When was wolverine established

Wolverine is about as unkillable and cool as a hero gets. Originally though, artist Dave Cockrum said he was supposed to be the mutated animal he was named after. He added that Marvel's legend Stan Lee found the concept disgusting and the idea never made it into his origin.

It's not too surprising the origin was nixed as making Logan a literal mutated Wolverine would have been incredibly silly, even for Marvel. Wein, who helped co-create the character, said he never intended on Wolverine being a mutated wolverine, saying that he only writes stories about humans and not animals.

On his own personal blog , he said that the idea Wolverine was going to be a mutated animal came after introducing the character in The Incredible Hulk and when he was no longer involved with the character. On at least one occasion, Logan also works with Richard and Mary Parker, married government agents who have a son, Peter, who will eventually become the noted super-hero Spider-Man, whom Logan will encounter on many occasions.

At some point during this period Logan first meets Carol Danvers, a young American operative, who, although still in her teens, serves in a branch of American intelligence, possibly Air Force Intelligence; inexperienced when she and Logan first meet in the field, she quickly becomes an expert agent, working with both Logan and his partner Langram on a number of occasions, and Logan will count her as one of his closest friends for the rest of his life.

Logan becomes obsessed with his own mutant nature, which he comes to realize has played a far. Ultimately, Logan is dismissed from the unnamed agency for accidentally shooting a fellow agent at the firing range. Disgusted, Logan "ties some loose ends" in his civilian life and prepares to travel to the Yukon in an effort to "get away Logan's bones, including his claws are bonded with the indestructible metal known as adamantium, making them unbreakable; they will retain this status for many years.

At this time the Weapon X Program is supposedly a joint U. Logan proves too difficult for the Weapon X Program to control and shortly thereafter, Wolverine escapes the facility with the help of Winter Soldier, killing nearly everyone except for the Professor, Dr Cornelius, Caroline Hines, and Malcolm Colcord. Driven into a feral-like state by the experiment, Logan wanders the forests of the Canadian Rockies for months.

It is during this feral period that he first encounters the Hunter in Darkness. On occasion, Logan's human personality surfaces to the extent that, years later, he is able to recall pleasant experiences in these woods.

Years after this experience, Logan's memories of much of his past will remain clouded as a result of the Weapon X experiment, and it is possible that he received additional false memories during the procedure as well. As for the Weapon X Program, at least some of its resources are apparently absorbed into Canada's Department H, whose head, James Hudson, also comes into possession of notes on Lord Dark Wind's bonding process; others are apparently absorbed by Department K, but the precise interconnections of Canada's various superhuman-related agencies remain unclear to this day.

In later years, the Program will also be revived by the American government under the supervision of a man known only as the Director Malcolm Colcord, a survivor of Logan's rampage at the Weapon X facility. Wandering the woods, Logan is eventually discovered by James and Heather Hudson, a young couple honeymooning in the Rockies, who return him to Canadian society and are instrumental in his eventual recovery.

Some months prior to this, Hudson, at the assignment of the Prime Minister himself, was appointed head of Department H, a special superhuman resources project of the Canadian Ministry of Defence, whose facilities Logan broke into mere months ago and which will, ironically, be at least partially combined with the Weapon X Program within months more; however, despite speculation to the contrary, Hudson played no direct role in Logan's experiment.

James and Heather help Logan recover his humanity. Following his recovery, Logan, this time under the supervision of Department H, once again works for Canadian Intelligence. At this time, Department H is conducting research in several fields of superhuman study but as yet has no clear direction, and Logan is one of Hudson's first recruits for the operation.

As Logan slowly recovers from his ordeal, he lives with the Hudsons for some time, and he is present when Heather Hudson's parents, objecting to their daughter's elopement, confront her at the Hudson residence; Logan is also present when the Hudson's renew their vows in a Catholic ceremony months after their first, less formal marriage, an event which is temporarily delayed when a Cosmic Ray Collector developed by Department H overloads.

In the course of this disaster, the retired super-hero called Chinook is horribly mutated and driven mad by the cosmic rays; Logan and Hudson, the latter using a prototype of the battle suit he will later wear as Guardian , halt Chinook's rampage, apparently at the cost of his life.

Early during this period, Logan, seeking more information on the experiment to which he was subjected, travels to the US, where he consults adamantium expert Dr. Myron MacLain; Logan is flown on this occasion by pilot Ben Grimm, who will later be transformed by cosmic rays into the superhuman powerhouse known as the Thing.

