History Characters / WolverineRoguesGallery

* ArtEvolution: In ''Origin'', his hair was black as a boy then somehow lightened to blondish as an adult (raising comparisons to Sabretooth), but now it's more of brownish. Then he's gotten facial hair as well.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He seems to be an ordinary human, not a mutant, but after the events of ''Origin'' he came across Time Diamonds that let him time-travel.

* EvilFormerFriend: As a child he and James were close friends, now he wants to kill James.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: While "sweet" may be pushing it, he was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold at worst as a child.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:His ordering Martin Sutter death at X-23's hands is certainly meant to be a sign of just how off the slippery slope Rice has leaped, but damned if you don't feel Martin deserved it]].

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 [[StalkedByTheBell she catches up to him]] and [[ActionBomb does her thing]].

Bloodscream appears as a boss in the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage''.

Cyber makes appearances as a boss in both versions of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage'' and in the 2001 UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor title ''X-Men: Wolverine's Rage''.

The Hunter (renamed as 'The Lurker') makes an appearance as a MiniBoss in the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage''.

Lady Deathstrike has been adapted into numerous ''X-Men'' spinoffs, including ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/HulkVsWolverine'', and ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. She has also appeared in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance2'', ''VideoGame/XMenLegends II'', ''VideoGame/XMenNextDimension'', and the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage''.

* WolverinePublicity: One of the more popular X-villains introduced in the '90s, so much so that he earned a handful of appearances in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' and a recurring spot in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series. He was also a boss in both ''VideoGame/XMenMutantApocalypse'' and the first ''X-Men'' game for the Sega UsefulNotes/GameGear.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Reanimating Logan's body allowed for his healing factor to kick back in, bringing him back to true life.

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #1 (2001)

%%* CanadaEh: Like his brother.

* CanadaEh: It was born in Canada and spent most of its life prowling the Canadian wilderness.

* CanadaEh: Like his sons.

--> ''"Yes, boss!"''

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

--> ''"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."''

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

--> ''"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."''

--> ''"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."''

--> ''"I wish you could see it, father. The moment when it finally unfolds. When he realizes just what it is I've done to him. It's going to be glorious, just like I've always promised you. Just like I've always dreamed."''

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

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

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

--> ''"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."''

--> ''"Not here to kill you. Far as I'm concerned, you can stay just like this. But I'm gonna make you a promise. You ever find anything -- anybody -- to make life worth living again -- I'll be there."''

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

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-> ''"Now has come an ending, Master Patch. An ending to all your days."''
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-> ''"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."''
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-> ''"Come on, boy! You want to give your old pal Cookie a shot? Let's see it then!."''
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-> ''"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."''
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-> ''"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."''

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--> ''I wish you could see it, father. The moment when it finally unfolds. When he realizes just what it is I've done to him. It's going to be glorious, just like I've always promised you. Just like I've always dreamed."''

-> ''"You're going to be the new captain of my Dark Riders, Wolverine! A fitting Centurion for my legions!"''
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-> ''"I have died and been born again. There is nothing I fear. One day I will kill a god."''

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For Nuke's tropes, see his entry on the Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery page.

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-> ''"Who has brought me back from the dark domain of death? Who has summoned Omega Red?"''
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-> ''"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."''
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-->''"Not here to kill you. Far as I'm concerned, you can stay just like this. But I'm gonna make you a promise. You ever find anything -- anybody -- to make life worth living again -- I'll be there."''
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-> ''"You will not find me lacking in courage, gaijin."''
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!! Victor Creed

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A version of Sabretooth from Earth 203 who appears to be his world's Captain America.

A gender flipped Sabretooth from Earth 1912.

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A celebrity version of Sabretooth from Earth 12.

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A feathered version of Sabretooth from Earth 33441.

