Wolverine: Origins is a 2006 ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series is written by Daniel Way with art by Steve Dillon.
Following the events of House of M, for the first time in decades, Wolverine has all of his memories back. But not all of those memories are good, and Wolverine has alot of skeletons in his closet. On top of that, alot of very powerful people aren't pleased with what Wolverine now remembers. Now Wolverine must reconcile and atone with his past before it comes back to kill him.
The series is notable for introducing Wolverine's son, Daken.
The first issue was published April 19, 2006. The series lasted for 50 issues, with the last issue published July 28, 2010.
The series is not to be confused with either Origin (2001), the comic detailing Wolverine's youth, or the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, an loose adaption of the aformentioned comic.
Wolverine: Origins provides examples of:
- '80s Hair: Deadpool makes fun of Daken's mohawk-mullet combo. He gets his hand cut off for his trouble.(after imitating a telephone conversation) It was 1986. It wants its hair... (notices the stump where his hand should be) ...back...
- An amusing bit of Hypocritical Humor on Deadpool's part, since some flashback sequences show that Wade Wilson had a blond mullet that would do Liquid Snake proud when he still had hair.
- Abusive Parents: Nuke's mother was an abusive alcoholic.
- Arc Villain: Nuke is the villain of the first story arc Born in Blood.
- Big Bad: Romulus is a prehistoric mutant and the one responsible for Logan's miserable life.
- Carved Mark: While torturing and conditioning Nuke, Logan carved the American Flag into his face.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Daken, Wolverine's son. He faces Cyber (whom he was allied with in the past) and chooses to be on Wolverine's side. Then betrays W. and sides with C. because "C. has a better plan". Then comes out that there is no freakin' plan! Then betrays C. again and says he planned it all with W. from the start... and then he betrays W. too. And the X-Men, for good measure.
- Kryptonite Ring: Wolverine gives Cyclops the Muramasa Blade, a magical sword capable of slicing through his adamantium skeleton and negating his healing abilities, in case he gets captured and brainwashed. Of course his son gains it later. Though at least Wolverine was able to use it to kill Sabertooth first (not that that stuck even a whole year).
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Wolverine kidnapped Nuke as a child so he could become a genetically engineered Super-Soldier.
- The Handler: Wolverine was this for Nuke all throughout his life, abducting him as a child and torturing and conditioning him into being a Super-Soldier for Weapon X.
- Long-Lost Relative: The series introduces Daken Akihiro, Wolverine's biological son with a Japanese woman named Itsu.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: As a boy, Nuke had an unhealthy affection for his nanny. She exploited these feelings to get Frank to kill his mother, so she could be with his dad.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While Nuke was introduced as a new Daredevil rogue, he's since become more associated with Captain America and Brainwashed and Crazy: Wolverine kidnapped Nuke when he was a child on behalf of the Weapon Plus Program, torturing and conditioning him to be the perfect solder
- Self-Made Orphan: Nuke's nanny tricked him into murdering his own mother.
- Trigger Phrase: While conditioning Nuke, Logan implanted the phrase "No V.C.!" as a trigger word, along with the compulsion to gruesomely kill anyone who uttered the words. He was than set loose on a village of Vietnamese civilians, who would unwittingly utter the phrase, leading to Nuke killing them all and burning the village to the ground.
- Spin-Off: The title Wolverine: Origins is a spin off from Wolverine Vol. 3, following the arc "Wolverine: Origins and Endings" in issues #36-40.
- The "The" Title Confusion: Wolverine: Origins, or Wolverine: The Origins, or Origins.
