10 Most Inappropriate Wolverine Storylines Ever

7. The Crucifixion Controversy - Fever Dream

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From Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri, Uncanny X-Men #251's Fever Dream features some of the most memorable imagery of any X-Men book ever. Famously, this is the tale where Wolverine is attacked by the nefarious mutant-slaying cyborgs known as the Reavers and strung up on a cross in the Australian outback.

While this story is fondly thought of by the majority of X-fans, it's a story that courted quite the controversy amongst certain groups who deemed it inappropriate to depict a crucifixion. For every nine out of ten people who loved Silvestri's artwork and the notion of Logan being left to fall into insanity, there were those one out of ten people who berated this act as sacrilegious and offensive.

Is that enough to deem Fever Dream as being an outright inappropriate story? It all comes down to personal taste and who you ask.

In terms of the narrative of the issue itself, the beaten, tortured Logan was left on the cross to recover from his injuries in the blistering Australian heat. Driven to madness, Weapon X suffers plentiful terrifying hallucinations before he's eventually freed by Jubilee.

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