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====Wolverine====
Rude, mouthy Canadian midget with [[troll]]-like [[regeneration]], heightened senses, and ultra-sharp retractile claws in between his knuckles. Originally introduced as a minor Hulk antagonist, he was originally the least popular member of the 70s revival team, where he graduated to main character. 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.

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 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 when this triggered his mutation, stabbing the man to death with his claws. 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 would be kidnapped by a secret joint American-Canadian commission called "Weapon Plus", which decided to use him for the Weapon X project: an attempt to brainwash mutants into expendable soldiers and assassins. He was tortured, repeatedly brainwashed, and had nigh-invulnerable metal called "Adamantium" bonded to his skeletal structure. Wolverine eventually broke free, but the combination of all the surgical tinkering with his brain and the sheer trauma of what he'd undergone left him with near-total amnesia; he didn't even remember that his claws were a natural part of him, instead believing they were primitive cybernetic implants installed as part of the failed "make a super-assassin" project. Rescued in the wilderness, he was brought onto Canada's Department H, their fledgling super-operative program, and he battled the Hulk during a brief incursion into Canada. But Wolverine felt no loyalty to the Canadian government, and when Professor X came around, he quit Department H and joined the X-Men. And that's when the story really began...

For the longest time, Wolverine's claws actually ''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, which exhausted his healing factor, making it less effective, and 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.
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