centivros-raduagents-mca-mostfullCENTIVROS

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)centivros-microverse-radu-mca-lat

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.
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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:face, showing antennae better
(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.centivros-microverse-radu-ven26-slaughtered

(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.

(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.

    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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Profile by Snood.

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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