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Origin
Early Life
The man known as Wolverine was born as James Howlett in the late 19th century and is the son of John and Elizabeth Howlett. He grew up weak and frail and needed round the clock care. To counter that, his parents hired a girl named Rose to keep him happy. Under Rose's care, they would go on outings and James would play with a young boy called 'Dog'. Logan, the son of Thomas Logan who was the grounds keeper for the Howlett mansion. The Logans lived in a small shack on the poor side of town. Thomas was an abusive alcoholic who had a strong hate for the Howletts, especially John Howlett. At first, it seemed that Thomas hated the Howletts because of their possessions, later, it was revealed that he was, in fact, having an affair with Elizabeth. Later on, Dog tries to force himself on Rose and rape her, then also killed James’ pet dog. Afterwards when John finds this out he fires Thomas immediately. This only makes Thomas resent John even more, and in a drunken rage, with his son and with rifles, breaks into the property. Thomas tries to convince Elizabeth to run away with him, but John comes into the room and the two engage in a fight. James is awoken by the noise and runs into the room, only to see Thomas shoot his dad dead. James was horrified and traumatized when he sees his father killed which results in the mutation of claws to manifests. James, angered at his father’s killer, jumps and attacks Thomas, killing him in the process. James then proceeds to scar his son, Dog. Rose, confused on what to do flees with James. The police are later summoned to the mansion, and "Dog" blames the murder entirely on Rose.
Rose was wanted for the murder of the Howletts, and James was exiled by his grandfather. The two become friends, and they join a mining colony called "British Columbia." James has forgotten his past due to the trauma, including his name and decides on a new name: Logan Vernon. As time passes by, his mutant abilities and his physical build develops and he is dubbed the Wolverine by his fellow miners. However, James' grandfather is on his death bed, and summons Dog to look for him. James' grandfather originally exiled him, but he had a change of heart and wanted to see his grandson. When Dog finally found him, both James and Dog engaged in a fight. Just as they are about to fight, Wolverine extended his claws and Rose is knocked into the fight by the crowd, and impales herself. Mad with grief, James exiles himself, living with wolves.
Later on, Logan returns to civilization working as a soldier in the Canadian Army during World War I and World War II. During WWII, he spent his time in a concentration camp and also helps out Captain America in saving Black Widow. Unknown to Logan in serves to the army and assisting Captain America, one off the many people he would save from the concentration camps happened to be a young boy who would later become one of his worst enemies, Magneto. Logan also participated in D-Day and the liberation of the Netherlands. Prior to the Weapon X program, Logan has met many important characters such as Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel), Nick Fury, Ben Grimm (Thing), Richard Parker, and Mary Parker, and he was the first one to congratulate the two when they found out that Mary was pregnant. Logan also remembered memories of having a relationship with Silver Fox when they were in a team called Team X, but she is apparently raped and killed by Sabretooth.
Weapon X
Wolverine had become a drifter who was discharged from the army because he shot a fellow soldier on the shooting range. He is suffering from amnesia and has trouble remembering anything from his past. Logan later goes to a bar where he is eventually drugged. Wolverine was being taken into the Weapon X program.
It was a facility in Canada ran by a man known as 'The Professor', Dr. Abraham Cornelius, and Carol Hines. Wolverine was shaved all around his body when Cornelius noticed his hair was re-growing at an accelerated speed. They also realized that their drug was starting to wear off too quickly. They continued to drug him until he could no longer do anything at all, then they proceeded to changing him into Weapon X. His bones were laced with Adamantium and he was brainwashed into a killing machine. They also altered his memories by giving him false memories so he could not trace it back to them. Eventually Wolverine was able to escape from the Weapon X program and killed everyone on his way out except for the Professor, Cornelius, and Hines. While he is running in the wild, Wolverine would encounter the Canadian government agents named James and Heather Hudson. They would recruit Logan to the Department H and he would accept.
It is shortly after this Wolverine first fights the Hulk, and where Wolverine's first appearance (Incredible Hulk 180) fits in chronologically.
