History ComicBook / OldManLogan

* MakeMeWannaShout: Black Bolt makes an appearance.

The storyline was used as the basis for the third ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Wolverine]]'' movie, ''Film/{{Logan}}'' - although, [[SerendipityWritesThePlot given that the story greatly relies upon story elements that Fox didn't own the film rights to at the time,]] the film is a PragmaticAdaptation that is much more grounded in nature.

* ShoutOut: An aging superhero goes on [[TheLastDance one last adventure]], and one of his few companions is (coincidentally) another aging superhero [[ArcherArchetype with an archery gimmick]]. [[ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns Sounds familiar...]] While most of the two stories' plots are only vaguely similar, ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s appearance and personality in this story--where he's portrayed as a wise-cracking CoolOldGuy with long grey hair--is pretty clearly inspired by ComicBook/GreenArrow's cameo in the last chapter of ''The Dark Knight Returns''.

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The new ComicBook/SpiderGirl is Ashley Barton, the mixed-race daughter of Hawkeye. Also the new [[Comicbook/TheKingpin Kingpin]] is black. [[spoiler: Until Ashley decapitates him and takes over.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Most major superheroes are killed before the story. During [[spoiler: Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, Punisher, New Kingpin, Hawkeye, Red Skull, Logan's family and most of the Hulk Gang]] all die.

** Also Comicbook/BlackBolt and ComicBook/RedSkull.

* BigDamnHeroes: Black Bolt saves Wolverine and Hawkeye by [[CurbStompBattle whispering at a]] Comicbook/{{Venom}}-[[CurbStompBattle possessed T-Rex]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hawkeye's daughter becomes the new Kingpin, and he later gets killed when his delivery turns out to be a sting. And Logan's family have been killed by the Hulk Gang]], but on a positive note the Hulk Gang and Red Skull are dead, and Wolverine is forming an [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] team. If Old Man Logan does become the Hooded Man that appears in a ComicBook/FantasticFour miniseries (as is heavily implied), then the future looks even better.

* CanonImmigrant: Old Man Logan was introduced in a stand-alone storyline, and was later introduced into the mainstream Marvel Universe during ''Comicbook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}''.

* DeadGuyJunior: Logan named his son Scotty, after his deceased team-mate, Scott "Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}" Summers.

* DyingRace: There don't appear to have been any mutants born in the last generation, and although Logan's kids are a bit too young for powers to emerge, they appear to be [[MuggleBornOfMages humans]] too. Comicbook/EmmaFrost tells Logan that mutants are not, as they once believed, the next step in human evolution, but just a temporary genetic "blip". Based on this, it appears that mutants are dying out and are likely to go extinct in a few decades.

* HeelFaceTurn: Comicbook/{{Ultron}} went from genocidal robot to friendly car mechanic and father figure.

** The town known as "Pym Falls" was built around the gargantuan skeleton of [[Comicbook/AntMan Giant-Man]]. Also Logan's son [[DeadGuyJunior Scotty]].

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Even in the future, this is still Logan's preference, as evident by his wife.

* CanonImmigrant: Old Man Logan was introduced in a stand-alone storyline, and was later introduced into the mainstream MarvelUniverse during ''Comicbook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}''.

* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: When the Hulk Gang kill Logan's family. He proceeds to '''unleash hell''' on them.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Emma Frost's reason for marrying her husband, [[spoiler:Doctor Doom]].

* TheBusCameBack: Logan and Bruce Banner Jr both return in a ''Fantastic Four'' arc involving travelers from the future called the New Defenders attempting to save the people of their future by emigrating them to the past. Notably, it must be an alternate continuity because Sue survived with Logan.

* CorruptHick: The Hulk Gang counts as this very much, even though they are located in California. The Hulk himself is the corrupt hick leading them and in charge of a territory called Hulkland. They are violent and quite murderous, considering how they [[spoiler:murdered Logan's family and left the bodies unburied]] while he was busy trying to pay off a debt he owed them. Why? Because they got bored. They are a family of cannibals. Oh, and they are also inbred, because Hulk raped his own cousin Jennifer more than once to form the Hulk Gang! Historical flashbacks in the ongoing series show they were stupid, violent, savage creatures; for example, one of their ideas of "fun" was going out to farms and punching livestock for the sake of watching them explode -- and doing the same to any farmer who protested this.

