James "Logan" Howlett, (1832-2029) also known as Wolverine, was a Canadian class 3 mutant who possessed superhuman strength, durability, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, flexibility, dexterity, stamina, senses, an accelerated healing factor and retractable razor-sharp claws. The adamantium bonded to Logan's skeleton slowly poisoned him, ultimately leading to his death at the hands of X-24.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Logan seems to share the history of his counterpart up until an unknown point in time where their histories diverge.
Logan[]
Xavier lost control of his psychic powers due to a seizure and, in devastating psychic attack, ended up killing half the X-Men and destroying the X-Mansion, in addition to injuring 600 innocent bystanders. However, Logan, due to his durability, survived this. Taking the now sickened and unstable Xavier, Logan fled with him to the border of Mexico and obtained medication that would keep Xavier's mind docile, thus preventing him from having seizures and causing attacks. He and Xavier take up residence in an abandoned smelting plant, locking his ailing mentor in a collapsed water tower to contain his powers. Logan also enlists the help of mutant tracker Caliban in being a caretaker for his mentor.
A year later in 2029, Logan has somehow aged, now grey-haired and significantly weakened (implied to having been affected by Xavier's seizures). For unknown reasons, his healing factor is in flux, and as such, the Adamantium in his body is poisoning him, which is killing him as he is healing, straining it's effects whenever he is injured. He and Charles Xavier are among very few mutants still alive, as the rest have mysteriously died en masse under unknown circumstances and the virus that Zander Rice made. To make ends meet and to purchase medication for his poisoning, as well as medication for Charles, Logan took up a job as a chauffeur in El Paso, driving various patrons.
Logan was sleeping in his stretch limo driver in El Paso. When shaken from a nap in the backseat he groggily stumbles out and finds a group of hoods trying to take the wheels. He tries to get them to stop but one of the men blasts him with a shotgun and he goes down. Logan gets back up and breaks out his the claws, but one claw doesn't retract all the way. He fights the gang but they start beating him severely. Logan becomes enraged and starts slicing off limbs and stabbing the gang members until a few of them get away. Logan drives across the US/Mexico border to an abandoned water plant in the Mexican countryside. He greets Caliban gruffly who asks for more meds. He and Caliban are taking care of Charles. Inside the toppled water tank is a 90 year old Charles Xavier, now senile do to his degenerative disease and prone to psychic seizures. Babbling nonsensically, Logan is barely able to administer a sedative shot to keep Charles's powers under control as he suffers a psychic seizure. Now lucid again, Xavier and Logan argue, the elderly man expressing immense disappointment in Logan's current state, recalling that Logan had been a cage fighter prior to joining the X-Men, and affirming that they'd been a family. When Logan tells him that they are gone, Charles angrily yells that Logan is waiting for him to die.
Sometime later, at a cemetery, while on the job, a Mexican woman named Gabriela approaches Logan and asks for his help but he brushes her off. Gabriela drives away, and a young girl looks back at Logan. After, a man with a bionic hand enters the limo who name is Donald Pierce He knows about the killing of the gang members, as well as Logan being approached by Gabriela. Pierce also has knowledge of Logan taking care of Charles south of the border. Pierce claims he only wants something of his that Gabriela has. He hands Logan a card and tells him to call him when he finds Gabriela again. The card reads "Alkali Transigen", which enrages him. Logan is out working and gets a notification for two passengers. He goes a motel to pick them up and finds it is Gabriela with the little girl, Laura whom Gabriela says is her daughter. Gabriela implores Logan to help them, but he is uninterested in getting involved in their business. Gabriela offers him $50,000 to help them get across the border from North Dakota to Canada. She gives him an envelope with $20,000 inside and coordinates written on it. Back home, Logan explains to Charles and Caliban he will be gone a few days to get a good payday that will allow them to get their boat. That night, Logan receives a text back home from Gabriela. He returns to the motel and finds that Gabriela has been killed, and Laura is nowhere to be found.
