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| “ | All right, you egg-suckin' piece of gutter trash! You always did like pushin' around people smaller than you! Well I'M smaller! Try pushin' me! | „ |
| ~ Wolverine to Sabertooth |
| “ | My true nature? I wish I knew what that was... | „ |
| ~ Wolverine |
| “ | Payback time. We've heard just about enough out of you. | „ |
| ~ A vengeful Wolverine to Mr. Sinister after the X-Men regained their powers. |
| “ | Come on, Mr. Change-the-universe. Let's see if you can handle just one X-Man. | „ |
| ~ A vengeful Wolverine attempts to battle Apocalypse. |
James Howlett, better known as Logan or Wolverine, is one of the main protagonists of 1992-97 animated superhero series X-Men: The Animated Series and its 2024 sequel series X-Men '97, as well as a guest character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
He's a mutant member of the X-Men who previously had his memories erased, as well as having his skeleton fused with Adamantium which gave him retractable Adamantium claws.
He's voiced by Cathal J. Dodd.
Appearance[]
Wolverine is a short man with black and blue hair that sticks upwards on both sides of his head. He also has mutton chop sideburns. His X-Men uniform has a helmet with visors that stick out past his head. The rest of his costume also consists of mostly yellow, but he does have some black and blue on his boots as well as his shoulder pads, giving him more of an animalistic look. When not in uniform, he usually wears jeans and a plaid yellow shirt, covered by a winter jacket.
Personality[]
Wolverine can best be described as a loner and someone who does things his own way, even if it means going off on his own and splitting up with his team on a mission. He can be headstrong, hardheaded, and even violent at times, coming off as a jerk and brute to anyone who sees him act this way, his friends included.
Despite his lone wolf persona and rude attitude, he is honorable as he refuses to hurt ordinary civilians, even if they express hate towards him or mutants in general. He also has a soft side as well, showing care for other people, especially his teammates. He's been shown to have romantic feelings for Jean Grey, showing affection and kindness towards her even after her and Cyclops were married, however, he respected her choice, and even sometimes rejects her advances due to believing she still loved Scott, thus wanted to prevent her from suffering loss. He was also extremely sad and angry when he thought Morph was killed on a mission, and expressed sorrow and was worried when Jubilee's spirit was drained by an alien.
Abilities[]
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Wolverine destroys Master Mold with his claws and strength, with the help from Gambit and Morph.
Wolverine has heightened senses and accelerated healing ability as well as an implanted adamantium skeleton and claws.
He also has the ability to rapidly heal faster and more efficiently than the likes of an ordinary human being. Possibly able to even regenerate damaged body parts such as organs and limbs. Because of this, Wolverine appears much younger than he actually is. His exact age is unknown, but he fought in World War II and looks the same age today. This also makes him immune to diseases, drugs, and toxins.
He also has animal-like senses making him an extraordinary hunter.
He has superhuman strength for a but has not demonstrate anything considerable strength feats such as Captain America or Spider-Man.
Biography[]
X-Men: The Animated Series[]
Sometime before the start of the show, Wolverine was kidnapped by an unknown agency and had his mind wiped, which got rid of his memories. They then infused his skeleton with adamantium, which in turn gave him retractable claws. They did all this in the hopes of turning him into the ultimate weapon. However, Logan managed to break out of the container he was in and escape the facility.
After escaping, he ran into Alpha Flight members James Hudson and his wife Heather. He mindlessly attacked them in a blind rage, but was able to be calmed down by Heather. They then took him to their home and helped him recover. Afterwards, he decided to join Alpha Flight, but later felt they were just using him as a weapon, so when he met Professor Charles Xavier and was offered the chance to join the X-Men, he readily accepts.
He is first introduced properly when Jubilee unintentionally enters the Danger Room during a sparing match between Wolverine and Gambit. When Wolverine appears to intend to finish Gambit off, Jubilee intervenes, before the Danger Room is deactivated and the other X-Men enter. When told of what Jubilee did to him, Beast and Morph laugh, but quickly shut up when Wolverine snarls at them and unsheathes his claws in warning. Jubilee is then escorted away by Storm to be told the whole story about the school, the X-Men, and their attempts to convince humanity that they can co-exist peacefully with mutants. When the severed Sentinel head is analyzed and traced back to the Mutant Control Agency, the X-Men head there to destroy the records of mutants registered to it. As Storm is about to open a door, Wolverine stops her, having smelled the gun oil from the firearms the waiting guards were holding on the other side, allowing Storm to ambush them with her powers. After the records are destroyed, the X-Men pull out, but are confronted by the Sentinels as they retreat to the Blackbird. When Morph spots one about to attack Wolverine from the flank, he pushes him out of the way, but is mortally wounded by the Sentinel's palm laser. Beast is blasted into the electric fence and knocked out. Wolverine wants to go back for them, but Rogue is forced to subdue him so the rest of the X-Men can retreat. As a result, Wolverine is livid with Cyclops afterwards and drives off to sulk.