X-Men
When the original team of X-Men were kidnapped on Krakoa, Professor X recruits a new team of X-Men to rescue the original team. Wolverine was one of these recruits and after he helps save the other team, he would remain on the X-Men for several more missions. During his time on the X-Men he would clash with Cyclops many times due to their mutual interest in Jean Grey. Wolverine became romantically attracted to Jean because of her resemblance to his late mother, Rose. Later James Hudson (Vindicator) would seek Wolverine and try and return him back to Department H, with force if necessary. However, Vindicator would be easily defeated and, as he leaves, he promises that he will be back for Logan. Logan would later meet a woman named Mariko Yashida who was the heir to the Yakuza family. Logan would eventually fall in love with Mariko. Vindicator would return for Wolverine, but this time as the leader of Alpha Flight. The X-Men battle Alpha Flight and defeat them with ease again, Alpha Flight leaves Wolverine alone again. After the Dark Phoenix Saga, Wolverine began wearing his yellow and brown costume. He returns to Canada to try and make peace with Alpha Flight and engages with Wendigo. After he defeats Wendigo, he returned home.
When Kitty Pryde’s father, Carmen Pryde, was said to have been in trouble with the Yakuza, Wolverine accompanies Kitty to Japan. There, they encounter Wolverine’s former mentor named Ogun. Ogun later was able to possess Kitty but with Logan’s aid, she was able to force Ogun out of her body. After this event, Wolverine and Kitty have become very close with a big brother/mentor type of relationship. Later Mariko would get married and Wolverine still had feelings for her. She tried to use Wolverine to kill her father but later decides that she cannot talk to him because his claws were unsheathed was dishonorable. Later Mariko’s husband would be killed, and Wolverine regains his honor by beating her father in combat. Logan and Mariko get engaged but it got canceled by Viper and the Silver Samurai. After the X-Men had battled a giant dragon in Tokyo, it left a girl named Amiko Kobayashi parentless. Wolverine decided to take her in but would leave her in the care of his close friend Yukio, he would occasionally visit her.
Leader of the X-Men
After Storm had apparently lost her powers, she leaves the X-Men. Wolverine would become the new leader of what looked like the end of the X-Men. The team only featured Psylocke, Havok, Longshot, Rogue, and sometimes Colossus. After many of the X-Men died in the Fall of the Mutants story arc, they were reborn in the Australian Outback. While they were there, Wolverine encounters a runaway mutant named Jubilee (Wondra), who saves him from an attack by Lady Deathstrike. Wolverine would begin to care for Jubilee just as he cares for Kitty and Amiko. While in Australia, Wolverine was tricked by Apocalypse into going to the Savage Land. While in the Savage Land, Wolverine becomes romantically involved with the female chieftain named Gahck. Eventually he would discover a robot Apocalypse and destroy it. Wolverine returns to America and begins to head off to Canada. While in Canada, he finally discovers that his current memories were all implanted and false. This caused his personality to become a much darker character. Next, Wolverine travels to Japan and tries to reconcile with Mariko. She refused to love him again until her clan can stop doing illegal activities. Later a Yakuza assassin would poison Mariko and it was revealed to be at the order of Matsu’o Tsurayaba. Mariko would beg Wolverine to kill her quickly so she does not suffer a slow death from the poison. Wolverine’s personality took a turn again when Mariko dies in his arms, this is the reason why Wolverine has become so emotionally distant. After Mariko’s death, Wolverine swore to Tsurayaba that on every anniversary of Mariko’s death, Wolverine will visit him and cut off a piece of his body until there is nothing left.
Later Wolverine was reunited with Sabretooth, Maverick, Silver Fox, John Wraith, and Mastodon. All of who have been through the Weapon X program. They worked together to try and hunt down Aldo Ferro, a psychic who brainwashed them for Weapon X. Right before Ferro dies, he forces Sabretooth to kill Silver Fox. Wolverine suffers a mental breakdown after Silver Fox died and it accumulated with the death of Mariko and the tampering of his brain. He began thinking he was on another Team X mission to assassinate a man named Terry Adams. Wolverine was able to break into a Russian space program. He meets Epsilon Red, who is a powerful psychic and also the Terry Wolverine was supposed to assassinate. Instead, Wolverine actually helped free him and in return he helped break down Wolverine’s mental barriers, now Wolverine was able to tell which memories were false and which were real.
