Post by Logan Wolverine on Jul 17, 2013 5:45:02 GMT -5
Creation
Wolverine first showed up in The Incredible Hulk #180, October 1974. Wolverine was first seen in a drawing by Dave Cockrum. While he was still working for DC Comics, he intended Wolverine to be a female vampire with fangs and without claws.
The name Wolverine was chosen because during the 1970s, characters who resembled animals or were animals were very popular. Wolverine was to have a Canadian accent. Though originally intended to be female, later John Romita Sr. sketched Wolverine, and with the help of Len Wein would build Wolverine into the character of today.
Origin of Wolverine
The Wolverine is bornThe man that would become the ultimate killing machine was born James Howlett in the early 1890s in Alberta, Canada to Elizabeth and John Howlett Sr. His mother went insane after her first son, John Howlett Jr., died under strange circumstances years before James' birth. It was hinted at that John Jr. was a mutant with powers similar to those of Wolverine, as alluded to by James' grandfather and mother, his mother even bearing scars from John Jr.'s claws.
In the early 1900s a young Irish girl, Rose O'Hara, was brought to the Howlett estate to be a friend and caretaker to young James. Together they befriended another young boy named Dog Logan, son of the grounds keeper Thomas Logan. It was hinted at that Thomas Logan and Elizabeth were having an affair, and James was said to bear a strong resemblance to Thomas in adulthood.
A young RoseThomas Logan was a heavy drinker who often abused his son Dog. As a result, over the next few years, Dog became more and more like his father. At one point he attempted to assault Rose and killed James' dog, leading to both he and his father being expelled from the mansion.
The two returned to the mansion shortly afterward looking to rob the estate. Thomas tried to talk Elizabeth into leaving with him, and implied that he was the real father of both of her sons. Thomas murdered John Howlett Sr. with a shot from his rifle in front of James, Rose, and Elizabeth Howlett. James, in a fit of rage and sorrow, manifested his mutant power by popping his bone claws and sliced Dog's face before impaling Thomas Logan. Elizabeth became hysterical and throws James and Rose out of the home before calmly shooting herself in the head with Thomas' rifle. James and Rose rushed to James' grandfather but he ordered them to leave and never return.
James was in such a state of shock that he didn't remember any of the events that had transpired.
James and Rose wandered until finding a mining community in British Columbia. There Rose introduced James as her cousin, Logan. Logan as often bullied and abused by the Cook but befriended the foreman, Smitty, who fell in love with Rose. Over the course of the next few years, Logan would get the urge to hunt with packs of wolves by his side. He, too, fell in love with Rose, but couldn't pursue his feelings because they had portrayed themselves as cousins. Logan dealt with his anger and frustration by competing in cage fights. He earned the nickname "Wolverine" because his intense digging reminded the the other miners of a wolverine digging for a root.
Eventually Logan became estranged from Rose after she agreed to marry Smitty. However, he later maked peace with Smitty by letting himself be beaten in a cage fight against Smitty.
Around this same time, the dying Grandfather Howlett requested that Dog go and find James/Logan and bring him home. Dog tracked Logan and eventually confronted him, but with the intent to kill him. During the fight, Logan went for a killing blow with his bone claws, but accidentally impaled Rose, killing her. Grief stricken and horrified, Logan fled into the woods.
Early Years of Wolverine
Death of Silver Fox In 1910, Logan traveled to another frontier community in the Canadian Rockies. He met a young Blackfoot woman named Silver Fox, with whom he fell in love. The two shared a cabin together and lived happily for a time.
In late May, which is when Logan believed his birthday to be, Sabretooth murdered Silver Fox. Enraged, he battled Sabretooth, but was defeated. Sabretooth and a mysterious cloaked figure then convinced 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 defeated the demonic snake-worm known as Uncegila, a feat which earned him the Blackfoot warrior name of "Skunk-Bear".
A broad, largely unseen conspiracy then began to shape Logan, robbed of his conscience and free will, into the perfect killer. Wherever Logan went, Sabretooth, one of his handlers, was not far behind.
Wolverine in World War I
Logan During The World WarIn 1914, Logan joined the Canadian Army to fight during The Great War. During a battle in Belgium on April 22, 1915, Logan encountered Lazaer (anagram of Azrael, the Angel of Death) for the first time and a fight ensued. Lazaer got the upper hand and impaled Wolverine with his sword, but Logan pulled the sword from his body, and impaled Lazaer to defeat him. Since then, every time Logan has had a near death experience, he has had to battle Lazaer so that he was be able to return back to life.
When the authorities became aware of Logan's abilities, he was assigned to a special unit of the Canadian military, The Devil's Brigade. He was placed under the command of the superhumanly strong Silas Burr (who later become the mercenary Cyber).
Cyber murdered Logan's girlfriend, and during the confrontation, Logan was severely beaten and one of his eyes was taken out. Romulus ordered Cyber and Sabretooth to track him down. They found Logan in the woods and convinced him to return. Logan was then sent to Madripoor.
While in Madripoor, he met Seraph, the woman who owned the Princess Bar and took him under her wing. During this time, he also became friends with the prostitute Madame Joy, and eventually became part owner of the Princess Bar. Seraph appointed herself the guardian of Madripoor against the Hand. Logan began his travels again, this time landing in China. There he met a Chinese businessman named Chang, an employee of Landau, Luckman, and a man named Ogun, an immortal japanese samurai. Ogun was impressed with Logan's skills and offered to train him in martial arts and Sun Tzu.
Logan & Raven In 1921, Logan met the mutant terrorist Mystique in Mexico, where they were both going to be executed by firing squad. They managed to escape and formed a gang of con men and criminals. Mystique and Logan soon became friends and lovers, but the partnership ended when Logan informed the police of their plan to rob a bank. They both became involved in the Weapon X program, where Logan gained his indestructible adamantium claws. This was the last time they were partnered together.
During the 1930s, the agency Logan was working for sent him to Russia to aid the Romanov family. There he learned espionage and befriended a young Natalia Romanov, later to become the Black Widow.
Wolverine, along with his good friend Puck, spent time fighting against the fascists forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Wolverine in World War II
Logan During WWII . As you can see, his early relationship with Captain America and Bucky wasn't the greatest. During World War II, Logan teamed up with Captain America and Bucky in Madripoor. They rescued Natasha Romanova from being transformed into an assassin by Hand. Baron Wolfgang von Strucker became involved, causing Wolverine and Captain America to turn their attention toward HYDRA.
During this time, Seraph was killed by Sabretooth, presumably under the orders of the forces.
Logan in the fight for WWIIHe would also team up with Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers to fight against the Nazi's Baron Von Strucker and Geist, who partnered with the Shadow King to overthrow King Edward VIII.
Logan enlisted in the Armed Forces, joining the First Canadian Parachute Battalion. It was with this battalion that he first encountered Bloodscream, an immortal being with vampire-like qualities and powers.
Logan spent time fighting in both Europe and Japan, and ended the war by being hit with an atomic blast.
Logan was tortured, including a stint in a German concentration camp, and was paid to torture others during World War II. He killed Germans and Americans as well, and lived up to the name "Wolverine".
After The War
After WWII, Logan remained in Japan, having remembered Ogun's offer to train him. Logan developed a deep love of Japan.
Logan and Itsu
With his training finished, Logan traveled to Bando Saburo. There, he met and married a woman named Itsu, with whom he conceived a child. Logan was exiled from Bando Saburo when he impaled a local with his claws as the result of an explosion created by Muramasa. Before leaving, Logan discovered Itsu dead and Romulus had taken the child. Logan later learned that the child had become the assassin Daken.
Logan returned to Canada and his freelance intelligence work. One of his clients was the American CIA. On one occasion, Wolverine teamed up with Ben Grimm (later known as the Thing) to participate in a Cold War-era government mission. He was then recruited by Team X, a Black Ops section of the CIA.
