James Howlett (Wolverine)

## Overview

"I'm Wolverine. I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice."

—**Logan**
**James "Logan" Howlett**, also known as the **Wolverine**, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most often seen in association with the X-Men.

## History

Cursed with a berserker fury, the violent mutant known as **Wolverine**has a reputation of both as an outstanding super hero and as a lethal killer. Born as James Howlett to a wealthy Canadian family at the end of the 19th century, he was forced to abandon his family after the tragic manifestation of his bestial abilities of accelerated healing factor, keenly enhanced senses and bone claws in each hand. Adopting the name **Logan**, he wandered the world, living a long life filled with blood, war and betrayal, having vile Sabretooth as his archenemy, and the Japanese warrior Ogun as his sensei. Unfortunately, by acting as a lone wolf, Logan was an unwitting subject of the Weapon X Program and had his bones coated in indestructible Adamantium, becoming an even more lethal asset. Rescued and assisted by Mac and Heather Hudson, he joined Department H as a Canadian government operative known as the Wolverine.

Later, Logan was invited by Charles Xavier to join the **X-Men**, a team of heroes fighting for peace between humans and mutants. Proving to be a challenging addition to the X-Men due to his aggressive behavior, Wolverine was constantly in conflict with his fellow teammate Cyclops. However, he has gradually grown fond of the X-Men, considering them to be his new family. As a recurrent member of the X-Men, Wolverine has also become a noteworthy member of the Avengers. Moreover, he has been tasked to run the secret mutant strike team known as X-Forceto protect mutantkind's interests by employing lethal force. Wolverine was also responsible for reforming the Jean Grey School after parting ways with Cyclops and leading his own faction of X-Men.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** Logan is a mutant who had been given an Adamantiumskeleton by the Weapon X Program. Nick Fury's intel classified him as **Power Level 9**, while the O\*N\*E classified him as a **Severe Threat**.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Wolverine's body naturally regenerates most (if not all) damaged or destroyed tissues and organs at a rate which exceeds that of any normal human. The rate of regeneration is proportional to the damage caused. This process is automatic, and Wolverine seems to have no control over it. His healing factor, however, does not seem to stop Wolverine from feeling the pain of his wounds nor the pain of his body regenerating itself. The speed at which he heals has fluctuated considerably in recent years. After first losing his Adamantium, Wolverine's healing factor recovered and increased to a level far above his previous norm. However, it was significantly reduced after his last encounter with Lazaer, the Angel of Death. Its current effectiveness (after losing the healing factor, dying, and being resurrected with it intact) has not yet been compared to past values.
		- **Contaminant Immunity:** Wolverine's natural healing also affords him virtual immunity to poisons, viruses, diseases, and most drugs. For example, it is extremely difficult for him to become intoxicated from alcohol. It can be accomplished with extraordinary amounts of alcohol, and even then, the entire cycle of intoxication and hangover can be completed in mere minutes. Wolverine's healing factor has cured him of the mystical curse of lycanthropy after he had been bitten and turned into a werewolf, and from vampirism; though it should be noted that the time it took to cure the werewolf curse was longer than the time it took to cure him of vampirism, when he was infected with vampirism he had also been infected with nanites to temporarily deactivate his healing factor and use him as a 'booby-trap' on the vampires.
		- **Fatigue Resistance:** Wolverine is partially resistant to fatigue poisons produced from physical activity.
		- **Decelerated Aging:** In addition, Wolverine's healing factor provides him with an extended lifespan by slowing the effects of the aging process; Wolverine was born sometime during the late 19th Century.} Although well over 100 years of age, Wolverine retains the health, appearance and physical vitality of a man in the physical prime of his life.
		- **Telepathic Resistance:** Wolverine has stated to Emma Frost that he is resistant to telepathic probing, from both level 9 psi-shields implanted by Professor Charles Xavier and his healing factor creating “mental scar tissue” blocking it. Resists Emma Frost's mental command. A telepath enters his mind, and his berserker psyche acts as a defense. Quire telepathically abducts his mind, and his body goes feral to hunt Quire down.
