"The Last Mutant Standing": Wolverine Admits the One Way He's Scared for His Story to End

Summary

Warning : Spoilers for Wolverine ( 2020 ) # 40 ahead!Wolverinemay be the indestructible bogeyman of Marvel ’s mutants , but even he has his incubus . In a vicious irony , Wolverine let out that he ’s desperate to head off being"the last mutant standing"- despite his most pop stories casting him into that very role .

Gulo gulo # 40 , by Benjamin Percy , Ibrahim Moustafa , and Frank D’armata , sees Wolverine ’s effort to take down Orchis going drastically wrong . Having stolen an Orchis ship and with Spider - Man in towage , Wolverine attempt to infiltrate the Orchis place place . However , he is thwarted when Orchis at once see through the artifice and sics a squad of Sentinels on him .

As Wolverine floats through blank space while surrounded by Sentinels , he thinks,“For all my hesitations about Krakoa , now that it ’s been torn out from me … I’ve spent every moment fighting my means back to it . To them . I do n’t want to be the last mutant standing . "

Wolverine Man vs Animal

Wolverine has always struggle with his more beast instinct . But when he was separate into a regular man and an animal , he learn who he truly is .

Wolverine Rejects His (Incredibly Popular) ‘Lone Hero’ Future

This is a in particular disturbing fear for Logan to have , as several prominent stories feature Wolverine in this precise scenario . Chris Claremont , John Byrne , Terry Austin , and Glynis Wein ’s " Days of Future Past " arc fromUncannyX - Men # 141sees Wolverine asone of the last make it X - Menleading the ( ultimately abortive ) charge against a dystopian future tense created by Senator Kelly and his Sentinels . This timeline would essay to be incredibly popular for succeeding stories , even receiving a film adaption in 2014’sX - Men : Days of Future Past .

This style of a future Wolverine strike back against a dystopian futurecontinues with " Old Man Logan " . make in 2008 by Mark Millar , Steve McNiven , Dexter Vines , and Morry Hollowell inWolverine # 66 , he is once again the last X - Man standing in a world gone to hell ( in this instance , having been trick into mow down the rest of the ten - Men himself ) and having disown his " Wolverine " role . This edition of the character would again establish popular enough for multiple appearances in subsequent strip , and , once more , a picture version would follow ( 2017’sLogan ) .

All Logan Wants Is To Be With His Loved Ones

Stories of a grizzled Wolverine leading a do-or-die lone kick against a broken world may be pop , butWolverine#40repudiates this sight for the character . Whether in " day of Future Past " or as " Old Man Logan , " Wolverine always finds himself draw to protect others;the look-alike of the snarling , undestroyable figure alone against the earthly concern is nothing but a facade . Wolverinemay be curmudgeonly , ill-bred , and one of Marvel ’s greatest killers … but at the end of the day , his worst incubus is nothing more than being left behind by his friends and enjoy ones .

Wolverine # 40 ( 2020 )

Wolverine ( 2020 ) # 40is available now from Marvel Comics .

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A composite image of the Peanuts gang hoisting Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the air in front of black and white panels from the Peanuts comic strips

Wolverine braces his claws and howls in anger, set against the backdrop of the movie poster for the film ‘Logan’

Wolverine leaps out of his spaceship as enemy Sentinels destroy it; his inner monologue follows the action, explaining how he doesn’t want “to be the last mutant standing."

A Sentinel robot holds Storm in its grasp while blasting Wolverine with its other hand. A text box in the bottom corner dramatically exclaims “This Issue: Everybody Dies!"

Spider-Man webs up a Sentinel’s hand, making it blast itself, while Wolverine fights its Wolverine-clone pilot; his inner monologue expresses that “nobody’s the best alone” and “if you’re not fighting for others, then what’s the fighting for?"