10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Wolverine

9. His Past Is Meant To Be Mysterious

It took a good long while, but in 2001 Marvel finally did the impossible: they told Wolverine€™s origin story. The aptly-titled miniseries Origin, written by Bill Jemas, Joe Quesada and Paul Jenkins, and illustrated by Andy Kubert, told the story of young James Howlett, the sickly son of a plantation owner in 19th century Canada. One day Thomas Logan, the violent former groundskeeper, returns to murder the family, the reserved James pops his claws for the first time and eviscerates him. The story had a cool bait-and-switch where it hinted that Thomas€™s son, Dog, was going to be the young Wolverine; having the hard-bitten mutant begin life as a wimpy pushover was something of a twist, too. But was it really necessary? That€™s essentially the back story that was adapted into X-Men Origins: Wolverine, too, so at this point the early life of Logan is relatively well known. It wasn€™t always that way, however - when he was first introduced, Wolverine was so mysterious as to be almost entirely abstract. It took a good decade for his time at Weapon X to be revealed, and prior to that he€™d spoken sparsely of really any aspect of his life prior to the X-Men. It was that mystique that made him such an engaging character, something which has arguably been removed by the likes of Origin. Still, the genie€™s out of the bottle now...