Logan goes to work, where he is given "dirty, brutal, necessary assignments no one else would touch". In this new phase of his life as an agent of the Canadian government, Logan serves primarily in Siberia and the Western Pacific, notably the Pacific Rim of Asia and the islands along that coast, including his old stomping grounds of Japan.

Having already attained the ranks of Major and Commander in other agencies, Logan eventually attains the rank of Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces during this period. One of Logan's first missions him to Iraq, where Iraqi militants, supported by mercenaries, have taken over an American embassy; Canadian citizens—including a Canadian nun—are among the hostages, and the Canadian government sends Logan to support Delta Force, a special team of US government operatives.

Logan assists in re-taking the embassy, killing at least one of the Iraqis. The nun, who had been violently abused by one of the mercenaries, Bruno Malone, dies shortly afterward; before dying, she asks Logan to avenge her sufferings. Logan is prepared to act upon this vow of vengeance immediately, but apparently his new responsibilities as an agent of Department H prevent him from doing so, since he will later claim that he "got Logan does not forget his vow, however, and he will fulfill it years later, after he has assumed the costumed identity of Wolverine.

As part of another early mission for Department H, the full extent of which has yet to be revealed, Logan joins forces with Ben Grimm and Carol Danvers on a special mission into Russian territory, under the orders of Colonel Nick Fury and with information provided by industrialist Tony Stark, who, like Grimm, will within a few years begin a career in super-heroics, in his case as the armored hero known as Iron Man; on this occasion, for reasons which remain unclear, Fury deliberately pretends to have no previous experience with Logan, and Danvers continues to demonstrate no recollection of her own work with him.

In the course of this mission, Logan refrains from using his adamantium claws, although whether this is due to inexperience, subterfuge, or simple whim is uncertain. Still suffering from memory loss and recurring berserker rages, Logan goes through a period of adjustment to his new role and condition, and it may be during this period that he incurs several debts to fellow Canadian Intelligence agent Jack Oonuk, who possibly covers for him with the authorities.

On one mission for the Canadian government, Logan spends four months in Hong Kong, a place that he has presumably visited often in the past, where he finds himself in conflict with the organized crime unit known as the Triads; he also encounters the noted assassin McLeish, known as the White Ghost, whom he will meet again years later.

It may also be during this period that Logan first meets a woman named Linn Chow, to whose aid he will go in later years.

Three years into Hudson's directorship of Department H, over two years after Logan was found by the Hudson's, the Fantastic Four, the first verified public team of super-heroes in several years, debuts to worldwide acclaim.

Inspired by this, Hudson elects to orient Department H toward the formation of a government-sponsored Canadian super-team that will operate in the public eye; Logan is Hudson's first recruit, and Hudson in fact nominates him for the eventual leadership of this team, which, in its early stages of development, is known as "the Flight. Logan, contemplating the wisdom of this new career, returns to Madripoor, the site of some of his earliest heroic activities, for what may be the first time since his freelance years and spends some months there, where he is reunited with his old friend Seraph.

Seraph introduces Logan to another pupil of hers, Viper, who is, as Logan once was, a freelance espionage agent, although, presumably unknown to the others, Viper's activities are usually terrorist in nature, and, by coincidence, among her clientele is HYDRA, in whose ranks she will eventually rise high. During this time, Logan and Viper assist Seraph in her ongoing activities against the Hand, and this appears to be the earliest instance in which Logan wears his yellow-and-blue costume in battle; on one occasion, Seraph and Viper risk their lives to rescue Logan from Sabretooth, who may have been working with the Hand at this time.

It is possible that Seraph is in fact slain during these events, but this is as yet unclear. This incident marks Logan's last visit to Madripoor until recent years.

Moved by Seraph's example of heroism, Logan returns to Canada, agreeing to work with the Flight and eventually become its leader, although he continues to divide his time between Canada-based Flight training and espionage missions abroad; to mark this transition in his life, he renews the use of the alias "Wolverine" from his earlier activities.

As for Viper, she and Logan will periodically clash after he has joined the X-Men. On this occasion, Logan, apparently in order to distance his espionage efforts from his role as super-hero, does not wear his costume into battle and refrains from using his claws, instead relying on a large dagger in battle, much as he did during World War II. Under pressure to produce additional super-agents, Hudson subjects a convicted murderer, offered amnesty, to an experimental process designed to manifest any latent superhuman powers.

