"Earn It."

An ongoing joke in Gears of War and Gears of War 2, and the potential sequels, is the presence... and eventual death of a Private Carmine. Each game features a Private Carmine who, like Kenny from South Park or the many ancestors of Lt. Dan in Forest Gump, is doomed to die.

In the First Gears game Pvt. Anthony Carmine's gun jammed, as he was trying to fix it he was sniped.

In the sequel, his brother Pvt. Benjamin Carmine joins Alpha Squad. Ben lasted through most of the game... until he fell from a Helicopter, into a giant worm-monster, SURVIVED, only to be eaten by the creatures that resided in said worm-monster's stomach.

...Heavy stuff I know.

R.I.P

While the reoccurrence, and eventual death, of each game's Carmine is funny, my friends and I have come to embrace Carmine as our favorite character, and thus each death weighs heavy upon us all.

Despite his ill-fated role in the series, he has become Team Terror-Misu's mascot. Thus, he has been the topic numerous conversations (yes we are in fact that cool that we discuss a minor character with some frequency). During one such discussion we jointly decided it would be funny if the next Carmine was actually a forced to be reckoned with. Like Audey Murphy, he'd be an unstoppable beast on the battlefield, fueled only by grief and anger. NOTHING would stop Clay Carmine... Nothing.

Below is what i imagine "Clay" Carmine would look like... (Get out your notepad Blezinski)

Instead of Cog Tags, Clay Carmine wears the Skull of a Locust.

Clay Carmine doesn't use guns, he points his finger and says bang. Every shot is a head-shot.

Clay doesn't need a chainsaw-bayonet. When he is forced into close-quarters combat, he moves his hand up and down like a turkey cutter and chops the horde-member in half.

Clay Carmine is already my favorite character... I hope he becomes yours too.

I've just decided, as I am typing this, that this blog is the official petition to ensure Clay Carmine's Awesome-osity. If you think the Carmine family deserves better comment this blog!

Together we can make sure someone avenges the Carmine family name!

-ENGAGE!

P.S. Clay Carmine is the thing of nightmares, but if you really want to have nightmare's watch this music video.

Yes that is in fact Back to the Future's Crispin Hellion Glover.