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- Logan: "Whoever you think I am, you got the wrong guy."
- Laura: "You were always the wrong guy. Until you weren't."
- ―Logan and Laura
Wolverine (real name James "Logan" Howlett) is a superhero from Marvel Comics. A mutant with a healing factor and imbued with unbreakable Adamantium claws, Wolverine is the most notably a member of the X-Men.
Wolverine was created by Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and John Romita Sr.
Background[]
Personality[]
Wolverine is frequently depicted as a gruff loner, often taking leave from the X-Men to deal with personal issues or problems. He is often irreverent and rebellious towards authority figures, though he is a reliable ally and capable leader, and has occasionally displayed a wry, sarcastic sense of humor.
When in combat, he tends to lash out with the intensity and aggression of an enraged animal and is even more resistant to psionic attack. Despite his apparent ease at taking lives, he mournfully regrets and does not enjoy killing or giving in to his berserker rages. Logan adheres to a firm code of personal honor and morality.
Physical appearance[]
His suit has a light shade of yellow with dark blue accents instead of brown. The suit is sleeveless and has stripes on the sides of it. His belt also has an "X" on it to show his affiliation with the X-Men.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
- Superhuman Strength: Wolverine is much stronger than a normal human. He can easily knock down and throw humans effortlessly, as he easily threw Deadpool a few meters above the ground.
- Superhuman Speed: Wolverine can move much faster than a normal human.
- Superhuman Stamina: Wolverine's stamina is superior to that of a normal human's.
- Superhuman Endurance: Wolverine's endurance is superior to that of a normal human's.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Wolverine's reflexes are superior to that of a normal human's.
- Superhuman Agility: Wolverine's agility is superior to that of a normal human's.
- Superhuman Senses: Wolverine is known to possesses extremely acute and heightened senses, allowing him to hear, see, smell, taste, and even feel things that no normal human being can. His sight in fact allows him to even see things invisible to the naked eye.
- Accelerated Healing Factor: Wolverine possesses a "healing factor" that allows him to completely regenerate lost and damaged tissue instantaneously. He is also immortal due to such a power.
- Immortality: Wolverine's healing factor has also kept him in the physical prime of a normal man and he has been that way for years and he will never age as a result. According to Wolverine himself, the only way to permanently kill him, is to cut off his head from his body, however due to his bones being infused with adamantium; this would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to achieve as only the cartilage between his vertebrae is unprotected by Adamantium. Moreover, it may not even work, as Deadpool has a similar healing factor and can survive having his head cut off.
- Retractable Bone Claws: Wolverine possesses three retractable razor-sharp claws on each of his hands; they have become far sharper since being infused with adamantium. When he extends his claws, they emerge right through his skin between his knuckles, and his skin heals over the wounds when they retract back into his hands. Extending his claws can also be painful for him.
Abilities[]
- Master Tactician/Leader: Wolverine is a highly skilled tactician and a capable leader.
- Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Wolverine is an extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant, mainly using his claws as a natural melee weapon.
- Master Mechanic: Wolverine is one of the best mechanics in the world.
- Expert Marksman: Wolverine is an extremely skilled marksman.
- Expert Tracker: Wolverine's heightened senses, especially the smell, allow him to track down any person. He can also detect shapeshifters this way.
Weapons and Equipment[]
- Adamantium Skeleton/Claws: Upon entering the Weapon X program, Wolverine's entire skeletal structure and his natural bone claws were upgraded with Adamantium; which is a virtually indestructible alloy that managed to synthesize. Wolverine is capable of taking even more damage when he is on the offensive because of his skeleton. It can stop bullets and lasers.
- X-Men Uniform: Logan has been seen wearing multiple uniforms of the X-Men and usually wears them on missions and training sessions at the Xavier Institute.
- Motorcycle: Logan's primary transportation is usually a motorcycle, modified to the teeth with special devices.
