Logan Howlett "The Wolverine"

"If men were meant to fly we'd grow wings." ―Wolverine[src]

During the Vietnam War in the 1970s, the last war Logan and Victor participated in, Victor attacks and attempts to rape and kill a young Vietnamese village woman. But when soldiers from his platoon and commanding officer try to stop him, Victor kills the commanding officer, then brutally attacks the soldiers who try to stop him. Logan comes to his aid and reluctantly assists Victor, releasing his claws and preparing to defend his brother, ready to fight as they promised, revealing their gifts to the other men in their unit. For their grave insubordination, this incident led to Victor and Logan being sentenced to death and placed in front of a firing squad to be executed after decapitating the senior officer. They are shot by a firing squad but do not die, as their regenerative healing factors keep them alive.

LoganCreedVietnam3-XMOW Logan and Victor are sent to be executed by a firing squad.

They survive the execution/death sentence and, because of their unique regenerative healing abilities, are placed in a cell soon after. Logan and Victor are eventually brought to the attention of Major William Stryker, who visits and confronts them in their cell. Stryker asks them to join his special team of mutants he is assembling, called Team X, as a way out of imprisonment. Victor and Logan accept and join five other mutants - Wade Wilson, Agent Zero, Chris Bradley, Fred Dukes, and John Wraith - on covert missions all over the world.

During one of their missions, while under Stryker's command, Team X is sent to search for and retrieve a mysterious meteorite - later revealed to be Adamantium - from a diamond trafficking operation in Lagos, Nigeria. They attack a compound there and after defeating the security forces, they obtain a mysterious rock from the compound's leader and discover that it originates from a remote village.

Upon arriving at the village, Stryker and the team interrogate nearby villagers to see if there were any other rocks similar to the one they found and are informed that the rock fell from the sky as a meteor. Stryker wants more information and has Wade Wilson interrogate in his place, being the only one who can communicate through the villagers' language. When Team X threatens the village as to where the meteorite came from, the village chief refuses to tell Stryker the origins of the meteorites, as they believe them to be sacred. After receiving no further answers, Stryker orders his team to attack the villagers, first directing Victor to kill the chief. The whole village descends into chaos as Stryker's team starts killing the civilians. However, when the mutants begin attacking a nearby village, Logan stops them.

LoganCreedNigeria-XMOW Logan quits Team X after Victor begins to kill innocent people.

After a brief argument with Victor, Logan quits the team, saying he can't kill innocent people, being disgusted by the murders committed by his teammates, Stryker's willingness to kill innocent civilians, and Victor's acceptance of this. He promptly walks away, abandoning Victor and the group while ignoring Victor's calls to him. With his departure, Team X disbands. Eventually, after everyone else leaves, only Agent Zero and Victor stay faithful to Stryker.

Six years after leaving Team X, Logan is living in western Canada, residing in a cabin high in the Canadian Rockies, working as a lumberjack and in a relationship and living with a school teacher named Kayla Silverfox. After many years of participating in warfare, Logan now desires a more quiet and tranquil life. Kayla manipulates him into a state of complacency with her power, calming him from the nightmares of his past.

One day, Agent Zero and Stryker visit Logan at his job to inform him that Bradley and Wade had been recently killed. Before doing so, Stryker asks Logan if he remembers Agent Zero, and Logan responds by asking Zero if he's still shooting first and asking questions later. Zero responds by pulling out his concealed gun, shooting Logan's cigar, and, after putting away his gun, asks Logan a follow-up question - if he's still chewing on cheap cigars. When Stryker tells Logan he has a job for him, Logan tells Stryker he already has a job. Zero tauntingly questions Logan's job payment as a lumberjack by asking if it pays 18 grand a year. Logan corrects him by saying his pay is actually 18.5 grand a year, before adding that he hasn't had to kill anybody lately. Zero asks if Logan is starting to miss it, and Logan, getting irritated, says he is now, before Stryker breaks them up, ordering Zero back to the car.

Wolverine and Kayla Logan forms a relationship with Kayla Silverfox.

One night, Kayla tells Logan about a spirit who was tricked into being parted forever from his lover, the Moon. Stemming from her Native American ancestry, she recites a story to Logan about a spirit named Kuekuatsheu who fell in love with the moon but was fooled by the Trickster into stepping foot in the mortal world from which he could never return. Thus, the spirit, Kuekuatsheu, was parted forever from the moon, forced to look at the Moon forever and never be with her again, howling at her whenever he saw her. One day, while Logan is at work, Kayla is attacked by Victor. Sensing Victor's presence in the area, he rushes to Kayla's abandoned car but finds that he is too late for any kind of rescue. Kayla is dead and Logan, recognizing the claw marks on the abandoned car, realizes that this is Victor's doing.