The Evolution of Wolverine's Claws: From Bone to Adamantium

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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[@discontinued692]

Nice run down of the history of Wolverine. I appreciate how researched your vidoe was.

[@arjr721]

How were his claws sharpened?

[@PHXDOG]

When Wolverine was 1st designed his claws were NOT apart of him. The claws were weapons stored in his gloves. It was a few months after he came out in the comic books that the Marvel team began to learn that readers just thought the claws were part of him and not just a weapon. Thats when the 1st parts of Logan's back story was thought up and it was changed to the Claws were part of him now.

[@mrpushrod9279]

I think that explains why they looked the way they did in his first apperacnce in Hulk

[@darrellwilliams1714]

They retconned the story . Because I remember them being placed in him during the weapon x project. He didn't have them before that.

[@javiermedina6277]

I love it when a video is dedicated to Wolverine

[@nimzi4479]

It's not. It's dedicated to his claws.

[@pierrebuieii3908]

Duh 😒

[@ericjohnson5462]

@@pierrebuieii3908agreed

[@12thMandalorian]

i love it when a video is dedicated to the Badger

[@N.Kunwar.]

Deadpool too❤

[@ericwilson8558]

It's a true honor to see Hugh Jackman play the Wolverine one more time in the upcoming movie deadpool 3. Can't wait to see it. I'm really gonna miss him. God knows he was born for that role.

[@DarthBoardBVE]

The Badger name was used for a fairly popular indie comics character from the 80s. He came off as kind of a super-crazy version of Wolverine (or maybe more like Lobo but with a sense of justice; Badger and Lobo both premiered in 1983) with multiple personalities (so kind of Moon Knight too, I guess), and I have heard it suggested that he might have been named after the cast-off alternate identity for Logan. He was created by Mike Baron and published by Capital Comics and then First Comics, where he was one of their popular titles. Since the 80s he's been published by Dark Horse, Image, and even IDW. As far as I know, his last appearance was at IDW in 2008.

[@AndreRiikonen]

More videos about the greatest superhero of all time please (yes, Wolverine)

[@Bimbus_]

Hell of a lot better then their favorite to dick suck (Superman)

[@DeTAYL.]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@zaynes5094]

More like one of the most tragic. Him and Batman are probably tied. At least Superman didn't have to watch his world blow up in front of him, but he still carries the burden of the fate of both Earth and Krypton with him.

[@AndreRiikonen]

@@zaynes5094 Tragic and greatest can both be used to describe Wolverine:)

[@josiahgonzalez942]

Well that's a cool *opinion* 😂🥴

[@RobotDowneyJr]

And his costume was maize and blue in honor of the University of Michigan Wolverines

[@newhybrid101]

As a kid we used pencils As grown ups we use knives Not much has changed

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

It's ether pencil crayons or crayola markers

[@tuchesampho2047]

As a Thai we had stainless steal chop sticks at home I use to use those and get yelled at from my mum all the time, even to this day Good times

[@thabg007]

i used metal skewers duct taped to a pair of gloves, parents were p1$$3d, to bad we cant do this with titanium lol

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Well now we can get custom claws commissioned That much has changed

[@nicobam3739]

Wolverine is by far my favorite hands down. As a child I would always say that when I get facial hair I'm going to grow it just like Wolverine's.

[@DJColdTurkey]

Well did you??

[@nicobam3739]

@@DJColdTurkey I haven't yet maybe when I'm in my 40's or 50's but back then that was my only goal in life lol

[@nicobam3739]

@@DJColdTurkey I grow the sides out from time to time though but not the whole thing.

[@zaynes5094]

@@DJColdTurkey I was a huge fan of Spider-Man, as I got older, into my teens and now in my 20s, I started to really like Aquaman more. I wanted to be like Spider-Man, but then when I got into Aquaman, I wanted to BE him. I wanted to be able to swim really fast and be like him with control over the water and even talk to sea life. I started reading a lot of DC and Vertigo comics with Aquaman in or mentioned in them and he is definitely my favorite.

