Wolverine (Earth-616)

Wolverine

Name:	James Howlett
Gender:	Male
Place of Birth:	Place of Birth
Age:	Damn Old
Aliases:	Wolverine
Origin:	Mutant
Origin Earth:	616
Present Location:	New York
Occupation:	The Best There Is
Team:	X-Men
Alignment:	Hero
Significant Other(s):	Significant Other(s)
Powers and Abilities:	Summary of Abilities
Portrayed by:	Hugh Jackman

Origin

Origin:|

• Born as James Howlett in the mid 1880s in Alberta, Canada, second son to Elizabeth and John Howlett, Sr.

• Rose O'Hara hired in the early 1900s as a 'friend and caretaker' due to mother's frailness.

• Both befriended 'Dog', son of the groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Logan made advances first on Rose, which led him to be fired. Logan then turns to Elizabeth Howlett, which leads to a deadly altercation. John Howlett Sr is killed in front of young John, which triggers his rage, and the claws. Thomas Logan is killed. 'Dog' is injured.

• James and Rose leave, 'Dog' tells police Rose was the killer.

• While in hiding, Rose gives false names, thus 'Logan' is 'born'. James is given the nickname 'the wolverine' because of his tenacity at work.

• Years pass, and Dog appears, still holding the grudge. Challenge to the death. Rose tries to separate the men, and of course, she gets a claw to the chest, killing her.

Early years:|

• 1910, Logan traveled the frontier of Canadian Rockies, met a young Blackfoot woman. Fell in love, live happily.

• Sabretooth tracks and murders her after seeing the two together. Logan battles Sabretooth but couldn't best him.

• Sabretooth manipulates feral Logan to the point where he slaughters the inhabitants of the town in which he'd settled for a time.

• Later employed by The Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader, he defeated a demonic snake-work called Uncegila, which earned him the Blackfoot name of 'Skunk-Bear'. Wolverine.

World War I:|

• 1914, Logan joined the Canadian Army to fight in the Great War.

• During a battle in Belgium in 1915, Logan encountered Lazaer (Azrael) for the first time. Lazaer impaled Logan with his sword, but Logan turned around and impaled him right back. Now, every time Logan has a near death experience, he has to battle Lazaer to defeat him so he can return to the realm of the living and use his advanced healing factor to return to health.

• When the authorities discovered Logans 'abilities', he was assigned to a special unit: The Devil's Brigade. He was under the command of 'Silas Burr', who later became the mercenary Cyber. After a falling out, Cyber killed Logan's girlfriend and beat the snot out of Logan, but Logan was able to escape. Cyber and Sabretooth tracked him and returned him to the squad where he was assigned to Madripoor.

Post World War I:|

• After leaving Madripoor, Logan traveled to South America, where he ran across Mystique for the first time. The two of them were to be executed by firing squad but not only escaped using their abilities but also formed a small criminal syndicate.

• Logan reported on their criminal doings to the police, shutting the syndicate down, and he returned to Canada to take part in the Weapon X program.

World War II:|

• During World War II, Logan teamed up with Captain America and Bucky Barnes in Madripoor. The two of them were unaware Logan was a mutant and just thought him lucky, thus earning the nickname 'Lucky James'.

• Mission to rescue Natasha Romanova, a young child at the time, from being brainwashed into an assassin by The Hand. (Obviously not successful.)

• Logan decides to officially sign up to fight the war and joined the First Canadian Parachute Battalion. It was while serving with them that he enountered 'Bloodscream', an immortal being with vampire-like qualities and powers.

• He fought in numerous other battles until war's end.

After the War:|
Team X:

• Logan applied for the job of Special Agent for an American underground government organization. Seems that Sabretooth had applied for the same 'job'. A fight ensued and both were subdued.

• Logan receives a memory wipe and a host of false memories implanted. No memory of a feud with Sabretooth, and the team carried out missions, and after each.. a new memory wipe.

Weapon X:|

• Logan returned to Canada to join with Weapon X once again, or rather, was kidnapped. It was here where he gained his adamantium skeleton, but also lost his memory due to the trauma of the experiment. He, yes, again slaughtered an entire town.

Department H:|

• After his escape from the Weapon X program, Logan spent time in the Canadian wilderness until he was found by James and Heather Hudson, scientists and mutants who worked for the Canadian Government.

• Logan was soon brought back to 'good mential health' and started working for Department H. Little memory of the times past.

• Given costume and secret identity; the Wolverine.

• During this time, he'd fought the Hulk and got on the radar of Professor X.

X-Men:|

• Professor X contacted the Canadian government to arrange an introduction and offered Wolverine a job on the spot full in the knowledge that Department H was exploiting Logan for their own purposes.

