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Wolverine is one of Marvel’s most popular characters, so his death is always a major event – including his perfect 2014 death. Logan has died several times in continuity, but Marvel has never been able to top a death that happened over ten years ago, and it happened entirely off-screen, which is why it’s so surprising that it was such a major character moment for him.
When Marvel celebrated its 100th anniversary in the 100th Anniversary Special: Avengers #1 by James Stokoe, readers were treated to a surprising revelation about the fate of Wolverine. In this story, Wolverine is dead and gone far in the future, but his legacy lives on in Rogue, who has permanently absorbed his powers and abilities.
Rogue’s involvement might be a surprise to long-time fans, as Wolverine wasn’t on great terms with Rogue when they first met.
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Rogue wasn’t always the heroic mutant that she is today. Originally, she was a member of Mystique’s Evil Mutants group. Mystique pushed Rogue to use her mutation to absorb the powers of Carol Danvers, one of the most powerful heroes at the time. Unfortunately, Rogue was still getting a handle on her powers and permanently stole Carol’s powers, making her a major enemy of Wolverine, who was a good friend of Carol.
Wolverine has died plenty of times throughout the history of Marvel Comics.
Wolverine has died plenty of times throughout the history of Marvel Comics. While there are countless alternate universes, such as Marvel Zombies or Old Man Logan, he’s also died in canonical storylines. In the famous Enemy of the State storyline by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr, Wolverine is killed by simply being out-skilled. Despite Wolverine’s amazing abilities, he simply doesn’t have what it takes to stand up to the fearsome Gorgon, who ends up murdering Wolverine, only for him to be later revived as a brutal agent of the Hand, who goes on to nearly kill the president.
One of the most famous examples of Wolverine’s death is in the aptly named Death of Wolverine by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven. In this story, Wolverine outright loses his healing factor at the worst possible time, as Dr. Cornelius, who was involved in the Weapon X program, had recently returned to try and steal Logan’s healing factor. Infuriated that he couldn’t, as Logan no longer had it, Cornelius decides to kill Wolverine by pouring molten hot Adamantium on him. While this doesn’t prevent Wolverine from killing the evil doctor, itdoes succeed in ending Wolverine’s life and is one of the most iconic images of Wolverine’s death.
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While all of these Wolverine deaths were fantastic moments in Marvel history, they were also ultimately undone. Being murdered and brainwashed or being covered in molten Adamantium – nothing keeps Wolverine down for long. One way or another, he just comes right back to life, and it’s like the previous death doesn’t matter at all. It’s understandable why Marvel would continue repeating this pattern, as Wolverine is an absurdly popular character, and while killing him off is always a major event, bringing him back is even bigger. But his death in the 100th Anniversary works so well precisely because it finally gives the character closure.
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Wolverine and Rogue didn’t get along when they first met, but they did eventually grow to trust one another. When Rogue was badly wounded protecting Wolverine, Wolverine kissed her and shared his regeneration powers with her, helping her survive. It seems in this universe, he ultimately decided that Rogue should be his legacy. While readers don’t get the context of why he shared his powers with her, it is stated that it happened during a wedding. It’s possible that Wolverine had gotten married again and decided he wanted to grow old with his wife, passing his powers permanently to Rogue.
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Wolverine’s healing factor has always been a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s great to be practically immortal and capable of returning from any injury. On the other hand, it’s truly terrible to outlive everyone else. Wolverine has loved dozens of women over his two-hundred-year-long life, and they pretty much all died for one reason or another – and that’s to say nothing of his friends. That’s why this Wolverine death, which doesn’t even happen on-page, is so powerful. Wolverine finally found a reason to grow old and die, and he was able to gift his powers to someone close to him to make that possible.
100th Anniversary Special: Avengers #1 is available now from Marvel Comics!
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