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Brendan McCarthy's Wolverine Pitch – The Wolvernator

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Brendan McCarthy's Wolverine Pitch – The Wolvernator

Here, from Brendan McCarthy's files, is his rejected-by-Marvel Wolverine pitch from a while back.

Tried this one out with Jason Aaron on script. He liked it and christened it "Wolverine's Venom!"
A faulty, old prototype adamantium skeleton/sentient nervous system is stolen from a Black Ops lab and rolled up into a suitcase and forgotten about. The skeleton is inadvertently re-activated by an old hobo and it has one mission only: To find a compatible body… Logan's.
I was trying to get a 'Swamp Thing made out of garbage' look to the beast. I wasn't stuck on the "Wolvernator" title, it was just a name that expressed the core idea of a relentless machine hunting for a particular person. The adamantium structures were dysfunctional, so instead of weaponised blades, 'horns' erupted from the creature's head and body – hence the name PANDROID.
Anyway, this series pitch didn't make it. File under Comics Curios.
Considering what Marvel have done to Frank Castle of late, this doesn't seem that far out there, does it?

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