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Marvel is celebrating its 50th anniversary of What If? with several variant covers. Bleeding Cool reveals that, on May 26, Marvel will release new What If? twists on different characters, and one of them is Iron Man. The issue will be Iron Man #5 What If… Iron Man’s Extremis Was a Symbiote. However, this isn’t the first time Marvel told this story.
What to Know About Iron Man’s Symbiote Extremis Armor
The What If? comic book cover is by Geoff Shaw, and the art shows the alien symbiote bonding around Iron Man as his Extremis armor is activated. This should be an interesting story showing how Tony Stark will deal with working alongside an alien being connected to him, rather than being in full control of the armor that he created. However, while this seems like a great What If? idea, it has been done before.
Iron Man already bonded with a symbiote using his Extremis virus in the King in Black event series, where Knull attacked Earth. Tony Stark used his Extremis virus to rewrite a symbiote dragon’s genetics and then merged it with his Model 70 armor, which was dubbed the Extrembiote suit. He then used this to break the control Knull had on several symbiotes that controlled heroes and villains on Earth and help turn the tide of the battle. Iron Man even used it to control a symbiote Celestial. Carnage ended up stealing the armor and turned it against Iron Man, but it was still impressive to see Tony controlling the symbiote.
