10 Wolverine Moments That Shocked The World

6. Turning The Tables Against The Hellfire Club - Uncanny X-Men #132

After moving from the pages of the Incredible Hulk to those of the X-Men, Wolverine immediately cemented himself as a cool customer. He was ex-military, roguish and was unquestionably lethal, his metal claws promising a more intimate and brutal kind of violence than anything the other X-Men had on hand.

Be that as it may, Wolverine was still a superhero. He was decked out in a yellow and blue outfit and was still relatively cartoonish, filling out the tough-guy persona on Len Wein and Dave Cockrum's Giant Size X-Men. When Chris Claremont and John Byrne took over however, the character soon developed into the animalistic fury fans have since grown accustomed to, exemplified best in the concluding pages of Uncanny X-Men #132.

Byrne's panel depicting a half-submerged Wolvie turning the tables on the Hellfire club has been parodied and homaged repeatedly over the years, and there's no denying it's an iconic moment.

The artist elected to play to the primal connotations of Logan's alter-ego, and while Wolvie only manages to turn the tide briefly, this was still the first time the character's bad-side ever looked truly menacing.