[@raycenteno7698]

I still like the hot claws. Nothing wrong with it.

[@wubblefish]

My favorite still has to be his original bone claws I just love the natural feel to it

[@rubyrubio3970]

Can you do the history of magneto, zorro, judge dredd, Cassie hack, qwenpool, hit monkey, vamperrella, moon girl & devil dinosaur and league of extraordinary gentlemen

[@greendro6410]

Wolverine is one of my favorite superheroes.

[@2highshakur454]

I'm 38 years old been a fan of Logan since I was 4 or 5 good job on the videos Arris 👍🏾

[@thegameplayer125]

it's so interesting seeing how wolverine is still beloved even though the disney buyout made xmen go from being marvels most beloved franchise and 1 of the very few marvel franchises people enjoyed to being marvels most hated franchise and 1 of the few marvel franchise people wished never existed

[@WinchesterxNL]

I think you got your timeline off a bit there. Disney had nothing to do with the last couple of X-Men movies. And the X-men comics are still one of the best selling ones.

[@primordial-chaos00]

Wolverine bones and claws at some point in the future will be made of cosmic energy or infinity stones.

[@zsfantasticbooks]

Thank goodness that Hugh Jackman is back as Wolverine. He's so fing awesome

[@dustingmyguitars]

Every time you said bone claws, all I heard was “BONE SAW IS READY!”😂

[@pryslakryan]

If I remember correctly, wolverines power were his healing factor and animal instincts. His claws weren’t even in his body, but housed in the gloves he wore.

[@IceSick90]

He always had the bone claws m8

[@anthonyvillanueva5226]

Yes co-creator Len Wein originally intended for the claws to be part of his gloves. Later on Chris Claremont established they were part of his anatomy.

[@quentinfogger5755]

What would happen if there was some kind of gloves which could give a normal person Adamantium Claws like Wolverine?

[@Bl00dwerK666]

@@IceSick90 The bone claws are a retcon.

[@sera404]

@@Bl00dwerK666 If I remember, the retcon was put in when Magneto had stripped the adamantium from Wolverine and then when Wolverine in the process of finding his footings in the danger room, his bone claws popped out? This must have been the 90s haha.

[@KingLou3]

This is dope. My first time knowing about his bone claws was when magneto abstracted his adamantium.

[@darrellwilliams1714]

That's because they weren't part of his mutant power until that movie.

[@KingLou3]

@@darrellwilliams1714 wasn't speaking of the movie I was speaking of the comic

[@49ers_red_and_gold2]

Awesome video 🔥

[@SpeedDemon55]

Wolverine is so cool. I read Wolverine Origin yesterday and it’s a really great read.

[@kingzrjaygaming8536]

I think they should do those heat claws with the Phoenix force it would be fire 🔥

[@JohnCarterG19]

Honeybadgers are very ferocious animals. They are not to be messed with.

[@haroldalan7080]

Logan's Claws are one of the most important features of his character Wolverine of his iconic parts of Marvel comics in Decades, his adamantium claws can do some very devasting damage like slicing through Metal doors and tearing up the metal armor of Giant robot soldiers the Sentinels🤖🤖.

[@StevenLeeMiller]

I had been a Wolverine fan since Marvel released their first limited series, Contest of Champions (where he did battle with Black Panther), followed by the four issue Wolverine limited series. It was a shocking reveal in Wolverine 75, after Magneto had violently extracted the adamantium from Wolverine's body, that he had bone claws. My thought at the time was that his body had evolved to replace the claws. How Wolverine's claws actually worked were always a great mystery, not one that really seems solved by calling them natural either. Revealing Wolverine's claws to be bone is similar to Vader's "I am your father" revelation. There was a blood curdling scream. The X-Men rushed to Logan, shocked and horrified to see him there kneeling, arms outstretched in a pool of his own blood, with six roughly shaped bone claws protruding from his hands. That was probably one of the most emotional moments in comics to now be summed as just, "yeah, they've always been bone."