Appearances[]
Marvel Animation[]
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes[]
In this incarnation, Wolverine first appears as James when he joined in World War II as an ally. He joined the Howling Commandos acting under the command of Jack Fury and invaded Red Skull's castle alongside Captain America and Bucky. Sometime after the war ended, he joined the X-Men as Wolverine.
During the Skrull Invasion, he was among the people Nick Fury was suspecting and investigating if they were Skrulls or not.
Wolverine later showed up in New York City, saving Spider-Man from the dinosaurs by killing them. He became the new member of the New Avengers and helped stop Kang from taking over the world.
Wolverine then aided the Avengers to fight the Heralds of Galactus. He battled against the herald Stardust along with the Thing, Wasp, and the Human Torch. He also helped destroy the machine used for devouring the Earth. He later helped the Avengers successfully send Galactus into the Negative Zone. After the fight, he and the other heroes left, leaving the Avengers with civilians who hailed them as Earth's mightiest heroes.
Ultimate Spider-Man[]
Wolverine in Ultimate Spider-Man.
Wolverine arrived in New York to fight other civilians who were mind-controlled by Mesmero. Wolverine believed that Spider-Man was the cause of the civilian's bizarre behavior. Wolverine accidentally cured the bizarre behavior of them and tracked Mesmero was the real cause. Wolverine threatened Mesmero to release the civilians from his control. Wolverine was approached by Nick Fury and got in a discussion with Spider-Man. Before Wolverine left he was remarked by Spider-Man, Wolverine got upset and tried to harm him but Fury stopped him.
The next day, Mesmero switched Peter's and Wolverine's minds. Wolverine was called by Peter where he found out that he switched bodies with Spider-Man. When Sabretooth barged in Logan's apartment, Wolverine explained who he was and told him that he would come over there. Peter persuaded him to stay in school. Wolverine got in touch with his (Parker's) Spider-sense and was angry against Peter's team, beaten Flash Thompson, and flirted with Mary Jane Watson. When Peter arrived at school followed by Sabretooth, he told Wolverine to put on his Spider-Man costume. Wolverine objected at first, but, but did so eventually. Together, Wolverine and Spider-Man fought Sabretooth and defeated him.
In the Helicarrier where Mesmero was held, Wolverine advised Peter to focus his powers to control his claws, Spider-Man threatened Mesmero and he putted them back into their bodies. Wolverine back into his own body, told Spider-man that he had a good life and bade farewell with the stolen jet from S.H.I.E.L.D.
Some time later, Wolverine travels to Madripoor to stop the mutant Arcade from using nuclear codes to harm world security. While destroying LMD robots, Wolverine mistakes Spider-Man and Captain America for being robots too. Unable to make him listen to reason, Captain America engages in combat against Wolverine and ends up convincing him once the mutant realizes that his claws cannot cut the super-soldier's vibranium shield. Wolverine then teams up with them to hunt down Arcade, being very respectful towards Captain America due to the two having known each other for a long time, but remaining a bit dismissive towards Spider-Man. The trio finds themselves going through a gigantic life-size video game developed by Arcade to move forward. They are finally able to outsmart Arcade, with Wolverine threatening him with his claws to stop the countdown of the nuclear launches.
X-Men '97[]
Wolverine appears in the Disney+ Marvel animated series, X-Men '97, which is a revival of the 1992 X-Men animated series, continuing from where the original series ended.
Marvel Cinematic Universe[]
Deadpool & Wolverine[]
- “For the first time in my life, I'm proud to wear this suit. It means I'm an X-Man. I am the X-Man.”
- ―Wolverine
A drunk Logan meets Deadpool.
Wolverine returns in this film, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Hugh Jackman reprising his role from the X-Men Cinematic Universe. Henry Cavill briefly plays an alternate version of him, dubbed "Cavillrine" by Deadpool.
The original Logan, the same one that appeared in the X-Men Cinematic Universe or "Earth-10005", only appears as an Adamantium skeleton that Wade Wilson/Deadpool digs up in vain hopes that he can revive. Deadpool then uses Wolverine's bones as a weapon against the Minutemen who came to arrest him in the name of the Time Variance Authority, massacring each of them. Logan's claws are also used as a melee weapon, but Deadpool's inexperience only leads to botched attacks and self-injury. It is also revealed that Logan was the "anchor being" a being whose life allowed a reality to exist and in return begins to deteriorate to the point of annihilation after his death.
