What Does The Ending Of Logan Really Mean?

10. The Plot

It's 2029 and mutantkind has been pushed to the brink of extinction by an unknown trigger event (turns out it was Xavier, who has dangerous, killer seizures that accidentally wiped out his former students), which seems to have also aged Wolverine 30 years since the last time we saw him on this timeline. Which is definitely the same timeline as The Wolverine. And maybe also X-Men: Apocalypse. Or maybe not, who's even keeping up any more?

Logan lives in the Mexican desert with a decrepit Charles Xavier, suffering from a degenerative brain disease that has classified him a weapon of mass destruction and Caliban, an albino mutant who can smell other mutants. Which presumably isn't hard when they live in a sweaty dustbowl.

Into this dusty mess comes Gabriela, a nurse protecting a young girl called Laura, who she needs Wolverine - now a limo driver to pay for Xavier's medicine and a boat they can live on in peace - to drive her to a safe haven away from Donald Pierce's evil Reavers. Turns out she's Wolverine's clone, Pierce is working for a nefarious cloning company who created her and Wolverine, Charles and Laura are set on a road trip to escape their grasp and head to the safety of Canada.

This does not go to plan, and basically everyone dies. But that's what happens in real life, as Logan says - this is not a colourful, cheerful Marvel comic book world...