So, does anyone agree that Romulus might possibly actually be John Howlett, Wolverine's long-lost brother? I just re-read Wolverine: The End, and John's motives and modus operandi seem very reminiscent of Romulus's. If so, all of Wolverine's flash-backs from the Evolution arc would be retconned to be being Romulus's past lives, the way they were Logan and Creed's past lives.

It would make sense. John claimed to be the first of their kind (meaning Weapon X creations in context), and claimed that he had been following and manipulating Wolverine for 185 years. Wolverine is also stated in the series to be 210 years old, so John has been tracking him sense approx. 1923 or earlier. It could be that the experiments performed on John were the jump-start that began what eventually became Project: Rebirth, which created Captain America (currently the canonical Weapon I) in 1940.

Since Wolverine: The End takes place (at least, I think it does) in an alternate future, and not a parallel reality, that means that up until some point of divergence, it has a shared history with Earth-616, meaning that John Howlett-616 could be alive without any retcon necessary. It doesn't quite line up, timeline wise, with Romulus being responsible for Silas Burr and the Hudson training camp in 1912, but this could be fudged over (especially if it's written by Daniel Way, who had Daken being born in 1946, which was "four years" after the end of World War II; had Logan meet and train Natasha Romanov after leaving Jasmine Falls, which was after Daken had been born; and had Logan meeting Natasha for the second time in 1941).

Anyway, I just wanted to open this up for discussion.

(In an interesting side note, John also mentions in Wolverine: The End #6 that Logan had a son he was unaware of who possessed mutant powers similar to their own, which surprised Logan, because he thought none of his children had mutant powers; if John is Romulus, then this son becomes Daken.)

What I think is that since Romulus is seemingly a master of genetics, better than Charles Xavier or Sinister, Wolverine is his clone.

keep reading the wolverine: orgin arc because we'r goin find out in issue 37. ur theory makes sence but romulus has been alive for what seems well over 1000 years it could not be John Howlett because he is only around 10 years older than logan.

Well after all the build up he has had so far Romulus better be impressive and if he is hopefully he will be a major character and they don't kill him off.

"keep reading the wolverine: orgin arc because we'r goin find out in issue 37. ur theory makes sence but romulus has been alive for what seems well over 1000 years it could not be John Howlett because he is only around 10 years older than logan."

Anyone has wolverine origins #37

Hey guys. I think the creator are trying to tie his origins to the founder of ancient Rome. Read the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus

"Hey guys. I think the creator are trying to tie his origins to the founder of ancient Rome. Read the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus "

Maybe Romulus had offspring during the time he's been alive... I mean if I was a guy like him, and I knew I'd out live my spouses/ mates, yeah I'd have a few kids. And maybe he's had a few one night stands, a guy can't be alone all the time. Probably through these offspring, even though there's a chance that their offspring might not be mutants, maybe down the line it skips generations. Maybe it skipped John Howlett's father and hit him and he passed it on the James. And wasn't Wolverine born in the late 1800s to middle of the 19th century? Romulus is thousands of years old, he's probably one of Wolverine's ancestors. If not, then why was he making Wolverine, Sabretooth, WildChild, and other lupine mutant fight for his position?

I think he's Wolverine's grand father.

i THINK ROMULUS IS THOMAS LOGAN FROM WOLVERINE ORIGINS.NO ONE HAS SEEN NOR HEARD FROM HIM SINCE THEN.AND IF HE IS IN FACT WOLVERINES FATHER,WOULDNT HE HAVE THAT SAME HEALING FACTOR(NOT TO MENTION THE UNCANNY LIKENESS.

" @BLACKLION3: Not all mutie kid have the same powers as there parents just look at Quick Silver and The Scarlet Witch there dad is Magneto.  "

Touche'

Or what if he's like from the@raidenexe: Kinda like Maestro being the hulk from the future. Right?

Romulus is the first of Wolverine's race it is discovered sabertooth wolverine daken romulus wild child and a few others evolved from wolves not from apes so Romulus was the first and he wants Wolverine to be the leader of the pack since he is getting old and not up to it anymore much like how a real wolf pack would function.  Also Romulus isn't all hes made to be read the newest origins comic titled Romulus conclusion. You are in for a suprise and yes he has only 3 fingers

Nope four fingers check the latest his latest photos, it only looked like he has three fingers because one was folded down.

@onigamegeek said:

"Maybe Romulus had offspring during the time he's been alive... I mean if I was a guy like him, and I knew I'd out live my spouses/ mates, yeah I'd have a few kids. And maybe he's had a few one night stands, a guy can't be alone all the time. Probably through these offspring, even though there's a chance that their offspring might not be mutants, maybe down the line it skips generations. Maybe it skipped John Howlett's father and hit him and he passed it on the James. And wasn't Wolverine born in the late 1800s to middle of the 19th century? Romulus is thousands of years old, he's probably one of Wolverine's ancestors. If not, then why was he making Wolverine, Sabretooth, WildChild, and other lupine mutant fight for his position? "

My favorite theory in this thread so far is that Romulus is Wolverine. Wolverine also was an agent for  Landau, Luckman & Lake so he could be much older than he should be given when he was born. 

@blade hunter:
 I know this is a little late (school -- ugh), but my idea was that, just as Wolverine and Sabretooth have been reincarnated various times throughout history, so too had Romulus, and this would not be him in the same body / life he had in, say, ancient Rome. And that, somehow (probably related to Wolverine's dreams of his past lives), Romulus would simply be able to remember everything. Thus, the baby named John Howlett would simply have been his most recent body, which also happened to, yes, be only 12 years older than Wolverine's most recent body.

Wolverine from the future, come back with his twisted mindset of fucking with his past selfs life. He won't let Wolvie die. He'll do a big reveal sometime and turn out to be someone you never guessed, some janitor from Wolverine's high school or something.

I have a theory about Romulus, here it goes.  What if all of the dreams about the ancient battles wolverine was seeing, were actually previous ascensions for the leader of the pack.  For instance if you read Evolution every battle concluded with the death of a blond haired lupine, only after a competition much like what Romulus has been doing recently just more from the shadows.  Everything has been like a test with wolverine the prime candidate to pass, he's defeated everyone that mattered in order for him to have Romulus's position.  What if Romulus is just another one of the pack successors who battled for the position thousands of years ago.