History Characters / Wolverine

* OppositesAttract: She and Wolverine are opposites in looks (unattractive man, beautiful woman), style (he wears casual clothes, she wears stylish looking ensembles), temperament (HairTriggerTemper versus master of self-control), and social status (wandering vagabond, wealthy property owner). They have the hots for each other.

* HollywoodCyborg: Elongated fingers with razor-sharp tips/nails are her main cybernetic feature, but she is also depicted with other cyber-implants that serve no recognizable purpose. {{Justified|Trope}} in that she was roboticized by Spiral, who is (A) not schooled in any scientific disciplines, (B) [[ItAmusedMe runs the Body Shoppe]], and (C) [[AxCrazy is insane]].

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* MoralityPet: Even after her death, Mariko continues to serve as this to Logan; [[spoiler:he once rejected a chance to bring her back to life because it would have required him to spare another evil individual, Logan stating that he loved Mariko because she was a better person than him in every way]].

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* SuperDrowningSkills: A LogicalWeakness of his metallic bones is that he's too dense to float. Drowning is said to be one of the few things that could kill him.

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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Incredible Hulk'' #180

-> '''Debut:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #118

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 2, #310

-> '''Debut:''' ''NYX'' Vol. 1, #3

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 1, #1

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: Weapon X'' Vol 1 1

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 2, #37 (1991)

* ADayInTheLimelight: Albert and Elsie-Dee star their own miniseries ''[=iWolverine=]'' for the ''Iron Man 2020'' storyline.

-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' Vol. 2, #6 (1992)

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 2, #4

--> ''"Now has come an ending, Master Patch. An ending to all your days."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: First Class'' #5 (2008)

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: The Best There Is'' Vol. 1, #1

--> ''"I am not interested in conflicted antagonists. Nor, for that matter, is anyone else. People want a bad guy they can hate unequivocally. Someone whose brutal demise they can cheer without remorse. Life, sadly, rarely treats them to such a luxury. And here are all these actors, trying to muddy things with moral complexity. #### that, I say. And I'll not have it. I am not the hero in my own story. I am the bad guy. I have no end in mind that justifies my means. There are no skeletons in my closet, no abusive childhood or inciting misery that might expiate my vile behavior. Nor am I insane. I know the difference between good and evil. And I am fully capable of empathizing with the pain, emotional or physical, of others. No sociopath, I. Rather, I simply prefer bad over good. Wrong over right. Sick over healthy. Untrue over true."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #4

--> ''"Come on, boy! You want to give your old pal Cookie a shot? Let's see it then!."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''ComicBook/MarvelComicsPresents'' Vol. 1, #85 (1991)

--> ''"The time has come, the walrus said, to twist off Logan's head. To yank his brains out through his nose and hang it in the shed."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: Origins'' Vol. 1, #5

--> ''"I never knew my father. I was raised... to be someone different than him. And now I'm supposed to be him. I never asked for that, but when the opportunity found me... I was curious. I wanted to know what it was like. To have people look at me and see... my father."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #1 (2001)

-> '''AKA:''' Tyler Dayspring, Tolliver, the Other
-> '''Debut''' (as Genesis): ''Cable'' Vol. 2, #18 (1994)

--> ''"You're going to be the new captain of my Dark Riders, Wolverine! A fitting Centurion for my legions!"''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 3, #20 (2005)

--> ''"I have died and been born again. There is nothing I fear. One day I will kill a god."''

-> '''AKA:''' He Who Stalks On Moonless Nights, The Lurker
-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 2, #34 (1990)
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 2, #108 (1996)
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Daredevil'' Vol. 1, #197 (1983)

--> ''"I have been cheated of my birthright... my human essence and now... my just and long-awaited revenge -- but I will not be cheated of my honor."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Daredevil'' #232 (1986)
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Kitty Pryde and Wolverine'' #1 (1984)

-> '''Debut:''' ''X-Men'' Vol. 2, #4 (1992)

--> ''"Who has brought me back from the dark domain of death? Who has summoned Omega Red?"''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends'' (2018)

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 3, #50 (2007)

--> ''"There's a reason why you've spent your life watching the sheep, Wolverine--and it's not because you're a shepherd. It's because you're a wolf."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: Weapon X'' Vol. 1, #6

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 2, #4 (1989)

-> '''Debut:''' ''Iron Fist'' Vol. 1, #14 (1977)

-> '''Debut:''' ''Daredevil'' Vol 1., #111 (1974)

--> ''"You will not find me lacking in courage, gaijin."''

