Wolverine
Wolverine is a comic book character that first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #180
Wolverine is a mutant turned into the ultimate weapon through the Weapon X program. Wolverine is the best there is at what he does but what he does isn't very nice.
Origin of Wolverine
As the children grew older Dog became more like his father and even tried to force himself on Rose but she managed to get away and James told his father and Logan are put on a final warning. For revenge Dog confronted James at his brother's grave and attacked him but was stopped by James' dog; Dog picks up James' dog and slit's it's throat. After this John fired Thomas Logan and had him thrown off his land.
Rose chased James out the mansion. Confused, Rose went to James' Grandfather for help but all he did was give Rose money and told them to get out. Rose and James caught a train to an small isolated mining village which a man called smitty owned. While there Rose gave James the name Logan to cover their tracks. Also James became the target of the fat cook cookie who felt James had taken his place among his friends often beat on James until Smitty broke them up. As the years pass James body and mutant powers develop, James lived with Rose and had developed strong feelings for her but he was scared to act on them, James becomes a good strong worker and never left the job until it was done and because of this the other workers start to call him Wolverine.
James started to idolize Smitty becoming good friends with Smitty also at this time James' grand-father had became ill and wanted to see James again so he sent Dog [now nearly fully grown and is massive in terms of strength and size and still with scars on his face from James' claws] to track them down and bring them back to him but Dog had other idea's, we wanted revenge on James for his father's death, Dog tracked them down to their village where James had only just finished a cage fighting contest where he beat his long time enemy Cookie to a bloody pulp and took a dive in his match with Smitty so that Smitty and Rose would have enough money to leave the village. Dog quickly gained the upper hand on a tired James but something Dog said set James off and with the other villagers watching on James hammers Dog then unleashes his bone claws and is about to kill Dog but Rose tried to stop him but ended up impaled on Logan's claws and died; overcome by grief James fled into the woods with the wolves not to be seen again for some years.
Early Years of Wolverine
At some point in time, Logan travels to another frontier community in the Canadian Rockies. He meets a young Blackfoot woman named Silver Fox, with whom he falls in love. The two share a cabin together and live happily for a time.On Logan's birthday, Sabretooth murdered Silver Fox. Enraged, Logan battles Sabretooth only to be defeated. Sabretooth and a mysterious cloaked figure then convince a feral, mindless Logan to slaughter the inhabitants of the town he had been living in at the time.
Later, employed by The Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader to the Blackfoot Indians, he defeats the demonic snake-worm known as Uncegila, a feat which earns him the Blackfoot warrior name of "Skunk-Bear". A broad, largely unseen conspiracy then begins to shape Logan, now robbed of his conscience and free will, into the perfect killer. Wherever Logan goes, Sabretooth, one of his handlers, is not far behind.
Wolverine in World War I
While fighting in Belgium on April 22, 1915, Logan encounters a being called Lazaer. Lazaer is armed with a large broadsword and has been using it to kill soldiers on the same battlefield. They soon begin to fight one another, with Lazaer initially gaining the upper hand. After being impaled with Lazaer's sword, Logan pulls it from his chest and stabs it through the chest of his surprised opponent.
Logan is sent to the Romanov family in Russia where he learns espionage and befriends the young Natalia Romanova, who many years later will be known as the Black Widow.
In 1936, Wolverine works alongside time-traveling Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers to fight Nazi villains Baron Strucker and Geist, who have allied themselves with the Shadow King to dethrone King Edward VIII and replace him with a fascist heir.
Wolverine in World War II
Wolverine also sees action in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, along with good friend Puck.
Eventually, Logan returns to Canada and again enlists in the Armed Forces, joining the First Canadian Parachute Battalion. It is with this battalion that Logan first encounters Bloodscream, an immortal being with vampire-like qualities and powers. At some point, Logan is captured and spends time in a German concentration camp.
After WWII, he travels to China, where he meets a Chinese businessman named Chang, an employee of Landau, Luckman, and Lake. In Shanghai, Logan meets Ogun, an immortal Japanese samurai and sorcerer. Impressed by Logan’s skill, Ogun offers to instruct him in the martial arts, and even teaches him Sun Tzu and ideograms. Wolverine soon develops a deep and lasting love for Japan.
After the demon sword smith Muramasa creates an explosion that causes Logan to accidentally stab a villager with his claws, Logan is banned from the village. Before he leaves, Logan finds Itsu murdered. Unknown to Logan, the mysterious cloaked figure (who later accompanies Sabretooth when he murders Silver Fox) takes the child from Itsu's womb and raises him as the assassin Daken.
Logan gives himself to Muramasa, thinking the villagers are responsible for the murder of Itsu. Muramasa vows to build a sword capable of killing even Logan himself. Logan is later rescued by the Winter Soldier and taken to Madripoor.
Soon after Logan begins working for the American CIA. He is instrumental in the creation of the unbalanced super-soldier, Nuke. On one occasion, Wolverine teams up with Ben Grimm (later known as the Thing) to participate in a Cold War-era government mission. He is then recruited by Team X, a Black Ops section of the CIA.
Team X
On one of Team X's final missions, Logan and Sabretooth are ordered to assassinate the Soviet super-agent Epsilon Red. The mission is called off but Sabretooth murders Epsilon Red's wife for enjoyment. In Logan's final mission with Team X, he is dispatched to East Germany with Sabretooth, Maverick, and John Wraith to sabotage a Soviet super-soldier program in Berlin, steal an item called the carbonadium synthesizer and extract a double agent named Janice. Team X fights another super-agent, Omega Red. Sabretooth murders Janice after realizing that Logan has recovered his emotions and conscience, reminding Logan that whenever he strays from the narrow path his unseen masters have laid out for him, innocents, most often the women he loves, inevitably die.
Logan learns that he is a mutant and resigns from Team X. He then joins the Canadian Department of National Defense. On one occasion, Logan works with Richard and Mary Parker, government agents and parents of Peter Parker, Spider-Man. Logan also first meets Carol Danvers during this time and works with her on a number of occasions.
Weapon X
Logan is kidnapped by agents of the Weapon X Program. The man known only as the "Professor," Dr. Abraham Cornelius, and Carol Hines begin to examine Logan. After performing many tests, the Professor learns Logan is a mutant and will thus make the perfect weapon. Logan's bones and claws are bonded with the indestructible metal known as adamantium. This adamantium bonding process was stolen by the Weapon X Program from the Japanese scientist known as Lord Dark Wind.
Logan proves too difficult for the Weapon X Program to control and shortly thereafter, Wolverine escapes the facility with the help of Winter Soldier, killing nearly everyone except for Professor Cornelius, Hines, and Malcolm Colcord.
Driven into a feral-like state by the experiment, Logan wanders the forests of the Canadian Rockies for months. It is during this feral period that he first encounters the Hunter in Darkness
Department H
Logan becomes Wolverine, one of Canada's first superheroes. In his first mission, he is dispatched to stop the destruction caused by a brawl between the Hulk and the Wendigo.
