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2''Wolverines'' is a weekly ongoing superhero comic book written by Charles Soule, which follows up on the aftermath of ''The Death of Wolverine'', ''The Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Project'', and ''The Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy''. Its first issue was published on January 7, 2014.
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4Although Wolverine is dead, his influence continues to be felt by his friends and enemies. The surviving experiments from Paradise have joined forces with four of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s enemies (and Comicbook/{{X 23}}) to recover Logan's adamantium-encased body in hopes that his HealingFactor is the key to fixing the genetic timebomb engineered into them by Paradise, which could kill them at any time. The Wolverines themselves have agreed (read: been coerced) into helping by the means of four trigger words implanted in them sometime in the past by Dr. Cornelius, as Shogun, leader of the Paradise crew, promises to purge the words from them upon securing Logan's remains.
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7!!''Wolverines'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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9* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[spoiler:It's revealed in the final issue that the reason why ComicBook/{{Mystique}} got involved in this whole mess was to find a way to resurrect her dead lover, Destiny. When she learns that the plan she got from Destiny was actually to trick Mystique into resurrecting ''Wolverine'', she refuses to go through with it.]]
10* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Daken]] loses an arm to Sinister, who absconds with both it, [[spoiler: [[EyeScream one of his eyes]]]], and Logan's remains at the end of issue 1.
11* ArtShift: Every issue is drawn and colored by a different artist, which gives each issue a unique feel. The success of this, however, tends to vary, as the inconsistent art has been the main point of contention about the series.
12** Deliberately invoked in issue 13: Deadpool's fight with Comicbook/SheHulk is deliberately colored to mimic the look of ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'' #181, the issue in which Wolverine made his first full appearance.
13* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Issue 7 reveals Mystique's end-game is to bring Destiny back to life. Issue 20 reveals that ''Destiny's'' end-game was to bring ''Logan'' back to life. Mystique isn't exactly happy to learn this.]]
14* BedTrick: In issue 7 Mystique actually uses this as a ''threat'' against X-23.
15-->''Mystique transforms into [[Comicbook/AllNewXmen Teen!Warren]].''\
16'''Laura:''' ''Warren''...\
17'''Mystique:''' Oh yes, Laura. ''Warren''. Think of this moment the next time he wraps you in the warmth of his wings. Think...and wonder whose hands are ''actually'' touching you. Or perhaps I'll make love to him as you...do the things he ''wants'' but is afraid to ask for, because of your...[[Comicbook/{{NYX}} past]].
18* BerserkButton: When Junk uses the control words to knock out Daken [[spoiler: after Sinister takes his arm and eye and, without his HealingFactor, is in danger of bleeding out]], X-23 nearly loses it in outrage.
19* BigDamnHeroes: When Siphon corners Fantomelle to feed on her HealingFactor, he's interrupted when [[spoiler: X-23 blows his hands off with a shotgun]].
20** Issue five ends with [[spoiler: the Wolverines and Paradise crews separated; The Wolverines are about to be overwhelmed by an army of [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga Ben Reillys]] and Neuro offers to sell them out to Sinister in exchange for his help curing them. Sinister is about to put his final plans for Wolverine's corpse in motion when the Amazing X-Men arrive]].
21* BadassCrew: Comicbook/{{X 23}}, Comicbook/{{Daken}}, Sabretooth, Mystique, and Lady Deathstrike are all forced to team up for a common purpose. Add in Shogun, and you have a very impressive collection of badass.
22* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Daken begins the series with his HealingFactor stripped from him by Siphon. The only other member of the cast who was aware of this was Laura.]]
23** [[spoiler: in issue 20, X, Sabretooth, and Deathstrike all have ''their'' healing factors drained, as well.]]
24* CallBack: To Comicbook/{{Axis}}. In Sinister's fortress, Sabretooth tries to explain his [[HeelFaceTurn new attitude]] as being a result of what happened to him on Genosha, but the rest of the team doesn't buy it. Notably this includes Mystique, who was ''also'' affected by Scarlet Witch's inversion spell, but was reverted back at the end of the event. Whether this is an oversight by the writers or Mystique is deliberately not supporting Creed has yet to be revealed.