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine'' Vol. 1, #1

-> '''Debut:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #1

-> '''Debut:''' ''Captain America'' Vol. 1, #110 (1969)

* SpiderSense: Not of the active variety but James SuperSenses and the fact that he is in constant life or death situations against all manner of danger means that he's instantly aware when things aren't right based on what his senses are telling him passively. Often it's his sense of smell to direct him to danger first and his habit of sniffing the air before something dangerous happens is something of a trademark for him. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded by Spier-Man.]]

* SuperStrength: not touched on directly and more subtly alluded to but some of the things James does physically should not be possible for a normal well trained man. His adamantium skeleton means that he doesn't have to worry about structural failure when he tries to lift things (his bones won't break from too much weight), His healing ability means that muscle tearing heals almost as fast as it's inflicted (the human body only uses 60-70% of it's full power to prevent it from destroying itself but James can ignore this and the fast regeneration mean he can recover from training instantly and stay on peak physical condition with ease), and something many don't know but people can't sustain adrenaline naturally for very long as it harms them so after using the fight or flight response it goes away quickly and the body needs time to recover but James continuously recovers so he can stay in an elevated fight or flight adrenaline state for extended periods of time.

* BadassGay: Not the mainstream version, but the version in ''X-Treme X-Men'' volume 2. He was originally intended to be, and is sometimes hinted at, being bisexual, however. Daken too, though he's not so much as bisexual as an asexual sociopath who uses sex as a weapon.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Logan and real wolverines have a lot in common: they're both small in comparison to others, solitary, extremely aggressive for their size, have very keen senses of smell, and pack powerful claws.

* TheAlcoholic: {{Subverted|Trope}}; he definitely fits the "drinks a lot" part, but due to his healing factor, he can't actually get wasted or develop addiction or dependence, although DependingOnTheWriter, Wolverine has gotten drunk; he just needs a ''lot'' of alcohol to do so.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Wolverine has enough similarities to Franchise/{{Batman}} that one could make this argument. When Marvel and DC collaborated to produce "Amalgam Comics", combining their characters for fun, Wolverine and Batman fused to become "Dark Claw".

* AnimeHair[=/=]HotbloodedSideburns: Logan's standard look since his introduction has been a swept-back mane-like hairstyle that comes to prominent points on the sides of his head, combined with muttonchop sideburns. During Adam Kubert's run as artist of the self-titled comic in TheNineties, the combination was so long that he almost did have an actual mane; in newer works his hair tends to be a more realistic length while keeping the same style. ''Living Between Wednesdays'' actually did an [[http://livingbetweenwednesdays.com/?p=1409 analysis]] of the various aspects of Wolverine's hair.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After his legacy was succeeded thanks to X-23 inheriting the Wolverine codename and his alternate counterpart Old Man Logan migrating to the 616 universe, the original Wolverine is back in action after ''ComixBook/ReturnOfWolverine''. It seemed liked this was much earlier in the original ''ComicBook/MarvelLegacy'' one-shot, stopping a Frost Giant from stealing the Mind Gem, but that Wolverine was really Old Man Phoenix from Jason Aaron's ''Thor'' run]].

* BashBrothers: With Colossus originally, but putting him on a team together with any bruiser in the Marvel Universe results in this.

** Hitting a woman in front of Logan, even if he does not know her or care about her. He made this very clear to Steven Lang in one of the early issues when he belted ComicBook/JeanGrey:

*** In ''Wolverine'' #75, his first time popping his claws after Magneto pulled out the adamantium was a gory mess, and was ''excruciatingly'' painful. Afterwards, he had to keep his hands constantly bandaged to deal with bleeding from the holes made by the claws, and the pain, while not as bad as that first time, was still a ''lot'' worse because the HealingFactor wasn't working (see its entry below). He still kept it up, though...
--->[''Logan pops his right claws while he and Jubilee are talking'']\\