Upon returning home, Logan sees that Laura has found them. Charles is fascinated by her since he knows she possesses something remarkable. Logan however knows they are in danger. Pierce comes by to take Laura. As Pierce begins to grill Logan for answers Laura chucks a pipe at his head and knocks him out. Logan then has Caliban take Pierce and dump him in a ditch. When Caliban goes to do so, Pierce wakes up and his team of Reavers show up and capture him. The Reavers then go toward Logan and Charles's location. As Logan and Charles try to escape they are confronted by Pierce again who along with the Reavers manage to subdue Logan .Two Reavers then enter to get Laura. After some commotion, Laura steps out with a dead Reaver's head and rolls it toward Pierce. Laura then steps forward enraged and has two adamantium claws come out of each hand much to the shock of Logan and Xavier. Laura starts slaughtering Reavers left and right, and she even uses a foot claw on an attacker. Logan gets in on the fight and the three manage to escape together.
Logan, Charles, and Laura stop by a convenience store and look through Gabriela's phone to see a video she took about Transigen's experiments led by Dr. Zander Rice, She explains she is a nurse working for Transigen in Mexico City and Laura is not her daughter. Despite being labelled as cancer research in fact the facility was creating mutant children from the DNA of deceased mutants to be used as super soldiers. Several children with superpowers were being raised in almost inhumane conditions, although the staff tried to introduce normal childhood playtime and parties Rice forbid it. The phone dies before Logan can see anymore. In the store, Laura gets some chips, a drink, and shades. The clerk attempts to stop Laura from shoplifting, only for her to flip him over and nearly stick her claws in him until Logan steps in. He takes a phone charger and a cigar before heading out. When the phone recharges, Logan watches the rest of the video. Gabriela documented that Dr. Rice and his team were creating X-24, a mutant more powerful and unfeeling than the others they created. When the team wanted to eliminate the children, Gabriela helped them escape so they can make it to a mutant sanctuary called Eden. In the video's final moments, Gabriela admits she's not Laura's mother, but she loves her all the same, and she addresses Logan, saying she is his daughter and begging him to take care of her.
The trio pass through Oklahoma City and stay in a hotel. Logan discovers that Laura has been reading "X-Men" comics and has gotten it in her mind that Eden is real, based on a page in which the coordinates to Eden are the same ones written on the envelope Gabriela gave him. Logan leaves Laura with Charles and tells her to give him two pills. Downstairs, Logan sees that the Reavers have found them. Charles then has another seizure, leading to everyone but Logan and Laura to be stuck in a paralyzed state. Logan struggles to get to the elevator and the room, he kills the mercenaries holding Charles at gunpoint and injects Xavier with the sedative. Everyone in the area collapses and Logan rushes Xavier and Laura to the pickup and escape. Rice arrives shortly after to convince Caliban to keep tracking them. The trio hit the road again. A radio report mentions the incident at the hotel, along with something that happened in Westchester a year ago, but Logan turns it off before Charles can hear anymore. They are nearly run off the road by two trucks that take up the road. Another truck is swerved off to the side, along with the cart of horses they were carrying. The horses start running across the street, so Charles convinces Logan to help them. Charles uses his powers to bring the horses back to the family safely. Logan helps the family push their truck out of the ditch. They introduce themselves as the Munsons, Will and his wife Kathryn and their son Nate. Kathryn invites the trio to have dinner in their home that night, and Charles accepts on behalf of Logan.
At the farmhouse, Laura eats hungrily in silence, Charles and Logan pretend to be father and son and make friendly small talk. The Munsons, parents and teen son are struggling farmers. The Munsons offer a bed and once again Charles agrees. Laura watches Logan carry the paraplegic Xavier upstairs tenderly. The water quits at the house and Munson says they have to fix a pump station in the next yard, some distance away. Logan agrees to help and the men go off to repair the water pump. Will has to cut the fence chains as the pump is actually owned by a large corporate farm. Laura is curious about the teen Munson listening to music and he lends her his iPod and headphones. Will and Logan are confronted by armed men who accuse them of trespassing. Will claims he has an easement and Logan manages to scare them off.