	+ **Retractable Bone Claws:** Wolverine's skeleton includes six retractable foot-long bone claws, three in each arm, that are housed beneath the skin and muscle of his forearms. Wolverine could, at will, release these slightly curved claws through his skin between the knuckles on each hand. The bone claws are naturally sharp and tougher than normal human bone; even before they were infused with Adamantium, they could penetrate most flesh and many natural materials. After augmentation, his bones became indestructible and his claws are capable of piercing any material (relative to its thickness and the force Wolverine can exert). The Adamantium bonding process which affected his bones effectively transformed them into a new alloy called "Adamantium-Beta" which, combined with his healing factor, prevents his Adamantiumskeleton from interfering with his bone marrows production of blood cells. Wolverine can unsheathe any number of his claws at once, although he needs to keep his wrists straight at the moment his claws pass from his forearms into his hands. When unsheathed, the claws are entirely within his forearms, allowing him to bend his wrists when they are extended.
		- **Hot Claws:** A new facet of his Adamantium tipped claws upon his resurrection is to cause them to heat up several thousand degrees in seconds. A trait which is seemingly tied to Wolverine's berserker rage, how hot they can get remains a mystery but they can reach high enough temperatures to cause gasoline to ignite on contact with it.
	+ **Superhumanly Acute Senses:** Wolverine's super-human senses are a combination of a separate mutant ability and his Healing Factor since his sense organs atrophy at a much slower rate than normal humans. His most improved senses are sight, hearing and smell. Due to these enhanced senses, Wolverine has claimed he can function in complete darkness as though it were daylight.
		- **Superhuman Hearing:** Wolverine is capable of hearing sounds from a far greater distance than any human, and is said to be less developed than Daredevil.
		- **Superhuman Sight:** Wolverine sight is improved, allowing him to see further than a normal human.
		- **Superhuman Smell:** Wolverine's sense of smell is even more magnified and allows him to recognize and track objects and people just by smell alone. Daredevil once posited that Wolverine's sense of smell is slightly more developed than his.
		- **Superhuman Taste:** Wolverine can distinguish individual ingredients in food or drink he consumes at a smaller part per volume than a normal person.
		- **Superhuman Touch:** Wolverine's sense of touch gives him greater sensitivity to air direction and temperature differentials in his environment. He is able to sense Cyclops's incoming power beam based on the shift in air pressure that precedes its arrival.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Wolverine's reinforced skeleton allows him to withstand high levels of physical pressure. His strength is also boosted to enhanced levels, allowing him to lift more than 800 lbs but no more than 25 tons .
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Wolverine is able to move at low level superhuman speeds. He has attacked faster than the eye could follow and even Spider-Man briefly thought Wolverine was faster than he was in their first fight. His combat speed seems more enhanced than anything else, as he has frequently kept up with Spider-Man in combat, and blitzed people before they pull their trigger fingers.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Wolverine's healing factor grants him superhuman stamina and is partially immune to fatigue toxins generated by physical exertion and thus has greater endurance than actual humans.His stamina has been described as metahuman, indicating the ability to continually exert himself for several days at peak efficiency.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Wolverine has superhuman durability due a combination of his healing factor and Adamantium skeleton.
	+ **Enhanced Reflexes and Agility:** Wolverine's reflexes and agility are enhanced beyond the capabilities of the normal human body. On several occasions, he was able to dodge Cyclops' optic blasts with ease, although this is partly due to his enhanced senses.
	+ **Animal Empathy:** Wolverine has been seen to be able to understand the emotions of animals around them and communicate with them on a very basic level. Wolverine has been seen to be able to show animals his intentions and actions so he would not be perceived as a threat to them.
		- **Berserker Rage:** When injured enough, Logan becomes a feral berserker with no sense of thought or morale. Reduces the feeling of pain and flood his system with adrenaline. Forge has remarked on Wolverine's ability to retain his sophisticated combat skills even while berserking. His tactical awareness is also heightened in this state, allowing him recognize attacks and projectiles coming at him from almost all directions. Boostens his strength up to 4-5 tons. Push past his physical limits, briefly making him faster. Does "days of non-stop combat compressed in minutes" although the effort exhausts him. In this state, Logan becomes a savage animal who completely ignores pain and attacks with a savage ferocity he is not normally capable of.
	+ **Abilities**
		- **Skilled Tracker:** Due to his superhuman sense, Wolverine is considered to be one of the world's most skilled trackers.
		- **Above Normal Intelligence:** Wolverine has an above normal level of intelligence.
		- **Expert Leader:** He also ran the secret mutant strike team known as X-Force to ensure mutantkind's survival by employing lethal force. Wolverine stepped in once again as the field leader of X-Force, an intelligence organization in charge of special operations to counter-attack assaults against Krakoa.