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's not exactly a nice guy, and he admits it, and certainly doesn't shy from killing his foes, but he is generally assumed to have a deep hatred for ComicBook/ThePunisher, because the latter is even more of a kill-happy maniac than Wolverine himself. The fact that Creator/GarthEnnis wrote a crossover that involved Punisher blasting Wolvie's face off with a shotgun, then [[GroinAttack shooting him in the balls with the same shotgun]], and then ''running him over with a steamroller'', a series of actions that caused Wolverine to swear vengeance on Frank Castle, certainly adds credibility to this theory.
** This is generally [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the modern continuity so far. Several stories after the infamous Ennis story about how Frank shot Wolverine's balls off (Ennis absolutely loathes Wolverine so it was less Frank and Logan not liking each other and more like brutal TakeThat by the writer) show Logan being on, at the least, neutral terms with Frank while even agreeing with him on his stance that some people need to die. Logan even warned Frank when the Avengers were coming to apprehend Castle in the recent Punisher: War Zone. Lately, Logan's standards are against people who go way too far in their causes to the point where they don't care if people unralated are hurt or injured by a WellIntentionedExtremist.

* FriendToAllChildren: 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 [[ComicBook/PowerPack 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. Occasionally subverted: he sometimes considers and actively tries to kill children if he's scared enough of them, like Hope, Wiccan, a Teenager Cyclops or a clone infant version of Apocalypse.

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:While he did come back, the ''ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine'' arc ended like the title said, with Wolverine dying (suffocated by molten Adamantium).]]

* HeroicSacrifice: The eponymous [[TonightSomeoneDies Death of Wolverine]] ends up being because [[spoiler:Logan cuts open a pipeline of liquid adamantium that was going to be pumped into another unfortunate victim, saving them from ending up like him. The pain of the heated metal is insane, and, after [[KarmicDeath killing Abraham Cornelius]], he suffocates in the adamantium shell, satisfied with what he had done in his life]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Nightcrawler and Colossus, [[OddFriendship of all people]]. For a time, had a mix of this and LikeAnOldMarriedCouple with ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} before tensions flared up again. Oddly enough, he is this less frequently with Comicbook/{{Gambit}}, the X-Man with whom he has the most in common with. A good example of how close he and Nightcrawler are is that that Kurt can crash in the notoriously anti-social Wolverine's apartment uninvited, and Logan will come home and not bat an eye. And of course there is Logan's emotional [[TearJerker reaction to Kurt's death]].

* KickTheDog: Whenever (since he's done it a few times) he tries to kill a teenager, or anyone for that matter, under the excuse that its for the "greater good", tend to come off as this. Especially in ''All New X-Men'' when he decides to take out his anger and hatred of Cyclops and bullies the Past!Cyclops, vocally blames him for [[spoiler:Xavier's recent death]], and publicly humiliates him by threatening to kill him and encouraging someone to give him reason not to and, given how the X-Men still hate him for [[spoiler: killing Xavier]], ''no one'' steps up to stop him, at most looking on disapprovingly (making it a major KTD moment for all the X-Men too), so it continues until Kid!Cyclops tearfully calls him out until finally he's told off by Storm and Beast.

** Is slowly becoming this with both [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and ComicBook/{{Thor}}, due to all three's shared long life spans, love of battle and love of drinking. Amusingly, he really wishes it wasn't happening with Herc, who remains blithely convinced that it's inevitable.
** After working together for so long in the Avengers, Spider-Man has become one with him. Peter Parker normally has nothing but contempt for anti-heroes who kill even mooks but he's come to see Logan as often not having a choice. Meanwhile Logan, for all his short-temperedness, is surprisingly tolerant of Peter even when he's in one of his goofier moods. One of the reasons why Logan likes Peter is because [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Peter believes Logan to be a better man than Logan sees himself.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: Wolverine has been shown to be at least conversant in about a dozen languages, including one extraterrestrial and two native American.

* PapaWolf: 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. It's been suggested this is one of the reasons why Logan makes no effort to conceal his identity as Wolverine. Most heroes, like [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] have close family they need to protect, so concealing their identity is necessary. Others, like [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] have no need, because their loved ones are just as powerful. In Logan's case? Given his typical stance on killing, it's just [[BerserkButton not good]] [[CurbStompBattle for your health]] [[FateWorseThanDeath to try and harm]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch his loved ones]], so in his case, people knowing he's Wolverine ''is'' the best protection he can provide.