Later, after Jubilee is kidnapped by the Sentinels and taken to their hidden factory in Detroit, Wolverine and the other X-Men go to rescue her. After she is rescued, she moves in with the other X-Men at the X-Mansion.
When Professor X's old friend and enemy, Magento, makes his presence known, when Sabertooth disrupts Beast's trial regarding if he will be paroled or not, it leads to Sabertooth being brought back to the X-Mansion to recuperate. When he then attacks Jubilee, Wolverine confronts his arch-rival, but is overpowered and wounded in the process. Later, upset over how Jean is choosing Cyclops over him after an encounter with the Morlocks, where Storm beat Calisto in combat and became the Morlocks' new leader, despite how they both have affection for her, Wolverine leaves the school and travels to Alaska, where he has another encounter with Sabertooth and saves an Inuit village from him, convincing him to return to the school, just in time to help rescue Storm, Gambit, and Jubilee, after they were captured by the Sentinels in Genosha to help build a hydroelectric dam for Master Mold, but when they return to the X-Mansion, they find it leveled. It is revealed to have been caused by Juggernaut, and Colossus helps them defeat him and rebuild the school.
Later, Wolverine and the other X-Men have their first encounter with the genocidal, psychotic Apocalypse, when he attacks with his Four Horsemen to wipe out both human and mutant-kind to rule supreme.
It is then that Wolverine and the X-Men are summoned to protect Senator Robert Kelly when an assassination attempt is made on his life to instigate a human-mutant war that will decimate the world, and lead to a bleak future that the time-traveling Bishop hails from. Though they stop the Brotherhood of Mutants, and especially Mystique, from murdering Kelly, Magento kidnaps Kelly himself, only for Kelly to then be taken by the Sentinels to meet Master Mold, who then intends to replace Kelly's brain with a computer, having overridden his original programming from Bolivar Trask and decreed that the Sentinels must protect humans from themselves since mutants are humans too. The X-Men manage to rescue Kelly, while Xavier and Magneto see to destroying Master Mold by ramming a Blackbird loaded with explosives into Sentinel boss. Grateful to the X-Men for saving his life, Kelly changes his platform as he runs for President of the United States to be more pro-mutant friendly, and even gets Beast released from prison.
After Kelly wins the Presidential election and becomes President of the United States, Professor X serves as his liaison for mutant relations in order to ensure a stable, if uneasy, peace between humans and mutants, which attempts to be disrupted by the Friends of Humanity, a group of like-minded mutant-hating men led by Graydon Creed to try and ruin Kelly's attempts at peace between humans and mutants. Wolverine disrupts one of their rallies to rescue Jubilee after she was captured by the group to be used as an example to try and rally support for the group. Colossus later gets Wolverine's help after he asked Jubilee for assistance when former Soviet generals released the deadly Omega Red to try and reclaim Russia for the Soviet Union. Joined later by Storm, Rogue, and Gambit, and aided by Darkstar, a Russian general against the revival of the Soviet Union, Omega Red is defeated. Later, Wolverine finds his old team, the Alpha Flight, having come looking for him to capture him so General Chasen can attempt to replicate Wolverine's adamantium skeleton to create more adamantium soldiers. When they intend to dissect Wolverine and remove his adamantium skeleton by force, Heather and the rest of Alpha Flight rebel to protect their former teammate. Afterwards, Wolverine warns Vindicator and the rest of Alpha Flight that he won't show mercy to them next time if they come looking for him again. Soon, the Friends of Humanity launch another assault to ruin mutant-human relations with trying to frame mutants for carrying a deadly plague. Bishop returns from 2055 AD to aid in finding the source and destroying it, but when they find that Creed and his group were merely pawns for Apocalypse as he was the one who made the plague, when they destroy the lab, an enraged Apocalypse vaporizes Wolverine and the rest of the team in retaliation. This is prevented when Cable travels from his own time period of 3999 AD to try to save his own timeline from being rewritten by the actions in the past by the X-Men and Bishop. When he learns of Wolverine's mutant healing powers, Cable formulates a plan to save both his and Bishop's time periods. Arriving after Creed's failed attempt to infect Beast at a Senate hearing, Cable takes Wolverine with him, and later arrives just as the X-Men are confronting Creed and the disguised Apocalypse in his lab where the plague was being cultivated. After Cable forces Apocalypse to drop his disguise by shooting him, when it comes to where Bishop protected Wolverine from being knocked back into a vat containing the plague, Cable restrains him, causing Wolverine to be infected, but this works in Cable and Bishop's favor. Wolverine's healing powers create antibodies to counter the plague, thus creating a vaccine and cure for it. Cable and Bishop then wreck the lab, and preventing from retaliating by a forcefield that Cable deployed to block him off, Apocalypse has no choice but to retreat in frustration. Beast's later analysis of the antibodies thus gives Wolverine reason to be proud of himself as the vaccine he created will save countless lives in the future, including those of Cable's timeline, allowing Cable to reunite with his son, Tyler.
