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| “ | I come with you, I'm coming for blood. There will be no law, no code of conduct. You put me in the right direction, and you get the hell out of my way. | „ |
| ~ Logan stating his motives to Stryker before gaining his adamantium skeleton |
| “ | I'm the best at what I do, but what I do isn't very pretty. | „ |
| ~ Logan to Kayla |
| “ | Don't be what they made you. Laura… Laura… so, this-this is what it feels like. | „ |
| ~ Logan's last words to his daughter Laura |
James "Logan" Howlett, better known as Wolverine, is the main protagonist of 20th Century Fox's X-Men film series and the titular overarching posthumous protagonist of the 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine.
He was portrayed by Hugh Jackman, who also portrayed a younger alternate variant of the character in Deadpool & Wolverine.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine[]
- He and Victor fought in the American Civil War and World Wars I and II.
- In Nagasaki, he saved the life of Yashida when the Allies dropped an atomic bomb.
- He joins Stryker's team, at the time believing he could help his country.
- He prevented Stryker from killing a village of innocents and left Team X, realizing how bloodthirsty the members were.
- He lived a peaceful life with Kayla and tried to distance himself from the military.
- He tracked Victor down after Kayla's "death" to get revenge.
- He agrees to join Stryker's protect and have adamantium injected to him in order to be strong enough to fight Victor.
- After hearing Stryker intended to erase his memories and steal his DNA he fled from the facility.
- He killed Zero in retribution for murdering an innocent elderly couple that had helped him.
- He tracked Wraith and Fred down to gain more information on Stryker's goals.
- After finding out Stryker is experimenting on several mutants in an island, he tracks Gambit down as he was the only one who escaped, in order to find the island.
- He fights Victor once again in order to avenge Wraith's death and convinces Gambit to take him to the island.
- He saves Kayla when Victor tries to kill her, even though she was working for Stryker and faked her death.
- He ultimately decides not to kill Victor and instead just knock him unconscious.
- He releases all of the mutant prisoners and guides them to freedom.
- He tells Kayla to leave with the kids while he fights the brainwashed Wade Wilson who had become Weapon X.
- He teams up with Victor to defeat Weapon X and tells Gambit to get the kids off the island.
- He tries to take Kayla to safety before being shot by Stryker, losing his memories.
X-Men[]
- He allowed Rogue to come with him when he caught her stowing away in his truck.
- Upon being attacked by Victor, he fought him and tried to keep Rogue safe.
- After waking up at Xavier's school he tried to find Rogue and escape before Charles cleared things up.
- He apologized to Jean Grey for attacking her upon waking up.
- Upon finding out Rogue had left, he went after her and tried to convince her to come back to the school.
- He tried to protect Rogue from Magneto.
- He joins the X-Men and goes to the statue of liberty to free Rogue and stop Magneto's plan of fatally turning humans into mutants.
- He fought off Sabretooth and Mystique and later broke out off the metal binds Magneto made to stop his machine.
- He destroyed Magneto's machine, saving hundreds of lives and made physical contact with Rogue to temporarily grant her his healing ability and save her life.
X2: X-Men United[]
- He stayed to look after the students while all the X-Men where carrying out individual missions.
- He protected the students from Stryker's men when they attacked the school and tried to stay behind to give them a better chance of escaping.
- He chose to go with the students and protect them instead of confronting Stryker over his past.
- He tries to peacefully talk down the police before being shot.
- He and the other X-Men join with Magneto to stop Stryker's plan to wipe out all mutants.
- He fights and kills Lady Deathstrike. Although he does kill her, he noticeably feels remorse for doing so, realizing she was brainwashed by Stryker.
- He refuses to go with Stryker to learn of his past instead tying him to a helicopter wheel and leaving to retrieve the others so that they may escape the coming flood.
- He leads the X-Men and mutants to the exit where they are picked up by Rogue and Iceman in the X-Jet.
X-Men: The Last Stand[]
- He substituted for the mourning Scott and helped train the young mutants in the Danger Rooms.
- He tried to convince Scott to move on from Jean.
- After hearing Charles' power go haywire he and Storm instantly go to check on him.
- He heads over to Alkali Lake with Storm where he finds Scott's glasses and an unconscious Jean, bringing her back to the school for treatment.
- He resists being seduced by Jean when he realizes she is not himself and tries to help her while also questioning her on Scott's fate.
- He goes to Jean's old home with Charles and Storm and upon realizing something is wrong he tries to go in the house to help Professor X get past Juggernaut and resisting the Phoenix's telekinesis.
