10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Wolverine
He's the best at what he does and what he does is sometimes pretty embarrasing.
Wolverine is one of Marvel's most popular and enduring characters. First added to the team in Giant-Size X-Men #1, Logan's gruff attitude and cool powers made him a quick favourite among readers and he soon became the books breakout character.
Flashforward to now and he has appeared alongside the X-Men in almost all their incarnations, starred in his own spin-off series and had hundreds of cameos in other books. Wolverine always shows up to save the day with his claws, healing factor and whatever time magic he uses to be on 100 teams at the same time.
However, with so many appearances and such a long lifespan, it's only inevitable the Wolverine has had his fair share of moments he isn't so proud of. From less than epic fights, to his questionable dating proclivities, there are plenty of things about Wolverine that Marvel would rather you just forget about. That would be boring though, so instead they've been catalogued and presented here in a list for all the world to see Logan's poor life choices.
With Logan giving Hugh Jackman's character a touching and respectful sendoff, let's look at some dumb stuff that happened to Wolverine in the comics.
10. His Attempts At Disguise
The original Wolverine series is a lot of fun, with adventures mixing superheroics with pulp fiction and cameos from heroes like Jessica Drew and the Hulk. However, the concept the series is based around is incredibly dumb.
The series came out in the 80's, during a period when everyone thought the X-Men were dead. Now obviously, Wolverine running around in bright yellow spandex would blow their cover, so he had to adopt a cunning disguise. What he did instead was slap on an eyepatch and call himself Patch Logan.
Now sure, no-one would ever think twice that say Patch Rogers, one-eyed owner of the Princess Bar, was actually Captain America. That's because, out of costume, Steve Rogers is a pretty nondescript looking guy. Logan on the other hand, without his costume, is still a 5'4 bundle of hairy anger with a haircut that defies physics and knives coming out of his hands.
And don't think for a second that Logan took any pains to hide his powers, he'd happily pop his claws whenever there was trouble and then loudly proclaim that his healing factor would protect him from harm.
Still it was better than his crime-fighting outfit, a black leotard that made him look like he was on his way to ballet practice, complimented with a fishnet mask.