Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is one of the finest and well-made comic book characters of all time. The very first movie in the X-Men series was released in the year 2000 and since then, Hugh Jackman has portrayed the role of Wolverine in eight films till date including cameos. He will be playing the character for the ninth and final time in the upcoming movie Logan, which will hit the screens on March 3, 2017. If you look at the X-Men franchise as a whole, it has been pretty decent and Hugh Jackman’s wolverine has played a great role in that. But the fact is that his solo movies were not that great and there are also some problems with the characterization of Wolverine. Let’s have a look at 5 things Hollywood got wrong about Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.
His Size and Stature
This one is not a criticism and we all are well aware of the fact that X-Men movie universe is not same as that of the Marvel comic book universe and therefore we can’t expect everything to be exactly same. In the comics, Wolverine is fat and short. Even though wolverines are short in reality, Hollywood never characterize Wolverine as short and fat. Could you imagine superheroes like Superman and Batman being depicted as short and fat guys? And exactly this principle is applied here. Hugh Jackman is really lean and tall and is exactly opposite to what we have seen in the comics.
His Looks
Hugh Jackman is really appealing as Wolverine and we don’t have any arguments regarding that. But the truth is that Hugh Jackman doesn’t possess the correct looks to portray Wolverine (a faithful version). Wolverine is highly animalistic in nature and is a rough and tough guy. He is actually really untidy and is entirely different from the Hollywood good looks of Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman’s looks in the X-Men series too clean and tidy and therefore, it is an untruthful adaptation Wolverine.
His Villains
The Wolverine has got some really great villains in the comic books like Omega Red, Cyber, and Gorgon etc. and none of these villains were portrayed in any of the X-Men movies and what we have seen are the poor portrayals of Sabretooth and the Silver Samurai and an awful depiction of Deadpool. Even though Magneto is an exception, he can’t be considered as a specific enemy of Wolverine as he is against the X-Men team. Let’s hope that the 2017 Logan will give us very good depictions of Mister Sinister and Donald Pierce.
Chronological Errors
The whole X-Men series is filled with chronological and continuity errors and even Wolverine himself hasn’t escaped from these errors. It would take a whole day to point out all those continuity errors and we can’t do that, but we would look at a couple of them. It is an established fact from the earlier Wolverine movies that Wolverine has been suffering from amnesia for about 15 years, which means that it started from the late 1980s. But in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), it was shown that his amnesia started in the 1970s. His adamantium claws were cut off in The Wolverine (2013) and he suddenly got them back in the X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)!
His Costume
The costume that Hugh Jackman uses in X-Men movies is entirely different from that of the comic book costume. The comic book portrays Wolverine in an attractive and iconic yellow costume which we haven’t seen in any of the Wolverine movies. In movies, he usually wears generic street clothes and when he is part of the X-Men team, he usually wears a black leather ensemble. Fans would really love to see the Wolverine in the yellow costume and it has appeared once (deleted scene) in The Wolverine (2013).
