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"I'm the best there is at what I do... but what I do best isn't very nice."
―Wolverine[src]

James "Logan" Howlett, (born 1832) also known as Wolverine, is a Canadian class 3 mutant and a principal member of the X-Men. His mutation granted him a number of animalistic attributes including three retractable razor sharp claws on each hand, and heightened senses, which allowed him to track people through scent and sound. He also has superhuman strength, reflexes, stamina and highly developed accelerated healing abilities, allowing him to heal injuries almost instantly, while also rendering him agelessly immortal.

When Logan's girlfriend, Kayla Silverfox, was apparently killed by his half-brother, Victor Creed, he underwent a procedure to bond adamantium to his entire skeleton; in order to give himself an edge over Victor and to get revenge.

When Logan discovered that he had been deceived by William Stryker, he turned against his former ally and confronted Stryker on Three Mile Island. Stryker shot Logan in the head with an adamantium bullet; Logan lost all of his memories and for the next fifteen years, traveled around the United States in order to find out who he was, which led him to meet and befriend Marie D'Ancanto, as well as meeting Charles Xavier and joining the X-Men in the process.

Logan fought alongside the X-Men against the Brotherhood of Mutants, William Stryker and the wrath of the Phoenix which led to him killing Jean Grey, the woman he loved, to stop her destructive rage.

During the final days of the Sentinel Wars; Logan's mind was sent back into his younger body by Kitty Pryde to prevent the events of the dark future from ever happening, which was indirectly started by Raven Darkhölme in 1973, Logan ultimately succeeded in his mission in changing the timeline and the events that led up to Sentinel Wars never happened.

Biography[]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Prologue[]

James "Jimmy" Howlett was born in 1832 in the Northwest Territories of Canada, British North America.

In 1845, James lay sick in his bed while Victor, who was currently visiting him, kept him company as James' father arrived to check in on him. A few moments later, Victor's father, and John's groundskeeper, Thomas Logan (who was also having an affair with John Howlett's wife), entered the Howlett home, drunk, looking for James' mother, Elizabeth Howlett and had a confrontation with John, who headed downstairs to settle a dispute with Victor's father, which had resulted in Thomas shooting Elizabeth's husband. James then heard gunfire during a dispute at his father's estate, and went to investigate, finding him dead, as he was shot by Thomas.

It was under this grief-stricken incident that, in an act of vengeance, James' mutation began to manifest as he sprout bone claws, slowly emerging from his fists and knuckles. In a wild rage, James roared in rage and fury and impaled Thomas using his claws. However, while impaling Thomas with his newly discovered bone claws, before dying, Thomas revealed that John wasn't James' real father. Much to James' horror, with his dying breath, Thomas revealed that he was James' true father by telling him he is also his son.

After Thomas died, Elizabeth, horrified by James' mutation, cast her son out by calling him a freak as she questioned James as to what he was. Confused about what was happening to him, James fled and ran into the woods, with Victor following behind him. After running away, Victor caught up and overtook James. Victor said that they were brothers and vowed to stick together and that they would look after each other no matter what, eventually leading them to a life of rage and violence.

Over the next 128 years, as the two boys grew into men, James and Victor fought bravely together as Canadian mercenaries for the United States in numerous wars. The wars the two brothers participated in throughout their years together included the American Civil War, World War I on the Western Front, World War II participating in the D-day Invasion, and the Vietnam War using their mutant powers. However, Victor grew increasingly violent and uncontrolled as time passed. James took the name Logan, and grew to be a good, strong, respectable man.

The Wolverine Flashback[]

During the bombing of Nagasaki, Logan saved Ichirō Yashida, a Japanese officer. The two became friends, with Logan telling Yashida of his supernatural abilities and Yashida offering his katana to Logan, who he refers to as Kuzuri, as gratitude for Logan saving his life.

X-Men: First Class[]

"Excuse me, I'm Erik Lehnsherr."
"Charles Xavier."
"Go fuck yourself."
―Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier, and Logan[src]

In 1962, Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr visit Logan in a bar in an attempt to recruit him to their all-mutant taskforce. He rudely dismisses them and they leave.

