John Howlett

## Universe(s)

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What If

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**John Howlett Jr.** is the oldest son of John Howlett Sr. and Elizabeth Howlett. He is the older brother of James Howlett, the husband of Sarael Howlett, and the father of Rachel and James Howlett II.

## Powers

### Mutation

Currently John's powers are inactive as he is wearing a mutant suppressor watch wanting to grow old and when the time comes die with his wife.

* **Superhumanly Acute Senses**: John possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals. He can see at far greater distances, with perfect clarity, than an ordinary human. He retains this same level of clarity even in near total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to detect sounds ordinary humans couldn't hear at a greater distance, enough to hear a teardrop in another room that has thick walls with enough focus. He is able to recognize people and objects by scent, even if they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent, even if the scent has been greatly eroded by time and weather factors, with an extraordinary degree of success. Logan can also use his keen sense of smell to detect lies due to chemical changes within a person's scent. These senses stemmed from, at least partially, his constant cellular regeneration, as were his enhanced physical capabilities.
* **Enhanced Strength**: John is capable of lifting in excess of 800 lbs.
* **Enhanced Speed**: John is able to move at low level superhuman speeds. He has attacked faster than the eye could follow. His combat speed seems to be more enhanced than anything else, as he has frequently kept up with speedsters in combat, and blitzed people before they pull their trigger fingers.
* **Insulated Weather Adaptation**: John's body is highly resistant to certain elemental extremes, particularly cold, to the extent that he could sleep nude in subarctic conditions with no apparent injury.
* **Bone Claws**: John's skeleton includes six retractable 12-inch long bone claws, three in each arm, that are housed beneath the skin and muscle of his forearms. Logan can, at will, release these slightly curved claws through his skin between the knuckles on each hand. The skin between the knuckles tore and bled, but the blood loss is quickly halted by his healing factor. He can unsheathe any number of his claws at once, although he needs to keep his wrists straight at the moment his claws passed from his forearms into his hands. When unsheathed, the claws are entirely within his forearms, allowing him to bend his wrists when they were extended. The claws are made of bone, unlike the claws of normal mammals which are made of keratin. Like his brother, his bone claws are sharp and dense enough to slice through substances as durable as metals, wood, and stone.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: John's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process that enables him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. He can regenerate greatly damaged or destroyed tissue within a few seconds. John's accelerated healing powers have been commonly referred to as his mutant healing factor. The full extent and speed of John's healing factor isn't known. He has been shown to fully heal from numerous gunshot wounds, severe burns covering most of his body, and regenerate missing eyes within a matter of seconds. Among the more extreme depictions of his accelerated healing factor involves him having his skin, muscles, and internal organs incinerated from his skeleton only to fully regenerate the tissue within minutes.
	+ **Contaminant Immunity**: John's natural healing also affords him the virtual immunity to poisons and most drugs, except in massive doses. For example, it was extremely difficult for him to become intoxicated from alcohol.
	+ **Disease Immunity**: John's highly efficient immune system, which is part of his accelerated healing factor, renders him immune against all known Earthly diseases and infections.
	+ **Delayed Aging**: In addition, John's healing factor provides him with an extended lifespan by slowing the effects of the aging process; although well over 100 years of age, John retains the health, appearance and physical vitality of a man in the physical prime of his life.
	+ **Psionic Resistance**: Due to a combination of his healing factor and psi-shields implanted by Jean Shadow, John's mind is highly resistant to telepathic assault and probing.
	+ **Super Condition**: John's healing factor also affects a number of his physical attributes by increasing them to superhuman levels.
		- **Enhanced Strength**: John's mutant healing factor enables him to push his muscles beyond the natural limits of the human body without injury, granting him some degree of superhuman strength.
		- **Superhuman Stamina**: John's mutant healing factor grants him high immunity against lactic acid and other fatigue toxins generated by his muscles during physical activity. John can sustain himself at peak capacity for several days. His lung capacity is at peak human level, enabling him to hold his breath for 6 minutes under water, making his lungs as healthy as human's lungs can get. And when his lungs stopped working，he could maintain his life by cutaneous respiration (It could only maintain his basic life activities).
		- **Superhuman Durability**: John possesses superhuman durability. This is mostly because of his healing abilities, which redistributes the force of blows dealt against. He has taken blows from various opponents on multiple occasions showing less than minimal discomfort.
		- **Superhuman Agility**: John's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels far beyond the natural physical limits and capabilities of the finest human specimen. John's agility is sufficient to allow him to dodge multiple bullets. Other times, able to jump extremely high and evade several yards.
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**: John's reflexes are similarly enhanced, they are also superior to those possessed by the finest human specimen due to his superhumanly acute senses, although most of the time he relies highly on his regenerative healing factor.
* **Invisibility**: John can become invisible to the unaided eye. This can be used for advanced stealth capabilities, which allow him to pass through guarded areas without being seen.
* **Intangibility**: John can become intangible, allowing him to avoid all attacks while restoring his solidity at will to strike others.

