History ComicBook / Daken

* HoYay: In ''Dark Wolverine'' #76, Daken snidely implies that Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, has feelings for his old pal, Johnny Storm. Ben's enraged response suggests that Daken hit a raw nerve.

* MyRealDaddy: Majorie Liu is this for Logan's offspring, ComicBook/{{Daken}} -- it was once she joined his creator, Daniel Way, at writing the character, that he became the DepravedBisexual MagnificentBastard {{Troll}} people love. To be fair, Creator/BrianMichaelBendis putting him on ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' and other writers using him for cameos with the rest of the team probably helped a bit.

''Daken'' is the title of several Creator/MarvelComics comic books starring the titular [[Characters/WolverineSupportingCharacters Daken]].

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''Akihiro'', more commonly known as ''Daken'', is the son of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and his deceased wife Itsu. Blessed with his dad's {{Wolverine Claws}} (although with a twist or two there) and {{Healing Factor}}, 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, seducing people just to prove he can and is smart enough to dupe ComicBook/NormanOsborn and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] -- but still gets his ass handed to him by his father. Speaking of dad, Daken has quite a few [[DisappearedDad daddy issues]].

Daken first appeared in ''"Wolverine Origins''" #10 (March, 2007), created by Daniel Way and Creator/SteveDillon. He went on to serve as a member of the ComicBook/DarkAvengers. He became the protagonist of Wolverine's ongoing (Logan got a new ongoing titled ''Wolverine: Weapon X''), which was retitled ''Dark Wolverine'', but kept the series' numbering. He gained his own title ''"Daken: Dark Wolverine''" in 2010, which was ongoing until 2011.

Daken featured in Rick Remender's ''[[ComicBook/XForce Uncanny X-Force]]'' and ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers''. He also was one of five characters focused on in ''The Logan Legacy'', a seven-issue miniseries that explored the aftermath of the death of Wolverine, whichstarred in the weekly ongoing ''Comicbook/{{Wolverines}}''.

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!! Daken appears in:

[[AC: Comic Books]]
* ''Dark Wolverine'' (2009 -- 2010)
* ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' (2009 -- 2010)
* ''Daken: Dark Wolverine'' (2010 -- 2011)
* ''ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine: The Logan Legacy'' (2014)
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverines}}'' (2015)
* ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'' (2017)
* ''ComicBook/XMenBlue'' (2018)
* ''ComicBook/XFactor2020''

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest''

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!! Daken provides examples of the following tropes:

