Carlton Drake was the CEO of the Life Foundation bent on combining Humanity and Symbiotes in order to evolve the Human race into the perfect species. While leading a space program to investigate extraterrestrial life, the Life Foundation encountered the Symbiotes and brought four of the specimens back to Earth. Though a Symbiote managed to escape after the spacecraft crashed, Carlton began using these lifeforms to perform illegal experiments with Humans subjects to achieve symbiosis, but eventually all subjects died because they were not able to find suitable Human hosts. His experiments caught the attention of journalist Eddie Brock, who while investigating the Life Foundation stole one of the Symbiotes. The Riot Symbiote, the leader of a Symbiote Imperium infiltration force and the Symbiote who escaped containment, made its way to the Life Foundation laboratory where it met Carlton Drake and bonded to him, becoming Riot.
Riot and Carlton Drake brokered an alliance to bring the rest of the invasion force to Earth to assimilate the Humans. However, the Venom Symbiote, had come to enjoy living on Earth and befriended its host, Eddie Brock. Venom refused to let Riot’s plan succeed and agreed to work together to stop Riot's invasion. Riot prepared the second Life Foundation spacecraft for launch and killed the launch crew when they attempted to stop the second launch. Venom confronted Riot and refused to obey his orders. Angered by Venom’s betrayal, the two Symbiotes and their hosts fought to the death on the launch platform. After the Venom Symbiote was separated from Eddie Brock, Riot impaled Eddie through the chest with an arm-blade and left him for dead before boarding the spacecraft. The Venom Symbiote saved Eddie and used Riot’s arm-blade to rupture the rocket’s fuel tank, killing both the Riot Symbiote and Carlton Drake in the ensuing explosion.
Powers and Abilities[]
Riot Symbiotic Bond: The Riot Symbiote can augment its host’s physical abilities to superhuman levels after grafting itself into the host’s nervous system. As a result of being a compatible host for the Riot Symbiote, Carlton Drake has been granted various superhuman abilities while bonded to it such as:
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Stamina
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Wall-Crawling
- Constituent-Matter Generation
- Constituent-Matter Manipulation