• Logan accepted. Xavier offered to help Logan with memory loss in exchange for his taking a position on the X-Men roster.

• Logan joined with Nightcrawler, Banshee, Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird and Colossus. Cyclops was already established as the leader, but Logan immediately came on board, guns blazing.

Now (thus ends Comic Vine!):|

• Logan is ensconced within the X-Team of his world, having gone on similar missions as those recognizable from the 616 world, but this James Howlett is not the 616 Wolverine. He is several years 'in arrears', as it were.. set in his 'hey day' of his X-Men, surrounded by his best friends.

Psyche

Temper|At first blush, Logan is feisty. Always grouchy, always surly - always ready with a glib remark or a growl. He is quite easy to set off as well, with sometimes the slightest things triggering instant, impulsive reaction. But if you really tick him off, the depths of his rage can be fathomless - a rage that demands action, demands retribution, but doesn't demand thought. A berserker rage.

Loner|No doubt in part due to his temper, Logan prefers the company of himself alone, or the company of only a few. He has a tendency to butt up against other people's personalities, and isn't the kind to back down for peace's sake. So he spends most of his time alone.

The Best There Is|…at What He Does. And what he does isn't pretty. Logan, even in the time he can remember, has heralded a great many lives across the threshhold into death. That takes a toll on a man's soul. Logan can be callous and cruel to those he feels 'deserves' such treatment. He has a confidence in his ability to kill and hurt and maim, and in spite of his other attributes, a quiet pride.

Honor?|Logan has a sense of honor about him, at least, when he doesn't allow his rage to take control. Protect the innocent, slaughter the unjust and the evil, uplift those who can't fight for themselves. That sort of thing. There is a core of that that remains when he loses control, mostly becoming a black and white view of the world, but in those sorts of situations, that's basically all he has.

Invincible|There's a certain form of bravery that comes from when you know you can take just about anything anyone can throw at you and walk it off. Logan has that.

Motivations|For all of the skills that Logan has, for all the strengths and powers he has, he has one motivation under all of that. To make the world a better place. He believes himself to be a bloodthirsty, destructive monster, but if he can fight /for/ something, fight for a better tomorrow, that might be something that can help him sleep easier at night.

Goals|To protect Xavier, the 'X' kids, and Xavier's ideas - Xavier is a man who can do some good. Keep his head together. Find out more about his missing past.

Abilities

Adamantium Skeleton|As part of Logan's time with the Weapon X program, his bones have been bonded with adamantium, a near unbreakable/uncuttable substance. This helps him become sturdier, and aids with his enhanced strength.

Claws|Logan's iconic ability is that of his claws - three spurs that rest between his knuckles and his forearm, that he can bring into being at any time he pleases.

Strength|Part because of a power, and part because of the skeleton he has to lug around everywhere, Logan has incredible strength, able to bench press up to a ton.

Healing Factor|Logan can recover from just about any sort of wound very quickly. In a matter of seconds, wounds will close up, bones will reform, with the overall time increasing along with the severity of the wound, with a severed limb perhaps taking the longest time, at a day or two to completely reform. This power also makes him resistant to things like disease and gas (although he still needs to breathe!).

Enhanced Senses|Logan possesses enhanced sight, scent, taste, hearing, and touch, and can use these senses to track and identify people by their scent, detect poisons in food, hear whispers from the next room over, and other such marvels.

Advantages

X-Men|Although it can be a little dicey at times, Logan is still a member of Xavier's mansion and the X-Men, and can utilize many of the resources there to his advantage, as well as call upon his teammates in time of need - although he'd usually take care of things himself.

Skills

Linguist|As part of his weapon X 'training', Logan was given fluency in a fair number of languages. He can speak English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Spanish, Arabic, and Lakota with fluency, and knows a little of French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

Weapons|Although Logan only uses them occasionally, he's familiar with how to shoot and maintain a fair number of guns, mostly from the WWII to mid-80's eras. Modern stuff he might have a little trouble with, but he's still a fairly good shot.

Vehicles|Logan knows how to fly, maintain, and fight in vehicles ranging from helicopters, jets, and tanks. Along with more mundane things like cars and motorcycles too.

Disadvantages

Rage|In situations where Logan is pushed beyond his limits, he can enter a berserker state where he acts almost entirely on instinct. Although he maintains a small core of himself, he is a danger to himself and others in that scenario.

Enemies|From his time with the X-Men, to the times he fought wars overseas and domestic, to the Weapon X program, there's a long, long list of people who wouldn't mind testing the limits of Logan's healing factor. One of the worse things is, he doesn't quite remember them all.

Lost Memories|Logan doesn't remember half of what he has done in his life, who he was, or who he is, at heart. He feels compelled, when the opprotunities to learn his own history present themselves, to follow those threads, for good or ill.

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