X-Men: Days of Future Past[]

Wolverine was caught sleeping with his employer's mistress instead of protecting her like he was supposed to. He didn't get involved in Mystique's assassination of Bolivar Trask.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine[]

"For six years, i've been here, no one knew me. And then you show up, and the next day she's dead!."
―Wolverine[src]

In 1973, Logan and his brother Victor are fighting in the Vietnam War when Victor attempts to rape a young lady. When a soldier attempts to arrest him, Victor unleashes his rage and begins to commit murders against his fellow soldiers. Logan defends his brother none-the-less and the two are shot by firing squad, but their healing abilities allow them to survive. William Stryker asks them to join a special team he's putting together, filled with special individuals including mutants. The team starts to search for a mysterious meteorite fragment in Africa. Logan leaves the team when he refuses to be involved in Stryker's mass killings.

Six years later, as the team starts being killed off by Victor, he is a living as a lumberjack with a girlfriend named Kayla, who is fascinated with a Natvie American myth about "the Wolverine". Stryker returns to inform Logan that members of the old team are being murdered and requests his help, but Logan dismisses him. Kayla is murdered by Victor and Logan seeks vengeance, but after tracking him down to a bar Victor defeats him. Stryker offers Logan an opportunity to become more powerful - Weapon X; an experiment that involves encasing a human skeleton in an adamantium skeleton. Logan accepts and demands new dog tags inscribed with the name "Wolverine".

Logan undergoes the experiment and briefly falls into a lifeless state, before miraculously reviving himself. Logan overhears a conversation that confirms that Stryker intends to wipe his memory and continue his experiments. Logan escapes the facility and takes refuge in a farmhouse where an elderly couple welcomes him. The couple are murdered by Agent Zero and Logan swears revenge on both Stryker and Victor, before murdering Zero. Logan finds John Wraith for help and the two search for a mutant named Gambit, who knows the location of a mutant experimentation centre Stryker has erected. While searching for him in Las Vegas Logan came across Victor and fought him a second time, this time defeating Victor. Enraged, he was about to deliver the killing blow when Gambit interrupted the fight. Victor saw an opportunity fled the scene.

After a battle with Gambit, Logan is taken to The Island where he discovers Kayla is alive and was part of the conspiracy, faking her death under orders from Stryker. Hurt and betrayed Logan leaves. However after hearing Kayla screams Logan returns. Logan and Victor battle each other and the fight ends in Logan's favor, though he passes on the opportunity to have vengeance to save his own morality. He and Kayla free a number of imprisoned mutants but finds himself in a heated battle with the Deadpool (Wade Wilson implanted with several mutant powers and enslaved by Stryker), and forms a temporary alliance with Victor to fight the creature atop a cooling tower. Logan beheads Deadpool, whose optic blasts cause the tower to collapse. Victor and Logan part ways and Logan searches for Kayla, finding her bleeding from a bullet wound. Wolverine is shot through his head by an adamantium bullet fired by Stryker. When he recovers, he suffers severe amnesia and recalls nothing of his past. He does not recognize Kayla's body or Gambit, and needs to be reminded what his name is. Logan leaves alone to seek answers.

X-Men: The Movie Prequel: Wolverine[]

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X-Men: The Movie Prequel: Rogue[]

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X-Men[]

"Hey, bub, I'm not finished with you yet."
―Wolverine[src]

Fifteen years later, Logan is introduced as a cigar-smoking lone wolf who wanders from place-to-place in Canada where he fights people in cage fights to make money, taking advantage of the enhanced durability that his adamantium skeleton and healing factor grant him. Later in the bar, he is confronted by Marie, who changed her name to Rogue as she had put her boyfriend into a coma while kissing him and hence, ran away from Mississippi. It is here that she sees Wolverine's retractable adamantium claws, when the latter engages in a fight. When he is about to leave in his truck, Rogue introduces herself to him and asks if she can come along. At first he declines, but changes his mind and takes her with him.

On their way, his truck is attacked Sabretooth (a further mutated Victor Creed) Wolverine tries to battle with him, but is knocked out. Before Sabretooth can do any further damage, he is stopped and chased away by two members of the X-Men - Cyclops and Storm, who rescue both Wolverine and Rogue and bring them to the X-Mansion.

When Jean Grey tries to treat Wolverine, he regains consciousness and immediately looks for an exit. He finds out that there are mutants like him there who are trying to control their unnatural abilities under the tutelage of Charles Xavier. Professor X convinces Wolverine to stay with them and become an X-Man, as he could get an opportunity to learn more about his forgotten past. Wolverine reluctantly agrees and stays.

