Wolverine is coming back.
But now the status quo needs some rubber-banding and Wolverine needs to un-die.
Wolverines a hard mutant to kill, especially before he lost his healing factor.
Its just that a lot of the time, they need to get a little more creative with it.
Here are all the Logan deaths I can gather.
Similarly, I need to get some kind of context.
All righty, then.
Lets kill some Canadians.
Ever heard of it?
It was kind of a big deal a few years ago.
They get out of an elevator and see a higher-ranking Sentinel.
The storyline was used in the 90s cartoon, but this time Wolverine is killed in battle with Nimrod.
What If Phoenix Had Not Died?
That lasts like…a day.
Kitty Pryde confronts her about it and Jean snaps.
She vaporizes Kitty and kills the X-Men one-by-one.
She turns Nightcrawler into a pyre of hellfire.
Wolverine impales Colossus and is then telekinetically dragged into the big ball of flame that used to be Nightcrawler.
What If Wolverine Had Killed the Hulk?
Due to his love for Jean, he turns against Magneto and claws him up.
Magneto uses the last of his strength to make Wolverine cut up his own throat.
This actually kills him!
Yeah, Im just as surprised as you are.
Problem is, he needs nine souls to do it.
He has nine heroes there.
They sacrifice themselves and allow him to transform them into pure energy to take out the Adversary.
The issue is filled with jokey depictions of how he would have all the heroes and villains killed.
His solution for the X-Men is easy.
Sentinels are programmed to kill mutants, but theyre too big and noisy.
Why not just send some ninja Sentinels to chop up the X-Men while theyre asleep?
What If the X-Men Lost Inferno?
Wolverine is a brainwashed demon who is at one point shown being fed a newborn baby.
A small resistance group is put together that features Dr.
Strange, Rachel Summers, Baron Mordo, and Kitty Pryde to try and save the day.
Mordo predictably betrays them.
Out of reflex, Wolverine guts Kitty and it snaps him back to semi-normal.
What If the X-Men Died on Their First Mission?
All 13 of them are killed via being hurled into the void of space.
Xavier gets all depressed until scrounging up yet another X-Men team.
This is even darker and more messed up if you add in theDeadly Genesisretcon.
What If the Vision of the Avengers Conquered the World?
In this issue, we got two alternate takes on what could have happened.
They take him up on the offer, things work out great, and the future brings endless peace.
Wolverine even becomes the leader of several generations of New Mutants.
Unfortunately, another reality has the building get nuked by Genosha, figuring that this would somehow kill Vision.
That leads to a galaxy run by Dr. Doom, Mad Thinker, and Hydra.
Way to go, Genosha.
To help woo Death, he scales back his power a bit and goes to town on Earths heroes.
Its a valiant effort, but the good guys get stomped in all sorts of outlandish ways.
Wolverine pops up out of nowhere and digs his claws right into Thanos chest.
Normally, this would be a killing blow, but this isnt a very normal time for Thanos.
With but a thought, he transforms Wolverines skeleton into spongy rubber and leaves him in a dying heap.
The kids are screwed, but luckily Wolverine shows up out of nowhere to create a diversion.
As the New Warriors escape, Iron Man inspects the body, intrigued at Wolverines skeleton.
What If Wolverine Was Lord of the Vampires?
Punisher almost kills Logan, but Kitty Pryde sacrifices herself to stop him.
Wolverine kills Frank, but then realizes the monster hes become.
What If the Marvel Superheroes Had Lost Atlantis Attacks?
They split up with some going after the brides while the others go after Set himself.
Its an outright slaughter in both cases.
The mind-controlled Jean Grey throws Wolverine at Aquarian, who has his force field up.
Certainly one of the more outlandish deaths on the list.
What If Captain America Had Formed the Avengers?
Long story short, Cap gets frozen again and Red Skull impersonates him, ultimately becoming President for Life.
The world is very, very different and Caps Avengers team includes Logan, known also as Hulk.
He has the power to transform himself into the creature Wendigo.
Years later, the world is a better place and the Avengers are honored with a statue.
What If the Hulk had Killed Wolverine?
Hulk survived, but Wolverine was still able to walk away.
Here, Hulk recovers and he isnt very happy.
Then Hulk kills like so many other X-Men and Freedom Force mooks once hes got that momentum going.
What If the Avengers Lost Operation: Galactic Storm?
What If?
Simply put, everything is exactly the same, up tothe Dark Phoenix Saga.
When fighting the ShiAr, Jean goes mental and becomes the Dark Phoenix.
She loses control and the Phoenix engulfs the entire universe.
What If Iron Man Sold Out?
At one point, he and his Brotherhood fight the X-Men and mop the floor with them.
Wolverine is one of those victims.
In other words, its every Garth Ennis comic ever.
Frank is sprung from prison by a very rich benefactor who funds his war on all heroes.
Wolverine was spared because Frank put him on a wild goose chase in Japan.
Frank tracks him down so he can kill him one-on-one and get his revenge.
What If Stryfe Killed the X-Men?
Healing factor or not, Wolverine needs to breathe.
As the killing spree begins to happen, the Exiles are able to get through to Angel and Wolverine.
To save the universe, Angel carries Wolverine through a portal created by Blink.
Wolverine impales Jean from behind and the resulting explosion kills them.
The X-Men are all dead, but their reality is safe.
150 years have passed and everything is too crazy and complicated for me to describe because Morrison.
The short version is that Wolverine is up against Beast now evil after being infected by the villain Sublime.
Jean has come back from the dead in the form of Phoenix and warns Wolverine not to fight Beast.
Not heeding the warning, Wolverine has his healing factor shut down and is mortally wounded.
Fun fact: they never did explain whatever happened to him after that.
