Life hasnt been kind to Wolverine, hes an alcoholic loner who is always suffering through some sort of psychiatric crisis ranging from full-blown amnesia to crippling self-loathing. None of this is surprising when you take into account how his powers first manifested themselves. Born as James Howlett, the son of a plantation owner in 19th Century Canada, young Wolverine is a million miles from the hard-case he will eventually become; riddled with allergies and referred to as a sickly child. This all changes when their violent drunkard of a groundskeeper Thomas Logan (who turns out to be his biological daddy-o, hence the name) shoots his father prompting his mutant powers to emerge, which he subsequently uses to avenge his fallen parent. Where the comic differ from the adaptation in X-Men Origins is that instead of merely looking at young Wolvie like hes a weirdo, his mother takes Logans shotgun and blows her head off right in front of her child. There was none of the films brotherly fight through the ages stuff either, in the years following the traumatic incident he deals with unrequited love and unquenchable rage which leads him to accidentally kill the object of his affection. While it was cool to see Wolverine and Sabertooth single-handedly win all the wars, theres not much character development there apart from: hes really old but still awesome at fighting. While its unlikely Fox will revisit the events in their entirety, there is certainly material to be used to give a more rounded picture of who the character really is besides being a forgetful badass.
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