[@christianchauhan23]

💛 all your videos mate👍

[@Artisan1979]

6:11 I actually took work gloves and taped cardboard cut out claws on the backs of them for Halloween when I was 14.

[@IAmImprintJones]

RIP lein wein for giving us one of the greatest of all time 👑

[@d3m1g0d4]

It's so true😂 It's so true😂 Pencils in between my fingers calling myself wolverine😂

[@ibrasonko1552]

Wow, the lovee VARIANT gets ❤❤❤

[@WildStudios65150]

You know to anyone who doesn't know Wolverine by name I bet when they first see his costume and claws and the stripes on his costume people would assume he was a Tiger Themed Character.

[@iam3gion204]

To be fair Hugh Jackman didn’t know wolverines were real animals. He thought wolverine was based on a wolf

[@WildStudios65150]

@@iam3gion204 They do have W O and L as the first letters in their names.

[@nata1716]

I love this video about the badger.

[@perdomot]

For the record, there actually is a superhero named The Badger and he is quite interesting because of his mental issues. Surprised he didn't know that.

[@RacerC45]

Do more History Of episodes.

[@pishposh4506]

You never mentioned the fact that originally when Wolverine was first introduced his claws were attached to his gloves and didn't come out of his hands

[@SimonLavictoire]

Now I got Weebl's Badger song stuck in my head.

[@SimonLavictoire]

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger.

[@madsteve9]

When they were doing the Barry Windsor Smith Weapon X, it was implied that, his femurs, were continually broken and then grafted into his forearms. He would have been dosed by Bubonic plague and various things, prior to the Adamantium process. So, it was a shock, and disappointing to have the bone claws. Certainly didn't use them in WW2, when he was with Captain America and Black Widow, on the Island of Madripoor (Singapore) in Uncanny X-Men No268.

[@spacejamgaming]

My favorite superhero! ❤️

[@briandaleske5139]

I imagine in a different realm, a variant of Wolverine, doesn’t have metal claws, but instead he has magic energy claws. To add I imagine these magic energy claws, bonds with his bone claws perfectly, do to the bond his fused claws are as strong as iron, and can become as strong as Adamantium metal as well. I also imagine when Wolverine is unable to use his magic energy claws, he has a a special made glows he uses, and he uses knives as well.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love them! So classic!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Mate397]

I never liked the bone claw idea... I always preferred to think that it was added in by the Weapon X project to make him more lethal paired with his savage nature, not to mention his rapid healing ability that woul allow him to get in range.

[@rottenhead8385]

exactly

[@zaynes5094]

@@rottenhead8385 It was basically for the Origins comics and for the Movie storyline of Logan. It makes it more human and more organic than say something that was created by the Weapons X program and by Stryker instead of being natural to Logan. Also, it would mean Logan wouldn't have to use those ridiculous-looking gloves.

[@rottenhead8385]

@@zaynes5094 It has no plausibility even in the super power having reality they built. They established that his power was healing and that was how he had claws put in him in the first place. That makes him a hero for having resisted the mother programing and fought for innocence instead. The idea that his body would have gotten used to them and grown his own is nutty they were so invasive and cut him. Why has he no other animal attributes to explain the claws, that don't even go well with his physiology if they have to pierce him.

[@RaiderGraf]

One thing I never understood was if his claws are bones covered in adamantium, why do they look like very thin blades and not like metal bones or thick sharpened rods?

