10 Questionable Actions Committed By Wolverine

5. Adopting An Orphan

Seen In: Uncanny X-Men #181, Wolverine #82 (volume 2)

For a guy with some serious anger management issues, Wolverine is surprisingly patient with kids. He's been something of a surrogate father to several of the younger X-Men, like Shadowcat, Rogue, Jubilee, Armor, and Oya. It's surprising then to find out that when it comes to his actual children, Logan is kind of a deadbeat dad. His son, Daken, was a total nutcase who Logan later had to put down himself. As mentioned earlier, he let his clone/daughter X-23 run with his team of killers. He even had several illegitimate children that he slaughtered (granted, he didn't know they were his kids until after).

But then there's the time when he actually adopted a child. Long ago, the X-Men had to deal with a dragon attack in Tokyo. One of the victims of the attack was a Japanese woman who begged Logan with her dying breath to protect her daughter, Amiko. Logan gave his word he would, dropped the kid off with a foster family and arranged a trust fund, then promptly forgot about her for several years. Turns out the foster parents were extremely neglectful, so with pantyhose wrapped around his masked face to make him look like a ninja (surprisingly not his dumbest disguise ever, but we'll get to that), he liberated the kid and warned the foster parents to stay away.

But then instead of taking Amiko back with him to America where she could grow up in a mansion and have an entire team of superheroes around to protect her, Logan decided to leave Amiko in Japan with Yukio, a carefree ronin. The excuse Logan always gives is that Amiko is safer apart from him. Except every time she turns up, it's because one of Logan's enemies is hunting her down. Maybe having her live with superheroes would make her a bit safer.