* AbortedArc: Daken found out that ComicBook/BuckyBarnes was responsible for his mother's death, but despite a clear set-up he never confronted him.
%%* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Just like his Dad.
* AffablyEvil: Swings between this and {{Jerkass}} as it suits his whims or plans or both.
%%* AlasPoorVillain: ''Twice'', which is really saying something given his personality.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's never been explained exactly where Marcus Roston got his powers.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Has his arm torn off by Mr. Sinister in ''Wolverines'' #1 after his healing factor was stripped from him by Siphon at the end of ''The Logan Legacy''. By the time of ''Comicbook/AllNewWolverine'' his healing factor had recovered and he grew back his arm.]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Under his Wolverine guise.
* AnimeHair: Daken's hair is a literal inversion of his father's. Where Wolverine's hair is big and tall on the sides, but more subdued on the top, Daken rocks a Mohawk on an otherwise bald head. As of ''Wolverines'' however, he lets his hair grow out to resemble more like Logan.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Given that he hates his father to the point where he's attempted to usurp Sabretooth's role as Logan's {{Archenemy}}, he ''definitely'' counts.
%%* AntiHero: Depending on the writer, generally swinging towards the "anti" end of the scale, and primarily in stories where he's teamed up with Laura.
* AntiVillain: He generally occupies this role rather than being an outright villain, though it's often DependingOnTheWriter. More recent works have swung him more towards the "anti" end of the scale.
* AnythingThatMoves: Sort of (see below). Daken plays with gender stereotypes like they were jazz songs with no rules. As in the scene where he seduces a female anorexic supermodel by finger feeding her a strawberry she had been afraid to eat, and then flirts with the nebbishy male fashion designer on the same page without stopping for breath. He follows this up by flirting with the {{Shapeshifter}} Mystique before the end of the comic.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Daken (駄犬) means "mongrel" or "dog" [[BilingualBonus in Japanese]] and was the name he was taunted with as a child.
* {{Archenemy}}: After Sabretooth he's the strongest contender for the title, what with his EvilCounterpart status, personal connection to Logan, and popularity among writers and fans alike. Ironically and despite this, Daken is shown to be profoundly saddened by Logan's death and makes an effort to give him ''some'' form of proper burial. [[spoiler: Later during ''Comicbook/{{Wolverines}}'' he's insistent that Logan's remains be treated with respect once they're recovered, and is prepared to come to blows with Sabretooth when he (incorrectly) believes the latter is mocking him for it.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
** For all his antagonism towards Logan, he really ''did'' love his father in his way, and at times even expressed regret that he never truly got to be a part of his family. He even went out of his way to recover what effects of Logan's he could from an AuctionOfEvil so he could give him a proper Japanese funeral.
** Although his early interactions with X-23 were hostile, by the end of their second encounter in Madripoor he began to establish a grudging respect for her. By ''The Logan Legacy'' and ''Wolverines'' this had grown to something resembling brotherly affection, which Laura returned, openly considering him her family. In ''All-New Wolverine'' their relationship was firmly established when Daken agreed to help fight the disease ravaging Roosevelt Island ''entirely'' because Laura needed him.
* BackFromTheDead: Was killed at the end of ''Uncanny X-Force'' by Rick Remender. Was brought back in ''Uncanny Avengers'' as one of the ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} Twins' Horsemen of Death by Rick Remender.
* BadassBookworm: As per his assassin upbringing he recieved a top class education and is very, very intelligent.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Occasionally when he's not in either a dark variant of his father's costume, average street clothes or [[WalkingShirtlessScene pants and tattoos.]]
* BadWithTheBone: Daken has three retractable bone claws housed underneath his forearms, two claws which emerge from between the skin of his first and third knuckles and one from his inner wrist. These claws are much harder and denser than normal human bone and their natural shape provides them with a razor sharp edge capable of easily slicing through flesh and bone, and they have been shown to be able to penetrate metals as durable as ComicBook/IronMan's armor.
* TheBerserker: Subverted, people expect this of Daken, given who his dad is, and he has a tendency to take advantage of it at times. In one scene, Daken allows ComicBook/NormanOsborn to think that he has used Daken's temper and hatred for Wolverine to bait him, after which Daken smiles and points out the mistakes in Osborn's cultured facade.
-->'''ComicBook/NormanOsborn:''' "But more importantly, you're MY Wolverine. YOU are Wolverine. Do you know what a hero is?"
-->'''Daken:''' "You mean... like ComicBook/SpiderMan?"
* BigBrotherInstinct: His relationship with his sister eventually develops into this, if in his own, twisted way.
* BodyHorror: Like his dad, Daken's healing factor means that he tends to get put through the meat grinder on a regular basis.