Anyway, we get a sweet panel of Wolverine being bum-rushed by an overwhelming army of zombie superheroes.
Exiles #86
Tony Bedard and Paul Pelletier 2006
Weve hit the motherload here.
Upon being discovered by their brainwashed counterparts, lots of slicing happens.
Though Patch is captured and brainwashed, Zombie Wolverine succeeds on devouring several Wolverines, turning him obese.
Patch later decapitates him (hes still undead) and chops up Albert.
Patch meets his end when the real Exiles show up and Sabretooth tears out his throat.
Young James loses his composure and completely mauls whats left of Brother Mutant, presumably to death.
According to the Exiles, 17 Wolverines died in this adventure.
Cyclops plan leads to Rogue touching Scarlet Witch, which causes everything to go haywire.
All the heroes in that big brawl with Magneto simply vanish thanks to the chaos magic, Wolverine included.
Wolverine never came to his senses when under Hydras control and remains their bloodthirsty puppet.
Wolverine kills all of them until only he and Kitty are left.
Kitty tries to talk sense into him, but no deal.
With her arm lodged permanently into his head, he cant heal and keels over.
He killed Annihilus and became the leader of the Annihilation Wave.
Hes shown waging war on Earth by himself, fighting near a pile of dead heroes.
Wolverine is shown to be the last one standing and valiantly gives his all.
Then he gets thrown into space as the Annihilation Wave comes for Earth.
The green-clad Wolverine fights the Exiles a couple times and is last seen defeating the Exiles incarnation of Sabretooth.
The team has a version of Kitty Pryde, who takes him on all by herself.
Unlike theWhat If?issue mentioned above, there is no desperation in Kittys survival.
Shes more sadistic in her cleverness than Howlett expected.
Since she can make things other than herself intangible, she simply gets selective.
The claws fall to the ground.
She returns to Sabretooths side later with a handful of Wolverine claws.
Unfortunately, the dimensional travel has caused them to regain their hunger.
Spider-Man unleashes the Sandman at their enemies, merged with a nanites designed to devour undead flesh.
Friends and foe alike are converted to skeletons, Wolverine included.
The heroes talk it out amongst themselves and decide to oppose him.
Suddenly, a large bolt of energy crashes down and kills them all.
There is no unconscious resurrection this time.
Way to not close your eyes, Slim.
Wolverines all charred up, but hes still capable of impaling Magneto through the chest.
In retaliation, Magneto blasts the adamantium from his skeleton, leaving nothing but charred bones.
Later on, his spark-covered skeleton is discovered in a Manhattan park by some cops.
All three of those situations flat out state that Storm is the killer.
Regardless, Sabretooth joins the team to get vengeance for his son.
Shes resurrected by teammate Ink, which should normally be considered a good thing.
She confronts Wolverine in his home as he gets a beer.
Hes very casual about his impending death, knowing that theres nothing he can do against her.
Dust envelops him and leaves only his metal skeleton.
Or, at the very least, vaporizing his brain.
John ends up leaving their home and becomes a big name in the yakuza.
Logan confronts him and begs him to come home.
Logan impales him with the Muramasa Blade, which negates the healing factor.
He tells his dying son that he only blames himself for what happened and turns the blade on himself.
In this version, Osborns battle is a complete slaughter with the Sentry as his MVP.
Amongst the bodycount, Sentry decapitates Wolverine and X-23 with a single karate chop.
Dont be confused by that panel of Daken cutting up Thing.
Despite Castles plot armor, at least he didnt recover from an exploded head in mere seconds.
Forcing Arcade to be his lackey, Deadpool kills off the X-Men, leaving Wolverine for last.
Wolverine discovers a room where Daken and X-23 are bound and repeatedly torched.
Deadpool fights with Wolverine and uses a carbonadium katana to offset his healing factor.
A clean decapitation is all it takes for Deadpool to come out the winner.
Unfortunately, this Reed is a Nazi.
Through his plotting, he kills Victor Von Doom, his teammates, and Hitler himself.
He rules Germany and somehow gets his hands on the Infinity Gauntlet.
Many heroes have a go at stop him, including Wolverine.
Wolverine is vaporized by a blast from the Gauntlet.
The heroes keep pouring on and Nazi Reed loses control, destroying the planet in a fit of rage.
The new present is even worse, so Wolverine goes back again to stop himself from killing Pym.
They talk it out and a new solution arises.
Unfortunately, there are now two Wolverines, which will likely screw up the timeline even more.
The younger Wolverine goes along with it and shocks Sue when he leaves the cave with bloody claws.
They cover Poolverine and devour him down to the bone.
Ultimately, his quest brings him to Dr. Cornelius, one of the scientists behind his creation.
Wolverine still chases Cornelius to the rooftop, where Cornelius collapses and dies from his injuries.
As the adamantium hardens, he stands as a statue in the sun and reflects on his many adventures.
Er, the more recent one.
Through the event, we see various sectors of a patchwork Earth that are representatives of different alternate realities.
One such sector is based on the1602continuity.
James survives being impaled and gets back up, revealing his claws.
Nonplussed, Angela catches him with her spear and casually uses it to drown him in a nearby moat.
In this version, Dr.
Nemesis goes mad and becomes an all-powerful villain.
The two make a run at him and are tossed off into space, where they die from asphyxiation.
As protector of the land, he becomes a target of endless assassins.
One of the hired assassins sent against them is Wolverine.
MODOK easily survives being clawed from behind and gets ready to fight Wolverine head-on.
Talking animal vigilante Beardevil flips over and takes care of Wolverine in an attempt to befriend the three Scotts.
As Beardevil throws the skull over his shoulder, he doesnt understand why everyones so freaked out.
This is when the story getsweird.
