Warning: contains spoilers for Extreme Carnage Omega #1!
With the theft of Iron Man’s Extrembiote armor, Carnage has attained a terrifying new form, but this scary new appearance just scratches the surface of what the superpowered serial killer will now be capable of. The list of fantastic powers that are attributed to Iron Man’s Extremis tech is long, meaning that Cletus Kasady is more dangerous than ever now that he's merged with the Extremis-symbiote hybrid. Iron Man has spent years stopping the Extremis virus falling into the wrong hands, but now he's finally failed.
Debuting in 2005 as a genetic plug-in that permits limitless reprogramming and customization of biological organisms, Extremis has become Iron Man's secret weapon. It essentially gives genius scientists a way to hack the body, modifying it for any given purpose, including gaining a wide range of powers. Tony merged his Extremis tech with one of Knull's symbiotes in order to combat the King in Black, but his boundless curiosity led him to keep the suit even after the villain's defeat, hoping to study its capabilities. Now, Carnage has claimed the tech, which at its most basic level has been used to cure diseases like cancer and allow someone to survive in space without a suit.
The theft of Stark’s crowning technological achievement happens in Extreme Carnage Omega #1 (by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Manuel Garcia, Guru Efx, and Travis Lanham) when Iron Man suits up in the Extrembiote armor to take on Carnage. Instead, Kasady easily dispatches Stark and steals his suit. As shown in Iron Man vol. 5 and Superior Iron Man, Extremis easily allows for the alteration of the wearer’s physical appearance, can cure blindness, and enables the firing of one’s body heat as a fiery projectile (as seen in the MCU's Iron Man 3.) Given the nature of the Extremis tech and Stark’s multiple improvements since its initial conception, he has also contended that it could grant immortality and manipulate a human’s genetic code to produce any desired superpower.
As a cannibal serial killer, Carnage is sure to use the Extrembiote suit’s most destructive capabilities, gaining abilities that allow him to do maximum damage and spread his evil more completely than ever before. While the suit itself will empower Carnage, the real danger is the symbiote gaining control of the underlying Extremis tech, which could then be used to reprogram its biology with new powers. Carnage's powers are already extensive, but Iron Man #4 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land showed that Extremis can even have mystical applications, warping the body to better harness eldritch energy. With Carnage's influence over other symbiotes, it's unlikely he'd keep any new abilities to himself, and Tony's misstep threatens to create a new era where Carnage and his allies can reprogram their bodies with earth-shaking powers limited only by their imaginations.
Carnage has escaped with Tony's Extrembiote suit, and Extremis' fusion with symbiote matter will only make its secrets easier for the killer to crack. Since Stark is unwilling to learn from past mistakes with overly ambitious armor, he is again responsible for the world's next big threat. Iron Man's Extrembiote armor is certain to raise Carnage's threat level to untold proportions and scale up the body count of whatever murderous plan he cooks up next.
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