James Howlett (Earth-17315)

Origins[]

This variant of Logan originated from a possible future of the revised Earth-10005 timeline, and was near-identical to his Earth-10005 counterpart.^[1] He was a mutant with enhanced reflexes and senses, a healing factor, and retractable claws, grafted with adamantium in the Weapon X program, along with the rest of his skeleton. After fleeing life as a cage fighter, he operated under the name "The Wolverine" for many years as a member of the mutant superhero team, the X-Men.

As the number of mutants in America began dwindling, the X-Men saw their popularity grow to the stuff of myth, having action figures and comic books made about them, and gaining a reputation as great heroes among mutants and their human allies. This included the Wolverine, though he resented this legendary status.^[2]

Retirement and exile[]

By 2027, the X-Men's leader, the aging telepath Charles Xavier, began developing a degenerative brain disease that caused him to have violent seizures that sent his telepathy out of control and affected others' minds. After one of these seizures killed nearly all of the mutants in the X-Men, Logan fled with him and became the professor's caretaker. He brought Charles to an abandoned smelting plant in Mexico, where they made a home with another mutant named Caliban.

Logan took up a job as a limo driver under his birth name, James Howlett, and fell into depression. As his damaged healing factor gradually became too weak to keep up with the adamantium coating his skeleton, the poisonous substance began finally began to deteriorate his health. He kept Charles medicated to suppress his telepathy, and hoped to save up enough money to buy a yacht for him and Charles to sail away someplace better.^[2]

Protecting Laura[]

In 2029, Logan was approached by Gabriela Lopez, a former nurse who wanted him to take her and her young daughter Laura to North Dakota so they could live in a safe haven called "Eden". Logan reluctantly accepted, but later found she had been murdered in her apartment, and so took the money she had offered him earlier, as well as her phone. When he returned home, he was confronted by the cybernetically-enhanced Reavers, who had come to bring in Laura. Laura soon emerged from Logan's limo, which she had stowed away in, and demonstrated abilities and adamantium claws nearly identical to his own.

He fought off the Reavers with her and escaped in the limo with Charles. From Gabriela's phone, they learned that the company Transigen had created mutant children using various mutants' DNA, and that Laura was Logan's biological daughter. The trio began making their way to North Dakota, with the Reavers close behind all the way, and on their trip, Logan discovered that Laura idolized him from the X-Men comics that sensationalized their missions. He also learned that "Eden" was referenced within the comics, and so began to doubt that it even existed.

At Charles' behest, they eventually stopped in Oklahoma to help out the Munson family after their horses ran loose, and stayed the night with them. The Reavers managed to track them down, and sent out X-24, a murderous clone of Logan, to attack them. He killed most of the Munson family and mortally wounded Charles, and then viciously fought Logan, before Will Munson pinned X-24 to a combine harvester with his car, before succumbing to his own wounds.

Logan and Laura managed to flee in a truck with Charles' body, and buried him in an unmarked grave. As Logan's body began failing him further, he began to see more hope in Laura's kindness to him, and the two finally started to connect. They arrived at Eden, which was indeed real, and was the refuge for all of Transgien's mutant child subjects, though they would soon leave and flee to Canada, where the Reavers couldn't reach them. They offered Logan a chance to come with them, which he initially turned down, but after the children left, he realized the Reavers were chasing close behind, and so took a regenerative serum to enhance his strength before running off to fight the Reavers.

In a forest just on the Canadian border, the Reavers caught up to the mutant children, but Logan was able to fight them off for a time, buying the children more time to escape, and allowing them to use their own mutant abilities to kill the rest of the Reavers themselves. Once the serum wore off, however, Logan once again faced X-24, but this time was overpowered and impaled on a tree branch. Laura shot X-24 with an adamantium bullet, killing him, and sat with Logan in his final moments, as his healing factor failed completely and he succumbed to his wounds.^[2]

Legacy[]

The mutant children buried Logan in a makeshift grave, with only a cross made of sticks as a marker. Before heading out with the other children, Laura turned the cross down in the shape of an "X", as a tribute to her father as the last X-Man.^[2] His sacrifice allowed the children to escape Transigen's forces, and inspired Laura to continue using her powers for good in adulthood. Due to his heroic acts, Logan is considered a selfless hero by many in his universe. Deadpool has always wanted him to team up with him, and even personnel from Time Variance Authority, such as Mr. Paradox, have much respect for him-to the extent that they have memorized his dying words.^[1]

Logan was the "anchor being" of his universe as well as its direct branching timelines, and his death in 2029 began the erosion of that timeline. Because of this, Paradox and his rogue faction of the TVA decided to speed up this erosion by using an unsanctioned Time Ripper, but the mercenary Deadpool dedicated himself to preventing this. He traveled to North Dakota and dug up Logan's body, refusing to believe he was actually dead, but to his horror, only discovered his corpse, now eroded to an adamantium-coated skeleton. When the TVA arrived to arrest Deadpool for various crimes, he used Logan's skeleton as a weapon against them, snapping off pieces to savagely beat and tear apart the TVA agents, until Logan's remains were completely dismembered.

After Logan's corpse completely desecrated, Deadpool tried to find a replacement from an alternate universe. Although he faced rejection from many versions of the hero, he eventually teamed up with a dejected, alcoholic Wolverine variant. However, the alternate Wolverine was not the hero Deadpool had hoped for. As they traveled through the Void, the depressed Wolverine met Laura and insisted that he was not a hero and that she had mistaken him for someone else. Despite his protests, Laura used her Logan's story to inspire the depressed Wolverine to join her and the Resistance, telling him that her Logan was once the wrong guy until he proved himself otherwise.^[1]

• Seemingly those of Logan of Earth-10005, but weakened from his advanced age.

• Impaired Healing Factor: With his healing powers damaged, while still aging much slower than normal humans, as time went by, Logan's healing powers gradually got weaker. By 2029, Logan's visibly aged compared to his former self in his prime as his muscle mass diminished, his hair turned grey, and he gain noticeable wrinkles. The potency and efficiency of healing in general is also considerably diminished, now taking hours if not days to recover (potentially able to bleed out). This can also leave scars plus he is vulnerable to toxins and such. His eyesight diminished, requiring glasses to read. He also gained arthritis, struggling to extend his claws and tires much easier.
  • Adamantium Poisoning: While his healing factor was able to fight off the poisonous adamantium in his body when hit was stronger, his gradually weakening healing factor to made it harder to fight off the poison. The symptoms include chronic pain and regular coughing.

Adamantium-Laced Skeleton

Limousine, cars

• Hugh Jackman portrayed Logan in Logan, and appeared through archive footage in Deadpool & Wolverine.
  • Jackman also portrayed X-24 in Logan, the Wolverine of the main X-Men movies' timeline, and a Wolverine variant in Deadpool & Wolverine.

• This variant of Logan is either from a possible future of Earth-10005, or he is his Earth-10005 counterpart.^[1]
• Logan is shown having a samurai sword in his room at the Mexico smelting plant. This implies that events similar to those of The Wolverine film occurred in his history.
• Logan's death mirrors Yukio's vision about his death in the original timeline,^[3] with the only difference being that instead of holding his literal heart as he passes, he holds the hand of his daughter.^[2]
  • Later, James Mangold has confirmed that the depiction of Logan's death in this film was an intentional callback to Yukio's premonition of his death in The Wolverine.^[4][5]