Wolverine kicks some serious butt – there’s no denying that.
It’s a universal truth that extends to most of the other alternate realities in the Marvel
multiverse – most of his counterparts are wickedly strong, with some perhaps even more
skilled than the 616 clawed X-Men member.
So today, we’re taking a look at some of Logan’s other variations, with our list
of the top 10 strongest alternate versions of Wolverine.
Let’s get to it!
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Alright, now onto our list!
10 Cancerverse Wolverine Earth 10011, otherwise known as the Cancerverse,
is an earth in which death was eradicated, no longer existing, and life continued to
grow unchecked.
Like many of the other mutant characters, Wolverine is part of the Ex-Men, a group of
mutants who have been horrifically altered over time thanks to the lack of death.
In other words, here we have a Wolverine who is theoretically immortal.
While it was never confirmed on panel, it’s assumed that Wolverine died though when Death
entered the Cancerverse and killed off all of the Earth’s inhabitants.
But hey, still not too shabby considering the only thing that can get rid of his is
Death herself.
9 Old Man Logan Old Man Logan makes it onto this list not
so much because of his powers, but because of his resilience, and what he’s able to
achieve, even though he’s aged significantly over his Earth 616 self.
Old Man Logan resides on Earth 807128, an alternate earth in which supervillains had
overthrown superheroes, and reign over the planet.
Under the command of Red Skull, Mysterio tricked Wolverine into killing his fellow X-Men, whom
Logan saw as villains invading the X Mansion rather than his friends and peers.
Because of this, he swears to never use his claws again.
But as time progresses, the world becomes more of a dystopian nightmare, and Logan,
his wife, and children take to living on a barren plot of land in Sacramento, California,
owned by the Hulk and his inbred children known as the Hulk Gang.
Owing rent to them, and with Hulk threatening to kill his family, Logan does the Hulk Gang
a favour by escorting a now blind Hawkeye.
But the Hulk orders for his family to be killed anyway, and Logan seeks out revenge, hunting
Banner down and fighting the OP tyrant, who eats Logan whole.
But Logan still defeats him, clawing his way out of the Hulk’s stomach, inevitably killing
him.
8 Wolverine Lord of the Vampires The What If series has plenty of superhero
alternates kicking around on other Earths within the history of its panels.
One of those, in issue 24 of volume 2 of the series, features a version of Wolverine that
is a vampire.
Well, lord of the vampires, technically speaking.
He’s essentially Wolverine, but a vampire.
In this tale, Dracula bites Wolverine and a handful of other X-Men characters, and,
because of his strong will, he can avoid being captivated by Dracula’s mental control.
So the two fight, Wolverine transforms into a were wolf, wins, and becomes lord of the
vampires, with all of Dracula’s evil transferring into him, drowning out all human feeling.
They go on a rampage, aggressively biting a slew of different Marvel characters.
He’s eventually defeated by Doctor Strange and the Punisher, with the former reaching
out to whatever little humanity he could find remaining in Logan.
7 Horseman of War From Vampire to apocalyptic horseman, let’s
talk about James Howlett from Earth 2988, the Wolverine who became Apocalypse’s horseman
of war.
Briefly, that is.
He was transformed by Genesis into the Horseman of War as a gift for the big bad, but he was
the gift that kept on giving – or killing, rather, since Logan would use his new found
abilities to defeat and kill Apocalypse, along with a bunch of other supervillains on his
Earth.
When he started to target common criminals, his fellow superheroes hunted him down in
an attempt to stop him.
But Logan then disappears, with everyone now dubbing him as ‘the enemy’, having inspired
a whole cult of criminals in the process.
A group called the War Watch is formed, working to seek him out.
But unbeknownst to everyone, the leader of the War Watch is a fellow who calls himself
Brother Xavier, a monk, who is actually Logan, who had snapped out of his violent rampage
and now seeks redemption.
6 General James Howlett General James Howlett is from Earth 12025
– an alternate reality that appears to be similar to the late 1890s.
Here, James Howlett is the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, and goes on adventures
with Hercules, with the pair of them being known as the world’s greatest heroes because
of it.