Later, Mystique, impersonating as Bobby Drake, tells Rogue to leave as "she is a danger to everybody else". This is actually a trick to lure Rogue out of the X-Mansion, so that she could be used by Magneto to control a machine that could turn all humans into mutants. When Wolverine finds out about Rogue's absence he convinces her to return to Professor X's school but the pair are intercepted by Magneto, who kidnaps Rogue.

Wolverine, along with Jean, Cyclops and Storm, head to the Statue of Liberty, where Magneto is operating his plan. In the process, Wolverine encounters Mystique and stabs her, virtually killing her, but she survives. He is also challenged by Sabretooth and they both engage in a fight atop the Statue of Liberty. Cyclops intervenes and knocks Sabretooth off the Statue with an optic blast.

Wolverine gets carried to the Statue's torch on wind created by Storm, he frees Rogue from Magneto and gives her his powers so she can heal. They return to the X-Mansion. Professor X gives Wolverine a hint for the search of his past as promised, directing him to a mysterious Alkali Lake. Wolverine then leaves the mansion on Cyclops' motorbike heading to Alkali Lake.

X2: X-Men United: The Movie Prequel: Wolverine[]

Logan stops to fill Cyclops' motorcycle and finds that Sabertooth has been following him. They fight which ends with Logan defeating him, but before he kills him, Logan finds that he has the same dog tags as him. The two go for drinks and start having a conversation. Stryker's men come in with the orders from Stryker and aim at Sabretooth. The two fight the soldiers with great teamwork not knowing they are brothers still and are eventually brought down.

Waking up in a helicopter Sabretooth throws Wolverine off sacrificing himself in the process. Stryker later finds out that the adamantium bonding did not work with him and orders his men to shoot Victor with adamantium killing him. While Logan continues his search for Alkali Lake.

X2: X-Men United[]

"You want to shoot me? Shoot me!"
―Wolverine[src]

Wolverine finally discovers the Alkali Lake, but only finds an old and deserted factory, giving no clue about his forgotten past. He is disappointed and returns to the X-Mansion after a call from Professor X.

Upon returning, Wolverine is given the responsibility to look after the mutant children in the mansion in Professor X's absence, who plans to visit Magneto in his "plastic prison" with Cyclops to discover what information he had given to William Stryker. Jean Grey and Storm also leave in search of Nightcrawler, who was found guilty of attacking the president of the United States. While the professor is interrogating Magneto, he learns that Magneto had leaked all the information about the X-Mansion and the Cerebro to Stryker. Professor X is later kidnapped along with Cyclops by Stryker's forces.

Back in the X-Mansion, at night, Wolverine has nightmares of his involvement in the mysterious Weapon X program, and decides to walk around the mansion, where he starts chatting with Iceman. But all of a sudden, Stryker along with his military troops, invades the mansion and starts to look for the Cerebro. Wolverine takes out many of the soldiers, and saves the mutant children. He tells Colossus, Bobby, Rogue and Pyro to leave. As Wolverine is about to escape too, he is confronted by William Stryker, whose presence provokes more forgotten memories in his mind. But he shakes out of it, and leaves with the remaining X-Men in a car for Boston to Bobby's house. Meanwhile, Stryker finds the Cerebro and steals it.

When Storm, Jean and Nightcrawler, learn of the attack on the X-Mansion from Wolverine, they head towards Boston in the X-Jet to recruit the X-Men from Bobby's house. During the X-Men's journey, Magneto and Mystique, who helped the former to escape from his prison, offer their help to the X-Men in bringing down William Stryker, who, as revealed by Magneto, was planning to use Professor X and his handling of the Cerebro to kill all the mutants on Earth. He also reveals Stryker's base of operations to be the Alkali Lake. The X-Men agree to form the alliance.

At the Alkali Lake, Jean finds that Stryker's base was underground. Mystique, impersonating Wolverine, infiltrates the base and tricks Stryker's troops into opening a gateway for the X-Men to enter. There, Wolverine decides to explore the base all by himself and he comes across a laboratory where he sees his claws' scratch marks on the walls. Now, he starts remembering what happened to him and how he was experimented upon with the adamantium. William Stryker arrives and clears Wolverine's doubts, revealing that he had created the "animal within Wolverine". When Wolverine is about to get his hands on him, Stryker introduces another mutant with adamantium skeleton and claws, Lady Deathstrike, who battles Wolverine, but is disabled by him. Wolverine trails Stryker, while the X-Men rescue Cyclops, Professor X and the kidnapped mutant children.

