After years in the wilderness of Marvel lore, Wolverine's son James 'Jimmy' Hudson is finally back, plunging into a war for the fate of the entire Marvel Universe. Not to be confused with Wolverine's other son Akihiro, aka Daken, Jimmy has been absent from Marvel lore since 2018's X-Men Blue #30, which left him struggling to find a balance between his own personality and that of his other half - the alien predator known as Poison.

In Cullen Bunn and Roberto Di Salvo's Venom War: Deadpool #1, Deadpool fights against the recent invasion of 'Zombiotes' - a new strain of symbiotes bonded to dead bodies. Sadly, Deadpool and his symbiote ally Silence can't hold the line, and Wade retreats to the underground Monster Metropolis, where New York's various inhuman citizens hide from the world above. There, Deadpool surprisingly comes across Poison, aka Jimmy Hudson, who s the fight as the Zombiotes invade the Metropolis.

Jimmy's name isn't used throughout the comic, with only the final pages revealing his identity as he assumes his towering Poison form, combining his alien appearance with his father's iconic costume. However, while Wolverine is limited to six claws, Jimmy's shapeshifting nature means he also wields a series of razor-sharp tendrils.

Wolverine's Son Returns for Marvel's Venom War

Jimmy Hudson's Poison Powers Are the Ultimate Anti-Symbiote Weapon

James Hudson is the son of the Wolverine from Earth-1610, aka the original Ultimate Universe. Raised by Wolverine's allies to hide his identity, James gained his mutant powers during adolescence, manifesting his father's bone claws as well as the ability to coat his bones in an organic metal substance similar to his father's adamantium. James eventually found himself in Marvel's main reality and worked alongside the X-Men, but was possessed during the invasion of the Poison Hive - a multiversal predator species who assimilate and consume symbiotes like Venom.

In the Ultimate Universe, mutants aren't a natural evolution of humanity, but instead the result of horrifying experimentation.

While the Poison Hive was destroyed, Jimmy's transformation remained, and when fans last saw him, he was struggling to reconcile the human and alien parts of his mind. While it's clear that he isn't any better off six years later (Deadpool references him having a serious "death wish") he's definitely the hero that Marvel's Venom War event needs most, since his Poison aspect is the natural predator of the new Zombiotes.

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Poison Missed an Entire X-Men Era Where He Could Have Been Happy

Having left his home reality and never known his father, James is one of Marvel's most tragic heroes. Starting out as a new, younger Wolverine, Jimmy lost everything and became a monster despite his heroic efforts to save the lives of innocent people. Worse, Marvel has ignored the character for years, turning his tragic transformation into a cliffhanger with no ending. Thankfully, Jimmy is finally back, though he tragically missed the entirety of X-Men's Krakoan Era - a period in which he would have had a home among mutantkind and could even have found stability among his siblings.

Thankfully, Jimmy is finally back, making a reunion with his father Wolverine possible and opening up the possibility that he can make peace with his new status and even become a true hero again by ing Deadpool in the Venom War.

Venom War: Deadpool #1 is available now from Marvel Comics.