Wolverine’s Top 5 Most Bad Ass Moments

Today is a tragic day for Wolverine fans, with this morning’s announcement that Marvel plans on killing off Logan this fall.  You can read all about the news here!  We’ll know more about Wolverine’s fate in the coming weeks, but for now, let’s take a look at what made him our favourite Canadian bad ass.

No one can argue that Wolverine is a bad ass. From his origins facing the Hulk to his recent fall-out with Cyclops and the Schism of the X-Men, Wolverine is the original berserker. His temper and penchant for violence make him a force to be reckoned with, and then there’s his attitude. Overall, Wolverine’s life has been filled with epic, and here are his top 5 most bad ass moments:

Be warned, there are spoilers of some of Wolverine’s classics in here.

5. The Hulk rips Wolverine in half.

In the opening panels of Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk, Wolverine takes a serious beating. But in classic form, being ripped in half is no deterrent. Even when his legs are thrown over a mountain, Wolverine managed to pull himself across the traitorous terrain to reunite his torso to his legs. Granted the entire incident is a little embarrassing, but once he’s back in one piece, he continues his pursuit of the Hulk as though nothing ever happened and despite everything he still puts up a mean fight.

4. Wolverine takes on a bear.

In 1982 Chris Claremont and Frank Miller produced Wolverine’s first solo series, it ran for four issues and told the story of Wolverine’s time in Japan, but it opens in the Canadian Rockies with Wolverine taking on nothing less than a bear.  But it’s the reason he takes on the bear that makes him such a bad ass. Wolverine faces the bear to put it out of its misery after it’s been pierced by a poisoned arrow. After that, true to form, he goes after the hunters who shot the bear.

3. Old Man Logan

Old Man Logan takes place in a post-apocalyptic landscape where Wolverine is a grizzled old man who has sworn not to use his claws ever again. As the story progresses, we learn that he has chosen not to fight because he was tricked into killing all of the world’s heroes because he believed them to be villains. The image of a torn up and bloodied Wolverine standing over a pile of bodies is a grizzly one. He proves he is a force to be reckoned with, any man who can single-handedly take all the world’s heroes out of play is a man to be feared.

2. Weapon X

In my opinion, Weapon X is the greatest of all of Wolverine’s origin stories. Barry Windsor Smith tells the story of how government experimentation and cruelty turn a man into a monster. Logan’s skeleton is bonded with adamantium, his memories are erased, and he becomes the Wolverine. He emerges stronger and deadlier then the soldier who was chosen for the program and he proves it by out preforming their expectations, and then escaping and leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.

1.  Wolverine is created to stop the Hulk.

You can’t talk about Wolverine’s bad-ass-ness without acknowledging the fact that he is the character was created by Len Wein and designed by John Romita Sr to stop the Hulk. It takes serious guts to be 5’3” and take on a giant green rage monster. Of course, Wolverine does one better. In his introduction in The Incredible Hulk #181 (his first full appearance after a cameo in the previous issue) he also tackles the Wendigo, because one huge nemesis wasn’t enough.

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