Team X
Team X Despite his many unusual feats of resilience and regeneration, Logan remained unaware of his mutant nature while with Team X. He was given false memory implants by Psi-Borg in order to make him easier to control. His overseers created the Shiva Scenario, an armada of armored robots whose only directive was to terminate Team X agents if they go rogue. Other members of Team X were Sabretooth, Silver Fox, John Wraith, Maverick and Mastodon. Mystique, under the name of Leni Zauber, also assisted Team X on occasion. Due to having his memories tampered with, Wolverine didn't recall Sabretooth, Silver Fox, or many of the events that had shaped his life.
On one of Team X's final missions, Logan and Sabretooth were ordered to assassinate the Soviet super-agent Epsilon Red. The mission was called off, but Sabretooth murdered Epsilon Red's wife for enjoyment. In Logan's final mission with Team X, he was 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. On this mission, Team X fought another super-agent, Omega Red. Sabretooth discovered during their escape that Logan had regained control of himself and murdered Janice in an attempt to intimidate him back under team control.
Logan realized that he was a mutant and resigned from Team X. He then joined the Canadian Defence Ministry. On one occasion, he worked with Richard and Mary Parker, government agents and parents of Peter Parker, Spider-Man. He also first met Carol Danvers during this time and worked with her on a number of occasions.
Weapon X
Weapon X costume In the serialized story "Weapon X", Barry Windsor-Smith created the back story for the man who would become Wolverine.
Logan was kidnapped by agents of the Weapon X Program, a joint U.S./Canadian program, and examined by Professor Thorton, Dr. Abraham Cornelius, and Carol Hines. The Professor learned that Logan is a mutant and bonded his bones with adamantium in an attempt to build the perfect weapon. Logan only survived the bonding through his healing factor. Lord Dark Wind, father of Lady Deathstrike, was the scientist that originally developed this bonding process. Logan was heavily sedated and controlled through a helmet, acting as a puppet and had his abilities put to the test. Eventually, Logan was able to resist this control and break free, He escaped the facility with the help of Winter Soldier, killing nearly everyone except for Professor Cornelius, Hines, and Malcolm Colcord.
Logan spent months traveling throughout the Canadian Rockies and there encountered the Hunter in Darkness.
New clawsDepartment H
Logan was eventually discovered by James and Heather Hudson, with whom he remained for some time. Following his recovery, Logan once again worked for the Canadian Government, this time with Department H.
Wolverine vs The Hulk In his first mission, he was dispatched to stop the destruction caused by a brawl between the Hulk and the Wendigo.
In another mission, Iraqi militants and a group of hired mercenaries seized an American embassy in Iraq and took hostages, giving various ransom demands. Because there were Canadian hostages in the embassy, Wolverine was dispatched to handle the situation, along with an American/Canadian Delta Force. The reclaiming of the embassy was successful, however, following the battle, Wolverine found a Canadian nun dying from a bullet wound she received in the crossfire. She told him about how the hired American mercenaries had harassed her daily and subjected her to extreme psychological torture. Wolverine promised the nun he would avenge the suffering, and years later he hunted down the mercenaries and killed them.
James Hudson soon created Alpha Flight and recruited Logan with the intention of making him team leader.
Wolverine in the X-Men
Wolverine with the new X-MenWolverine was first introduced to the X-Men in Giant Sized X-Men #1, sporting a new look courtesy of artist Gil Kane. It was later learned that Logan was originally sent to assassinate Professor X, but instead resigned from Department H to join a team of new X-Men, which also included Nightcrawler, Banshee, Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird, and Colossus as members. Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops, was the leader of the team, but Logan's attraction to Scott's girlfriend, Jean Grey, caused immediate problems in their working relationship.
Logan and JeanThe mission for which Logan and his fellow team members were recruited was an attempt to save the original X-Men team from the island of Krakoa. Following the successful mission, Logan found himself in conflict with another of the original X-Men. Angel sees Logan with Jean Grey and believed that Logan was out of line. A fight almost ensued, but Jean interfered. Logan interpreted her defense to mean that she was attracted to him as well.
Department H attempted to lure Logan back through the use of James Hudson, but Logan chose to remain with the X-Men.
Logan returned to Japan after meeting a member of a powerful Yakuza family, Lady Mariko Yashida. It was to Mariko that he was speaking when we first learned that he refered to himself as "Logan". With Jean Grey still attached to Scott, Logan let himself fall in love with Mariko.
Vindicator attempted to capture Logan as the leader of Alpha Flight, but was defeated.
When Jean Grey, under the control of Phoenix, died, Scott resigned his place in the X-Men. Kitty Pryde joined as the newest X-Man, and Storm was named as the new team leader.
The other X-Men learned Logan's name on a mission with Nightcrawler to assist Alpha Flight in the defeat of Wendigo. This was also the first time Wolverine donned his brown and tan costume.
First Solo Mission
Darker Brown & Tan CostumeAfter Logan defeated and killed Lord Shingen Harada, he met Yukio for the frist time. He and Mariko made plans to wed, but the engagement was ended as a result of Viper, the Silver Samurai and the influence of Mastermind.
After an X-Men battle in space, Logan fought to defend Japan from a dragon that the X-Men unintentionally brought back with them. Logan saved Amiko Kobayashi after her mother was killed in the fight. He left Amiko under the care of Yukio, and continued to visit them both on occasion.
Wolverine & KittyKitty Pryde, who had become a good friend by this time, traveled with Logan to visit the now-dead Ogun. Ogun took control of Kitty, attempting to turn her into his personal assassin, but was defeated when she, with the help of Logan, ousted him from her body. Logan had no choice but to kill Ogun. After this encounter, Kitty and Logan became closer than ever and he developed an almost paternal nature toward her.
PatchDuring The Fall of the Mutants and Inferno, Logan was the new team leader of the X-Men. Storm had left the team due to a loss of her power. At this time, the team members were Havok, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, and Longshot. The X-Men died in order to defeat Adversary, and returned in the Australian Outback. It was here that they encountered Jubilee when she saved Logan from Lady Deathstrike and he escaped the Reavers. Jubilee and Logan developed a close relationship over the years, with him being quite protective of her.
Logan returned to his life of wondering, returning to Hong Kong and Madripoor, and re-assuming the alias 'Patch'.
Logan traveled to the Savage Land under the influence of Apocalypse, and fathered a son named "Erista" with the chieftain Gahck. Logan ended the experiments in the Savage Land by defeating a robot version of Apocalypse.
Despite a long-running feud, Logan fought alongside Cable and the New Mutants in the battle against Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation Front. It was at this time that Logan went back to wearing his original costume. Nick Fury informed Logan that many of his memories, including much of his relationship with Sabretooth, were the result of memory implants installed during his time in the Weapon X Program.
Mariko's Death Logan traveled back to Japan, but soon after his arrival, Mariko was poisoned by assassin Matsuo Tsurayaba. Dieing slowly, Mariko requested that Logan kill her and relieve her pain. Logan warned Matsuo that every year, on the anniversary of Mariko's death, he would come back to Japan to cut off a part of Matsuo's body.
Logan soon learned that Silver Fox was not dead after all, and they, together with Jubilee, Caroline Hines of the Weapon X Program, and former Team X members Sabertooth, Maverick, John Wraith, and Mastodon, tracked down Aldo Ferro, known by the pseudonym "Psi-Borg". Sabretooth, under the influence of Psi-Borg, killed Silver Fox before Ferro's ultimate defeat.
The losses of Mariko and Silver Fox caused Logan to suffer a break with reality. He became delusional and set out on what he believed to be a Weapon X mission to kill Terry Adams, pseudonym Epsilon Red. Adams used his psychic abilities to help Logan gain a greater knowledge of his own memories.
Magneto ripping the adamantium from Logan's bodyLogan lost much of his mutant abilities, including his healing factor, when Magneto removed the adamantium from his body. The recovery overloaded his healing factor, leaving him in a weakened state. In an attempt to regain his strength, Logan began training in the Danger Room, but when he extended his now-bone claws, he was seriously injured. Believing that he was no longer of use to the X-Men, Logan left the team.
Wolverine with his bone clawsProfessor Xavier, Beast, and Heather Hudson embarked on a series of studies that seemed to show that Logan's mutation was ongoing, and while natural abilities would return, the mutation would also result in a slow change from human into something closer to a wild animal. The adamantium slowed this mutation because his body was forced to try to expel it as a foreign body. The removal of the metal caused the mutation to accelerate to its natural strength, ultimately increasing both his senses and his healing factor.
