Marvel has fans confused with a cryptic tweet mentioning Captain America and Wolverine

Marvel Comics teased us with some vague insights into a cryptic new comic book title (or potentially multiple of them). You can consider our interests peaked.

Marvel Comics could post a random Pantone palette and every comic fanatic and every idle reader would have a week’s worth of fan theories about what the company is promoting. It knows its audience. Because Marvel knows our theories are inevitable, it’s finally leaning into our theorist activity and giving us what we want: a puzzle. Marvel posted a recent tweet and an accompanying article with a lot of redacted documents that are swelling our speculations.

Yup, Marvel Entertainment really just posted a lot of conveniently marked out words (save for the obvious buzzwords) because they trust us nerds to figure it out.

Given the mentions of Weapon X, The Winter Soldier, and numerous X-Men references, we think we might have decoded the message… at least in the vague sense of figuring things out goes.

Judging by the terms in the broken code, the Roman numerals in the tweet (as well as the article), and the phrases we have some ideas on what this pre-solicitation promo entails:

• The upcoming weapon-related comic series
• The X-Men
• Steve Rogers
• Bucky
• Wolverine
• And some other unnamed human and mutant-sized weapons the Weapon X scientists experimented on

Coupled with John Hickman’s writing reign over the X-Men in House of X and Powers of X, and along with his equally ambiguous clues on the X-Men runs, we’d say it’s safe to assume this promo has a lot to do with the X-Men.

While even Jean Grey is namedropped in the promo, this promo would introduce more weapons created by the same Weapon X scientists that infused adamantium into Wolverine. Multiple comic characters, including Charles Xavier, have either stated or heavily implied that there are many more weaponized mutants that they don’t even know about.

Given that Ethan Sacks is drafting a one-shot story about Wolverine and Steve Roger’s history with the Weapon Plus program, Marvel Comics could be prepping us for an entire series about the program or the weapons who’ve come out of the program.

Who knows, perhaps the comic book company will also reveal that dear ol’ Captain America is actually a weapon himself.

Do you have any theories about Marvel Comics’ pseudo-redacted news? Let us know in the comments section!