Logan is leery of the idea, and he warns Hudson that the convict, who will later become known as Bedlam, may prove uncontrollable; he will be proven right some years later.

Disturbed by Hudson's revelation, Logan elects to return to his intelligence operations, although he will remain on call for the Flight as necessary; over the next few months, Hudson, having placed his experiments with Bedlam temporarily on hold, recruits nearly a half-dozen other super humans as potential Flight members, whom Logan trains in combat at select intervals.

While dividing his time between the Flight and espionage, Logan shares few details of the latter work with the Hudson's; it is only years after this period that Heather Hudson even learns that Logan speaks Japanese.

As an operative of the Canadian Secret Service, Logan cooperates with intelligence agents from many other nations. At some point during these years, Logan and Danvers become romantically involved. When working with Logan, Danvers uses the codename "Ace," while Logan resurrects his former alias of "Patch. At some point during these years, while stationed in Canada with the Flight, Logan has an affair with fellow member Narya, the half-goddess known as Snowbird. Unlike Logan, who is far older than he looks, Narya, although an adult in appearance, is chronologically and emotionally a child, far younger than she looks; the relationship ends badly.

Among the other Flight trainees with whom Logan periodically works is Gamma Flight's Wild Child, a young man who was mutated by the Secret Empire using DNA from the superhuman mercenary Wyre, whom Logan had encountered at some point in the past. Logan, recognizing an inherent berserker nature similar to his own, advises against Wild Child's inclusion in the super-hero program, but Wild Child will remain until the program's cessation and, eventually, master his rages to join one of the various incarnations of Alpha Flight.

Logan himself will recruit a future Alpha Flight member during these years: Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, later known as Aurora. Few other details of Logan's activities with Alpha Flight are known; he apparently spends most of these years abroad on various intelligence assignments, returning to Canada and Department H only on occasion.

Despite Department H's secrecy, Logan maintains some contacts outside the organization, including a young RCMP named Lightfoot; at times Logan joins Lightfoot on hunting expeditions, although it is known that Logan refuses to kill for sport, preferring to track game in order to hone his skills only. When the two are stranded together in the Australian outback, Nanjiwarra helps Logan to survive long enough to reach civilization.

At some point during his intelligence operations abroad, Logan encounters Wade Wilson, the mercenary known as Deadpool; like Logan, Deadpool is a product of the Weapon X Program, apparently during its Department K incarnation, possessing a healing factor that was apparently derived from Logan's own.

It is possible that Logan had previously encountered Wilson prior to the mercenary's assumption of a costumed identity, but this cannot be confirmed; Logan will later characterize his dealings with Deadpool as a part of his life that he would prefer "never sees the light of day. Logan dislikes dealing with him, perhaps seeing in Terror's cynicism a reflection of what he himself might become later in his long life.

Logan, Michael Rossi, and possibly others disobey direct orders and break into Lubyanka to free her. During the mission, Rossi is apparently slain, and the other members of the team abandon the effort, leaving Logan to smuggle Danvers out of the USSR alone, despite her insistence that he abandon her to save himself. Following these events, Danvers, despite her youth, is recruited as Security Chief for Cape Canaveral, becoming, in her twenties, the youngest person ever to hold the position; it is in this role that she will meet the Kree warrior known as Captain Marvel, whose involvement with her will change her life dramatically.

She and Logan will not meet again for years. As for Rossi, he is later learned to have survived, although, as far as is known, Danvers is never informed of this; whether or not Logan is aware of it is unclear. Rossi will eventually work in cooperation with Professor Charles Xavier, a man who will play an important role in Logan's own life.

With his friend and lover out of the intelligence field, Logan has less reason to remain in it himself, and it may be at this point that he decides to accommodate Hudson and quit field work altogether, to assume full-time leadership of Alpha Flight.

As Alpha Flight's preparations for public activity continue, Logan, still considering the life of a full-time super-hero, seeks the advice of his long-time sensei Ogun in Japan.

Logan is shocked to learn that Ogun, who has taught him so much about honor and moral codes over the years, has given himself over to the darker forces of the Ninjitsu magic he practices, becoming an assassin and evil magician and ultimately intending to psionically enslave Logan to his will, a fate that Ogun will later force upon Logan's fellow X-Man Shadowcat. Deeply disturbed by this meeting, Logan vows to never return to Japan, and he and Ogun will not meet again for years.