Another documented Department H mission is Wolverine's involvement in a hostage situation in Iraq. Iraqi militants and a group of hired mercenaries seized an American embassy in Iraq and took hostages, giving various ransom demands. Because there are Canadian hostages in the embassy, Wolverine is dispatched to handle the situation, along with an American/Canadian Delta Force. The reclaiming of the embassy is successful. However, following the battle, Wolverine finds a Canadian nun dying from a bullet wound she received in the crossfire. She tells him about how the hired American mercenaries had harassed her daily and subjected her to extreme psychological torture. Wolverine promises the nun he would avenge the suffering, and years later he hunts down the mercenaries in North America and kills them.
James Hudson soon creates Alpha Flight and recruits Logan with the intention of making him team leader.
Wolverine in the X-Men
James Hudson eventually finds Wolverine and tries to force him to return him to Department H, but is defeated quickly. Later, in Japan, Wolverine encounters Lady Mariko Yashida, heir to an extremely powerful Yakuza family in Tokyo.During an intimate scene in a garden Wolverine begins to tell Mariko his name but is interrupted by Mandroids and Moses Magnum. After the battle and before leaving Japan, he finally tells Mariko his name is "Logan" and presents her with a white chrysanthemum. It is the first time he reveals the name he calls himself. As time passes, he falls for Mariko, as Jean Grey is attached.
Vindicator returns as the leader of Canada's first superhero team Alpha Flight. With his new team, he attempts to capture Wolverine. Not long after the X-Men defeat Alpha Flight, Jean Grey, possessed by Phoenix, dies. Cyclops leaves the team in grief, and Storm takes up the mantle of the X-Men's leader. Kitty Pryde joins the team and eventually becomes one of Wolverine's closest friends.
Wolverine, donning his brown and tan outfit for the first time, travels to Canada with Nightcrawler in tow to make peace with Alpha Flight by helping them take down the Wendigo once more. During this adventure, Wolverine's teammates finally learn his name.
In his first solo limited series, written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Frank Miller, Wolverine seemingly overcomes his feral nature in order to win the love and respect of Mariko Yashida. The two are engaged after Wolverine kills Lord Shingen Harada. However, the wedding is broken off by Viper and the Silver Samurai, as well as the manipulations of the villain Mastermind.
In another story, Wolverine rescues and takes it upon himself to watch over Amiko Kobayashi (sometimes written Akiko), daughter of a woman killed in the aftermath of a fight between the X-Men and a giant dragon over Tokyo. In subsequent stories Logan continues to visit Amiko, although she is now under the care of his close friend and sometime lover Yukio.
When Storm's powers are lost and she leaves the X-Men for a time, Wolverine briefly becomes leader of the X-Men. His team consists of Havok, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, and Longshot. This team is mainly featured in the crossover events The Fall of the Mutants and Inferno. After the events of Fall of the Mutants, the X-Men, who sacrifice their lives, are reborn in the Australian Outback. There, runaway mutant Jubilee saves Wolverine's life from an attack by Lady Deathstrike and crucifixion by the Reavers. She eventually becomes, as Kitty and Amiko did before her, another surrogate daughter. Wolverine also returns to Madripoor during this time and re-assumes alias 'Patch.'
Apocalypse tricks Wolverine into journeying to the Savage Land. While there, Wolverine sleeps with the female chieftain, Gahck, of an indigenous tribe. He discovers an insane robot duplicate of Apocalypse, which he destroys, putting an end to Apocalypse's experiments on the tribe. He unknowingly sires a son with Gahck, whom she names "Erista."
Wolverine later renews his feud with Cable, but then assists Cable and the New Mutants against Stryfe and his Mutant Liberation Front. Wolverine's filial relationship with Sabretooth is revealed to have been a memory implant, and he then returns to his original costume. After the X-Men return to America, Wolverine returns to the Weapon X base in Canada. There, he learns many of his memories are implants and his personality becomes much darker. He also fights the robot Shiva for the first time.
Wolverine travels back to Japan and reunites with Mariko, though she refuses to rekindle their love until her clan ceases all illegal activities. However, she is soon poisoned by a Yakuza assassin working for Matsu'o Tsurayaba, who bears a grudge against Wolverine. Mariko asks Wolverine to end her life quickly, and he reluctantly complies. This changes Wolverine's character significantly, making him even more disciplined and emotionally distant. Wolverine vows to Matsu'o that on each anniversary of Mariko's death he will visit him and slice off a body part until there is nothing of him left.
Shortly after Mariko's death, Wolverine is shocked to learn that Silver Fox is still alive. The two former lovers rejoin their former Team X teammates Sabretooth, Maverick, John Wraith, and Mastodon, with Jubilee and Caroline Hines of the Weapon X Program in tow, in hunting down Aldo Ferro a.k.a "Psi-Borg," a powerful psychic who brainwashed many of them for Weapon X. Ferro kills Hines and then forces Sabretooth to kill Silver Fox before dying himself.
Wolverine suffers a mental breakdown after the deaths of Mariko and Silver Fox. Thinking he is on a prior Team X mission to assassinate someone named "Terry Adams", Wolverine breaks into a Russian space program facility and encounters Epsilon Red, a genetically-engineered cosmonaut with powerful psychic abilities. Red, the "Terry Adams" Wolverine is after, breaks down many of the mental blocks in Wolverine's mind in return for help escaping the facility. With this greater knowledge of which memories are true and which are false, Wolverine is finally able to pick up the pieces of his shattered life.
This happiness is short-lived, for at the end of the Fatal Attractions crossover, the adamantium is ripped from Wolverine's skeleton by Magneto. This act injures Wolverine so severely his mutant healing factor burns itself out in order to keep him alive. In fact, most of Wolverine's other natural abilities including his heightened senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes are weakened as well.
Unwilling to accept his severely weakened state, Wolverine begins training in the Danger Room. In a fit of rage and frustration, his claws, now bone, extrude. Furthermore, each time he extrudes them, they pierce the skin of his hands and cause severe tissue damage and blood loss. Feeling useless, Logan embarks on a series of solo adventures, leaving a note with Jubilee to explain his views on the matter.
During these adventures, he encounters some past enemies, such as the adamantium-skinned Cyber, the Reaver known as Cylla, and the vampiric Bloodscream. Cyber ends up being the first to break Wolverine's newly discovered bone claws. While traveling alone, Wolverine stops for a training session with Generation X and encounters his Weapon X ally Maverick and his X-Men teammate Gambit in Madripoor, before learning Sabretooth is staying at Xavier's. Wolverine returns and defeats Sabretooth in battle while the X-Men are away. The battle ends with Wolverine puncturing Sabretooth's brain, temporarily altering Sabretooth's vicious personality until the injury is fully healed.
Some time later, the villain known as Genesis, who is the son of Wolverine's ally Cable, kidnaps Wolverine and attempts to re-bond adamantium to his skeleton in an attempt to transform Wolverine into a Horseman of Apocalypse.The attempt is unsuccessful, and the process pushes Wolverine so far to the edge that he becomes purely feral. Enraged, Wolverine stalks the Dark Riders in their headquarters and eventually kills them all before fleeing. With the help of Elektra and Stick, he is able to regain his humanity and reverse the bulk of his feral regression, though his increased powers remain.
