History Franchise / Wolverine

** Creator/ChrisClaremont, in particular, was ''very'' careful to avert, invert, subvert and otherwise keep this trope from giving Wolverine the effective immortality that he has had of late. In one issue, Wolverine is poisoned and badly stabbed by the Silver Samurai, and it's implied that he's risking his life to [[HeroicSacrifice let Rogue absorb his healing powers]] because he is so badly hurt. In another issue, Mystique demonstrates that a slit throat will kill Wolverine before his healing factor has a chance to kick in [[spoiler:it's being played with there, though, because it is one of Arcade's replicants being killed, and Arcade may not know the full extent of Wolverine's powers]].

* WouldHitAGirl: While Wolvie isn't exactly the type to punch women in the face for no reason, whether or not an opponent has a vagina is of no concern to him. Lady Deathstrike, the Viper, Lady Mastermind and even ''Rachel Summers'' can attest to that.
* Not to mention his pursuit and killing of Mystique in "Get Mystique"(she got better).

** The [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/16696/717394-wolverineshand_super.jpg X-ray of Logan's arm]] in the first movie shows the claw implants pushing his forearm bones far enough apart to dislocate them from his wrists.

*** 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...

* AnimeHair + HotbloodedSideburns: Logan's standard look since his introduction, the former at its most extreme during Adam Kubert's run as artist of the self-titled comic in TheNineties. In the newer works his hair tends to be more realistic.

* ArchEnemy: Sabretooth

*** The claws were either drawn as being thin blades (especially in FrankMiller and Jim Lee's art) or rounded or roughly rounded with ''really'' sharp tips, like true animal claws, especially in the '80s, and ''sans'' adamantium.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Hoo boy, where to even ''start''. One [[ComicBook/{{Daken}} legitimate son]] is a {{manipulative| Bastard}} sociopath who enjoys toying with others for his own amusement, while another he hasn't seen since he was a baby. His [[ComicBook/{{X-23}} "daughter"]] is a depressed and likely suicidal ex-child soldier and prostitute struggling to turn her life around. He has a ''who knows'' [[ReallyGetsAround how many illegitimate children]], many of whom were sent to kill him and he was forced to kill first, only later discovering who they really were, and his father wasn't actually his biological father. And we ''still'' haven't even touched on his brother and adopted daughter.

* 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 [[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.

** Averted during the "no adamantium" arc; the stress of trying to heal the massive trauma of having the metal ripped out of his body overloaded the healing factor and killed it for a few months of story time. When it finally came back, without the adamantium to slow it down, it essentially overclocked, allowing Logan to at one point completely recover from being ''run over'' in a matter of seconds but slowly causing him to revert to a more bestial state. This was taken to an extreme when Genesis tried to re-implant the adamantium. Logan's body explosively rejected the adamantium, and when he was fully healed he was a monstrous subhuman.

** Wolverine's HealingFactor also can't prevent death by asphyxiation. Proven when [[spoiler:Wolverine kills his son Daken by drowning him.]]

* IHaveNoSon: His biological father tells him this when Logan refuses to be the ruler of Hell. Logan, who already hates the man simply claws him in the face and says, "Damn right."
* IconicItem: The claws, the extended browpieces of his costumes' cowls, the permanent amount of stubble.
* IdenticalGrandson: Grows up to look exactly like his biological father Thomas Logan. This was used as a RedHerring in the Origin story, with readers initially being lead to believe that Thomas' other son Dog was the young Wolverine.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Played straight for a ''long'' time. Up until Daken came around, it was only ever implied that Logan had any kids (specificallly, Gahck's baby sony Erista in the 1990 one-shot "Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure", and Alpha Flight's Flex). The trope was finally averted in two story arcs:

* NighInvulnerability: He has an extremely effective HealingFactor and a [[MadeofIndestructium virtually indestructible skeleton that is laced with adamantium]].

** It's been suggested this is one of the reasons why Logan makes no effort to conceal his identity as Wolverine. Most heroes, like [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]] have close family they need to protect, so concealing their identity is necessary. Others, like [[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.

* 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 ArtShift above regarding the claws' appearance.

* ShootTheDog: Subverted. In the issue mentioned under BadassBiker 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.]]

He first appeared in ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' #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, [[WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen and then his own cartoon]], and then... well, [[SpotlightStealingSquad then he was kind of everywhere...]] [[WolverinePublicity and still is]].

* ''Wolverine: Origins'', which spun out of ''HouseOfM'' and explores Wolverine's past.

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Rogueish Male to Colossus, {{Cyclops}}, and Nightcrawler's Noble Males.
* NoNameGiven: 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). In an issue, he had an identity card which read "Jim Logan", which, if not a {{Foreshadowing}} (said issue, if memory serves, was about seven years before he remembered his past in ''HouseOfM''), was at least a hint. He also once used the name "Tom Logan" in the cartoon when infiltrating the Friends of Humanity... also ironic foreshadowing to ''Origins''.

