10 Secret Wolverine Superpowers You Never Knew

10. Empathy With Animals

This is a seldom-mentioned, but pretty cool ability of Logan's.

Given his mutation and personality, it's no surprise that he is extremely in tune with animals. He is often depicted roaming through the woods; indeed, his very first appearance was when he was dumped into the Canadian wilderness to take out the Hulk. He's at home in nature.

This animal empathy allows Logan to sense the emotional and physical state of animals. In some cases, he can even communicate on a very basic level, both expressing ideas to creatures and getting information back from them.

This power has allowed Wolverine to not only get assistance from animals, but to assist them. He has tracked wounded creatures to put them out of their misery - the opening pages of the first issue of the original 1982 Wolverine series depicts Logan tracking and killing a bear that had gone on a rampage through several small Canadian towns. This was not something he took any pleasure in; he simply needed the pain of both the people and bear to end.

He subsequently found out that the bear was rampaging because a hunter had shot it with a poison-covered arrow but had not bothered to finish the bear off. This incident was recreated at the beginning of The Wolverine film in 2013.

It didn't end well for the hunter in either comic or film...