25* ChekhovsGun: A syringe of the regen serum Kitty Pryde used to heal Wolverine in issue 3 of ''The Death Of Wolverine'' returns, when Sharp [[spoiler: uses it on Daken when he lies dying after Sinister ripped off his arm and eye while his HealingFactor was broken]].
26** It comes up again in #19, [[spoiler: when Sinister uses it on Shogun to try and end their duel: Shogun had been mortally wounded during the fighting in #18, which allowed Ogun to regain total control of the body he shares with Sharp, and Sinister correctly reasoned that healing Shogun would cause Ogun's personality to be suppressed once again. [[OffWithHisHead Not that it helped Sinister in the end.]]]]
27* CliffHanger: [[spoiler:The last issue ends with Mystique not reviving Wolverine and leaving the rest of the surviving cast for dead. This can be somewhat forgiven though, because Secret Wars happened shortly after.]]
28* TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: Deadpool spends issue 13 running around trying to be the new Wolverine, because he's decided the world ''needs'' Wolverine. [[spoiler: And then issue 20 reveals ''he was right all along''. Destiny foresaw that Wolverine was a lynchpin in saving the multiverse from the [[Comicbook/SecretWars2015 Incursions]] that were due to destroy it.]]
29* CoolPlane: ''Changeling'', Mystique's [[BuffySpeak floating spaceship thing]], which comes complete with a cloaking device.
30* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover to issue five shows X-23 and Sabretooth in the middle of a fight. This scene never happens in the book.
31* CrazyPrepared: Sinister, natch.
32* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: Fantomelle's boyfriend gets unceremoniously tossed out a window by Siphon, though Sabretooth saves him during his fall.]]
33** What She-Hulk does to Deadpool when she gets fed up with his antics in her office. Being Deadpool, he shrugs it off.
34* DueToTheDead: Daken insists in issue 1 that once they recover Logan's remains, that they are to be treated with respect.
35** Once a year Fang meets with Logan to beat the crap out of things. This year he shows up only to discover Logan has died. After initially attacking the group, whom he recognizes as Wolverine's enemies ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Laura]]) believing they're responsible, once the confusion is (sort of) cleared up he decides the best way to honor him is to continue his and Logan's tradition, and take each of them on safari to kill something.
36* DynamicEntry: X's arrival at Fantomelle's apartment when she's under attack by Siphon.
37** In issue five, [[spoiler: Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler ''bamf'' into the heart of Sinister's lair while he's distracted observing the Wolverines and Paradise Crew, and working on Logan's remains]].
38** Deadpool smashes through the window of Comicbook/SheHulk's office because he's decided his first act as "Wolverine" is he needs to fight a Hulk.
39* {{Foreshadowing}}: In issue 12 Fantomelle keeps one of Wolverine's old costumes rather than turning it over to [[spoiler: Deadpool]] along with the rest of the memorabilia she recovered as part of the job they hired her for. In issue 13 she gives ''this'' costume to X-23 as a "thank you" for saving her in issue 3. Several months later Marvel announced that Laura would be [[LegacyCharacter taking up the Wolverine mantle]] as part of the [[ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel relaunch]] at the conclusion of ''Comicbook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}'' (See WhatCouldHaveBeen on the Trivia tab).
40* GambitPileup: Throughout the series Mystique has been manipulating the others towards her own ends to varying degrees of overtness. [[spoiler: #16 reveals that Sinister has had his ''own'' plans in motion ever since his previous defeat, maneuvering the Wolverines and remaining Paradise members into a trap, directly threatening Mystique's plans.]]
41* GenderBender: Before Paradise got hold of her, Endo was a man.
42* {{Greed}}: The Wrecking Crew are only at Paradise because Sinister hired them to find Wolverine's remains. [[spoiler: Mystique takes advantage of this to secure her own team's exit after Sinister absconds with the corpse and Daken's arm and eye by bribing them. Since Sinister already has what he came for and the job's done, ''and'' it now means getting paid twice for the same job, the Crew accepts and allows them to depart.]]