Logan returns to Canada and, symbolizing his break with his former mentor, discards the bladed weapons he has used on occasion; accepting his fate, he exclusively uses his adamantium claws from now on.

Logan will not wield a sword again for years. Eager to avoid thoughts of his confrontation with Ogun, Logan prepares to make his debut as a Canada-based publicly known super-agent and is dispatched to disrupt terrorist activities in Ontario; however, James Hudson informs him that the "assignment," Logan's first public Canada-based mission since the Flight battled Egghead's forces years earlier, is actually a test developed by Department H to observe Logan's reactions in battle.

During the course of this test, Logan is teleported to the New Mexico headquarters of the mutated genius known as the Leader, as are the Greek demigod Hercules and the Deviant Karkas, all of whom the Leader intends to use to capture the American mutate known as the Hulk.

Logan escapes the Leader's restraints and frees his fellow captives, although the Leader flees from the debacle. Upon his return to Canada, Logan assists James Hudson in containing Bedlam, who has resisted all efforts to control him and is finally placed in a state of suspended animation. Logan draws no satisfaction from being proven correct about Bedlam; his disillusionment with Hudson over this incident leads him to question the wisdom of continuing to work for Department H in any capacity.

Moreover, Logan begins to realize that he has developed an unacknowledged attraction to Heather Hudson, an inappropriate feeling that further complicates his current situation. These issues, among others, will play a role in Logan's ultimate decision to resign from Department H. The Hulk himself arrives in Canada shortly before Logan's return; the Canadian military mobilizes to oppose the Hulk, but Logan requests to be given the opportunity first. In this genuine assignment, he is dispatched to stop the destruction caused by a brawl between the Hulk and the Wendigo.

Despite his best efforts, Logan fails in this mission. The American team of mutants, the X-Men, are captured by the sentient island Krakoa, and X-Men founder Charles Francis Xavier seeks out other mutants to aid him in their rescue. While most of these are younger mutants whom Xavier had previously been considering for X-Men membership, Logan, of whom Xavier has presumably learned through his own government contacts, is another potential recruit; neither Logan nor Xavier know that Xavier's father, Dr.

Brian Xavier, played a role in the development of aspects of the Team X Project. Professor X approaches Wolverine to recruit him into a new team of X-Men, offering Wolverine the chance to join the team and become a hero.

Disillusioned with his Canadian intelligence work and interested in resuming the free agent's life which he has not led for nearly thirty years, and intrigued by Xavier's offer, Logan resigns from Department H.

It is revealed later in the comics that Logan was sent by Romulus to assassinate Professor Xavier, although Xavier predicted this attack. Xavier wipes Romulus's manipulations from Wolverine's mind. It is then that Romulus focused his attention on Wolverine's son Daken. Professor X gathers this new team of X-Men to free Cyclops ' team from the mutant island known as Krakoa. Logan and the other new X-Men successfully rescue the previous team, marking the beginning of a new period in Logan's life.

Although Logan quickly becomes more comfortable with the freelance nature of the X-Men's activities, he is slow in adjusting to the different standards by which his new team operates, and it will be several months before he even reveals his name to his fellow X-Men; to this day, few of them know much about his previous activities.

Among the stronger attachments Logan forms is an immediate friendship with the young German mutant, Nightcrawler , who reminds Logan of Maverick, and a strong attraction to Jean Grey. Logan's Interpol acquaintance Sean Cassidy, now known as Banshee , is also among the new X-Men, although Cassidy apparently does not recognize Logan from his intelligence days for some time.

Although Logan has been to New York City before, his membership in the X-Men marks the first time he has ever had occasion to spend much time there, and he spends weeks exploring the city.

During one such venture, he encounters, when Sabretooth renews his habit of attacking Logan on the anniversary of Silver Fox's apparent death. As far as is known, the two will not meet again for years more, when Sabretooth, acting as a member of the Marauders, participates in the slaughter of the subterranean mutant community known as the Morlocks.

Logan's career as an X-Man is the best documented period of his life to date. Early in Logan's tenure with the X-Men, Jean Grey, unknown to any of her teammates, is replaced by a cosmic entity called the Phoenix; the X-Men believe that Phoenix is in fact Jean and her powers were greatly enhanced, even Logan's heightened senses were fooled. It is during these early years of his career as an X-Man that Logan first travels to the Savage Land, a prehistoric jungle hidden deep in the Antarctic Circle; Logan takes an immediate liking to the place and will return there on a number of adventures.

