Wolverine

**James Howlett**, better known as **Logan**, is a man born in the 1830s in Canada who discovered he was a mutant born with a regenerative healing factor, enhanced strength and agility and three retractable claws on each hand. Running away from home, he discovered his healing factor greatly slowed down his ageing. During his travels, he formed a blood-bond with Victor Creed, which eventually grew into an intense rivalry. Logan fought in multiple wars throughout history, slowly becoming a near-mythical figure known as **The Wolverine**.

## Biography

### Early Life and Background

James Howlett was born in Canada in 1832 into a rich and prominent family; in truth, he was the son of the family groundskeeper, Thomas Logan. At age twelve, James broke both of his legs and his spine while playing on the family grounds; while his mother comforted him, she watched horrified as his body repaired itself, leaving no sign that the injuries had even occurred. From that moment on, any injuries James sustained were almost instantly erased, no matter how serious. His mother tried to keep this secret, but others eventually heard of the boy who could not die. A pogrom broke onto the property, intending to kill the boy and the family, accusing them of witchcraft. After watching his mother die, James unleashed his retractable claws for the first time, killing several people. He fled into the wild while his family's estate burned. James survived in the Canadian wilderness, forging a connection with the local predators and taking on some of their aspects, especially their aggression. He aged until he took the appearance of a man in his thirties, at which point his healing factor dramatically slowed his ageing. As he aged more and more he forgot his original name entirely, leaving only the memory of the name "Logan".

## Powers, Equipment and Abilities

### Powers

* **Mutant Physiology:** Wolverine is a very powerful mutant who possesses superhuman strength, durability, endurance, speed, agility, reflexes, flexibility, dexterity, stamina, senses, an accelerated healing factor, immunity, retractable razor-sharp claws, empathy, etc.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Wolverine is much stronger than a normal human. He can easily bench press 5 tons. His lean, brawny muscles/body shape and perfect golden-proportioned body doesn't change regardless of calorie intake or time. Most prominently, he can quickly overpower, ragdoll and launch most humans several feet through the air.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Wolverine is far more durable than a normal human, to the point that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to kill or injure him. He has been repeatedly shot, stabbed, and has endured extreme forms of energy without passing out and barely being slowed down. His adamantium skeleton makes his completely indestructible.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance:** Wolverine's endurance, tenacity, vitality, willpower and pain tolerance are limitless. This allows him to continue fighting without being weakened, stunned, dazed or fatigued, as well as making it difficult for pain to cripple him, or sometimes faze him at all.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Wolverine is able to easily run over 60 mph, which allowed him to cover a mile in a minute or less.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Wolverine has lightning-fast auto-reflexes far greater than an Olympic-level human.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Wolverine's agility is far greater than an Olympic-level human, he is able to leap across greater distances, and can even perform flips in mid-air.
	+ **Superhuman Dexterity:** Wolverine's dexterity is far greater than an Olympic-level human.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Wolverine can engage in physical activity for far longer than an Olympic-level human.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** Wolverine's senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and instincts are heightened far beyond that of a human's. He can see much further and closer than normal humans with perfect clarity, even retaining this perfect clarity in total darkness. His enhanced hearing allows him to detect sounds that normal humans can't, and hear sounds at a much greater distance. His sense of smell is sufficiently heightened and is capable of tracking people through scent alone. He's able to sense danger, detect lies and weaknesses.
	+ **Accelerated Perception:** Wolverine mind and instincts process the world in the most advanced and efficient manner possible. He can find any solutions to any problems that he faces, using logical and illogical sense and strategies. His aggressive behaviour is also in part affected by his animal-like instincts. Wolverine has a tactical ability allows him to immediately intuit the best way to engage in any tactical problem.
	+ **Accelerated Healing Factor:** Wolverine's instant regenerative abilities allow him to rapidly regenerate any damaged or destroyed bodily molecules, cells, tissues, bones, limbs, organs, etc instantaneously. Wolverine's healing factor allows him to completely and rapidly heal and recover from any injury in within a matter of seconds. Wolverine's healing factor makes him immortal and virtually indestructible. Wolverine can survive both clinical or brain death is able to come back from any death that he may suffer. He completely recovers from all injuries, both internal and external, without leaving a scar.
	+ **Superhuman Immunity:** Due to Wolverine's accelerated healing factor, he is immune to all poisons, toxins, impurities, illnesses, diseases, radiation, infections, disorders, imperfections, and other harmful foreign substances.
	+ **Immortality:** Due to Wolverine's accelerated healing factor; he is immortal, unable to rot, get sick, and incapable of being permanently wounded, making him self-sustained. He has endless vitality, virility, willpower, and will to live.
	+ **Adaptation:** Wolverine has a super-advanced surviving ability, which automatically adapts and modifies his mind and body allowing him to survive in many different environments, conditions, situations, enemies, etc, that are normally deadly.
* **Retractable Bone Claws:** Wolverine possesses three retractable razor-sharp adamantium claws in each of his hands.
* **Empathy:** Wolverine is able to naturally, and instinctively; sense, understand, communicate with, influence and to an extent control any creature. This is done with the subtle and passive physical manipulation of the emotional state, hormones, and sensory perceptions of other beings.
* **Adamantium Skeleton:** Wolverine's adamantium skeletal system makes his musculoskeletal system indestructible. It is the adamantium that has enhanced his strength and durability further, to the point where he could easily overpower, ragdoll and launch humans easier and with less effort than he would need to exert. It makes it difficult to stun or daze him, though being hit in the head with enough force can be enough to knock him unconscious.

## Relationships

### Victor Creed

Logan's relationship with Sabertooth is complex, switching from antagonistic to brother-like depending on the decade. The two of them are bound not only by their similar mutant abilities but also by a deep and often painful blood-bond. Sabertooth is responsible for Logan's initial survival in the wild. They fought together during the American Civil War on the side of the Union, but Logan grew disgusted at Sabertooth's violence and sadism and declared their brotherhood over. However, their blood-bond kept them bound, and they entered an agreement: every decade, they would switch from being brothers to bitter rivals, always fighting on the opposite side of the other in the case of the latter; for example, in the 1910s they fought each other as rivals, especially during World War One, while in the 1960s they fought together as brothers in the Vietnam War.