Cable's villainous son Genesis later tried to turn Logan into one of the Horseman of the Apocalypse and re-bonded adamantium to his bones. While unsuccessful, the process drove Logan to an uncontrollable state. He tracked the Dark Riders to their headquarters and slaughtered them. He regained control only through the assistance of Elektra and Stick.
Wolverine as Death: Horseman of Apocalypse
Apocalypse arranged a fight between Logan and Sabretooth to determine which would become the fourth Horseman of Apocalypse. Logan did not relish the idea of relinquishing control of himself to Apocalypse, but believed that Sabretooth will enjoy killing indiscriminately, and hoped to be strong enough to escape. With Logan's victory, he had adamantium re-bonded to his bones after Apocalypse tore it from Sabretooth. Logan broke free of the grasp of Apocalypse with the aid of Jubilee. Upon his return to the X-mansion, Logan killed the Skrull that had been impersonating him in his absence.
Malcolm Colcord, leading the Weapon X program, captured Logan and informed him that his old Weapon X implants were still operational. Under the control of Colcord, Logan slaughtered the former Director and former members of the program. Logan's implants were then destroyed and he was told that he, Weapon X, is really Weapon 10. The Weapon X Program was really only a part of the larger program that started with Steve Rogers and Isaiah Bradley, Weapon Plus. Logan, with the aid of Scott Summers and Fantomex, set out to destroy Weapon Plus. It was during this mission that Wolverine killed Weapon XV, Ultimaton. Logan discovered that he was programmed to be a living Sentinel and while under the program's control, brutally murdered the inhabitants of a village. Jean Grey helped Logan to overcome his guilt, but was killed by Magneto. Logan took out his revenge on Magneto by taking his life in return.
Logan was then made an agent of The Hand and Hydra, and in this capacity, killed Northstar. The New Avengers recruited Logan after S.H.I.E.L.D. executed his rescue. On this team, Logan fought alongside Ironman, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and Captain America.
Evolution
One last scrap Logan captured Sabretooth and interrogated him about a being from Logan's dreams called Romulus, but Sabretooth refused to give him any information. The Black Panther told Logan of a theory that many animal-like mutants may have evolved from canine roots and not primates. He also told of a graveyard of these canine-descended beings.
The Black Panther gathered Wolfsbane, Feral, Thornn, and Sasquatch, as well as Logan, to attempt to seek out information at the Weapon X compound. Sasquatch became separated from the team and was attacked by Wild Child. Wild Child was stronger than before, and suggested to Logan that it was as a result of Romulus.
During this time, Logan had his bone claws broken in a skirmish with his old nemesis Cyber. While in Madripoor, Logan learned from Gambit that Sabretooth was at Xavier's school. Logan returned to confront Sabretooth, and in the ensuing battle, chained him to a jet. Sabretooth survived and ended up in Wakanda, only to be possessed by Romulus.
Wolverine killing Sabretooth
Eventually, Sabretooth broke free and butchered Feral. Logan returned to the Xavier school to seek the Muramasa Blade from Cyclops, and with the aid of Emma Frost, retrieved it. Logan then tracked Sabretooth to the cabin that Logan had shared with Silver Fox. He felt himself losing control and returning a wild state. The Black Panther tracked Sabretooth and was almost killed, but Logan interrupted the fight. After he was defeated, Sabretooth requested for Logan to end his life. His request was granted.
Civil War
The adamantium skeleton In his next fight, Logan faced off against Scimitar. He was made to believe that Tony Stark was going to be killed at a Scimitar base, and raced to his aid. This turned out to be a set up, and he was attacked by Amir in a suit made of adamantium. An explosive was forced down Logan's throat after he killed Amir's lover. Stark found Logan brain dead, but with his body still in good shape.
For the first time, Logan lost the battle against Lazaer, an anagram for Azrael, the Angel of Death. Doctor Strange uncovered that since his resurrection by HYDRA and the Hand, Logan no longer wanted to live, and his soul was now stuck in Purgatory. When Logan woke up, he began a hunt for Phaedra. Logan had struck a deal with the Angel of Death that if he could kill Phaedra, his soul would be returned to him. For this fight, Logan's healing factor was weakened and any severe injury would result in his death.
Messiah Complex
Again in the company of the X-Men, Logan was on a mission to find a baby mutant that was thought to be held at Mister Sinister's base by Mister Sinister and the Marauders. Cable was discovered to be the one that had the baby after Logan stabbed Gambit through the stomach and interrogated him.
X-ForceLogan =was ordered by Scott Summers to gather his fellow X-Force members X-23, Wolfsbane, Warpath, Hepzibah, and Caliban and recover the child from Cable at any cost. They tracked Cable down and Logan attempted to apprehend him. As Logan, Caliban, and Warpath raced after Cable, a bullet heading directly for Warpath was stopped by Caliban, who sacrificed his body to do so. In the meantime, Cable stole the Blackbird jet and escaped.
Logan then led the X-Force in battle against the Marauders. Logan was swallowed by Predator X in this battle, and sliced his way out from the inside.
Get Mystique
Get MystiqueIt was through a flashback at the beginning of this tale that we learned that Logan and Mystique had a shared history that began in Mexico in 1921.
Scott Summers gave Logan the command to hunt down and kill Mystique for her seeming betrayal of the X-Men in the Messiah Complex.
The BattleMystique employed the explosive destruction of a Mosque in Tehran to facilitate her escape, and viciously murdered a girl in Afghanistan while in the guise of Logan. The villagers exacted their revenge on Logan, as he allowed himself to be shot multiple times.
Logan tracked Mystique and a fight broke out. Logan delivered a vicious blow, but did not kill Mystique, choosing instead to leave her a gun.
Wolverine Origins
His Origins Logan used the Muramasa Blade to defeat a Shiva robot at the opening of the Wolverine Origins story arc.
In the flashback that follows, we saw Logan during the Vietnam war. Logan kidnapped Nuke and used a trigger word to force him to kill the residents of a town in Vietnam. Captain America was sent to stop him, but after wounding Logan with the Muramasa Blade, Cyclops, Hellion and Emma Frost stepped in to save Captain America. Emma Frost used her telepathic abilities to calm the opponents. It was Emma that informed Logan that the son he shared with his great love Itsu was alive and known by the name Daken. She also told him that Daken did not have control of his own thoughts, and urged Logan to focus his efforts on saving his son, not seeking revenge.
Logan entrusted the Muramasa Blade to Cyclops with instructions that Logan must be killed if he again fell under the control of outside forces.
Fighting an old enemyLogan's first step was to meet up with his former Team X partner Maverick back in New York City. Logan believed that carbonadium might be able to weaken Daken, and allow Logan to defeat him without it being necessary to take his life. The carbonadium synthesizer was in the care of Maverick, but when Logan tracked him to a New York City building, he fond Jubilee amongst the mutants living there. Also seeking the synthesizer was Omega Red, who burst into the building a few moments after Logan. Jubilee and Maverick rescued the building's inhabitants as Logan battled Omega Red.
As a member of Team X, Logan was being used in experiments with carbonadium between missions. After one of these experiments, and before his memory was erased, as was done between every mission, Logan broke free and killed one of the scientists. Logan threatened the remaining scientist with his bone claws and wanted to know from whom the orders came. The scientist did not have the answer, so Logan told him to inform his superiors that the mind-wipe was successful. Logan received his orders for the next mission in Berlin. It was there that Logan first met Omega Red.
Meanwhile, Omega Red overpowered Logan and rendered him momentarily unconscious. Logan awoke to the sound of Jubilee's screams. Maverick informed him that Omega Red had Jubilee and knew the location of the carbonadium synthesizer. Logan traveled to Berlin with Dum Dum Dugan and S.H.I.E.L.D. chasing after him.
The Team X mission in Berlin was to steal the carbonadium synthesizer, which Logan made plans to use on Sabretooth. Before Logan could execute it, Omega Red attacked and forced Team X to flee along with a female scientist. When Sabretooth realized that Logan was no longer under Team X control, he killed the scientist to try to get Logan back under Team X control.
