Wolverine may have had many villains over the years and as we learned in our last video
not all of them were as memorable.
Well, some of the more obscure ones actually do seem memorable, but due a brief appearance
or their lackluster performance in regards to establishing themselves as capable villains,
they still manage to remain woefully forgotten.
Welcome back, nerd squad.
Today we’ll be once again voyaging to the land of forgotten comic book characters, which
I assume is somewhere near the island of forgotten toys, as we count down the top 10 Wolverine
villains you’ve never heard of, part 2.
Yes, part 2.
So if you haven’t been sure to check out the part one to this list for even more obscure
Wolverine villains.
Well not all lesser known villains are obscure really.
Some have just disappeared from our memories thanks to the sands of the time.
Be sure to stick around till the end of this list as well where we will have some bonus
content coming your way in the form of comment responses.
And if you love Wolverine and his weird roster of villains as much as we do, be sure to give
this video a thumbs up and let us know you want more like it.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Father
Father was the only name we had for one of the scientists behind the mad science secret
robotics project known as Project Descendant.
Father, Mother and Brother were the codenames for the scientist behind the project which
ended up creating a race of synthetic beings deemed as High Breed.
Due to the three team leaders bickering, the beings they created ended up being released
out into the world.
Later the Father would attempt to lure the descendents of these beings back and would
also go on to work on expanding the Deathlok Project, aiming ambitiously to connect all
the Deathlok versions of superhumans, joining them together to build a better world.
It was during this time that he crossed paths with the very secretive X-Force which at the
time was led by Wolverine, who had refused Cyclops orders to disband the team, keeping
it going in secret.
9 Brothers of the New World
Wolverine ended up fighting and taking out pretty much all of this group because they
kidnapped and killed his friend, Lucy, who tried to escape them.
They were a cult whose leader, Cry kept a harem of women at their base.
Wolverine set about attacking the cult and killing all of its members right around the
time one of the women attempted to escape who was actually a government agent who had
been investigating the cult before being taken herself and added to their numbers of imprisoned
women.
This group of villains made an appearance during the first story arc of the 2003 Wolverine
series, entitled Brotherhood.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Wolverine-2003/Issue-5?id=10347
8 Elsie-Dee
Elsie-Dee is one of Donald Pierce’s creations.
She is an android who resembles a little girl and was created to kill Wolverine but self-detonating.
However she did not herself want to die, as she also was also a smart android who ended
up valuing her life.
In the end she reprogrammed the android doppelganger of Wolverine known as Albert, built to lure
the real Wolverine into her trap and instead would become Wolverine’s ally.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Wolverine-1988/Issue-37?id=10509 - near the end
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Wolverine-1988/Issue-39?id=10511
7 Lazear
Lazear or Azreal as he is also known claims to be another form of death.
One that we’ve seen Wolverine face before and although we don’t always see it, Lazear
is an angel of death that Wolverine in theory is forced to face every time he has a near
death experience.
Lazear battles for Logan’s life but Wolverine managed to fight him back each time, prevailing
and ensuring his life belonged to him only.
However should Wolverine fail to defeat Azreal, the being would claim his life, and he would
die.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Wolverine-2003/Issue-59?id=10366
6 Tiger Shark
One of the first time these two ever crossed paths it was one of the most random fights.
Wolverine and Tiger Shark originally started fighting because La Bandera--a mutant with
emotion manipulation and energy manipulation abilities, who mainly uses her powers to make
people feel more patriotic and empathic--was fighting Tiger Shark.
Wolverine stumbled upon their fight and felt attracted to La Bandera and compelled to help
her, mainly due to her mutant ability.
Together the two made quick work of Tiger Shark.
5 Bloodscream
Bloodscream would end up partnering with Wolverine’s other lesser known nemesis that we talked
about on part one of this list, Roughouse.
While many associate these two as being partners in crime, this isn’t the only Wolverine
villain that Bloodscream has teamed up with in the past.
He has also teamed up with Albert and Elsie-Dee as well.
And in The Old Man Logan universe partnered up with both Kraven and Roughouse in an attempt
to help Kraven capture Old Man Logan.