After the destruction of his base, Stryker tries to flee in his helicopter but is caught by Wolverine and interrogated. Stryker refuses to cooperate and is pinned by Wolverine, who leaves him to be drowned in the flood water. As the X-Men leave, Jean sacrifices herself to protect them from the flood. Wolverine and Cyclops mourn her death. Wolverine, hiding his love for Jean, tells Cyclops that Jean had always loved him. Logan later informed Scott that Jean had chosen to be with the latter.

X-Men: The Last Stand[]

"I'm the only one who can stop her."
―Wolverine[src]

Sensing trouble, Professor Charles Xavier sends Wolverine and Storm to investigate. When they arrive, the two X-Men encounter telekinetically floating rocks, Cyclops' glasses, and an unconscious Jean.

Xavier explains that the majority of Jean's power is seated in her unconscious mind and that, as a result, her powers are largely fueled by instinct, and not under her complete control. In fact, when Jean was a little girl she was so powerful that he had to put telepathic blocks on her mind to help keep her powers under control. Her bottled up powers manifested themselves as an id-like alternate personality called the "Phoenix" - a purely instinctual creature, ruled only by its own violent desires.

Wolverine is disgusted to learn that Xavier has kept Jean in check telepathically, but when Jean awakens, he realizes she is not the Jean Grey he knew. Wolverine asks about Cyclops, but she cannot remember and fears she killed him. Jean pleads with Wolverine to kill her before she harms anybody else, but when he refuses, the Phoenix surfaces and telekinetically slams Wolverine into a wall. She then flees to her childhood home. Magneto, also aware that Jean's powers are loose, meets Xavier at Jean's house. The two men vie for Jean's loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces, unleashing her devastating power. Furious at being caged within Jean's subconscious for twenty years, she destroys her family's house, disintegrates Xavier, and leaves with Magneto.

Following the losses of Xavier, Cyclops, and Rogue (who decides to take the mutant cure), the X-Men regroup and confront Magneto's army, which is attacking the pharmaceutical company's laboratory on Alcatraz Island. During the battle, Kitty Pryde leaves to save Leech and at the end of the battle, Henry McCoy injects Magneto with the cure, nullifying his mutant powers. After this, Wolverine nearly coaxes Jean back to sanity. However, soldiers arrive and fire upon Jean. The Phoenix quickly emerges and begins to disintegrate everything and everyone around her, vaporizing the soldiers. While the other X-Men flee to safety, Wolverine fights his way to Jean, relying upon his healing abilities to save him from her destructive power. Momentarily gaining control, Jean begs Wolverine to save her. Telling Jean he loves her, Wolverine reluctantly kills her with his claws.

He briefly returned to the school before leaving for Alberta, Canada. He went to the bar where he originally met Rogue and returned to his life of solitude.

The Wolverine[]

"What they did to me, what I am, can't be undone."
―Logan[src]

Sometime after 2006, Logan regained all his lost memories he lost in 1979. Later, he retreated to Yukon, Canada, living in isolation throughout the forests and he only visited a different variety of towns throughout the area for necessary supplies, where he was tormented by the hallucinations of Jean Grey, whom he was forced to kill for her sake, and he was experiencing the torture of the Nagasaki bombing in 1945. One day, he goes to a bar, and after talking with some of the illegal hunters from the area and he, eventually, gets into a fight with then. During the fray, he was located by Yukio, a woman with mutant powers enabling her to see people's deaths, representing Ichirō Yashida, the CEO of a technology corporation, who was dying of cancer. Logan saved Yashida's life during the Nagasaki bombing, and Yashida wanted Logan to accompany Yukio to Japan to return the favor.

In Tokyo, Logan met Yashida's son Shingen and Shingen's daughter, Mariko. Yashida offered to conduct a transplant, removing Logan's immortality and transferring it to himself. Logan refused and prepared to leave the following day. That night, while Logan dreamed of Jean, Yashida's doctor, Viper injected a robotic parasite in Logan's system, which affected his healing factor. The next morning, Logan was informed that Yashida had died, and attended the funeral, where he saved Mariko from Yakuza assassins with help from Yashida's associate Kenuichio Harada. In the process, Logan was shot and discovered that he was not healing as quickly as before.

After fighting more assassins on a bullet train, Logan and Mariko hid in a local motel. While Mariko slept, Logan stood guard outside and experienced another hallucination of Jean before passing out from his injuries. When he awoke, he discovered that Mariko had the motel owner's grandson, a veterinarian, stitch him up. Meanwhile, Harada met with Viper who, after demonstrating her mutant powers to him, demanded that he would find Logan and Mariko.