While Logan was meeting with the Black Widow, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attacked, and Jubilee was injured in the fight. Logan surrendered on the condition that Jubilee receive medical attention. On the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Logan was restrained and Daken walked in a S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform. Daken said that he was disappointed by how weak Logan was, and used his bone claws to wound his father.
Following his escape, Logan tracked Daken, but was confronted by Cyber. Cyber was there for Daken, but just before defeating him, was stopped by Logan. A fight broke out between Logan and Cyber, who was felled, not by Logan, but by a heart attack. Cyber then told Logan that it was he who trained Daken.
Logan's next challenger was Deadpool, who had been hired to kill Logan. Deadpool captured Logan and tied him above a pool of water with the intent to drown him. Daken suddenly burst in and removed Deadpool's hand. As Logan was recovering, a fight ensued between Daken and Deadpool. The battle ended when The Winter Soldier shot Daken in the head with a carbonadium bullet. Logan left Daken in the care of The Winter Soldier.
Logan was informed by Scott Summers that Professor Xavier was alive, and set out on a mission to find him. Professor Xavier, he believed, could help in his son's recovery. In the meantime, Daken was kidnapped by Sebastian Shaw and the new Hellfire Club.
Logan, it is learned, was initially sent by Romulus to assassinate Professor Xavier. Foiled in that attempt by the telepathic powers of Professor Xavier, Romulus focused on Daken. Professor Xavier was able to make Daken see the truth about the loss of his mother, and received Logan's full forgiveness in return.
Logan and Daken went on the hunt for Romulus. After accepting an offer of assistance from Cyber, Daken turned first on Logan to team with Cyber, then on Cyber.
Logan later met with Nick Fury after learning that Daken was now working alongside the Dark Avengers. Together they traveled to New York to prevent Daken's death at the hands of the X-men. They were successful in this attempt, but after Daken's escape, the Tinkerer bonded his muramasa claw to adamantium.
Logan battled Omega Red again after traveling to Russia to kill Romulus. Logan was injured in the fight, and then forced to face off against Wildchild. Omega Red kill\ed Wildchild just before Logan was thrown into molten iron. Logan stabbed Omega Red to prevent him from getting between him and Romulus again. Romulus was suddenly behind Logan and a battle ensued. After losing this fight, Logan sought out Bruce Banner for help. When Banner could not be of assistance himself, he traveled with Logan to recruit Dagger onto the mission to kill Romulus.
Manifest Destiny
50 years past, Logan worked for, and in the end fought, the head of Chinese crime in San Francisco's Chinatown, Black Dragon. Logan apparently committed some sort of betrayal and was ordered to never return to Chinatown or he will die.
50 years later, with the X-men based in San Francisco, Wolverine returned to Chinatown and was instantly noticed by a swordsman named Lo Jan. Lo Jan confronted Wolverine, but before the two could fight, Lo Jan was shot in the back by the a woman called Lin. Lin was Wolverine’s old girlfriend, and the current Black Dragon. It was also hinted at that it was Lin whom Wolverine had betrayed 50 years ago. Black Dragon revealed her four Kung Fu warriors, Rock of the Buddha, Fist of Fire, Storm Sword and Soulstriker. The four warriors were heavily beating him, and were only stopped by the sounds of police cars. When they turned their attention back to the floor where Logan had been, he had escaped into the sewers.
Wolverine proves he's the best there is at what he does.
Badly injured, Logan was missing an eye, and, thanks to Soulstriker, his soul was not much better off. An old man dragged Logan into an under ground cave. When Logan awoke it was revealed that he had known the old man. Master Po was a martial arts master that had refused to train Logan during his first tenure in Chinatown, but he changed his mind because Logan was a better man than he had been. Po offered Logan a chance to train with him, which Logan happily accepted.
It was revealed that 50 years ago Wolverine had made the plan of combining all of the fighting schools of Chinatown under his leadership. They had all agreed, and under Logan's leadership they had defeated the Black Dragon's army. The fight concluded with Logan cutting off the Black Dragon's head. After the battle, the other school had asked Logan to become the new Black Dragon but he had refused. Just before Logan could ride away, he had been attacked by Lo Jan, who stabbed him in the eye with a spear end.
Back in the present, Logan again tried to unite the martial schools, but this time, they kicked him through the window. Before they could inflict any more damage, Logan and Po escaped back under-ground to Po's home. There Po continued to train Logan, telling him that he had come to rely on his healing factor too much while fighting.
Logan traveled back to the surface to ask for the help of The Sons Of The Tiger, but they also refused. Before anything else could happen, they were attacked by the Hot Handed Gods Of Guns, who were trying to collect the bounty that Black Dragon had put on Logan's head. Logan and two members of Son Of The Tiger made short work of them, but a team of police officers raided the building and saw Logan kill the final member of the gang.
Logan waited until his arrival at jail to make his escape. He used his phone call to place a call to Nightcrawler, asking to be teleported out of the police station.
After Nightcrawler teleported Logan to freedom, Logan set off a rematch with the Black Dragon and her warriors. Logan found Black Dragon and her warriors in the middle of the street making threats to everyone in Chinatown. Even Po was there, but still, no one spoke up against her. When Logan arrived, he challenged them, and unlike their last meeting, Logan's martial arts skills were too much for the four warriors. Not one of them was a match for Logan even without the use of his claws. Logan defeated all of the warriors and one of them, Soulstriker, revealed that the Black Dragon Logan had killed 50 years ago was Soulstriker's grandfather.
With her warriors dead and defeated, Lo told her goons to kill Logan. Before they could make an attack, The Sons Of The Tiger arrived with Po to aid Logan. Together they made short work of the goons and managed to escape before the police arrived. Lo also escaped with her life.
Logan was again offered the Black Dragon mantle by the martial arts schools, and this time, he accepted.
Leader of X-Force
X-Force (vol. 3) #12Scott Summers made the decision to reassemble X-Force with the intent of permanently eliminating the threat posed by key enemies.
Their first mission was against Matthew Risman and the Purifiers.
It was then discovered that Vanisher made an attempt to steal a sample of the legacy virus. X-Force was relieved to find that he had been unable to make off with the sample. While at Sinister's lab, Vanisher had come under attack by a pack of Marauder clones and dropped the sample.
Characteristics
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 195lbs (Without Adamantium), 300lbs (With Adamantium)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Powers and Abilities
Like all other super-powered mutants, Logan was born with a special powers: heightened senses, bone claws that protrude from his hands and an incredible healing ability which would enable him to recover from injuries at surprising speed. It appears to be this last ability that made it possible for Wolverine's entire skeleton to be reinforced with adamantium, an almost indestructible metal. Wolverine's claws, which he uses as the deadliest of weapons, are coated with 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.
Logan's healing factor has increased in strength so much throughout 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, at time went on, writers have made his healing much more powerful to the point where he can 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 possesses animalistic senses which allow him to see further than normal humans, hear better and also enables him to track people by scent. His 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. His sense of smell allows him to identify people by scent alone, this includes shapeshifters. It also allows him to hunt his quarry for great distances.
Wolverine’s physical build is also a part of his mutation in which he has sharp teeth and three retractable bone claws housed in his fore-arms. These claws are extra durable and naturally sharp. This allows Wolverine to climb sheer structures and cut through most types of materials including flesh, bone, wood, glass and some types of rocks and metals. 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 were 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.
Unlike most mutants, Logan will never stop mutating. This means his abilities like his healing factor and animal senses will continue to get stronger. Feral by nature, Wolverine's constant mutation process will cause him to degenerate physically and mentally into a more primitive, bestial state. However, the presence of adamantium slows his mutation process down.
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. He especially favors swords, such as the Muramasa Blade. Traveling the world, through his entire life, Wolverine has become a master in many forms of martial arts and is familiar with nearly all. Wolverine was also a samurai and is a skilled katana user. 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. He is at home in the wilderness and has proved capable of hunting and surviving even in the harshest of climates.