It is also during this time Logan, in the course of his adventures with the X-Men, returns to Japan for the first time since his break with Ogun, where he meets Mariko Yashida, heir to an extremely powerful Yakuza family in Tokyo.

Logan and Mariko soon fall in love, and their relationship gives Logan an excuse to again visit the land that he has loved for so long. During an intimate scene in a garden Wolverine begins to tell Mariko his name but is interrupted by Mandroids and Moses Magnum. After the battle and before leaving Japan, he finally tells Mariko his name is "Logan" and presents her with a white chrysanthemum.

It is the first time he reveals the name he calls himself. As time passes, he falls for Mariko, as Jean Grey is attached. James Hudson returns as the leader of Canada's first superhero team Alpha Flight.

With his new team, he attempts to capture Wolverine. Cyclops leaves the team in grief, and Storm takes up the mantle of the X-Men's leader. Kitty Pryde joins the team and eventually becomes one of Wolverine's closest friends.

Wolverine, donning his brown and tan outfit for the first time, travels to Canada with Nightcrawler in tow to make peace with Alpha Flight by helping them take down the Wendigo once more.

Logan first meets the woman known as Yukio , a free-spirited adventurer who has much in common with Logan's earlier persona; Logan also briefly clashes with the Hand for the first known time since initially assuming the identity of Wolverine, although, perhaps initially mistrusting Yukio, he feigns an unfamiliarity with the organization. Despite an immediate attraction to Yukio, Logan becomes engaged to Mariko Yashida, although the marriage is called off because Yashida feels obliged to break her family's criminal ties before marrying Logan and by Viper and the Silver Samurai.

While again visiting Japan not long afterward, in the aftermath of an adventure in space with the X-Men, Logan, assisting in rescue operations when Japan is attacked by an alien dragon who accompanied the X-Men from space, Wolverine rescues and takes it upon himself to watch over Amiko, daughter of a woman killed in the aftermath of a fight between the X-Men and a giant dragon over Tokyo. In subsequent stories Logan continues to visit Amiko, although she is now under the care of his close friend Yukio.

Wolverine later travels with Kitty Pryde to Japan to confront his former mentor Ogun, who had been killed years earlier. Ogun possesses Kitty and makes her his assassin, but Logan helps her overcome him and force him from her body. During a savage battle with Ogun, Wolverine realizes that his feral side will always be there and that it is something that he must always fight to keep under control.

Wolverine is forced to kill Ogun. Afterwards, Logan and Kitty become very close friends, and she becomes like a daughter to him. This team is mainly featured in the crossover events The Fall of the Mutants and Inferno. At the conclusion to the Fall of the Mutants storyline, the X-Men sacrifice their lives and die as part of a spell to defeat the Adversary.

There, runaway mutant Jubilee saves Wolverine's life from an attack by Lady Deathstrike after he frees himself from crucifixion by the Reavers.

She eventually becomes, a surrogate daughter to him. Logan, made introspective by the experience, begins spending more time away from the team, taking up his old wanderings and becoming involved in adventures that do not involve his fellow X-Men. He again visits Madripoor, Hong Kong, and other places of his earlier life, becoming romantically involved with the Madripoorian crime lord Tyger Tiger.

During this time Wolverine was again confronted by Cyber. Apocalypse tricks Wolverine into journeying to the Savage Land. While there, Wolverine sleeps with the female chieftain, Gahck, of an indigenous tribe. He discovers an insane robot duplicate of Apocalypse, which he destroys, putting an end to Apocalypse's experiments on the tribe.

He unknowingly sires a son with Gahck, whom she names "Erista". After the X-Men return to America Wolverine then returns to his original costume and begins the long journey of trying to make sense of his past. Wolverine returns to the Weapon X base in Canada. There, he learns many of his memories are implants and his personality becomes much darker. He also fights the robot Shiva for the first time.

Wolverine travels back to Japan and reunites with Mariko, though she refuses to rekindle their love until her clan ceases all illegal activities. However, she is soon poisoned by a Yakuza assassin working for Matsu'o Tsurayaba, who bears a grudge against Wolverine. Mariko asks Wolverine to end her life quickly, and he reluctantly complies. This changes Wolverine's character significantly, making him even more disciplined and emotionally distant. Wolverine vows to Matsu'o that on each anniversary of Mariko's death he will visit him and slice off a body part until there is nothing of him left.