Logan and Mariko go to Yashida's house in Nagasaki. As they slowly fall for each other, Logan started revealing his past to Mariko. Meanwhile, Yukio had a vision of Logan dying, and went to warn him. However, she was too late and Mariko was captured. After interrogating one of her kidnappers, Logan went to confront Mariko's fiancé, corrupt Chief of Justice Noburo Mori, who revealed that Shingen had ordered the kidnapping.

At Yashida Corporation's headquarters, Shingen revealed that Yashida had left Mariko his empire, and prepared to kill her when Harada arrived with his Black Ninja clan and Viper; Harada rescued Mariko, while Viper poisoned Shingen. They then took Mariko to a research center based where Yashida was born.

Arriving at Yashida Corporation with Yukio, Logan used Yashida's medical technology to locate the parasite and extract it, but appeared to die during the operation. Yukio was attacked by Shingen, who prepared to kill her when Logan awoke and intervened, killing Shingen. Logan and Yukio then followed Harada and Viper to a research center, where Logan was attacked and captured by Harada and his men.

Logan was placed in a machine by Viper, who revealed her plans to extract his immortality and introduced Logan to her associate, the Silver Samurai, who had an adamantium sword and the ability to charge it with energy to increase its cutting power. After talking with Harada, who believed he was protecting her still, Mariko escaped and managed to direct the machine Logan was in into the Silver Samurai's sword strike, breaking it and freeing him. Harada saw the error of his ways and was killed by the Silver Samurai while helping Logan escape. Meanwhile, Yukio arrived and defeated Viper by hanging her, while Logan fought the Silver Samurai, who cut off his adamantium claws and began to extract Logan's immortality, revealing himself to be Yashida, who had faked his death. Mariko intervened and stabbed Yashida with Wolverine's discarded claws, giving Logan the opportunity to disable the armor and stab Yashida with his bone claws before throwing him off a cliff and passing out. While unconscious, Logan once again hallucinated about Jean, and finally moved on from her death.

Mariko becomes CEO of Yashida Corporation and bid farewell to Logan as he prepared to leave Japan. Yukio vowed to stay by Logan's side as his bodyguard, and they depart to places unknown.

Two years after the events in Japan, Logan returned to the United States and watched an ad for Trask Industries and their advances in the field of robotics before being confronted by Magneto, with his powers restored. Magneto announced that he needed Logan's help to stop a new enemy that threatened to exterminate the mutant race. Logan inquired as to why he should trust Magneto, but Magneto replied that he wouldn't. Professor Charles Xavier appeared to reassure him. Logan questioned how Xavier was alive, and Xavier reminded Logan that he was not the only one with gifts.

X-Men: Days of Future Past[]

"So I wake up in my younger body, god knows where, then what?"
―Logan[src]

Wolverine, along with Professor X, Magneto and Storm met up with their former students, Kitty Pryde, Iceman, Colossus, and fellow survivors Bishop, Warpath, Blink, and Sunspot.

Wolverine volunteered for his mind to be sent into the past as his mind can heal. He laid down on a concrete slab and Kitty Pryde sent his consciousness back to 1973. During the process, he discovered Stryker and, in far more rage than before, accidentally slashed Kitty in the rib. Magneto then restrained him. The X-Men bought him as much time as possible, but the Sentinels attacked and broke in while he is still in 1973. The Sentinels were about to execute them, when the timeline was changed.

Rogue Cut Alterations[]

Wolverine realizes Rogue

Realizing that Kitty won't be able to keep him long enough as he seriously wounded her, Bobby offers to release Rogue from the X-Mansion. Him and Magneto manage to save her but they are attacked by the Sentinels. Bobby actually sacrifices himself letting Erik and Rogue escape. When Professor X, Magneto, and Rogue return to sanctuary, Kitty notices Bobby is missing, Rogue then sadly tells her "I'm sorry Kitty". Kitty, realizing what Rogue means, breaks down crying and sobbing over discovering that Bobby died. Rogue then absorbs Kitty's abilities, and succeeds in switching places with her in keeping him in past.

After Rogue replaced Kitty, Logan woke up in the X-Mansion and said the former's name to himself.

Character traits[]

Logan's long life of violence and prejudice, as well as his initial childhood trauma, has hardened him into the man he is today.