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 a 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 team tactics honed by his years with the X-Men 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.
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Wolverine first showed up in The Incredible Hulk #180, October 1974. Wolverine was first seen in a drawing by Dave Cockrum. While he was still working for DC Comics, he intended Wolverine to be a female vampire with fangs and without claws.
The name Wolverine was chosen because during the 1970s, characters who resembled animals or were animals were very popular. Wolverine was to have a Canadian accent. Though originally intended to be female, later John Romita Sr. sketched Wolverine, and with the help of Len Wein would build Wolverine into the character of today.
Origin of Wolverine
The Wolverine is bornThe man that would become the ultimate killing machine was born James Howlett in the early 1890s in Alberta, Canada to Elizabeth and John Howlett Sr. His mother went insane after her first son, John Howlett Jr., died under strange circumstances years before James' birth. It was hinted at that John Jr. was a mutant with powers similar to those of Wolverine, as alluded to by James' grandfather and mother, his mother even bearing scars from John Jr.'s claws.
In the early 1900s a young Irish girl, Rose O'Hara, was brought to the Howlett estate to be a friend and caretaker to young James. Together they befriended another young boy named Dog Logan, son of the grounds keeper Thomas Logan. It was hinted at that Thomas Logan and Elizabeth were having an affair, and James was said to bear a strong resemblance to Thomas in adulthood.
A young RoseThomas Logan was a heavy drinker who often abused his son Dog. As a result, over the next few years, Dog became more and more like his father. At one point he attempted to assault Rose and killed James' dog, leading to both he and his father being expelled from the mansion.
The two returned to the mansion shortly afterward looking to rob the estate. Thomas tried to talk Elizabeth into leaving with him, and implied that he was the real father of both of her sons. Thomas murdered John Howlett Sr. with a shot from his rifle in front of James, Rose, and Elizabeth Howlett. James, in a fit of rage and sorrow, manifested his mutant power by popping his bone claws and sliced Dog's face before impaling Thomas Logan. Elizabeth became hysterical and throws James and Rose out of the home before calmly shooting herself in the head with Thomas' rifle. James and Rose rushed to James' grandfather but he ordered them to leave and never return.
James was in such a state of shock that he didn't remember any of the events that had transpired.
James and Rose wandered until finding a mining community in British Columbia. There Rose introduced James as her cousin, Logan. Logan as often bullied and abused by the Cook but befriended the foreman, Smitty, who fell in love with Rose. Over the course of the next few years, Logan would get the urge to hunt with packs of wolves by his side. He, too, fell in love with Rose, but couldn't pursue his feelings because they had portrayed themselves as cousins. Logan dealt with his anger and frustration by competing in cage fights. He earned the nickname "Wolverine" because his intense digging reminded the the other miners of a wolverine digging for a root.
Eventually Logan became estranged from Rose after she agreed to marry Smitty. However, he later maked peace with Smitty by letting himself be beaten in a cage fight against Smitty.
Around this same time, the dying Grandfather Howlett requested that Dog go and find James/Logan and bring him home. Dog tracked Logan and eventually confronted him, but with the intent to kill him. During the fight, Logan went for a killing blow with his bone claws, but accidentally impaled Rose, killing her. Grief stricken and horrified, Logan fled into the woods.
Early Years of Wolverine
Death of Silver Fox In 1910, Logan traveled to another frontier community in the Canadian Rockies. He met a young Blackfoot woman named Silver Fox, with whom he fell in love. The two shared a cabin together and lived happily for a time.
In late May, which is when Logan believed his birthday to be, Sabretooth murdered Silver Fox. Enraged, he battled Sabretooth, but was defeated. Sabretooth and a mysterious cloaked figure then convinced 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 defeated the demonic snake-worm known as Uncegila, a feat which earned him the Blackfoot warrior name of "Skunk-Bear".
A broad, largely unseen conspiracy then began to shape Logan, robbed of his conscience and free will, into the perfect killer. Wherever Logan went, Sabretooth, one of his handlers, was not far behind.
Wolverine in World War I
Logan During The World WarIn 1914, Logan joined the Canadian Army to fight during The Great War. During a battle in Belgium on April 22, 1915, Logan encountered Lazaer (anagram of Azrael, the Angel of Death) for the first time and a fight ensued. Lazaer got the upper hand and impaled Wolverine with his sword, but Logan pulled the sword from his body, and impaled Lazaer to defeat him. Since then, every time Logan has had a near death experience, he has had to battle Lazaer so that he was be able to return back to life.
When the authorities became aware of Logan's abilities, he was assigned to a special unit of the Canadian military, The Devil's Brigade. He was placed under the command of the superhumanly strong Silas Burr (who later become the mercenary Cyber).
Cyber murdered Logan's girlfriend, and during the confrontation, Logan was severely beaten and one of his eyes was taken out. Romulus ordered Cyber and Sabretooth to track him down. They found Logan in the woods and convinced him to return. Logan was then sent to Madripoor.
While in Madripoor, he met Seraph, the woman who owned the Princess Bar and took him under her wing. During this time, he also became friends with the prostitute Madame Joy, and eventually became part owner of the Princess Bar. Seraph appointed herself the guardian of Madripoor against the Hand. Logan began his travels again, this time landing in China. There he met a Chinese businessman named Chang, an employee of Landau, Luckman, and a man named Ogun, an immortal japanese samurai. Ogun was impressed with Logan's skills and offered to train him in martial arts and Sun Tzu.
Logan & Raven In 1921, Logan met the mutant terrorist Mystique in Mexico, where they were both going to be executed by firing squad. They managed to escape and formed a gang of con men and criminals. Mystique and Logan soon became friends and lovers, but the partnership ended when Logan informed the police of their plan to rob a bank. They both became involved in the Weapon X program, where Logan gained his indestructible adamantium claws. This was the last time they were partnered together.
During the 1930s, the agency Logan was working for sent him to Russia to aid the Romanov family. There he learned espionage and befriended a young Natalia Romanov, later to become the Black Widow.
Wolverine, along with his good friend Puck, spent time fighting against the fascists forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Wolverine in World War II
Logan During WWII . As you can see, his early relationship with Captain America and Bucky wasn't the greatest. During World War II, Logan teamed up with Captain America and Bucky in Madripoor. They rescued Natasha Romanova from being transformed into an assassin by Hand. Baron Wolfgang von Strucker became involved, causing Wolverine and Captain America to turn their attention toward HYDRA.
During this time, Seraph was killed by Sabretooth, presumably under the orders of the forces.
Logan in the fight for WWIIHe would also team up with Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers to fight against the Nazi's Baron Von Strucker and Geist, who partnered with the Shadow King to overthrow King Edward VIII.
Logan enlisted in the Armed Forces, joining the First Canadian Parachute Battalion. It was with this battalion that he first encountered Bloodscream, an immortal being with vampire-like qualities and powers.
Logan spent time fighting in both Europe and Japan, and ended the war by being hit with an atomic blast.
Logan was tortured, including a stint in a German concentration camp, and was paid to torture others during World War II. He killed Germans and Americans as well, and lived up to the name "Wolverine".
After The War
After WWII, Logan remained in Japan, having remembered Ogun's offer to train him. Logan developed a deep love of Japan.
Logan and Itsu
With his training finished, Logan traveled to Bando Saburo. There, he met and married a woman named Itsu, with whom he conceived a child. Logan was exiled from Bando Saburo when he impaled a local with his claws as the result of an explosion created by Muramasa. Before leaving, Logan discovered Itsu dead and Romulus had taken the child. Logan later learned that the child had become the assassin Daken.
Logan returned to Canada and his freelance intelligence work. One of his clients was the American CIA. On one occasion, Wolverine teamed up with Ben Grimm (later known as the Thing) to participate in a Cold War-era government mission. He was then recruited by Team X, a Black Ops section of the CIA.