In the Fatal Attractions story arc, Wolverine’s adamantium was extracted by Magneto. This injured Wolverine so badly that his healing factor could not keep up trying to keep him alive. Wolverine would eventually heal but without his adamantium now, and as a result of the serious injuries due to the extraction, his strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes were weakened. Wolverine could not accept the fact that he was severely weakened after Fatal Attractions, he began training day and night in the Danger Room to try and regain his old abilities. This revealed that his claws were his bones and that they were naturally apart of him. Also since they are no longer laced with adamantium, his bones are not sharp enough to pierce through cleanly, which results in damaged skin on his knuckles and massive blood loss every time he extracts the claws. Finally accepting his loss in strength and power, he decides to go on a solo adventure and left Jubilee a note explaining himself.
Eventually Wolverine would return to the X-Mansion when he discovered that Sabretooth had been staying there. Wolverine returns and begins to fight Sabretooth, the fight ends when Wolverine stabs Sabretooth in the brain which caused him brain damage until it fully healed. Now back at the X-Mansion, Professor Xavier, along with Beast and Heather Hudson, researched Wolverine’s body and mutation. They discover that his heightened senses and healing factor was slowly increasing in power. They discovered that when Wolverine’s skeleton was laced with adamantium, his mutation had stopped. They also reveal that his healing factor had in fact been healing at a slow pace due to the adamantium’s toxicity, it forced his healing factor to constantly heal the poison from the adamantium. Therefore, as time goes by Wolverine’s healing factor would become much more stronger and be able to heal him even if something is cut off.
Adamantium Again
Later Genesis would kidnap Wolverine and attempts to re-bond Wolverine with adamantium again in order to transform him into one of Horsemen of Apocalypse. However, Genesis was unsuccessful and it caused Wolverine to transform into a more feral personality that acted on animal instincts. Wolverine, now in feral stage, kills the Dark Riders and Genesis. Later he is encountered by Elektra and Stick, who help him regain his humanity and was able to change him back to normal. Wolverine would continue his life without adamantium for some time. Eventually Wolverine would be kidnapped by Apocalypse, who offers to re-bond Wolverine with adamantium. Apocalypse then sets up a fight between him and Sabretooth to decide who the new Death would be. Wolverine accepts the fight because he does not want Sabretooth to be let loose as the Horseman of Death. Wolverine defeats Sabretooth and becomes the new Horseman of Death. Apocalypse then extracts the adamantium in Sabretooth and re-bonded it to Wolverine’s skeleton. Wolverine was sent to battle the X-Men but would eventually break free from Apocalypse’s control with the help of Jubilee.
During Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men, it was revealed that the X in Weapon X was a roman numeral. This meant Wolverine was possibly the tenth weapon, although the Weapon X program developed many more super-beings. It was also revealed that Captain America was the first weapon (Weapon I). Wolverine would also discover that the Weapon program continued to create more weapons, the latest was Ultimaton - Weapon XV. Wolverine and Cyclops defeat Weapon XV and Wolverine learns his true identity. Wolverine was able to gain access to the Weapon X files and he learns that he was created to be a living killing machine. He also discovered that he was sent into a small town where he killed everybody. This caused Wolverine to believe that his only purpose in life was to kill, but with the help of Jean Grey, he was able to snap out of his current mental state.
Later Wolverine was brainwashed by Hydra into working for them as an assassin. He killed many heroes during this time, among those were Hornet of the Slingers and Northstar who was resurrected by HYDRA and also brainwashed into working for them. Eventually he was able to break free from their control and helped SHIELD bring them down.
Next, Wolverine was recruited to join the New Avengers. Iron Man wanted to recruit Wolverine because of what happened during Avengers Disassembled. He believed that if someone with powers like Scarlet Witch were to go rogue, Wolverine would not hesitate in killing them.
