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Title:	TRDL - Iron Man vs. Carnage
Artist:	thom chiaramonte (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	5/20/2011
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[b]TRDL 2011 Series, No. 35 - Iron Man vs. Carnage[/b]

UPDATE: Voting is live now:
http://outcaststudios.com/forums/index.php/topic/10580-thirdraildesignlabs-vs-vjusticefriends-round-two/

Two foes meet spontaneously for the first time. Tony Stark , faced with an ambush by a vicious, blood-curdling alien symbiote, armors up and defends himself in battle with repulsor attacks, chestbeam bombardments and body blows, to no effect. Experiments with deconstructive interference sonic weaponry appear to weaken the beast, but soon the symbiote's nasty tentacle ooze began to wind it's way into the armor joints in increasingly finer grain threaded probes. Recognizing the danger,, Iron Man quickly wrestles the creature to the ground and tears it's head off in an unfortunately necessary final gambit. Unable to regenerate the loss of the brain of it's host, Carnage is rendered helpless as storage tanks nearby burst into flame, damaged int he melee, burning the creature into oblivion.

This piece was done for an epic Art Battle at Outcast Studios, a Battle Royale competition featuring 32 artists. Round 01, 16 pairings, with the winners moving on to the next round, and so on. The battles are judged on both concept and execution. My character for the series: Iron Man [Current Resilient Armor]. My Round 02 foe: Carnage, a Spider-Man villain.

As with the last round, the question will I'm sure come up: Iron Man using lethal force. I suppose you can gloss over that and say he, you know, just REALLY messed Carnage up, but let's be realistic. Carnage can regenerate, is immune to most forms of damage, is sadistically evil and violent, and will certainly kill Stark if given the chance. I looked at it this way: Stark will have seen that body blows and other forms of damage regenerate and don't stop the creature, AND will have detected that the thing will be learning and evolving it's attacks as it tries to penetrate his armor. So, ripping it's head off being a killing blow isn't an obvious thing, as many nearly-invulnerable polymorphs and undead creatures alike are slowed, but not outright killed, by beheading or major limb loss. In Carnage's case, the symbiote can't regenerate major trauma init's host. Stark would have no way of knowing there was a human inside of this creature. And anyway, that human is a serial killer. So, to hell with it. And him. Carnage is susceptible to sonic attacks, but less so than Venom, but it's very vulnerable to fire. However, none of the Iron man armors, at least in comics canon, have incendiary weapons. So, I went with brute force. i wanted to show the decapitation, but also that Carnage as symbiote was fully integrated into the wearer's physiology, beyond just being a skin. This meant foregoing much blood (other than some specks on the thighs/hips of the armor at the point of the attack) and stringing long strands of symbiote between the head and the shoulders. Ick.

This is Round 02. 16 artists have been eliminated, we're down to 8 pairings.

You can read more about the process on this pic after the jump...
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/blog/2011/05/19/trdl-2011-series-no-44-iron-man-vs-carnage/

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