10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Wolverine
2. A Cancelled Storyline Would've Made Sabretooth Wolverine's FATHER
If you only got your education of Wolverine from the films, you'd be forgiven for mistaking Sabretooth for being Logan's brother. While such a plot device did give us an admittedly great opening-credits sequence, it was a brand-new element introduced for the film; they're just old, bitter enemies in the comics. The only thing they have in common is that they both snarl a lot.
That said, this wasn't always the original plan. In fact, for a while, Sabretooth was originally intended to be Wolverine's father, which had also been a long-standing theory amongst readers at the time.
So, to begin with, Sabretooth was actually introduced in the pages of Iron Fist and not the X-Men. It was at this time that X-Men duo Chris Claremont and John Byrne conceived of the idea that the character should be linked with Wolverine, but Byrne left before the storyline could ever come to fruition. Claremont occasionally returned to the idea in Wolverine's spin-off comic, but the question was dodged all the way up until Larry Hama's run on the character, where Wolvie gets a DNA test to settle the question once and for all.
So, according to Nick Fury, there's no relation. But come on! He's Nick Fury. He's not exactly the model of honesty, so let's not close the book on this one just yet...