The original storyline is an eight-chapter story written by Mark Millar with art by Steve [=McNiven=], set in an AlternateUniverse[=/=]BadFuture where the villains of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse took over the United States and divided it up into territories. A now pacifist Logan lives with his new family in "Hulkland" (formerly, The Abomination's Territory, formerly California) where the inbred children of an [[FaceHeelTurn evil]] [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] are the lords of the land. Logan is short on the rent, and must team up with a now blind ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} to deliver a mysterious cargo in order to help keep his landlords from killing him and his family.

* BookEnds: For Wolverine overall. He was first introduced in an issue of ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, facing off with the titular green giant. This (possible) finale of his story and character development ends with him facing off against the Hulk and his inbred gang.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:In true Mark Millar [[SignatureStyle fashion]], Logan ''does'' manage to acquire the rent money to pay off the Hulk Gang. But upon returning home, he finds out that they got bored and went ahead with killing Logan's family anyways, signifying that he and Hawkeye's efforts to travel across the country for a rebellion that wasn't even real was all for naught.]]

The storyline was used as the basis for the third ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Wolverine]]'' movie, ''Film/{{Logan}}'' - although, given that the story greatly relies upon story elements that Fox didn't own the film rights to at the time, the film is a PragmaticAdaptation that is much more grounded in nature.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Logan adopts the policy, and it's eventually explained why (see NotSoHarmlessVillain).
* TragicVillain: How Bruce turned evil in the first place. When California was [[NukeEm bombed]], the gamma radiation warped Bruce's mind and drove him mad as a result.

Several later comics (not all of them focused on Logan) were released later, taking place in the setting. See ''ComicBook/TheWastelands'' for details about the larger franchise.

The storyline was used as the basis for the third ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries Wolverine]]'' movie, ''Film/{{Logan}}'' - although, given that the story greatly relies upon story elements that Fox does not own the film rights to, the film is a PragmaticAdaptation that is much more grounded in nature.

Several later comics (not all of them focused on Logan) were released later, taking place in the setting. See ComicBook/TheWastelands for details about the larger franchise.

* ArcWelding: [[invoked]] ''Old Man Logan'' is part of a fairly elaborate web of connecting continuities throughout Mark Millar's tenure at Marvel Comics. The elderly Wolverine that appears here would eventually become the Hooded Man, member of a futuristic New Defenders along with Bruce Banner Jr., who he adopted as his son. RealityWarper Clyde Wyncham from ''ComicBook/Marvel1985'' who is also the Marquis of Death from Millar's ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' run appears here as the new Doctor Doom as confirmed by WordOfGod.

* BigDamnHeroes: Black Bolt saves Wolverine and Hawkeye by [[CurbStompBattle whispering at a Comicbook/{{Venom}}-possessed T-Rex]].

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The Venom. Symbiote. Bonded. With. a Freaking. ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. Rex.]]''

* TyrannosaurusRex: The Venom symbiote [[OhCrap found a new host]].

** Discussed and Invoked, separately. Discussed that, while crossing through South Dakota, Logan brings up that even after all these years, Reed and Sue Richards are still unnacounted for. While he admits that the information may be less than trustworthy [[note]]According to a third-hand account originating from the Shocker, Kang beat them up and tossed them into the time stream.[[/note]], Logan argues that, if this were true, there may be a chance they could come back and fix everything. Hawkeye dismisses it, pointing out it's a little late for this. Invoked in Hammer Falls, Nevada. [[spoiler:Thor's Hammer has become a sort of religious/tourist hotspot, a la Mecca. President Skull tolerates it only because of the revenue it produces to the economy. Hawkeye points out that the people crowding around pray to {{Mjolnir}} for the hope that the heroes might one day come back. For most of them, hope is all they have left.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Hawkeye dares Tobias to "Do your worst" when the Red Skull's lieutenant has him at his mercy, clearly expecting some sort of torture or mind games. Nope. Tobias does exactly that, and puts a bullet through is head without any fuss.]]