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Psylocke. Formerly with ComicBook/{{Storm}} as well, before their RelationshipUpgrade in 2013.
* PopularityPower: Uh, well, he beat Lobo. LOBO. THE GUY WHO FIGHTS ON EVEN FOOTING WITH SUPERMAN.
** The IRL reason he lost is because the winners were determined by readers' votes, and Wolverine got more.

* SpiderSense: Not of the active variety but James SuperSenses and the fact that he is in constant life or death situations against all manner of danger means that he's instantly aware when things aren't right based on what his senses are telling him passively. Often it's his sense of smell to direct him to danger first and his habit of sniffing the air before something dangerous happens is something of a trademark for him. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded by Spier-man.]]
-->'''Spider-man:''' (after seeing logan suddenly sniff the air) Oh no. I know that sniff. I fear that sniff. That sniff is the less attractive cousin to my spider-sense.

* StubbornHair: His... ''unique'' hairstyle may be the fault of his healing factor.
** "Marauders"#1 reveals that Logan uses "Dapper Dude" pomade on his hair, as it is on his shopping list for Kitty Pryde.
* StrongButUnskilled: Although he's an expert martial artist, he doesn't strategize and his attacks are more focused on rage than anything else, while also using his healing factor as an advantage, obviously.

** SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} thinks of himself as this by way of being listed (even in [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]]) in Logan's RoguesGallery.

* WouldHitAGirl: Logan generally detests violence against women, but that goes out the window when it comes to the women in his RoguesGallery and other similarly lethal female opponents. Lady Deathstrike, the Viper, Lady Mastermind, Mystique, and even ''Rachel Summers'' can attest to that.

* {{Fiction 500}}: She was one of the wealthiest people in Japan, with her own companies, a private army, and strongholds in the port city of Agarashima and the Meguro ward of UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}.

* RapunzelHair: Her red hair is incredibly long. It's actually comparable to Medusa's.

!!Laura Kinney / X-23 / Wolverine II

After tracking down Logan, she was invited to join the X-Men, after a few years on the run, and formed close relationships with some of the X-Men. However, it was retconned so that she only pretended to bond to them, and just saw them as interchangeable people, with only Logan being the one she would treat like a friend, and father. That changed after House Of M, where she was placed with some other students and eventually grew close to fellow students Cessily 'Mercury' Kincaid, who had also been through a lot, Julian 'Hellion' Keller, who wound up as her crush, and Sooraya 'Dust' Qadir, who she gains a mutual respect for. Logan later legally adopts her as a daughter to provide her with some manner of family. Their relationship is at times strained, but Logan nonetheless cares deeply for her well-being and path to recovery.

Following Logan's death, Laura has [[LegacyCharacter taken on the Wolverine name herself]] in ''All-New Wolverine''. For more information on her, please refer to '''[[ComicBook/{{X 23}} her page]]'''.

Albert appears as a {{Boss}} in the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage''. Elsie-Dee is also used as a gameplay mechanic throughout the game, giving Wolverine a timer to complete missions before she catches up to him and [[LaserGuidedTykebomb does]] [[ActionBomb her]] [[GameOver thing]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: Albert and Elsie-Dee star their own miniseries ''[=iWolverine=]'' for the ''Iron Man 2020'' storyline.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Surprisingly enough, Albert is ''not'' named for the Alberta province of Canada, but was instead given his name by Elsie-Dee in honor of Albert Einstein (who he was comparable in intelligence to after being upgraded by his partner).

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as a Weapon Y appeared before him, but that Weapon Y was a one-shot joke character that only existed for Fabian Nicieza to make fun of Rob Liefeld.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He was last seen in the fourth (and last currently, as of 2020) volume of ComicBook/AlphaFlight, working for a PsychoRangers team put together by Department K.

* AbusiveDad: Had one in the form of Doctor Doom and was one to his son Flip.

* CardCarryingVillain: Read the page quote. Contagion knows what he is and just does not care.

