WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Wolverine #2 by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin, VC's Cory Petit and Tom Muller, on sale now.

Wolverine might be one of the toughest heroes in the Marvel Universe, but his mind has always been his weak spot. For decades, the X-Man was defined by the missing memories he lost to the torturous Weapon X Program. And even after Logan made a new home with the X-Men and eventually regained his memories, he still struggled to control his more feral instincts, especially in the heat of battle.

At the start of his new ongoing series, Logan went through some serious déjà vu as some familiar issues seemed to come back with a vengeance. In Wolverine #1, a bruised and bloodied Logan woke up in the Alaskan wilderness, surrounded by the butchered bodies of Jean Grey and X-Force. To his horror, Logan quickly realized that he was responsible for the carnage before him, although he has no idea how it happened.

In Wolverine #2, Logan remembers a hallucination that made it seem like he was taking down his foes Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth and Weapon X's Doctor Cornelius instead of his teammates. Logan also learns that he wasn't the only X-Man who was turned against his teammates by the X-Men's new mind-controlling villain, the Pale Girl.

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As part of its diplomatic contract with the rest of the world, the mutant nation Krakoa is exporting a handful of life-saving medicines all around the world. However, some of Krakoa's miracle drugs have started disappearing, and those missing miracle drugs are being used to create a street drug called pollen by the mysterious Flower Cartel.

While Wolverine already encountered a group of mutant-worshippers who learned the fiery, lethal side effects of pollen first-hand, people who crossed the Flower Cartel are starting to show up dead or seriously injured from self-inflicted wounds all over the world.

Like Wolverine's attack on X-Force, those casualties are the work of the Pale Girl, a mysterious, ghostly presence who appears to be the Flower Cartel's main enforcer. Although the precise nature of her abilities remains unclear, she has already manipulated minds with considerable psychic defenses.

Early in Wolverine #2, the Pale Girl attacks the X-Men's Marauders as they're transporting a shipment of Krakoan petals at sea. Before the always-observant Bishop realizes what's happening, the Pale Girl takes Iceman, Pyro and Storm under her sway and has them unload their cargo onto her boat.

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When he tries to intervene, Storm throws Bishop overboard, where he imagines that he's being drowned by the zombie of Kate Pryde. As Jean Grey and Emma Frost's recent journey into Storm's mind proves, some veteran X-Men -- even ones who aren't telepathic -- still have some mental defenses. And by controlling Storm, the Pale Girl was able to take over a mind that two of Marvel's most powerful telepaths had difficulty walking into.

Without showing any strenuous effort on her part, the Pale Girl orchestrated the execution of X-Force and the humiliation of the Marauders, two teams full of Marvel's most seasoned X-heroes.

While that would be enough for any villain to make a lasting first impression, the Pale Girl still isn't done wreaking havoc on the X-Men's world. In the final moments of Wolverine #2, the Pale Girl possesses Wolverine and makes him kill Jeff Bannister, a C.I.A. agent who's been investigating pollen and working alongside Logan. By killing a human, the Pale Girl just made Logan break the ultimate law of Krakoa. While the extenuating circumstances of his possession will probably save him from joining Sabretooth in exile for breaking that law, it may very well still draw the unwanted attention of the U.S. government.

Even though the X-Men only have a vague understanding of the Pale Girl's powers, she's already outmaneuvered the X-Men at every turn. And now that she's got Wolverine and a boat full of Krakoan medicine under her control, Marvel's mutants might not have a ghost of a chance against their ethereal foe.

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