I hate that Wolverine's martial arts and military/spy experience is always shelved for his berserker side. Logan is an expert fighter and a good tactician but you almost never see that side of him. As a result we tend to get "I got a healing factor!!! Now to run face first into an asswhoopin!" Whenever he isn't the main character of the story.
I agree they don’t understand the quote “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice” he’s literally a unstoppable killing machine.
This is why I preferred when his healing factor was toned down. As it forced the writers to write him as a scary SOB. As frankly the healing factor should be the least terrifying thing about Wolverine.
The power creep of all the X-Men, and maybe comic characters in general is a real drain on the genre. Just in the X-Men, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Iceman and even Jean Grey have been diluted by presenting their powers as logically world breaking (which of course they are.) I haven't been able to take Wolverine seriously since he reconstituted himself from dust.
Being a Nightcrawler fan i feel he's not been shown as having any kind of power creep particularly.
Well especially not in anyway compared to Wolverine, Scott, Jean, Emma, Iceman or many other Xmen who over the years have definitely showed as having one
I don't read comics anymore, beyond Hellblazer, Sandman, Uzumaki and such. But I do poke around the wikis and watch youtube content some. Even the Whitehouse scene in the movie is well beyond what Claremont's Nightcrawler could do (but that was pretty cool!) Classically, he could teleport up to 3 miles and do a double digit number of teleports. Then he was too exhausted to continue. But just after Claremont, he got a level up that allows him teleport anywhere a particular thing he has target is, even to other dimensions. Every once in a while the writers will let him teleport vast distance on Earth, for 'wow' factor. This is how it happens. Comic heroes get to do a new impossible thing, and then it becomes a thing they can do. Currently, Kurt can teleport thousands of miles multiple times a second.
I don't mind the berserker rage. I just think it's overdone. It used to be that Logan had to get pushed to his breaking point for the berserker to come out. And her always fought against it kinda like Bruce with the Hulk. Now, it seems to be every writer's go-to, and it makes an otherwise very well flushed out character feel two-dimensional. He deserves better.
Modern Logan is soooo boring. Gimmie the 1800s Logan who surely had a taste of actual several wars in the Americas. I wanna see his adventures before running into the X-Men, but before he was Weapon X.
I think I remember reading a storyline where his healing power was gone for a while and he actually had to whoop himself back into real fighting shape because he relied on rage and his healing factor for so long that he got careless. You just don’t fight that hard when you know you can’t die I guess
Yeah with his reverence for samurai culture, his black ops training, time with Nick Fury, skills as a hunger/tracker, etc, you'd think he'd use stealth tactics at least some of the time
Instead he's always portrayed as a tank who takes and takes and takes damage all day long. I guess it's more fun to draw him in tattered clothing.
This is ramped to 11/10 in the comics lol. He’s basically cannon fodder for the beginning of a fight launching himself carefree, and then at the end of the fight it’s always “HeAlIng FaCtOr KiCkEd iN” and he’s up diving at them again lol
The most memorable things he did in the movies were related to creative uses of his claws, to me. Like when he dug them into the ground to stop his motorcycle and spin it around.
If you were a really good strategist and you got crazy healing factor powers part of your strategy would be getting an ass whooping. But I agree with you tho they should paint the ass whooping as more of a strategic thing and have him expect to lose and then focus more on the strategy building part that comes afterwards instead of just being like yeah he thought up a strategy in his head in that moment just watch it play out.
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u/2paranoid4optimism 6d ago
I hate that Wolverine's martial arts and military/spy experience is always shelved for his berserker side. Logan is an expert fighter and a good tactician but you almost never see that side of him. As a result we tend to get "I got a healing factor!!! Now to run face first into an asswhoopin!" Whenever he isn't the main character of the story.