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While she's definitely done some damage to him, she's never actually been able to pull out a win against him. Their grudge has seemingly ended and they've worked together since, with Deathstrike even mourning his death.

His mutant ability gave him the power to release death spores and feed on the suffering they caused to become even stronger. Since the Soviets didn't have access to adamantium, he was given carbonadium tentacles. Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Maverick tangled with him and put him out of commission for years. Upon his return, he worked with Matsuo Tsurayaba to get revenge against Wolverine and almost killed the Canadian mutant.

Wolverine came back for the win and since then, the two have fought many times with Wolverine always coming out on top. Akihiro was once one of Wolverine's worst enemies. The two clashed when Romulus sicked Akihiro on his father and they had some vicious battles. While Akihiro did a great job against his father, he never got any kind of definitive win over Wolverine, and eventually ended up dead at Logan's hands.

His return as a Horseman of Death saw him imprison his father, keeping him alive in constant pain. Wolverine was able to break free and beat Akihiro. Since then, their relationship has gotten a lot better.

Akihiro and Wolverine have worked together and even bonded as father and son, something neither thought was possible. Romulus was a shadowy presence in Wolverine's life , always in the background. He and Wolverine worked together for a time before Weapon X but when Wolverine didn't go through with their plans, Romulus targeted him.

He threw many foes at Wolverine and the diminutive mutant was always able to triumph. Romulus held himself back from battling Wolverine for a long time and for good reason. Wolverine was able to beat him, even when Romulus had the advantage, and never lost a fight to him, eventually ending Romulus's threat. Wolverine and Sabretooth's rivalry is legendary. The two mutants have been battling each other for at least a century, and while Sabretooth did almost kill Wolverine numerous times, he's never been able to finish the job.

Their battles have always been bloody affairs, each giving as good as they got, but Sabretooth has always come up short. For Sabretooth, the only victory over Wolverine can be killing him. He's proven completely unable to do so, no matter how hard he's tried. However, after Wolverine's skeleton was bonded with adamantium by the Weapon X Program, this mutation was completely halted. The studies also reveal, aside from suppressing his ongoing mutation, the presence of adamantium also slowed his mutant healing factor.

The adamantium laced to his skeleton is treated as a foreign substance by his healing factor, which constantly devotes a great deal of effort attempting to remove the metal, causing him to heal slower from other injuries. After Magneto ripped the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton, and his body completely healed from the injuries, the mutation resumed, at a greatly accelerated rate.

The studies show accelerated mutation has increased his powers beyond any other point in his life. It is also revealed during this time that Wolverine's mutation process will eventually cause him to degenerate physically into a more primitive, bestial state.

Some time later, the villain known as Genesis , who is the son of Wolverine's ally Cable , kidnaps Wolverine and attempts to re-bond adamantium to his skeleton in an attempt to transform Wolverine into a Horseman of Apocalypse. The attempt is unsuccessful, and the process pushes Wolverine so far to the edge that he becomes purely feral. Enraged, Wolverine stalks the Dark Riders in their headquarters and eventually kills them all before fleeing.

With the help of Elektra and Stick, he is able to regain his humanity and reverse the bulk of his feral regression, though his increased powers remain. Wolverine lives without adamantium for some time before being kidnapped by the villain Apocalypse. Apocalypse sets up a contest between Wolverine and an adamantium-bonded Sabretooth to determine who would become the new leader of his Four Horsemen. Although he knows winning means being brainwashed and turned against his friends, Wolverine supposes that Sabretooth would enjoy being set loose as a killing machine, while he himself might be able to fight it.

Emerging victorious he is made the Horseman Death, and Apocalypse strips the adamantium from Sabretooth and bonds it to Wolverine's skeleton once more. The real Wolverine later kills the Skrull impostor.

Wolverine eventually overcomes Apocalypse's conditioning with the help of Jubilee. Some time later, Wolverine is captured by the Weapon X program, restarted under the leadership of Director Malcolm Colcord, a soldier Wolverine disfigured when he escaped from the original Weapon X facility.

It is revealed that the mental implants installed by the original program are still functional, as Colcord uses them to force Wolverine into tracking down and eliminating former members of the program.

Wolverine's mental implants are finally destroyed when he assassinates the previous director. Wolverine then gains access to the Weapon X files that describe his genesis, though this happens largely off-panel and it is not clear to the reader precisely what he learns. What is known is that he was intended to be a living Sentinel and that, to test the extent of his brainwashing, he was forced to exterminate the populace of a small Midwestern town called Roanoke.