[[folder:Amber]]
!!Amber

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* AllianceOfAlternates: Four Four (later Five) Sabretooths banded together after Graydon Creed gathered them to kill them. They also have headless undead Sabretooth variants that serve as mooks

A version of Sabretooth from Earth 203 who appears to also be his worlds Captain America.
* SociopathicSoldier:Despite dining the Captain America's uniform, he's still as visions as most other Sabretooths and is thus known as the "Sentinel of Tyranny"

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A gender flipped Sabretooth from Earth 1912
* GenderFlip: This alternate of Sabretooth is a woman

A celebrity version of Sabretooth from Earth 12
* PragmaticVillainy: He preferred killing just Wolverine over Sabretooth-616's plan to keep Logan alive while killing all of Logan's loved ones and the mutant refugees he was protecting, as he found that to be overkill.

* FeatheredFiend: He's coming versed in Feathers instead of hair and is just as vicious and sadistic as his allies.
* SixthRanger: He joined the group after its formation but before the Sabretooth. War
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His feathers can "camouflage" him to look what ever he wants to look like.

[[folder:Daken]]
!!Daken / Akihiro
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''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."''

Daken is the son of 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 YoungerAndHipper, DarkerAndEdgier 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 omnisexual (or at least bisexual) and smart enough to dupe [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] and [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Reed Richards]] -- but still gets his ass handed to him by his father. Speaking of dad, Daken has quite a few [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]].

-> See Characters/WolverineSupportingCharacters

[[folder:Doctor Rot]]
!!Bentley Newton / Algernon J. Rottwell / Doctor Rot
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Wolverine: Weapon X'' Vol. 1, #6

Bentley Newton 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.

* EmotionBomb: In spite of his insanity, he invented a device that runs on human brains capable of clouding thought. Psylocke saids it's all she can do to shield the X-Men from the effects, as she feels it shred through her thoughts.
* MadDoctor: Emphasis on the "mad", as he was committed. 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.
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[[folder:Dog Logan]]
!!Dog Logan
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Canadian
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Origin'' Vol. 1, #1 (2001)
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The half-brother of James Howlett. A former servant on the Howlett estate. Now the Hellfire Academy's gym teacher.
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!! Creed

!Laura’s Rogues Gallery
!!The Facility

An American civilian offshoot of the Weapon Plus program which experimented on [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]], and numerous others. The Facility managed to obtain genetic samples salvaged by Weapon Plus scientist Dale Rice during Logan's rampage, which were used to create X-23 during their attempts at replicating Weapon X years later. They have made several efforts since to recapture her.

!!!Administration

[[folder:Dr. Martin Sutter]]
!!Dr. Martin Sutter
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''First appearance:''' ''X-23'' #1 (January, 2005)

Director of the Facility when Laura was created, he hired Sarah Kinney upon learning of her proposal to clone Wolverine. While he didn't have a direct hand in the abuse heaped upon her, Sutter nonetheless gave Rice tremendous leeway in handling the project, and created the environment which allowed him to torment her. Sutter was close friends with Weapon X scientist Dale Rice, and when Rice was killed by Wolverine during his escape from the installation where he was experimented on, Sutter practically raised his young son Zander. [[spoiler: His blind faith and trust in Zander Rice cost him his life, as Rice would later manipulate him into turning over control of the project before sending X-23 to kill him.]]
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* AssholeVictim: Although Martin Sutter didn't take a direct hand in X-23 brutal upbringing that Rice did, he fostered the environment which enabled him to do so. Sutter summarily rejected every suggestion or warning Sarah Kinney made, and his entire motivation for the project was sheer greed. He never ''once'' had misgivings about what he and Rice were doing, and it's hard to feel a shred of sympathy for him when Rice manipulates him into turning over full control to him, and then sends X-23 to kill him.
%%* BaldOfEvil: Overlapping with this, especially once his ''actual'' [[MoneyDearBoy motives]] for the project are revealed.
* BeardOfEvil: Sports a goatee, which becomes more sinister as his crueler intentions are exposed.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sarah is interested in the project for the challenge, and because she believes they are working for the greater good of national defense. It's unclear whether or not Sutter began this way as well, but by the end, it's clearly revealed that the only thing he ''really'' sees are dollar signs.
* HappilyMarried: Sutter has a good relationship with his wife Rachel, and son Henry. [[spoiler:Or at least, so he ''thinks''.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Sutter ignores Sarah's warnings that Rice has become too personally invested in the project when she realizes the amount of abuse Rice is inflicting on X-23, instead accusing her of being too attached. Earlier, when Sarah tries to tell Sutter that tissue damage to the samples makes her theory of doubling the X chromosome a more viable alternative, he rejects the proposal and orders her to proceed according to the original plan. When she disobeys and creates the female clone anyway, he only acquiesces when she flat-out tells him he can either have the viable female clone right now, or wait for years until they could maybe create a viable male clone, essentially forcing his hand.
* ParentalSubstitute: Sutter is this for Rice, after Wolverine kills Dale Rice escaping Weapon X
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sutter starts off as this, showing great interest in Sarah's proposal to clone Weapon X. However he becomes increasingly obstructive as the series continues. Not helped at all by the fact that he's blindly supportive of Rice and completely ignores Sarah's warnings about him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When Sutter begins showing signs of exhaustion over managing the project, Rice manipulates him into turning over control of the project, and then sends X-23 to kill him]].