- He talks with Rogue when she tries to leave to get the cure and tells her to do what she desires not because of someone else.
- He leaves and finds the Brotherhood's camp, attempting to call out to Jean before being stopped by Magneto.
- He regroups with the X-Men and gives them Magneto's location, also motivating the younger mutants to fight for Xavier and Scott's legacies.
- He arrives at Alcatraz to protect Leech and the innocent humans, leading the X-Men against Magneto's army.
- He distracts Magneto long enough for Beast to inject him with the cure.
- He kills Jean in order to save everyone including her.
- He and Storm take charge of the school to keep the mutant students safe; though Logan left after some time.
The Wolverine[]
- Plagued by guilt over Jean's death and his past actions, he gives up violence and seeks a quiet life in Canada.
- He gives an injured bear a mercy kill when he finds it in suffering.
- He agrees to go to Japan and say goodbye to Yashida.
- He prevents Mariko from committing suicide by jumping of a balcony.
- He attends Yashida's funeral after his "death" despite the animosity from Shingen and others.
- Upon noticing something is wrong he tries to get Mariko out before the Yakuza reveal themselves and shoot him.
- He fights several Yakuza despite having temporarily lost his healing factor and chases them down to save Mariko.
- He accompanies Mariko when she leaves on a bullet train to keep her safe and fights off Yakuza thugs that were on board.
- He helps the community in Nagasaki while in hiding with Mariko.
- After waking up and seeing Mariko's been taken he tries to chase after her and the Yakuza.
- He teams up with Yukio and threatens Noburo into revealing why the Yakuza were after Mariko.
- After arriving to the Yashida household and realizing there was a mechanical parasite inside of him, he rips it out manually despite being warned it would likely kill him.
- He fights Shingen off and tries to spare him at first before killing him in retaliation.
- He tries to go to save Mariko before being brought down by the Black Clan.
- He fights Yashida when he becomes the Silver Samurai and tries to keep Mariko and Yukio safe.
- He finally moves on from Jean's death.
- After being contacted by Magneto and the resurrected Charles, he agrees to go with them and face a new threat.
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
- He volunteers to have his consciousness sent back to his younger body in order to prevent the creation of the Sentinels and the dystopian future which led to the death of nearly all mutants.
- Upon waking up in his past body, he fights off some men and heads off to find Charles.
- He convinces Charles and Hank to help him despite the former's reluctancy and current state.
- He recruits Peter Maximoff to help break Magneto out of prision, as the Magneto from 2023 told Logan to recruit his past self as well.
- He helps Charles and Erik to begin making amends.
- He and the others arrive at the Paris accords to prevent Trask's death and also stop Stryker from shooting Mystique.
- He tries to chase after Mystique before seeing Stryker tigers traumatic memories.
- He convinces Charles to stop taking the serum for his legs, enabling him to use his powers again.
- He allows 1973 Charles to read his mind and see all his memories and the future, allowing 1973 Charles to talk with 2023 Charles and gain the necessary motivation to use Cerebro and locate Raven.
- He and the others head to Washington to stop both Trask and Mystique.
- He tries to attack Magneto before being impaled with metal rods and flung to the ocean.
- After waking up in the revised timeline he has a chat with Charles and asks for a recap on the last years.
- His actions ultimately saved millions of lives and essentially allowed all of mutantkind to keep on living, while also saving all the humans that sympathized with mutants.
- Furthermore, his actions also averted Cyclops and Jean's deaths.
X-Men: Apocalypse[]
- Upon being freed from Stryker's control by Jean, he fled to the woods to not hurt anyone else.
Logan[]
- After the Westchester Incident he took Charles out of civilization and enlisted Caliban's help to keep giving him meds and preventing him from having more catastrophic seizures.
- He began saving up money so that he could buy a boat and live in the sea with Charles and Calliban where the former's seizures cannot hurt anyone.
- He tries to convince some gangsters who are wrenching his car's wheels to leave peacefully before attacking them.
- He refuses to give Donald Pierce information on Gabriela.
- He decides to accept the job to escort Gabriela and Laura to Eden.
- After finding Gabriela murdered he returns home to get Charles to safety.
- He asks Calliban to drop the unconscious Pierce off on the side of the road.
- He helps Laura fight the reavers and drives her and Charles to safety by getting Pierce of their tracks.
- After discovering that Laura is his daughter, he decides to get her to Eden.
- He buys a new truck for Transporation after the limo is busted.
- When Charles begins having a seizure in Oklahoma, he fights through the effects to return to their room and give him his meds, also taking out several reavers in the process.