Wolverine becomes depressed and angry after learning he was created to hunt and exterminate his own people, though Jean Grey is able to convince him that no matter what his makers intended for him, he is still a good man. Shortly thereafter Jean Grey is killed and Wolverine, in a feral rage, slices off the head of her killer, "Magneto". While under their control, he kills Northstar. He is eventually rescued by S.

Soon after, Wolverine is recruited by the New Avengers, because he is willing to "cross the lines they refuse to cross". At the end of House of M, Wolverine's memories are completely restored. This causes a panic for some of the major powers and governments across the Marvel Universe because of their involvement in Wolverine's past. The United States and Canada purge all records of Wolverine's involvement in anticipation of his revenge. Their fears are proved correct.

Wanting to find others' knowledge of a mysterious weapon called the "Muramasa Blade", Wolverine confronts the Silver Samurai, who tells him that he did not escape the Weapon X program alone. Wolverine travels to Serbia to confront Bucky, who reveals that he murdered Logan's previously unrevealed pregnant wife, Itsu.

Wolverine then reflects on his life with Itsu. After completing his training with Ogun, Wolverine was sent to a village where another master, Bando Saburo, taught warriors how to regain their humanity. There, Wolverine met Itsu.

They soon married and conceived a child. Saburo's village was surrounded by mountains belonging to the demon swordsmith Muramasa.

After Bucky murdered Itsu, Wolverine, believing it was the people of the village who killed her, allied with Muramasa, who made the Muramasa Blade, the only weapon capable of killing Wolverine. After remembering this, Wolverine returns to Muramasa's mountains and reclaims the Muramasa Blade in order to exact vengeance on those who have been manipulating him throughout nearly his entire life.

As Wolverine searches for those responsible for all the horrors in his past, Nuke is dispatched to stop him. Wolverine, remembering his role in Nuke's creation, feels responsible for taking him down. In the jungles of South Vietnam, they battle. Emma Frost tells Wolverine that earlier she had a vision of Daken, Wolverine's previously unrevealed son. Wolverine reasons that Daken is now under the control of the same men who once controlled him. Wolverine gives Cyclops the Muramasa Blade and tells him to kill him with it should he ever come under the control of another again.

Wolverine then sets out on an adventure to rescue his son. However, before Wolverine can begin searching for Daken, Nitro murders over Stamford, Connecticut residents, setting off the superhuman Civil War. Wolverine embarks on a mission to bring Nitro to justice, coming up against Namor and a group of his double agents. After the events of Civil War, Wolverine remains a member of the New Avengers, now underground after the surrender of Captain America and provided with secure accommodations by Doctor Strange.

Their objectives are twofold; to save people "the way [they] want to," and to investigate the reason why the world has been turned upside-down recently. After rescuing Echo from Elektra and the Hand, the team discovers that Elektra had been replaced with a Skrull some indeterminate time ago. Wolverine is the first to suspect his teammates in the New Avengers are secretly Skrulls. Doctor Strange later casts a spell revealing that no one on the team is a Skrull.

He also searches for his son Daken. He battles Omega Red for possession of the carbonadium synthesizer, reasoning that since carbonadium disables his mutant healing factor, it will enable him to defeat Daken should he ever need to. He first encounters Daken in Berlin where they fight each other, as well as Wolverine's old foe Cyber. Daken manages to escape, though he is punished by his masters for going after his father without their permission.

Wolverine then contacts Bucky and gives him three carbonadium bullets for future use. Wolverine takes a brief respite from his mission and visits the Captain America memorial where he reflects on his history with the famed super-soldier.

Meanwhile, Wolverine is frequently haunted by dreams of two battling feral armies that he refers to as the Lupines. Wolverine returns to the X-Mansion and immediately renews his rivalry with Sabretooth, which leads to a number of one-on-one confrontations between them.

While being held captive, Sabretooth is questioned by Wolverine about a being called Romulus, who is a prominent figure in Wolverine's dreams. However, he fearfully refuses to answer any questions regarding him.

The Black Panther later reveals a possible connection between Wolverine's dreams and a graveyard filled with the skeletons of humanoid beings with fangs and claws. The Black Panther theorizes that some mutants that have various animal-like powers and physical features evolved from canine ancestry rather than apes.

Soon afterward they are joined by Wolfsbane , Feral , Thornn , and Sasquatch at the request of the Black Panther and make their way to the original Weapon X compound in hopes of uncovering some answers. While separated from the group, Sasquatch is attacked and severely injured by Wild Child. Wild Child provides hints to Wolverine that Romulus has always been watching him and that he is responsible for a noticeable upgrade in Wild Child's mutant powers. Sabretooth escapes and, before Wolverine is able to track him down, viciously attacks and kills Feral.