Wolverine as Death: Horseman of Apocalypse
Wolverine lives without adamantium for some time before being kidnapped by the villain Apocalypse. Apocalypse sets up a contest between Wolverine and an adamantium-bonded Sabretooth to determine who would become the new leader of his Four Horsemen.
Although he knows winning means being brainwashed and turned against his friends, Wolverine supposes that Sabretooth would enjoy being set loose as a killing machine, while he himself might be able to fight it. Emerging victorious he is made the Horseman Death, and Apocalypse strips the adamantium from Sabretooth and bonds it to Wolverine's skeleton once more.
While Wolverine serves Apocalypse as the Horseman Death, a Skrull impostor takes his place on the X-Men. The real Wolverine later kills the Skrull impostor. Wolverine eventually overcomes Apocalypse's conditioning with the help of Jubilee.
Some time later, Wolverine is captured by the Weapon X program, restarted under the leadership of Director Malcolm Colcord, a soldier Wolverine disfigured when he escaped from the original Weapon X facility. It is revealed that the mental implants installed by the original program are still functional, as Colcord uses them to force Wolverine into tracking down and eliminating former members of the program. Wolverine's mental implants are finally destroyed when he assassinates the previous director.Soon after, it is revealed that the "X" in "Weapon X" was a Roman numeral, making Wolverine "Weapon Ten" in a sequence of living super-weapons that began with Captain America and Isaiah Bradley. The Weapon X program that experimented on Wolverine spun out of a larger "Weapon Plus" program, leading Wolverine to join Cyclops and the mysterious Fantomex, himself Weapon XIII, on a mission to bring down Weapon Plus and discover Wolverine's true identity.
During the assault on Weapon Plus, Wolverine kills Weapon XV, also known as Ultimation.Wolverine then gains access to the Weapon X files that describe his genesis, though this happens largely off-panel and it is not clear to the reader precisely what he learns. What is known is that he was intended to be a living Sentinel and that, to test the extent of his brainwashing, he was forced to exterminate the populace of a small Midwestern town called Roanoke. Wolverine becomes depressed and angry after learning he was created to hunt and exterminate his own people, though Jean Grey is able to convince him that no matter what his makers intended for him, he is still a good man. Shortly thereafter Jean Grey is killed and Wolverine, in a feral rage, slices off the head of her killer, "Magneto". Enemy Of The State Wolverine is brainwashed into becoming an agent of an alliance between HYDRA and the Hand. While under their control, he kills Northstar. He is eventually rescued by S.H.I.E.L.D. and he uses their resources to exact his revenge. Soon after, Wolverine is recruited by the New Avengers, because he is willing to "cross the lines they refuse to cross;"after the events of Avengers Disassembled, Iron Man recognizes the need to have someone who is prepared to kill on the team should something like what happened to the Scarlet Witch occur again. He serves alongside such notable Marvel heroes as Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Luke Cage.
Evolution
While beng held captive, Sabretooth is questioned by Wolverine about a being called Romulus, who is a prominent figure in Wolverine's dreams. However, he fearfully refuses to answer any questions regarding him. The Black Panther later reveals a possible connection between Wolverine's dreams and a graveyard filled with the skeletons of humanoid beings with fangs and claws. The Black Panther t
heorizes that some mutants that have various animal-like powers and physical features evolved from canine ancestry rather than apes.Soon afterward they are joined by Wolfsbane, Feral, Thornn, and Sasquatch at the request of the Black Panther and make their way to the original Weapon X compound in hopes of uncovering some answers. While separated from the group, Sasquatch is attacked and severely injured by Wild Child. Wild Child provides hints to Wolverine that Romulus has always been watching him and that he is responsible for a noticeable upgrade in Wild Child's mutant powers. Sabretooth escapes and, before Wolverine is able to track him down, viciously attacks and kills Feral.Wolverine journeys back to the X-Mansion to ask Cyclops to give him the Muramasa Blade, meaning to put an end to the threat Sabretooth represents, once and for all. Cyclops reluctantly gives Wolverine the sword (on the urging of Emma Frost) and he sets off to track Sabretooth down. Wolverine finds Sabretooth at the cabin that he and Silver Fox once shared, which is the place where Wolverine considers his rivalry with Sabretooth began. Wolverine then kills Sabretooth using the Muramasa Blade.
Civil War
Wolverine's next adventure finds him battling a new terrorist organization known as Scimitar. After raiding one of their safe houses, he uncovers a plot to kill Tony Stark and races to S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters aboard the Blackbird. Upon arrival, he soon discovers the entire facility is disguised via an image inducer and is actually another Scimitar base. He is attacked by an unknown assailant wearing an adamantium laced uniform. After killing Amir, Logan's latest romantic interest, the assailant shoves an explosive device down Wolverine's throat and detonates it. Wolverine's body is found later by S.H.I.E.L.D agents, with Tony Stark present. Stark notes that Wolverine's body is fully healed, but he is brain dead and his consciousness didn't regenerate along with his body, as it normally does.Doctor Strange removes Wolverine's body from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and discovers that Wolverine's soul is trapped in Purgatory. While in Purgatory, Wolverine battles Lazaer, the swordsman he first encountered during World War I.
The name, Lazaer, is revealed to be an anagram for Azrael, the Angel of Death. While Wolverine's body always fully heals from his injuries, the return of his consciousness to his body depends upon the outcome of these battles with Lazaer. After losing another loved one, Wolverine's will to survive fades. Azrael is able to defeat him and Wolverine's soul is sent onto some semblance of the afterlife. With Dr. Strange's help, Wolverine discovers that his will to survive has slowly fading ever since he was killed and resurrected by the Hand and HYDRA. After making this discovery, Wolverine is returned to life. Alive, he now searches for a woman named Phaedra who was present at his transformation by the Hand and HYDRA. When he finds her, he is shocked to learn that she has been working for a resurrected Shingen Yashida, whom Wolverine killed long ago.Shingen and Wolverine do battle once again in the presence of Phaedra, and Wolverine comes out the victor using the same move he used to kill Shingen before. He then converses with Phaedra as to why this woman has it out with him. It is then revealed that Azrael has been working with Phaedra as well, as Wolverine is brought into conflict with both Azrael and Shogun, the man in the adamantium-laced suit that killed Amir. It is then revealed that Phaedra has a little bit of Azrael's power within her, and in the effort of getting it back, Azrael has put himself closer to her. With that, Wolverine offers to kill Phaedra for the restoration of his soul frees Azrael's uneasiness by killing Phaedra. By killing Phaedra, Wolverine accepts that he ends the arrangement with Azrael. As a result, if Wolverine dies again, it's permanent. Azrael also informs him that he can't promise that his healing factor will remain as strong as it has been. Wolverine accepts this and leaves, stating that he has no intention of dying.
