today's episode of Aryan is brought to you by graphic stuff today on Van it's all about the Claude x-men Wolverine welcome to beard we love comics more than I'm looking forward to the new Godzilla movie because I love me some monster movies I'm your host eros quinones today as the title of the episode implies it's another history of episode focusing on the most popular and famous mutant the x-men and Marvel Universe apt to offer Wolverine his new movie recently just premiered so there's no better time to give you his history as curiosity for the character
is going to be perked so let the history class begin let's start where we always start in the only logical place to start the very beginning when he was created and first appeared Wolverine was created by Len Wein and John Romita senior and made a cameo in the Incredible Hulk issue 180 and made his first full appearance in the Incredible Hulk issue 181 in November of 1974 at the time of Wolverines creation comics were becoming increasingly popular in Canada and Roy Thomas Marvel's then editor-in-chief suggested that Len wean to create a Canadian character to put
in the whole comic he was working on John Romita senior was then brought on to design the character using the animal as the basis for the character giving him Clause to both the character and the motif of his costume and making him short and stocky so comic accurate wise Hugh Jackman is not the body type for Wolverine at all as he's neither short nor stocky nonetheless he's a great Wolverine but anyway what he gonna do that's Hollywood everyone's tall except mini-me and Tom Cruise as for Wolverines comic origin in history I'm gonna break it down
for you guys because that's what I do but before I do just note that Wolverines origin is a bit convoluted as they're always trying to explain something new about it so I'm going to stick to his origin from the six-issue miniseries Wolverine origin written by Joe Quesada and drawn by Andy Kubert Wolverine was born as James Howlett Hudson in the mid 1800s in Alberta Canada he was a second and sickly child to Elizabeth and John Hallett senior his mother was ill so in the early nineteen hundred's a young irish girl named Rose O'Hara was brought
to the Hallett estate to befriend and be a caretaker for a young James together they befriended a young boy named Doug son of the groundskeeper Thomas Logan dog tried to form a normal bond between the two but due to his father's drunken abuse he grew to resent the pair and plotted against them with his father after a botched robbery turns into a successful murder killing James Howlett Wolverines dad James / Wolverines powers suddenly man as a traumatic event in one's youth is often the trigger for mutant powers he then stabs Thomas with his newly drawn
bone claws J Monroe's then flee the house and make their way through the harsh Canadian wilderness they arrive at a mine where ROS gives false names calling James incorrectly as Logan which is where his name Logan originated from it is implied that Thomas Logan is Wolverines birth dad and that his mother Elizabeth Hallett had an affair with him which makes sense as Thomas Logan has a striking resemblance to her Wolverine appears today the workers at the time also dubbed him the Wolverine because of his habit to tenaciously dig which is also where his x-men named
Wolverine came from flash-forward several years Logan teamed up with Captain America and Bucky Barnes cap and Bucky were unaware of his mutation at the time and just believed him to be extraordinarily lucky since he would never get hurt flash forward even more Logan was kidnapped from agents of the Weapon X program which was a joint u.s. and Canadian program he was taken to a facility in the Canadian woods where he was examined by Professor Thornton dr. Abraham Cornelius and Carol Heinz the professor learned that Logan possessed a mutant healing factor and would be able to
survive the installation of adamantium on to his bones as the procedure would kill any other person in this they attempted to create the perfect living weapon the procedure worked in Logan now had a skeleton completely laced with the hard metal including his trademark claws which were now razor sharp claws that could almost cut through anything during his time with Weapon X Logan was heavily sedated and being controlled through a helmet giving him false memories and it turned him into some sort of a puppet for the Weapon X program he was even forced to kill an
entire town to test if Logan would do anything they told him to do eventually Logan was able to resist the mind-control and broke free from the facility with the help of the Winter Soldier after his escape from the Weapon X program he spent months in the Canadian wilderness until he was found by Guardian and Vindicator the two of them were scientists and super-powered humans who worked for a division of the Canadian government named Department H Logan was soon brought back to good mental health and also started working for the government not remembering much of his
time in Weapon X or what happened before that period he did do a few missions for Department age and was finally given his yellow in blue costume and was officially given a secret identity though wolverine Logan's most prominent mission was when he was asked to locate and subdue the Incredible Hulk so hook was spotted in the Canadian forest and Wolverine seemed to be the best operated to engage the green Goliath he was then dropped into the mission zone by Department H and soon found the Hulk who at the time was fighting Wendigo which brings us
ladies and gentlemen full circle as the events I just mentioned of him being set down to take down the Hulk in the Canadian forest happened and Wolverines first full appearance in the Incredible Hulk issue 181 and then his origin and backstory that I just gave you guys was given to us in later years and issues to come as they do with lots of other characters before Marvel went through with the origin I just told you guys though there were actually two other origins they had in mind the first one they wanted Wolverine to be mutated
from an actual of rain that was evolved into human form by the geneticist High Evolutionary instead of having retractable claws they would have been built into his gloves the second incident origin they were thinking of going with Wolverine was to have him almost crushed in a car accident he then would discover when attempting to stand for the first time after recovering that his healing factor does not work on his bones and his legs immediately break he then spends over a decade in a hospital bed almost going mad when the Canadian government approaches him with an
idea of replacing a skeleton one bone at a time with adamantium and then the claws being a surprise and I'm happy they didn't go with either of those because I actually really like the one Marvel ended up using but now some of your like Aris how did he join the x-men you didn't tell us that part yet well c-usa put your patient pants on I'm getting to it around the time of Wolverine fighting the whole Professor X found out about Wolverine being a mutant and started to closely watch him Professor Xavier contacted the Canadian government
to arrange a personal introduction knowing full well that department H was exploiting Logan for their own purposes and that there was friction between Wolverine and his superiors Professor X offered Wolverine a position with the x-men on the spot he promised to help Logan with his memory loss in exchange for his enrollment on the x-men roster so BAM Logan joined simultaneously with a bunch of other new x-men we now love like Nightcrawler storm banshee Colossus Thunderbird and Sunfire but he's not only been a part of the x-men he's also been a member of x-force New Avengers
secret defenders and many other teams as far as Wolverines powers go I'm sure you already know most of them already from the cartoons and movies like his super healing factor he's very animalistic in nature having a keen smell among other animal-like traits and most notably his retractable claws that can cut through almost anything as far as Wolverines weakness it has been hinted that Wolverine can be killed by drowning Wolverine also has some good villains like Omega Red Lady Deathstrike always freaked me out as a kid in the cartoons with those abnormally large hands and pointy
fingers and that virus looking crap all over arms it's still creepy then there's cyber and of course magneto and his arch enemy Sabretooth but now it's time for me to give you guys some good Wolverine reading material you have Wolverine old man Logan The Wolverine Weapon X storyline Kitty Pryde and Wolverine which was a six-issue limited series x-men Days of Future past the credible hook issue 340 which has a great fight between the Hulk and Wolverine Wolverine enemy of the state and fan favorite simply called Wolverine which was a four-issue limited series by Chris Claremont
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