** There was one particular incident where he acquired a Bloodstone, which grants a healing factor that, coupled with his own, gave him super lupus that caused tumors to sprout from his body. The more damage, the greater the tumors, and Frankencastle blowing him up with a grenade caused him to sprout into a giant mass he had to cut himself out of.
* CainAndAbel: He's the Cain to ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s Abel. However he and Laura actually get along rather well, and she's one of the only people he genuinely seems to care for.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He has a tendency to not be trusted due to him only stay on his own side and ends up abandoning others.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Let's see.. he survived his mother's murder (which happened before ''he was born!''), watched his adoptive father commit suicide, and was raised by a hated enemy of his father's. Yup.
* DeadpanSnarker: He's his father's son.
* DeathIsCheap: He apparently died in an explosion he caused after his healing factor was destroyed. [[UnexplainedRecovery He later showed up]], revealing himself behind the new Brotherhood. Where, after fighting Logan a bit, [[BackForTheDead he died, again]]. After that, he became an undead Horseman of Death for the Apocalypse Twins, before an UnexplainedRecovery in time for ''The Logan Legacy''.
* DelinquentHair: His hair is done up in a Mohawk.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Daken's depiction ranges from slightly-ugly to extremely-handsome depending on who is doing the drawing.
* DepravedBisexual: Daken has killed countless innocents, including poisoning wine he knew his disposable girlfriend would drink. He was in a relationship with Icemaster in Comicbook/UncannyXMen2018, and in Creator/LeahWilliams's Comicbook/XFactor2020 he is into Aurora and jokes that him being this trope is balanced out by Prodigy's aversion of this trope while they're on the same team.
* DistaffCounterpart:
** His little "sister" X-23.
** Kirika from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse timeline. Even more so since they both have Japanese mothers.
* DueToTheDead:
** In ''Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy'' #5, Comicbook/{{Daken}} assaults an auction in Madripoor and slaughters everyone there [[spoiler: except Viper, Mystique, and a former lover]] in order to retrieve the remains of Logan that are being sold there so he can give his father a proper burial. He later angrily snaps at Sabretooth not to mock his insistence that Logan's remains be treated with respect once they recover them in ''Wolverines''.
** He reclaims the body of Laura's mother, Sarah Kinney, in ''All-New Wolverine'' #30 so Laura can finally give her a proper burial.
* DracoInLeatherPants: [[invoked]]Daken is very much a deconstruction of [[http://io9.com/5807707/why-wolverines-smelly-son-shows-the-true-dark-side-of-the-romantic-hero the dark romantic hero]]. Everyone who meets Daken -- his father, Mystique, Norman Osborn, the Fantastic Four, Moonstone -- thinks they've got him figured out. They all think they can reach him or control him. And they are ''all wrong''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Prior to becoming a movie star, Marcus Roston was a member of the Pride, but was kicked out because he seemed to be taking an unhealthy interest in their kids. Apparently, even a cabal dedicated to purging the earth of almost all life has standards.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: His dead mother Itsu is one of the closest things to a soft spot that Daken has. The other is his "sister," X-23.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Zig-zagged. Daken's SmellsSexy pheromones are just as effective on males as on females, a fact that he ruthlessly exploits as a tool for manipulating people. Even ones who would otherwise find him personally repulsive due to his personality. Also, his attractiveness is nowhere near so effective against those who are not affected by his pheromones. For example, ComicBook/{{Hulkling}} of the ''Comicbook/YoungAvengers'' is unaffected, and can even tell that Daken is trying to manipulate him with his pheromones, because Hulkling is a NonHumanHumanoidHybrid with absolutely no human ancestry.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: As a member of the Horsemen of Death, he wears a black variant of his Dark Avengers outfit.
* EvilCounterpart:
** Daken is this to his father.
** More so to his [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} sister]] since Wolverine [[ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} already has a long-established evil counterpart]]. Daken shows how [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} Laura]] could have turned out (and still might) without any positive guidance in her life. Despite that, after an initial violent encounter they actually get along quite well, and in fact she's one of the few people who he seems to have genuine affection for.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:See AnArmAndALeg above; Sinister ''also'' takes one of his eyes.]]
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Don't expect him to stay on anyone's side for more than a day. Why everyone is continually surprised by this is a question best left [[MST3KMantra for the ages.]]
* FantasticDrug: Heat, Daken's new psychotropic addiction. Also, while he's drugged, there is a rather neat ArtShift. It is also arguably a MacGuffin since it also negates his HealingFactor.
* FreudianExcuse: According to his creators.
* GenerationXerox: In the end, he and Skaar don't get along any better than Logan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]]. Much to Wolverine's relief, because he was utterly terrified by the idea of Daken befriending gamma-powered [[RecycledINSPACE space]] [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan]].