### Limitations

* **Vulnerable Senses**: John's only other "weakness" is the fact that his heightened senses can be taken advantage of.
* **Decapitation/Severe Spinal Damage**: Like his brother John could be killed if his head became separated from his body, causing his brain to be unable to send signals to the section(s) of his body that needs healing.

### Abilities

* **Skilled Combatant**: John has many decades worth of fighting experience. In this time he has perfected his hand-to-hand combat skills. He can utilize his combat prowess with his powers as a mutant to become one of the deadliest fighters on the planet, though over the years he has decreased considerably in efficiency.
* **Skilled Acrobat**: He is skilled in gymnastics, acrobatics and aerials, though through the years he has decreased in efficiency.
* During John's travels he bonded with a water dragon named Bubbles after stumbling upon a lair of dragons in the mountains of Romania. Bubbles is generally attached to John's skin looking much like a tattoo, however can pull away and grow in size up to his true size which is larger than a blue whale. John and Bubbles communicate telepathically.

## Personal History

### Early Years

When John was born his father had only recently purchased a large piece of property in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada. When the property, Howlett Estate, was nearing completion his father took him, his mother, and grandfather to tour the grounds. While his grandfather criticized the land, the house, and basically anything he could about John Sr. Elizabeth told them, hoping to ride them of the angry cloud that Adam Howlett always seemed to create, told them she was expecting a child. To celebrate the occasion John Sr. had a picture taken of the family. Just before John Jr.'s baby brother was born the family moved into the completed home. To celebrate the birth of James Howlett a picture was taken of just Elizabeth and James and placed inside a copper locket.

John felt drawn to the infant James, sensing a strong connection, like they were two of a kind. A couple years after James was born John glimpsed his mother kissing the gardener Thomas Logan. John confronted his mother about this, but as he became overly excited, he popped his claws for the first time, inadvertently slashing his mother's side. Seeking to protect his son's family from the scandal that such a deviant child would produce Adam Howlett, John Sr.'s father, took John Jr. vowing to provide the very best that medicine had to offer. As John began to calm down, he was taken away in a carriage, taken to an asylum, and chained up to a wall. It was only weeks later that the Howlett family was informed that John had passed away from a fever.

As the family believed John was dead they held a funeral and buried him on the grounds. However, the very night after be was buried John woke up. Scared and alone he clawed, literally, his way out of his coffin and to the surface. Fearing that he could never go home again John left choosing to wander. He still kept tabs on his family as best he could. He was devastated when he learned that his father had been murdered and his mother had taken her only life. What hurt the most was that his little brother had somehow become lost in all the confusion. John worked hard taking any job he could to get by, amassing his own little fortune as he pinched his pennies. Following the death of his grandfather Adam Howlett, banks took over their estate and given that he was considered dead and James was missing the massive fortune was placed in trust waiting to be claimed.

