James Howlett was born to wealthy John and Elizabeth Howlett in Alberta, Canada, during the last years of the 19th century. As a child, he was frail and unhealthy due to his overactive mutant immune system and was neglected by his mother, who had been institutionalized following the death of her first son, John Jr., in 1897. James’s mutant abilities were triggered when his father was shot by the Howlett groundskeeper Thomas Logan, whom he did not know was his real father. James killed Logan, slashed the face of Logan’s son and his friend Dog, and left Alberta with a childhood friend, Rose O’Hara.

His healing abilities drove trauma from his memories, leaving him partially amnesiac. He and Rose found refuge at a British Columbia stone quarry, where Rose, claiming James was her cousin, gave his name as “Logan.” Within months, Logan’s powers were heightening due to the environment around him. He became healthier and gained senses to rival those of an animal, but also became more violent.

Wolverine’s rapid regeneration powers allow him to bounce back from almost every type of bodily wound on the condition that his head remains firmly attached to his shoulders. Nevertheless, the time of each healing is understandably proportionate to the severity of the injury. His body is also immune to most poisons, drugs, and diseases; his agility, reflexes, and senses are similarly enhanced. Wolverine sees and hears things at distances far greater than those of ordinary humans.

The most iconic of his natural weapons are six retractable, slightly curved, foot-long bone claws, three in each arm, beneath the skin and muscle of his forearms. He can, at will, release these claws through the skin beneath his knuckles. The claws are naturally sharp and tougher than normal human bone, allowing them to penetrate most types of flesh and natural materials.

For all the moments of infatuated bliss, there is no denying that Wolverine has had a hard life, or still does, because he can’t die. He just keeps on living, waiting to see what horrors humanity can cook up next. In the 1993 crossover of “Fatal Attractions,” Magneto ripped the adamantium out of Logan’s body. Ten years later, he was brainwashed by Hydra and the Hand in the “Enemy of the State” storyline to attack his fellow Super Heroes. Not everything was horrible, though. After this, he regained all of his memories in 2005’s “House of M.

Logan also did major favors for other established heroes including Black Panther. He helped transport a young girl across the border of her native African country to safety at great risk to himself, and that’s no joke. Many bullets and arrows found their way into his durable flesh.