Who was the bad wolverine?
I spaced out a bit while watching this, who was the bad wolverine with black chest hair attacking logan?
shareplayed by hugh jackman, who also played the titular character
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That's X-24. A grown male clone of Logan. A "successful" Weapon X.
shareIt was a half assed attempt to show Wolverine "wrestling with his own demons" and "facing his past." Which sounds lovely if he was actually following Xavier's advice. But as usual, asshat Wolverine just goes on a kill rampage and doesn't learn a f'n thing. Gets himself killed and doesn't mentor the new mutants and doesn't fulfill ANY useful purpose to Mutant agenda but we're all supposed to care cause he inspired Laura for 24 hours. Total garbage film. This is the most depressing crappy movie imaginable. I have no idea why people like it.
shareIt was actually a character from the comics.
shareIt was a clone of wolverine created using his DNA whose mind had been altered to make him submissive.
The bad guys put gene therapy in the food to suppress the mutant X gene, which is why the good wolverine was weaker and healed slower than the bad wolverine, who was not exposed to the gene therapy.
I thought old Wolverine was weaker because he was old and the adamantium was poisoning his body. He clearly had a good run of many years before the poison really started affecting him.
I figured the clone was just a younger Wolverine in his prime, so he could heal as fast as depicted.
It had nothing to do with "gene therapy". The clone would eventually age and become weaker the same exact way Logan did. The green juice was simply a temporary boost, regardless of how old Logan/clone was.
Note: when I say "poison", I am referring to the fact that adamantium doesn't belong in Wolverine's body, so his body is constantly fighting it, trying to "heal" Logan's body. Over time, this constant fight is preventing Logan from keeping himself from aging, which means he slowly slips away into old age just like the rest of us, albeit at a much slower rate.
Wolverine was born in the 1880s, and would've been about 140 years old at the time of the movie. Before the gene therapy was put into food, Wolverine was a healthy strapping man of only 120 in the earlier X men movies. Then the gene therapy was put into food, mutants lost their powers and new mutants stopped being born.
The adamantium had been poisoning him his whole life, but once his healing ability was suppressed he couldn't cope with the damage anymore. He had adamantium in his body for 40 years before the gene therapy was put into food, and his healing ability started failing.
In the movie, near the end a scientist explains how they put gene therapy in the food to suppress the mutant X gene, which prevented new mutants from being born and suppressed their powers.