10 Wolverine Fates Worse Than Death
5. Eradicating The X-Men
While often the grump of the group - not to mention his affinity to teams like the Avengers and X-Force - there's no doubting that Wolverine views the X-Men as family. Much like real families, you don't have to get on with everyone all the time, but there's an unbreakable bond there that ties you together.
In the Mark Millar-penned Old Man Logan, the action picks up with, well, Logan as an old man. With the United States decimated and split up into four crime lord-led territories, Wolvie has retired the claws and started a family with his wife Maureen, with whom he has children Scotty and Jade.
The present-day narrative of this tale finds Wolverine travelling across the country with a blind Hawkeye, as the 'big bad' of this future world is an erratic, deranged Hulk and his incestuous Hulk Gang.
That element of Old Man Logan is great, but it's in fleeting looks at the past where the real horror lurks. In a flashback sequence, readers see how Wolverine killed 40 supervillains as they launched an assault on the X-Mansion and the young mutants who resided there.
In a true moment of tragedy, it's revealed that this was all merely a scheme from Mysterio, and that the people Wolvie had killed were his fellow X-Men.
Such grief did Logan feel, he tried to commit suicide by getting hit by a train. Of course, that didn't kill him, but that was the moment where the classic 'Wolverine' persona was left behind.