They’re also lovers.
They took down a large dragon-esque creature, and afterwards revealed their love for one
another, which didn’t bode well with Zeus, who banished them to the pits of Tartarus,
not cause he’s a homophobe, but because Wolverine was a mortal.
There, the duo had to fight off damned souls.
On this Earth, Wolverine has something called an Adamantine skeleton, with adamantine being
described as the metal of the gods, and has mystical properties that safe guard the user
from psychic and magic attacks.
It’s nigh-indestructible.
5 Manga Verse Mangaverse Wolverine, from Earth 2301, may
have lost an arm, but he’s a resourceful fellow.
This Logan has a high tech prosthetic arm that’s equipped with three energy claws.
First appearing in Marvel Mangaverse X-Men issue 1 from 2002, this Logan is a mutant
cyborg, And, fun fact, just like in Age of apocalypse, it’s implied that the reason
why Logan lost his forearm was because of Scott, and the reason why Scott has a scarred
eye is because of Logan.
Neat.
4 Rina Logan (Earth 982) Rina Logan is from the MC2 universe, an Earth
in which the age of Heroes (marked by the emergence of the Fantastic Four) happened
15 years earlier than when it did on Earth 616.
Rina is the daughter of Logan and Electra, and not only does she possess many of the
same skills as her father, she also has minor psionic powers, which allow her to physically
manifest psychic claws, kind of similar to Psylocke’s psychic knife.
The cool thing about these claws though is that while they typically cause mental damage,
if Rina concentrates enough, she can make the claws entirely solid so that they can
cause physical damage as well.
If she inserts her psychic claws into someone, she can connect to their mind, allowing her
to block and disable things within their mind, as well as control their body.
In addition to this, because of her parents, she’s received extensive training in martial
arts.
Always comes in handy.
From Earth TRN 645, here we have a venomized Wolverine – but not Logan.
Instead, it’s his clone, Laura Kinney.
Her origin story matches up with her 616 counterpart until, during her 5th attempt to escape the
Facility, she was cornered in a laboratory and accidentally punctured a tank that held
the Venom Symbiote.
Venom bonds with her, and she escapes, calling herself Venom in the process.
Her abilities are those of X-23’s in the 616 universe, combined with the abilities
granted to her from the Venom symbiote.
But there’s a neat variation with Venom on this earth – it can further separate
itself into pieces, allowing it to bond with multiple individuals and augment them – a
trick she used to help protect the Runaways, who Laura befriends after her escape.
The symbiote can be recalled anytime as well.
2 Dark Claw Dark Claw is the amalgamation of Wolverine
and Batman, from the DC and Marvel shared Amalgam universe that came to be back in the
90s.
Dark Claw can do everything that Logan and Bruce Wayne can do – he’s got that genius
level intellect, he’s the world’s greatest detective, has access to high tech equipment,
all while having an adamantium laced skeleton, retractable claws, regenerative healing factor,
a resistance to telepathy and superhuman senses, strength, stamina, agility, reflexes, all
that jazz.
Called Logan Wayne, he was a part of the Weapon X program, and after the collapse of the program,
he decided that he would fight crime in order to avenge his parents’ death.
Now the question is, does Dark Claw have all of the plot armour that Batman has in the
DC universe?
I’m gonna take a shot in the dark here and guess yes.
1 Phoenix Wolverine Phoenix Wolverine comes from Earth 14412 – an
alternate earth in which the universe is slowly dying and Loki kills all of humankind in order
to piss off his brother Thor.
Logan is one of his victims, but later, he was chosen by the Phoenix Force as its new
host, spending eons travelling around the universe killing celestials.
He eventually crosses paths with a future version of Loki, who begs Logan to go back
in time and prevent the trickster god from collecting the Infinity Stones.
He manages to get the Space Stone, which he later gives to Black Widow in order to protect
the timeline from Loki in the long run.
Later on, he ends up sacrificing himself in order to transfer the Phoenix Force into Thor’s
Mjolnir in order to defeat Doctor Doom who threatened life on Earth.
There we have it friends!
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