Editing Marvel Comics (section)

====Wolverine====
Wolverine is so popular his agent demanded he get his own section. Rude, mouthy Canadian midget with the mutant powers of [[troll]]-like [[regeneration]], heightened senses, ultra-sharp retractile claws in between his knuckles, and appearing in a dozen different stories every month. First introduced in a Hulk story that implied he was an ''actual'' wolverine that had mutated TMNT style, he was originally the least popular member of the 70s revival team. Luckily for him, Chris Claremont rescued him with a murky yet [[grimdark]] backstory and surprising character depth as the bloody-handed anti-hero of the team who nonetheless wants to overcome his savage instincts. This made him a breakout hit, to the point where Marvel started shoehorning him onto the covers of comics he had no part in so all the grade-schoolers obsessed with this hairy ball of rage would pick it up.

Wolverine's backstory has undergone a ''lot'' of changes, tweaks and retcons over the years, justified through a combination of massive amounts of trauma (it's literally been stated that his healing factor will actually try to blot out the most painful memories as a survival mechanism) and repeated attempts by various evil organizations to brainwash him into their personal killing machine. The ''simple'' version of the story as most people will recognize it is that Wolverine was born in the 1800s to a wealthy home owner's wife who'd had an affair with the gardener. When that gardener killed her husband, the man Wolverine (then called James Howlett) believed to be his dad, he attacked the man in a rage and accidentally killed him. This drove his mom insane, and James fled into the wilderness, eventually taking up the name of James ''Logan'' to cover up his tracks. He bummed around for decades, as his healing factor stopped him from aging once he reached maturity, and he would frequently hire on as a soldier. In the early 1970s (originally 1974) he was kidnapped by the Canadian Weapon X program, who brainwashed him and bonded [[Adamantine|adamantium]] to his bones (which only he could have survived thanks to his healing factor) making him even more durable than before. Eventually he escaped in a bestial state and was found wandering the backwoods by Department H, Canada's answer to the Avengers, who re-educated and trained him only to be repaid by watching him hop the border and join the X-Men in the hopes that Charles could give him his life back.

For the longest time, Wolverine's claws were said to be genuinely mechanical implants; there was even a brief period of time in which he was portrayed with metallic "chutes" implanted in his arms so the claws could safely emerge without injuring him, but that wasn't [[grimdark]] enough and so it got replaced with him having to carve through his own flesh every time he popped the claws and relying on his regeneration to keep him from bleeding out. Then came the famous early 90s story where Magneto nearly killed Wolverine by ripping out his Adamantium, revealing his claws had been a part of him all along.

Wolverine has his own rogues gallery, though the most iconic members of it are '''Sabertooth''', who is basically Wolverine's evil counterpart, '''Omega Red''', a Russian serial killer with a healing factor implanted with knock-off Adamantium retractile tentacles and subdermal armor, and '''Lady Deathstrike''', a Japanese woman from Wolverine's past with a serious hate-on for him and freaky cybernetic lawn rakes for hands.
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