8 Reasons Why The Marvel Legacy Return Is Nothing To Be Excited About

5. People Were Kind Of Hoping For Anyone Else

Wolverine Return Marvel Legacy
Marvel Comics

When Marvel teased a return, every hot take on who was coming back revolved around literally anything but Logan.

Genuinely, pretty much every think piece leading up to the event had people suggesting literally anyone else. Xavier, Phoenix, the Fantastic Four - even Miracleman came up as suggestions for who could be this huge shock return in Marvel Legacy's first issue.

It's not like fans didn't know Wolverine was dead - they just hadn't really been given time to miss him at all, and more than that, there've been much bigger elements of the Marvel Universe missing of late; the return of Wolverine cannot hope to fill the void.

Rather, one of the most discussed, hoped for and desired returns made much more sense, especially in light of the way Marvel suggested things would go. Speaking of...

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