[[folder:Zander Rice]]
!!Dr. Zander Rice
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''First appearance:''' ''X-23'' #1 (January, 2005)

Surgical head of the X-23 project, Rice's father, Dale, was attached to the original Weapon X experiment that bonded adamantium to Wolverine's skeleton. Dale was killed attempting to escape the installation with genetic material during Logan's rampage, leaving Zander to be practically raised by his father's close friend, Martin Sutter. Rice grew up harboring a deep resentment for Wolverine, and this brought him into conflict with Sarah Kinney after her proposal to clone the mutant who killed his father. He became one of Laura's chief tormentors at the Facility after her birth, and subjected her to much of the abuse and torture she experienced.
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* AbusiveParents: Although not X-23's father, as the senior scientist working on the project he effectively serves as such, and inflicts most of the physical abuse X-23 receives in the book.
* AssholeVictim: When X-23 kills Zander Rice, she puts away the claws and beats him for ''ten minutes'' in a truly brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Rice tortured and both physically and emotionally abused Laura ''all her life'' to that point,[[note]]Forcibly activating her HealingFactor at ''age seven'' with fatal dosages of radiation, removing her claws one at a time for coating in adamantium ''without anasthesia'', torturing her into responding to an olfactory trigger that sends her into a berserker rage whenever she smells it and using it to force her to murder the only two people at the Facility who cared about her, intentionally leaving her behind to be killed on a mission out of spite, and placing her in the "care" of the sadistic Kimura, among other things. And he only did this because Wolverine killed his father and Laura was created using his genetic material.[[/note]] so it makes the scene ''far'' more satisfying to read than watching someone get pounded into an unrecognizable pulp would normally be.
* AxCrazy: Although he has an almost unflappable demeanour, his [[DissonantSerenity reaction]] to even his most atrocious acts and the [[SlasherSmile amount of fun]] he's having in torturing X-23 subtly shows that he's.....not well.
* BigBad: While Sutter is certainly a CorruptCorporateExecutive and ObstructiveBureaucrat, it's ultimately Rice who's the real villain of the story.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A {{Deconstruction}} as this is a rare instance of this being a negative trait, as his obsession with his father's death has turned him into an [[AxCrazy insane]] misanthrope who believes that the tragedy justifies all of his actions, regardless of how heinous. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with his adoptive father Martin Sutter and son Henry Sutter. Despite Martin Sutter raising him after his father's death, and Henry Sutter being his son through an affair with Rachel Sutter, he doesn't hesitate to have X-23 to kill them for his own purposes (gaining total control of the project, and covering up his affari). And of course there's the fact that Zander was sleeping with his adoptive father's wife to begin with.
* EvilIsPetty: ''Good God'', if he’s not torturing X-23 in place of her genetic father, then he’s doing all sorts of spiteful shit to her and others just to be a childish dickhead.
* FreudianExcuse: Rice blames Wolverine for his father's death (not without reason, considering Wolverine gutted him). So because X-23 was created with Wolverine's DNA, he holds her responsible as well.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even before he takes a flying leap off the slippery slope, Rice was a dick who showed no regard for the mutants he was experimenting on, and was openly antagonistic towards and disparaging of Sarah. [[spoiler:He was also screwing around with Sutter's wife, Rachel, and fathered her son Henry. Remember, Sutter practically ''raised'' Rice after his father was killed by Wolverine.]] When his true nature and depths of his depravity are revealed, then this trope is him at his most nice.
