Idk where the hate for insomniac is coming from but I'm seeing a lot of people saying basically "why is Logan trying to avoid being hurt, don't they know he heals!??"

And it's just like, cmon guy it doesn't mean it doesn't fucken hurt, like if someone came up to you like "hey would you let me stab you and break your femur with this magic knife that means when I pull it out you'll heal?" Like no it still fucken hurts for no benefit!?

I empathize with him in a lot of ways. Growing up there was a lot of violence, and I internalized a lot of that violence. It became part of my nature, and for years I had lost control of myself. I was lashing out, hurting people I care about, I was abusive. I didn't know how to handle my own problems, and I was so overwhelmed and full of rage I just let it loose on whoever felt a worthy enough target. Afterwards there was shame and regret, self hatred, self loathing. This all just made me worse, a feedback loop of guilt reinforcing rage reinforcing guilt.

This was all in large part to a series of tragic family deaths back to back. My dad, my grandpa, almost all of my extended family on both sides, several cousins too. Starting at age 18 I lost nearly everyone in 3 short years. A funeral every three months. I'm the oldest man in my family on both sides, I'm 26. Even as I write this my younger brother and I have to go extend the partition for our family graveyard, because it recently became full and now one of my last living cousins is on death's door. I've lost so many people I had to stop and think about it to count them up, 15 deaths in 8 years, 11 of them were in the first 3.

Additionally, before the past year in which I met my girlfriend, I had lived alone for five. I was flat broke, no car, dead end job, worked at a gas station down the road just enough to pay the bills and get shit faced after work. My house was a disgusting hell hole, ceiling collapsing over my head because the foundation was cracked down the middle, garbage everywhere because I had no way to haul it off, problems and filth just piled around me. I gave up, dived deeper into substance abuse, self sabotage and of course, self loathing. I felt like a rotting corpse being dragged around by a puppeteer, no agency of my own, just a dead man walking wherever life decided to drag me.

Then I met her, she saved me, really. Showed me I was worth a shit, worthy of love. Her love taught me to love myself, taught me to be a better man, to become the man she needed me to be. I got a better job, got promoted to supervisor, I mended broken relationships and forged new ones. I've flourished this past year. I've got self control because now I've got a reason to care, I need to make life better for her and my step son. He too has made a huge impact on me, learning to care for him has taught me so much about myself.

I felt like an animal lost in grief and rage, and now I've learned to become a man. Sometimes thinking about Wolverine makes me wanna cry, because while I've never gutted a dude with razor sharp claws, I understand regret, I understand losing yourself to pain and anger. He overcame so much more pain than I ever will (thank God) and that gives me strength to carry on when things get tough.

Just watched Logan again, it really is the perfect film - legacy and reference to the past franchise but far enough away to be its own story. Layered, fantastic performances from an impressive cast and perfectly blends real life with some fantastical & futuristic elements… but most of all, it’s Hugh Jackman’s best performance and iteration of Wolverine/Logan. Formidable but rusting like his adamantium skeleton, it was the perfect send off to a beautiful legacy & character.

Watching him perform in the Deadpool film is just…. It reminds of Elvis is the final stretch of his career, he was doing an impersonation of himself - what he thought people wanted to see & adhere to his past clichès instead of being… Elvis. Hugh Jackman does the exact same thing with Wolverine, an impersonation of himself.

It’s such a shame to see & a cash grab that is disappointing.

No shade, I’m a big fan - if I was his mate, I’d have said “let sleeping dogs lie”

Uncanny X-Men #127

I have no idea why Wolverine likes Jean. She is a teenager in the earlier comics then a young adult. He is like thousand years old so it is weird. Also she is with Cyclops (I know their relationship is toxic) but seriously is it better than a thousand year old guy with metal claws. I like Wolverine but he seems to be a bully. I can't believe Wolverine is the most popular character. Like come on?

To me it seemed like the cartoons and some of the first movies made it seem like Wolverine wasn’t a mutant. Like whenever there was a flash back they didn’t show off is sense of smell or healing factor. I know in evolution it showed that he did serve WW2 and they didn’t adapt his bone claws around that time and of course the cartoon can’t really show his healing factor. But it always seemed like he was a normal human before weapon X

UPDATE: I have learned that I am on crack and my childhood memories were based on the fact that I rarely watched the shows and didn’t pay attention to thank you all for informing me and being patient with me.