Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Deadpool #3! Marvel Comics characters with healing factors – especially the likes of Deadpool and Wolverine – have a reputation for being effectively immortal, as they (obviously) have the power to heal from practically any injury. However, one villain that just hit the Marvel Comics scene is challenging that reputation with their ultimate anti-healing factor power – and it’s incredibly dark.

In Deadpool #3 by Cody Ziglar and Rogê Antônio, Deadpool and Crossbones are in the middle of a vicious firefight, as Crossbones has been hired to kill Deadpool, and Deadpool is more than happy to engage in a brutal confrontation with a worthy adversary. While Deadpool has his own issues with Crossbones that he addresses in this comic, Wade’s real fight isn’t with the mercenary at all, but the man who hired him: Death Grip.

Death Grip is the leader of a cult of zealots who are hellbent on killing Deadpool. While the Merc with a Mouth was preoccupied with Crossbones (according to Death Grip’s plan), the cult tracked down and obtained a weapon famous for being effective against those with a healing factor: the Muramasa Blade. By the end of the comic, Death Grip did more than wield the blade, but he used ancient magic to grotesquely merge the Muramasa with his own body, granting himself the ultimate anti-healing factor power.

Deadpool May Soon Face the Same Fate as Another ‘Marvel Healer’: Sabretooth

“Sabretooth War” Wolverine #50 by Benjamin Percy, Victor LaValle, Geoff Shaw, and Cory Smith

While Deadpool is currently facing the sharp end of the one weapon that can hurt him (permanently), he isn’t the only ‘Marvel healer’ in recent canon that has been in that position. At the end of the “Sabretooth War”, when Wolverine had his final showdown with Victor Creed following Sabretooth’s brutal attack on mutantkind, Logan equipped himself with one (of two) Muramasa Blades to ensure that when Sabretooth went down, he’d stay down. “Sabretooth War” ended with Sabretooth being chopped up into little pieces – a gruesome end for an extremely violent enemy.

Of course, Sabretooth more than deserved his fate at the end of the Muramasa Blade, so fans were excited to see the weapon in use during the “Sabretooth War”. Now, however, that blade has been molded into something else – within someone else – and it’s being aimed directly at the beloved antihero, Deadpool. This is incredibly anxiety-inducing for Deadpool fans, as Death Grip may have actually found a way to kill the fan-favorite Merc with a Mouth, meaning Deadpool may soon face the same grisly fate as Sabretooth.

Death Grip Could Be Giving Deadpool His Own Ultimate Weapon

Deadpool is very much in danger now that Death Grip has magically fused the Muramasa Blade with his own body, turning himself into the ultimate weapon of death. However, that’s assuming Death Grip manages to land the killing blow, because if Deadpool defeats him, then Wade will have obtained the Muramasa Blade himself. Granted, the blade was broken into pieces as a part of Death Grip’s ritual, but even the fragments of the Muramasa in Deadpool’s hands would prove deadly.

While things may seem grim now, Death Grip’s upgrade could be the best thing that ever happened to Deadpool, as he could be hand-delivering him one of the deadliest weapons in the Marvel Universe. However, if Death Grip does land that killing blow, then Deadpool will be on the receiving end of an attack that he won’t be able to heal from. But, no matter what ends up happening, the main takeaway from this issue is that Deadpool debuts Marvel’s ultimate anti-healing factor power, in all its disturbing glory.

Deadpool #3 by Marvel Comics is available now.