Warning! Spoilers for King in Black #3 below! 

The King in Black has made his way to Earth, which has left both Marvel’s heroes and villains scrambling to fight the God of Symbiotes and his dark army. In the series latest issue, Iron Man has come up with a brand-new way to battle Knull head-on: He’s used his Extremis armor to take over a symbiote Celestial.

Iron Man has done his best to fight the symbiotic forces of evil in the King in Black event. In a last-ditch effort to save Eddie Brock from death, he reverse-engineered his own Extremis armor in an attempt to control a symbiote. While Tony Stark was successful in bonding the symbiote to his armor, his transfer to Brock didn’t save him as Venom flatlined. Stark blamed himself for losing Brock – even if he did his best to save him. Now, Iron Man is using that new armor upgrade in a seriously cool way.

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King in Black #3 by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, Frank Martin, JP Mayer, and VC’s Clayton Cowles, begins with the heroes deciding to unleash Dylan Brock against Knull. The symbiote-hybrid actually holds his own against a Knull-ified Captain America, and alongside Thor (who is impaled with All-Black the Necrosword) they actually do some damage to the villain. As the King in Black summons his symbiote Celestials, Iron Man reveals he’s starting to understand his connection to the symbiotes better and uses it to take control of a Celestial.

Yes, Tony Stark’s latest armor is a literal Celestial. With the all-powerful cosmic being at his disposal, Stark takes a giant swing at Knull’s Celestial, knocking it to the ground with a mammoth punch. Iron Man controlling the Celestial is without question the most power he’s had in any form of armor and is a great counter to Knull’s dark army. Considering bonding with the symbiote dragon has a negative effect on Stark, controlling an entire Celestial might do some real damage to Iron Man. The issue ends with Knull capturing Dylan and the remaining heroes left to figure out how to stop the King in Black from killing him.

Iron Man’s control of a Celestial won’t stop Knull singlehandedly, but it’s sure to be a powerful weapon against the dragons and infected hordes that have plagued Earth. Perhaps Stark can use his Extremis armor on another hero to gain control of the other cosmic juggernaut. Regardless, it’s incredibly cool to see Iron Man gain control of a Celestial and engage in a giant-on-giant fight with Knull’s symbiote. King in Black #3 is in stores now.

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