Post by Wolverine on Jul 10, 2004 20:30:04 GMT -5
We all KNOW who Logan is (and if you don't I'm wondering... why are you here?). We all KNOW what he looks like. And we all KNOW what his powers are, but not everyone knows about his past before meeting Prof. Xavier (hell, he doesn't know much about it). Fortunately, I do, so, I'll fill you in. This is an exact quote from the instruction guide from X2: Wolverine's Revenge, and it all sounds pretty accurate from what I remember. So, I'm just going to put that in here, adding more detail or comments and such in parentheses.
James Howlett was born into privilege in Canada during the late 19th century, the second son of John and Elizabeth Howlett (I checked to see if these people were actually of importance and Logan was like just a play off their life - slightly like the story of Anastasia - I didn't find anything, I think they're just made up). At the shock of seeing his father shot and killed, young James manifested his latent mutant abilities when bone claws jutted from the back of each hand. The beast unleashed, James attacked and killed his father's murderer, then fled to British Columbia with Rose, the young woman he loved.
Under the identity of Logan he discovered he had other mutant abilities including animal-keen senses and an accelerated healing factor. Due to his tenacity and refusal to back down from a challenge, Logan acquired the nickname Wolverine (and it stuck). When Wolverine confronted the son of his father's murderer, a battle ensued, tragically ending with Rose impaled on Wolverine's claws. Wracked by grief over the death of the woman he truly loved, Wolverine fled into the woods.
He was not seen for a long time and due to his healing factor, even after 100 years Logan appeared to be in his mid-30s. During that time his life became shrouded in mystery, peppered with half-truths and anecdotal reports or unconfirmed sightings. The legend of (big foot) the man called Wolverine was slowly taking form.
In the latter half of the 20th century(not really, it was before WWII), the government subjected Logan to a bizarre battery of experiments intended to forge the ultimate killing machine (Sabertooth was also involved, but he never recieved that adamantium bones because Logan escaped and therefore the scientists thought better of it). Weapon X scientists grafted the indestructible metal adamantium (so that's how you spell it) to Logan's skeleton and bone claws (wouldn't that be part of his skeleton too?), and introduced memory implants that shaped his past to suit their ends. Combined with the earlier effects of his healing factor, these false memories have made it impossible for Logan to discern fact from fiction when recalling his former life. He now knows little of his past, save that it was fraught with pain and loss. (After Logan escaped he hid in the forests of Alberta with a woman - I can't remember her name - who helped him get used to his new life. He left her - I think her husband came back from where ever he was and he didn't want a mutant in their house, but I'm not sure - and went to working for the military. He served in World War II with Captain America - as cheesy as it sounds, if memory serves me correct, that is actually what happened-. After the war his life kind of ran amuck and now he's living at the Xavier Institute and became an X-Men)Logan choose to stay on partly due to his belief in Xavier's vision to the co-existence of humans and mutants, and partially because of his attraction to Jean Grey. During his time with the X-Men, Logan has worked to regain his lost memories, but virtually every answer leads him to even more questions.
Yep, that's all the dirt on Logan, was a lot longer than I expected it to be. Oh well.
James Howlett was born into privilege in Canada during the late 19th century, the second son of John and Elizabeth Howlett (I checked to see if these people were actually of importance and Logan was like just a play off their life - slightly like the story of Anastasia - I didn't find anything, I think they're just made up). At the shock of seeing his father shot and killed, young James manifested his latent mutant abilities when bone claws jutted from the back of each hand. The beast unleashed, James attacked and killed his father's murderer, then fled to British Columbia with Rose, the young woman he loved.
Under the identity of Logan he discovered he had other mutant abilities including animal-keen senses and an accelerated healing factor. Due to his tenacity and refusal to back down from a challenge, Logan acquired the nickname Wolverine (and it stuck). When Wolverine confronted the son of his father's murderer, a battle ensued, tragically ending with Rose impaled on Wolverine's claws. Wracked by grief over the death of the woman he truly loved, Wolverine fled into the woods.
He was not seen for a long time and due to his healing factor, even after 100 years Logan appeared to be in his mid-30s. During that time his life became shrouded in mystery, peppered with half-truths and anecdotal reports or unconfirmed sightings. The legend of (big foot) the man called Wolverine was slowly taking form.
In the latter half of the 20th century(not really, it was before WWII), the government subjected Logan to a bizarre battery of experiments intended to forge the ultimate killing machine (Sabertooth was also involved, but he never recieved that adamantium bones because Logan escaped and therefore the scientists thought better of it). Weapon X scientists grafted the indestructible metal adamantium (so that's how you spell it) to Logan's skeleton and bone claws (wouldn't that be part of his skeleton too?), and introduced memory implants that shaped his past to suit their ends. Combined with the earlier effects of his healing factor, these false memories have made it impossible for Logan to discern fact from fiction when recalling his former life. He now knows little of his past, save that it was fraught with pain and loss. (After Logan escaped he hid in the forests of Alberta with a woman - I can't remember her name - who helped him get used to his new life. He left her - I think her husband came back from where ever he was and he didn't want a mutant in their house, but I'm not sure - and went to working for the military. He served in World War II with Captain America - as cheesy as it sounds, if memory serves me correct, that is actually what happened-. After the war his life kind of ran amuck and now he's living at the Xavier Institute and became an X-Men)Logan choose to stay on partly due to his belief in Xavier's vision to the co-existence of humans and mutants, and partially because of his attraction to Jean Grey. During his time with the X-Men, Logan has worked to regain his lost memories, but virtually every answer leads him to even more questions.
Yep, that's all the dirt on Logan, was a lot longer than I expected it to be. Oh well.