[@mrpushrod9279]

The whole bone claw thing was actually retconned in, so the thin blades made more sense from about the mid 90s and back before Magneto ripped his original adamantium out. Back then he was just Logan and he couldn't remember much about his past life because of what happened to him in the Weapon X program. Prof X helped him to find his memories, but in the older comics when Logan was shown pre adamantium as in flashbacks he never had bone claws that I found. It was assumed that after Magneto tore his adamantium out, that his body had grown used to having claws so that it generated replacements when his whole skeleton was regenerated. Bonus fact, at one point when they were creating him his claws were going to be in his gloves, but they decided that anyone could steal them and become Wolverine so they put them in his arms instead. Lastly it really boils down to artistic freedom, its the way he's been drawn over the years by many comic artists and Marvel never really addressed that or made a standard. If you look at how he was drawn over the years some times they gave him more nail like claws that could be coated bones and sometimes they were more blade like ones. Its never made sense to me how you can go from a thick bone to a thin knife blade after coating bones. How were they sharpened for example? That's why I've always thought bone claws were a dumb idea and implanted adamantium blades made a whole lot more sense.

[@arjr721]

I always wonder how they sharpened his claws if all they did was coat them and they were cylindrical shape to begin with?

[@reybat4969]

How did he get the encasings on his hands?

[@abeb8852]

I love this channel! I am not big geek. But like superhero. Thank guys for educate me more on superheroes

[@ShellsShells-nd6qh]

I am happy to say i have 2 sets of Hulk 180 thru 185. I actually ha e more hulk runs but those are my favorite.

[@haroldalan7080]

With Hugh jackman,s return for Deadpool 3 once again to team up against a mysterious new villain and finally he gets his classic famous suit with Yellow and blue colors much like its 1990,s animated counterpart in the X men animated series📺📺.

[@kingshadow8782]

Good work!

[@zaking3864]

W vid

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Love Variant !

[@lupinrex9395]

One thing I've always been curious about when it comes to wolverines claws. How did his adamantium claws end up blade shape when his bone claws around?

[@rottenhead8385]

when his bone claws are round you mean? yes they look hideous and thick while the blades are always depicted as slender as you would expect a knife to be. ridiculous! No bone claws!

[@lupinrex9395]

@rottenhead8385 Yeah, I meant to say are round, but the voice-to-text put it as around lol. To tell you the truth, I don't mind his bone claws because it's what the adamantium bonds to, to make his metal claws it just that they should be round adamantium claws instead of Blade shaped ones

[@don_dozee]

The pencil talk was spot on😂😂

[@Doesntmatterreally]

Wolverine has always been my favorite X-Men

[@Midas2003]

Did you know segment is my favourite

[@leifwulffstephan3725]

I hope Deadpool 3 introduces his "heat claws" The video game too cause that would be a cool gameplay feature.

[@KootenaiKing]

TECHNICALLY he had his "heat claws" in X-Men Origns: Wolverine. Towards the end, when he and Sabretooth are fighting the Deadpool on 3-Mile Island.

[@leifwulffstephan3725]

@@KootenaiKing I want his heat claws to be an upgrade that activates during his berserker mode, which will likely function like in god of war.

[@KootenaiKing]

@@leifwulffstephan3725 if his bone-claws could heat up, why would he need the adamantium?

[@leifwulffstephan3725]

@@KootenaiKing I mean his adamantium claws, of course. When berserker mode gets activated, his claws heat up, real simple.

[@KootenaiKing]

@@leifwulffstephan3725 nope. It's not part of his mutation. And in my humble opinion, that would be stupid. No offense or anything, but that's waay too much. Hugh played him for 20 years, and we're just barely getting the yellow suit. And now you want them to "fan-service" some stupid upgrade from a couple years ago.....? Nope.

[@quentinfogger5755]

Can you do history of Alfred Pennyworth, Batwing, Flame Bird, Batwoman, Azrael, Signal(Duke Thomas), Bluebird, Stephanie Brown and Carrie Kelly?

[@quentinfogger5755]

Can you do history of the characters mentioned in this video? Are you going to do history of the children of Wolverine just like how you did for X-23?

[@zzoidberg2908]

My hyperfixation this past week has been Wolverine so this video comes at the perfect time.