Messiah Complex
Wolverine is part of the X-Men team that investigates the detection of a new mutant born in Alaska. Believing that Mr. Sinister and his allies have the child, Wolverine, Storm, Angel, Nightcrawler, and Colossus search for Sinister's base. Wolverine's team confronts Sinister and the Marauders at Sinister's base, where a battle breaks out. During the fight Wolverine confronts Gambit and stabs him through the abdomen. He then questions his former teammate and learns that it is in fact Cable who has the mutant baby. Later in the arc, Cyclops orders Wolverine to assemble the
X-Force (a team consisting of Wolverine, X-23, Wolfsbane, Warpath, Hepzibah, and Caliban) to hunt down Cable and retrieve the new mutant baby by any means necessary.Tracking Cable to Canada, X-Force finds Cable already in battle with the Purifiers, led by Lady Deathstrike. Wolverine leads his X-Force into the battle and leaves his personal history with Deathstrike aside and allows X-23 to battle her so he can capture Cable. As Wolverine, Caliban and Warpath chase after the fleeing Cable, Caliban throws himself before a bullet meant for Warpath. Cable uses the confusion to double-back on the team and steal their Blackbird jet and escape. Wolverine blames himself for Cable escaping. Later on, the X-Force attack the Marauders, however, the X-Men arrive, and in the ensuing battle, Wolverine destroys Predator X by letting him swallow him, and slashing his way out of the Predator's stomach.
Get Mystique
"Get Mystique." The story begins with a brief flashback revealing that Logan and Mystique first met in Mexico in 1921. Back in the present day, Wolverine is in the Middle East tracking Mystique, presumably to kill her for betraying the X-Men in Messiah Complex. Mystique evades Logan by blowing up a Mosque in Tehran, and then travels over the border to Afghanistan. There she impersonates Wolverine and kills a local village girl, tricking the villagers into going after Wolverine. Mystique does not appear to be suffering from any lasting effects from being touched by Rogue. It is hinted at that Mystique's recent betrayal is not the only reason Logan is out to kill her, as they apparently have a common history of friendship, love, and ultimately, betrayal. After a heated fight Wolverine manages to fatally wound Mystique, but he chooses to deny her the mercy blow. Instead, he drops a gun and leaves in the sunset, leaving Mystique to scream and curse behind him. Secret Invasion Wolverine was with the New Avengers when they went to the Savage Land to investigate a downed Skrull ship. When the ship is opened by L
uke Cage, out comes superheroes in their 70's looks that claimed they had made it back to Earth. One of them was Wolverine who asks both the Mighty Avengers and New Avengers who they are. After an ensuing fight, the Wolverine from the ship disappears into the jungle. The New Avengers Wolverine later caught up with Iron Man and Black Widow and is shot. But he survives with hints that he is not a Skrull. During the battle of New York, Wolverine engages in combat with Veranke, who burns off portions of his skin. He retaliates, stabbing her through the shoulder with his claws. Just as he gains the clear upper hand Hawkeye injures Veranke with an arrow, ending the brawl. After the death of the Wasp, Wolverine attempts to finish off Veranke, but is beat to the punch will a kill shot from Norman Osborn, setting him up for his position in Dark Reign.
Wolverine Origins
Origins is a second ongoing series, starring Wolverine in his quest as a result of the "Origins & Endings" storyline. At the beginning of the series, he encounters a Shiva robot while trying to extract information from a government foe. After defeating the robot with the Muramasa Blade, those in the government hiding from Logan send Frank Simpson a.k.a. Nuke against him. It is revealed through flashbacks that Wolverine takes Nuke from his family as a child, during the Vietnam War, and is responsible for implanting a trigger word into Nuke that causes him to massacre a Vietnamese village. All this is apparently part of an attempt to recreate Wolverine, already a living weapon prior to Weapon X. Exactly who is controlling Wolverine at this point remains unclear at this time.
After defeating Nuke in South Vietnam, he then fights Captain America who has been sent to stop Wolverine's path of vengeance once and for all. Cyclops, Emma Frost, and Hellion of the X-Men enter the fray and stop Wolverine (driven berserk by a slash from the Muramasa Blade Captain America managed to take from him) from killing the famous hero.Emma calms the combatants telepathically and reveals to Wolverine h
is son is still alive and that the boy's name is Daken. Emma also warns Wolverine his boy doesn't seem to have any thoughts of his own, similar to how Wolverine has been controlled so many times before. Wolverine remembers when Sabretooth killed Silver Fox all those years ago, and how her murder was arranged by those who want to bring out the beast in him and turn him to their side. He assumes something similar has been done to his son by his enemies in order to gain control over him.Emma advises Wolverine to end his mission of revenge as he has a son to rescue. He entrusts Cyclops with the Muramasa Blade, explaining that the captors of his son will most likely brainwash him if they are able to capture him. Wolverine makes Cyclops promise to use the sword to kill him if that time ever comes. Emma informs Wolverine that, above all else, his son hates him. Wolverine tells her that he hates himself, as well, for all the terrible things he's done under his enemies' control. Wolverine meets his boy Wolverine remembers carbonadium weakened his mutant healing factor and thinking it may provide him with a way to take down his son without killing him, he travels back to America to find Maverick.
Maverick was part of Team X during Wolverine's first encounter with the carbonadium synthesizer and the villainous Omega Red. He had also been entrusted with it by Wolverine a few years back. Wolverine tracks Maverick to a building in New York City where mutants, powered and de-powered alike, are taking refuge and is surprised to see Jubilee there. Their reunion is short-lived, however, as Omega Red mysteriously bursts into the building, nearly killing Jubilee and demanding Maverick tell him where the carbonadium synthesizer is.Wolverine and Omega Red fight while Maverick and Jubilee evacuate the de-powered mutants. Wolverine remembers his first encounter with carbonadium, when his handlers in Team X tested it on him before they rewrote his memories like they did after every one of his missions. As they were taking him to the device that would brainwash him, he fought back, killing one of the scientists with a blow to the throat. He threatened the other scientist, popping his (bone) claws accidentally. Seeing his claws made him remember everything that Team X had taken from him. He asked the scientist who gave the orders and he said he didn't know. Wolverine, smelling that he was not lying, ordered him to tell him what he did know.
The scientist is contacted via telephone every time Wolverine needs to be mind-wiped. When he completes his task, he tells Wolverine that he barely made it out alive of whatever mission he was on and then gives him a dossier detailing his next mission. Wolverine asks for the dossier he would normally be given. He tells the scientist to tell whoever was in charge that the brainwashing was successful and then leaves, intending to participate in this mission. The mission is in Berlin, where he first encountered Omega Red.In the present, Wolverine is overpowered by Omega Red. Red tackles him through a wall where they land on the rooftop of an adjacent building. Wolverine is briefly knocked unconscious, while Omega Red makes his way back to the building where Maverick last was. Wolverine, hearing Jubilee scream for him, rushes back into the building. He finds a wounded Maverick who tells him that Omega Red has Jubilee and that he told the villain to whom he gave the carbonadium synthesizer.With Dum Dum Dugan and S.H.I.E.L.D. hot on his trail, Wolverine travels to Berlin where he reminisces about his Team X mission there. He had undertaken the mission (to steal the carbonadium synthesizer from a German laboratory), pretending he was still under the control of his handlers, to see if he could get any answers as to who was directing him.
