10) Not The Wolverine You Remember
Logan kicks off with a drunk Wolverine asleep in the back of the limousine he now drives to earn a living. However, the clawed mutant is quickly woken up by some thugs attempting to steal the wheels from his new ride, and after they take him down with a shotgun blast to the shoulder, Wolverine’s berserker rage is quickly unleashed.
Desperate to protect the vehicle, he at one point uses his own body to shield it from getting damaged by another round of shells, but what’s really interesting here is seeing how much Logan has changed. He’s not as quick as he once was and the blows dealt to him are clearly taking much longer to heal. From the start, the movie makes it clear that this is a very different Wolverine adventure.
9) The Fate Of Mutantkind
When Wolverine, Professor X, and X-23 wind up on a farm with a family who they help out on the roadside, we seemingly get a throwaway line about how people now consume corn syrup since pretty much everything which ails them. At first, it appears as if this is just a reference to how much the world has changed, but when the villainous Zander Rise later confronts Wolverine, we find out that that’s actually played a role in the decline of mutants.
Rice came up with a way of altering people’s genomes so that new mutants would no longer be created and this is a surprisingly satisfactory explanation. For comic book fans, it may also bring back memories of mutant killing substances like the Legacy Virus and the Cure, though it’s a shame that it’s never referenced as such in order to further tie Logan to the source material in a more significant manner.
