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* AwkwardStoplightMoment: Issue #47 of his 1988 solo title revolves around a drug user who snaps and goes on a killing spree, with Logan as more of a background character for most of it. Near the climax, as Logan is on his motorcycle at a stop light, the killer pulls up beside him in his car. Already drunk and ramped up on adrenaline from his previous kills, as well as armed and with stolen money in the seat beside him, the killer starts freaking out as he looks at Logan, seeing that [[BadassBiker he's not someone to mess with]] and wondering if he's a cop.
* HauntingTheGuilty: Alluded to when Jubilee has Reno and Molochai, the hitmen who'd killed her parents, at her mercy. Wolverine tells her that one "paff" [[note]]The sound-effect/name of Jubilee's plasma fireworks [[/note]] to the brain stem and they'd be dead and it would seem like a regular heart attack, aside from two fairly healthy men experiencing it at the same time. Jubilee protests.
--> '''Jubilee:''' You've killed people. You've killed so many, and...
--> '''Wolverine:''' Yeah. You wanna sit up some night and help me talk to all of 'em?
--> '''Jubilee:''' Oh. (Settles for a GroinAttack on both men.)
* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in one issue from the 1988 solo series. Logan ended up captured and with one arm in a huge manacle that he couldn't easily cut through...so he pulled his arm out of the manacle, basically skinning it in the process.
* MourningADeadRobot: Wolverine and Jubilee are confronting a group of Sentinels which have achieved sentience. One Sentinel, severely damaged, begins to express a sincere fear over the termination of its existence. Jubilee is moved by the robot's fear of death. Another Sentinel, dubbing itself Unit 3.14159, is puzzled by Jubilee's display of empathy, and rather than continue with its plan to spark a solar flare to roast all life on Earth, it decides that it, and its compatriots, will enter a dormant state while they consider the nature of empathy.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Bloodscream isn't technically a vampire, but a guy who was cursed by a witch to live forever with a blood thirst. The only cure, of course, is Logan's blood.
* PetTheDog: Logan gets this from Lady Deathstrike in one issue during the "no adamantium" arc, when she learns the metal's gone.
-->[''Logan retracts his claws, letting Deathstrike see him bleed from the holes in his hands'']\\
'''Deathstrike:''' You're...still bleeding. But your healing factor--\\
'''Logan:''' It's pretty much used up. As good as gone.\\
[''Deathstrike hesitantly brushes Logan's forehead with one finger'']\\
'''Logan:''' [''internal''] For the first time in years, she reaches out to touch me...and the touch is gentle.
* RecklessGunUsage: During the fight with the pirate slavers, one opens up on him with an AK-47 in a crowded room, and Logan notes that the guy doesn't care a whit if he hits anyone else (which he does) as long as he hits Logan (which he also does, and which makes Logan go berserk).
* RiggedSpectacleFight: His 1988 solo series' first issue opens with a fight between the leader of a pirate gang and the captain of a plane that the pirates have captured, with the other pirates and the surviving passengers watching. It's immediately obvious that the fight is meant to be bloodsport, as the pirate is wielding a machete while the captain's arms have been tied behind his back. The captain manages to put up enough of a fight to impress some of the other pirates, but he's eventually overpowered and decapitated by the pirate leader, who makes it clear to some of the female captives that this was done as an example of what could happen [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty if they displease him]].
* SadlyMythtaken: The Shiva robots quote that they are Shiva the destroyer, and are so named after Shiva in Myth/HinduMythology, however, Shiva is not simply the Hindu god of destruction, as destruction refers to the aspect of clearing the way for new growth, or a new cycle.
* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This comic book is a very serious and often grim story with more than a few grisly moments to it, but that's not to say that it's without humor.
** The Big Crunch story arc (Vol. 2 #51-3) starts with Logan picking up a woman at a local bar. Jubilee follows him and finds him at a motel...and is shocked to find ''Jean Grey'' coming out of the motel room. She returns to the Westchester mansion, dejected, until she sees ''Jean Grey'' jogging around the mansion, doing her morning workout. Jubilee is ecstatic, embracing Jean, realizing that whoever Logan was with it was someone she could "punch in the nose". [[note]]It was Mystique.[[/note]]
** Wolverine, Rogue, and Jubilee go to the Savage Land to investigate rumors of Magneto being there. Separated from the others, Jubilee runs afoul of some native tribes in the Savage Land, and manages to best them in combat. When Logan meets up with her again on the Blackbird, he's informed that the people of the tribe mistook her for a boy and tried to betroth her to one of their princesses.
* ShootTheDog: Subverted in issue #47. The killer's wacked-out behaviour causes Logan to associate him with a rabid dog, which for some reason makes Logan unable to kill him, shown as flashbacks to him being unable to put down a rabid pet dog when he was young. [[spoiler:After Logan retracts his claws, the killer is shot dead by a female police officer. In talking with her, Logan reveals at the end of the issue that Silver Fox took the gun from him and shot the dog herself.]]
