Wolverine’s central conflict has often been one between the external man and the animal caged within; a hyper-violent, hyper-masculine force seeking dominance. Whilst he has often erred towards his respectable, human side, he stands ever at this precipice: and in the alternate universe explored in the 1995 X-Men event Age Of Apocalypse, Logan lets the animal take over.
Where the Wolverine of the prime Marvel universe has, over the years, found ways to temper the beast within, Age of Apocalypse shows us a Wolverine in a world without Xavier, and without his influence. Killed by his time-traveling son Legion, Xavier dies before he gets a chance to form the X-Men. Going by the name Weapon X, Logan would join a team of X-Men assembled by Magneto and, in Xavier’s stead, Jean Grey would be employed as Logan’s psychic keeper.
The fascinating thing is that while Wolverine’s missing hand was one of the most visually compelling aspects of all the Age of Apocalypse re-designs, the actual loss of his hand was never depicted in any of the comic books set during the Age of Apocalypse. Oh, they would TEASE the loss of his hand through a series of flashbacks in the comics, but it was never outright depicted, not even in X-Men: Chronicles #2, which featured a series of historic moments in the past of the Age of Apocalypse (moments that, of course, we just learned about the first time reading the comic).
Wolverine’s central conflict has often been one between the external man and the animal caged within; a hyper-violent, hyper-masculine force seeking dominance. Whilst he has often erred towards his respectable, human side, he stands ever at this precipice: and in the alternate universe explored in the 1995 X-Men event Age Of Apocalypse, Logan lets the animal take over.
Where the Wolverine of the prime Marvel universe has, over the years, found ways to temper the beast within, Age of Apocalypse shows us a Wolverine in a world without Xavier, and without his influence. Killed by his time-traveling son Legion, Xavier dies before he gets a chance to form the X-Men. Going by the name Weapon X, Logan would join a team of X-Men assembled by Magneto and, in Xavier’s stead, Jean Grey would be employed as Logan’s psychic keeper.
The fascinating thing is that while Wolverine’s missing hand was one of the most visually compelling aspects of all the Age of Apocalypse re-designs, the actual loss of his hand was never depicted in any of the comic books set during the Age of Apocalypse. Oh, they would TEASE the loss of his hand through a series of flashbacks in the comics, but it was never outright depicted, not even in X-Men: Chronicles #2, which featured a series of historic moments in the past of the Age of Apocalypse (moments that, of course, we just learned about the first time reading the comic).
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