6He Has Bone Claws
These bone claws were actually the mutation that Wolverine’s mother saw and that caused her to commit suicide. However, the comics that revealed his origins came many years after Wolverine’s initial appearance, and most fans assumed that the claws were just an extra weapon attached when Wolverine had the adamantium forced onto his bones by the Weapon X program.
The existence of the bone claws was not revealed until the aftermath of a particularly gruesome fight with Magneto. During this fight, Magneto took full advantage of the metal lacing Wolverine’s body by magnetically stripping all of it away. Wolverine’s amazing healing factor kept him alive, but he was so overtaxed that he was unable to heal well for a long period of time. It was during a training session in the Danger Room that Wolverine—along with everyone else—found out that he has bone claws . . . when they bloodily ripped through his knuckles. It makes you wonder if the healing factor works on painful memories, too.
5He Ran Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters
One of the more amusing moments in Bryan Singer’s X-Men 2 is when Wolverine is introduced to Iceman’s parents. Not wanting to introduce him as a rage-filled killing machine, Iceman simply introduces him as a teacher at the school, with the parents reacting incredulously to Wolverine’s claim that he teaches art.
However, avid comic readers know that it’s not such a crazy possibility. While Wolverine still hasn’t clawed any notes about Impressionism on the school’s walls, he did serve as the headmaster of Xavier’s school following a bitter fallout with Cyclops. The latter believed that the mutants of the world—then dwindled to only about 200—had a responsibility to focus on combat and self-defense, while Wolverine called for a return to Xavier’s model of education and peaceful philosophy (along with periodic fisticuffs with evil mutants). Wolverine named the new school after now-deceased Jean Grey—further salt in the already deep wound between himself and Cyclops.
4He’s A Father
Those who remember Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie can understand why Wolverine is not much of a family man: When a concerned Rogue wakes an agitated Wolverine up while he is dreaming, he blindly stabs her and she’s only saved by her ability to absorb his healing powers. These kinds of things are why he has a reputation as a loner—at least, when he’s not helping X-Men save the world.
However, Wolverine did have a son. He had a pregnant wife in 1946, but their matrimony was cut short when she was killed by The Winter Soldier. Unbeknownst to Wolverine, the baby was cut from his dead wife and survived because he inherited Wolverine’s regenerative ability. He grew up to resent his father and used his own healing factor and claws for evil. And since Wolverine fights evil for a living, he ends up killing his own son by drowning him—a brain death that his healing power could not prevent.
3He Helped Captain America During World War II
One of the more amusing aspects of Wolverine being so old is that he has become the Forrest Gump of the Marvel universe: If there was a major event that happened in the past, Wolverine was likely there. The writers often don’t even have to worry about contradicting each other since Wolverine’s ignorance of events is often simply chalked up to an effect of the false memories implanted by the Weapon X program.
Understandably, one of the more popular time periods for these Wolverine stories is World War II. During one of his more memorable escapades, he helped a young Captain America and his military colleague Major Ivan Petrovich rescue a very special young woman—Black Widow, who, in the comics universe, has also been around for a very long time. One sword and several disposable ninjas later, Wolverine has saved the day for everyone’s black-clad Russian secret agent.
2He Once Ran A Team Of X-Men Assassins
While Wolverine is known as the violent and unstable one on the team, he is usually presented as an unusual case—that is, others on the team (such as Cyclops) provide a kind of moral counterpoint to the slicing, dicing, berserker frenzy of Wolverine.
However, he once led the Uncanny X-Force—an X-Team kept secret from the other X-Men because of their unique purpose. That purpose was to hunt down and permanently eliminate threats to both humanity and mutant-kind. In other words, they did the dirty work from the shadows that let Cyclops and those like him keep a clean conscience in the light. Things went too far when Wolverine’s team killed a young boy who was destined to grow up to be the next Apocalypse—a decision that set off a chain of events that not only revealed the existence of his team, but threatened the safety of the world. Even Wolverine, the ultimate pragmatist, had to acknowledge that the ends did not justify their violent means.
1He Came Back To Life From A Drop Of Blood
Fans of Wolverine have watched him come back from the brink of death plenty of times. Wolverine has been shot, stabbed, set on fire, even split in half by the Hulk, yet he always comes back to life. In one notable comic, however, Wolverine comes back from actual death.
In the Uncanny X-Men #11 comic, Wolverine and his comrades are fighting to gain control of a powerful alien gem in order to demonstrate the potential of the human race. Alien warriors are hunting Wolverine and, after catching up to him, they don’t just hurt Wolverine—they annihilate him until there’s almost nothing left. Fortunately for Wolverine, a drop of his blood lands upon this powerful gem, which then grows an entirely new Wolverine to continue the quest on behalf of mankind.
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