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I don't see why either of the options are bad ones, other then the fact that they support a theory you don't like. I think both ideas open up interesting possibilities for the Wolverine/Creed relationship. If you could give me a reason why you think it's a bad idea, other than saying you think it is, then I think I'd understand better.
Fine:
For one, it allows us to look at all Sabertooth's reasons for going after Wolverine in a whole new light. Wolverine was the "special" brother. He got everything Sabertooth wanted as a child. He had the father who cared about him, the nice house, warm food, and Rose. And then, Wolverine takes the one thing he had, his father. So now Sabertooth is out to take everything away from Wolverine in revenge.
This is all useless garbage. Sabertooth is an animal, he works on instinct. Blind hatred is so much more interesting and feral for Sabertooth's motivation. He is like rabid dog and Wolvie is the trusty guard dog.
Or, on a deeper level, Sabertooth may actually care for Logan. But Sabertooth is really screwed up. All he's known his whole life is basically pain and abuse, he really doesn't know how to show anyone affection. So the way he "helps out" Wolverine is by making his life hell, to make him tougher, so Wolverine will always be able to make it in the world. His actions could be a twisted version of brotherly love.
Sabes isnt suppose to care, he is feral. He is more animal than human. It is the basis of his existence and why he foils with Wolverine.
On top of which both are incredibly soap operaish. BTW, that guy Wolverine has rivaled with all these times, he's his half brother. How's it gonna end? It was all a dream.
Now, I have no idea why you think Wolverine feels responsible for Sabertooth, that doesn't make any sense at all.

However, there relationship has been one of "dark vs. light" Sabes is what Wolverine could become if he ever chose to stop fighting his dark side. However, writers now a days have all but abandoned that plot of Wolverine fighting against his dark side, showing him being quite content with killing, which makes Sabertooth's character somewhat unneeded.
Killing for necessity. Killing like a soldier would kill. Not killing like a mass murderer like Sabertooth. Wolverine isnt just feral, he is a trained killer. Army, Samurai, Mercenary, what have you. He directs it and meditates (Japanese influence) to control, Sabes runs free.
Making Sabertooth Wolverine's brother would add some more layers to him. We now have a reason that Sabertooth has all this fueled hatred against Wolverine. We also could have alterior motives for Sabertooth's continued obsession with him. Not only that, but the standing theme, of Wolverine somewhat accomplishing to shed his dark side, would add onto the other layers I've discussed. Sabertooth already has that hatred of being the "second hand" brother. Wolverine always got everything he wanted, and now Wolverine looks like he's achieved what Sabertooth thought that both of them wouldn't, shedding his animalistic side.
Unnecessary. Thats all already there except the brother stuff. The brother stuff is just extra baggage that is completely overkill.
Because Jean and Rose, while similar, were still different. Jean didn't go out of her way to protect and be a big sister figure to Wolverine. Dog on the other hand, acted exactly the way Sabertooth was, looked like Sabertooth, has an abusive father like Sabertooth, and had a history that would fit into Sabertooth's backstory perfectly.
I havent really read a lot of the classic X-Men books, but Jean and Wolverine always had a connection. But Wolverine was older, wiser, trained, and regretful, and did his best to protect her instead as a way to make up for it. Dog was not a vicious killer. The only person he ever attacked was Wolvie plus Wolvies dog. He didnt want to take the guns into the house in Origin, and ended with the old man at the end. He didnt rape and kill Rose and left her for Wolverine to find. He made a B-line for Wolverine, no one else.
And I also admitted that yes, Sabes fits, but that doesnt make it good.
Besides that, Wolverine would have to meet Sabertooth within the next few years after running off into the wilderness, since they both have memories of eachother many years before their Weapon X days. (We could debate on weather or not these memories are fabricated, but that wouldn't get us anywhere since the writers keep saying they did and didn't happen as of late.) But what are the odds that Logan escapes Dog, then a year or two later runs into someone who
*looks Just like him,
*acts just like him
*and is obsessed with Wolverine, Just like dog!
Well theres still many years before Wolvie made it to the Weapon X program. He fought in most of the big historical wars. Its not out of the realm of possibility that he met Sabertooth later on. Sabertooth who has just as much in common with Wolverine as he does Dog and Wild Child and Wolvies other brother from The End. Both the Romulus (or whatever his name) arc of Wolvies solo and the Earth X series and Weapon X Days of Future Now (the newer story) all made implications that Wolverine is part of a much larger group of mutants who all have very similar powers.
That's completely different. Batman and Joker have been in culture for years yes, but in terms of comic time they've known eachother for 10, maybe 15 years max. Wolverine and Sabertooth have a history going back decades, over half a century even, depending on the writer. Since Origins gave us a character who looks like Sabertooth, acts like Sabertooth, and (if revealed to be Sabertooth) explains why Sabertooth is the way he is today, I see no reason why Dog being Sabertooth is a bad idea.
History does not equal relationship. I am not arguing that Sabes doesnt fit. I said Sabes fits. I said its a stupid idea. Why does he have to Wolvies brother? "Cause then we know his motivation" SABES IS FERAL AND RABID. He is above justification. He found a kindred spirit, a mutant hiding an animal inside, but wasnt accepted by him and has lashed out at him for years.
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