* SmokingIsEdgy: In a 2001 storyline, writer Frank Tieri introduces Mr. X, a killer from the upper crust whose telepathic powers kicked in when he watched a woman be run over by a car -- similar to how Jean Grey's powers first emerged. Mr. X tells Wolverine that, after the car accident and the sensations he felt in his young mind, nothing could compare: cars, women, travels. The accompanying comic book panel has him smoking a cigarette with a bored look on his face, while a girl clings to his side.
* HauntingTheGuilty: Alluded to when Jubilee has Reno and Molochai, the hitmen who'd killed her parents, at her mercy. Wolverine tells her that one "paff" [[note]]The sound-effect/name of Jubilee's plasma fireworks [[/note]] to the brain stem and they'd be dead and it would seem like a regular heart attack, aside from two fairly healthy men experiencing it at the same time. Jubilee protests.
--> '''Jubilee:''' You've killed people. You've killed so many, and...
--> '''Wolverine:''' Yeah. You wanna sit up some night and help me talk to all of 'em?
--> '''Jubilee:''' Oh. (Settles for a GroinAttack on both men.)
* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in one issue from the 1988 solo series. Logan ended up captured and with one arm in a huge manacle that he couldn't easily cut through...so he pulled his arm out of the manacle, basically skinning it in the process.
* MourningADeadRobot: Wolverine and Jubilee are confronting a group of Sentinels which have achieved sentience. One Sentinel, severely damaged, begins to express a sincere fear over the termination of its existence. Jubilee is moved by the robot's fear of death. Another Sentinel, dubbing itself Unit 3.14159, is puzzled by Jubilee's display of empathy, and rather than continue with its plan to spark a solar flare to roast all life on Earth, it decides that it, and its compatriots, will enter a dormant state while they consider the nature of empathy.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Bloodscream isn't technically a vampire, but a guy who was cursed by a witch to live forever with a blood thirst. The only cure, of course, is Logan's blood.
* PetTheDog: Logan gets this from Lady Deathstrike in one issue during the "no adamantium" arc, when she learns the metal's gone.
-->[''Logan retracts his claws, letting Deathstrike see him bleed from the holes in his hands'']\\
'''Deathstrike:''' You're...still bleeding. But your healing factor--\\
'''Logan:''' It's pretty much used up. As good as gone.\\
[''Deathstrike hesitantly brushes Logan's forehead with one finger'']\\
'''Logan:''' [''internal''] For the first time in years, she reaches out to touch me...and the touch is gentle.
* RecklessGunUsage: During the fight with the pirate slavers, one opens up on him with an AK-47 in a crowded room, and Logan notes that the guy doesn't care a whit if he hits anyone else (which he does) as long as he hits Logan (which he also does, and which makes Logan go berserk).
* RiggedSpectacleFight: His 1988 solo series' first issue opens with a fight between the leader of a pirate gang and the captain of a plane that the pirates have captured, with the other pirates and the surviving passengers watching. It's immediately obvious that the fight is meant to be bloodsport, as the pirate is wielding a machete while the captain's arms have been tied behind his back. The captain manages to put up enough of a fight to impress some of the other pirates, but he's eventually overpowered and decapitated by the pirate leader, who makes it clear to some of the female captives that this was done as an example of what could happen [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty if they displease him]].
* SadlyMythtaken: The Shiva robots quote that they are Shiva the destroyer, and are so named after Shiva in Myth/HinduMythology, however, Shiva is not simply the Hindu god of destruction, as destruction refers to the aspect of clearing the way for new growth, or a new cycle.
* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This comic book is a very serious and often grim story with more than a few grisly moments to it, but that's not to say that it's without humor.
** The Big Crunch story arc (Vol. 2 #51-3) starts with Logan picking up a woman at a local bar. Jubilee follows him and finds him at a motel...and is shocked to find ''Jean Grey'' coming out of the motel room. She returns to the Westchester mansion, dejected, until she sees ''Jean Grey'' jogging around the mansion, doing her morning workout. Jubilee is ecstatic, embracing Jean, realizing that whoever Logan was with it was someone she could "punch in the nose". [[note]]It was Mystique.[[/note]]
** Wolverine, Rogue, and Jubilee go to the Savage Land to investigate rumors of Magneto being there. Separated from the others, Jubilee runs afoul of some native tribes in the Savage Land, and manages to best them in combat. When Logan meets up with her again on the Blackbird, he's informed that the people of the tribe mistook her for a boy and tried to betroth her to one of their princesses.
* ShootTheDog: Subverted in issue #47. The killer's wacked-out behaviour causes Logan to associate him with a rabid dog, which for some reason makes Logan unable to kill him, shown as flashbacks to him being unable to put down a rabid pet dog when he was young. [[spoiler:After Logan retracts his claws, the killer is shot dead by a female police officer. In talking with her, Logan reveals at the end of the issue that Silver Fox took the gun from him and shot the dog herself.]]
* SmokingIsEdgy: In a 2001 storyline, writer Frank Tieri introduces Mr. X, a killer from the upper crust whose telepathic powers kicked in when he watched a woman be run over by a car -- similar to how Jean Grey's powers first emerged. Mr. X tells Wolverine that, after the car accident and the sensations he felt in his young mind, nothing could compare: cars, women, travels. The accompanying comic book panel has him smoking a cigarette with a bored look on his face, while a girl clings to his side.
