History Awesome / Logan

** X-24 is a shining highlight, and most likely one of the greatest ActingForTwo usages in film. When he first sees Logan while walking out of the Munson house, he closely walks around his counterpart in just such a way so that his shadows show on Logan. It's so seamless, and pitch-perfect: that you would be forgiven to believe that ''wasn't'' Hugh Jackman playing both parts. As a result, this film was also the first superhero film since ''Film/SupermanIII'' to have dual roles fighting each other, and even with stunt actors, that too is done astonishingly well.

** X-24 is a shining highlight, and most likely one of the greatest ActingForTwo usages in film. When he first sees Logan while walking out of the Munson house, he closely walks around his counterpart in just such a way so that his shadows show on Logan. It's so seamless, and pitch-perfect: that you would be forgiven to believe that ''wasn't'' Hugh Jackman playing both parts. As a result, this film was also the first superhero film to have dual roles fighting each other, and even with stunt actors, that too is done astonishingly well.

** It gets better when you realize that it shares the same acclaim alongside ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/IronMan'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and ''Film/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderverse'', which are widely considered the greatest superhero movies ever made by critics and audiences alike.

** It gets better when you realize that it shares the same acclaim alongside ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/IronMan'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', which are widely considered the greatest superhero movies ever made by critics and audiences alike.

** It gets better when you realize that it shares the same acclaim alongside ''Film/SpiderMan2'', ''Film/IronMan'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', which are widely considered the greatest superhero movies ever made by critics and audiences alike.

* The way Logan takes out each of the gangbangers who assaulted him. He may be weakened due to his old age, but he ''still'' has some of his Wolverine strength in him.

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* Logan's opening fight with the gangbangers trying to strip his limo makes two things clear: This is no longer the nigh-invincible Wolverine… and even a vulnerable Wolverine is still a dangerous one.

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* ''Logan'' utterly ''crushed'' the domestic and international gross of ''XMenOriginsWolverine'' and ''Film/TheWolverine'''s entire run in a mere ''12 days''.

* Creator/DafneKeen's performance when Laura is with Logan as he dies deserves a mention because those aren't fake movie tears -- ''Keen is actually crying''.[[note]]You can tell by the way her nose starts running; during particularly heavy crying, the tear ducts back up into the nasal cavity, which flushes out the mucus.[[/note]] For that matter, Keen's performance all-around -- which is only her second acting credit and her first motion picture role -- has been universally applauded by critics in what Mangold, Jackman, and Stewart have made clear would have been an incredibly demanding role for even a veteran performer. This tour de force is made all the more impressive by her age (eleven years old) and newcomer status.

** Also, it's suspiciously convenient timing for a seizure - just as the Reavers closed in on Charles - and Charles says he stopped them while it's Logan (established before as sometimes underestimating Charles' knowledge and ability because of how addled he sometimes is) who says "No, that's one of your seizures, take the damn meds." There's every reason to see this as Charles single-handedly stopping the Reavers and then losing control. The founder of the X-Men has one last supreme badass moment of the kind we know he's capable of but seldom get to see. One last time, he was Professor X, easily superior to an army of cyborgs on his worst day.

* The way Logan takes down both Rice and Pierce - [[JustShootHim with a revolver.]] It isn't just cool, it's ''clever''. Nobody expects the Wolverine to bother pulling a gun, right?

* Creator/DafneKeen's performance when Laura is with Logan as he dies deserves a mention because those aren't fake movie tears -- ''Keen is actually crying''.[[note]]You can tell by the way her nose starts running; during particularly heavy crying, the tear ducts back up into the nasal cavity, which flushes out the mucus.[[/note]] For that matter, Keen's performance all-around -- which is only her second acting credit and her first motion picture role--has been universally applauded by critics in what Mangold, Jackman, and Stewart have made clear would have been an incredibly demanding role for even a veteran performer. This tour de force is made all the more impressive by her age (eleven years old) and newcomer status.

* Also, lagging behind the Captain America trilogy by just one year, with Logan the Wolverine solo trilogy manages the achievement - a trilogy which has the next instalment performing critically and financially better than the previous one with audience support. Way to go out Logan!