Team X
Team X Despite his many unusual feats of resilience and regeneration, Logan remained unaware of his mutant nature while with Team X. He was given false memory implants by Psi-Borg in order to make him easier to control. His overseers created the Shiva Scenario, an armada of armored robots whose only directive was to terminate Team X agents if they go rogue. Other members of Team X were Sabretooth, Silver Fox, John Wraith, Maverick and Mastodon. Mystique, under the name of Leni Zauber, also assisted Team X on occasion. Due to having his memories tampered with, Wolverine didn't recall Sabretooth, Silver Fox, or many of the events that had shaped his life.
On one of Team X's final missions, Logan and Sabretooth were ordered to assassinate the Soviet super-agent Epsilon Red. The mission was called off, but Sabretooth murdered Epsilon Red's wife for enjoyment. In Logan's final mission with Team X, he was 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. On this mission, Team X fought another super-agent, Omega Red. Sabretooth discovered during their escape that Logan had regained control of himself and murdered Janice in an attempt to intimidate him back under team control.
Logan realized that he was a mutant and resigned from Team X. He then joined the Canadian Defence Ministry. On one occasion, he worked with Richard and Mary Parker, government agents and parents of Peter Parker, Spider-Man. He also first met Carol Danvers during this time and worked with her on a number of occasions.
Weapon X
Weapon X costume In the serialized story "Weapon X", Barry Windsor-Smith created the back story for the man who would become Wolverine.
Logan was kidnapped by agents of the Weapon X Program, a joint U.S./Canadian program, and examined by Professor Thorton, Dr. Abraham Cornelius, and Carol Hines. The Professor learned that Logan is a mutant and bonded his bones with adamantium in an attempt to build the perfect weapon. Logan only survived the bonding through his healing factor. Lord Dark Wind, father of Lady Deathstrike, was the scientist that originally developed this bonding process. Logan was heavily sedated and controlled through a helmet, acting as a puppet and had his abilities put to the test. Eventually, Logan was able to resist this control and break free, He escaped the facility with the help of Winter Soldier, killing nearly everyone except for Professor Cornelius, Hines, and Malcolm Colcord.
Logan spent months traveling throughout the Canadian Rockies and there encountered the Hunter in Darkness.
New clawsDepartment H
Logan was eventually discovered by James and Heather Hudson, with whom he remained for some time. Following his recovery, Logan once again worked for the Canadian Government, this time with Department H.
Wolverine vs The Hulk In his first mission, he was dispatched to stop the destruction caused by a brawl between the Hulk and the Wendigo.
In another mission, Iraqi militants and a group of hired mercenaries seized an American embassy in Iraq and took hostages, giving various ransom demands. Because there were Canadian hostages in the embassy, Wolverine was dispatched to handle the situation, along with an American/Canadian Delta Force. The reclaiming of the embassy was successful, however, following the battle, Wolverine found a Canadian nun dying from a bullet wound she received in the crossfire. She told him about how the hired American mercenaries had harassed her daily and subjected her to extreme psychological torture. Wolverine promised the nun he would avenge the suffering, and years later he hunted down the mercenaries and killed them.
James Hudson soon created Alpha Flight and recruited Logan with the intention of making him team leader.
Wolverine in the X-Men
Wolverine with the new X-MenWolverine was first introduced to the X-Men in Giant Sized X-Men #1, sporting a new look courtesy of artist Gil Kane. It was later learned that Logan was originally sent to assassinate Professor X, but instead resigned from Department H to join a team of new X-Men, which also included Nightcrawler, Banshee, Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird, and Colossus as members. Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops, was the leader of the team, but Logan's attraction to Scott's girlfriend, Jean Grey, caused immediate problems in their working relationship.
Logan and JeanThe mission for which Logan and his fellow team members were recruited was an attempt to save the original X-Men team from the island of Krakoa. Following the successful mission, Logan found himself in conflict with another of the original X-Men. Angel sees Logan with Jean Grey and believed that Logan was out of line. A fight almost ensued, but Jean interfered. Logan interpreted her defense to mean that she was attracted to him as well.
Department H attempted to lure Logan back through the use of James Hudson, but Logan chose to remain with the X-Men.
Logan returned to Japan after meeting a member of a powerful Yakuza family, Lady Mariko Yashida. It was to Mariko that he was speaking when we first learned that he refered to himself as "Logan". With Jean Grey still attached to Scott, Logan let himself fall in love with Mariko.
Vindicator attempted to capture Logan as the leader of Alpha Flight, but was defeated.
When Jean Grey, under the control of Phoenix, died, Scott resigned his place in the X-Men. Kitty Pryde joined as the newest X-Man, and Storm was named as the new team leader.
The other X-Men learned Logan's name on a mission with Nightcrawler to assist Alpha Flight in the defeat of Wendigo. This was also the first time Wolverine donned his brown and tan costume.
First Solo Mission
Darker Brown & Tan CostumeAfter Logan defeated and killed Lord Shingen Harada, he met Yukio for the frist time. He and Mariko made plans to wed, but the engagement was ended as a result of Viper, the Silver Samurai and the influence of Mastermind.
After an X-Men battle in space, Logan fought to defend Japan from a dragon that the X-Men unintentionally brought back with them. Logan saved Amiko Kobayashi after her mother was killed in the fight. He left Amiko under the care of Yukio, and continued to visit them both on occasion.
Wolverine & KittyKitty Pryde, who had become a good friend by this time, traveled with Logan to visit the now-dead Ogun. Ogun took control of Kitty, attempting to turn her into his personal assassin, but was defeated when she, with the help of Logan, ousted him from her body. Logan had no choice but to kill Ogun. After this encounter, Kitty and Logan became closer than ever and he developed an almost paternal nature toward her.
PatchDuring The Fall of the Mutants and Inferno, Logan was the new team leader of the X-Men. Storm had left the team due to a loss of her power. At this time, the team members were Havok, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, and Longshot. The X-Men died in order to defeat Adversary, and returned in the Australian Outback. It was here that they encountered Jubilee when she saved Logan from Lady Deathstrike and he escaped the Reavers. Jubilee and Logan developed a close relationship over the years, with him being quite protective of her.
Logan returned to his life of wondering, returning to Hong Kong and Madripoor, and re-assuming the alias 'Patch'.
Logan traveled to the Savage Land under the influence of Apocalypse, and fathered a son named "Erista" with the chieftain Gahck. Logan ended the experiments in the Savage Land by defeating a robot version of Apocalypse.
Despite a long-running feud, Logan fought alongside Cable and the New Mutants in the battle against Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation Front. It was at this time that Logan went back to wearing his original costume. Nick Fury informed Logan that many of his memories, including much of his relationship with Sabretooth, were the result of memory implants installed during his time in the Weapon X Program.
Mariko's Death Logan traveled back to Japan, but soon after his arrival, Mariko was poisoned by assassin Matsuo Tsurayaba. Dieing slowly, Mariko requested that Logan kill her and relieve her pain. Logan warned Matsuo that every year, on the anniversary of Mariko's death, he would come back to Japan to cut off a part of Matsuo's body.
Logan soon learned that Silver Fox was not dead after all, and they, together with Jubilee, Caroline Hines of the Weapon X Program, and former Team X members Sabertooth, Maverick, John Wraith, and Mastodon, tracked down Aldo Ferro, known by the pseudonym "Psi-Borg". Sabretooth, under the influence of Psi-Borg, killed Silver Fox before Ferro's ultimate defeat.
The losses of Mariko and Silver Fox caused Logan to suffer a break with reality. He became delusional and set out on what he believed to be a Weapon X mission to kill Terry Adams, pseudonym Epsilon Red. Adams used his psychic abilities to help Logan gain a greater knowledge of his own memories.
Magneto ripping the adamantium from Logan's bodyLogan lost much of his mutant abilities, including his healing factor, when Magneto removed the adamantium from his body. The recovery overloaded his healing factor, leaving him in a weakened state. In an attempt to regain his strength, Logan began training in the Danger Room, but when he extended his now-bone claws, he was seriously injured. Believing that he was no longer of use to the X-Men, Logan left the team.
Wolverine with his bone clawsProfessor Xavier, Beast, and Heather Hudson embarked on a series of studies that seemed to show that Logan's mutation was ongoing, and while natural abilities would return, the mutation would also result in a slow change from human into something closer to a wild animal. The adamantium slowed this mutation because his body was forced to try to expel it as a foreign body. The removal of the metal caused the mutation to accelerate to its natural strength, ultimately increasing both his senses and his healing factor.
