History YMMV / Wolverine

* FanPreferredCouple: He and ComicBook/{{Storm}} is an extremely popular pairing, due to their long decades of interactions and personality, as well as many fans wanting him to get over Jean Grey already.

* BizarroEpisode: In 2003, Marvel released ''ComicBook/{{Snikt}}'', a five-issue miniseries by Creator/TsutomuNihei in which Wolverine is teleported into a hellish future overrun by monsters whose sole weakness is Adamantium. The events of this miniseries were never mentioned again.

** The [[Comicbook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] version is this even more so. Ultimate Wolverine was initially characterised as totally lacking all of 616 Wolverine's redeeming traits, being depicted as a shameless, selfish, amoral and [[DirtyOldMan frankly]] [[{{Ephebophile}} creepy]] JerkAss, culminating in [[spoiler:his attempted [[MurderTheHypotenuse cold blooded murder]] of Cyclops]]. Some fans believed the later CharacterDevelopment which brought him closer in line with his mainstream portrayal made for an effective redemptive arc and that he had become a true hero by the time [[spoiler:he was killed in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'']]; others believed that the character was unsalvageable and impossible to see as anything but a villain.

-->'''ComicBook/{{Storm}}:''' You possess speed, strength. Your unbreakable adamantium skeleton makes you nearly invulnerable. You should not need your claws except in the most extreme of situations. Against the deadliest and most powerful of foes.

** Daken is an incredibly controversial character. One portion of the fanbase sees him as an [[EvilIsSexy extremely attractive]] JerkassWoobie who simply can't overcome his evil nature even when he actually tries to. Another portion sees him as an utterly [[ForTheEvulz sadistic and depraved]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] who deserves no sympathy whatsoever. And a third portion sees him as somewhat of a [[TakeAThirdOption combination of the two]]. It should be noted that his character was initially intended to be a {{Deconstruction}} of the DracoInLeatherPants trope that many fans apply to him, however even the writers seemed to have gotten in on it, largely leaving his characterization nowadays [[DependingOnTheWriter up to whoever's writing him]].

* DracoInLeatherPants: Daken, big time, mostly for his EvilIsSexy, JerkassWoobie and status. While he indeed has some humanizing traits, he is still a manipulative rapist and mass murderer.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MiloVentimiglia was ''horribly'' miscast as Logan in [[Anime/MarvelAnimeWolverine the 2011 Wolverine anime]], with a voice that sounded far too young and came off as a teenager trying to sound cool, add to that that it was Ventimiglia's first voice acting performance and he's acting alongside well known and experienced voice actors such as Creator/VicMignogna, Creator/JBBlanc and Creator/KateHiggins, which made his rather stiff portrayal stick out like a sore thumb. Worsening it even more was that Creator/SteveBlum, experienced voice actor and considered by many to be [[CantUnhearIt the definitive animated Wolverine voice]] ''was part of the cast'' but voiced Wolverine's CanonForeigner [[TheRival Rival]] Kikyo instead of Logan himself. Thankfully, after seeing the less than stellar reviews of Ventimiglia's performance, Blum was given back the role of Wolverine for the following [[Anime/MarvelAnimeXMen X-Men anime series]]. Granted, that series appeared to be a separate continuity from the previous shows, as the Logan seen before reappears in ''Anime/MarvelAnimeBlade'' voiced by Ventimiglia once more.
** Though hard to imagine these days, before the release of the first movie, the casting of Creator/HughJackman was ''incredibly'' controversial. Not only because Jackman was a practically unknown Australian theatre actor whose only two prior movies were a drama and a ''romantic comedy'', but because Jackman, being 6'3, lean and conventionally attractive is almost the complete opposite of Logan in the comics, who is abnormally short, built like a fridge and is generally just really hairy and unsightly. Obviously, Jackman's performance won most people over, and to mainstream audiences, Jackman ''is'' Wolverine. However, this hasn't stopped many fans from wanting a potential new movie version of Logan to be played by someone a little closer in looks to his comics counterpart.

** Fans of ''ComicBook/XMen'' and ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' books have been known to resent his... [[SpotlightStealingSquad tendency towards ubiquitousness.]] His recent characterization has also not helped matters, as he is often portrayed as a really nasty, self-righteous {{Hypocrite}}. Then there is off course his overexposure in non-comic medias...

* CompleteMonster: Besides Omega Red and Donald Pierce, Wolverine has his own RoguesGallery. Please refer to Monster/XMen.