4 Nuke
Many people forget about Nuke.
But he is a lesser known villain in the comics who was actually created by Wolverine during
his time as a Weapon X operative.
He ended up securing Nuke when he was just a child for Project Homegrown.
Weapon Plus with Wolverine’s help, would later drive him insane and turn him into a
brainwashed cyborg to be used a weapon.
Even years later these two will still come to blows.
During Death of Wolverine, Nuke would accept a contract to capture Wolverine and bring
him to Viper.
This would lead to epic fight between the two where Wolverine would only end up winning
by smashing his own skull repeatedly in Nuke’s until he was unable to fight back.
Is this the most metal way that a fight has been won in comics?
3 Romulus
Does everyone remember Romulus?
One of the most weirdly epic and yet short lived villains of almost all time?
He had this huge build up and we went on to find out that he was an ancient villain from
prehistoric times only to find out that this was all a lie and apparently a ruse to “distract”
Wolverine.
He was however the villain responsible for cutting Daken out of his dead mother, Itsu’s
womb and for training him and turning him into a killing machine.
He manipulated Daken from day one, helping to turn him against his father and was the
one responsible for helping him to bond the melted down muramasa blade to Daken’s claws.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Wolverine-1988/Issue-19?id=10489
2 Gorgon
If you don’t know the Gorgon and this pretty awesome story featuring him, you should.
During the third Wolverine series from 2003, Wolverine ends up getting entangled with the
Gorgon when he is attempting to locate Ichiro, the missing son of one of his dead fiance’s
cousin who has been kidnapped.
Gorgon is a telepathic mutant who as his name implies can turn those who make direct eye
contact with him to stone.
Gorgon ends up capturing Wolverine and giving him over to the hand who brainwashed him and
turned them into their own agent.
However Wolverine would later break free of their control and would even kill Gorgon using
his own claws to reflect his deadly gaze back at him, transforming Gorgon into stone before
shattering him.
But don’t worry, Gorgon would be resurrected later on and return.
Gotta love those old mythology references!
Comics, taking old stories and making them new again.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Wolverine-2003/Issue-20?id=10287
1 Ogun
Ogun was once Wolverine’s martial arts mentor and a powerful sorcerer and telepath but later
became Logan’s enemy after being spurned by Wolverine, joining the Yakuza and going
on to kidnap, train and brainwash Kitty Pryde during the Kitty Pryde and Wolverine story.
Ogun even managed to turn Kitty Pryde against Logan, sending her to attack him when Wolverine
had come to rescue her.
Fortunately Wolverine was able to break Ogun’s control over Kitty.
In the end, Kitty fought Ogun but was unable to defeat her former master.
However Wolverine was able to do so.
After being beaten but spared by Wolverine, Ogun attacked Kitty once more and was killed
by Wolverine.
Of course, this is comics so this wouldn’t be the last we’d see of him by a long shot.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
What are some of your favourite lesser known Wolverine villains?
Which of Wolverine’s villains would you like to see team up?
Let us know in the comments below.
And speaking of comments, it’s time to turn to some comments from one of our latest videos,
top 10 dark alternate versions of Daredevil.
Kingdom Come Superman comments, “Daredevil is great.
One of my favourite, “street level” superheroes.
His and Jessica Jones’ Netflix shows were amazing.”
I know.
I am actually really sad that we don’t still have those shows.
They were both so good.
I miss the Marvel Netflix universe.
It was a fun and relatively dark time.
Also Charlie Cox really did a great job as Daredevil.
I hope Marvel can find some kind of weird loophole or negotiate to merge him into the
MCU.
Anthony Thompson writes, “My favourite ‘superhero/antihero’ is Ghost Rider.”
This is one hero that I myself have wanted to read more of.
And not just even of Johnny but of all the ghost riders.
Also Cosmic Ghost Rider.
Who I just think is one of the best characters around, period.
Let me know in the comments if you have a favourite Ghost Rider and if you have any
suggestions for Ghost Rider runs or stories you think I should check out.
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