Codename:
Wolverine
Real name: Logan
Height: 5'3"
Weight: (without
adamantium skeleton) 200 lbs, (with adamantium skeleton) 300 lbs
Place of Birth: Unknown
(presumed to be in Canada somewhere)
Relatives: Amiko
(foster-daughter), Viper (wife)
Past: Logan's past
is largely unknown, mostly because many of his memories were altered and
faked when he was part of the Weapon X program, the program in which he
received the adamantium in the first place. Years ago, probably before
the adamantium but possibly after, Logan was a government Black Ops agent
along with Sabretooth, Maverick, Wraith, Silver Fox and Mastodon. Part
of the program included various memory implants. As a result, it is difficult
to know what events from Logan's past are real, and what are fake. Even
Logan himself is uncertain about much of his life. It appears that he did
have a relationship with Silver Fox that predated the program, and that
he met and fought with Captain America and Natasha Romanoff, the girl who
would become the Black Widow, against the Nazis in Madripoor during WWII.
After fleeing the Weapon X Program, Logan was pretty feral, but he happened
upon Heather and James Hudson on their honeymoon camping trip, and the
two took him in. The Hudsons helped Logan reclaim his humanity, although
he sometimes relapsed into his "berserker rage." Like Mac (Hudson), Logan
became an operative of the Canadian government, and traveled all over the
globe. He fought both the Hulk and the Wendigo, and was even slated to
lead the original Alpha Flight. However, when Professor Xavier offered
Wolverine the chance to join the X-Men, he took it, if only, as he said
"to get out from under all the red tape." Logan became a charter member
of the new team, although his rebellious nature and attraction to Jean
Grey caused a lot of tension between him and the team leader, Cyclops.
Still, his skills made him a valuable asset to the X-Men, especially when
he kept surprising his teammates with new ones, such as his ability to
read and speak Japanese. Over time, they began to see him as less of a
bestial animal-man and as more of a gruff but honorable, fun-loving guy,
who would kill if he had to. On the X-Men's first visit to Japan, Logan
met and fell in love with Mariko Yashida. Although their time together
was short, Logan felt so strongly that he returned to Japan a few months
later, only to find that Mariko's crimelord father Shingen had returned
and had married her off to another minor boss, who was abusing her. Logan
challenged Shingen, but Shingen cheated and goaded him into a berserker
rage, proving that he was little more than a beast. Bereft of his honor
and his love, Logan fell into company with Yukio, an assassin who was hired
by Shingen to kill him, but who instead fell in love with her target. Yukio
eventually turned on her employer, allowing Logan to kill Mariko's husband
and challenge Shingen again. This time Logan killed him, and without restorting
to his animal rage. Logan then proposed to Mariko, and the X-Men flew to
Japan for the wedding. Unfortunately, Mastermind, who was conductinG a
vendetta against the X-Men at the time, forced Mariko to break off the
engagement. Although she was later freed from his control, she felt that
she still could not marry Logan until her father's debts to the Yakuza
(Japanese mob) had been paid. Logan remained with the X-Men, but returned
to Japan with the team after the first Secret Wars. In that trip, a small
dragon who had traveled with Lockheed somehow grew to monstrous size, and
began wreaking havoc in Tokyo. Logan saved a woman and her child from a
destroyed building, but the woman was critically injured and made Logan
promise to care for her child Amiko (Akiko). Logan agreed, and became the
child's foster-father, but left her with Mariko. Later, when Ogun captured
Kitty Pryde and turned her into a demon ninja, Logan, who had become very
close with her, and was training her in the martial arts, again traveled
to Japan to rescue her. He was forced to resort to his berserker rage,
but this time it was under control. Wolverine returned to the States, and
was a core part of the team until the Mutant Massacre, when he began to
mistrust his senses (he had smelled Jean Grey in the Alley and thought
she was still dead), and took a leave of absence. Soon, however, Storm
tracked him down and asked him to lead the X-Men while she tried to get
Forge to restore her powers. Logan accepted, but led the team to Dallas
to find Storm when she didn't return. In the ensuing Fall of the Mutants,
Wolverine led the X-Men first against Freedom Force, and then with them
against the chaos unleashed by the Adversary. He died with his team in
Forge's spirit spell, but was resurrected with them by Roma. When the X-Men
moved to Australia, Logan went with them, but used Gateway's portals to
renew his associations on Madripoor. After a while, Logan felt he needed
some time alone, and left. He returned to find the team's base abandoned,
and was captured by the Reavers and crucified. Luckily, Jubilee, an orphan
who had snuck through one of Gateway's portals some weeks before, was able
to help his escape the Reavers and get to Madripoor, where they quickly
formed a close, almost father-daughter relationship. While in Madripoor,
they encountered Psylocke, who had been transplanted into an Asian body
and brainwashed, and freed her from the Mandarin's control. When the X-Men
and the New Mutants were captured by Genoshan Magistrates and put on trial,
the trio journeyed to that island to try and attempt a rescue, but were
themselves captured. Logan's powers were negated by Wipeout, and the injuries
he sustained while under the Reavers' tender care nearly killed him without
his healing factor. After that ordeal ended and his powers were returned,
Wolverine rejoined the X-Men, and eventually became a core member of the
Blue Team. About this time Logan discovered the secret base where he, Sabretooth,
Maverick, and the rest were brainwashed, and he encountered the failsafe
robot Shiva. That little trip down memory lane made things very difficult
for him, because he could no longer tell what was real. Soon after, another
big blow came when Mariko was poisoned by an assassin, and Logan was forced
to kill her in his arms to prevent her from dying in pain. Later, when
Mastodon's anti-aging factor failed, Logan and the rest of the Weapon X
subjects found out more or less which of their memories were real, and
which were implants in a battle with the Psi-Borg who had brainwashed them
years before. Although it took some adjustment, Logan settled back into
his routine as an X-Man. Then, when Magneto returned, Wolverine was part
of the strike force that invaded Avalon to stop Magnus once and for all.