Logan is characterized as a tough, blunt, pessimistic and cynical individual with a short-temper, as well as deep distrust and disrespect for others. Additionally, his mutation caused him to become brutish and almost feral when in situations of stress, great annoyance, rage or pain, especially in combat. This animalistic side of his personality, as well as his violent life, turned him into a ruthless and merciless fighter, who tends to kill his opponents, even sometimes when they were defenseless or weakened.

However, despite Logan's brutal and vicious side, he is also has good morals, who dislikes his violent past and does not use violence against those, who are good and innocent, which seems to be the only thing to separate him from his enemies. He is also loyal to those that have gain his trust, although it usually takes time for him to accept them. He often prefers to be left alone, due to his long life of violence, but he is not above working with his teammates.

Logan generally prefers offense over defense. He is usually serious, but he also has a sarcastic sense of humor.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Mutant Physiology: Wolverine is a very powerful mutant who possesses superhuman strength, durability, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, flexibility, dexterity, stamina, senses, an accelerated healing factor, immunity, retractable razor-sharp claws, empathy, etc.
    • Superhuman Strength: Wolverine is much stronger than a normal human. He can easily bench press 5 tons. His body shape doesn't change regardless of calories intake or time. Most prominently, he is able to not only support the weight of his adamantium skeleton, but also quickly overpower, rag doll and launch most humans several feet through the air. He threw two "mercenaries" at the X-Mansion backwards on the tip of his claws, rag dolled multiple Yakuza members, and sent Shingen Yashida and members of the Black Clan flying through the air. Even without his adamantium skeleton, he managed to shove Sabertooth several feet into the air using the latter's momentum. After his surgery, he was able to overpower Sabertooth, who naturally is stronger than Wolverine. His most prominent feat of strength was when he was able to tackle, drag, and shove the Silver Samurai off a cliff, with enough effort.
    • Superhuman Durability: Wolverine is far more durable than a normal human. His durability is further enhanced after his bones are infused with adamantium to the point that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible to kill or injure Wolverine. He has been repeatedly shot, stabbed, and has endured extreme forms of energy without passing out and barely being slowed down. In some instances, bullets have ricocheted off of his adamantium skeleton, barely piercing the skin.
    • Superhuman Endurance: Wolverine's endurance, tenacity, vitality, willpower and pain tolerance are limitless. This allows him to continue fighting without being weakened, stunned, dazed or fatigued, as well as making it difficult for pain to cripple him, or sometimes faze him at all.
    • Superhuman Speed: Wolverine is able to easily run over 60 mph, which allowed him to cover a mile in a minute or less, which allowed him to reach Kayla's car from his workplace a great distance away.
    • Superhuman Agility: Wolverine's agility is far greater than an Olympic-level human, he is able to leap across greater distances and can even perform flips in mid-air.
    • Superhuman Reflexes: Wolverine has lightning-fast auto-reflexes far greater than an Olympic-level human.
    • Superhuman Flexibility: Wolverine's flexibility is far greater than an Olympic-level human.
    • Superhuman Dexterity: Wolverine's dexterity is far greater than an Olympic-level human.
    • Superhuman Stamina: Wolverine can engage in physical activity for far longer than an Olympic-level human. After being treated with the Weapon X programme during X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Logan was able to take on several soldiers, escape from the compound, leap down from the top of a water fall, trek across many fields and eventually hide in a barn while showing no signs of fatigue. During the events of The Wolverine, Logan was able to fight groups of armed men, and help Kimiko escape despite having his healing factor suppressed and receiving multiple gunshot wounds.
    • Superhuman Senses: Wolverine's senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and instincts are heightened far beyond that of a human's. He can see much further and closer than normal humans with perfect clarity, even retaining this perfect clarity in total darkness. His enhanced hearing allows him to detect sounds that normal humans can't, and hear sounds at much greater distance. His sense of smell is sufficiently heightened and is capable of tracking people through scent alone. He's able to sense danger, detect lies and weaknesses.
    • Accelerated Perception: Wolverine mind and instincts process the world in the most advanced and efficient manner possible. He can find any solutions to any problems that he faces, using logical and illogical sense and strategies. His aggressive behavior is also in part affected by his animal-like instincts.
    • Accelerated Healing Factor: Wolverine's instant regenerative abilities allow him to rapidly regenerate any damaged or destroyed bodily molecules, cells, tissues, bones, limbs, organs, etc instantaneously. Wolverine's healing factor allows him to completely and rapidly heal and recover from any injury in within a matter of seconds. Wolverine's healing factor and Adamantium skeleton make him immortal and virtually indestructible. He could walk through the disintegrating telekinetic blast of the Phoenix, while others completely disintegrated. He regenerated from the blast wave of the nuclear strike on Nagasaki. Upon removing the nano-bug from his heart, the wounds from when his healing was temporarily weakened all healed instantly. Only he could make the trip back to his younger-self. Wolverine can survive both clinical or brain death is able to come back from any death that he may suffer. He completely recovers from all wounds and damages (internal/external) he has without a scar. After resurrection his mind, body, and spirit are in peak condition. By the time of the events of The Wolverine, Wolverine's healing factor had restored all of his memories, that he had lost years earlier during the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. By the year 2023, Wolverine's healing factor is still at it's peak, as his age and the adamantium poisoning didn't affect or changed it in any way; despite having a considerable amount of his healing powers drained by Ichirō Yashida.
    • Superhuman Immunity: Due to Wolverine's accelerated healing factor, he is immune to all poisons, toxins, impurities, illnesses, diseases, radiation, infections, disorders, imperfections, and other harmful foreign substances. Thanks to his healing factor, Logan is able to withstand the disintegration of the Phoenix Force.
    • Immortality: Due to Wolverine's accelerated healing factor; he is immortal, unable to rot, get sick, and incapable of being permanently wounded, making him self-sustained.
    • Adaptation: Wolverine has super advanced surviving ability, that automatically adapts and modifies his mind and body allowing him to survive in any different environments, conditions, situations, enemies, etc normally deadly.
  • Adamantium Skeleton: Wolverine's adamantium skeletal system makes his musculoskeletal indestructible. It is the adamantium that has enhanced his strength and durability further, to the point where he could easily overpower, rag doll and launch humans easier and with less effort that he would need to exert. It makes it difficult to stun or daze him, though being hit in the head with enough force can be enough to knock him unconscious.
    • Retractable Bone Claws: Wolverine possesses three retractable razor-sharp adamantium claws in each of his hands. Due to the Adamantium infusion with his skeleton, Wolverine's claws are capable of cutting through almost any substance known to man.
    • Empathy: Wolverine is able to naturally and instinctively, sense, understand or communicate with any creature.
    • Pathokinesis: Wolverine is able to naturally and instinctively, influence or control any creature. This is done with the subtle and passive physical manipulation of the emotional state, hormones and sensory perceptions of other creatures.