* GeniusBruiser: Although not the obvious muscle head his dad is, Daken can pull this off pretty well too.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He's done his fair share of standing around and letting horrible injuries happen to him for no reason other than the fact that they'll heal quickly.
* HealingFactor: His dad is Wolverine. Duh. He briefly lost it during the events of ''Wolverines'', and even after it restarted it remained severely compromised for some time.
* TheHedonist: When one of your powers is pretty much "seduce people", you might let it get to your head.
* HeelFaceTurn: Since Logan's death.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Generally a Heel but he has his moments of almost AntiHero, particularly when it concerns his "little sister" [[MoralityPet Laura.]]
* HeroKiller: He ''killed'' the Punisher. Frank got better, though.
* HotBloodedSideburns: Like his father Daken grows some and is hotheaded.
* KilledOffForReal: Drowned by Wolverine in ''ComicBook/XForce''. That didn't stick, as he came back in ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers'' not long afterwards, and he's back to normal by ''All-New Wolverine''.
* IcyGrayEyes: When the colorist actually [[DependingOnTheArtist remembers]] what his eye color his, it's usually depicted as a steely gray. This is done most likely as a contrast to his father's much warmer blue ones.
* IJustWantToBeLoved:
** Drunkenly confesses to Logan that sometimes, he wonders what he would've been like if Logan and his mother raised him.
** His relationship with Sabretooth was implied to be this, as Victor himself says the kid was so starved for fatherly love that he would do anything Victor said. This is retconned later in that Daken ''knew'' Creed was playing him all along, and just went with it because it served Daken's own purposes.
* ManipulativeBastard: Oh God, do you want a list of the people he's messed with? He once drove a lover he was messing with to ''suicide'' to get rid of any loose ends. Daken is himself manipulated into getting himself killed at his father's hands by Sabertooth, an even bigger bastard. Then after he got better, it's retconned that Daken ''knew'' what Creed was doing all along, and just went with it for his own reasons.
* MeaningfulName:
** Daken is Japanese for "mongrel". He chose to keep this name after being called it regularly when he was a child in Japan, with the other people noticing that he was half white, hence "mixed breed".
** Akihiro means "bright", "autumn", or "boy", depending on the kanji used. This is the name his adoptive father gave him.
* MrFanservice: If there is a single issue that doesn't involve him not wearing a shirt, being in tight-spandex, or catering to some form of fetish, the person who finds it deserves [[CosmeticAward a Marvel No-Prize]].
* NonActionGuy: It's not that he isn't good at fighting or doesn't enjoy a decent brawl, but he spends a lot of his ongoing dealing out measured and calculated violence and only then when it's absolutely necessary. His stated reason for this restraint and his heavier focus on scheming is because he doesn't want to be the raging brute he perceives his father to be. [[spoiler:He ultimately fails and ends his series picking a fight with the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and whoever else was in New York city when he attacked it.]]
* NotSoDifferent:
%%** Daken says this to [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Skaar]] the first time they meet.
** He has one of those moments with Banner who, currently depowered, convinced him he is as much of a killer as him.
%%** Issue in question ends with Logan telling Daken that, with their relationship as messed up as it is, at least it's not as bad as Banner's and Skaar's. [[NotSoSimilar Meanwhile, Bruce tells his son that at last they're not as bad as Logan and Daken.]]
** Used on Donna Kiel, an FBI agent who's been hunting down Daken for the past few issues. Daken tells her that he is fond of her, and regards her as his equal, as well as labeling her a psychopath, like himself.
%%** He has a bit of this with X-23 as well. In fact those similarities are among the reasons they ultimately bonded.
%%* OneManArmy
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Daken was born just after World War II, making him no younger than his 70s. His sister, Comicbook/{{X 23}}, is 20 years old as of ''Comicbook/AllNewWolverine''. Gabby is even ''younger'', being thirteen years old.
* PetTheDog:
** Daken loves to invoke and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk then subvert this trope]]. To put it more bluntly, this is a character who has very few redeeming qualities.
** He demonstrates genuine affection for X-23, who is one of the few people he treats as an equal. When he later comes to help out with ThePlague ravaging Roosevelt Island in ''All-New Wolverine'', he admits he doesn't give a damn about the island, and is only there for her. This extends to Gabby, as well, and Daken even gives her her first superhero name.
** He shows moments of kindness to street kids and children who have suffered rough upbringings.
** For all his antagonism towards Logan, he really ''did'' love his father in his own way, and at times even expressed regret that he never truly got to be a part of his family. He even went out of his way to recover what effects of Logan's he could from an AuctionOfEvil so he could give him a proper Japanese funeral.
* {{Pheromones}}: Daken can produce these to [[LivingAphrodisiac make people fall in love with him]], regardless of their gender. He can also manipulate people in more subtle ways, it's just that seduction is his favorite way of getting what he wants.
%%* PsychoForHire