Cable's villainous son Genesis later tried to turn Logan into one of the Horseman of the Apocalypse and re-bonded adamantium to his bones. While unsuccessful, the process drove Logan to an uncontrollable state. He tracked the Dark Riders to their headquarters and slaughtered them. He regained control only through the assistance of Elektra and Stick.
Wolverine as Death: Horseman of Apocalypse
Apocalypse arranged a fight between Logan and Sabretooth to determine which would become the fourth Horseman of Apocalypse. Logan did not relish the idea of relinquishing control of himself to Apocalypse, but believed that Sabretooth will enjoy killing indiscriminately, and hoped to be strong enough to escape. With Logan's victory, he had adamantium re-bonded to his bones after Apocalypse tore it from Sabretooth. Logan broke free of the grasp of Apocalypse with the aid of Jubilee. Upon his return to the X-mansion, Logan killed the Skrull that had been impersonating him in his absence.
Malcolm Colcord, leading the Weapon X program, captured Logan and informed him that his old Weapon X implants were still operational. Under the control of Colcord, Logan slaughtered the former Director and former members of the program. Logan's implants were then destroyed and he was told that he, Weapon X, is really Weapon 10. The Weapon X Program was really only a part of the larger program that started with Steve Rogers and Isaiah Bradley, Weapon Plus. Logan, with the aid of Scott Summers and Fantomex, set out to destroy Weapon Plus. It was during this mission that Wolverine killed Weapon XV, Ultimaton. Logan discovered that he was programmed to be a living Sentinel and while under the program's control, brutally murdered the inhabitants of a village. Jean Grey helped Logan to overcome his guilt, but was killed by Magneto. Logan took out his revenge on Magneto by taking his life in return.
Logan was then made an agent of The Hand and Hydra, and in this capacity, killed Northstar. The New Avengers recruited Logan after S.H.I.E.L.D. executed his rescue. On this team, Logan fought alongside Ironman, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and Captain America.
Evolution
One last scrap Logan captured Sabretooth and interrogated him about a being from Logan's dreams called Romulus, but Sabretooth refused to give him any information. The Black Panther told Logan of a theory that many animal-like mutants may have evolved from canine roots and not primates. He also told of a graveyard of these canine-descended beings.
The Black Panther gathered Wolfsbane, Feral, Thornn, and Sasquatch, as well as Logan, to attempt to seek out information at the Weapon X compound. Sasquatch became separated from the team and was attacked by Wild Child. Wild Child was stronger than before, and suggested to Logan that it was as a result of Romulus.
During this time, Logan had his bone claws broken in a skirmish with his old nemesis Cyber. While in Madripoor, Logan learned from Gambit that Sabretooth was at Xavier's school. Logan returned to confront Sabretooth, and in the ensuing battle, chained him to a jet. Sabretooth survived and ended up in Wakanda, only to be possessed by Romulus.
Wolverine killing Sabretooth
Eventually, Sabretooth broke free and butchered Feral. Logan returned to the Xavier school to seek the Muramasa Blade from Cyclops, and with the aid of Emma Frost, retrieved it. Logan then tracked Sabretooth to the cabin that Logan had shared with Silver Fox. He felt himself losing control and returning a wild state. The Black Panther tracked Sabretooth and was almost killed, but Logan interrupted the fight. After he was defeated, Sabretooth requested for Logan to end his life. His request was granted.
Civil War
The adamantium skeleton In his next fight, Logan faced off against Scimitar. He was made to believe that Tony Stark was going to be killed at a Scimitar base, and raced to his aid. This turned out to be a set up, and he was attacked by Amir in a suit made of adamantium. An explosive was forced down Logan's throat after he killed Amir's lover. Stark found Logan brain dead, but with his body still in good shape.
For the first time, Logan lost the battle against Lazaer, an anagram for Azrael, the Angel of Death. Doctor Strange uncovered that since his resurrection by HYDRA and the Hand, Logan no longer wanted to live, and his soul was now stuck in Purgatory. When Logan woke up, he began a hunt for Phaedra. Logan had struck a deal with the Angel of Death that if he could kill Phaedra, his soul would be returned to him. For this fight, Logan's healing factor was weakened and any severe injury would result in his death.
Messiah Complex
Again in the company of the X-Men, Logan was on a mission to find a baby mutant that was thought to be held at Mister Sinister's base by Mister Sinister and the Marauders. Cable was discovered to be the one that had the baby after Logan stabbed Gambit through the stomach and interrogated him.
X-ForceLogan =was ordered by Scott Summers to gather his fellow X-Force members X-23, Wolfsbane, Warpath, Hepzibah, and Caliban and recover the child from Cable at any cost. They tracked Cable down and Logan attempted to apprehend him. As Logan, Caliban, and Warpath raced after Cable, a bullet heading directly for Warpath was stopped by Caliban, who sacrificed his body to do so. In the meantime, Cable stole the Blackbird jet and escaped.
Logan then led the X-Force in battle against the Marauders. Logan was swallowed by Predator X in this battle, and sliced his way out from the inside.
Get Mystique
Get MystiqueIt was through a flashback at the beginning of this tale that we learned that Logan and Mystique had a shared history that began in Mexico in 1921.
Scott Summers gave Logan the command to hunt down and kill Mystique for her seeming betrayal of the X-Men in the Messiah Complex.
The BattleMystique employed the explosive destruction of a Mosque in Tehran to facilitate her escape, and viciously murdered a girl in Afghanistan while in the guise of Logan. The villagers exacted their revenge on Logan, as he allowed himself to be shot multiple times.
Logan tracked Mystique and a fight broke out. Logan delivered a vicious blow, but did not kill Mystique, choosing instead to leave her a gun.
Wolverine Origins
His Origins Logan used the Muramasa Blade to defeat a Shiva robot at the opening of the Wolverine Origins story arc.
In the flashback that follows, we saw Logan during the Vietnam war. Logan kidnapped Nuke and used a trigger word to force him to kill the residents of a town in Vietnam. Captain America was sent to stop him, but after wounding Logan with the Muramasa Blade, Cyclops, Hellion and Emma Frost stepped in to save Captain America. Emma Frost used her telepathic abilities to calm the opponents. It was Emma that informed Logan that the son he shared with his great love Itsu was alive and known by the name Daken. She also told him that Daken did not have control of his own thoughts, and urged Logan to focus his efforts on saving his son, not seeking revenge.
Logan entrusted the Muramasa Blade to Cyclops with instructions that Logan must be killed if he again fell under the control of outside forces.
Fighting an old enemyLogan's first step was to meet up with his former Team X partner Maverick back in New York City. Logan believed that carbonadium might be able to weaken Daken, and allow Logan to defeat him without it being necessary to take his life. The carbonadium synthesizer was in the care of Maverick, but when Logan tracked him to a New York City building, he fond Jubilee amongst the mutants living there. Also seeking the synthesizer was Omega Red, who burst into the building a few moments after Logan. Jubilee and Maverick rescued the building's inhabitants as Logan battled Omega Red.
As a member of Team X, Logan was being used in experiments with carbonadium between missions. After one of these experiments, and before his memory was erased, as was done between every mission, Logan broke free and killed one of the scientists. Logan threatened the remaining scientist with his bone claws and wanted to know from whom the orders came. The scientist did not have the answer, so Logan told him to inform his superiors that the mind-wipe was successful. Logan received his orders for the next mission in Berlin. It was there that Logan first met Omega Red.
Meanwhile, Omega Red overpowered Logan and rendered him momentarily unconscious. Logan awoke to the sound of Jubilee's screams. Maverick informed him that Omega Red had Jubilee and knew the location of the carbonadium synthesizer. Logan traveled to Berlin with Dum Dum Dugan and S.H.I.E.L.D. chasing after him.
The Team X mission in Berlin was to steal the carbonadium synthesizer, which Logan made plans to use on Sabretooth. Before Logan could execute it, Omega Red attacked and forced Team X to flee along with a female scientist. When Sabretooth realized that Logan was no longer under Team X control, he killed the scientist to try to get Logan back under Team X control.
