Summary

Warning : hold SPOILERS for arm X - Men # 3!There are few Marvel Comics characters who have suffered more in their liveliness thanWolverine . Logan was miss and desolate as a child , he was abducted by Weapon X where he was brainwashed into being a killer before being viciously experimented on , and - in various timelines -Wolverine ’s realize everyone he ’s ever care about diein front of his eyes . And now , that particularly heartbreaking trend proceed , as one Wolverine is faced with the hardest choice he ’s ever had to make in his 50 - year - long story .

InWeapon X - Men#3 by Christos Gage and Yildiray Çinar , the multiversal squad of Wolverines hand - picked by the Phoenixherself to take down Onslaught are actually forge with the cosmically - powerful topnotch - villain to save the humanity ( well , a humans , anyway ) . Onslaught was using a sorcerous artifact known as the Lifeline Tablet to make every mutation on this especial Earth immortal . However , when the trance was interrupt , Onslaught incidentally robbed everyone on the planet of death , pressure them to live in perpetual misery . So , Onslaught needed the Michigander ' help to undo what they ’d done , and they did so expertly .

After the mission was complete , Onslaught told the Wolverines that they were on good terms now . Onslaught would n’t hear to profane the multiverse , and in exchange , the Wolverines and the Phoenix that bring them together would arrest hunt them . However , while Onslaught was making this batch , they touched the psyche of one of the Wolverines on the team : Old Man Logan . Telepathically , Onslaught tell Logan that they know the Phoenix will never stop hunting them , and they demand Logan ’s avail to keep that from happening .

Old Man Logan brandishing his bloody claws.

Onslaught made Old Man Logan an offer : keep the Wolverines and Phoenix from hunt them ( by any red means necessary ) , and in return , Onslaught would bring Logan back in time within his cosmos to a point before he massacred the X - Men .

Wolverine ’s Old Man Logan storyline is well one of the most tragical the character has ever endured , and now , Marvel Comics just made it even darker .

Why This Choice Is So Heart-Wrenchingly Difficult for Wolverine to Make

Wolverine: Old Man Logan#5 by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

InOld Man Logancontinuity , Logan was tricked by Mysterio into believing every member of the X - Men was a super - villain that had somehow invaded the X - Mansion . Wolverine reacted by massacring each one of them , which was especially necessary given the current climate of this plot line , as every villain was step up their game for actually take over the macrocosm ( which they end up doing ) . By the time all the ‘ villain ’ are dead , Mysterio drops the thaumaturgy , allowing Wolverine to witness the mass murder he brought upon his own institute - family .

Wolverine did n’t pop his claws for 50 years after he kill the tenner - Men , and even after all the just he did for the world during the upshot of Old Man Logan - dismantling much every villain ’s territorial dominion in the Wasteland , killing Red Skull , massacring the Hulk Gang - Wolverine still never forgive himself . Weapon X - Menis the most recent comic in which sports fan have seen Old Man Logan , and he ’s still exhaust himself up for what find . But now , Onslaught is present Wolverine the chance to untie the one moment in his aliveness that ’s stalk him the most .

No Matter Which Decision Wolverine Makes, Old Man Logan Loses

While it may seem like a no - brainer for Wolverine to swallow Onslaught ’s muckle and save the ex - serviceman he mangle , the situation is a bit more nuanced than that . surely , Onslaught may seem like they ’ve dropped their plan for multiversal conquering , but the villain is almost sure consist . If Wolverine did work with Onslaught , his world would probably be the first on the chopping pulley-block . Plus , what Onslaught is asking Old Man Logan to do is borderline paradoxical . To save one team , he must wander another , which would only serve to careen the guilty conscience and desperation , not efface it entirely .

However , if Old Man Logan does n’t take Onslaught up on their fling , then he ’ll have intercourse that he could have lend back the go - work force he killed , and did n’t , thereby add to his guilty conscience vastly . Truly , no matter which determination Old Man Logan have , he lose , which is why this is the hardest choiceWolverinehas ever faced .

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The human mutant Wolverine ( a.k.a . Logan ) was born James Howlett , bless with a superhuman healing factor , senses , and physiology . Subjecting himself to experimentation to augment his skeleton and claws with adamantium , Logan is as deathly as he is reckless , impulsive , and short - harden . take a crap him the X - Men ’s raging and deadly member , and one of Marvel Comics ' biggest stars . He ’s play in Fox and Marvel ’s movie franchises by Hugh Jackman .

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Wolverine crying while a piece of himself screams in rage-filled agony.

Wolverine surrounded by dead X-Men.

Wolverine as Old Man Logan brandishing his claws.

Wolverine in Comic Art by Leinil Yu

The human mutant Wolverine (a.k.a. Logan) was born James Howlett, blessed with a superhuman healing factor, senses, and physiology. Subjecting himself to experimentation to augment his skeleton and claws with adamantium, Logan is as deadly as he is reckless, impulsive, and short-tempered. Making him the X-Men’s wildest and deadliest member, and one of Marvel Comics' biggest stars. He’s played in Fox and Marvel’s movie franchises by Hugh Jackman.

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