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Averted. Daken is regularly treated as an AntiVillain or a NobleDemon, and has a large number of fans, despite the fact he's a completely unapologetic rapist (primarily with his pheromone powers, but at least once he's just straight-up forced himself on someone). For note, his pheromone power works very similarly to Zebidiah Killgrave (AKA, the Purple Man), who by comparison is treated like an irredeemable monster because of his use of this power for the same reason.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: The part of his origin which involves him as a baby being abandoned on the doorstep of a Japanese couple and taken in by them caused some criticism for using an old plot device that could hardly work in the 20th century. In truth, this happened frequently to children of mixed race who were born right after World War II. Mothers would sometimes leave their children on the doorsteps of sympathetic neighbors in a gamble that they would be taken in.
* Really700YearsOld: Like his old man, Daken is older than he looks. Daken appears to be in his mid-twenties or so, but was born just after World War II had ended in 1946.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Daken and Laura take turns delivering this to ''each other'' during their rampage through Colcord's base. Daken tries to call her out on her empathy for others, believing that her skills as a killer make her better than everyone around her, and that her heart only forces her to hold back. Laura flatly tells him that she doesn't fight because she has something to prove, but for something ''bigger'' than herself. She then turns this around on him, asking why ''he'' holds back by not taking the risk of allowing himself to ''actually'' care for anyone. Daken doesn't really have an answer.
* TheResenter: He feels resentment towards his father, his sister, and anybody else who might have a better life than he does.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: At the end of his focus issue of ''The Logan Legacy'', Daken spares [[spoiler: Mystique, Viper, and Agent Kim -- a former lover who was acting as Hydra's spy at the auction selling off Logan's remains -- telling the latter to live a good and full life. After telling his story to his handlers but withholding his relationship with Daken, Kim is promptly killed when they probe his mind to find out just why Daken spared his life.]]
* SmellsSexy: He has pheromones that let him nudge people's emotions. The pheromones allow him to push people's emotions in many directions, and Daken has been shown to use this to good effect... He just prefers using it to make himself a sex god. It does not, however, work on non-humans, regardless of sexual orientation, as [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Hulkling]]]] proved.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Daken's mother, Itsu, was murdered by the Winter Soldier before he was born. She had almost no personality developed and was mainly a plot excuse to cause Daken and Logan to fight. His mutant healing factor kicked in and he survived long enough to be rescued by Romulus. This led to the only thing approaching a soft spot he has in memory of her.
%%* SuperSenses: Inherited them from his father.
* SurvivorGuilt: Muramasa reveals in ''All-New Wolverine #28'' that the reason his HealingFactor remained compromised after the events of ''Comicbook/{{Wolverines}}'' is because of the immense guilt he carries over his father's death, and not being able to stop it.
* TrainingFromHell: Ever since he was a child he has been trained as an assassin at the unpleasant hands of Cyber.
* {{Unobtanium}}: For a while there, Daken had his claws bonded with metal from the Muramasa Blade which negates healing factor, allowing him to threaten even his dad.
* UnexplainedRecovery: It's never explained how he survived his apparent suicide at the close of his solo series, since the entire point was that he no longer had a HealingFactor.
** The series also featured the return of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}, including Chase, who was shown barely clinging to life at the end of their own series.
* UnstoppableRage: Daken takes full advantage of his father's reputation and what he's well known for his BerserkerRage. So he uses this in battle as well.
* UnwittingPawn: In ''Uncanny X-Force'', Daken is ultimately an unwitting sacrificial pawn in Sabertooth's latest scheme to screw up Logan's life. It's afterwards turned on its head when it's revealed after his return that he ''knew'' Creed was just using him all along, and just went with it for his own reasons.
%%* VillainProtagonist: As opposed to Dad's Anti-Hero status.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: To the point of almost [[OncePerEpisode once an issue]]. Lampshaded in one issue when he begins to take off his costume for absolutely no reason whatsoever, seems to think about it, and then continues.
* WolverineClaws: As expected from the son of the TropeNamer, he has two knuckle set claws on both hands and two underneath his wrists.
* WolverineWannabe: Wolverine's son, who inherited a great deal of his father's powers. The main difference is that his HealingFactor functions voluntarily rather than passively.
%%* XanatosSpeedChess: This is Daken's go-to strategy for human interaction.
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* DepravedBisexual: Daken has killed countless innocents, including poisoning wine he knew his disposable girlfriend would drink. He was in a relationship with Icemaster in Comicbook/UncannyXMen2018, and in Creator/KellyThompson's Comicbook/XFactor2020 he is into Aurora and jokes that him being this trope is balanced out by Prodigy's aversion of this trope while they're on the same team.