In the illusory hope of replacing the anchor being to prevent his world from being wiped out, Deadpool travels across the Multiverse to find another Wolverine, ending in either disappointment or savage violence. Deadpool eventually arrives at a bar where a Logan demands another drink. Although Logan refuses to follow Deadpool, he drank so much that he passed out, allowing Deadpool to take him to the TVA, but not without removing his civilian clothes to expose his iconic yellow costume. Alas, Paradox, the TVA employee who initially recruited Deadpool, reveals that replacing the anchor being is impossible and that this Wolverine is the worst of them all. As Wolverine regains consciousness, he observes the scene where Deadpool realizes that Paradox is acting against the advice of his superiors in wanting to hasten the destruction of Earth-10005, only to be abruptly pruned. Logan tries to attack Paradox, but he is pruned in turn.
Wolverine about to fight Deadpool.
When Wolverine and Deadpool find themselves in the Void, they start to fight and Wolverine is about to rip off Deadpool's head until the latter promises to save Logan's world with help from the TVA. Logan is sceptical until he and Wade meet Johnny Storm, whom Deadpool mistakes for Steve Rogers, much to Wolverine's confusion. The unexpected trio finds themselves confronted by mutant marauders and Wolverine finds himself facing Sabretooth, whom he confronts and kills with a single swipe of his claws. Wolverine tries to stop Deadpool from talking when he tells Cassandra Nova that Johnny said bad things about her, which results in the hero's death. Logan calls Wade out for getting Johnny killed.
Wolverine and Deadpool in an abandoned diner.
Wolverine and Deadpool meet a variant of the latter, named Dogpool and his owner Nicepool, much to Logan's irritation. After help from Nicepool, Wolverine and Deadpool take his car and make their way towards Cassandra's base until Wolverine calls Wilson out for failing at keeping a relationship going with Vanessa Carlysle and why the Avengers or X-Men wouldn't want him. This causes Deadpool to snap and fight Logan, leading to a brutal fight in the car. They eventually fall asleep in the car and are taken by Laura, the daughter of an alternate Wolverine.
That evening, while Deadpool tries to form a team with Laura, Elektra and others, Logan sits out by the fire pit with Laura and expresses his grief of letting his teammates die without helping them after he walked away. Laura tries to reassure Logan that he does matter which convinces him to join her, Deadpool and the others to stand up and fight Cassandra and her henchmen. The team arrives at Cassandra's headquarters and while the team kills the henchmen, Wolverine and Deadpool fight Cassandra. Deadpool is about to destroy Cassandra by putting a special helmet on her, but Logan stops him to get through to Cassandra and tells her about Professor X from his world and how he would care for his twin sister. Cassandra eventually allows the duo to leave through a portal back to Earth-10005 as a thanks for saving her life as Golioth is about to attack.
Wolverine and Deadpool find themselves in Earth-10005, Deadpool's world, where they learn that Cassandra Nova escaped the Void and found her way into this universe. They are then surrounded by hundreds of variants of Deadpool, including Lady Deadpool, Headpool, Kidpool, Babypool and others, while they are on their way to stop Cassandra. Wolverine gets ready to fight alternate Wilson's and he and Deadpool Prime fight the variants while Blind Al watches from the apartment, Logan putting on his iconic mask for the bloody fight. Just as Wolverine and Deadpool think they have killed all these variants, they are revealed to be alive and are about to kill the heroes until Peter comes dressed as Deadpool, much to the excitement of all the variants.
Wolverine and Deadpool prepare to fight the Deadpool Corps.