At the farm, Charles dreamily murmurs this was the best time he has had, he then remembers what happened a year ago in Westchester, that he suffered a seizure that killed most of his fellow X-Men. Logan then puts his claws through Charles' chest. It turns out this is not Logan, but X-24, a younger clone of Logan. X-24 grabs Laura and puts her in metal restraints and then kills Nate and Kathryn before Logan and Will get back home. Will runs upstairs but X-24 claws him. Logan runs to get Charles. The men from the pump house arrive in a larger group looking to get even, they mistake X-24 for Logan, and are quickly killed.
Logan rushes to Charles, finding him bleeding out, he carries him to the pickup. Outside, the Reavers have arrived with Pierce and Rice, Meanwhile, Logan sets Charles down as he dies. As X-24 tries to bring Laura to his masters, Caliban, still captive in the Reaver van, sets off two grenades, killing himself and another Reaver, while Pierce is thrown out of the van. Logan fights X-24 and is nearly overpowered until Will rams into X-24 with his van. He shoots him repeatedly and then tries to turn the gun on Logan, but the gun is out of bullets, and Will collapses dead. Logan, bloody and torn, manages to take Laura and Charles' body, and they get out of there in the pickup.
Farther up the highway Logan stops to bury Charles by a river. Logan is so devastated that he tries to drive away, but realizes that he can't because the pickup is not working, causing to lose control of his rage and destroy it with a shovel. Laura watches curiously before he passes out. Logan wakes up in a clinic. The doctor knows he's a mutant and wants to help him, knowing that the adamantium is killing him. Logan refuses his help, and he takes Laura out of there. They go to a new truck that Laura stole. Logan thanks Laura for her help, and she finally speaks by responding in Spanish. Laura then mentions her friends from Transigen and that they must find them so they can all go to Eden. When Logan finally agrees he is too weak to make it all the way and Laura takes over driving. The two make it to Eden, where all the children from Transigen are hiding. Their leader is Rictor. They give Logan and Laura shelter so that Logan can rest up.
Rictor gives Logan a serum that was used on them at Transigen which can help Logan re-energize. While the kids are eating dinner, Logan wakes up shouting cause he had nightmares, Laura asks Logan about the shiny bullet he carries, he says it is adamantium, the same material slowly poisoning his body, he meant to use it to kill himself. Laura take the bullet from him. The next morning the kids prank Logan by trimming his beard while he sleeps. He is not amused.
After two days Logan is much improved, but still weak and limping. The kids get ready to go to Canada where they be safe and leave before Logan awakes the next day. Arising he notices drones flying and the Transigen convoy rushing toward the kids in the distance. Pierce and the Reaver start to round up the children. Logan takes all of the serum and runs into the woods to fight. Some of the children use their powers against the Reavers, but the children are outnumbered.
Logan and Laura slaughter the Reavers until Rictor and the other kids are held at gunpoint. Rice steps out and introduces himself to Logan and reminds him that he killed Rice's father when he first performed the experiment that turned Logan into Weapon X. As Rice talks, Logan shoots him in the throat and then goes after Pierce. Pierce unleashes X-24 on Logan. He tries to escape, but the children use their collective powers to kill Pierce.
The serum in Logan's body wears off before he fights X-24. The two claw at each other until X-24 gains the upper hand and impales Logan on a tree branch. Laura takes the adamantium bullet and uses it to blow X-24's head off, killing him. She then runs to Logan and cuts him down from the tree. Logan looks into Laura's eyes as she tearfully calls him "daddy", Logan tells Laura that she and the others are safe now and with his last breaths notes that "this is what it feels like" (remembering Charles' words of what it meant to have a family and people who love him unconditionally) Logan finds peace as he dies.
The children bury Logan, and Laura says some final words for him. They then head off to cross the border. Before she leaves, however, Laura takes the cross on Logan's grave and turns it sideways so that it can look like an X honoring her father as both a hero also known as the Wolverine and as the last of the X-Men.