** Daken's encounter with his half-sister, [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} Laura]]. Once the various double-crossings are out of the way and the pair are forced to work together to take down Colcord, Daken's private thoughts about her after seeing her in action read rather... ''[[BrotherSisterIncest romantically]]''. Of course, this ''[[AnythingThatMoves is]]'' [[DepravedBisexual Daken]]...

** If you have read ''Origins'' you know that Logan’s life has not been the easiest since he was a boy. His stepfather who raised him and loved him as his own is murdered by his biological father who he kills in retaliation, his mother disowns him and then commits suicide and the one girl who actually cared and loved him even after discovering his mutation he accidentally murders. Logan’s life has ''not'' been a happy one.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MiloVentimiglia was ''horribly'' miscast as Logan in [[{{Anime/Wolverine}} the 2011 Wolverine anime]], with a voice that sounded far too young and came off as a teenager trying to sound cool, add to that that it was Ventimiglia's first voice acting performance and he's acting alongside well known and experienced voice actors such as Creator/VicMignogna, Creator/JBBlanc and Creator/KateHiggins, which made his rather stiff portrayal stick out like a sore thumb. Worsening it even more was that Creator/SteveBlum, experienced voice actor and considered by many to be [[CantUnhearIt the definitive animated Wolverine voice]] ''was part of the cast'' but voiced Wolverine's CanonForeigner [[TheRival Rival]] Kikyo instead of Logan himself. Thankfully, after seeing the less than stellar reviews of Ventimiglia's performance, Blum was given back the role of Wolverine for the following [[Anime/XMen X-Men anime series]]. Granted, that series appeared to be a separate continuity from the previous shows, as the Logan seen before reappears in ''{{Anime/Blade}}'' voiced by Ventimiglia once more.

* CompleteMonster: Besides Omega Red, Donald Pierce, and especially his ArchEnemy and EvilCounterpart Sabretooth, Wolverine has his own RoguesGallery. Please refer to Monster/XMen.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Daken, big time, mostly for his EvilIsSexy, JerkassWoobie and status. While he indeed has some humanising traits, he is still a manipulative rapist and mass murderer.

*** The big one for Sabretooth was when Tieri wrote him raiding a daycare center and casually eating the terrified children as snack food.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: He has drifted in and out of this over the years, what with his tendency to unilaterally [[IDidWhatIHadToDo take it upon himself]] to [[KickTheDog cross moral lines]], but he got hit by it ''hard'' in the early 2010's. Wolverine's devolution from charming asshole and complex, self-doubting antihero into sanctimonious, spiteful, bullying hypocrite who was inexplicably presented as a wise and benevolent mentor figure is considered a major symptom of the franchise-wide DorkAge the X-Men were going through at the time.

* DorkAge:
** The "bone claws" arc, but the "feral subhuman" arc (after Genesis' failed attempt to restore his Adamantium) is probably closer to the trope.
** Jeph Loeb's run. When it was announced that there would be an animated movie based on his run, the reaction was a) Nobody wants this and b) The animation sucks.

** If you have read ''Origins'' you know that Logan’s life has not been the easiest since he was a boy. His step father who raised him and loved him as his own is murdered by his biological father who he kills in retaltion, his mother disowns him and then commits suicide and the one girl who actually cared and loved him even after discovering his mutation he accidentally murders. Logan’s life has ''not'' been a happy one.

** [[IronWoobie Adamantium Woobie]]: Well, someone had to say it.

* FanNickname: Trollverine for Daken. Also occasionally Sniktling in combination with ComicBook/{{X 23}}.

* FoeYay:
** He got it on with Mystique at one point. She was disguised as someone else, but after it was over, he informed her that he knew all along.
*** ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'' has their child, Raze, appear.
*** Wolverine and Mystique have been depicted as having at least an implied relationship in some other continuities as well, such as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' and ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''.
** He was briefly married to Lady Viper.
** Daken's guest arc in ''ComicBook/{{Iceman}}'' caused some to ship them together.

** The Husband[=/=]Roger from Jason Aaron's run lost his wife and unborn child in the crossfire of a battle between Wolverine and the Hulk, with a newscast later stating that Wolverine saved the day and that there were "no casualties." This is awful, but then it is revealed that, unlike the other Red Right Hand members, the Husband was dementedly bloodthirsty even before he met the Founder, going out at night and beating random homeless men to death with a baseball bat after forcing them to dress like Wolverine, so he was taking his anger over the loss of his own innocent family out on other innocents who, unlike the people on the Founder's hitlist, did not even have anything to do with Wolverine.