Warning! Spoilers for Avengers: Tech-On #5 by Marvel Comics
Marvel's Wolverine just got a symbiote twist on top of an iron upgrade that makes him a dangerously clawed Venom. In the Avengers: Tech-On series by Marvel Comics, Logan is kept alive in a suit of armor after the Red Skull stripped every hero of their powers. However, once the Venom symbiote looks for a new host after being defeated, it bonds with Wolverine creating a terrifying Wolverine/Iron Man/Venom hybrid.
Avengers: Tech-On has been a fast-paced, action-packed limited series featuring Earth's Mightiest Heroes getting their own Iron Man-like mech suits after the Red Skull used fragments of the Infinity Stones to depower everyone from the Avengers, X-Men, and more. To fight back against the Red Skull, Tony Stark has tapped into the same power to create the Avengers custom armors that give them a fighting chance without their usual abilities. Wolverine's armor, which kept him alive after losing his healing factor, just got a terrifying upgrade following a battle with Venom.
In Avengers: Tech-On #5 by Jim Zub, Jeff "Chamba" Cruz, and VC's Travis Lanham, The Avengers are called into battle against the Infinity Mirror Shard-powered Scream Supreme and Venom. Wolverine attacks the superpowered symbiote, unleashing 'Do-Hatsu-10', a protocol that gives his armor enhanced energy output for 10 minutes. After unleashing his massive blades, Venom gets desperate as Scream is taken down and ends up bonding with Wolverine's armor. The other armored Avengers can only look on in horror as Wolverine emerges from the smoke of battle as a symbiote-powered beast.
Even Tony Stark is baffled at the symbiote overtaking Wolverine's armor, as the hero tries to get his A.I. Friday to convince him he didn't just see it happen. But, unfortunately, Friday tells him Wolverine's armor is not responding to command signals. Wolverine seems to hold some control initially, as he takes down Scream while trying to convince the Avengers he's not going to be overwhelmed by the symbiote. However, he quickly becomes corrupted by Venom, forcing the Avengers to attack. The issue ends with Red Skull arriving on the scene as Wolverine gets overtaken by the Venom symbiote.
The Avengers' final showdown against the Infinite-powered Red Skull just got more complicated. Not only did the team lose Wolverine as an ally, but after the hero became corrupted by Venom's symbiote, he just became a deadly weapon for the Red Skull. Although, despite his corruption, Wolverine's new upgraded form as a Wolverine/Iron Man/Hybrid is pretty dang cool and we're excited to see it in action in the comic book's upcoming finale. Avengers: Tech-On #5 is in comic book stores now.