10 Future Versions Of Heroes BETTER Than The Original

Old Man Logan exists in an alternate future timeline, set fifty years in the future where heroes are long gone and supervillains rule the world.

Logan has given up the superhero life and is settled down with a wife and kids in the desolate future. He is barely inching out a living farming the land he rents from Bruce Banner's evil grandchildren. This striking setup creates an unforgettable version of the hero who was popular enough to inspire a movie and a solo comic series... but is he the better hero?

The original Wolverine was born in 1880: he is a mutant with healing powers and bone claws. After living lifetimes of traumatizing experiences, Logan is eventually kidnapped and experimented on by Weapon X. Even Wolverine's eventual joining of the X-Men is wrought with drama (Xavier forced Logan to join the X-Men after erasing his memory).

Wolverine is a character who has fascinating backstory built on fascinating backstory, so it would be hard to compete with the sprawling life of the original. Old Man Logan rises to the challenge and gives us a memorable character whose story mirrors all those traumas his younger self-lived through, in a new bleak setting with the unnerving reveal that the fall of the superheroes was his own fault.

In essence, Old Man Logan is all the pathos we love of the original character taken up a notch.