		- **Master Martial Artist:** Wolverine has mastered 15 forms of martial arts and mastering 28 forms of Kung-Fu alone. Due to his age and experience, Wolverine has taught many heroes some form for fighting, these include: the Black Widow, Rogue, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Primal, Sunspot, Armor, Jubilee,Rachel Summers, Phoebe Cuckoo, and Shadowcat in hand to hand combat.
		- **Weapons Expert:** Wolverine is a trained expert with many guns, blades, explosives and other weaponry due to his experiences as a solider, samurai, spy and mercenary.
		- **Computer and Vehicles Expert:** Wolverine is trained in the use of several computer systems and vehicle repair as well as being an accomplished pilot.
		- **Expert Assassin:** Wolverine has knowledge of several assassination techniques.
		- **Multilingual:** A polyglot; Wolverine is fluent in many languages including English, Japanese, Russian,Mandarin, Cheyenne, Lakota, Spanish, and Krakoan. Logan also has some knowledge of Farsi,French, German, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese. Notably, he is also one of the few individuals who has demonstrated the ability to understand Doopspeak.
		- **Adamantium-Laced Skeleton:** Not part of his natural mutant attributes, Wolverine's entire skeleton, including his bone claws, were laced with the rare, artificial, and virtually indestructible metal alloy known as Adamantium - or True Adamantium. As a result, Wolverine's bones are virtually unbreakable. The presence of the Adamantium has further enhanced the already razor-sharp edge of Wolverine's bone claws. Aside from being practically indestructible, the claws are capable of cutting through any solid material, with the known exception of Proto-Adamantium (Captain America's Shield). However, Wolverine's ability to slice completely through a substance depends upon the thickness of the substance and the amount of force he can exert. The Adamantium also weighted his blows, dramatically increasing the effectiveness of his punches and kicks. His claws is able to damage Class 100+ durability foes such as the Thing. His Adamantium claws has been shown to easily penetrate Thanos's chest.
			* **Adamantium Beta:** Adamantium Beta is a metal that can bond to the human skeleton. The properties of Adamantium Beta is capable of bonding directly into the structure of skeletal material while not inhibiting the living nature of the bone. The only known occurrence of Adamantium Beta was during the Weapon X Project when it was experimented on Wolverine. During the second part of the procedure, they laced his bones with Adamantium, and there was a reaction with his healing factor that bonded the metal with his skeleton. As a result from Dr. Jaime Munoz's research, the Adamantium itself can regrow just as Wolverine's natural bones can.
		- **Muramasa Blade:** An indestructible ancient sword with mystical properties. According to Wolverine, is the only thing in the world that can put him down for good, thanks to a piece of his own soul being in it. Can cut through the robot S.H.I.V.A in a single cut. Also good stopping healing factors.
			* **Physical Enhancement:** Muramasa grants superhuman strength and resistance to injury to whoever wields it.
			* **Regeration Bypassing:** Anyone struck by Muramasa will suffer from a drastically weakened healing factor on the wound, to the point where it took Wolverine himself several days to recover from a slice from Murasama.
			* **Mind Corruption:** Eventually, the madness and evil that Muramasa poured into the blade will eventually overcome the will and original personality of an individual if he or she has it for too long.
		- **Ablation Armor:** After losing his healing factor to a micro verse virus, Peter Parker developed this suit as a replacement for hiss lost healing factor. The armor is incredibly resistant. It can withstand a point blank laser blast and prevent its user from suffering any internal damage, and can presumably "withstand a nuclear blast." The armor also possesses three retractile claws in each wrist. The armor is apparently fairly easy to copy as Logan has multiple uniforms created presumably in case one is damaged.
	+ **Equipment** Usually Logan wore a standard X-Men uniform or street clothes. His gloves often had grooves in the forearm so they did not tear when he unsheathed his claws.
	+ **Weapons** Throughout his life, Wolverine has used a variety of bladed weapons, most frequently daggers and, at times, swords; as a samurai, he was especially skilled with the katana. He has also wielded many different types of firearms throughout his careers as a soldier, a mercenary, and a spy. While he was highly skilled with firearms and because of his perfect eyesight it is very difficult for him miss when firing a gun, he has stated on multiple occasions that he isn't fond of them and prefers to use bladed weapons, despite this, Wolverine used guns frequently after he lost his healing factor.
		- **New Muramasa:** After seeking out the ancient swordsmith whom created his prior blade, Wolverine now wields an all new enchanted Katana to participate in the battle for Krakoa.

