Red Skull Just Gave an Infinity Stone Upgrade to a Symbiote

Warning: contains spoilers for Avengers: Tech-On Avengers #4!

In Avengers: Tech-On Avengers, the Red Skull, using shards of the Infinity Stones, has robbed Earth’s heroes of their powers, forcing them to use giant mech suits to compensate. Now, in issue four, on sale now in print and digital, the Red Skull uses the shards to give an Infinity Stone upgrade to a symbiote, creating the ultimate weapon.

The Infinity Stones are some of the most powerful objects in the Marvel Universe; so powerful in fact, that even ground up into tiny shards, they are still capable of unleashing great havoc. Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man and the rest learn this the hard way; using the Infinity shards, the Red Skull has stolen every hero’s power and launched a devastating attack. Now powerless, the heroes are forced to turn to other avenues to find ways to defeat the Red Skull. In response, Iron Man creates giant mech-suits for his friends. Meanwhile, the Red Skull continues his attacks, creating mech versions of Loki and other villains to distract the Avengers. Time and again they turn the Red Skull back, but readers learn he has one more ace up his sleeve. Avengers: Tech-On Avengers #4 is written by Jim Zub, with art by Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz and letters by Travis Lanham.

The Red Skull has suffered too many defeats at the hands of Iron Man and the Avengers, and now is ready to unleash his final weapon. Readers learn that the Skull has been working on an “Advanced Symbiote Project,” but his scientists tell him it is not ready. The Red Skull decides to use energy from the Infinity shards to complete the project, over the protest of his head scientist. The Red Skull dismisses these concerns, and the scope of his Advanced Symbiote Project becomes clear: he is creating a mech version of a symbiote, called “Scream Supreme,” using actual symbiote material. Unbeknownst to the Red Skull, Venom (or someone like him) is outside of the lair, drawn to the call of another symbiote.

The mechs seen so far in this miniseries have been completely mechanical, but the Scream Supreme represents the next step: the fusing of mechanical components with the symbiote’s biological material. The Red Skull uses Infinity Energy to finish Scream Supreme—will this impart even more powers upon the mech/symbiote hybrid? By using the Infinity Energy, the Red Skull further depletes his reserves, potentially weakening him and setting up his defeat. And there is also Venom, who senses the symbiote in the Red Skull’s possession; he will most certainly play a role in the series’ conclusion—will he be the key to stopping Scream Supreme, and the Red Skull?

The Red Skull has grown wary of his constant defeats at the hands of the Avengers, and in an attempt to end them for good, he has given an Infinity Stone upgrade to a symbiote, creating a new type of creature never seen before.

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Shaun Corley is a pop culture enthusiast living in the Pacific Northwest. After stints in both customer service and academia, he’s turned his attention to writing about comic books–his lifelong passion. He is a graduate of Radford University, with a degree in English. When not reading comics, he enjoys spending time with his fiance and their dog.

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