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* HauntingTheGuilty: Alluded to when Jubilee has Reno and Molochai, the hitmen who'd killed her parents, at her mercy. Wolverine tells her that one "paff" [[note]]The sound-effect/name of Jubilee's plasma fireworks [[/note]] to the brain stem and they'd be dead and it would seem like a regular heart attack, aside from two fairly healthy men experiencing it at the same time. Jubilee protests.
--> '''Jubilee:''' You've killed people. You've killed so many, and...
--> '''Wolverine:''' Yeah. You wanna sit up some night and help me talk to all of 'em?
--> '''Jubilee:''' Oh. (Settles for a GroinAttack on both men.)
* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in one issue from the 1988 solo series. Logan ended up captured and with one arm in a huge manacle that he couldn't easily cut through...so he pulled his arm out of the manacle, basically skinning it in the process.
* MourningADeadRobot: Wolverine and Jubilee are confronting a group of Sentinels which have achieved sentience. One Sentinel, severely damaged, begins to express a sincere fear over the termination of its existence. Jubilee is moved by the robot's fear of death. Another Sentinel, dubbing itself Unit 3.14159, is puzzled by Jubilee's display of empathy, and rather than continue with its plan to spark a solar flare to roast all life on Earth, it decides that it, and its compatriots, will enter a dormant state while they consider the nature of empathy.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Bloodscream isn't technically a vampire, but a guy who was cursed by a witch to live forever with a blood thirst. The only cure, of course, is Logan's blood.
* PetTheDog: Logan gets this from Lady Deathstrike in one issue during the "no adamantium" arc, when she learns the metal's gone.
-->[''Logan retracts his claws, letting Deathstrike see him bleed from the holes in his hands'']\\
'''Deathstrike:''' You're...still bleeding. But your healing factor--\\
'''Logan:''' It's pretty much used up. As good as gone.\\
[''Deathstrike hesitantly brushes Logan's forehead with one finger'']\\
'''Logan:''' [''internal''] For the first time in years, she reaches out to touch me...and the touch is gentle.
* RecklessGunUsage: During the fight with the pirate slavers, one opens up on him with an AK-47 in a crowded room, and Logan notes that the guy doesn't care a whit if he hits anyone else (which he does) as long as he hits Logan (which he also does, and which makes Logan go berserk).
* RiggedSpectacleFight: His 1988 solo series' first issue opens with a fight between the leader of a pirate gang and the captain of a plane that the pirates have captured, with the other pirates and the surviving passengers watching. It's immediately obvious that the fight is meant to be bloodsport, as the pirate is wielding a machete while the captain's arms have been tied behind his back. The captain manages to put up enough of a fight to impress some of the other pirates, but he's eventually overpowered and decapitated by the pirate leader, who makes it clear to some of the female captives that this was done as an example of what could happen [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty if they displease him]].
* SadlyMythtaken: The Shiva robots quote that they are Shiva the destroyer, and are so named after Shiva in Myth/HinduMythology, however, Shiva is not simply the Hindu god of destruction, as destruction refers to the aspect of clearing the way for new growth, or a new cycle.
* SeriousWorkComedicScene: This comic book is a very serious and often grim story with more than a few grisly moments to it, but that's not to say that it's without humor.
** The Big Crunch story arc (Vol. 2 #51-3) starts with Logan picking up a woman at a local bar. Jubilee follows him and finds him at a motel...and is shocked to find ''Jean Grey'' coming out of the motel room. She returns to the Westchester mansion, dejected, until she sees ''Jean Grey'' jogging around the mansion, doing her morning workout. Jubilee is ecstatic, embracing Jean, realizing that whoever Logan was with it was someone she could "punch in the nose". [[note]]It was Mystique.[[/note]]
** Wolverine, Rogue, and Jubilee go to the Savage Land to investigate rumors of Magneto being there. Separated from the others, Jubilee runs afoul of some native tribes in the Savage Land, and manages to best them in combat. When Logan meets up with her again on the Blackbird, he's informed that the people of the tribe mistook her for a boy and tried to betroth her to one of their princesses.
* ShootTheDog: Subverted in issue #47. The killer's wacked-out behaviour causes Logan to associate him with a rabid dog, which for some reason makes Logan unable to kill him, shown as flashbacks to him being unable to put down a rabid pet dog when he was young. [[spoiler:After Logan retracts his claws, the killer is shot dead by a female police officer. In talking with her, Logan reveals at the end of the issue that Silver Fox took the gun from him and shot the dog herself.]]
* SmokingIsEdgy: In a 2001 storyline, writer Frank Tieri introduces Mr. X, a killer from the upper crust whose telepathic powers kicked in when he watched a woman be run over by a car -- similar to how Jean Grey's powers first emerged. Mr. X tells Wolverine that, after the car accident and the sensations he felt in his young mind, nothing could compare: cars, women, travels. The accompanying comic book panel has him smoking a cigarette with a bored look on his face, while a girl clings to his side.