A psychopathic soldier and career criminal, Silas Burr was an early {{Mutant|s}} who served as Wolverine's drill instructor in WWI and as his commanding officer in the Devil's Brigade during WWII. Surviving both conflicts, Cyber later trained Daken, who turned on him and left him for dead. Rebuilt by Romulus as an adamantium skinned cyborg, Cyber has a new set of powers and a new lease on life, while retaining his old grudges against Wolverine and Daken both.\\

* TheMentallyDisturbed: After falling in a vat of hallucinogens, Cyber was left with only a tenuous connection to reality as we know it, and at times seems to think he's living in the works of Lewis Carol.

!!Daken / Akihiro

Daken is the son of Franchise/{{Wolverine}} and his deceased wife Itsu. Blessed with his dad's WolverineClaws (although with a twist or two there) and HealingFactor, as well as the added ability to give off pheromones, Daken is a younger, darker and edgier version of his dad, who was the dark and edgy poster child of the 70s-90s. He loves {{Xanatos Gambit}}s, and seducing people just to prove he can, is apparently [[AnythingThatMoves Omnisexual]] (or at least bi-sexual) and smart enough to dupe ComicBook/NormanOsborn and [[ReedRichardsIsUseless Reed Richards]] -- but still gets his ass handed to him by his father. Speaking of dad, Daken has quite a few [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]].

For more information on him, please refer to '''[[ComicBook/{{Daken}} his page]]'''.

* BadassMoustache: Ditto.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: First thing we see him do is ''kill'' Wolverine, by virtue of simply being ''that'' fast, silent and deadly. He later fights and kills ComicBook/{{Elektra}} too, again through superior skill as much as his mutant abilities. Even when the pair of them (now resurrected) team up to take him down, he ''still'' beats the crap out of both of them as well as slaughter several SHIELD agents they have backing them up. Wolverine only manages to kill him by turning his powers against him at the last moment, and if he hadn't done so the Gorgon would have turned ''him'' to stone and finished him off for good.

** TakenForGranite: Of the classic Medusa glare-inspired variant. Turns people to stone with his stare, [[spoiler:though gods and demigods are apparently immune to it]].

* WouldHurtAChild: He kills [[spoiler:Phobos]] in ''Secret Warriors''. Of course, his genocidal plans involve the death of every child on the planet already, so hardly a surprise.
** In his debut, he lured Wolverine to a trap in Japan by kidnapping a small boy whose parents Wolverine is friends with; he tells Wolverine that the boy was [[DeadAllAlong already murdered]] and [[KickTheDog fed to pigs.]]

* EvilIsNotAToy: He was revived by the Neo-Nazi twins Andrea and Andreas Von Strucker, who intended to use him to score points in the Upstarts competition. He quickly proved too much for them to control, though, and struck out on his own not too long after. This origin is twisted around a bit in ''X-Men '92'', in which Omega Red is already active in the present day and it is his SuperPrototype Alpha Red the Fenris twins activate instead.

* MadDoctor: Emphasis on the "mad", as he was committed.
* RunningTheAsylum: Was interred in an asylum that turned the insane into "lone wolf" domestic terrorists for hire. He managed to take over and has the patients running the place while the orderlies and doctors are tortured.

!!Victor Creed / Sabertooth

For more about him, go to '''[[ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} his page]]'''.

!!Ophelia Sarkissian / Viper

For more information on her, please refer to '''[[ComicBook/MadameHydra her page]]'''.

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!!Winsor / Contagion
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Latverian

-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: The Best There Is'' Vol. 1, #1

--> ''"I am not interested in conflicted antagonists. Nor, for that matter, is anyone else. People want a bad guy they can hate unequivocally. Someone whose brutal demise they can cheer without remorse. Life, sadly, rarely treats them to such a luxury. And here are all these actors, trying to muddy things with moral complexity. #### that, I say. And I'll not have it. I am not the hero in my own story. I am the bad guy. I have no end in mind that justifies my means. There are no skeletons in my closet, no abusive childhood or inciting misery that might expiate my vile behavior. Nor am I insane. I know the difference between good and evil. And I am fully capable of empathizing with the pain, emotional or physical, of others. No sociopath, I. Rather, I simply prefer bad over good. Wrong over right. Sick over healthy. Untrue over true."''