43* HeelFaceTurn: Sabretooth begins the series Inverted after the events of ''Comicbook/{{Axis}}''. This leads to an amusing exchange in issue 1 when Sharp expresses his distrust of Creed after he recently tried to kill him twice (in ''The Weapon X Project'' and ''The Logan Legacy''), and Creed honestly asks Sharp if he would believe if he's changed. Sharp's answer is a laconic "No."
44* IdiotBall: Grabbed by pretty much ''everyone'' in the finale: [[spoiler: After being trapped with Siphon by Mystique, Sabretooth, X-23, and Deathstrike get their healing factors drained one-by-one by Siphon because they [[MookChivalry essentially attack him one at a time]]. Additionally, Shogun and Daken — the two characters who can ''safely'' take him on — just stand by and watch, with Shogun only stepping in when Siphon finishes Creed and Laura and turns on Deathstrike. Afterwards, when they finally escape they use Siphon as a bloodhound to track Mystique down, but rather than actually turning him against her (because her healing abilities are still working) Deathstrike decides to decapitate him just to make a point. ''Then'' Mystique uses some sort of gas bomb to escape, at which point the entire team scatters to find her even though they're looking for a ''shapeshifter'', and the safest way to deal with her would be to stay together so they can keep track of who is who. Laura also forgets that she figured out how to recognize Mystique when she's in disguise. End result: Mystique ambushes them one-by-one, and leaves them for dead to carry out her plans.]]
45** Really, Mystique seems to carry a rather large one with her at all times that she's immune to, but affects everyone around her.
46* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Issue 13, fittingly, due to the appearance of Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}; Wade decides the world needs to have a Wolverine and [[LegacyCharacter takes it upon himself to do so]], while failing spectacularly and being rejected by the X-Men, Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., ''and Alpha'' Flight. After being defeated by Dogtagger, Punisher, Black Widow, and Captain America (read: ''snikting'' himself in the head), Wade wonders why he couldn't do it, and Dogtagger immediately asks him why he thought replacing Wolverine would be ''easy''. When one remembers the widespread fan speculation over the possibility of a "Battle of the Cowl" following Logan's death...
47* LetsYouAndHimFight: Issue 8 begins with this between Fang and the Wolverines. Fang believes the group (all of whom except X-23 being his enemies) are responsible and attacks them. Laura mostly clears up the confusion and talk him down, but Mystique is still determined to find a way to kill him anyway.
48* MacGuffin: Wolverine's adamantium-covered corpse.
49* MetaFiction: Issue 13 has a very distinctly meta feel in its A-plot, appropriately starring Deadpool. Deadpool's entire experience comes across as the writer directly addressing the reader speculation of who would take over for Wolverine after his death, by highlighting just how difficult it is for Legacy Characters to find acceptance. [[spoiler: That the issue ended with Fantomelle giving X-23 one of Logan's costumes only ''further'' fueled the debate.]]
50* TheMole: Mystique is secretly working at cross-purposes to the rest of the group, and is using them to advance her own goals thanks to information provided to her by Destiny.
51* MythologyGag: Comicbook/TheCloneSaga gets a nod when the Wolverines encounter an army of Ben Reillys, including a remark that Sinister found it amusing to use ''Reilly'' as a template for an army of clones.
52** ''All over the place'' in issue 13, courtesy of Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}.
53* NoodleIncident: While tracking Sinister in issue 2, Neuro mentions that when Cornelius experimented on the Wolverines that he implanted a genetic tracking device in them, which they can use to find Sinister's lab. However much like ''The Logan Legacy'', ''when'' and ''how'' Cornelius captured the group has yet to be explained.
54* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Fantomelle's boyfriend tries to drive off Siphon when he attacks their apartment seeking to feed on her HealingFactor. He has this reaction when Siphon {{No Sell}}s the punch to the jaw he delivers [[spoiler: right before Siphon [[DestinationDefenestration chucks him out a window]]]].