In the heat of battle, Logan slashed Magneto, who responded with visceral
fury, and ripped every ounce of adamantium out of Logan's skeleton. Wolverine
barely survived, even after Xavier shut down Magneto's mind. On the way
back to Earth in the Blackbird, Wolverine hallucinated while Xavier and
Jean tried to keep him telepathically alive. At death's door, Logan was
turned back by a vision of the recently deceased Illyana Rasputin, and
brought himself back far enough to save jean, who was falling out of the
plane. A few days later, a stunning revelation shocked both Logan and the
X-Men: the claws which everyone had thought were pure metal, and not a
natural part of Wolverine's body, were actually bone, and were part of
his mutation. In addition, the lack of adamantium for his immune system
to fight appeared to enhance his mutation, and he became increasingly feral
in nature. He left the X-Men to try and heal body and soul, and returned
only for Scott and Jean's wedding, and to guard Sabretooth when the X-Men
were fighting Legion in Israel. That night, Sabretooth got Logan all riled
up, to the point where Logan, believing that Creed would try to kill his
friends, plunged a claw through his brain, reducing Creed to the mentality
of a child. After that incident, Logan moved out of the Mansion, believing
that he was no longer in control. Some time later, the madman Genesis hoped
to re-bond the adamantium to Wolverine's bones and brainwash him into a
new Horseman of Death. Logan was captured and hooked into a transfer apparatus,
and the procedure was underway when Cannonball, who had followed his teammate
to Egypt, was discovered and severely beaten. Seeing that Sam was in trouble,
Wolverine consciously accelerated his healing factor to forcibly expel
the adamantium, which freed him and killed many of the Dark Riders. Logan
finished the rest off by himself, and escaped into the desert. The battle
exacted a heavy tool on Logan, however, as his feral nature was exacerbated
by his conscious use of power, and he was left as little more than a beast,
unable to speak, and guided by instinct. The X-Men came after him, and
discovered him in the lair of Ozymandias, from which they rescued him.
Slowly, Logan began to reclaim his humanity, so that by the time Onslaught
appeared, he was in almost complete control of his faculties. Wolverine
was also helped by the assassin Elektra, whose mentor Stick had exhorted
her to get Logan "back on the path." At this time, Logan moved to SoHo
for a while, to get back to the people, and be in a freer environment that
gelled more with his feral nature. After being captured by Operation: Zero
Tolerance, Logan returned to the Mansion, and tried to help some of the
new X-Men adjust. When Scott and Jean left the team, Scott asked Logan
to take charge of the school, which he did, for a short time, until the
recent return of Professor X. Then, when Magneto resurfaced, all of Wolverine's
old ferocity returned, spurred by the memory of the pain Magnus put him
through, although he refused to admit it. After Joseph's and the
ceding of Genosha to Magneto, Logan really went ballistic and began plotting
an assassination attempt. However, during a mission to stop Juggernaut
in another dimension, Wolverine merged with Xavier's astral form and the
two came to better understand each other and reach a sort of detente. After
returning from the Skrull Homeworld, though, Logan kept saying that he
thought Xavier was losing it. Eventually the Professor disbanded the X-Men,
even rejecting Logan's offer to stay. Logan still joined up with the team
that formed to help the Mannites, who were being hunted by Death III. Unfortunately,
to save the Mannites, Logan sacrificed his life. His death sent shockwaves
rippling through all the X-Teams, but the commotion was quickly replaced
by confusion when the dead Logan was revealed to be a Skrull! Even worse,
during a raid by the X-Men on a Skrull lair, they found out that Death
III was really the true Logan! It is now known that Logan was captured
and replaced by the Skrulls when the X-Men returned a week early from their
eight-year trip back to Earth from the Skrull world. The Skrulls attacked
the X-Men's ship, sending all of the mutants into stasis again as the impostor
infiltrated their ranks. Wolverine was handed over to Apocalypse, who forced
him to fight the adamantium-laced Sabretooth. Logan was losing until Creed
told him why they were fighting: the winner would become Apocalypse's next
Horseman. Logan realized that if he lost, Creed would become a destructive
force that no one could ever stop, becuase he would relish his role and
never fight it. So Logan pulled out all the stops and kicked Sabretooth's
butt, figuring that he might eventually be able to break Apocalypse's brainwashing.
The adamantium was then siphoned out of Creed's body and put back into
Logan's, making him as indestructible as ever. Then, after Death spirited
Mikhail Rasputin away to his master, and set a bomb in the Mansion, a group
of X-Men took off after him to stop him. Pursuing him through the tunnels,
they confronted and attacked him while Psylocke used Cerebro to peel away
his brainwashing. Eventually they succeeded, and Death III was no more.
Logan returned to the X-Men basically healed from his ordeal just in time
to become human thanks to the High Evolutionary's de-mutating beam. His
adamantium began to poison him, but he refused to take away his friends'
chances at normal lives by complaining, so he avoided them.
Present: For the
last few months, Wolverine has been visiting Japan and his foster-daughter
Amiko, and also went on a solo mission to find out who was destroying Sinister's
labs before rejoining the team.