Wolverine soon has another encounter with Mystique and her Brotherhood of Mutants when, with Professor X gone, she was attempting to get Rogue to rejoin the Brotherhood due to being Rogue's adoptive mother when Rogue is plagued by visions of Miss Marvel, as Rogue's invulnerability and flight were the result of permanently absorbing them from Miss Marvel when she was with Mystique and the Brotherhood, but this also caused Rogue to trap Miss Marvel's mind in her own, and angered at having her life taken from her, Miss Marvel was mentally challenging Rogue to take over her body to use for herself. In the end, thanks to Jean, Miss Marvel is subdued again, Rogue disowns Mystique as her foster mother, and returns to join Wolverine and the rest of the X-Men.
When Creed and the Friends of Humanity kidnap a friend of Beast's named Carly, Wolverine and Beast not only rescue her, but expose Creed to the Friends of Humanity as being the blood son of Sabertooth, AKA Graydon Creed Senior, thus destroying Creed's reputation and having the Friends of Humanity desert him upon learning their leader is the human son of a mutant, much to their shock and disgust.
Wolverine is among the X-Men kidnapped by Mojo for use in his galaxy-wide television show, but with help from Mojo's assistant Spiral and his previous star Longshot, the X-Men escape Mojo and return home.
They soon are lured to the Savage Lands by Mister Sinister, where they find their mutant powers inoperative thanks to Sinister's machines disabling all mutant powers except those of his Nasty Boys and the Mutates thanks to the belts they wore that rendered the machines docile to them. Wolverine escapes, and meeting up with a Savage Land local named Ka-Zar who is trying to rescue his people that Sinister captured, they are able to infiltrate Sinister's base and once the machine neutralizing mutant powers is destroyed, the X-Men quickly turn the tables on the Nasty Boys and Mutates. Morph, who had been revived by Sinister after the events with the Sentinels and brainwashed into serving Sinister, is able to override Sinister's control of himself and help temporarily destroy Sinister for the time being. However, despite being offered a chance to return to the team, Morph needs time to seek atonement for his actions against his old team due to Sinister, then he'll come back.
Soon, Wolverine's ex-girlfriend, Yuriko, now known as Lady Deathstrike and having allied with the Reavers, comes looking for him to seek revenge as the scientist who gave Wolverine his adamantium skeleton was her father, and since he died when the lab was destroyed in Wolverine's rage over his new adamantium claws, Yuriko became Lady Deathstrike to get her vengeance. However, this leads to Wolverine, in an attempt to save Lady Deathstrike, unintentionally breaching open a Shi'Ar vessel that was a prison ship for the deadly Spirit Drinker. After it manages to suck Jubilee, the Reavers, the Morlocks, and Lady Deathstrike of their souls, Wolverine works with the other X-Men to destroy the Spirit Drinker by overloading it with energy from the subway third rail, causing it to explode, killing it, and freeing all the captive souls. Afterwards, having made peace with Wolverine, Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers depart, while Professor X warns the X-Men of the impending visions he had when he made psychic contact with the Shi'Ar vessel.
