16 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The X-Men Franchise

2. The Romance Was Awful (The Wolverine)

One of the more unnecessary aspects of The Wolverine was Logan's "relationship" (if you can call it that) with Yashida's daughter Mariko (Tao Okamato). Mariko isn't a whole lot more than a damsel-in-distress throughout the movie, and while it would have been a lot more interesting to see Wolverine simply act honourably towards a woman in trouble, it gets all gooey and ends up with the two having sex mid-way through the film (not that much is shown). Then, of course, because everyone watching knows that these two aren't going to stay together forever, Wolverine gets on a plane and has a brief "moment" with Mariko before they go their separate ways. It's just thoroughly unconvincing from start to finish, and had Wolverine simply been a noble, modern-day samurai-type character instead, the narrative would have been decidedly more interesting than this yucky mulch.