krevius-raduagents-mca1-introKREVIUS

Real Name: Unrevealed; presumably Krevius Trell (see comments)

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Microverse)

Occupation: Warrior

Group Membership:  An unidentified group of assassins/agents (Centivros, Null-Tron, Raidus Dren, 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); the 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, likely including Homeworld

First Appearance: Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 (December, 2012)krevius-raduagent-mca-full

Powers/Abilities: Krevius had poorly defined psychic powers. He could certainly read minds, project his thoughts, and levitate. He may well have been able to mentally influence or control others.

    His abilities are augmented in some fashion by the alien skulls that float around his head.

Height: Unrevealed; he (and the rest of the squad) appeared to be much shorter than Carnage, who is 6'1", but can alter his size somewhat via his symbiote (I would guess he has a height equivalent to 5'9" or so)
    (on Earth) 1"
Weight: Unrevealed; based on her build, I'd estimate about 165 lbs. (Earth equivalent);
    (on Earth) .0005 lbs. (.008 oz.; 0.228 grams)
Eyes: Solid white
Hair: Unrevealed (he was not seen without his helmet)

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) - Xerxes 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 Krevius and Null-Tron to force Dr. Ketola to open the Pit (see comments).

    They both perched on Ketola's shoulder, and, as she felt their presence in their mind, she asked what they were doing to her. Krevius read her mind, confirming that she had solved the last alogorithm. Generating a psychic interface, Null-Tron downloaded the information, and it activated the Prometheus 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) - Xerxes and the rest of the squad passed through the Prometheus Pit and returned to the Microverse.krevius-raduagents-ven26-slaughtered

(Minimum Carnage Alpha#1 - BTS) - Carnage passed through the Prometheus Pit.

(Scarlet Spider II#10) - Back in the Microverse, Raidus instructed Krevius to enter Carnage's mind, but Krevius declined, noting he did not think it would like that (see comments).

    Verus then silenced the rest of her squad as she received a holoprojection-communication from Marquis Radu, who ignored his agents' concerns regarding Carnage's stability, telling Verus that Carnage would do his job and instructing them to do theirs.

(Scarlet Spider II#10 - BTS) - Krevius and the rest of the squad, with Carnage and Kiernan, headed to their ship to seek out the Redeemer.

(Venom II#26 - BTS) - Krevius 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.

(Venom II#26 (fb) - BTS) - Carnage apparently slaughtered Centivros, Krevius, and Null-Tron and bound Raidus against the wall.

Comments: Created by Christopher Yost, Cullen Bunn, Lan Medina, Karl Kesel, Cam Smith, & Walden Wong.

    You want more information, you get more information!

    In the initial appearance in Minimum Carnage, when Verus gives everyone their assignments, the speech bubbles are pointing to Krevius, but the person speaking calls out instructions to all five other members besides Verus (including Krevius), and then in the next command, Xerxes says, "As you command, Veras <sic>."
    As a result, I think it's pretty clear that Verus was the one speaking. Plus Krevius is subsequently seen doing what Krevius was told to do.
    Perhaps that's an error, or perhaps Verus transmitted her thoughts to Krevius, who transmitted the instructions to the others. It makes sense that the tiny beings would have had trouble hearing each other at relatively large distances, and perhaps such telepathic communication was their go-to in such situations. Or not...

    On a semi-similar note, when Raidus asked Krevius to enter Carnage's mind, the speech balloon points to Null-Tron, which confused me for awhile...I think that one's just an error.

    While it makes sense the Carnage would have slain Krevius, we only see his fallen form. Perhaps his psychic abilities would allow him to survive. It seems like too much thought went into these guy's design to have such a limited number of appearances.
    Radu could probably at least replicate their forms via the Body Banks.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Krevius should be distinguished from:

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Minimum Carnage Alpha#1, pg. 18, panel 4 (upright, lower);
        pg. 20, panel 1 (in flight, full body, tipped forward slightly);
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: 11/10/2020
Last updated: 12/12/2020

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