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Warning : Contains SPOILERS forHellverine # 3 !
Wolverinehas been unchurch to see every person he has ever loved be broken , perverted , or killed ; what ’s worse is when they come back with a vengeance . Now , that proverbial curse may have been sustain to be actual , and his Logos Akihiro is tasked with cleansing it . From the pit of Hell , a newfangled threat , tie down in the soma of Wolverine ’s wife and Akihiro ’s mother , is come for all mutants .
InHellverine # 3 ( 2025)–by Benjamin Percy and Raffaele Ienco – Akihiro learns from Doctor Strange that infernal altars have appear globally at localization linked with Akihiro ’s swell hurt . Strange believes that Mephisto is leverage the Hellverine ’s pain , which has now commence to influence all mutants within proximity .
Now task with confront his trauma head - on , Akihiro jaunt to his provenance in Japan , where he expose thatMephisto has already come and left his mark . Emerging from the depths of Hell , Akihiro ’s mother , Itsu , has been reborn in a new demonic form and is taking what she was impoverish of : a son .
The Devil Has Unleashed a Curse Upon Mutantkind
Hellverine #3 (2025) -Written by Benjamin Percy; Art by Raffaele Ienco; Color by Bryan Valenza; Lettering by VC’s Travis Lanham; Cover Art by Kendrick Lim
As this serial has hammer home , the cuss of the Hellverine was no fortuity . Mephisto always plan for aWolverine to inherit the demonBagra - ghul to capitalize on the horrific amount of harm , pain , and suffer the family has gone through . As Doctor Strange set up it , “ Mephisto seems to have developed a kink for [ Akihiro ’s ] hurt . ”More than that , Akihiro is a conduit for Mephisto ’s power . Through the mutant ’s pain , Mephisto is bit by bit invade mutantkind with his influence , thus trigger off a shockwave of anti - mutant hysteria across the earthly concern . Unfortunately for Akihiro , he is n’t the only conduit for the Devil ’s domination .
A newfangled twist on Hellverine officially makes Wolverine ’s possess son a shielder of mutantkind , giving the X - hands their own Ghost Rider - character eccentric .
Hidden away in the isolated Nipponese village of Jasmine Falls , the very place where Akihiro was cut from his dead female parent ’s womb , a curse has get up fromthe Wolverine class ’s old home . All of Jasmine Falls has fallen dupe to this evil , which has infect and steal the village ’s children . When Hellverine tracks down the unsaved creature , he is faced with the unhallowed visage of his long - dead mother , now malformed into an emissary of Hell . With Mephisto ’s plan to use Akihiro ’s suffering as fuel for his influence , there is no better person to exacerbate the sport ’s botheration than his mother .
Akihiro’s Pain Is What Fuels Mephisto’s Goals
Only the Devil Could Pit Mother and Son Against Each Other
While Akihiro may have become an unwillingpawn in Mephisto ’s game , he is not the only one . Itsu is spiritually bound to just as much earthly trauma as her Logos and husband . In life , she became just another obstruction in Romulus ’s quest to forge the ultimate warrior . In end , Itsu ’s individual had ostensibly been condemned to eternal damnation and has remained in the Inferno of Hell since her murderin the 1940s . Like Akihiro , Itsu has spent an intact life trapped in an endless cycle of torment and distortion and has now been revived to inflict the same upon the innocuous .
Mephisto ’s influence over Earth is only as warm as the torment its inhabitants make each other . The more wrath , torture , and subsequent horror that Earth ’s citizens brave out , the strong Mephisto becomes . In his old attempts to stamp down the planet , the Devil has point epicentre of sin , such as Las Vegas , to spread his corruption , buthe ’s now attempt a different scheme to cement his tilt on a spheric scale . Now , Mephisto plan to harness the collective suffering of an entire universe and is using Akihiro ’s individual as the medium through which to do so .
Wolverine’s Wife May Forever Be Mephisto’s Pawn
Not Even Doctor Strange Can Stop What’s Ahead
While readers have yet to see what the fiendish transformation of Itsu is able of , there is no doubt that Mephisto imbue her with corruptive powers similar to those he consecrate Akihiro . Oddly enough , she is n’t the only tyke - hunting hag to direct variation in late years . However , with the major power of Hell endow her , she may very well triumph where others have bomb . Mephisto is an stern power who will run out his resources of everything they have before discarding their souls back to Hell . The major question is how long the Devil will choose to use Akihiro ’s mother .
Fans have been waiting for Mephisto ’s arrival in the MCU , but with a young comparison by Doctor Strange , it seems something even scary already has .
in the end , Akihiro remains the true conduit for Mephisto ’s plan , with Itsu principally brace to further aggravate the Hellverine ’s suffering . However , unless Heaven is unforced to free Itsu from her darned curse , she will persist a instrument in the Devil ’s conquest , one that can be recycled as often as he postulate her . Without her freedom , Akihiro will never be free from the pain that Mephisto and Bagra - ghul bank on . Until then , the totality of mutantkind is at risk of exposure from a satanic threat in an already tumultuously distrusting public . Not evenDoctor Strange has the magnate to stop it .
The Son of Wolverine Is Mutantkind’s Last Hope
The World Is Too Busy to Fight the Devil
As the rest of the superheroic community now facesthe egression of Doctor Doom , the Emperor Supreme , and the hug drug - homo stay on to face former threats in raw forms , Akihiro is alone in his fight to hold launch the existence from the forces of Hell . His mother has now become the face of this demonic intrusion , and only the Hellverine has the power to stop her . Even if the son ofWolverinefinds the internal strength to struggle the female parent he never love , she may already be a lasting effect of evil and the new face of Mephisto ’s global subjugation .
Hellverine # 3 ( 2025)is now available from Marvel Comics !
