WOLVERINE!!!!!

[telophase]

Just came back from Wolverine, and I had a very enjoyable time. The movie was exactly what I expected, and I expected Wolverine's ass. I did not expect great scriptwriting, involving plot, great acting, or much of anything else.

The plot was, of course, Yet Another Marvel Retcon, but as the X-movieverse is a retcon of the comicverse, that's not surprising. And a trawl through Amazon.com to see what Weapon X stuff there is produced an approximate 2497358923749374 versions of Weapon X, Wolverine: Origis, and so on.

Color me so surprised. *rolls eyes*

I quit reading the X-books about the point where Magneto pulled the adamantium out of Wolverine's bones* (and started reading them about the time the first Weapon X storyline started) - anyone out there know how many different versions of his origin there currently are?


* Spurred, actually, by stupid writing involving Sabretooth, of all people. He's my favorite evil villain, because I showed up in the X-verse right when they were doing interesting things with his character, and then someone screwed it all up again, completely reversing all the character-building they'd done, I got disgusted, and I left. If anyone actually wants me to rant about that, let me know.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Wolverine was canonically very good with teenage girls and children, amazingly not in a skeevy way.

In Claremont-era comics, he had a very close mentor-protegee relationship with Kitty Pryde, and also had a sweet one-shot in which an eight-year-old girl from the short-lived but cute Power Pack (a dying alien gave four siblings super-powers) finds him amnesiac, aphasic, and beat to hell, and they rescue each other.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

He seemed to be made for paternal and avuncular relationships. yet another of my narrative kinks

And judging by how many of the women he slept with ended up dead,* it's probably a Very Good Thing that he was able to have close familial relationships with women and girls that didn't get killed.



* OK, I only remember three, but two of them ended up dead so that's 66%!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I can only think of 3, too. No, 4. But the fourth also died. The one who lived is Yukio. The first time I saw her, I thought she was Storm's girlfriend.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The only time I really find him interesting is his various mentor roles. And the totally non-skeevy way is a bonus! Though there was the one time he walked out nude in front of Jubilee and Kitty, but I try to block that from my memory.

I love Power Pack! Not that I've read any of it in years...