Logan: Every Major Character Ranked From Worst To Best

2. Logan

After almost seventeen years, Logan is the absolute culmination of everything Hugh Jackman has put into his performances as Wolverine. Since X-Men in 2000, he's been an almost anti-superhero figure, cynical of the silliness and the theatricality and resistant to really get on board with grand, over-arching heroics unless they have a personal stake for him.

He visibly learned how to belong in the first three films, then we got to see him learn to detach in the stand-alone prequels, but he's never struggled with ideas of mortality before, and that's what makes Logan his best moment.

Robbed of the healing factor that was growing too cartoonish, Logan is like a dying gunslinger (which is no accident, given the links to Shane and Unforgiven). He's the last of his kind, simultaneously defined and haunted by his violence and the most poignant part of the film is a simple extrapolation of his power. The idea of what happens to an immortal when everyone else dies.

This was the perfect way to send him off, and the perfect end to his arc, and it would be a major disservice to him if Fox tried to get Jackman to continue.