Wolverine Isn't Actually That Old, And He Should Stop Pretending He Is
Warning: Spoilers for X Deaths of Wolverine #5!
In Marvel Comics, X-Men member Wolverine is a centuries-old mutant that has seen his fair share of ups and downs but compared to other Marvel characters, he’s nothing special when it comes to life’s longevity. Wolvie may like to think of himself as someone who's been around and experienced more than most (which is true), but him continuously pretending like he’s seen it all and is somehow more important because of it is head-scratching, to say the least.
Touched on in the pages of X Deaths of Wolverine #5, by Benjamin Percy and Federico Vincentini, but also seen throughout Wolverine’s entire comic book career, Logan acting like he’s the wisest of the bunch because of his age is a bit embarrassing when put into proper context. Of course, Wolverine is one of the oldest characters in the Marvel Universe, just not as old as he always seems to make himself out to be.
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Born way back in the mid-1880s, Wolverine has lived for approximately a century and a half (or about two human lifetimes), give or take a few added on years thanks to all of his adventures traveling back and forth through time as well as the constant multiversal shenanigans he seems to always be involved in. And as a text page in this issue illustrates, Logan thinking he’s some kind of sentinel of history that needs to protect it from all that's currently happening and all that will eventually come to pass comes across as a weirdly hubristic outlook on his life that doesn’t exactly sit right when held up to scrutinization.
Recounting a moment in the text when he once visited the Coba ruins in Mexico, Wolverine gets contemplative about the
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