## Canon

### Canon Personal Information

* Family
* Jobs
* Alliance
* Other

Marital Status:Married

Parents:

* John Howlett Sr.† (father)
* Elizabeth Howlett† (mother)

Sibling(s):

* James Howlett (brother)
* Aurelia Howlett (sister-in-law)

Spouse(s): Sarael Howlett (m.2006)

Children:

* Rachel Howlett (daughter)
* James Howlett II (son)

Extended Family:

* See Howlett Family
* See Hikaura Family

 \*Co-CEO Howlett Industries

Current Affiliation(s): X-Men (retired)

Previous Affiliation(s):N/A

Codename:Ghost

Alias:

Title(s): John Adam Howlett Jr. Grand Marquess of Madripoor

Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada

Place of Residence: Bayville, New York
AU
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### AU Personal Information

* Family
* Jobs
* Alliance
* Other

Marital Status:Married

Parents:

* John Howlett Sr.† (father)
* Elizabeth Howlett† (mother)

Sibling(s):

* James Howlett (brother)
* Aurelia Howlett (sister-in-law)

Spouse(s): Sarael Howlett (m.2006)

Children:

* Rachel Howlett (daughter)
* James Howlett II (son)

Extended Family:

* See Howlett Family
* See Hikaura Family

 \*Co-CEO Howlett Industries

Current Affiliation(s): X-Men (retired)

Previous Affiliation(s):N/A

Codename:Ghost

Alias:

Title(s): John Adam Howlett Jr. Grand Marquess of Madripoor

Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada

Place of Residence: Bayville, New York
## Warverse

### Warverse Personal Information

* Family
* Jobs
* Alliance
* Other

Marital Status:Widower

Parents:

* John Howlett Sr.† (father)
* Elizabeth Howlett† (mother)

Sibling(s):

* James Howlett†(brother)

Spouse(s): Sarael Howlett† (m.2006-2007)

Children:N/A

Extended Family:

* See Howlett Family
* See Hikaura Family

 Co-CEO Howlett Industries (recluse)

Current Affiliation(s): N/A

Previous Affiliation(s):X-Men

Codename:Ghost

Alias:

Title(s): John Adam Howlett Jr. Grand Marquess of Madripoor

Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada

Place of Residence: Howlett Estate Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada
## What If

### What If Personal Information

* Family
* Jobs
* Alliance
* Other

Marital Status:Married

Parents:

* John Howlett Sr.† (father)
* Elizabeth Howlett† (mother)

Sibling(s):

* James Howlett (brother)
* Aurelia Howlett (sister-in-law)

Spouse(s): Sarael Howlett (m.2006)

Children:

* Rachel Howlett (daughter)
* James Howlett II (son)

Extended Family:

* See Howlett Family
* See Hikaura Family

 \*Co-CEO Howlett Industries

Current Affiliation(s): X-Men (retired)

Previous Affiliation(s):N/A

Codename:Ghost

Alias:

Title(s): John Adam Howlett Jr. Grand Marquess of Madripoor

Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada

Place of Residence: Bayville, New York
## Rewrite

### Rewrite Personal Information

* Family
* Jobs
* Alliance
* Other

Marital Status:Married

Parents:

* John Howlett Sr.† (father)
* Elizabeth Howlett† (mother)

Sibling(s):

* James Howlett (brother)
* Aurelia Howlett (sister-in-law)

Spouse(s): Sarael Howlett (m.2006)

Children:

* Rachel Howlett (daughter)
* James Howlett II (son)

Extended Family:

* See Howlett Family
* See Hikaura Family

 \*Co-CEO Howlett Industries

Current Affiliation(s): X-Men (retired)

Previous Affiliation(s):N/A

Codename:Ghost

Alias:

Title(s): John Adam Howlett Jr. Grand Marquess of Madripoor

Place of Birth: Alberta, Canada

Place of Residence: Bayville, New York