55* RightBehindMe: In #16 Junk goes into a frustrated rant about the Wolverines, calling them all monsters. ''Just'' as [[TokenGoodTeammate X-23]] walks into the room behind him.
56* SendInTheClones: With Sinister as the primary antagonist, this goes without saying. The Wolverines encounter an army of [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga Ben Reillys]] while the Paradise Crew has to deal with a clone of Fin Fang Foom (with a clone of ''Thor'' [[{{Squick}} as his tongue]]). All of Sinister's mooks we see are clones with ThemeNaming.
57** [[spoiler: In #16 Sinister is revealed to have created clones of Daken using his arm.]]
58* SequelSeries: To ''The Death of Wolverine'', ''The Weapon X Project'', and ''The Logan Legacy''.
59* ShaggyDogStory: By the end of the series, ''nothing'' has been accomplished, with each of the characters unable to fulfill their wanted goals.
60* SplitPersonality: Shogun is a combination of two people: The body and mind of a former Delta Force soldier named Sharp who was granted enhanced tactical ability by Paradise, and Ogun, Wolverine's one-time mentor and a spirit who has been {{Body Surf}}ing ever since Logan killed him. Sharp's personality is usually the dominant one, though Ogun can exert influence as well. They tend not to agree on their courses of action.
61* SuicideMission: After Sinister gets hold of Wolverine's body in issue 1, the team is left with no other choice but attempt to raid Sinister's base to get it back. Mystique ''immediately'' calls out just how insane this will be to try, given it's ''Sinister'' we're talking about. CrazyPrepared doesn't even cover it
62* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The Wolverines themselves. Though X-23 and Daken already had a more or less functional understanding and relationship, the rest of the group were ''very'' unlikely to ever work together given the choice, and Laura was the only undeniably ''good'' character in the group (though Daken generally leans more towards AntiVillain and AntiHero), and the friction between them was actually a selling point of the book. There's also the fact that the group is ''not'' working with Shogun and the Paradise crew willingly: Most of them are only there because he has promised to clear the trigger words from them, and because he essentially blackmailed them by threatening to use them to kill them if they decline his "offer."
63** This actually gets twisted and played with right from the start, as Sabretooth is inverted after ''Axis''.
64* TimeSkip: One of an indeterminate length occurs between ''The Logan Legacy'' and ''Wolverines'', allowing for the events of ''Comicbook/{{Axis}}'' to invert Sabretooth
65* TokenGoodTeammate: Laura is the only one of Logan's past associates who was a friend and ally, being his OppositeSexClone and adopted daughter. Sabretooth ''could'' also qualify considering he begins the series [[Comicbook/{{Axis}} Inverted]]. Endo is this for the Paradise crew, being the only one of the experiments who was ''not'' a criminal, a killer, or otherwise violent before Paradise got hold of her.
66* TookALevelInBadass: The Wrecking Crew, often depicted as something of a joke, actually present themselves as a legitimate threat. [[spoiler: Mystique ultimately resorts to bribing them to let the rest of the group leave Paradise, since Sinister already has what he wants and they'll now be getting paid double for the job.]]
67* UnexplainedRecovery: Despite apparently having been killed by the Brood, Fang shows up in issue 8 with the only explanation for his survival being "I'm Lupak."
68* WhileRomeBurns: [[spoiler: Issue 20 reveals that the plan Mystique was given to follow by Destiny turns out not to be intended to bring ''her'' back, but ''Logan'', instead: Destiny had a vision that revealed Wolverine was going to be a central figure in saving reality from the [[Comicbook/SecretWars2015 Incursions]], so manipulated Mystique into bringing him back because the world needed a Wolverine if it was going to survive. When Mystique learned the truth of this, she didn't take it well and refused to carry out Destiny's plan. She preferred to let existence die than resurrect Logan.]]
69* YouMonster: X-23 says this to Mystique when the latter tries to murder Fang.

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