* KarmicDeath: After X-23 ambushes him, she vents all her rage at his abuse, torture and dehumanisation by putting away the claws and spending the next ten minutes beating him until he’s nothing but a bloody mess just barely clinging to life, before leaving him to perish in the destruction of the Facility.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:His ordering Martin Sutter death at X-23's hands is certainly meant to be a sign of just how off the slippery slope Rice has leaped, but damned if you don't feel Martin deserved it]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Rice plays Sutter like a fiddle. It's never made clear whether Sutter ignores Sarah's warnings about Rice's behavior because of this, him not believing her, or because he just plain doesn't care. But there's no doubt that Rice knew exactly what buttons to push to get Sutter to turn over control of the project to him.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Rice is a doctor, specifically a surgeon. He operates on and performs experiments on mutants in association with the Facility's attempts to recreate Weapon X, and many of the procedures he performs on X-23 fall ''way'' beyond the MoralEventHorizon (he shoves her in a radiation chamber and doses her with fatal levels of radiation at the age of ''seven'' just to forcibly activate her HealingFactor).
* OffingTheOffspring: Tries to pull this twice: First by deliberately leaving X-23 behind on a mission so she will be killed (Rice himself isn't her father, but played a substantial role in her creation). The second, is when he [[spoiler:attempts to cover up evidence of his affair with Rachel Sutter by sending X-23 to kill her and his son with her]].
* ThePowerOfHate: All of his malicious, cruel, or sometimes downright psychotic actions has at least partly this at it's roots, for his hatred towards Wolverine for killing his father is the catalyst, and ultimately, the reason why he is so fucked in the head.
* PsychopathicManchild: Despite hiding it under a professional exterior, it’s clear from both his demeanour and his actions that under it all he’s only in it to hurt Laura for the murder of his father, all in a juvenile attempt to make Wolverine suffer. It doesn’t help that when behind closed doors or when feeling stressed he carries himself with the demeanour of an extremely unhinged, moody teenager.
* RevengeByProxy: Rice uses his father's death at Logan's hands to justify his horrific abuse of X-23.
* {{Sadist}}: It's obvious throughout his torture and surgical experiments on X-23 that he is enjoying every [[SlasherSmile single drop of pain that he is inflicting on the poor girl.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Sort of. Wolverine killed his father escaping the Weapon X installation, after which Sutter became his father-figure. Rice sends X-23 to kill him so he can have total control of the project]].
* TheSociopath: It's clear that he thoroughly enjoys tormenting the young X-23 beyond anything even unhealthy. He also has X-23 kill [[spoiler:Sutter and Sarah]] once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they have outlived their usefulness]], and [[spoiler:Sutter's wife and Henry, his own son by her, to cover up their affair. Henry only survives because Laura chose to spare him]].
* TragicKeepsake: His father's dog tags.
* UngratefulBastard: He is this to Martin Sutter. The man rased him after his father's death, gave him free rein on the project, and consistently backed him in almost every argument with Sarah. Rice repays him by sleeping with his wife behind his back and uses X-23 to murder him to take control of the project.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Rice is introduced in the story as a wide-eyed toddler being told by Martin Sutter his father wouldn't be coming home. It goes downhill from there.
* WouldHurtAChild: He had zero qualms with hurting X-23 when she was younger, and [[spoiler:even tries to use her to kill his own son at one point.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Well, ''Logan'' did, but he punishes X-23 for it [[RevengeByProxy by proxy]].

!!!Agents

[[folder:Kimura]]
!!Kimura
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate
!!!'''First appearance:''' ''X-23'' #6 (May, 2005)

Kimura is a normal human who was modified by the Facility expressly to serve in the capacity of Laura's handler in the event she ever got out of control. A sadistic psychopath, Kimura inflicted severe physical and emotional abuse on her while she was at the Facility, and is obsessed with tracking her down and recovering her. Her body has been granted increased physical density, which makes her virtually indestructible.