Deadpool & Wolverine[]
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Character traits[]
By the events of the year 2029, having long since lost all of his loved ones excluding his friend and mentor, Charles Xavier and with his gradually weakening body, Logan's outlook on life became bleak at best and so, more hostile than ever, Logan cared little for helping others and sought only to find a small measure of personal peace, as well as becoming a drifter on the sea. With his healing powers so weak, he refrained from getting into many fights, as he would not heal as fast any more, and since he was no longer immune to most toxins, he took solace in the intoxication drinking provided to both numb the chronic pain his injuries put him in, and the endless grief of having lost everything.
However, upon discovering the existence of his daughter, Laura, and having to undertake a series of tasks to help her, Logan slowly and ultimately regained his compassion and hope that he had lost years earlier, so much that he gave his life to kill the Reavers and Transigen, preventing them from harming Laura and her fellow X-23 mutant friends.
Unlike in the past, when he adamantly refused to use guns, Logan used one against Rice and his men when his serum ran out, shooting Rice in the throat and killing him. Notably, this was the single occasion when Logan used a gun and it was done to protect his daughter and the other children when Logan was too weak to otherwise fight them. The move completely surprised Rice and his men, who didn't expect Logan to be using a gun.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Mutant Physiology: Wolverine was a very powerful mutant who possessed superhuman strength, durability, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, flexibility, dexterity, stamina, senses, an accelerated healing factor, retractable razor-sharp claws, pathokinesis, etc.
- Superhuman Strength: Wolverine was much stronger than normal humans and most other mutants. He could easily bench press 5 tons. His lean, brawny muscles/body shape and perfect golden-proportioned body doesn't change regardless of calories intake or time. Most prominently, he was 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. During the final years of Wolverine's life, while still incredibly strong, had lost a large portion of his strength; due to his age. His strength was still be enhanced despite his adamantium poisoning and subsequent deterioration of health, allowing him to easily overpower his opponents and even break a shotgun in half over his leg. His full strength was briefly restored when he used Transigen's serum, allowing him to leap several feet into and through the air.
- Superhuman Durability: Wolverine was far more durable than normal humans and most other mutants. Due to Wolverine's bones being infused with adamantium, his superhuman durability was even further greatly amplified; to the point that he could withstand great impacts; such as being repeatedly shot, and stabbed 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 was far more greatly developed than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able 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.
- Adamantium Skeleton: Due to Wolverine's bones being infused with adamantium; he was extremely difficult, if not impossible to kill or injure him. Despite the additional weight of his adamantium skeleton, it had not diminished Wolverine's other superhuman physical attributes; particularly his superhuman speed, agility, reflexes and dexterity.
- Superhuman Speed: Wolverine was much faster than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able 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. Despite being weakened by the effects of adamantium poisoning, Wolverine was able to catch up to Laura and the group of mutants even though they had already trekked a great distance. After injecting himself with the Transigen serum, he was able to compete with a moving vehicle.
- Superhuman Agility: Wolverine was far more agile than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able to perform flips in mid-air.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Wolverine's reflexes were much faster than normal humans and most other mutants. His reflexes have been described as "lightning-fast reflexes".
- Superhuman Dexterity: Wolverine's dexterity was far more greatly developed than normal humans and most other mutants. Wolverine was capable of wielding his retractable razor-sharp claws simultaneously on both of his hands; similar to the tekko-kagi.
- Superhuman Leaping: Wolverine could leap much further than normal humans and most other mutants. He was able to leap across greater distances in a single bound.
- Superhuman Stamina: Wolverine possessed far more stamina than normal humans and most other mutants; allowing him to remain physically active for long periods of time.
- Superhuman Senses: Wolverine's senses were far more greatly developed than normal humans and most other mutants. He could see several miles away, he could also hear and pick up even the faintest of sounds and smells several miles away. His sense of smell was sufficiently heightened and was capable of tracking other individuals through scent alone. He was able to sense danger, detect lies and weaknesses.
- Night Vision: Due Wolverine's superhuman senses; he could see clearly in the dark.