* DepravedBisexual: After years of being though asexual due to Word of God, as of Creator/KellyThompson's Comicbook/XFactor2020 he jokes that him being this trope is balanced out by Prodigy's aversion of this trope while they're on the same team.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Just like his Dad.

* AlasPoorVillain: ''Twice'', which is really saying something given his personality.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Given that he hates his father to the point where he's attempted to usurp Sabretooth's role as his {{Archenemy}}, he ''definitely'' counts.
* AntiHero: Again, depending on the writer, and again, generally swinging towards the "anti" end of the scale, and primarily in stories where he's teamed up with Laura.

* AxCrazy: Subverted, while Daken is somewhat stable at times he's just extremely violent and often lives by the philosophy of using killing for nearly everyone including himself.

* BerserkButton: Disrespecting his father Wolverine will surely get him on his bad side. As Sabretooth and the Auctioners found that out when they mocked Wolverine's honor by trying to sell his remains thus enraging Daken due to him actually loving his father.
** He seems to not like it when others try to control or manipulate.

-->'''Daken:''' "You mean...like ComicBook/SpiderMan?"

** There was one particular incident where he acquired a Bloodstone, which grants a healing factor, that coupled with his own gave him super lupus that caused tumors to sprout from his body. The more damage the greater the tumors, and Frankencastle blowing him up with a grenade caused him to sprout into a giant mass he had to cut himself out of.

** Also Kirika from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse timeline. Even more so since they both have Japanese mothers.
* DueToTheDead: In ''Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy'' #5, Comicbook/{{Daken}} assaults an auction in Madripoor and slaughters everyone there [[spoiler: except Viper, Mystique, and a former lover]] in order to retrieve the remains of Logan that are being sold there so he can give his father a proper burial. He later angrily snaps at Sabretooth not to mock his insistence that Logan's remains be treated with respect once they recover them in ''Wolverines''.
** He does the same again for Laura in ''All-New Wolverine'' #30, reclaiming the body of her mother, Sarah Kinney so she can finally give her a proper burial.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He's done his fair share of standing around and letting horrible injuries happen to him for no reason other than this trope.

* NotSoDifferent: Daken says this to [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Skaar]] the first time they meet.
** He also has one of those moments with Banner who, currently depowered, convinced him he is as much of a killer as him.
** Issue in question ends with Logan telling Daken that, with their relationship as messed up as it is, at least it's not as bad as Banner's and Skaar's. [[NotSoSimilar Meanwhile, Bruce tells his son that at last they're not as bad as Logan and Daken.]]
** Later used for a much greater effect on Donna Kiel, an FBI agent who'd been hunting down Daken for the past few issues. Daken tells her that he is fond of her, regarding her as his equal, as well as labeling her a psychopath, like himself.
** He has a bit of this with X-23 as well. In fact those similarities are among the reasons they ultimately bonded.
* OneManArmy

** However he does demonstrate genuine affection for X-23, who is one of the few people he treats as an equal. When he later comes to help out with ThePlague ravaging Roosevelt Island in ''All-New Wolverine'', he admits he doesn't give a damn about the island, and is only there for her. This extends to Gabby, as well, and Daken even gives her her first superhero name.
** He also shows moments of kindness to street kids and children who have suffered rough upbringings.
** For all his antagonism towards Logan, he really ''did'' love his father in his way, and at times even expressed regret that he never truly got to be a part of his family. He even went out of his way to recover what effects of Logan's he could from an AuctionOfEvil so he could give him a proper Japanese funeral.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Subverted. Daken is regularly treated as an AntiVillain or a NobleDemon, and has a large number of fans, despite the fact he's a completely unapologetic rapist (primarily with his pheromone powers, but at least once he's just straight-up forced himself on someone). For note, his pheromone power works very similarly to Zebidiah Killgrave (AKA, the Purple Man), who by comparison is treated like an irredeemable monster because of his use of this power for the same reason.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Subverted, not in the killer sense, but in the sense that Daken enjoys playing with gender stereotypes.

