The Wolverine
As Wolverine and his X - Men acquaintance areushered under the same ceiling as the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Screen Rant ’s Ryan George disclose what ( likely ) pass in the pitch meeting forThe Wolverine . Directed by James Mangold and liberate in 2013,The Wolverinewas the second of three standalone superhero pic featuring Hugh Jackman ’s crabbed , cigar - chomp , topnotch - healing mutation - preceded byX - Men Origins : Wolverineand followed byLogan .
Of of course , this being the X - Men enfranchisement , the persistence betweenOriginsandThe Wolverineis wobbly at good , andLoganmore or less exists in its own freestanding macrocosm . To its credit ( or not , reckon on your linear perspective ) The Wolverine does actually undertake to maintain continuity fromX - Men : The Last Stand , with Famke Janssen ’s Jean Grey ofttimes popping up as a ghost in an alluring nightdress to torment poor Logan . When the movie begins , Wolverine is living the hermit life in the Yukon with only ghost - Jean and an indifferent grizzly bear for party .
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As so often happens , however , Wolverine ’s past catches up to him - this clip in the form of a reddish - haired sport called Yukio ( no , not that Yukio ) . Yukio whisks Wolverine off to Japan , where he ’s reunited with a dying military man called Yashida , whose life he saved during the Second World War . As repayment for this debt , Yashida offers to excuse Wolverine of his immortality and allow him to survive a normal lifespan … oh , and as a side welfare , Yashida himself will be cured of his cancer and have his juvenility restore . Did we mention that Yashida is a very savvy businessman ?
Though it was well - get by critics at the time , The Wolverinedoesn’t seem to have had much of a lasting impact on X - Men picture show buff - perhaps because it somewhat decrease aside in the third act , where Wolverine battles a vainglorious lustrous CGI mecha - Silver Samurai . Still , at least it helped Logan to move past his period of guilt and bereavement over Jean Grey by having a James Bond - esque fling with Mariko Yashida … And then the whole timeline got rewritten inX - piece : Days of Future Past . If we really haveseen the last of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine , at least he got a happy ending !
( UnlessLoganactually does exist in that same timeline , in which case Wolverine got an extremely violent and painful conclusion . )
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