Abilities[]

  • Advanced Covert Ops Expert: Wolverine is a natural expert in every types of weapons, vehicles, computer systems, explosives, and assassination techniques. He has perfect killer instinct and does not feel guilt for many of those he has killed.
  • Master Tactician: Though seemingly brutish, Wolverine is highly intelligent, with eidetic memory (he never forgets anything and has perfect instant recall). He memorized Sun Tzu's The Art of War.  
  • Skilled Leader: Despite being more of a solo hero, Wolverine is a highly capable, effective and charismatic leader.
  • Mechanic: Wolverine is a skilled mechanic.
  • Excellent Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Wolverine is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant with experience fighting against various cage-fighters and being in the U.S. military for over 120 years and surviving at least four different wars. He has bested many skilled foes including Lady Deathstrike and his own brother Victor Creed.
  • Stealth: Wolverine was able to sneak around at the Xavier institute with a lot of "mercenaries" armed with night vision goggles and guns, being shot only once. Furthermore, he was able to sneak around Magneto's base camp, and whilst being attacked by several mutants, he still didn't alert the full force of the Brotherhood of Mutants and was able to slip among them after defeating the small group of mutants. He easily managed to infiltrate Three Mile Island without being noticed by its security teams, despite Striker knowing that he would go there.
  • Expert Marksman: Wolverine is an expert marksman skilled in throwing weapons and firearms, but operates more efficiently without them.

Weaknesses[]

  • Decapitation: 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 healing factor similar to Wolverine's and can survive having his head cut off.
  • Adamantium Bonding: Although the adamantium infused into Wolverine's bones makes them nearly, if not completely unbreakable, the adamantium is poisoning his body, fortunately, Wolverine's accelerated healing factor has successfully kept it at bay (despite the fact that Ichirō Yashida drained a considerable amount of his healing powers years earlier) if he were to lose his healing powers or if they were to be suppressed for too long; the adamantium poisoning will kill him.
  • Adamantium: Wolverine's adamantium claws cannot penetrate or destroy objects/weapons that are composed of adamantium; unless they are super-heated.
  • Water: Due to Wolverine's bones being infused with adamantium; it is difficult for him to swim in water, as effectively as he could before. However, his superhuman strength and stamina allow him to compensate for the additional weight.
  • Magnetism: Due to Wolverine's bones being infused with adamantium, Wolverine is vulnerable to being subdued or manipulated by enemies using magnetic powers.