Wolverine journeys back to the X-Mansion to ask Cyclops to give him the Muramasa Blade, meaning to put an end to the threat Sabretooth represents, once and for all.

Cyclops reluctantly gives Wolverine the sword on the urging of Emma Frost and he sets off to track Sabretooth down. Wolverine finds Sabretooth at the cabin that he and Silver Fox once shared, which is the place where Wolverine considers his rivalry with Sabretooth began. Wolverine then decapitates Sabretooth using the Muramasa Blade. Wolverine's next adventure finds him battling a new terrorist organization known as Scimitar.

After raiding one of their safehouses, he uncovers a plot to kill Tony Stark and races to S. D headquarters aboard the Blackbird. Upon arrival, he soon discovers the entire facility is disguised via an image inducer and is actually another Scimitar base. He is attacked by an unknown assailant wearing an adamantium laced uniform. After killing Amir, Logan's latest romantic interest, the assailant shoves an explosive device down Wolverine's throat and detonates it. Wolverine's body is found later by S.

D agents, with Tony Stark present. Stark notes that Wolverine's body is fully healed, but he is brain dead; his consciousness didn't regenerate along with his body, as it normally does. Doctor Strange removes Wolverine's body from the S. Helicarrier and discovers that Wolverine's soul is trapped in Purgatory. The name, Lazaer, is revealed to be an anagram for Azrael, the Angel of Death. While Wolverine's body always fully heals from his injuries, the return of his consciousness to his body depends upon the outcome of these battles with Lazaer.

After losing another loved one, Wolverine's will to survive fades. Azrael is able to defeat him and Wolverine's soul is sent onto some semblance of the afterlife. With Dr. Strange's help, Wolverine discovers that his will to survive has slowly fading ever since he was killed and resurrected by the Hand and HYDRA. After making this discovery, Wolverine is returned to life.

When he finds her, he is shocked to learn that she has been working for a resurrected Shingen Yashida, whom Wolverine killed long ago. Shingen and Wolverine do battle once again in the presence of Phaedra, and Wolverine comes out the victor using the same move he used to kill Shingen before. He then converses with Phaedra as to why this woman has it out with him.

It is then revealed that Azrael has been working with Phaedra as well, as Wolverine is brought into conflict with both Azrael and Shogun, the man in the adamantium-laced suit that killed Amir. It is then revealed that Phaedra has a little bit of Azrael's power within her, and in the effort of getting it back, Azrael has put himself closer to her.

With that, Wolverine offers to kill Phaedra for the restoration of his soul frees Azrael's uneasiness by killing Phaedra. By killing Phaedra, Wolverine accepts that he ends the arrangement with Azrael.

As a result, if Wolverine dies again, it's permanent. Azrael also informs him that he can't promise that his healing factor will remain as strong as it has been. Wolverine accepts this and leaves, stating that he has no intention of dying. Wolverine is part of the X-Men team that investigates the detection of a new mutant born in Alaska. Believing that Mr. Wolverine's team confronts Sinister and the Marauders at Sinister's base, where a battle breaks out. During the fight Wolverine confronts Gambit and stabs him through the abdomen.

He then questions his former teammate and learns that it is in fact Cable who has the mutant baby. Later in the arc, Cyclops orders Wolverine to assemble the X-Force a team consisting of Wolverine, X , Wolfsbane, Warpath , and Caliban , later joined by Domino , Elixir , Archangel and Vanisher to hunt down Cable and retrieve the new mutant baby by any means necessary.

Wolverine leads his X-Force into the battle and leaves his personal history with Deathstrike aside and allows X to battle her so he can capture Cable. As Wolverine, Caliban and Warpath chase after the fleeing Cable, Caliban throws himself before a bullet meant for Warpath.

Cable uses the confusion to double-back on the team and steal their Blackbird jet and escape. Wolverine blames himself for Cable escaping. Later on, the X-Force attack the Marauders, however, the X-Men arrive, and in the ensuing battle, Wolverine destroys Predator X by letting him swallow him, and slashing his way out of the Predator's stomach.

Mystique is the focus of the next Wolverine story arc, appropriately titled "Get Mystique. Mystique evades Logan by blowing up a Mosque in Tehran, and then travels over the border to Afghanistan. There she impersonates Wolverine and kills a local village girl, tricking the villagers into going after Wolverine. Mystique does not appear to be suffering from any lasting effects from being touched by Rogue.

