10 Jokes In Old Superhero Movies They Wouldn't Get Away With Now
4. Wheels
Wolverine definitely softened as a character throughout the original trilogy of X-Men films. He was never more dismissive or abrasive than when he arrives at Xavier's School and meets some of his fellow mutants.
Admittedly, it's awkward when the Professor starts dropping codenames like Storm and Cyclops alongside their real names, but Wolverine replies with the incredibly dickish, "What do they call you, Wheels?" and snickers to himself.
This improvised line has more punch that the original scripted line (where he called the Professor "Baldie" instead), but it comes off as pretty tone-deaf in retrospect, even for a character the audience isn't necessarily supposed to like at the moment.