Remembering his past with Sabretooth, he intended to use the carbonadium synthesizer on his old adversary since it shorted out mutant healing factors. Before he could do so, Omega Red attacked. As Team X fled with a defecting German scientist, Sabretooth realized Wolverine had regained control and executed the scientist. The scientist was a woman, and Sabretooth was advised to kill any available female targets when Wolverine broke free of his masters' control, since it showed him that whenever he wasn't kept on a tight leash, "pretty things die."In the present, Wolverine meets up with the Black Widow. The details as to how Wolverine first became involved with the Widow and her father are revealed, as are the details of his first mission as a covert operative in a number of flashbacks. During a brief skirmish with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Jubilee is severely injured. Wolverine surrenders to the agents after they promise to save Jubilee's life. After being taken to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and placed into restraints, Wolverine's son, disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D agent, enters the room where Wolverine is being held, after using his bone claws to wound Dum Dum Dugan (despite the apparent seriousness of the injury, Joe Queseda recently confirmed Dugan was not killed. A tear rolls down Wolverine's cheek as, he notes to himself, just how much his son seems like him. Wolverine's son announces his disgust at how "weak" Wolverine is and uses his claws to slash him across the stomach, before leaving him to bleed on the floor. Wolverine quickly heals from the injuries, however, and escapes from the facility.He later finds his son, but he is soon confronted by his old foe, a reborn Cyber. Cyber fights Daken, and is about to defeat him, until Wolverine grabs Cyber from behind, letting Daken escape. An enraged Cyber attacks Wolverine, but has a heart attack in the middle of the fight. However, Cyber came for his son and Wolverine later learns that Cyber trained his son in the field of combat.
Wolverine gets this information in exchange for saving Cyber's life.After confronting Cyber, Wolverine decides to take a moment of rest and heads to the Captain America museum, where he reflects on his first meeting with the former hero during the events of World War II.Deadpool is hired by an unknown party to kill Wolverine. After fighting throughout San Francisco, Deadpool eventually captures Wolverine. With Wolverine tied up and suspended over a pool of water, Deadpool prepares to drop him into the pool, intending to drown him. However, Daken soon arrives and slices off Deadpool's hand before pulling the lever that drops Wolverine into the pool. Daken and Deadpool battle until Wolverine recovers. The Winter Soldier shoots Daken in the head with a carbonadium bullet, incapacitating him. Wolverine explains he hired Deadpool and called on a favor from the Winter Soldier to knock out Daken and get him some help. Dad would be proud He eventually tries to search out for Professor Xavier, after learning from Cyclops that the former X-men leader was alive, to assist in his son memory lost. During their mission, they get involved in a battle with Sabastian Shaw and the new Hellfire club, who have kidnapped Daken and tried to convince him to their side.
Along the way it was learned that during the first days of Wolverine's involvement with the X-men, that he was sent by Romulus in order to assassinate Professor Xavier. However, Xaiver saw his attack and further detains Wolverine by wiping his mind again. It was then that Romulus focused his attention on Daken.Wolverine and Professor Xavier were able to save Draken and reveal to him the truth surrounding his mother's death. In the end, Wolverine forgave Professor Xavier over his recent actions with the X-men and his own actions with mind wiping Wolverine. He stating that between losing his memories and regaining them, that the Professor gave Wolverine a reason to live his life and become a hero to be proud of. Wolverine then hopes that Professor would forgive him later on after he and his son are willing to kill Romulus for his actions against them.Now reunited and with a cause, both father and son began searching for Romulus, but they later run into Cyber who wants to help them within their quest. Daken later betrays his father to team-up with Cyber, but he later betrays Cyber and escapes on his own once more. Despite the fact that Daken now knows the truth surrounding his mother's death, has still not reconciled with his father.Later, Wolverine meets up with Nick Fury in a bar, as they recently received the news of Daken's involvement with the Dark Avengers. Fury, later reveals all that he knows about Romulus and his connections. They soon fly to New York and try to stop Cyclops and the X-men from killing Daken with the Muramasa Blade. This unfortunatley all ends with the Tinkerer bonding Daken's muramasa claw to adamantium. Logan after that travels to Russia to take out Romulus once and for all. Romulus right hand man, Victor, sends right into a trap with the just realsed prisoner Omega Red. After thier insuing battle, Wolverine is badly injured, and to make matters worse, Wildchild is waiting for him. He bonds Wolverine over a pot of Moulton Iron and is preparing to dunk him when Omega Red arrives for his Carbanadium Synthesizer and kills Wildchild, but allowing Wolverine to escape and Omega Red follows him where he mistakesn Wolverine for being American, Logan mentions if he would ever remember that he is a Canadian, then throws the Muramasa Blade right thru the heart of Omega Red. In his dying words, he asks if the sword could killl Romulus, Logan says yes, that is when Romulus appears right behind him and says: "We'll see about that."
Manifest Destiny
Wolverine travels to china town to settle an old dept that is 50 years old, for unknown reasons [50 years ago] all that is known is that wolverine worked for and in the end fought the head of the Chinese crime, Black Dragon and his group but Logan also did some committed some sort of betrayal and was ordered to never return or he will die. So now 50 years later with the X-men now based in San Francisco Wolverine returns to China Town and is instantly noticed by a swordsman named Lo Jan. Lo Jan confronts Wolverine but before the two can fight, Lo Jan is shot in the back by the a woman called Lin, Lin is Wolverine’s old girlfriend and the current Black Dragon, it is also hinted at that it was Lin who Wolverine betrayed 50 years ago.Black Dragon revels her four Kung Fu warriors, Rock of the Buddha, Fist of Fire, Storm Sword and Soultaker. The four warriors heavily beating him, they are only stopped by the sounds of police cars but when they look back to on the floor he has escaped, Wolverine managed to escape into the sewers.
Badly injured, missing an eye and thanks to Soultaker his soul is not much
better off, an old man drags Wolverine it to an under ground cave, When Logan wakes up he revels that he knows the man, he is called Master Po, Po is a martial arts master but he refused to train Logan 50 years ago but now he changed his mind because he is a better man now. Po offers Wolverine a chance for him [Po] to train with him, which Logan happily accepts.It is reveled that 50 years ago Wolverine had the plan of combining all of the fighting schools of China Town under his leader ship they all agreed and under Logan's leader ship they defeated Black Dragon's army and finished with Logan cutting off Black Dragon's head, after this the other school asked Logan to be the new Black Dragon but he refused, just before Logan can ride away he is attacked by Lo Jan, she stabs Logan in the eye with with a spear end.Back in the present Logan again tries to unite the martial schools but this time they kick him through the window but before they can do any more Logan and Po escape back under-ground to Po's home. There Po continues to train Logan telling him he has come to rely on his healing factor while fighting, after this Logan travels back to the surface to ask for the help of The Sons Of The Tiger but they also refuse but before anything else can happen they are attacked by the Hot Handed Gods Of Guns trying to collect the bounty that Black Dragon put on Logan's head. Logan and two members of Son Of The Tiger make short work of them but a team of police raid the place and see Logan killing the final member of the gang and capture him.