- Accelerated Perception: Wolverine could process information, and think much faster than normal humans and most other mutants. He could find any solutions to any problems that he faces, using logical, and illogical sense and strategies. His aggressive behavior was also in part affected by his animal-like instincts. Wolverine has tactical ability, that allows him to immediately intuit the best way to engage in any tactical problem, (situation, puzzle, object, opponent, etc.) effectively making him the perfect leader.
- Accelerated Healing Factor: Wolverine's metabolism allowed him to heal much faster, more extensively, and efficiently than normal humans and other mutants. He could completely heal from physical injuries in a matter of seconds. Wolverine was also able to regenerate any damaged or destroyed bodily molecules, cells, tissues, bones, limbs, organs, etc. instantaneously.
- Superhuman Immunity: Due to Wolverine's accelerated healing factor; he was immune to all types of diseases, illnesses, sickness, drugs, poisons, toxins, radiation, disorders, disabilities, etc. Due to his accelerated healing factor; Wolverine was also able to withstand the pain effects of Professor X's seizures.
- Retractable Bone Claws: Wolverine possessed three retractable razor-sharp claws on each of his hands, that were capable of cutting through other materials, such as flesh, wood, stone and metal. Due to his bones being infused with adamantium, Wolverine's claws were also razor-sharp; to the point that they could cut through almost any substance in existence.
- Empathy: Wolverine was able to naturally and instinctively, sense, understand or communicate with any creature.
- Pathokinesis: Wolverine ws able to naturally and instinctively, influence or control any creature. This was 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 was 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.
- Skilled Leader: Despite being more of a solo hero, Wolverine was a highly capable, effective and charismatic leader.
- Excellent Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Wolverine was 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. Despite possessing inferior superhuman strength, speed, agility and a less functional healing factor compared to his prime, Wolverine was still proven to be an extreme threat able to almost single handedly take down the majority of the Reavers with his then near 200 year experience of fighting. With this experience he was able to put up a fight against his significantly younger and imperfect clone, X-24, despite being physically outclassed; due to his age.
Weaknesses[]
- Adamantium Bonding: Although the adamantium infused into Wolverine's bones made them nearly, if not completely unbreakable, the adamantium poisoned his body, but fortunately, Wolverine's accelerated healing factor had successfully kept it at bay for many years.
- Adamantium: Wolverine's adamantium claws could penetrate or destroy, objects or weapons that were composed of adamantium, unless they were super-heated.
- Weakened Healing Factor: Due to the extreme toll the healing had taken, but mainly due to the adamantium poisoning and Ichirō Yashida's draining a considerable amount of Wolverine's healing powers, his healing began to weaken itself dramatically. By the year 2029, Wolverine's healing factor had changed, due to him being nearly 200 years old, but mainly due to the adamantium poisoning in his bones that caused his healing factor to work overtime to keep him alive. While it will still heal him from his injuries incredibly quick, it had slowed slightly and can take several moments instead of instantaneously like it did in his youth nor would it dull out pain, meaning Wolverine had to turn to painkillers and alcohol to dull the pain. Furthermore, his healing factor will no longer heal his body completely, and will leaves scars and it can now be overtaxed if it is pushed to hard in a short amount of time, which ultimately lead to Wolverine's death at the hands of his imperfect clone, X-24.
Relationships[]
- Charles Xavier/Professor X - Ally and close friend; deceased.
- Caliban - Ally; deceased.
- Laura Howlett/X-23 - Ally and daughter.
- Reavers
- Donald Pierce - Enemy; deceased.
- Zander Rice - Enemy and victim; deceased.
- X-24 - Clone, enemy and killer; deceased.
Appearances/Actors[]
- Earth-17315 (2 films)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (1 film)
- Deadpool & Wolverine (Archive footage and corpse)
Behind the scenes[]
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Trivia[]
- Wolverine, along with Professor X, are the only two characters to have appeared in every X-Men movie to date, though Wolverine is the only one to have been portrayed by the same actor in all his appearances.
- 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.
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