Professor X's visions soon come true when sends Wolverine and a majority of the X-Men team, except for Storm and Jubilee, to the Eagle One space station in an attempt to prevent the station from being used by Eric the Red, a Shi'Ar emissary, to attack Earth. Though he escapes, and the station is destroyed, as the shuttle carrying the X-Men returns to Earth, while everyone else takes refuge in the radiation-proof containment vessel in the cargo bay, Jean attempts to land the shuttle on her own, but is possessed by the Phoenix Force when it senses her psychic pleas for help. As a result, Jean become the Phoenix, which proves beneficial is fighting off an astral projection of Professor X's dark side, before then coming to the aid of a Shi'Ar royal runaway named Lilandra, who is trying to protect the M'Kraan Crystal from her malevolent brother and Emperor of the Shi'Ar Empire, D'Ken. Wolverine is among the members of the X-Men who aid Lilandra, but they are no match for the Shi'Ar Imperial Guard led by Gladiator, and thanks to a mercenary group known as the Starjammers, led by Cyclops' father Corsair, D'Ken gets possession of the M'Kraan Crystal and begins using it to become all-powerful, threatening the Milky Way Galaxy in the process, especially Earth. Realizing their folly in serving D'Ken, Gladiator and his Imperial Guard join forces with Wolverine and the X-Men to stop him, but Jean is the only one as the Phoenix who can stop D'Ken, and then take the M'Kraan Crystal into the Sun where it will be safe from further threats, but it means Jean will also have to leave Scott, Logan, and the rest of the team behind to continue the Phoenix Force's duties as celestial guardian of the cosmos for the time being.
Despite Jean's apparent death, Wolverine tries to cope with his mourning as the X-Men deal with problems back on Earth, such as meeting up with former X-Man Iceman when he asks for help, and encounter the team known as X-Factor led by Forge and Polaris, Iceman's ex-girlfriend. He later returns to see Ka-Zar and his people in the Savage Land when Sauron kidnaps Storm as part of a plan to awaken the powerful Garokk from his imprisonment.
Finally, Jean returns to Earth, but the Phoenix Force is still bonded to her and refuses to relinquish its bond with her. This leads to Jean being tricked into becoming a member of the Inner Circle/Hellfire Club and being dubbed their Black Queen. Wolverine is incapacitated by their member Leland due to his mutant powers over gravity, but despite being forced down into the sewers, Wolverine recovers and returns to fight the group again, but is subdued by Phoenix, allowing Jason Wyngarde/Mastermind to call a vote to oust Sebastian Shaw as leader of the group, which the other members, including White Queen Emma Frost, take Mastermind's side in. As Phoenix prepares to finish off Wolverine, Jean's love for Logan is able to allow her to exert control back from the Phoenix Force and prevent it from killing Wolverine, while leaving her horrified by what has happened to the two men who love her very much. When Mastermind then orders her to take out Shaw, Phoenix, angered by Jean's interference in stopping it from killing Wolverine, turns on the Inner Circle, choosing to let them and the X-Men fight it out while she retreats to the roof, pursued by Cyclops and Mastermind. Wolverine is able to get his revenge on Leland, taking out the stout member of the Inner Circle, while Emma flees for her own life, and Shaw and Pierce also escape down a secret passageway to regroup and plan their comeback. By the time Wolverine rejoins Cyclops with Storm, Rogue, Gambit, and Beast, they find that the Phoenix Force is now in full control of Jean's body, and has become the Dark Phoenix, corrupted into evil by Mastermind's machinations. Jean is able to prevent Dark Phoenix from killing Logan and the others in an act of mercy before fleeing Earth. When she returns later, regressed mentally to that of a preteen, she falls into an ambush by the X-Men to try and subdue Dark Phoenix, but the trap fails. Only Professor X's intervention with taking the fight to the astral plane of Jean's mind, where he and Jean combine their powers to subdue the Phoenix Force, saves him from being killed by the Dark Phoenix, and gives Jean back control of her body. However, Lilandra, now Empress of the Shi'Ar Empire, along with Gladiator and his Imperial Guard, arrive with the declaration that Jean must die for the good of the universe now that she's become the Dark Phoenix, destroyer of legend. Xavier invokes the ancient Shi'Ar Trial of Combat with pitting the X-Men against the Imperial Guard to decide Jean's fate. Despite knowing his students are no match for Gladiator and his Imperial Guard, Lilandra accepts. During the fight, Wolverine is no match for his opponent from the Imperial Guard, but they still consider him a worthy opponent before besting him. Only when Jean becomes Dark Phoenix again and takes out the Imperial Guard single-handedly, does Wolverine, at Xavier's urging, recover and attempt to subdue Dark Phoenix. Although she's weakened enough for Jean to retake control, realizing she can't keep going like this trying to fight off the Dark Phoenix's urges and bloodlust forever, Jean forces Lilandra to blast her with her Shi'Ar battlecruiser's main weapon, killing Jean and ending the threat of the Dark Phoenix for good. Wolverine and Cyclops both are livid with Lilandra afterwards, but then the Phoenix Force reappears, restored and purified back to its original state as celestial guardian, and offers to use its powers to resurrect Jean, but it would come at a cost. Both Wolverine and Cyclops offer up their own lives to bring Jean back, but the Phoenix Force suggests that each of the X-Men could give up a small fragment of their own life forces to revive Jean, even if it meant shortening their own lifespans in the process. Taking the Phoenix Force up on that suggestion, the X-Men form a circle around Jean, and the Phoenix Force sends a small orb of light through each of them to collect a fragment of their life forces, before then inserting it into Jean's body, resuscitating her with a pained cry. With Jean revived, the Phoenix Force returns the X-Men back to the X-Mansion, while Lilandra and her forces return home as well.
