As the most prolific and arguably most beloved X-Man, there isn't much fans don't know about Wolverine.
The character made his debut in the pages of the Incredible Hulk and has since developed into one of the most famous fictional characters on the planet, holding down beloved stints on the X-Men, X-Force, and even as an Avenger in recent years. During this time he's amassed an incredible box-office draw, luring in viewers as the lead of Fox's old X-Men films and on dozens of animated cartoons and video games.
What I'm getting here is that Wolverine is the very definition of a known quantity. He's the X-Man everyone's familiar with and so there's not really that much out there that could be considered a surprise.
Or so you would think. You see, Wolverine has been through A LOT in the forty-or-so years since he made his comics debut, and that means he possesses a really complex and fascinating history - both on and off the page - comprising weird potential origins, identity changes, and a cancelled movie cameo that would've sent fans wild if it'd been pulled off...
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