Logan waits until he gets to jail to make his escape, using his phone call to call Nightcrawler to teleport him out of the police station. When Nightcrawler teleports Logan out Logan sets of a rematch with the Black Dragon and her warriors. Logan finds Black Dragon and her warriors in the middle of the street making threats to everyone in China Town even Po is there but still nobody speaks up against her then Logan shows and challenges them. Unlike before Logan's martial arts skills are to much for the four warriors not one of them was a match for Logan [Logan is not using his claws]. Logan defeats all of the warriors and one of them [Soultaker] revels that the Black Dragon that Logan killed 50 years ago was Soultaker's grand-father. With her warriors dead and defeated Lo tells her goons to kill him but before anything can happen The Sons Of The Tiger show up with Po to help Logan, together they make short work of the goons and manage to escape before the police arrive Lo also escaped. Later on Logan is again offered the Black Dragon mantle by the martial arts school's which this time he accepts.
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 e
verywhere that needs to be dealt with permanently. He secretly reassembles X-Force and sends the team after Matthew Risman and the Purifiers. Currently X-force is in pursuit of Vanisher; after being informed that he stole a sample of the legacy virus from one of Sinister's old labs. only to later realize that Vanisher never truly obtained the sample. dropping it back in the lab after being attacked by a horde of Marauder clones.
Powers and Abilities
Like all other super-powered mutants, Wolverine was born with a special power, which in his case was an incredible healing ability which would enable him to recover from injuries at surprising speed. It appears to be this ability that made it possible for Wolverine's entire skeleton to be reinforced with adamantium, the Marvel Universe's most nearly indestructible known metal. Wolverine's claws, which he uses as the deadliest of weapons, are made of adamantium, too, and extend from the backs of his hands at his mental command. There is more to that hot temper that Wolverine displays: he has an animalistic, murderous side to his personality that once seemed wholly uncontrollable. Even when Wolverine is in full control of himself, he can be ruthless with his enemies. However unlike other mutants Wolverine will never stop mutating, this means his abilities like his healing factor will countinue to get stronger.
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.
Skills
Wolverine is considered one of the best hand to hand fighters in the world. 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 skilled katana user. Wolverine is one of if not the best hand to hand fighter on Earth, he has defeat other master fighter's like Shang-Chi and he has beaten Captain America many times, he has killed thousands of Hand ninja's at a time. Wolverine is also skilled in espionage due to his time in the army and being made a weapon. He recently took down 5 Mystic Masters at the same time without even pulling out his claws.
In addition to his physical skills, Wolverine is very intelligent. Having had an increased lifespan, he traveled around the world and amassed knowledge of foreign culture. He speaks fluent English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Cheyenne, and Lakota and knows some French, German, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, and Portuguese.
Wolverine has the ability to go into berserk 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.
Alternate Universes
Earth-1610 - Ultimate universe
On Earth-1610 Wolverine was an Assassin that was hired by Magneto to kill Charles Xavier. After infiltrating the X-Men, Wolverine begins a romantic relationship with Jean Grey. After he admits that he was hired by the brotherhood to join the team and kill Xavier, Jean breaks up with him and gets back together with Cyclops. Later it was revealed by Captain America that he had worked with Logan during World War II, Wolverine was under the name Corporal James Howlett of the Canadian Air Force. Wolverine was also revealed to be immune to radar because of the modifications he went through during Weapon X program. After Jean and Cyclops began dating again, during one of the missions where Wolverine went on with Cyclops, Wolverine had apparently let Cyclops fall off a cliff to die in the Savage Lands. Wolverine would continue to try and make a move on Jean by comforting her after Cyclops “death.” However, Cyclops survived the fall and would eventually return. Though it came as a shock to the entire X-Men when Cyclops allows Wolverine to remain on the X-Men. After the Beast was killed by a sentinel, Wolverine begins to date Storm. While they were out on a date, they were attacked by Sabretooth who reveals that he has memories of Wolverine being his father.
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-295 - Age of Apocalypse
Logan in the Age of Apocalypse reality went by the code name Weapon X. In this reality he never had his adamantium ripped out by Magneto and therefore, was never forced to learn to control his feral rage. Weapon X was also recruited by the X-Men who’s leader is Magneto instead of Professor Xavier. At first Weapon X did not want to join, but after he met privately with Jean Grey, he reconsidered and joined the X-Men. Wolverine and Jean connected romantically right away and the two would begin a romantic relationship. When Mr. Sinister kidnapped Jean Grey, Weapon X went to rescue her. He would encounter Scott Summers and Summers would blast Weapon X’s left hand off. However, he got his revenge when Weapon X was able to gouge one of Summer’s eyes out. Magneto had Weapon X train his new recruits, one of which was Shadowcat. Magneto had Weapon X train Shadowcat to become his personal assassin. Months later, the X-Men would be contacted by Mr. Sinister and reveals Apocalypse’s plans of attacking all humans in Europe. Weapon X and Jean contact the Human High Council in which they learned that the Council was going to launch a nuclear missile on America to destroy Apocalypse. Later Jean was killed by Alex Summers but Weapon X was able to avenge her by killing Summers. Later it was revealed to Logan by Magneto that Jean was still alive but under mind control of Mr. Sinister. They were able to rescue Jean and lifted the mind control from her, and Weapon X and Jean continue their relationship. Weapon X would later be revealed to have a daughter named Kirika (this universe's version of X-23).
Earth-2149 - Marvel Zombies
In the Marvel Zombies alternate universe Wolverine was, as most of earths heroes turned into a zombie. Here Wolverine played an key role and was a primary character and along with a few other zombies he gained cosmic powers by consuming first Silver Surfer, then Galactus.
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.
Earth-9997 - Earth X
In Earth X, Earth-9997, James Howlett was not the biological son of the Howletts. In fact, the Howlett’s second child had died in childbirth. The Howletts decided to adopt a new son and ended up adopting a baby from the Moon Clan. The Moon Clan were a bestial race that was able to co-exist with normal human beings. The Howletts adopted a child who would grow up to be James Howlett, also known as Wolverine. Wolverine and Sabretooth both still hate each other in this alternate reality. It is because Sabretooth is from the Bear Clan, who are half-beast and half-human that were the hated rivals of the Moon Clan. Since Wolverine is from the Moon Clan, their hatred towards each other is natural.
Earth-811 - Days of Future Past
Wolverine is one of the only few mutants left along with Storm, Colossus, and Kitty Pryde. In this alternate reality, the X-Men had failed to stop the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly. In retaliation, the Sentinels would soon help enforce the United States of America against Mutants in general. During one of the confrontations against the Sentinels, Wolverine jumps towards a Sentinel ready to kill it when a Sentinel ends up killing Wolverine with its laser. It burns off all of Wolverine’s flesh and he falls to the ground, with only his adamantium left on the ground.
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-20051 - Marvel Adventures
In the Marvel Adventures reality Wolverine is a member of the Avengers alongside Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, Storm, Giant Girl, Tigra, and Luke Cage.
Earth-172
This is the home reality of the Wolverine that was a member of the Weapon X group that appeared in Exiles. He was killed before the team appeared on page.
Earth-9602 - Amalgam Universe
In the Amalgam Universe Wolverine was merged with Batman and formed the new character Dark Claw.
Earth-982 - MC2
In the MC2 reality Wolverine has a daughter, Rina Logan - Wild Thing. The mother is Elektra. He also has a son, Hudson Logan - Sabreclaw.
Earth-181
This is the home reality of a Wolverine that briefly was a member of the Exiles. He was using the Patch alias.