When it is discovered that Rogue's former boyfriend Cody is now part of an alien race known as the Colony, despite trying to infect Wolverine and Rogue with Colony spores, Wolverine's healing abilities nullify the spores, and Rogue borrows them to save herself. However, Cody chooses to stay with the Colony, leaving Rogue heartbroken as Wolverine and Gambit comfort her.
X-Men '97[]
Roberto awakens after his run-in with the FoH, and is greeted by Cyclops, Storm, Dr. Hank McCoy (Beast), and Jubilation Lee (Jubilee). The X-Men question Roberto about where the FoH got their hands on Sentinel tech. Roberto proves less than cooperative as he simply wants to go home. Jubilee tries to help Roberto open up with a trip to the Danger Room, only to be frightened off when Wolverine (Logan) scares him off after he mouths off at Jubilee.
With Roberto in the wind, Scott orders the X-Men, including Logan, to find him. Logan is reluctant to follow Scott's lead but with Jean's encouragement, relents. He still leaves Scott with some parting venomous words: "What Gyrich did was pretty horrible. But you know the worst part of the Professor being gone? You."
While Wolverine, Jubilee, and the others manage to find Roberto and keep him safe from the FoH, Cyclops and Storm approach Gyrich about the FoH and their Sentinel tech, which they could have only obtained with the help of Bolivar Trask, the scientist who created the Sentinels and has been missing for years. Gyrich refuses to cooperate, believing himself justified in assassinating Xavier, and arguing that mutant equality would mean the end of humanity: "Tolerance is extinction." With Gyrich refusing to be of help, Scott and Storm call in their trump card: Jean Grey, who uses the psionic supercomputer Cerebro to directly probe Gyrich's mind. After a disturbing apocalyptic vision, Jean pinpoints Trask's location: the Sahara Desert.
In a junkyard in the Sahara, the X-Men confront Trask, who has built a second Master Mold and begun building a new army of Sentinels. These robots, however, prove no match for the X-Men, who handily destroy the Sentinels and decommission the Master Mold. UN armed forces arrive shortly afterwards to arrest Trask, who dejectedly proclaims that the existence of mutants reminds him, and others like him, that humanity's days are numbered. Cyclops, however, has reason to feel optimistic and that peace between humans and mutants may not be as remote a possibility as some may fear: "We all win when men like him fail."
Afterwards, Scott and Jean join the other X-Men for a game of basketball, where the two announce their plans to retire from the X-Men to start their family. This raises the question of who will lead them going forward...
At that moment, alarms go off in the Mansion when an intruder appears in the Professor's office. The X-Men go to investigate, finding Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) inside. In his hands is the last will and testament of Charles Francis Xavier, which bequeath's Xavier's entire estate — his mansion, his fortune, leadership of the X-Men, and his dream of human and mutant coexistence — to the man who was once the X-Men's sworn enemy.
Some among the X-Men are slow to trust Erik, but others are willing to give him a chance to prove the sincerity of his desire to carry on Xavier's dream. One of Erik's first actions as leader of the X-Men is to give the Morlocks sanctuary in the mutant nation of Genosha. Scott, in particular, is unwilling to trust Erik, and unwilling to cede leadership to him — thus, he states his intent to stay with the X-Men. Jean still hopes to leave the X-Men to raise her and Scott's son. She confides in Ororo her fears of the future and a lingering desire for him to be born human, something Ororo can relate to. At the same time, lingering feelings between Erik and Rogue begin to surface: Rogue, who has a checkered past of her own, is willing to give Erik a chance; and Erik is the only person who can safely touch Rogue. Rogue, however, insists that they keep a respectable distance from one another.
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