After House of M, Wolverine was able to recover all of his memories. The governments of the United States and Canada found out and began to panic because of their involvement in his life. Expecting Wolverine to come seeking for revenge, they destroyed every written document that involved Wolverine. However, Wolverine would proceed in finding more answers in the story arc 'Origins & Endings'. Wolverine began searching for a weapon called the Muramasa Blade. He confronts the Silver Samurai for answers, but he refuses and the two engage in a battle. In the end Silver Samurai had stabbed Wolverine, but Wolverine breaks free by cutting off one of Silver Samurai’s hand. He tells him about Bucky Barnes’s (Winter Soldier and the current Captain America) involvement in Wolverine’s escape from the Weapon X program. Wolverine would confront Bucky where he admitted to Logan that he killed one of his pregnant Japanese wife but was under mind control at the time. Wolverine remembers how he met Itsu after World War II. It began with Ogun taking Wolverine in as his pupil and trained him. Ogun had sent Wolverine to a village where Bando Saburo would team him to regain his humanity. That is where Wolverine met Itsu, and the two would conceive a child. Bucky would kill Itsu when he was under mind control and Wolverine would believe that it was the people of the village that murdered her. Wolverine would ally himself with a man named Muramasa, who created the Muramasa blade for Wolverine. After finally remembering what the Muramasa blade is, he returns to Muramasa’s mountains and takes back his sword from Muramasa.
Civil War
After Nitro exploded in Stamford, Connecticut, Wolverine went on a mission after Nitro. He was eventually able to track down Nitro where the two would begin to battle. Wolverine beats Nitro until he is interrupted by Atlantean agents that were ordered by Namor to retrieve Nitro (Nitro had killed Namor’s cousin, Namorita). Wolverine declined to hand Nitro over to them when Namor arrives. Wolverine tries to engage against him but is knocked unconscious. When Wolverine regained consciousness, he was able to borrow an underwater armor from Tony Stark and went after Nitro. When Wolverine was able to see Nitro, he decided to leave him there with Namor. Namor would reveal to Wolverine that he had gained more power from a drug called Mutant Growth Hormone. Wolverine goes on several missions during the Civil War to try and rid evil.
Wolverine: Origins
This series launched right after Wolverine’s Origin & Endings story arc. It follows Wolverine as he now remembers his entire past, and is going to exact his revenge on those responsible. Wolverine begins in a government facility in which he is trying to find information. He is then attacked by a Shiva robot and Wolverine easily defeats it with the Muramasa Blade. The government then decides to release Nuke (Frank Simpson) to fight Wolverine. In the process Wolverine discovers another hidden part from his memory in which it reveals that Wolverine was responsible for turning Nuke into the person he his today. Wolverine would defeat Nuke when he would engage against Captain America, who was sent to stop Wolverine. Captain America was able to steal away the Muramasa Blade from Wolverine and slashed him in the stomach. Then Cyclops, Emma Frost, and the Hellions come and stops Wolverine before he can try and kill Captain America. Emma was then able to discover the Wolverine’s son was still alive and she reveals it to him. She also reveals that he does not have any thoughts that are readable just like Wolverine. Emma tries to talk Wolverine out of his mission to go after his son instead, but Wolverine decides that the people he is after could go after his son and brainwash him. Wolverine then gives Cyclops the Muramasa Blade and tells him to use it on Wolverine when the time comes.
Wolverine returns to America to find his friend Maverick. He was able to track down Maverick to a building where refugee mutants that both still had their abilities and those that don’t are taking shelter there together. Wolverine discovers that Jubilee was there but they are interrupted by Omega Red crashing into the building demanding Maverick to tell him where the carbonadium synthesizer is. Wolverine then engages against Omega Red in order to give time for Maverick and Jubilee to evacuate the other mutants. Omega Red would be able to overpower Wolverine and threw him through the building which knocked him unconscious. Wolverine then hears Jubilee screw and Wolverine would rush back to her. He finds a wounded Maverick who tells Wolverine that he had told Omega Red where the carbonadium synthesizer was and he took Jubilee with him. Wolverine goes through a bunch of memories when he arrives at Berlin. He would meet up with Black Widow but eventually Wolverine would get captured. While being held captive, someone comes in and kills all the guards and slashes Wolverine in the stomach, Wolverine would pass out.