The result of a Latverian eugenics program, Mr. Winsor, alias Contagion, has a body containing every disease known to man at the time of his creation. Gathering a group of immortals to himself, Winsor repeatedly infects them with his diseases, alternately using them as test subjects and enforcers. With a goal of eventually exterminating all life in the universe, Contagion is as bad as even Wolverine's adversaries can get.

* AbusiveDad: Had one in the form of Doctor Doom and was one to his son Flip.
* BigBad: Of ''The Best There Is'' miniseries.
* CardCarryingVillain: Read the page quote. Contagion knows what he is and just does not care.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for laughs. Contagion wanted to wipe out everything with the perfect plague, but even he wouldn't stoop to serving his guests [[spoiler:''Cristal'']].
--> '''Contagion:''' Standards must be maintained.
* MasterOfYourDomain: His first step in developing control of his powers was meditating to the point he can contain or release his infectiousness. It's signified by him having an open third eye in some shots. Once he bypassed the mental block preventing him from infecting himself, he could tailor make beneficial viruses that allowed him to freely modify his physiology for superpowers.
* MindVirus: He can make his thoughts contagious to stave off telepathic intrusion.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Played straight but his EvilPlan entails subverting this so he can infect literally anything and everything.
* OmnicidalManiac: His ultimate goal was the creation of a virus that would cause the complete CessationOfExistence of everything, even the afterlife.
* {{Plaguemaster}}: See that part about his body containing every disease known to man? Not an exaggeration. He can even construct new ones he conceives of within himself tailor made to incapacitate if not eventually kill specific targets.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Wears a mostly white suit and he's an unrepentant omnicidal.
* WalkingWasteland: Before he had control of his infectiousness he had to be quarantined. Even afterwards, harming him isn't a viable option, as any injury will release every virus within him, depopulating the area if not the world.

[[folder: Cookie Malone]]
!!Cookie Malone
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
-> '''Debut:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #4

--> ''"Come on, boy! You want to give your old pal Cookie a shot? Let's see it then!."''

A cook at the mining camp at Alberta, Canada, where Logan spent much of his formative years. He is a thug and thief who takes particular pleasure in tormenting young Logan.

[[folder: Citadel]]
!!Citadel / Weapon Y
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Canadian
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
-> '''Debut:''' ''Wolverine: First Class'' #5 (2008)
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Citadel was a soldier that was grafted adamantium skin from the Canadian Government and dubbed Weapon Y. Citadel and his men would hold the Governor General of Canada captive and come into conflict with Wolverine, Snowbird, Aurora and Shaman.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Everyone at the camp hated him long before James came along, and it only got worse from there. Likely the only reason he wasn't kicked out long before was because of his position.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The best there is at what he does.]]

-> '''AKA:''' Logan, James Howlett

-> '''AKA:''' Laura Kinney

-> '''AKA:''' Mr. Winsor

-> '''AKA:''' Silas Burr

-> '''AKA:''' Weapon Y

-> '''AKA:''' Akihiro

-> '''AKA:''' Tomi Shishido

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-> '''AKA:''' Yuriko Oyama

-> '''AKA:''' Frank Simpson

-> '''AKA:''' Arkady Gregorivich

-> '''AKA:''' Bentley Newton

Algernon Rottwell was a madman who was sent to Dunwich Sanitorium and was diagnosed incurable. He was locked in a special place that was made for him. He caused a riot and took control of the Sanitorium, letting the patients take the place of workers and killing the workers to take their brains.

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-> '''AKA:''' Victor Creed

-> '''AKA:''' Kenuichio Harada

[[folder: Shingen Yashida]]

-> '''AKA:''' Shingen Harada

-> '''AKA:''' Ophelia Sarkissian

* ADayInTheLimelight: Albert stars his own miniseries ''[=iWolverine=]'' for the ''Dawn of X'' storyline.

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-> '''Debut:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #1

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* ProgressivelyPrettier: When she first started out she had a mutilated face, then she became a cyborg that looked like a Mad Max-reject that wore a lot of brown and had a cheap red wig. She eventually started going for a DragonLady look and is currently fielding an [[Series/TheAvengers Emma Peel]] styling.