[@GarthMcMurray]

Don't pick on the name Badger. He was a fun superhero for First Comics & other comics comics companies. I'm a huge Badger fan.

[@alienalchemist]

I think one of Logan's female clones has the name Honey Badger.

[@rottenhead8385]

@@alienalchemist It sounds nice with the word honey but they fight viciously and bite off gonads first..

[@UltimateSpider1385]

Man, I need to read all Wolverine comics but I'll try to read comic volume.

[@Verdant11686]

yessssssss..... just during school 👀

[@salahuddinqadri-z6b]

6:08 yeah thats true

[@jackieanderson9408]

This was sweet 😊

[@Mister_GOD.]

>2:00 Holy shit, an ad where i may actually buy it.

[@liltaytjakid26]

My favorite

[@mujtabaellari2597]

Fun fact: Gabby (a clone of X-23 aka Laura Kinney) had the code name honey badger. Unfortunately marvel changed it to scout not long after because we cant have nice things.

[@thatblueguy1]

Isn't wolverine supposed to be like 5'6"? Stocky little fella?

[@dxdgnr8]

5'3"

[@quentinjones6877]

He's 5'3 although I wish he was a little taller, 5'6 would've been good

[@chinnidiwakar]

But honey badger is the most badass fearless animal

[@imwarlight]

You caught me with the pencils thing 😂😂

[@Vibranium_man]

Can you do a evolution of Captain America's shield video?

[@Jdfuller82]

Wolverine is my all time favorite super hero and you're darn straight I put pencils between my fingers and pretended I was Wolverine.

[@12oshinko]

An R-rated Patch movie set in 80s Madripoor would be awesome

[@C.Johnson9714]

Looking forward to Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine. 6:04-6:12 Also I definitely used to do that in school.

[@Vin-fu1rm]

Bone claws 🐐

[@sephiroth7818]

You may not be old enough to remember the “and back to bone” arc. When Magneto ripped the Adamantium through Logan’s pours.

[@Bfitzgerald82]

All I want is a height accurate Wolverine after Hugh Jackman steps down. As stated here, "little man" is right there in how he was introduced! Hugh is great, but let's get someone under 5'3" to do the job. PLEASE!

[@mikethepokemaster2012]

They wont

[@IAMJAM0]

I love wolverine

[@buddah1221]

given how adamant Hugh Jackman was about not playing the character again, until I see ot on screen in the theater I am 100 % convinced this is a troll because Ryan Reynolds would absolutely do that imo. I can't wait till the reboot of the X-Men and a comic accurate short Wolverine.

[@tylerlussier1896]

I wonder why they chose to give Hugh Jackman sleeves… maybe Hugh Jackman’s arms aren’t as ripped as they use to be, But the suit doesn’t look that bad tho and it’s really nice to finally see him wear a suit like that!! I wish he got to wear the brown suit!

[@gregthesplintercell]

Yeah he probably is refusing to get back on steroids.

[@jakebritton9709]

Hes had bouts of skin cancer on his arms so he told them if he came back his suit need to protect his arms.

[@quentinfogger5755]

Besides us seeing Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in Deadpool 3 and in Avengers Secret Wars, Which actor do you think should replace him as Wolverine in Phase 7 of the MCU during the Mutant Saga?

[@zabuza3663]

My second favorite X-men

[@scottperkins5038]

Badgers to be fair are mean as hell, I grew up on the myth that farmers used to put stones in their shoes so if they got attacked it would sound like bone breaking.

[@deelakasirdeeedwards7945]

Quick question…….. what happens if wolverine claws were broken off…?

[@kappadarwin9476]

Bone claws would take their place.