Wolverine and Deadpool find Paradox who has also entered Wade's world. He explains that Cassandra Nova has reached the time ripper, which is able to destroy Earth-10005 and one of them has to sacrifice their lives in order to save the universe. Wolverine pleads with Deadpool to be the one to sacrifice his life as Wade has a family, but Logan has no one. However, Deadpool traps Logan out of the chamber to be the one to sacrifice himself instead. When it looks like the device is about to kill Wilson, Logan arrives just in time and grabs onto Deadpool, helping him gain the energy from the time ripper. With their powers combined, Wolverine and Deadpool are able to reboot the time ripper which kills Cassandra Nova in the process and saves earth-1005. Once the job is done, everyone expects Deadpool and Wolverine to be dead for their actions and praises them for their heroics, but the duo shock the TVA by revealing they survived the explosion due to their combined powers.
Following the events, Logan joins Wilson for Shawrama like the Avengers did years earlier. They are reunited with Dogpool, whom Deadpool adopts after the death of Nicepool during the attacks from the Deadpool Corps earlier. Deadpool invites Logan to his apartment where he meets Blind Al, who Wade mentioned earlier, and a party is thrown sometime later. Wolverine joins Deadpool and his friends as well as some heroes who also escaped the Void, and Logan convinces Wade to speak to Vanessa. This results in Wade and Vanessa rekindling their relationship while Logan has made peace and settled into his new life in a new world, while starting to bond with Laura.
Other appearances[]
Video games[]
Marvel vs. Capcom series[]
Wolverine appears as a playable character in the Capcom crossover fighting video games X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Wolverine first appeared in the Incredible Hulk comics as a new enemy to the Hulk. His first appearance was at the end of The Incredible Hulk #180, in 1974.
- He, Sauron, Ka-Zar, Arcade, Wendigo, Deadpool, Juggernaut, and Sabretooth are the only X-Men-related characters to appear in any of the Disney XD/Marvel animated TV shows prior to Disney buying Fox.
- Wolverine is mentioned at the start of Flora & Ulysses. The image of him used in the film is taken from the very first issue of Wolverine comics.
- Anthony and Joe Russo have said that if Disney had the rights to the X-Men at the time of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, Wolverine would have appeared with his mutant army, who would have been blipped and a "bloodthirsty" Wolverine would have gone after Thanos.[1]
- Wolverine's claws are presumably based on the tekkō-kagi, a Japanese type of brass knuckles with claws (usually two) that is a kind of hidden weapon (known as a kakushi buki in Japan) and has been used by ninjas, which has been depicted in all known incarnations as being the trademarked weapon of both Oroku Saki/The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Vega from the Street Fighter video game franchise respectively.
- In the comics and in most adaptations, Wolverine's height is only 5'3", unlike his live-action appearances since his actor, Hugh Jackman measures approximately 6'3". For this reason, Wolverine's appearances with certain characters were altered by changes in camera angle, making him appear smaller, although never as low as 5'3". In Deadpool & Wolverine, a variant of Wolverine has a size consistent with the comics, leading Deadpool to find him ridiculous.
- He is 200 years old, having been born around the middle of the 19th century.
Background in other media[]
- This is Logan's ninth animated appearance as Wolverine. Previous versions include Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, X-Men, X-Men: Evolution, Wolverine and the X-Men, The Super Hero Squad Show, Black Panther, Marvel Anime, and Hulk Vs.
- Wolverine was portrayed in the X-Men movies by Hugh Jackman, who has currently spent the most years playing a major superhero character out of anyone else (as he begun in 2000 up to and including 'Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024 also his cameo appearance in Deadpool 2 with the use of archive footage from X-Men Origins: Wolverine).
- Wolverine and the other X-Men characters also do not appear in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite for similar reasons, apparently due to executive issues between The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox at the time prior to December 2017. Wolverine and numerous other X-Men characters had previously appeared in every Marvel-licensed Capcom fighting game prior to Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, from X-Men: Children of the Atom all the way up to Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. However, with Disney's more recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox, this now allows Wolverine and the other X-Men characters to be used in any future Marvel vs. Capcom games.
References[]
External links[]
Wolverine on Ultimate Spider-Man Wiki
Logan on Marvel Comics Database- Wolverine on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
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