Wolverine leaves the facility, and is tailed by his son, Daken (Daken is the one who cut open his stomach.) He continues to tail his father. He continues to tail Wolverine into a bank vault, the holding place of the carbonadium synthesizer. Daken begins a bloody battle with Wolverine, where it seems that Daken has the upper hand. The fight is interrupted when Cyber breaks through the wall and challenges Daken. They fought for a while but when Cyber took advantage of the fight and is about to kill Daken, he pulled Cyber out, letting his son escaped. Cyber then attacked Wolverine but suffered a heart attack before he could continue. Logan was told that Cyber trained his son in the field of combat, he got this information in exchange for saving Cyber's life.
Wolverine decides to go to a museum dedicated to Captain America to reflect on his first meeting with him during the second World War. Before leaving, Wolverine goes to a storage locker and put something in a particular locker, which was owned by Bucky. When he opened his locker, he finds 3 sniper bullets and a letter which states, "Bucky, will let you know who and when", signed with a "L".
Messiah Complex
Wolverine is a part of the X-Men team assembled to investigate a mutant baby detected in Alaska. When they got there, they were too late and found all of the children there have been killed. They hunted down Mr. Sinister and the Marauders because they suspect that they kidnapped the mutant baby. When Wolverine find out through Gambit that the baby is in the possession of another X-Man, Cable, Cyclops assembled a new team of the X-force, with Wolverine as team leader, and their objective is to retrieve the mutant baby from Cable, by any means necessary. When Cable was battling the Purifiers and the Reavers, led by Lady Deathstrike, the X-Force joined the battle, giving Cable the opportunity to commender the X-Force's Blackbird to escape. In the last battle against the Marauders, Wolverine lets himself be swallowed by Predator X to tear it from the inside out.
Leader of X-Force#
After Messiah Complex, Cyclops realized that there are some enemies of the X-Men and those who too much of a threat for the endangered mutants everywhere that needs to be dealt with permanently. He reassembles X-Force without anyone the X-Men's knowledge, and the first foe he sends them after are Matthew Risman and the Purifiers.
Powers
Wolverine is a mutant with the abilities to rapidly heal and regenerate damage inflicted upon his body. His healing factor has increased in strength through the years that the only way to kill Wolverine is to decapitate him and remove his brain from the vicinity of his body. He is immune to most drugs and poisons, and his rate of aging has been slowed down considerably. His healing factor was originally supposed to be just accelerated healing, however, through the years, writers have made his healing much more powerful to the point where he could regenerate lost organs. Since Wolverine has the ability to heal quickly, his stamina is practically limitless. An example of Wolverine's incredible stamina is when he fought Omega Red for 18 straight hours. Wolverine’s healing factor also allows him to push his strength beyond any normal human being’s limit.
Wolverine also possesses amazing agility and reflexes. He possess animalistic senses which allow him to see further than normal humans, and also enables him to track people by scent. His other senses are so strong that even in complete darkness, Wolverine can basically see through it. His hearing ability allows him to hear things humans cannot and he can also hear things from a great distance. Wolverine’s physical build is also a part of his mutation in which he has sharp teeth and three retractable bone Wolverine's Claws housed in his fore-arms. His bone claws are strong enough to cut through most types of materials. When he extracts the claws, it always cuts through his knuckles but his healing factor closes the wound right away. His skeletal system and claws are coated with adamantium making them virtually unbreakable during the Weapon X program. The adamantium gives Wolverine the ability to cut through any solid material. With the adamantium infused throughout his skeleton, it protects his brain since it is laced through the skull. The adamantium being laced all over his skeleton also allows Wolverine to lift heavy objects without shattering any bones.
Strength Level
Wolverine possesses the normal human strength of a man of his apparent age, height and build who engages in regular exercise.