Relationships[]

Appearances/Actors[]

Behind the scenes[]

  • At one point in the 1990s, Glenn Danzig was approached to play Wolverine in ad hoc committee X-Men film, because he bore an uncanny resemblance to the character, as well as being the same height as Wolverine, and very muscular. However, he had to decline, due to the fact that the shooting for the film would force him to put a halt to touring with his band for nine months.
  • Russell Crowe was Singer's first choice to play Wolverine, along with Glenn Danzig, Dougray Scott, Keanu Reeves, Gary Sinise, Mel Gibson, Aaron Eckhart, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Viggo Mortensen, and Edward Norton. But he refused and turned it down, then he decided to let his friend Hugh Jackman take the role.
  • Dougray Scott was originally cast as Wolverine, but was forced to pull out of the project due to scheduling conflicts with Mission: Impossible II, also he was injured in a motorbike accident and wouldn't have recovered in time for filming.
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee was originally cast as young Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine but was dropped out due to filming The Road. So Troye Sivan was cast in his place.
  • On the last scene of X2, Hugh Jackman had to wear a wig because he had long hair for Van Helsing.
  • Hugh Jackman was uncredited for his appearance in X-Men: First Class.
  • Mark Hamill voiced an alternate version of Logan/Wolverine in the video game X2: Wolverine's Revenge. While Hugh Jackman reprised the role for both X-Men: The Official Game and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. These games are not considered canon to Earth-10005.
  • An alternate version of Logan/Wolverine appears in the comics X-Men: The Movie Prequel Wolverine, X-Men: The Movie Prequel Rogue, and X-Men Movie Adaptation. These comics are also not considered canon to Earth-10005.

Trivia[]

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X Men Origins Wolverine Character Spot - Wolverine-0

  • When Wolverine complains about the leather costumes, Cyclops replies with "What do you prefer, yellow spandex?", a reference to Wolverine's costume in the comics.
    • In an alternate ending for The Wolverine, Yuriko presented a costume similar to the one in the comics on the plane.
  • An alternate scene of X-Men: The Last Stand shows that Wolverine has returned to Alberta, Canada and continued his lonely life, even meeting the barman from the first film.
  • In the films, Wolverine's accelerated healing powers are never referred to as a "mutant healing factor".
  • Hugh Jackman revealed in a interview with the Huffington Post that Wolverine was originally going to have a cameo in Spider-Man.
  • Wolverine is hilariously referenced by Mr. Fantastic in a deleted scene from Fantastic Four. The scene was restored in the extended cut of the film.
  • In the comics, Wolverine is quite short, standing at 5'3. Hugh Jackman is 6'3"
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  • Despite having been a soldier along with Sabertooth during the 1900's, as portrayed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Logan is a civilian during the events of X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past, during which the Vietnam War had been going on.
  • Wolverine is the only character to appear in almost every X-Men movie to date and be portrayed by the same actor in all his appearances.
  • Wolverine's strength level has been portrayed differently in each film, with some portraying him as just being strong enough to overpower opponents, others showing him being able to send opponents flying through the air with his attacks, or even pushing, lifting and dragging something as large and as heavy as the Silver Samurai armor.
  • Wolverine's healing speed, level of endurance and durability, and resistance to pain have also been portrayed differently, as some films show him being able to continue fighting without being slowed down by physical damage, even if he is being shot or stabbed, while the damage vanishes, though other films, especially from the original trilogy, show him as being weak enough to be knocked out after being struck with a tree trunk (by Sabertooth), telekinetically thrown across a room and into a wall (by Dark Phoenix), or shot in the head (by a police officer), as well as feeling great pain when being slashed by Lady Deathstrike, the two latter examples even causing him to bleed, which never happens in more recent films.
  • Hugh Jackman is in the 2017 Guinness Book of World Records for playing the longest Marvel superhero in live action.
  • In the comics, Logan saved the lives of Peter Parker's parents. After, the two free him when he was held by HYDRA.

Gallery[]

See: James Howlett (Earth-10005)/Gallery

See Also[]

See: Wolverine on the
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