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Comic lover have experience some wild stories of their favorite hoagy and scoundrel undergoing strange , even alarm transformations , but no inclination of unusual superhero transformations would be complete without mentioningCaptain America # 405 - - otherwise acknowledge as the story that saw Cap transform into a werewolf … to do engagement with Wolverine .
The corruption of a superhero into a monster has produced some memorable taradiddle , from The Punisher becomingMarvel ’s translation of Frankenstein ’s monster , or the nightmare that isthe Spider - Man made of actual spider . But not every one of those formerly - heroic nightmares gets to put their shift up against Marvel ’s deadliest orca - Wolverine . Talk about a memorable Avenger / X - Men mix - up .
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The 1968 subject finds Captain America captured and restrained in the research laboratory of Tilda Johnson , better screw as the villainous ' Dr. Nightshade . ' Cap is in trouble from the very first control panel , as we see Nightshade injecting him with a a serum , narrate the helpless hero to,“get quick to ululate . “Within moments , Cap ’s look begin to twist , his olfactory organ extending into a snout as hair spud all over his body and his digit and toenails focalize themselves into claw . Now in full werewolf mode , Cap - Wolf break of serve free of his harnesses and escapes the facility , flee into the distance .
Confused and barely graspable , Cap - Wolf makes a fault for the nearby wood , but not before Nightshade ’s compatriot Dredmund the Druid orders the local townspeople to run him down , using his power to transform them into wolfman as well and siccing them on The First Avenger . Cap occupy a break in the woodwind instrument , where he chance himself scattered and ineffective to form pure thoughts in his head - or even speak at all . Suddenly finding himself surrounded by Druid ’s freshly - minted lycanthrope army , Cap decides it ’s not worth the fight and easily elude them , with the compounding of his super strength and the lycanthrope blood serum set aside him to plainly leap out of the affray . But it turn out they were n’t the only hirsute , fanged opponent in that forest - andthis one comes with adamantium claws .
Wolverine descends from the treetops , ready to fight down , but Cap uses his shield ( or , as Cap - Wolf calls it , his " glistening affair " ) to stand off the first few attacks . He recognizes Logan , but is unable to intercommunicate that they ’re allies as Wolverine is unrelenting . Cap - Wolf tries to forfend Wolverine ’s attacks , but when he get three metal claw to the shoulder joint , the blood serum ’s effects really kick in and Cap goes into full werewolf berserk manner . Slashing Wolverine across the expression , before overturn the mutant above his forefront with one hand and hurling him into the ring of werewolves still in hobby . Cap - Wolf escapes in the havoc .
It takes a yoke issue , but as is usually the case in strip , things eventually return to the status quo and Cap - Wolf reverts back to the Steve Rogers we know and love . While it ’d be peachy to see a take on Cap - Wolf on celluloid , it ’s likely thatChris Evans ' resplendent Infinity War beardwill be the closest we ’ll get . However , between theMorbius poke dropping serious hintstoward lamia existing the MCU , as well as the upcoming instauration ofBladeto the universe , we just may be seeing the founding of more classic monsters onscreen . Even if it ’s just once in a full moon .
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