Weaknessess
It has been revealed on several occasions in the past that Wolverines brain must be mostly intact for him to be able to regenerate, also that he has problems with swimming due to his heavy skeleton. Writers have been powering up his abilities throughout the years. These limitations seems to be largely ignored recently as Wolverine can regrow organs such as a heart. He also still needs to breathe, and can be killed by drowning. It had also been shown that Wolverine has a weakness in the form of a sword called the Muramasa Blade (for more information, see Muramasa). It seems that the effectiveness of Wolverine's healing factor is greatly decreased when dealing with wounds from this sword. He once recieved a relatively minor cut from the sword, and the cut took several days to fully heal.
Skills
Wolverine has gone through combat training in many areas, formerly being a samurai, government agent, X-Man, and part of the Avengers. He has exceptional hand-to-hand fighting skills, as well as being adept at using many different types of weapons. Throughout his entire life traveling the world, Wolverine has become a master of every form of martial arts. Wolverine was also a samurai and was a killed katana user. Wolverine’s hand-to-hand combat is extremely good to the point where he can defeat Shang-Chi and Captain America, who are both masters at hand-to-hand combat. Wolverine is also skilled in espionage due to his time in the army and being made a weapon.
Wolverine has the ability to go into berserker rage in which his mind acts on animal instinct and rage. During this mode he is immune to any psionic attack and attacks relentlessly.
Wolverine is also capable of using attacks such as the Fastball Special, a move which was perfected with Colossus. It involves Colossus throwing Wolverine at much greater speeds than he could have attained on his own. It is also beneficial in helping Wolverine reach areas that he couldn't have reached on his own. A slightly different technique is also used with Cannonball, known as the Cannonball Special.
Media
Wolverine has appeared in a lot of media over the years. He has appeared in X-men 1, 2, and 3. He also appeared in the Spider-Man animated series countless times, and even starred in the X-men animated series, X-men evolution, and X-men. His own movie is scheduled for release in 2001. It is said to show his origin, and classic villains will appear such as Deadpool.
Alternate Universes
Earth-2107
The Ultimate version of Cable is a future timeline version of Wolverine. Convinced that taking out Professor X earlier in his life, Cable comes back with Ultimate Domino and fights the X-Men, eventually succeeding in killing Xavier. Ultimate Cable resembles Wolverine in many aspects. He is outfitted with futuristic weapons capable of taking out any of the X-Men of the present. While unexplained, his healing factor is no longer active. One of his arms has been replaced with a robotic arm, and he has scars across his face. He still has claws that can come out of his good arm, however without a healing factor it is much more painful to pop them out and when the claws are retracted the wounds in his hands heal at a more normal human rate. Because this version of Cable came from a future timeline his own reality wouldn't be Earth-1610 but has been designated Earth-2107.
Earth-6195
A similar version of the Zombie Wolverine was on a failed team of Exiles comprised entirely of various Wolverines from different and realities.
Shortly after his death the remains was recovered by X-51 (Machine Man) of Earth-9997 (Earth X). X-51 revived Wolverine using technology used by Merlyn to revive Captain Britain, and Wolverine joined X-51's group of Heralds.
This version of Wolverine has begun to show signs of aging, beginning to get gray hair at the temples. He is also a very experienced fighter, having fought Sentinels for almost two centuries.
Earth-58163
In the House of M reality Wolverine was a elite Red Guard Unit SHIELD agent. He was the second to know what was wrong with the world. He remembered his life in House of M and also in 616 at the same time because of his weapon X implants.
Earth-2182
In Nocturne's home reality Wolverine is known as Professor W. He is crippled after a fight with the Shadow King, and acts as the leader of the X-Men.
Earth-9811
In this reality, also called Battleworld, Wolverine and Storm had a daughter called Torrent.
Earth-2301 - Marvel Mangaverse
In this reality, Wolverine is the one that formed the X-men which is composed of himself, Cyclops, who is his brother in this reality, Storm, Moonstar, and Jean Grey, with Rogue living with them. He is depicted as his left arm have adamantium claws while his right arm is made of metal and project laser claws.
Wolverine - The End
In this alternate reality Logan's older brother, John Howlett who is also a mutant, plans to blow up Las Vegas and then attempt to take over the country. Logan stop's his brother but he kills him by mistake and John dies in Logan's arm's.
























