Infinity,
your thoughts on Wolverine are very poor.
They also go as far as to say he'll endanger the mission at hand just to be "himself".
Really? Well, seeing as how Wolverine has done this many times I wouldn't say so. For example, one of the first times the X-men fought Magneto, Wolverine simply rushed head on and was thrown into a wall like nothing.
Wolverine has on multiple occasions lept into battle without listening to the rest of the team, and on many occasions it has resulted in himself being thrown out of the fight injured.
Granted, Wolverine is a better team player now, but when he started out he was a lose cannon, and he still has the tendancy to simply ignore orders and jump into battle.
Funny how Synger showcased that exact fan mentality and reversed in X1, when Cyclops argues with Xavier about Wolverine going with the team to Liberty Island.
He wasn't reflecting fan mentality. He was relflecting an early team dynamic in the x-men comics. Have you even read any of the older comics? This was something that happened often.
Synger knew, that Cyclops just wasn't the strong and iconic character Wolverine is. That's why the original X-Men comic was dead before Claremont brought in Wolverine.
The original X-men comic died because the writing was boring and the characters were one-dimensional. Yes, Wolverine is the most popular X-men, but Claremont made that comic popular because he made all the characters well rounded, not just Wolverine.
There is no X-MEN without Wolverine.
But there is Wolverine without the X-Men.
Wrong, there have been many X-comics without Wolverine. Wolverine is the most popular X-man, yes, but to say that there is no X-men without Wolverine is simply ignorant and wrong.
Wolverine is simply what Cyclops cannot be: A warrior. He does what needs to be done if he's got the power to do it. When he has to be a leader he does it better that anyone else.
I agree that Wolverine is a warrior, but to say that Cyclops isn't truly shows how little you know about the X-men. Have you ever read the Pheonix saga? Cyclops and Pheonix were the last two X-men standing against the Shi'ar guard. Not Wolverine. Cyclops was ready to die for the woman he loved. He is a warrior.
And honestly, when has Wolverine been a leader? He's the loner,
not the leader. He doesn't like to be in the spotlight, he doesn't give long hearty speaches. He fights, and he does what he wants. If Wolverine is
ever the leader its the lead by example kind, one that doesn't talk much and just fights as hard as he can.
Even if it means sacrificing himself. Obviously FOX, Synger and Ratner knew that and made it into 3 blockbusters. Had they gone the other way with "
James Marsden in X-Men", we would not have had ONE sequel or any other comic book movies.
X1 began the Marvel cinematic revolution that led to
Spider Man and DC's
Batman Begins. It began that revolution because it had a hero that anybody would pick over Cyclops any day...
-TL
Really? That's funny because they had Wolverine act almost exactly like Cyclops in most of the movies. The only time he actually acted like the comic Wolverine was in the first movie a bit, and then when he went nuts on the guys in the Mansion in X2, and not at all in X3. In X3 he acted exactly as cyclops would, he never acted like Wolverine.
Wolverine's character in the comics is a tough, gritty, violent warrior. A man who struggles with his inner beast and fights to keep his animalistic side at bay. A man who's been tortured by a government he doesn't even care about, and a man who strives to be an honorable Samurai but always falls just short of the mark.
Was any of that present in the X-men movies? No, it wasn't. Sure he was a little gruff, but after that, he acted just like Cyclops. He gave reassuring speaches to the X-men and led his team into battle. Wolverine in the comics doesn't do that.
So if you think the Wolverine in the movies is the same Wolverine as in the comics, then you really haven't read many Wolverine comics, because the character in the movies was not the character in the source material.