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| History: Until his first recorded encounter with the green-skinned behemoth called the Hulk as an agent of Canada's Department H, Wolverine's past remains shrouded in mystery. Due to extensive memory implants, even his own recollections are suspect: Was he a samurai in Japan? A mercenary operative for the Central Intelligence Agency? A "wild man" living off the Canadian wilderness? At least one of Logan's earlier memories -- meeting Captain America, the star-spangled Super-Soldier, during World War II -- has been verified as true. It's possible his healing factor affords him an extended life span and has granted him the physical condition of a man in his prime, despite his age. Some time after World War II, Logan was drafted into the Canadian government's Weapon X project by a group of scientists who had been hired to perfect and implement a technique that would graft the indestructible metal Adamantium to human bone cells. The Adamantium was bonded with Logan's skeleton during a procedure he survived thanks only to his accelerated healing factor; he was indoctrinated into the program as an assassin, codename Wolverine. Following Wolverine's encounter with the Hulk, Canada's Department H conscripted him to lead Alpha Flight, a team of superhuman government agents. Wolverine aided in the initial phases of the team's creation, but left Department H at the request of the telepathic, telekinetic Professor Charles Xavier to help rescue the original X-Men from the clutches of the island-being known as Krakoa. Wolverine remained with the X-Men, standing in defense of a world on the brink of genetic war, partly because he had fallen for telekinetic teammate Jean Grey. Following an encounter with the mutant assassin Omega Red, Logan began to question his memories. However, all efforts to discover his true identity and past proved fruitless. Wolverine has ammassed a good deal of annimosity over the years. There are many that want him, dead, hurt, maimed, or in any other sundy number of gruesome states of being. The man that is the best at what he does, sure has the best of enemies as well. |