Death of Wolverine

"Death of Wolverine" is a 2014 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics. The story has grown from both volume 5 (Marvel Now!) and volume 6 (All-New Marvel Now!) of the Wolverine main series, and also continued with "Hunt for Wolverine" and "Return of Wolverine".

Premise

The start of the storyline (Wolverine vol. 5 #1–6) details how a virus from the Microverse caused Wolverine's healing factor to burn out and stop working, allowing enemies from his past to attempt to finally kill him.

The main series is followed by a number of aftermath mini-series that chronicle Wolverine's friends and family as they come to terms with the death of Logan. This series forms a lead-in to the weekly Wolverines title beginning in January 2015.[1]

Plot

A Microverse virus disables Wolverine's healing factor, rendering him mortal.

Aftermath

Death of Wolverine: Deadpool and Captain America

An elderly Steve Rogers and Deadpool are shown collecting anything which has Wolverine's DNA on it and destroying it, so no one would be able to clone the Wolverine. They infiltrate an A.I.M. base, where they steal a blade with Wolverine's blood on it. As they leave, Steve goes inside, leaving the blade with Deadpool and saying that Deadpool knows what to do with it. Deadpool then takes the blade to Butler's incubator, which could regrow an entire being. Deadpool scrapes the blood from the knife into a petri dish but hesitates before putting it in the machine, wondering whether he should resurrect Wolverine or let him rest and decides that he needs to think it over.

Cyclops is shown entering a bar and beating a couple of men who were insulting one man's son for being a mutant. After beating them, he raises a glass of beer as a toast to Wolverine.

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler and Colossus travel to Mariko Yashida's grave, where they take out Wolverine's sword and slam it into the grave as a sign of them being together. The men guarding the grave take it as an insult and attack them. Nightcrawler says, "First we honor his love, then we honor what he did best," and fight the guards.

Hisako Ichiki (Armor) is shown in the Danger Room fighting villains when Hellion interrupts and tries to console her, saying that Wolverine would become a part of her armor and he would always be with her.

Spider-Man and the X-Men

As one of his last requests, Wolverine arranged for Spider-Man to become a member of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning's staff, wanting Spider-Man to investigate a suspected double agent. Despite the initial hostility he faced from the rest of the team, Spider-Man soon exposed a plan by Mister Sinister to acquire genetic samples from the X-Men and create a clone army. Storm even noted after Sinister's defeat that Spider-Man's unconventional attitude made him more like Wolverine than she had acknowledged. This is shown in Spider-Man and the X-Men.

X-23

A team formed by test subjects at Paradise awakes after Wolverine's life force has depleted and escapes from Paradise. They find that Cornelius experimented on them, giving them super powers. But since they were test subjects, they were designed to die quickly. In an attempt to stay alive, they go after X-23, Daken, Sabretooth, Mystique, Lady Deathstrike, and Elixir to obtain or copy their healing factors. The story is largely shown in the fourth volume of X-23.

publisher	Marvel Comics
startmo	September
startyr	2014
endmo	October
endyr	2014
superhero	y
crossover	y
main char team	Wolverine
writers	Charles Soule
pencillers	Steve McNiven
inkers	Jay Leisten
colorists	Justin Ponsor
cat	Marvel Comics
sortkey	Death of Wolverine

Premise

Plot

Aftermath

Death of Wolverine: Deadpool and Captain America

Nightcrawler

Spider-Man and the X-Men

X-23

Titles involved

Reception

Collected editions

In other media

External links

References