Earth-520
This is the home reality of another Wolverine that briefly was a member of the Exiles. This Wolverine had just escaped from the Weapon X facility.
Earth-1880
This is the home reality of another Wolverine that briefly was a member of the Exiles. This Wolverine was in his teens and had just manifested his mutant powers. He had not yet became Wolverine.
Earth-9811
In this reality, also called Battleworld, Wolverine and Storm had a daughter called Torrent.
Earth-9510
In this reality Wolverine is a member of the new Fantastic Four, which consist of Spider-Man, the Hulk and Ghost Rider.
Earth-1720
In this reality Wolverine is an agent of HYDRA and lover of Invisible Woman, who is the leader of HYDRA.
Earth-9140
In this reality Wolverine became the Lord of Vampires, and was killed by Punisher.
Earth-9939
In this reality, Wolverine is a member of the Avengers, but was killed on the mission to stop Charnel.
Earth-8649
In this reality where Jean Grey turned into the Dark Phoenix and destroyed the universe. The Exiles tipped off Wolverine in this universe and in order to prevent the said destruction.
Earth-691
In the distant future, Rancor is the great, great granddaughter of Wolverine and has took his mantle into his honor.
Counter Earth
This earth in not in an alternate reality, but is located in the Earth-616 reality and was created by Franklin Richards. Here Wolverine have been masquerading as Hawkeye. It's not known how Wolverine exists here and on the real earth at the same time.
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 is now living in the Canadian wilderness waiting to die. When he receives a mysterious letter, he sets out to Japan to investigate. He later found out that he was lead there by his older brother, John Howlett Jr., 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.
Wolverine Earth X Big X Change
Wolverine, Rogue, Angel, Nightcrawler and Storm were converted into their opposite genders during their mission. The ladies of this group became gentlemen and the gentlemen of this group became ladies.
Earth-By the Maker
Wolverine gained godlike fighting abilities.
Earth-Hulk Annihilation
Wolverine is killed by The Hulk.
Old Man Logan
Broken on the day the Heroes were defeated, 'Logan' became a farmer, family man, and pacifist from that day on. After falling behind on the rent,
Logan was forced to take a job helping Hawkeye deliver a package to New Babylon.
Earth Last Man Standing
Logan is the last living man on the planet after a worldwide virus and a nuclear winter.
Earth 8649
Wolverine Was forced to kill his version of Jean Grey when she manifested the Phoenix Force herself, and was about to destroy the Galaxy. The Exiles tipped him off about what was about to happen.
Earth Hulk Rampage
Part of the large team of Alpha Flight who were trying to capture the Hulk, who was raging across Canada.
Wolverine Noir
This story arc is set in the Noir Universe where no ones got powers and the Logan that appears in this arc is different person than the one that appeared in X-men Noir. Jim Logan is small time private detective who down on his look but he is much more that that. Jim Logan owns a Detective agency with his brother Dog Logan [their not really brothers] in New York. It's another quite day at the office and Logan is thinking of killing his partner again when a Woman walks through the door, the lady is called Mariko Yashida, she was in New York for her father and she suspected she was being followed, she gives Jim a hotel name and her number. Jim takes her case but Dog tells Jim he'll take the case and Jim lets him.While waiting for Dog to get back Jim thinks about his past, it is reveled that Jim's father was a preacher who ignored his son because he thought Jim had a sick soul but Jim didn't care but there was a young girl the same age as Jim called Rose who lived next door to the church, Jim liked Rose a lot but there was always a problem, Dog, he was the son of the church's maintenance man, he was much bigger than Jim and was very dense and followed Rode every where, Rose was not interested in Dog so she left. However there a person who Jim was not afraid of, he was called Smitty, he was the church's gardener but before that he fought in a great war and was a master samurai warrior.
Jim idolized Smitty and was intrigued by samurai's, Smitty thought Jim how to fight and use a blade, even only in his mid-teens Jim was an extremely talented fighter and brilliant with a blade. In one training section in the green house with Smitty, Jim finally gets an advantage on Smitty but Rose enters the green house and hides in the bush's to watch and as always Dog is with her. As the two fight Dog sneaks up to Smitty's samurai set to steal some of it to try to impress Rose but Smitty spots him and throws his wooden knife at his hand, Smitty warns Dog if he touches his set again he'll kill him before they leave Smitty gives Dog a small toy knife telling him it's the only knife he deserves. Jim is the only other person who Smitty lets near his set let alone his set.Back in the present Dog has been gone to follow up the case at the hotel, he's looking of a man called Creed, one day later Jim goes to the hotel because Dog hasn't called in for a day, to men are waiting for Jim, the two men attack Jim, they are skilled swordsman but they don't get a chance to show it, Jim pulls out six knifes witch he uses as claws [much like wolverine's claws] the knifes where given to him by Smitty. Jim tears the two men apart, Jim search's the room the men where guarding and found Dogs toy knife [the same one that Smitty gave him] soaked in blood, Jim states that he will find Dog because he owes him.
Television and Film Appearances
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Wolverine appeared with Angel, Professor X and other X-Men in a flashback that states the history of Firestar. He was among the X-Men who fought Juggernaut and Magneto in separate incidents. During the X-Men's adventure along with Spider-Man, he and Angel were not shown among them. Pryde of the X-Men Pryde of the X-Men Wolverine is a member of the X-Men. When the X-men were introduced to Kitty Pryde as a new member of
the X-men, Wolverine refused and just insulted her. The power circuit was then stolen by the Brotherhood and Wolverine blamed her and threw her platitude. Dazzler then calmed Wolverine and Kitty down. The X-Men attempted to retrieve the machine and Wolverine was assigned to use his tracking abilities to detect the machine. The Brotherhood then blocked their way and Wolverine faced Toad one on one. By the joined forces of Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde, they were able to destroy the Brotherhood's plans. The X-Men congratulated Kitty for saving the entire humanity. Storm then asked him what can he say about Kitty after her heroic performance. Wolverine was a little disappointed for insulting Kitty and even if he does not directly stated, it seems that the message means that Kitty needs time to become a better X-Man.
X-Men Animated Series
In X-Men Animated Series Logan is an X-Man. He only remembers a small part of his past. He is also in love with Jean Grey who was Cyclops' girlfriend at that time. He never kills an opponent but would do it if no one is there to assist him. Logan and Scott's decision was then to
leave Morph and Beast behind following an attack from the Sentinels led to Wolverine feeling a great resentment for the Cyclops. Wolverine have met Nightcrawler when he is in Germany and have heard a new that a demon is existing in that place. He then discovered that it was Kurt Wagner who is a mutant and not a demon. Logan then learned the lesson of faith.
