D.P., one of my first statements regarding this subject on the thread, was that if Sabretooth was in fact aware of the Logan family tragedy or perhaps even part of it - he holds the only useful ammunition against Wolverine.
My theory is that Sabretooth is on a never ending quest of revenge against Wolverine for something Wolverine did to him in the past. Wolverine can't remember it, but Sabretooth sure can. This is why during their first fight together back in the 1910s, Wolverine had no reason to feel threatened by Creed living close to him. Creed knew that Logan forgot everything except one thing - his name. His real family name.
You're right on Logan being clueless as to why Sabretooth declared war on him. The idea that Sabretooth claimed to be his father to mess with his head is even further evidence that Sabretooth knows who Logan's father was.
Infinity9999x, Wolverine actually remembers his real name. He just never knew it was his real name. He never knew Thomas was his father. Ironically after the amnesia he could only remember the name of who he thought killed his father, and decided once again ironically to call himself that.
I know that, but after the Weapon X program, Wolverine remembered nothing of Rose, of his father, Dog, or much of anything before the weapon x program because of how they tampered with his mind.
Also, as I said above, Sabertooth actually believed himself to be Wolverine's father. While he and Wolverine were hallucinating Sabertooth called himself Wolverine's father, and since Sabertooth wasn't in control of his own mind at that point, I doubt he was was still managing to lie to Wolverine.
Sabertooth definitely does not know all of his own past, as was evidenced by the Silver Fox episode. He truly thought he killed Silver fox in the early 1900's. But this is proved to be false later when Silver Fox reappears. Creed's mind was obviously tampered with by the Weapon X program just as Logan's was, but to what extent we do not know.
Sabretooth is definetely aware that the name Logan is in his bloodline. Which is why I think he changed his name to distinguish himself from his primary enemy. See, Dog would have never done that. He was too proud of being Thomas' son and bearing the name Logan. Hence another reason why I don't believe Dog is Sabretooth.
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There is absolutely no evidence of that. The only mention Sabertooth has made as to being related to Wolverine is when he said he was his father (which was what Claremont originally intended).
Also, there is no evidence Dog was proud of being Thomas' son. If anything, he resented his father because his father wasn't Wolverine's dad. Dog was jealous of James because James was rich, had a dad that didn't beat him, and got to spend more time with Rose.
There was no indication that Dog was proud of his heritage, the only thing that was evident by the last issue was that Dog vowed to hunt James down and get his revenge, and that sounds exactly like something Sabertooth would do.
I still really don't think Dog was supposed to be Sabretooth. He was well into his adulthood by the end of Origin with no mutant healing abilities...I hardly think it would've "matured late", especially since that doesn't really happen in the X-universe.
I think it was just an isolated storyline...the Origin of Wolverine, with his own enemies and personal demons that turns him into the Wolverine we know today. No connection to Sabretooth.
It's possible that Dog could have gotten a man made healing ability from the Weapon X program. They did it for Silver Fox.
It wouldn't have been hard to think that he had all the other mutant abilities. He was huge, and he looked to have above average strength, and he very well could have had enhanced animalistic senses, seeing as how he manged to track Logan into the Canadian wilderness.
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