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{{quote|''"I'm the best there is at what I do. And what I do isn't very nice."''|'''Wolverine'''}}

 

 

He first appeared in ''Incredible Hulk'' #180 (October, 1974), making his true debut in the next issue as an adversary until the two teamed up to fight the [[Wendigo]]. Both issues were written by Len Wein and drawn by Herb Trimpe, though John Romita, Sr. is credited with the original design of the character. Wolverine would go on to join the X-Men the following year, with his true origins remaining ambiguously buried in a mishmash of false and real memories for decades, as his popularity skyrocketed. He would gain his own miniseries, and then his own title, [[Wolverine and the X-Men|and then his own cartoon]], and then...well, [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|then he was kind of everywhere...]][[Wolverine Publicity|and still is]]. And we do mean "everywhere," as seen on [http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2016/acquisition-records-supersoldier-james-howlett.aspx this Real Life government webpage].<ref>Granted, that was an [[April Fools' Day]] prank on that particular department's part.</ref>

 

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''.

* The self-titled ''[[Frank Miller's Wolverine|Wolverine]]''.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Wolverine gets a new teenage sidekick about once every decade or so, like Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, and Hisako "Armor" Ichaki. They usually go on to be badasses. He also gets along famously with [[Power Pack|Katie Power]] for some reason, and once in a great while a writer remembers he has a foster daughter, Amiko.

** In fact, his big blowup with Cyclops in ''Schism'' came because he absolutely did not want the kid X-Men to lose their innocence by being soldiers for the mutant cause, even if said kids were willing to help with the fight. He went on to reopen Xavier's old school after the event in order to give them a safe haven.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: One of Logan's biggest strengths is his mind. He's been around for well over a century and has spent quite a bit of that time taking in information.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Yes he's more-or-less a heroic guy, but unless you're his daughter or some other kid he's taken under his wing, it's better he ignores you.

* [[My Suit Is Also Super]]: Very much averted; his costumes (and more often than not, his street clothes) are constantly being destroyed.

* [[Mythology Gag]] The blue and yellow colors on his costume is a [[Shout-Out]] to the University of Michigan Wolverines. (It sure isn't supposed to be for camouflage.)

* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Well, he really came in the 70s, but went on to fit just fine in the 90s, and beyond.

* [[No Name Given]]: The only name he had for years was Logan. It was never specified whether this was a first or last name (his driver's license actually read Logan W. Logan).

* {{spoiler|[[Offing the Offspring]]: The Red Right Hand, a group of former victims or friends and families of some of Wolverine's [[Mook Horror Show]] battles, collected and trained a group of Wolverine's unknown offspring to be used as enforcers, then informed him of their lineage after he had already killed them.}}

* [[One-Man Army]]: In the 1990's cartoon.

* [[Opposite Gender Clone]]: X-23, aka Laura Kinney.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Bloodscream isn't technically a vampire, but a guy who was cursed by a witch to live forever with a blood thirst. The only cure, of course, is Logan's blood.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Regarding Jubilee and Kitty Pride, most notably, but young girls in general bring this out in him. ''God help you'' if you do anything to harm them...

* [[Perma-Stubble]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Logan gets this from Lady Deathstrike in one issue during the "no adamantium" arc, when she realizes the metal's gone.

* [[Retcon]]: Wolverine's claws were originally bionic implants...until Magneto pulled the adamantium off his skeleton, revealing that he had been born with bone claws that were infused with adamantium like the rest of his skeleton. This led to part of the [[Art Shift]] above regarding the claws' appearance.

* [[Retractable Weapon]]: His claws popping in and out of his hands.

** His son Daken seems to have taken up Sabretooth's role.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Subverted. In the issue mentioned under [[Badass Biker]] above, Logan sees the killer as a rabid dog and can't bring himself to kill him, having flashbacks to trying and failing to put down a rabid pet dog when he was young. {{spoiler|The killer is shot dead by a female police officer; in talking with her, Logan reveals at the end of the issue that Silver Fox took the gun from him and shot the dog herself.}}

 

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