* Really700YearsOld: Like his old man, Daken is older than he looks. Daken appears to be in his mid twenties or so, but was born just after World War II had ended in 1946.

* TheResenter: Towards his father, his sister, and anybody else who might have a better life than he does.

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* SuperSenses[=/=]TheNoseKnows: Inherited them from his father.

* VillainProtagonist: As opposed to Dad's Anti-Hero status.

* WolverineClaws: To be expected from the son of the TropeNamer, he has two knuckle set claws on both hands and two underneath his wrists.

* XanatosSpeedChess: This is Daken's go-to strategy for human interaction.

* MeaningfulName: Daken is Japanese for mongrel. He chose to keep this name after being called it regularly when he was a child in Japan, with the other people noticing that he was half white, hence "mixed breed".

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* VillainousAromanticAsexual: WordOfGod states that he identifies as asexual. [[PragmaticPansexuality He merely uses sex as a way to manipulate others.]]

* DepravedBisexual: He's Asexual but uses sex purely for manipulation, according to WordOfGod.

* TheSociopath: Almost textbook case and taken to extreme levels at times. In spite of this, Daken is more a high functioning version as he is capable of emotion and can care about others, albeit in a very twisted way. It's less that Daken has no empathy and more that he views compassion and attachment as a weakness. He can care about others but because of his upbringing, cannot express that care properly and only rates people in more practical terms (are they compitent, gifted, useful, obsticle etc.)

* {{Asexuality}}: Daken does not have any attraction towards neither male nor female characters. The only time he has any sort of sexual contact with others is when he tries to manipulate others.

* MeaningfulName: Daken is Japanese for mongrel. It's stated he chose this name himself.

* AxCrazy: While Daken isn't crazy he's just extremely violent and uses his father's name because Logan was well known for flying into a rage in battle so he does the same.

* BerserkButton: Disrespecting his father Wolverine will surely get him on his bad side. As Sabretooth found that out when he mocked Wolverine for dying this enraged Daken due to him actually loving his father and flew into a BerserkerRage when fighting Sabretooth.
* TheBerserker: Subverted, people expect this of Daken, given who his dad is, and Daken loves to take advantage of it. In one scene, Daken allows ComicBook/NormanOsborn to think that he has used Daken's temper and hatred for Wolverine to bait him, after which Daken smiles and points out the mistakes in Osborn's cultured facade.
-->'''ComicBook/NormanOsborn:''' "But more importantly, you're MY Wolverine. YOU are Wolverine. Do you know what a hero is?"
-->'''Daken:''' "You mean...like ComicBook/SpiderMan?"
* BigBrotherInstinct: His relationship with his sister eventually develops into this, if in his own, twisted way.

%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder

* DepravedBisexual: Identifies as an Asexual that uses sex purely for manipulation, according to WordOfGod.

* HotBloodedSideburns: Like his father Daken grows some and is hotheaded.

** Daken loves to invoke and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk then subvert this trope]]. To put it more bluntly, this is a character who has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

* TheSociopath: Almost textbook case and taken to extreme levels at times. In spite of this, Daken is more a high functioning version as he is capable of emotion and can care about others, albeit in a very twisted way. It's less that Daken has no empathy and more that he views compassion and attachment as a weakness. He can care about others but because of his upbringing, cannot express that care properly and only rates people in more practical terms (are they compitent,gifted,useful, obsticle eta.)

* ''[[ComicBook/{{X-Factor2020}} X-Factor]]'' (2020)

* ''[[ComicBook/{{X-Factor2020}} X-Factor]] (2020)''