While Logan was meeting with the Black Widow, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attacked, and Jubilee was injured in the fight. Logan surrendered on the condition that Jubilee receive medical attention. On the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Logan was restrained and Daken walked in a S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform. Daken said that he was disappointed by how weak Logan was, and used his bone claws to wound his father.
Following his escape, Logan tracked Daken, but was confronted by Cyber. Cyber was there for Daken, but just before defeating him, was stopped by Logan. A fight broke out between Logan and Cyber, who was felled, not by Logan, but by a heart attack. Cyber then told Logan that it was he who trained Daken.
Logan's next challenger was Deadpool, who had been hired to kill Logan. Deadpool captured Logan and tied him above a pool of water with the intent to drown him. Daken suddenly burst in and removed Deadpool's hand. As Logan was recovering, a fight ensued between Daken and Deadpool. The battle ended when The Winter Soldier shot Daken in the head with a carbonadium bullet. Logan left Daken in the care of The Winter Soldier.
Logan was informed by Scott Summers that Professor Xavier was alive, and set out on a mission to find him. Professor Xavier, he believed, could help in his son's recovery. In the meantime, Daken was kidnapped by Sebastian Shaw and the new Hellfire Club.
Logan, it is learned, was initially sent by Romulus to assassinate Professor Xavier. Foiled in that attempt by the telepathic powers of Professor Xavier, Romulus focused on Daken. Professor Xavier was able to make Daken see the truth about the loss of his mother, and received Logan's full forgiveness in return.
Logan and Daken went on the hunt for Romulus. After accepting an offer of assistance from Cyber, Daken turned first on Logan to team with Cyber, then on Cyber.
Logan later met with Nick Fury after learning that Daken was now working alongside the Dark Avengers. Together they traveled to New York to prevent Daken's death at the hands of the X-men. They were successful in this attempt, but after Daken's escape, the Tinkerer bonded his muramasa claw to adamantium.
Logan battled Omega Red again after traveling to Russia to kill Romulus. Logan was injured in the fight, and then forced to face off against Wildchild. Omega Red kill\ed Wildchild just before Logan was thrown into molten iron. Logan stabbed Omega Red to prevent him from getting between him and Romulus again. Romulus was suddenly behind Logan and a battle ensued. After losing this fight, Logan sought out Bruce Banner for help. When Banner could not be of assistance himself, he traveled with Logan to recruit Dagger onto the mission to kill Romulus.
Manifest Destiny
50 years past, Logan worked for, and in the end fought, the head of Chinese crime in San Francisco's Chinatown, Black Dragon. Logan apparently committed some sort of betrayal and was ordered to never return to Chinatown or he will die.
50 years later, with the X-men based in San Francisco, Wolverine returned to Chinatown and was instantly noticed by a swordsman named Lo Jan. Lo Jan confronted Wolverine, but before the two could fight, Lo Jan was shot in the back by the a woman called Lin. Lin was Wolverine’s old girlfriend, and the current Black Dragon. It was also hinted at that it was Lin whom Wolverine had betrayed 50 years ago. Black Dragon revealed her four Kung Fu warriors, Rock of the Buddha, Fist of Fire, Storm Sword and Soulstriker. The four warriors were heavily beating him, and were only stopped by the sounds of police cars. When they turned their attention back to the floor where Logan had been, he had escaped into the sewers.
Wolverine proves he's the best there is at what he does.
Badly injured, Logan was missing an eye, and, thanks to Soulstriker, his soul was not much better off. An old man dragged Logan into an under ground cave. When Logan awoke it was revealed that he had known the old man. Master Po was a martial arts master that had refused to train Logan during his first tenure in Chinatown, but he changed his mind because Logan was a better man than he had been. Po offered Logan a chance to train with him, which Logan happily accepted.
It was revealed that 50 years ago Wolverine had made the plan of combining all of the fighting schools of Chinatown under his leadership. They had all agreed, and under Logan's leadership they had defeated the Black Dragon's army. The fight concluded with Logan cutting off the Black Dragon's head. After the battle, the other school had asked Logan to become the new Black Dragon but he had refused. Just before Logan could ride away, he had been attacked by Lo Jan, who stabbed him in the eye with a spear end.
Back in the present, Logan again tried to unite the martial schools, but this time, they kicked him through the window. Before they could inflict any more damage, Logan and Po escaped back under-ground to Po's home. There Po continued to train Logan, telling him that he had come to rely on his healing factor too much while fighting.
Logan traveled back to the surface to ask for the help of The Sons Of The Tiger, but they also refused. Before anything else could happen, they were attacked by the Hot Handed Gods Of Guns, who were trying to collect the bounty that Black Dragon had put on Logan's head. Logan and two members of Son Of The Tiger made short work of them, but a team of police officers raided the building and saw Logan kill the final member of the gang.
Logan waited until his arrival at jail to make his escape. He used his phone call to place a call to Nightcrawler, asking to be teleported out of the police station.
After Nightcrawler teleported Logan to freedom, Logan set off a rematch with the Black Dragon and her warriors. Logan found Black Dragon and her warriors in the middle of the street making threats to everyone in Chinatown. Even Po was there, but still, no one spoke up against her. When Logan arrived, he challenged them, and unlike their last meeting, Logan's martial arts skills were too much for the four warriors. Not one of them was a match for Logan even without the use of his claws. Logan defeated all of the warriors and one of them, Soulstriker, revealed that the Black Dragon Logan had killed 50 years ago was Soulstriker's grandfather.
With her warriors dead and defeated, Lo told her goons to kill Logan. Before they could make an attack, The Sons Of The Tiger arrived with Po to aid Logan. Together they made short work of the goons and managed to escape before the police arrived. Lo also escaped with her life.
Logan was again offered the Black Dragon mantle by the martial arts schools, and this time, he accepted.
Leader of X-Force
X-Force (vol. 3) #12Scott Summers made the decision to reassemble X-Force with the intent of permanently eliminating the threat posed by key enemies.
Their first mission was against Matthew Risman and the Purifiers.
It was then discovered that Vanisher made an attempt to steal a sample of the legacy virus. X-Force was relieved to find that he had been unable to make off with the sample. While at Sinister's lab, Vanisher had come under attack by a pack of Marauder clones and dropped the sample.
Characteristics
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 195lbs (Without Adamantium), 300lbs (With Adamantium)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Powers and Abilities
Like all other super-powered mutants, Logan was born with a special powers: heightened senses, bone claws that protrude from his hands and an incredible healing ability which would enable him to recover from injuries at surprising speed. It appears to be this last ability that made it possible for Wolverine's entire skeleton to be reinforced with adamantium, an almost indestructible metal. Wolverine's claws, which he uses as the deadliest of weapons, are coated with 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.
Logan's healing factor has increased in strength so much throughout 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, at time went on, writers have made his healing much more powerful to the point where he can 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 possesses animalistic senses which allow him to see further than normal humans, hear better and also enables him to track people by scent. His 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. His sense of smell allows him to identify people by scent alone, this includes shapeshifters. It also allows him to hunt his quarry for great distances.
Wolverine’s physical build is also a part of his mutation in which he has sharp teeth and three retractable bone claws housed in his fore-arms. These claws are extra durable and naturally sharp. This allows Wolverine to climb sheer structures and cut through most types of materials including flesh, bone, wood, glass and some types of rocks and metals. 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 were 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.
Unlike most mutants, Logan will never stop mutating. This means his abilities like his healing factor and animal senses will continue to get stronger. Feral by nature, Wolverine's constant mutation process will cause him to degenerate physically and mentally into a more primitive, bestial state. However, the presence of adamantium slows his mutation process down.
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. He especially favors swords, such as the Muramasa Blade. Traveling the world, through his entire life, Wolverine has become a master in many forms of martial arts and is familiar with nearly all. Wolverine was also a samurai and is a skilled katana user. 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. He is at home in the wilderness and has proved capable of hunting and surviving even in the harshest of climates.
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 a 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 team tactics honed by his years with the X-Men 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.
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