Hugh Jackman Glutton is an icon that transcends Marvel movies, giving all comic book movies a cast and career that will never be surpassed. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has appeared in a large number of Marvel films and has killed over 100 people on screen during this time.
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With the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in Deadpool and Wolverine and hopefully beyond (until he’s 90), it’s time to look back at some of Wolverine’s best kills, whether emotional, brutally gruesome, or just plain badass.
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Wolverine’s samurai fight with Shingen Yashida
Wolverine vs. Samurai only ends one way
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Featured in: Wolverine (2013)
Helping the Yakuza, Shingen Yashida would go to great lengths to try and kill his own daughter for her father’s business, and even used parasites designed to subdue Wolverine’s healing factor. Shingen Yashida dons his samurai armor to fight a weakened Wolverine, but Logan has already eliminated the parasite, leading to a clash of katanas and adamantium claws.
It’s a tense fight that shows Wolverine’s dependence on a healing factor, as Shingen manages to stab him everywhere and Wolverine just draws his swords. When Shingen refuses to give up the battle, Wolverine is forced to kill him by impaling his claws on his neck while proclaiming himself as Wolverine.
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Stabbing the Reavers while under attack by Professor
Charles Xavier’s seizure won’t stop Logan from stabbing hostiles
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Featured in: Logan (2017)
During Charles Xavier’s seizure, the area around him freezes, and those caught in the powerful psychic blast become trapped in time, slowly suffocating from their inability to breathe. Logan, always the strongest of the X-Men thanks to his healing factor, fights his way through this psychic blast to attempt to subdue Professor X.
On his way to Professor Whether to the face or the heart, Logan’s brutal stabs are quick and precise in an effort to get to Charles.
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Shooting Dr. Zander Rice in the throat
A tired Logan isn’t afraid to shut up the bad guys with a gun
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Featured in: Logan (2017)
Subdued by Dr. Zander Rice and his Reavers, a weakened Logan hunches over in desperation to save his last breath. With the effects of his green serum wearing off, Logan has to resort to a more cowboy way of doing things and instead uses a gun to shoot Dr. Zander Rice instead of impaling him with his adamantium claws.
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What makes this kill so impressionable is that he kills Zander during his evil speech and is so tired of being the best at what he does that he resorts to using a gun instead of his claws. It’s also nice to see how well-trained Logan is with a gun, since after all, this mutant fought in many wars for America.
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Decapitating Sabretooth
Wolverine cuts off Sabretooth’s head, something that can’t grow back
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Featured in: Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
Marvel movies have often depicted Wolverine and Sabretooth as brothers, and these are brothers who want each other dead. Wolverine had made a promise years ago that he would cut off Sabretooth’s head, and it’s something he actually accomplishes in Deadpool and Wolverinewhere the famous X-Man does it with a cut of his adamantium claws.
Wolverine has nothing but rage for Sabretooth, so it’s no surprise that his rival’s murder doesn’t persist or develop into an epic fight. Wolverine delivers a quick, decisive slash to the throat to decapitate Sabretooth once and for all.
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Animal stabbings by looters in the forest
Logan becomes Wolverine again, presenting youthful rage unleashed
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Featured in: Logan (2017)
When X-23’s Laura and the other mutant children escape into the woods, Dr. Zander Rice’s Reavers pursue them to subdue them and end the tortured experiments they started. Knowing that these innocent children were the future of the mutant race, Logan, in his dying state, takes a green serum that enhances his healing factor, his speed, but also his unleashed fury.
Logan unlocks the animalistic urges within him to become Wolverine again and chases through the woods of North Dakota to kill everyone who crosses his path. Logan’s bloodlust is boundless and he uses his adamantium claws to stab every Reaver he encounters with utmost savagery and thunderous roar.
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I Tricked a Yakuza into Jumping a Billboard on the Bullet Train
The fastball special, with Wolverine and a train
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Featured in: Wolverine (2013)
Wolverine’s adventure in Japan leads him to kill quite a few deadly Yakuza, but the brutal killings on the Bullet Train are one of the most memorable. Wolverine hurtles towards his target on top of the train at full speed reaching speeds of 200 MPH, and going at that speed with indestructible adamantium claws lashing out at someone’s chest is an easy way to make their organs explode. However, here is a more fun murder.
One of the deaths on the Bullet Train involves a Wolverine and a Yakuza on top of the train, stabbing their swords into the ceiling to stay still. However, it is necessary to jump the constant elevated train signs to avoid hitting a solid object, but Wolverine tricks a Yakuza into jumping directly toward a sign. Hitting a sign at 200 MPH is an easy way to turn someone into a traffic jam.
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Cutting off Weapon XI’s head with fiery Adamantium claws
Hot, burning claws are the perfect decapitation tool for Deadpools
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Featured in: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
While everyone can agree that what X-Men Origins: Wolverine What he did with Deadpool was a travesty, it’s hard to deny that by treating this Weapon XI as just another Stryker experiment separate from the Merc With a Mouth, it can be an enjoyable fight. Weapon XI has the powers of many other mutants, making him the perfect killing machine against many, but not Wolverine.
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Wolverine’s adamantium claws burn brightly, glowing in the heat of Weapon XI’s scope blast. Using this indestructible metal and the heat of his claws, Wolverine cuts off Weapon XI’s head. It’s a great kill that shows how deadly adamantium can be, but does it even count as a kill if the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Does the post-credits scene show that Weapon XI is alive?
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Injecting Lady Deathstrike with liquid adamantium
Kill an enemy full of Adamantium with more Adamantium
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Featured in: X2: X-Men United (2003)
Lady Deathstrike is a worthy foe of Wolverine and one of Stryker’s experiments with adamantium showing how dangerous it is and how durable the metal can be. Lady Deathstrike vs Wolverine is brutal, and her use of adamantium will constantly hurt thanks to a healing factor that just won’t quit. Luckily for Wolverine, he manages to become quite intelligent in battle.
Wolverine injects Lady Deathstrike with liquid adamantium, which boils her organs and forces her to drown in a toxic liquid metal. With a quick finish, Wolverine manages to kill this major enemy before he can become an even bigger threat, and it’s easily one of the X-Men’s most brutal kills.
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Stab Jean Gray to save the world from the Phoenix
Wolverine kills the woman he loves to save the world
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Featured in: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Jean Gray was one of the women Logan loved throughout his centuries of life, but like others before her, it ended in tragedy. Jean Gray was kidnapped by the Phoenix, a dark power that would consume her, the people she loved, and eventually the world. That was until Logan was forced to intervene and take his own life.
One of Logan’s most heartbreaking murders comes in the form of Jean Grey, a woman he loved, but had to kill to save the world. Wolverine stabs Jean with his adamantium claws, the only man able to withstand his power that could easily rip flesh from people’s bones if not for Logan’s healing factor.
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