In the upcoming movie Logan, mutants have become sparse, to say the least. They are dying for some unknown reason, and young mutants are kidnapped by the Government’s Sentinel program to be trained into killing machines, a very harrowing scene that really calls for the help of the X-Men. But the once prosperous institute is gone. All the X-Men have died.
Since the upcoming movie sees some basis from the Old Man Logan comic series, there is a reason to believe that Wolverine may be responsible for the death of the X-Men. The villain Mysterio manipulates Wolverines mind which makes him believe that all the X-Men he murders are actually his enemies. The horrific act sends Logan into a suicidal depression. As he cannot die, he involves himself in a hit and run with a train and vowed to never use his claws again.
In the trailer, Charles Xavier,in a voice over, asks Logan a curious question that is full of mystery.
“Logan, what did you do?”
The words are paired with Logan’s trembling fist that is bloodied for an unknown reason. The trailer is executed in such a way that questions arise for what Logan’s action might be. Especially given the following scenes that follow the question. Logan is seen drinking heavily in a graveyard. Is he drinking in their honor or is he drinking away guilt for his past actions and guilt?
“Mutants. They’re gone now.”
The trailer does not, however, depict how the X-men died. Could the movie be taking a cue from the source material and have the hero slaughter all his former team-mates? There is also the possibility that the trailer has a misleading storyline that is being used to entice future movie goers. It may not be the first or the last time that a well-edited trailer fools audiences to believe a movie is not what it actually is.But there may also be a chance that this theory is plausible, given the depressive state that Logan and Charles Xavier seem to view the world in 2024.