## Feats

### Strength

* Held up an elevator full of people.
* Lifted a great white shark.
* Effortlessly threw a large man through a door.
* Can lift several men of the floor and easily carries them.
* Can break steel chains.
* Snaps a neck of a dinosaur.
* Crushes a steel pipe with just his grip.
* Lifted up a large pillar to use it as a club.
* Lifted an enormous tree trunk.
* Picks up six men and then throws them through a wall.
* Sent large boulders flying by kicking them.
* Tossed a dumpster with one hand.
* Launched a Hand ninja through a thick, bolted, steel door.
* Pulls open and crumples elevator doors.
* Men try to restrain him, but he launches them into the air.
* Staggered the Hulk with a headbutt.
* Claws are strong enough to pierce through The Thing's rocky body.
* Easily stabbed through Ragnarock's body.
* Can slice clean through a Sentinel's body.
* Sliced through Terminus' armour.
* Nearly took out Iron-Man with a single swipe.
* Has stabbed Thanos, Gladiator & Hyperion, who survived the destruction of two universes.
* Bench pressed a Sentinal trying to stomp him.
* Can keep up with and defeated Sabretooth on many occasions.
* Kept up with many members of the Spider-Man family.
* Knocked out Human Torch with a single punch.
* Lifted a large cylinder of ice before throwing it.
* Using his grit and strength, traded blows with Gorgon.
* Gone toe to toe with some of his universe´s most powerful characters, including the Incredible Hulk, Thor, Rogue and The Thing.
* Broke free from restraints after being exhausted froma 17 hour fight, said restraints were able to hold down Beast and Rogue.
* Swings Colossus into Juggernaut to stagger him (*Note*: Colossus is 500 lbs).
* Swings around Dragon Man by his tail without effort, keep in mind Dragon Man is 3.2 tons.
* Can lift between 800 lbs to 25 tons.

### Speed

* Can dodge Deadpool's gunfire.
* Kills a ninja before she knew she was dead.
* Cuts multiple rockets out of the air.
* Can leave afterimages.
* Easily moves faster than the eye can see.
* Can move faster than telepaths could track him.
* Reacted to missiles and rockets.
* Blocked and reflected lasers going at lightspeed.
* Punched down Speed Demon, who can run beyond the speed of sound.
* Tagged Bishop even after he teleported.
* Speed blitzed Sabretooth.
* Dodged out of the way of Tess-One´s plasma beams.
* Cut the barrels off of multiple guns before the gunmen realized it.
* Effortlesslt reacts to bullets and gunfire.
* Kept up with Captain America in combat, and Cap can react to a Builders Ship going at relativistic speeds.
* Kept up and matched Spider-Man´s every more, who can dodge light-based attacks from Electro thanks to his Spider-Sense

### Durability

* Is one of the Hulk's sparring partners.
* Was able to go through Omega's energy blasts.
* Was flattened by an armored car by Iron Man's Hulkbuster armor.
* Extremely hard to put down.
* Other superhumans have hurt themselves trying to injure him.
* No sold a directt Optic Blast from Cyclops which peeled his skin off.
* Resists Omega Red's death spores which KO other X-Men.
* Took a direcct hit from Captain America´s shield.
* Survived a kick powerfull enough to make him land in Georgia.
* Merely annoyed by lightning bolt from Storm, impressive, considering her lightning is powerful enough to match Polaris, who once used her powers to punch through earth´s crust all the way to the planet´s core. (15.88 teratons of TNT)
* Was able to stand after having his heart torn out.
* Survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
* Survived having his skeleton ripped out by Magneto.
* Survived getting blasted by an angry Pheonix.
* Walks off stabbings and gunfire.
* Survived being one shotted into space and survived the experience.
* Survived at least 15 minutes underwater.
* Survived many encounteds with several of his universes powerhouses, including the Incredible Hulk, Thor, the Hulkbuster, Ragnarok and Wrecker.
* Tanked Silver Samurai´s slashes, who can cut through any material with his powers.

### Skill

* Has fought in many major wars such as World War 1, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
* Defeated Shang-Chi.
	+ Also defeated Iron Fist and Romulus.
* Captain America never beat him in a fight.
* Fought against Satan of all people.
* Defeated a demon possessed grizzly bear in close-ranged combat.
* Survived for 6 months under a glacier by eating strips of hos own arms.
* Ventured through Japan when his healing factor wasn´t working right.
* Has trained with several organizations such as the C.I.A.
* Grievously deformed Thing´s face to the point he had to wear a mask.
* Often won against his stronger rival, Sabretooth.
* Lived for 130 years of life.
* Has fought off and won against the Angel of Death, Azrael.
* In their first enocunter, could have easily killed the Red Hulk.
* Defeated the Maestro, an evil version of the Hulk from the future.
* Defeated Lobo, who was able to overpower Superman.

## Notes

* In 1996's *DC vs. Marvel*, Wolverine defeated Lobo, who was able to overpower Superman.
* Logan might suffer of post-traumatic stress disorder.
* In the 2007 *Transformers* movie, Wolverine is explicitly referenced by Glen Whitmann (Anthony Anderson). Observing scratch marks left by AX9-8946-09SU-1, Sergeant Epps (Tyrese Gibson) compares them to Freddy Krueger. Whitman reminds him Krueger had four blades, whereas Wolverine has three, which served better for the comparison.

## Links and References

* https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/James\_Howlett\_(Earth-616)
* https://characterprofile.fandom.com/wiki/Wolverine
* https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/9jpcv1/respect\_wolverine\_marvel\_616/