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Code/Field Name (if applicable): Wolverine. Also known as Patch
Legal Name: Logan
Place of Birth: Unknown, assumed to be Canada
Age: Unknown
Affiliations/Factions: Canadian intelligence-Dept H, Team X, X-Men
Marital/Relationship Status: Single
Fighting Skills: Logan is familiar with and experienced in virtually every fighting style on Earth.
Other Skills: Wolverine speaks fluent English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Lakota and Spanish, and has some knowledge of French, Thai and Vietnamese. He is an accomplished pilot.
Powers (if applicable): Logan has the power to regenerate damaged or destroyed areas of his celllular structure at a rate far greater than that of an ordinary human. This power is not subject to his will; the regeneration occurs automatically. The speed with which the healing occurs varies in direct proportion with the severity of the damage. It is unknown whether he could regenerate an entire organ or body part such as a limb.
His fast healing ability makes him virtually immune to poisons and most drugs. Alcohol does not intoxicate him. He also has limited immunity to the fatigue drugs generated by bodily activity. This gives him greater endurance than an ordinary human being.
His senses are superhumanly acute, and are comparable to those of certain animals. For example, he can track someone by smell just as a dog or wolf can. His sense of hearing is only slightly less acute than that of Daredevil. It is unknown whether Wolverine can see into the infrared and ultraviolet portions of the spectrum or if his taste and touch are superhumanly acute. (He has not submitted to testing.) His senses comprise a separate mutant power but they are also due in part to his power of cellular regeneration. Thanks to the latter power, the cells of his sense organs do not atrophy.
His skeleton has been artificially laced with Adamantium molecules, rendering his bones virtually unbreakable. He has also been equiped with three Adamanatium claws on each hand. The claws are roughly a foot long, the length of his forearm. He can unsheathe any number of his claws at once. The hardness of adamantium and their sharpness allow him to use them to cut through virtually any substance depending on its thickness and the amount of force he can exert.
Logan has great strength for a man of his size, although it does not reach superhuman levels. He has been known to lift at least 500 pounds.
Special Limitations: None known.
Source of Powers (if applicable): Logan’s healing ability and superhuman senses are the result of mutation. His Adamantium skeleton and claws were forced upon him.
Physical Description: 5’3”, 195 lbs, black hair, brown eyes.
Personality: Logan is a hard drinking, hard playing, thorough bastard, but is kind to animals, small children and barmaids. He enjoys a ladies’ man reputation, although he has never been known to ‘kiss and tell’ and he’s not interested in someone who’s been passed around like a party favor. He appreciates colleagues who live up to their reputations and exhibit a high degree of professionalism and some skill at poker.
He’s not immune to a sob story, especially when the odds are bad and there are villains to beat to a bloody pulp.
He’s also been known to toss a few bucks to the hungry and homeless, track down lost children, and change flat tires for lone women stranded on the highway. Most people don’t see this side of him.
History: Wolverine’s past is shrouded in mystery. There is no known record of his birth, and since his mutant healing ability causes him to age at a considerably slower rate than that of human beings, his age cannot be estimated. He was found barely alive in the Canadian Rockies by James and Heather Hudson. At this point, he already possessed his adamantium claws and skeleton, although he had no memory of the procedure. Indeed, he had no memory of his life at all before his discovery by the Hudsons. They nursed him back to health and a semblance of sanity.
Because of his special qualities, he was brought into the Canadian Secret Service. (This was not the first time in his life he was an intelligence agent, but where or for whom is unknown.) Because of his usefulness, the Canadian government spent millions both to train Logan in the use of his powers and to psychologically condition him to suppress his berserker tendencies. They were moderately successful.
Logan possesses memories of being a Samurai in Japan, a mercenary operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, and a "wild man" in the Canadian wilderness. Due to extensive memory implants given to Logan through the Weapon X program, any or all of these memories are suspect. Logan has at least one memory of meeting Captain America (Steve Rogers) in World War II while he was in the Canadian Army which has been verified as true. Sometime after World War II, Logan was taken by a group of scientists led by Dr. Cornelius as part of the Weapon X program. Cornelius was hired to perfect and use a technique that would bond the indestructible element adamantium to human bone cells. Logan's skeleton was bonded to the adamantium, and he was indoctrinated into the Weapon X assassin program.
Wolverine was conscripted by Department H, and for his first mission was sent against the incredible Hulk. Wolverine was subsequently approached by Professor Charles Xavier, who was looking for mutants to help his students, the X-Men, escape from the island-being known as Krakoa, which had captured them. Wolverine left Alpha Flight to accompany Xavier and rescue the captured X-Men. After Krakoa was defeated, Wolverine decided to stay with the X-Men, for reasons which included that he had fallen for Marvel Girl (Jean Grey). Logan remained with the X-Men for quite some time, at one time being their field commander, and encountered adversaries such as Proteus (Kevin MacTaggart), Magneto (Magnus), the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Brood, the Reavers, demons from the dimension of Limbo, the Marauders, the Morlocks, and even Dracula on one occasion.
After his encounter with the mutant assassin Omega Red, Logan began to question the memories he possessed, but his searches to find his true identity and memories proved fruitless. During an encounter with the mutant Magneto on his space station called Avalon, Wolverine slashed Magneto with his claws. Magneto retaliated, using his powers of the magnetic field to tear the adamantium out of Wolverine's skeleton, causing extensive injuries. These injuries shorted out Wolverine's healing factor for a time, and Logan also discovered that the claws that he believed a result of the Weapon X project were in fact part of his actual bone structure due to his mutation. These bone claws became Wolverine's main weapons until his skeleton later became grafted to adamantium again.
As a result of his injuries, Logan left the X-Men for a time. He visited Muir Island at the request of Kitty Pryde, and was also attacked by Cyber. During the Phalanx invasion, Logan and Cable were asked by Charles Xavier to find and rescue the captured X-Men. They joined with Cyclops (Scott Summers) and Jean Grey returning from their honeymoon (and secretly the future) and freed their teammates in Tibet. Later, Logan was kidnapped by Tyler Dayspring, calling himself Genesis, who wanted to make Wolverine one of his new Horsemen. Genesis had acquired adamantium by destroying the body of the mercenary known as Cyber, and had planned to recreate the bonding process used on Logan years ago. This time, however, Logan's body rejected the adamantium, and he regressed for a time to a feral-like state.
Logan regained his lucidity and rejoined the X-Men. Logan was subsequently kidnapped by the would-be conqueror Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) and forced to fight the savage assassin Sabretooth for the mantle of the Horseman Death. Knowing that he might be able to resist Apocalypse's programming and that Sabretooth would be a very dangerous villain with the support of Apocalypse, Logan fought and defeated his nemesis. As a result, his skeleton again was laced with Adamantium. Under the control of Apocalypse, Wolverine fought the X-Men ferociously in his Death persona. But with the help of his teammates, he eventually broke free from Apocalypse's control.
He has remained a valued member of the X-Men, serving on as many missions as he can while also doing solo operations. |
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