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The Boysis an entire dealership dedicated to dead scrap established superheroes , include the entire superhero genre itself , andWolverineis no exclusion . What is interesting aboutThe Boys ’ parody of Wolverine , however , is that Marvel really check with it , asThe Boys’biggest Gulo luscus insult just became official Marvel canon .
Wolverine is a tragical and complex character whose life has been dribble through the worst of what humanity has to offer . The rage inside of Wolverine is ever - present , which fuel him in battle yet provoke him in life story , though it also pushes him to be the dependable hero he can be . While these traits add to his challenging character growth , The Boysboiled it all down to ‘ furious footling guy cable is raging and little ’ with its parody of Wolverine , Groundhawk . Groundhawk is esthetically reminiscent of Wolverine , but he has hammers for hands or else of claw extending from his clenched fist . And , like Wolverine , Groundhawk is consume by furore as well , except Groundhawk does n’t channel it the way Wolverine does . Instead , Groundhawk is just always worked - up with anger , gnarl the single tidings “ Gon na – ! ” over and over as if there ’s a threat he wants to say , but just ca n’t get out because he ’s just so angry . It ’s an insulting lampoon , to be certain , but oddly enough , it was actually stagnant on , andthe Wolverine of Marvel ’s potential futureproves it .
Wolverine Became a Parody of Himself Worthy of The Boys
InX - Force#40 by Benjamin Percy , Paul Davidson , and Robert Gill , the X - Force are whisked away to a likely future where Beast became something of a ‘ mutant god ’ , throw the world into ruination in pursuit of his own twisted vision . The X - Force apace come across the mutant rising , where they meet this alternating future ’s version of Wolverine . This Wolverine is nothing but a severed head inside a small , bulky robot body . His claws are stick out the front , so he ’s still deadly , but Wolverine has become far less eloquent . He can only say one thing : “ SNIKT ! ” , which – asX - Menfans get laid – is the phonetically - written sound his chela make when he unsheathes them . Now , Wolverine is quite literally a petty ball of furore who can only say one word as a room to channel his deadly fury – just like Groundhawk .
The barren landscape of theX - human ’s dark future seems to indicate that Wolverine should have been killed in some late battle , but the resistance against Beast needed him to keep fighting , so they took what remained and rebuilt him to suit their needs . Wolverine was reduced to an real killing machine , and every facial expression of his character that made him intriguing became empty and two - dimensional . This is incisively what Garth Ennis did ( in a meta sense ) with Groundhawk , as he reduced the character to a ball of rage who cry a single word without actually being in force as a way to mock Wolverine . But here , Marvel went ahead and made this depiction of Wolverine canon in Beast ’s idealistic future .
Thankfully , this tragical ( albeit , a bit comical ) adaptation of Wolverine is just in a potential future , and is n’t a lasting reworking of the character . But , given his comprehension in Marvel lore , this succeeding Wolverine is an official Wolverine - variance , making him an established version of the fan - favourite character . And the best part is that he ’s exactly like Groundhawk , makingThe Boys ’ biggestWolverineinsult official Marvel canyon .