Shortly after Mariko's death, Wolverine is shocked to learn that Silver Fox is still alive. Ferro kills Hines and then forces Sabretooth to kill Silver Fox before dying himself. Wolverine suffers a mental breakdown after the deaths of Mariko and Silver Fox. Thinking he is on a prior Team X mission to assassinate someone named "Terry Adams", Wolverine breaks into a Russian space program facility and encounters Epsilon Red, a genetically-engineered cosmonaut with powerful psychic abilities.

Red, the "Terry Adams" Wolverine is after, breaks down many of the mental blocks in Wolverine's mind in return for help escaping the facility. With this greater knowledge of which memories are true and which are false, Wolverine is finally able to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. A thought bubble was inserted where Wolverine mentioned the bullet had only grazed him, despite the art showing differently.

For a certain period, there was always a real risk that Wolverine could die just like any other hero, before his healing factor slowly but surely escalated over the years as he sustained—and survived—ever more grievous injuries. Although Sabretooth and Wolverine look cut from the same cloth, Sabretooth actually made his debut in an Iron Fist comic.

However, that comic was written by Chris Claremont, and he always intended Sabretooth to have something to do with Wolverine. Several hints were dropped about this violent paternity, but the plot thread was ultimately abandoned, and the two are now considered entirely unrelated.

From his debut in , Wolverine quickly became a premium Marvel character. He was easily the most popular of the new X-Men characters and started to gain ground on Spider-Man, Captain America, and the other all-stars of the Marvel lineup. However, strangely enough, Wolverine could not land himself a solo title. For nearly a decade, fans clamored for a comic that depicted Logan adventuring on his lonesome, but Marvel held off for as long as possible.

This had the intended result of building up hype even further, which led to massive sales when Chris Claremont teamed with young artist Frank Miller for Wolverine in And then, maybe, make him better. Wolverine was now the most popular of the X-Men and a solo star in his own right, but the full story of his past had barely been explored.

This changed in , when Barry Windsor-Smith was given the plum assignment of explaining how, exactly, Logan had gotten all that adamantium bonded to his skeleton. Windsor-Smith came up with Weapon X , a horrific tale of the medical experiments Logan was forced into by the Weapon X program, which sought to create human weapons. Wolverine was depicted floating in a stasis tube while molten adamantium was pumped into him via multiple injections, all the while cruel scientists looked on and made observations.

In the end, Wolverine escaped and went on a rampage, and the unforgettable imagery of him running around with medical equipment still attached to him has now become a vital part of his character history.

One aspect of the storyline was meant to hint at involvement from the villainous Apocalypse. Windsor-Smith said :. For no reason other than courtesy to Chris, I devised the situation where the professor in the story was taking his orders from a higher-up. After all, his mutant power was healing, not having claws, right? The fact that he actually had bone claws underneath was a surprise to everyone, including Logan, who had long since lost his memories from before the adamantium.

A deeply troubled and still recovering Wolverine later tried to pop the claws he thought he had lost, only to be shocked when bone claws erupted from his knuckles. Apparently, he had always had them. Marvel appointed some of their top talent, including then-Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, to write Origin , which would finally give a definitive account of Wolverine's backstory.

The rest of the tale showed how young Wolverine got on his troubled path from there, in a story that was suitably filled with violence, death, and regret. House of M saw the Scarlet Witch go a bit crazy and attempt to rewrite reality in a way that made everyone happier.

This resulted in a world where mutants ruled and most heroes had their greatest wishes fulfilled. Scarlet Witch did not realize, however, that what Logan wanted most of all was his memory restored , which led to him waking up in the new reality with his entire catalogue of memories intact. This helped Wolverine take down the new reality, reverting things back to the way they were, but when it was all over, he retained all those memories.

This, of course, brought back long-forgotten problems that Logan would now have to deal with. With it now apparent that Wolverine was over years old, writers began wondering about the many children he was sure to have had over the years. The old trick of writing Wolverine involved playing around with the mystery of his past, but now creators had an entire, century-long sandbox in which to explore.

With several decades of potential romance to work with, there have now been multiple storylines dealing with the progeny of Logan. Logan had thought the child lost, too, but he had actually passed his healing factor on to the boy, which allowed him to survive, albeit with a heavy resentment of his father. Another storyline involved a group called the Red Right Hand, who Wolverine slaughtered before realizing they had been made up largely of his own, forgotten children.

This obviously messed the man up for quite a while. Once the ultimate loner hero, Wolverine had developed quite a reputation over the years as a team player thanks to his position on various X-teams.