James “Logan” Howlett is a drifter haunted by violent instincts and fragmented memories. Traveling from town to town, he survives by taking brutal underground fighting jobs, healing from wounds that should kill him. His life is upended when he is ambushed by Arkady Rossovich—Omega Red—a deadly assassin wielding carbonadium coils. As their clashes escalate, Logan begins to experience flashbacks of his buried past: his childhood in 19th-century Canada, the first emergence of his claws, and his capture by a covert military program known as Weapon X.
Through these memories, Logan learns the truth behind his adamantium-bonded skeleton and the erasure of his identity. Omega Red, a product of a rival super-soldier program, serves as a dark reflection of what Logan could become—a man who embraced being a weapon. Hunted by the same forces that created him, Logan confronts Omega Red in an abandoned Soviet facility. Rejecting his role as a tool of war, Logan defeats his enemy and escapes, finally claiming the name Wolverine. With his past uncovered but his future uncertain, Logan walks away into the wilderness, determined to live on his own terms.
