10 Most Inappropriate Wolverine Storylines Ever

1. The Murder Of A Child - New Mutants

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Since their debut back in 1963, the X-Men have always been about accepting those deemed 'different' by the masses. Charles Xavier's team and their School for Gifted Children has forever been a safe haven for those with abilities that make them unique, misunderstood or potentially a danger to wider society.

So, when Wolverine was set to kill a child in Ultimate X-Men #41, it felt a little out of step with the general X-Men thought process.

From Brian Michael Bendis, this tale - titled New Mutants - finds a young boy waking up to discover his house is empty. Not just are his family missing, but it then becomes apparent that his entire neighboured is lifeless. By the time the kiddo gets to school, his classmates gruesomely vaporise in front of his eyes.

Unbeknown to the youngster, he's a mutant whose abilities have kicked in upon him hitting puberty. Said abilities? The main one is that he causes all organic tissue within a certain radius of him to combust. When Wolverine finds the boy hiding in a cave, Logan's mission is to kill him.

Think of Deadpool 2's opening premise, where we're introduced to Julian Dennison's Firefist. There, the authorities are tasked with killing Firefist due to how severe a threat he is to the world. Even the erratic, violent Deadpool realises that there has to be an alternative to slaughtering the boy.

For Wolverine in New Mutants, he doesn't bother to weigh up alternatives and simply kills the troubled youngster - with it revealed he'd been sent on this mission by Nick Fury.

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