out Dr. Ketola as well.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1) - As Carnage confronted Ketola, the Scarlet Spider tried to fight him off but was knocked out by Radu's agents, after which Verus told Carnage there was no time for this, as they had to get to the Pit immediately.
Verus then instructed Raidus and
Centivros to guard the exits, Xerxes to watch the skies, and Krevius
and Null-Tron to force Dr. Ketola to open the Pit.
As soon as the Pit was opened, Carnage threw Kiernan into it first. Verus instructed her squad to move out.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (fb) -
BTS) - Centivros and the rest of the squad passed through the Prometheus Pit and returned to the Microverse.
(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 -
BTS) - Carnage passed through the Prometheus Pit.
(Scarlet Spider II#10) - Back
in the Microverse, Centivros
restrained Katy Kiernan, repeatedly making his ">tik<"' sound, as
Carnage ranted to her about wanting her to report his activities...and when Carnage licked her.
(Scarlet Spider II#10 - BTS) - Per Radu's instructions, Centivros and the rest of the squad, with Carnage and Kiernan, headed to their ship to seek out the Redeemer.
(Venom II#26 - BTS) - Centivros and the rest of the squad brought Carnage to a Body Banks annexing station associated with Homeworld.
(Venom II#26) - When Carnage expressed disappointment in the lack of bodies at the Body Banks, Verus clarified that this was an annex station and that there were similar factories, all of them defunct or under the control of rogue skin merchants, scattered throughout the zones.
Katy Kiernan then suggested to
Carnage that the reason they had brought him there first rather than
taking him to the Redeemer was that he was intended to
be raw material from which the Body Banks would build an army.
Comments: Created by Christopher Yost, Cullen Bunn, Lan Medina, Karl Kesel, Cam Smith, & Walden Wong.
I'm not sure whether Centivros would be native to
Bug's homeworld, Kaliklak, or if he's one of the other insectoid races
of the Microverse, like the Kronos or Phobos. I don't believe we've see
Kaliklak natives with four arms, but that doesn't mean there aren't
any...or possibly Centivros is a mutant or a mutate.
Centivros looked like he might not be dead
yet when we last saw him, so perhaps he survived. It seems like too
much thought went into their design to have such a limited number of
appearances.
Radu could probably at least replicate their forms via the Body Banks.
Centivros, more than most of his
team, had a significantly different appearance in each issue. The real
world explanation is artistic license, but, looking at his appearance
in Minimum Carnage Alpha and comparing it to the more organic
appearance in Scarlet Spider II#10, it really looks like he might be
wearing armor, which would also explain the eye color change.
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CLARIFICATIONS:
Centivros should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads)
Minimum Carnage Alpha#1, pg. 18, panel 4 (mostly full body, partially behind Raidus);
pg. 20, panel 1 (full body, lateral);
Scarlet Spider II#10 (Minimum Carnage, part two), pg. 12, panel 1-2 (face close-up);
Venom II#26 (Minimum Carnage, part two), pg. 11, panel 3 (slaughtered by Carnage)
Appearances:
Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (December, 2012) -
Christopher Yost & Cullen Bunn (writers), Lan Medina (penciler),
Karl Kesel, Cam Smith, & Walden Wong (inkers), Tom Brennan
(editor), Stephen Wacker
(senior editor)
Scarlet Spider II#10 (December 2012) -
Christopher Yost (writer), Khoi Pham & Reilly Brown (pencilers),
Tom Palmer & Chris Sotomayor (inkers), Tom Brennan (editor),
Stephen Wacker (senior editor)
Venom II#26 (December 2012) - Cullen Bunn (writer), Declan Shalvey (artist), Tom Brennan (editor), Stephen Wacker (senior editor)
First posted: 10/19/2020
Last updated: 10/19/2020
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