Spoilers for Wolverine #3 below!

If Marvel's X-Men were defined by a single kind of superpower, it would be psychic abilities: telepathy, telekinesis, and especially mind control. It's the most common type of ability in the team, especially thanks to Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Xavier, and their various psychic relatives. When Iron Man stepped up to fight the team, he started by inventing a weapon intended solely to disable telepathy. It also happens to be the biggest weakness of the most iconic X-Men hero, Wolverine. But in the new issue Wolverine #3, Logan has a way to steal an advantage from a former enemy: the power of friendship.

The instinct-driven berserker has a bad habit of being turned against his allies in storylines like Enemy of the State. His healing factor lets him overcome anything, but his mental defenses are weaker. In Wolverine #1, Logan was on the trail of a new villain, called the Pale Girl, who decided to discourage him from the hunt by making him kill his entire team. Being used as a weapon doesn't sit well with Wolverine, who has trauma with that particular situation, so he doubles down. But the Avenger comes prepared with a plan, a team, and most importantly, a borrowed defense system. Wolverine knows what he needs: the psychic-proof helmet of Magneto, someone who has had to fight the X-Men's most powerful telepaths for decades.

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But Magneto isn't willing to give up his iconic accessory, so in Wolverine #3, Logan finds the secret to getting something out of the magnetic mutant. Magneto can overcome psychic attacks, shield energy blasts, and reshape the earth... but he can't resist the chance at a positive interaction with someone. Magneto joins Wolverine at Krakoa's resident tiki bar, where Wolverine nods along to his stories about classical literature and pours fruity cocktails down his throat. Magneto slurs out that he hopes the two of them can be friends before hitting the table with a clang. Logan wastes no time in slipping the helmet off his head and swearing the bartender to secrecy.

Wolverine and Magneto Drinking Buddies Comic

The rest of Wolverine's attack strategy has two parts: trusting his friends, and actually having a strategy. He enlists the help of fellow telepaths (some of whom accept some very unusual bribes) and dodges the Pale Girl's control, overcoming his reliance on gut instinct and scoring a win for cooperation.

Hopefully for Wolverine, Magneto will have the same spirit of friendship when he sobers up and realizes the way Logan manipulated him into giving away his greatest vulnerability: he's lonely enough to jump at a chance to have a drinking buddy. But Magneto has a way to exploit Wolverine's weaknesses and manipulate him, too... so we'll see how pleased Wolverine is when Magneto warps his metal skeleton.

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