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Marvel's New 'Evil Wolverine' Weaponizes the 1 Power Everyone Always Forgets

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6th April 2025

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Weapon X-Men #2 (2025)

’s natural, animalistic ferocity isn’t just a negative personality trait; it’s one of his mutant powers. Without his Adamantium, Logan changes into a wildly different creature, as his true mutations are no longer hindered by the metal’s corruption. However, a relic from Hydra has now resurfaced and harnessed a portion of this power to create a new feral killing machine. Wolverine’s feral superpower is now turned against the X-Men.

In Weapon X-Men #2 (2025)–by Joe Casey, ChrisCross, Mark Morales, & Yen Nitro–Cable, Deadpool, and the rest of their violently

dysfunctional team of X-Men
set off to retrieve Wolverine from his recent captor, Baron Strucker.

Baron Strucker Plans to Harness Wolverine's Feral Rage

With Logan currently unconscious and unable to resist, Strucker plans to use the mutant to create a loyal army of robotic drones. However, instead of stealing Wolverine’s physical powers, Strucker extracts and duplicates Logan’s feral tenacity, embedding that psyche into his machines. While Wolverine’s ferocity is often portrayed as a personality trait, it is, in fact, part of Logan’s mutant abilities.

Wolverine’s Feral Nature Is a Separate Mutation

Weapon X-Men #2 (2025) – Written by Joe Casey; Art by ChrisCross; Inking by Mark Morales; Color by Yen Nitro; Cover Art by Chriscross & Fer Sifuentes-Jujo

Wolverine screaming with his claws drawn in the snowy woods.

Wolverine’s feral nature is certainly one of his most iconic and character-defining traits. Thrown into tragedy from a young age, Wolverine would later live among wolves, travel the Earth for centuries, and fight in most of the world’s greatest wars and against history’s most feared tyrants. These repeated moments of pain, suffering, and subsequent rage have transformed Logan into a savage brute who must constantly strive to keep his composure. Except that’s not entirely true. While this is often the insinuation that’s made when

Wolverine embraces his feral side
, his true ferocity is genetic.

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Wolverine is one of the few mutants who possess multiple independent mutations. His first mutation, and the most iconic one at that, is what grants Logan his retractable bone claws. But

Wolverine’s healing factor
and what we simply reduce to “feral rage” are tied to Logan’s not-often-talked-about second mutation. Wolverine’s true second mutant power transforms the X-Men into a gruesomely terrifying physical beast, fueled by animalistic ferocity. Without Logan’s adamantium constantly poisoning him and keeping his healing factor occupied, his powers would revert him to his true beast-like state, granting him even more strength than he normally possesses.

Wolverine’s True Mutated Form Proves He’s More Than Just a Weapon

How Romulus’ Manipulation Unleashed Wolverine’s Primal Potential

Wolverine In His Noseless Feral Form With His Claws Poking Out

Unbeknownst to him for decades, Wolverine was specifically bred by the ancient mutant warlord Romulus as part of his lifelong mission to create the world’s perfect weapon. For thousands of years, Romulus introduced new lupine-like mutations, culled the weakest of Logan’s ancestral family, and birthed

the Weapon X program
to upgrade Logan a step beyond his natural power. Romulus may not have anticipated the unintended side effects of his Adamantium experiments, but it has spared Logan from an even more bestial state than he is often in. In X-Men #25 (1993), Marvel officially debuted Wolverine’s true mutated form.

In the aftermath of the “Fatal Attractions” storyline, Magneto gruesomely ripped the Adamantium from Wolverine’s bones, leaving the X-Man free from his

ties to the Weapon X program
. However, in time, his healing factor continued to overwhelm Logan’s humanity, replacing it with a primitive mind and an overwhelmingly powerful body. Besides his strength, Logan’s acute senses and pheromone production increased drastically. Likewise, Wolverine’s empathic ability to communicate with animals also resurfaced. Even Logan’s limited mental capacities served as an unintentional new power, as the mutant’s mind was so dense that it became immune to telepathy.

Wolverine’s Feral Rage Is His Greatest Untapped Superpower

Why Logan’s Primal Instincts Give Him an Edge Over His Enemies

It seems like a common consensus, both on and off the page, that

Wolverine’s feral nature
is a negative rather than a boon. Yes, at its most extreme, it can strip away Logan’s sense of humanity and leave him a simplified, hulking monster. But even with the Adamantium limiting his feral power from taking over, the X-Man still possesses the ability to call upon his wilder side. Wolverine’s psyche frequently cracks under pressure when pushed to his human physical and emotional limits. His pent-up animalistic ferocity is released, allowing the mutant to push his body beyond its mortal limits.

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Wolverine’s ferocity is just as much a mutant power and

an asset to the X-Men
as his claws and healing factor are. The X-Man often calls upon this primal rage to empower him to go beyond his allies. In his most feral state, pain no longer matters as his mind rejects such unnecessary things, all while his healing factor works overtime to compensate for the damage. What Baron Strucker believes to be simply Logan’s mindset is, in reality, an uncopyable genetic trait that shapes the mutant’s psyche. Wolverine’s feral side is far more than an uncontrollable temper—it’s his superpower.

Weapon X-Men #2 (2025) is now available from Marvel Comics!