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** When Pierce sends three Reavers to capture Laura, they go in with guns loaded and cuffs at the ready while Laura eats cereal. Back outside, everyone hears yelling and gunshots. Then Laura walks outside, [[spoiler:tosses Pierce [[DecapitationPresentation a severed head]]]], then drops her bags and '''the cuffs''' before unleashing her claws.

* The Munson family are undeniably {{Badass Bystander}}s. Will, the father, has no issue with facing down a mob of armed locals. The son goes right after [[spoiler:X-24]] with a baseball bat. The mother pulls a shotgun. Then Will recovers from being stabbed and thrown down the stairs to ram [[spoiler:X-24]] away from Logan before emptying that shotgun in a DyingMomentOfAwesome.

** Rictor [[spoiler:uses his ability to lift one of the Reavers's vehicles up into the air and flip it onto X-24]].
** [[spoiler:And all of them [[CruelAndUnusualDeath use their collective powers to kill Pierce]].]]

* After Logan [[spoiler:takes all of the mutation enhancement drug and reverts to his physical prime for a few minutes]], he performs a FoeTossingCharge and slices through a dozen Reavers while on the run, roaring like the old Wolverine we all know.

* Both of Logan's fights against [[spoiler:X-24 feature an aging legend going up against a clone that looks like his younger self mixed with Victor "Sabretooth" Creed]]. Both fights are equally brutal, with Logan doing everything he can against a foe that [[spoiler:has all of his abilities but none of his remorse or humanity]].
** For that matter, ''Laura'' versus [[spoiler:X-24. Despite being half his size, she is fearless--and downright ''vicious''--when attacking him. She [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown inflicts]] ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown massive]]'' [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown damage to him]] before he finally throws her off. She ultimately delivers the killing blow by using Logan's gun and adamantium bullet]].

* Throughout the movie, Caliban is beaten and tortured by the Reavers, not to mention the verbal put-downs from both Logan and Xavier. When he has a chance to fight back, [[spoiler:he turns it into a DyingMomentOfAwesome by setting off two grenades--sacrificing himself to take out several Reavers and the van in which he was imprisoned. He even gets a PreMortemOneLiner that echoes a threat Pierce made to him earlier: "Beware the light."]]
* The way Logan takes down both [[spoiler:Rice and Pierce - [[JustShootHim with a revolver.]] It isn't just cool, it's ''clever''. Nobody expects the Wolverine to bother pulling a gun, right?]]

* Creator/DafneKeen's performance [[spoiler:when Laura is with Logan as he dies deserves a mention because those aren't fake movie tears -- ''Keen is actually crying''.[[note]]You can tell by the way her nose starts running; during particularly heavy crying, the tear ducts back up into the nasal cavity, which flushes out the mucus.[[/note]]]] For that matter, Keen's performance all-around -- which is only her second acting credit and her first motion picture role--has been universally applauded by critics in what Mangold, Jackman, and Stewart have made clear would have been an incredibly demanding role for even a veteran performer. This tour de force is made all the more impressive by her age (eleven years old) and newcomer status.

** To put it into perspective, [[spoiler: Laura doesn't talk for the entire first half of the movie, meaning Keen had to [[ShowDontTell perform visually without uttering a single word]].]]

It may be Logan’s last ride, but ‘‘boy oh boy’’ does he go out with a bang.

It may be Logan’s last ride, but ‘boy oh boy’ does he go out with a bang.

** Another uses her control over plant matter to kill one mook, and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LudicrousGibs tear another to pieces.]]

*** Then she proceeds to tear apart as many of the Reavers as she can as only she can. That includes using [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgO2zZSWbog her foot claws]], and subjecting a few she lures back into Logan's shack to a brutal MookHorrorShow.

** Even more so is the announcement that Wolverine is re-entering the battle. As the X-23 kids are fighting the Reavers, Laura gets involved and violently stabs one of the Reavers to death...only to stop cold in her tracks as she hears a roar. Not just any roar, but ''that'' roar of anger and adrenaline and primal rage that Hugh Jackman challenged so well in over a decade of playing Logan. Cut to Logan ''sprinting'' through the woods, with no limping or hesitation or impediment. Audiences were reported to cheer because, for one last time, HesBack.