[@EdgbertPrice24]

The movies did that in the Wolverine solo film “The Wolverine”. Logan goes to Japan to say his goodbyes to a sick man that he saved from an atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki Japan in WWII. Well at the end of the movie this man turns on him and wants his healing powers for himself. The key to passing on his healing powers to someone else was by absorbing his bone marrow. So he broke off his adamantium claws and withdrew his bone marrow. As he was withdrawing them and injecting it into himself he was starting to get the healing factor and he was visibly getting healthier and reversing his aging process and getting younger. At the end of the movie all Logan had was his bone claws. But the effects of the withdrawal of his bone marrow was temporary because it was made known that he still had his powers.

[@quentinfogger5755]

I think that happened in the Wolverine movie when Silver Samurai used his Adamantium sword to cut Logan's claws

[@martinbauzon7450]

Wooah

[@epicnessoflegends]

I like how spiderman got an advertisement in a video dedicated to one of his best buddies 😂

[@vortecmacs]

You didn’t touch on his Asgardian armor which appeared to give him some for of Uru attached to or lacing his claws.

[@Raven_shifter]

They are the future

[@Earth2Natalie]

Has anyone ever been able to cut or destroy Wolverine's claws? Like Captain America's shield is described as indestructible but characters have been able to break it

[@anthonyvillanueva5226]

Sabertooth stomped them off in the Origins movie lmao

[@gentlemannoir8092]

I don’t remember the specifics of the scene, but I believe the Silver Samurai cut his claws with a ginormous red hot adamantium sword in The Wolverine. Comic wise, I’m not entirely sure. But I wouldn’t be surprised if someone like Magneto has done it before.

[@zaynes5094]

@@gentlemannoir8092 Yeah I'd say it would be someone like Magneto.

[@gentlemannoir8092]

@@zaynes5094 Agreed. Out of everyone, Magneto would definitely be the one to do so.

[@Purplegorillaz]

Wolverine & Spider-Man are my Two Favourite Marvel Characters..And Deadpool..Top 3…Ohh ok that’s why in The Cartoon when his Claws came out he would yell..Ok makes senses now.. Peace.

[@Square1nes]

6:05 funny thing, i did that with color pencils in 4th grade and got written up for doing that instead of my work 😂

[@dylanogg347]

"I know what you're thinkin' punk. Question is: "Can I get Wolverine before he turns me into Shish Kabob with those claws?" Well, bub, seein' as how these claws are Adamantium; the strongest metal known, and can slice through vanadium steel like a hot knife through butter buddy, you gotta ask yourself: "Do I feel lucky"?"

[@LCBK]

Logan might not be the badger, but his clone daughter’s clone goes by the hero name honey badger

[@terrajae9629]

5:54 ... so all they needed was the mutants to beat Thanos... Wanda did almost kill Thanos... hmmm

[@TheDeadWax]

How-lit.

[@quentinfogger5755]

When are you going to do history of JSA member Cyclone along with DC Sabbac since he's the main Villain of the Black_Adam movie?

[@MICHAEL-tz9ni]

Wolverines claws were bionic implants, implanted during the weapon-x procedure. It has been plainly stated in at least a dozen comics in the 70's and 80's. The first mention of bone claws was in Fatal Attractions in 1993. No "in story" explination was given for this change, Fabian Nicieza (who started writing in some x-men commics in 1991) just broke canon. This is what happens when writers don't learn or respect existing canon on characters that they write for. Bone claws has always been wrong

[@ZavianN11]

Bone claws are a better story 🤙

[@MICHAEL-tz9ni]

@@ZavianN11 That's an opinion, and your'e not wrong for having it, but when Len Wein first introduced Wolverine in 1974 he had bionic claws ( which is a better story). No explination was given about the change in cannon, it just appeared in 1993, written by a writer who didn't know his material

[@bitterbites3859]

I had a feeling his original name was going to be badger. 😂 That's like Kid flash being called Speedy.

[@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD]

Before they were apart of his gloves not in his hands

[@virtualrealityfitness283]

Hulk 180 is the first appearance of Wolverine and Hulk 181 is the 2nd appearance!