Talk:Carnage VS Lucy/@comment-27019676-20180725180502/@comment-31067519-20180726050104

I don't see what Spider-Man or Venom not being FTL have to do with Carnage not being FTL. The whole point to his powers is literally to be better than both Venom and Spider-Man is every way: Stronger, tougher, faster, better reflexes, healing, etc. Okay, maybe he's not REALLY faster than light, but at least close to it. When he caught Nova mid-flight, they were having a serious battle, so even though it's doubtful he was moving at full speed, there's no reason to think he wasn't at least moving at close to light speed/relativistic. Same with Firestar's beam: It's been clearly stated that it's made of microwaves, which is a type of light. Either way, he's still much faster than anything Lucy's done or reacted to, both her reaction feat of stopping a Mach 15 missile and her feat of sending her vectors into space at Mach 486.

I agree that Carnage obviously didn't heal on the spot. In fact, it wasn't until a few issues later that we finally saw him again. Still, his other regen feats like regrowing his head and reforming the symbiote almost instantly proves that Lucy will have an incredibly hard time doing any real harm.

And yes, he does have a spider-sense. It's mentioned in his page of vsbattles.wikia, a thread on comicvine.gamespot.com and is mentioned in a video containing a list of Carnage's powers by CBR. It takes less time for his spider-sense to detect danger than Spider-Man's own spider-sense and thus gives him more time to react.