Tony Stark's Wolverine is famous for his adamantium-coated claws. But when the two are pitted against each other in Marvel lore, whose metal wins out? Can Wolverine slice and dice Tony's armor, or has the 'ultimate futurist' developed a suit that even adamantium can't cut?

The answer is less obvious than it seems, especially given the surprising rarity with which Tony and Logan have found themselves physically at odds. The two don't fight often, but when they do, they don't hold back.

The short answer is that Wolverine is certainly capable of cutting Iron Man's regular armor, but Tony Stark has created at least two suits that Logan wouldn't be able to damage, each for a surprisingly different reason.

Iron Man's anti-adamantium Argonaut armor would melt Wolverine's metal on .

Wolverine Can Cut Iron Man Armor Like Butter

But That Doesn't Mean Tony Stark Is Helpless

Wolverine can definitely cut the majority of suits Iron Man uses in his day-to-day heroism. In essentially every regular fight the two have ever engaged in, Wolverine has managed to damage Tony's suit with his claws. This happened most startlingly in Hunt for Wolverine: The Adamantium Agenda, by Tom Taylor and R.B. Silva. In the comic, Wolverine is severely injured, and Iron Man goes over to check on him. Still healing and feral with rage, Wolverine stabs Iron Man through the helmet, with his claws emerging from the top in a definitive kill-shot. Thankfully, Tony turned out to be operating the suit remotely, sparing his life.

Wolverine has pulled similar trick in various alt-universe stories, and his damage to Iron Man's suits in their rare main-continuity fights confirms that as strong as Tony's armor is, it can't fend off adamantium. However, that's true of his regular suits, and Tony does have some armors that Wolverine definitively can't cut.

Iron Man Has Suits That Wolverine Can't Cut

The Mysterium Armor Even Bent Adamantium

During the Krakoan Era, Iron Man helped the X-Men against their enemies in Orchis, and was gifted a large amount of the mystic metal Mysterium, which the X-Men had mined from the White Hot Room (the home of the Phoenix Force.) Meanwhile, Orchis killed Wolverine and harvested his adamantium, using it to create a new model of Sentinel known as Sentinel Zero. When the two clashed in Gerry Duggan, Creees Lee and Walden Wong's Invincible Iron Man #15, the Sentinel Zero's claws actually bent when it tried to stab Iron Man, and the hero went on to crush its adamantium-coated skull.

Mysterium is so powerful, even Captain Marvel's maximum strength couldn't bend it. It's also resistant to magic and precognitive gifts, including Spider-Man's spider-sense.

Another suit Wolverine couldn't cut is Iron Man's Argonaut suit. This armor was made of Antarctic Vibranium, which destabilizes and essentially 'melts' adamantium in the vicinity. Thankfully, Wolverine never had to face this armor, but Tony did use it to destroy a full adamantium suit he'd created, unleashes total destruction against the armor (in Iron Man #12, by Daniel Knauf, Charles Knauf and Patrick Zircher.) The Argonaut suit isn't so hard that adamantium can't cut it, but would rather destabilize any adamantium before Wolverine could land a blow.

It's worth noting that in the case of both Mysterium and Antarctic Vibranium, Iron Man has created suits out of semi-naturally-occuring metals which were already immune to adamantium, rather than creating these substances or doing anything to imbue them with this property. So yes, Iron Man does have several suits that Wolverine can't cut, but that's essentially down to Tony being smart and rich enough to acquire incredibly rare materials, and the vast majority of his suits can still be cut to ribbons by Logan's claws.