It is hinted at that Mystique's recent betrayal is not the only reason Logan is out to kill her, as they apparently have a common history of friendship, love, and ultimately, betrayal. After a heated fight Wolverine manages to fatally wound Mystique, but he chooses to deny her the mercy blow.

Instead, he drops a gun and leaves in the sunset, leaving Mystique to scream and curse behind him. Wolverine was with the New Avengers when they went to the Savage Land to investigate a downed Skrull ship. When the ship is opened by Luke Cage, out comes superheroes in their 70's looks that claimed they had made it back to Earth.

After an ensuing fight, the Wolverine from the ship disappears into the jungle. But he survives with hints that he is not a Skrull. During the battle of New York, Wolverine engages in combat with Veranke, who burns off portions of his skin. He retaliates, stabbing her through the shoulder with his claws.

Just as he gains the clear upper hand Hawkeye injures Veranke with an arrow, ending the brawl. After the death of the Wasp, Wolverine attempts to finish off Veranke, but is beat to the punch by from Norman Osborn, setting him up for his position in Dark Reign.

Emma Frost discovered and told Wolverine that the child he had conceived with Itsu was actually alive. His son, Daken was trained by Cyber. Logan teamed up with Deadpool to find his son, who had many similarities to his father such as aspects of his personality, abilities, and powers. Daken nearly killed Deadpool but was shot by his father with a bullet made of carbondanium. He told him who was responsible for his mother's death and about his past.

Daken sought revenge on his former master, as he killed Cyber and left his dead body for his dad. Logan realized that Daken had been made into a living weapon by the villain Romulus, the man behind his own brainwashing.

Wolverine then made it his mission to rescue Daken and stop Romulus from manipulating or harming anyone again. A new X-Force consisting of Wolverine as team leader, Warpath, Wolfsbane and X was born to take care of the dirty business the rest of the X-Men wouldn't do normally, including murder. Their first mission involved infiltrating a North Dakota SHIELD facility to route out a group of Purifiers who had infiltrated the base and stolen valuable technology required to resurrect the Sentinel known as Bastion.

In the planned raid Wolfsbane and X disobeyed Wolverine's orders and entered ahead of the team and got Wolfsbane captured. Wolfsbane was later rescued but suffered from a seizure. Logan's former black-ops teammate, Maverick, contacted Logan to inform him that a private military contractor called Blackguard had got their hands on the old Weapon X files, including the recipe for synthesizing adamantium, and created a group of twelve mercenaries called Strikeforce X, an elite unite of men armed with healing factors, unbreakable skeletons and laser claws.

Not only that, but they were being used to carry out atrocities in the name of Blackguard's corporate interests. With the help of reporter Melita Garner, Logan was able to expose Blackguard to the world and kill most of Strikeforce X, but the Chief Executive managed to survive.

What Logan doesn't know is that Maverick was the man who stole the Weapon X files and sold them on the black market. In an effort to cover up his involvement in Kick-starting the Strikeforce X program from Wolverine, Maverick killed the man whom he sold the files to. Directly after the events in which Wolverine lost his mutant healing factor, he defected from both the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning and the primary team of Avengers.

Wolverine did so to go undercover, working for a man known as Offer , leading the latter's team of mercenaries, in doing so, he planned to use Offer's connections to Sabretooth to find him and kill him once and for all. To complement for his lack of healing factor, Wolverine began using a black and yellow armored suit.

Wolverine is a gruff warrior-poet and has a strong sense of personal honor. Logan has been portrayed in many comics as very hairy on his arms and chest. In the scope of his battle uniform, the immensely complex character of Wolverine has clearly been expressed by a bulking wardrobe that spans a variety of styles. From utilitarian designs and seemingly simple street clothes to flashy or down right wild costumes, Wolverine has taken on many forms since However, that all changed when Hawkeye's contacts betrayed and killed him.

While they also shot up Logan, his healing factor saw him delivered to the inner sanctum of the Skull himself, seeing as how they thought he was dead. Deciding to be a hero once more, Wolverine sprang out of his body bag fought the Red Skull, surrounded by his collection of relics and weapons that once belonged to the heroes of the past who had been slain when the supervillains banded together to take over the world.

However, Wolverine eventually gets the upper hand, proving Red Skull's belief that he wouldn't kill him wrong by brutally decapitating the Skull with Steve Rogers' shield. Furthermore, Logan turns right around and dons an old set of Iron Man armor as the president's forces arrive, blowing up the Skull's headquarters before flying home at the issue's end. Despite Red Skull wearing Captain America's mask as a sign of his victory over his greatest foe, Logan proved himself to be a worthy successor of Steve Rogers' mantle by wielding his shield and ending Red Skull's evil for good.