X-Men Film Trilogy
Wolverine is a Canadian who have no idea about his past. He is haunted by his nightmares of being experimented. He also met Rogue who was attacked by Sabretooth. Unknown to him, Sabretooth knows him well. After the attack, Wolverine and Rogue were admitted to the Institute for them to better understand their powers. At the first time in his stay in the Institute, Professor X mentally contacted him and led him to his office revealing his mutant abilities and what the Institute has in store for him. He then asks about Rogue's condition and Professor X told him that Rogue is fine. He also developed a crush on Dr. Jean Grey but it only led to a misunderstanding with Cyclops. He also had a chance to fight back against Sabretooth in their battle. Logan also met Stryker who ran the Weapon X and was responsible for Logan's adamantium claws. He then started to regain some of his memories especially in Alkali Lake. However, these memories were still not enough to reveal his real identity. He also killed Lady Deathstike during a duel between the two of them. Wolverine became an official member of the X-Men who replaces Cyclops in some exercises in the Danger Room since Cyclops still mourns for Jean Grey's death. When he found out that Jean is resurrected by the Phoenix, he confessed his love for her. However, Wolverine has to fight Jean as their is almost no one left to fight her. As Jean tries to kill Wolverine, he would repeatedly be regenerated by his healing factor causing him to have a chance of killing Jean for good. Wolverine continued his membership to the X-Men thereafter.
X-Men Evolution
X-Men Evolution Wolverine's past is surrounded by mystery. He came to the Institute with the behest of Professor X. At first, the students fear him but he altered this impression by being a good X-Man. He gives fighting tactics to students and is a close friend to him as he races with Cannonball, talks with Multiple Man and Berserker and is a very active friend to all of them though
he possesses cold and aloof personality. His DNA was then used by Hydra to form another mutant called X-23. X-23 aimed on killing him but in later episodes, they have worked together against HYDRA. As some people thought that he X-23 was dead after the explosion. However, Logan sensed her with his tracking abilities proving that she is alive. Wolverine then commanded the X-Men and serrved as a temporary commander during the final battle with Apocalypse.
Wolverine and the X-Men
Wolverine And The X-Men Wolverine is the main character in the new animated series. He left the X-Men when the Professor and Jean grey mysteriously disappear after an explosive attack on the mansion. While on the road he becomes involved with a human family who are subsequently arrested for aiding a mutant. With Beast's help he liberates the human family and begins to reform the X-Men. The Professor telepathically contacts the X-Men from 20 years in the future and appoints Wolverine as the leader of the X-Men and gives him the task to prevent an apocalyptic future that is ruled by the Sentinels.His relationships with the other X-Men are not always straightforward. He appeared oblivious to some sort of unrequited feelings from Rogue, and he distrusted her after she joined the Brotherhood. Emma Frost literally turned up on the doorstep demanding to join the X-Men. Although Wolverine clearly disliked her she was the only telepath around, and therefore the only capable of using Cerebro. Wolverine continues to distrust Frost until she defeats the Shadow King in a battle on the Astral Plane and later helps patch together some of his memories surrounding Weapon X. Cyclops was angry with Wolverine before the mysterious blast, but continued to push Logan away. He was initially reticent to join the X-Men and was visibly shocked & hurt when the Professor chose Wolverine to lead
the team. Although Wolverine does not appear to have any memories of Sabretooth, it has been established that he has a past with Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D and the Incredible Hulk. He also appears to have forgotten about a previous relationship with Mystique due to the Weapon X process erasing all of his previous memories. His efforts to understand who he used to be and why he gave up his past life has brought him closer to Christie Nord, Maverick's daughter.Not all of Wolverine's relationships are strained. He clearly enjoys sneaking up on Beast when he in engrossed in research and respects Angel for helping to rebuild the mansion. He also has a strong sense of friendship with Nightcrawler and Storm. Wolverine clearly respects Professor Xavier, whom he turns to for counsel and help with his fragmented memories.To date, the entire series has not been broadcast in any country. As of the first dozen episodes, Wolverine continues to seek to bring the X-Men together in order to prevent a Days of Future Past style future from happening.
Super Hero Squad Show
In this series Wolverine serves as Second-In Command next to Iron Man.
Hulk Vs. Wolverine
Hulk vs. Wolverine is one of the greatest battles part of a two-part disc where the bad ass Wolverine goes up against Hulk. The movie starts out with Wolverine speaking he says, " My name is Wolverine. I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do isn't very nice." At this point he wakes up and he is beat up pretty badly. He then gets up and says, " What the hell happened." Then you hear The Hulk. He comes and Wolverine moves out of the way and then says, "Oh yea !!!". The movie begins with blue prints showing off the origin of where Bruce Banner was at the testing site and the test done on Wolverine showing his adamantium skeletons claws. Hulk Vs. Wolverine begins!! During a flashback of what happened four hours before the encounter, Wolverine was sent by the Canadian authorities to stop a
creature from continuously destroying the towns. When he came back, the town was destroyed. He later found out that this creature was called by the Americans as the Hulk. Wolverine smelled the environment and saw a vision of Hulk destroying the town a while ago. Riding a chopper, he then went down in a forest and looked for the most credible clues. He have seen gigantic footsteps and as he goes far, he saw the footprints getting smaller. It is because of Hulk transforming back into Bruce. He found Bruce Banner not knowing that it is what he is looking for. He talked to him and asked if he have seen a monster. Wolverine then smelled toxic on him and started torturing him. With intense fear, Bruce have turned into Hulk and punched Logan far away. Wolverine then woke up and realized what had happened. The Hulk then reappeared and fought him. He also encountered the Weapon X after they took both Logan and Hulk to their facility and led to their fight. Logan and Hulk then finished their fight after the encounter with Weapon X.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Hugh Jackman played Wolverine again in his first solo film, X-men origins Wolverine, The film is set 20 years before Wolverine joining the X-men and tells the early years of his life and how he became the Wolverine.n the begining as a boy he killed his father then ran from home with his part brother Victor Creed and joins the military and fights through The Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam his part brother goes savage a soldier tells him to back down but he persists his rampage;James tries stoping him but the firing squad sends them to a prison where William Stryker asks them to join his team.Wolverine doesn't like the way they do things,he quits.He lives in Canada for a while but then his wife seemingly dies and wants revenge on his former friend Sabertooth. Stryker replaces his skeloton with adamantium but hears that he wants to wipe out his memory and goes on a savage rampage.Wolverine goes to warn other Weapon X members and asks which people are targeted by Sabertooth. Gambit is one of those people and he goes to warn him a battle collides and then Logan teams up with Gambit to stop Stryker.There is a battle between Wolverine and Sabertooth and another where Wolverine battles Weapon XI. William Stryker ends up wiping out Logan's memory with an adamantium bullet.
| Super Name: | Wolverine |
| Real Name: | James Howlett |
| Aliases: |
Logan James Howlett Weapon X Patch Death Agent Ten Fang Lucky Jim Mai'Keth Mutant #9601 Emilio Garra Peter Richards Professor W Brother Xavier Experiment X Jim Logan Captain Jim Logan Runt Fist of Legend Ultimate Killing Machine Hooded Man Wolvie Canuckle Head Captain Terror Black Dragon Mutant Zero |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | The Incredible Hulk #180 |
| Appears in: | 2909 issues |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The fourth X-Men movie, a prequel to the trilogy.
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Hulk vs. Wolverine
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X-Men: The Last Stand
The final film of the original X-Men trilogy. Sort of followed the Dark Phoenix Saga storyline.
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X2: X-Men United
The second movie of the original X-Men trilogy. Brings on a new villain, William Stryker.
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X-Men
The original X-Men movie, many of the things established in it have since been retconned however.
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