X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Difference between revisions

Little Victor Creed loves his half-brother James "Jimmy" Logan dearly, so much that he ran with him into the night when the sickly little boy sprouted claws of bone and killed his birth father on a cold Canadian night in 1845.

 

 

Thanks to the [[Healing Factor]] that conveyed near [[Immortality]], the execution merely "tickled" Jimmy and Victor, allowing [[Knight Templar|Colonel William Stryker]] to exonerate them of their war crimes and recruit them into a [[Super Soldier|squadron of mutant warriors]] that performed morally reprehensible tasks for the American Government. Jimmy left in disgust to start a new life after one massacre of innocents too many, with Victor [[Ax Crazy|enjoying]] [[Blood Knight|his job too much]] to go with him. Victor's twisted mind took his beloved little brother Jimmy's departure as abandonment, and this he did not take too gracefully...

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* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|Adamantium Shells]]

* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: {{spoiler|Weapon XI}}

* [[Aside Glance]]: Wade/Deadpool is constantly sneaking in looks to the camera. He has [[Medium Awareness]] as a superpower, after all.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Kayla, being blackmailed by Stryker into loving Wolverine}}.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Fred J. Dukes has a weight disorder. Try not to say anything about...

'''Dukes:''' ...Did you just call me... ''[[Unstoppable Rage|BLOB]]??'' }}

** Wolverine himself has a berserk button, which is when Kayla is in danger at any point.

* [[Captain Ersatz]] - A kindly old couple on a farm who take in a super-powered individual? [[Superman|That sounds kinda familiar...]]

* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: Invoked a few times:

** "Gambit" is only briefly mentioned as Remy LeBeau's nickname, which the prison guards gave him because he always beat them at poker.

** "Deadpool" isn't spoken until the end of the movie, {{spoiler|when it's used as a callsign for Weapon XI. Other than that, he's either "Wade" or "Weapon XI"}}.

*** Wolverine didn't remember Victor because of the adamantium shells Stryker fired into his brain. For that matter, he didn't technically remember Stryker in ''X-Men United''. He knew Stryker's scent and appearance were familiar but never could quite place them until near the end of the film. But that still leaves the question how the same vague memories weren't unearthed when he bumped into the brother who was his only friend for the better part of a century.

** He gets his signature jacket off the old couple that help him... and has lost it again by the time his memories are wiped.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: {{spoiler|"Turn around, and walk until your feet bleed. And then keep walking."}}

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Wolverine handles Sabretooth with relative ease both of the times they fight after he gets the adamantium upgrade, and it's only through sheer luck that Sabretooth doesn't die in either fight. Logan himself gets his ass kicked by Sabretooth before the upgrade.

* [[Dual-Wielding]] - Wade Wilson with his dual [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]]. Arguably, Logan, Victor, and {{spoiler|Weapon XI}} count too...

* [[Dumb Muscle]] - Blob

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The generals allowed for Stryker to carry out his Weapon X project. However, one of them called Stryker out when telling him that he suspects that Stryker's motivations were basically out of [[Fantastic Racism]]. {{spoiler|This gets him killed by Stryker.}}

* [[False Reassurance]] - Wolverine nearly throttles Stryker at one stage when he thinks he's lying. Styker swears that he's telling the truth "on the life of my son!" Of course, as we saw in ''X2'', Stryker doesn't value his son's life very highly.

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: {{spoiler|The real reason for the Three Mile Island leak.}}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|Did Wraith ''really'' think he could beat Sabretooth bare-handed? The guy has a [[Healing Factor]] after all. Plus super-strength, enhanced reflexes and claws.}}

*** {{spoiler|She was using her power on him. Who knows if anything that happened that day was real, or just implanted memories. Also, the police are generally pretty suspicious if you show up somewhere carrying your murdered wife.}}

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]

* [[Informed Attribute]]: Wade's talkativeness. He gets maybe half a dozen lines, then stands around in silence with the rest of the team. It's certainly implied that Victor's reaction comes after Wade's been talking his ear off for a while, though.

* [[In Name Only]]: Deadpool. Wise cracking crackpot with a penchant for kicking ass? No, that won't do. Let's sew his mouth shut and give him [[All Your Powers Combined]]. While arguably a better explanation for his post-Weapon-X [[Ax Crazy]] than "terminal cancer overlaid on top of a [[Healing Factor]]", it also ruins any chance of [[Character Development]] fuel he might have in his own spin-off unless there are vast retcons involved.

** Agent Zero. Not only do they use his New Weapon X callsign instead of his Weapon X one (Maverick), he somehow has Agent X's powers as well. Neither his powers as Maverick (kinetic energy absorption and redirection), nor his powers as Agent Zero (corrosive skin secretions designed to defeat [[Healing Factor]] abilities) make an actual appearance. Oh, and he's no longer East German. Perhaps they actually confused Agent Zero with Agent X?

** Bolt. Or Bradley, for those who missed him because he's long-dead in the comics. He's not only not called by his callsign, he's also no longer the kid Maverick teaches in the use of his powers after retiring - he's now Maverick's comrade-in-arms. Who, instead of lightning-flinging powers, has electric-appliance-powering-and-controlling powers.

** Although as {{spoiler|Weapon XI}}, the swords he uses are not katana.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Wolverine's "memories don't grow back", but his ability to speak, read, walk, recognize police cars, hide from police cars, etc, do.

* [[Losing Your Head]]: {{spoiler|Deadpool.}}

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]/[[Love Makes You Evil]]: Victor did '''not''' take James leaving him for a life of peace well... not in the least.

* [[My Hero Zero]]: Agent Zero.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: {{spoiler|In the comics, [[Deadpool]]'s nickname was "The Merc with the Mouth". Here, he's the Merc with ''No'' Mouth}}.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Gambit. [http://angryweb.net/2009/04/28/lauren-shuler-donner-talks-gambit-spin-off-and-x-men-first-class/ It's a nice one, indeed.]

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: {{spoiler|Victor saves James from Weapon XI, after which he says this practically verbatim.}}

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "I can feel your spine, Johnny Boy. Never knew you had one."

* [[Present Day Past]]: The movie certainly doesn't look like it takes place 20-30 years before the main X-Men movies.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Or in Gambit's case, Pimptastic purple silk.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] - Victor Creed and James Logan.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Pretty much the whole point of the movie.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The movie is generally considered at its best when it remembers that it's about Hugh Jackman running around stabbing people in the face.

* [[They Were Holding You Back]] - Why Victor killed the love interest.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: So... are you saying they had those adamantium bullets the entire time their best marksman/sniper was out getting slaughtered by Wolverine in the field? Nice move, you military geniuses you.

'''Wolverine''': "You could say that." }}

* [[Unflinching Walk]]

 

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