Wolverine as Death

[AceOfSpades]

I know this is gonna sound stupid... but is there a reason Wolverine has been the only X-men turned into death who has not had a dramatic altering of appearance?

[SincereAgape]

Maybe because he is one of the faces of Marvel Comics and if they were to signifiganly going to change his apperance it would have changed one of their faces that appeal to mainstream media.

He did have some sort of armor when serving under Big-A.

[Will.S]

I know this is gonna sound stupid... but is there a reason Wolverine has been the only X-men turned into death who has not had a dramatic altering of appearance?
Well the most dramatic thing to happen to him via Apocalypse was the return of the adamantium when people were really anticipating it's return so that and the arabian'ish armor/weapons were as far as it went. Any other alterations would have probably been too radical and harder to market.

[Beast]

Well, technically it did cause a massive alteration to his appearance.

Remember, Wolverine was a slowly devolving nose-less hairy freak in a bandana mask before he got his Adamantium back. :)

[streator]

Well, technically it did cause a massive alteration to his appearance.

Remember, Wolverine was a slowly devolving nose-less hairy freak in a bandana mask before he got his Adamantium back. :)
not really.
he was only in the bandana-state for a while after wolverine 100. he was portrayed as "typical logan" about ten issues later.
i thought wolverine's "death" appearance was pretty cool, personally.

[Linguini]

what are you guys talking about?

[Will.S]

what are you guys talking about?
Cookies mang.

[fastball_special]

not really.
he was only in the bandana-state for a while after wolverine 100. he was portrayed as "typical logan" about ten issues later.

I was under the impression he started using an image inducer.

[streator]

what are you guys talking about?
after wolverine 100 logan "lost control of his humanity" and began turning into a more beastial form of himself.
wolverine 100 featured a failed attempt at giving logan back adamantium.
the bandana/animalistic wolverine was not a fan favorite and didn't last long.

he later became death (3-4 years later) and got the adamantium back.

[streator]

I was under the impression he started using an image inducer.
i'm going off memory, but i don't think this was the case.
i think elektra (among other things) helped him gain control of his humanity again.

[Linguini]

mmmm....cookies......

[Young Avenger]

after wolverine 100 logan "lost control of his humanity" and began turning into a more beastial form of himself.
wolverine 100 featured a failed attempt at giving logan back adamantium.
the bandana/animalistic wolverine was not a fan favorite and didn't last long.

he later became death (3-4 years later) and got the adamantium back.

I remember reading that when I was a kid. I didn't know what was going on but from what I read it seriously sucked.

[Dizzy D]

I was under the impression he started using an image inducer.

They did state that in the first Anthony Winn issue, but I believe they just reverted him to his regular form without openly addressing it.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

what are you guys talking about?

In Wolverine #100 Genesis tried to rebond Adamantium to Logan's skeleton. He had lost it after the Fatal Attractions storyline, when Magneto had pulled it out of his body.

After Genesis' attempt failed Wolvie's body couldn't cope and accelerated the feral regression that had kind of started the second that Magneto leached the metal through his skin. The adamantium had been keeping Wolvie's body in shape, and without it he had begun to regress into the feral Wolverine that we saw around the time of Onslaught - with jagged bone claws, mostly no words, and certainly no nose... :D

This probably would have happened anyway, without the adamantium bonded to his skeleton, but with the trauma of Genesis' procedure it sped up the process.

Wolverine remained a feral lump of creature for quite a long time until Elektra help to re-teach him to claim his humanity, largely through ninja discipline.


As for Wolverine: Horseman of Death? That was the precursor to the Apocalypse The Twelve storyline, which people don't like to talk about. Basically this guy turned up dressed in Arabian robes, with a big sword and kicked the X-Men's ass. He was later unmasked as Wolverine.

A flashback issue would later explain that Apocalypse kidnapped both Wolverine and Sabretooth and asked the two to fight it out for who wanted to be his Horseman of Death. Wolvie chose to be, in order to stop Sabretooth being made Death, believing that he could fight Apocalypse better as his Horseman.