- He helps the Munson family get their truck back on board.
- He goes with Will Munson to fix the water supply and defends him from Canewood's corrupt owners.
- He instantly checks on Charles and tries to heal him before he dies.
- He brutally beats X-24 and tries to convince Will to stand down before the latter succumbs to his injuries.
- He takes Laura and escapes from the Reavers.
- He buries Charles and gives him a proper grave.
- He leaves the hospital and tries to get the doctor who healed him to forget about him so he doesn't share the same fate as the Munson family.
- He takes Laura to Eden despite claiming it to be a fictional place.
- He refuses to take the money he was originally promised and tells Rictor he and the other X-23 children need it more.
- Realizing the Reavers will capture the X-23 children, he goes to their aid, even taking the serum to improve his healing factor despite knowing it would kill him.
- He slaughters several Reavers on his way to save the kids and works with Laura to defeat them.
- He kills Doctor Rice and incapacitates Pierve by shooting his hand.
- He fights X-24 despite being severely injured and tries to help the children in spite of his healing factor being completely gone.
- When X-24 arose again he tried to get the children to leave while he stayed to fight despite being mortally wounded.
- In his dying moments he comforted Laura and accepted her as his daughter, telling her to keep going and that she does not need to fight anymore.
- His sacrifice allowed for the survival of the mutant race and for new mutants to be born in the future.
Deadpool & Wolverine[]
- His heroism throughout the franchise inspired Deadpool who claims that Logan was his idol. He later told this to an alternate Logan and helped him overcome his grief in order to join the fight against Cassandra Nova and escape the void to save Earth-10005 from collapsing.
- His actions had such a positive impact throughout his universe that even members of the TVA regard him as a great hero as Paradox revered his noble sacrifice and another agent was furious at Deadpool for desecrating Logan's grave, calling him a hero.
- It is revealed that his sacrifice allowed Laura and multiple other children to grow up and have their own lives away from Rice's men.
- While he does not really show up throughout the film as it focuses more on a younger version of him, his actions still have a big impact on the story and on how his younger counterpart changes and grows.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is insanely lethal and brutal towards his enemies, a trait that is never subverted and is constantly recurring throughout the franchise and he almost never shows hesitation or remorse for his kills, his past as a killer and being turned into a weapon also makes it so that he almost never shows mercy and leaves him with one of the highest kill counts out of any X-Men, with only Deadpool having more.
- He can even be lethal at times when it is not needed as shown when he nearly killed Fred to get information on Gambit despite Fred being down already, nearly killing a group of hunters who had killed a bear before Yukio stopped him, killing a group of men upon waking up in 1973, and brutally slaughtering a gang of gangsters that tried to rob him (which even Donald Pierce noted had been killed in a very horrific way).
- He is incredibly jerkish and aggressive as shown in several occasions such as his rivalry with Scott, rudely telling Charles and Erik to go f**k themselves when they introduce themselves to him, being antagonistic towards Erik's past self, mocking Charles' disability by calling him "Wheels" despite Charles' kind behavior towards and his aggressive behavior towards Laura who is not only his daughter but a young child, to the point he even yelled at her and dismissed Eden as a "f**king fantasy place".
- He can go into a blind rage during fighting at times, which happens way too often in the franchise, one such example being his rampage in the Revised Timeline in Stryker's base where he brutally slaughtered many men in completely unnecessary ways and even tried to attack the X-Men before Jean stopped him.
- He is very reckless constantly acting and attacking without thought, it was this quality that cost him his memories as he attacked Stryker head on (even when Kayla tried to warn him not to) and got shot with an adamantium bullet.
- His relationship with Scott is incredibly antagonistic, especially on Logan's side who takes every chance to tease him, steals not only his motorcycle (which he never even returned) but also his car in the second film, flirts with Jean despite being aware of her and Scott's relationship and his feelings on the matter, flipping him off with one of his claws, and even refuses to shake his hand or give him any respect.
- He is a bit of an addict as he constantly smokes and drinks, he even tried to use a fire in a car to light a cigarette during the Danger Room training session with the young mutants.
- He has multiple Kick the Dog moments, like tricking a Yakuza member into jumping so he could get hit by a bar, throwing Noburo out the window to kill him only having him survive because Logan threw him into a pool, and taking a phone charger and cigars right after Laura tried to kill the cashier to name a few. Although he technically didn’t tell her don’t steal, he still took the items without paying.
External Links[]
- Wolverine on the Heroes Wiki
- Wolverine on the X-Men Movies Wiki
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