Talk:Carnage VS Lucy/@comment-37044492-20181208210247/@comment-31067519-20190216084932

Apparently, the reason DB pitted them was because they're both not only mass murderers whose start as killers involved a dog's death (albiet in very different ways) but share creepily-similar misanthropic beliefs and despise humanity for the torment they went through as kids, and said humanity-disliking beliefs are also part of the reason they're just fine with massacring people for incredibly petty reasons (i.e. Lucy killing whole families to sleep in their houses for a day or two and Carnage smothering a guy because he thought his name was stupid). In terms of abilities, both of their powers can manifest in the form of strange tendrils, and both can infect others using them (the Diclonius Virus and symbiote-possession).

Weirdly enough, the DB wiki states they both have dual personalities even though I can't recall Carnage ever having that (he and the symbiote are basically the same character with only physical differences and AXIS was temporary). Still, I agree that Ken Kaneki or Alex Mercer would've been a better match for Carnage simply because they have more going for them, and Lucy would probably be better paired against Accelerator (A Certain Magical Index) or Shiro (Deadman Wonderland) from what I've heard from others.