* The self-titled ''[[ComicBook/FrankMillersWolverine Wolverine]]''.
* His second series titled ''Wolverine - The Best There Is''.
* ''Uncanny X-Force'' which shows the missions of his ultra-secret killing squad.
* The miniseries ''Kitty Pryde and Wolverine'', and later his own, self-titled mini.

* ''The Savage Wolverine'', which feature's Logan's adventues in the Savage Land with ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil.
* ''Wolverine and the X-Men'', about his adventures as the headmaster of the Jean Grey School.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers'', where he is a member of both teams.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted, his views are [[PragmaticHero more along the lines of "Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Kill"]]. Wolverine is against using lethal force in a situation where it's not necessary, but has no problem doing so [[IDidWhatIHadToDo if he has to]].

* ThouShaltNotKill: Subverted, his views are [[PragmaticHero more along the lines of "Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Kill"]]. Wolverine is against using lethal force in a situation where it's not necessary, but has no problem doing so [[IDidWhatIHadTo if he has to]].

*** 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...

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Hoo boy, where to even ''start''. One [[ComicBook/{{Daken}} legitimate son]] is a {{manipulative| Bastard}} sociopath who enjoys toying with others for his own amusement, while another he hasn't seen since he was a baby. His [[ComicBook/{{X-23}} "daughter"]] is a depressed and likely suicidal ex-child soldier and sociopath struggling to turn her life around. He has a ''who knows'' [[ReallyGetsAround how many illegitimate children]], many of whom were sent to kill him and he was forced to kill first, only later discovering who they really were, and his father wasn't actually his biological father. And we ''still'' haven't even touched on his brother and adopted daughter.

* BigBrotherMentor: To Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, and now {{X-23}} and Armor.

** It's been suggested this is one of the reasons why Logan makes no effort to conceal his identity as Wolverine. Most heroes, like [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]] have close family they need to protect, so concealing their identity is necessary. Others, like [[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 IS Wolverine is the best protection he can provide.

* LegacyCharacter: Jimmy Hudson in the UltimatMarvel universe.

** Inverted. With him and Sabretooth, it's a case of Rival Stayed Evil. They previously worked together as mercenaries, and while even then Logan was a NobleDemon to Creed's (even back then) villain and they barely got along, they were still on the same team. Once they went through the Weapon X ordeal and Logan made a full HeelFaceTurn, it was open season between them.

** Those claws of his ''hurt'' when they pop out of his hands. A new wound every time he does it, thanks to his HealingFactor. Though he has a high resistance to pain, so he's used to it.

*** During the time without the adamantium, he had to keep his hands constantly bandaged to deal with bleeding from the holes made by the claws... and the pain was a ''lot'' worse because the HealingFactor wasn't working (see its entry below). He still kept it up, though...
--->(''Jubilee and Logan are talking'')\\

*** In the ''Weapon X'' standalone story, the metal chutes his claws extend through are surgically implanted in his hands because of the damage the claws did the first time he extended them.

** Creator/ChrisClaremont, in particular, was ''very'' careful to avert, invert, subvert and otherwise keep this trope from giving Wolverine the effective immortality that he has had of late. In one issue, Wolverine is poisoned and badly stabbed by the Silver Samurai, and it's implied that he's risking his life to [[HeroicSacrifice let Rogue absorb his healing powers]] because he is so badly hurt. In another issue, Mystique demonstrates that a slit throat will kill Wolverine before his healing factor has a chance to kick in [[spoiler: it's being played with there, though, because it is one of Arcade's replicants being killed, and Arcade may not know the full extent of Wolverine's powers]].

** Those claws of his ''hurt'' when they pop out of his hands. A new wound every time he does it, thanks to his HealingFactor.

** Since X-23 only has adamantium on her claws, her healing factor is fast and powerful enough that she can reattach severed limbs almost instantly; she uses this at one point to escape from Kimura.

** His daughter/clone X-23 is closer to this, which Logan is trying to help her with.

* LegacyCharacter: Daken in the mainstream continuity, and Jimmy Hudson in the UltimatMarvel universe.

'''Wolverine''' (a.k.a. Logan) is a Creator/MarvelComics superhero, known for his association with the ''ComicBook/XMen''; [[WolverineClaws sharp, indestructible claws]]; [[TheBerserker berserker rages]]; [[WolverinePublicity managing to be in many places at once]]; [[TropeNamers/ComicBooks having quite a few tropes named after him]]; and for being very, ''very'' popular. At times he's been the most popular Marvel SuperHero, which led to his [[TheMerch tendency to... um... show up everywhere]].

* WouldHitAGirl: While Wolvie isn't exactly the type to punch women in the face for no reason, whether or not an opponent has a vagina is of no concern to him. Lady Deathstrike, the Viper and Lady Mastermind can attest to that.