The History of Old Man Logan

Ever since Hugh Jackman’s final appearance as Wolverine was announced, the rumors persisted that it would be based on the famous “Old Man Logan” comic storyline. Though there are certainly similarities between Logan and the comic story, they are in fact quite different. The comic, however, remains one of the best Wolverine stories and like the upcoming movie, is remarkable for how it builds upon the decades of continuity behind it.

So before you see Logan this weekend, you can read the full history of the Old Man Logan character in Marvel comics in the gallery below!

Set in the near future, the film follows a weary Logan (Jackman) as he cares for an ailing Professor X (Sir Patrick Stewart) in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

Also starring Eriq La Salle, Stephen Merchant, Elise Neal and Elizabeth Rodriguez, Logan is coming to theaters on March 3, 2017.

A History of Old Man Logan

The night the heroes fell

One day, all of the super villains finally realized the most obvious plan of all: If they all teamed up, they could defeat the heroes. So they did.
The night the heroes fell

Distress signals started coming to the X-Mansion from all around the world as Wolverine and Jubilee watched. Then the villains attacked the mansion.
The night the heroes fell

Trying to hold off the villains so the students could escape, Wolverine did what he does best: he started killing the evil doers. There was just one problem...
The night the heroes fell

...Only one villain had attacked the mansion: the illusion-creating Mysterio, who made Wolverine think all of the other X-Men were the villains of the world....
The night the heroes fell

He tricked Logan into killing his friends, family, and students.
The night the heroes fell

Logan fled into the woods after this and tried to commit suicide. Naturally, it didn't work.
The fractured USA

$The fractured USA$

As a result of all the heroes dying, the villains split up the United States into their own zones and areas with sections for Doctor Doom, Red Skull, Kingpin, and even The Hulk, who went on to become a madman that started a hillbilly family with his cousin, She-Hulk.
50 Years later...

50 years later, Logan has disavowed the “Wolverine” name and moved to Hulkland and works as a farmer. He has a wife, Maureen (whom he met at the old Weapon X facility where some people had hidden), and two children, Scotty and Jade.
The proposition

When Logan can't make the rent, he takes a beating from The Hulk's grandkids, but his old pal Hawkeye, now a blind journeyman, had a proposition. Help him deliver a package on the east caost and he can get $500. So Logan accepts.
San Francisco

The first stop along the way is San Francisco, now partially underground thanks to an attack by the Moloids. In addition, the pair are ambushed by a motorcycle gang that calls themselves The Ghost Riders.
Hammer Falls

In the ruins of Las Vegas lies Hammer Falls, a Mecca of sorts where people pray for the return of the superheroes to Thor's fallen hammer. There they meet Hawkeye's third ex-wife, Tonya (third daughter of Spider-Man), who tells them their daughter Ashley had assumed the mantle of Spider-Girl and tried to take down the Kingpin, only to be captured...
Fisk Lake City

...So they travel to the former state of Utah to rescue Ashley, but given her first opportunity she kills the Kingpin as soon as Hawkeye and Logan rescue her, making her the new Kingpin... and sending her father and Logan back on the run. The Moloids, however, crumble the ground underneath them and ate their pursuers.
In the land of Doom

While crossing through Doom's territory, Logan and Clint run across a little boy named Dwight that has Ant-Man's old helmet and a Venom-bonded dinosaur. They are saved though by the unlikely pair of Emma Frost and Black Bolt.
Pym Falls

As they approach New Babylon, they come across the remains of Hank Pym, now coyly christened “Pym Falls.”
New Babylon

The capital city of the US and home to President Red Skull, Hawkeye finally reveals to Logan what they've been traveling all this way for: to deliver 99 vials of Super Soldier Serum to the resistance. There's a wrinkle though, it was all a sting to catch the two heroes and Hawkeye is killed in the firefight.
The White House

Inside the Red Skull's trophy room, he stares at the beat-up costumes, gadgets, and even mounted heads of the fallen heroes of the world. Logan and Hawkeye's bodies are brought inside and as Logan's body slowly heals itself up, he stands and fights the Red Skull before cutting his head off with Captain America's shield.
The return home

Cornered in the Red Skull's trophy, Logan does some quick thinking and dons the armor of Iron Man. He picks up the stack of money that the undercover agents had offered to Hawkeye and takes off back home. The fuel cells give out 500 miles from the farm though, and Logan is forced to walk the rest of the way.
The family

Logan arrives to find the Hulk clan got bored and, knowing that he was gone, came to his home and killed his family. This breaks something inside Logan, and reignites something in him that he thought he'd lost.
Snikt.
Wolverine

Logan remembers who he is.
Revenge Tour

Logan goes on an extended bloodbath against the Hulk clan, killing all of Banner's family he can find....
The clan's cave

Before he finally arrives at the Clan's home and takes the rest of them out, as Bruce emerges from his cave...
Fight with The Hulk

Bruce hasn't hulked out in a while, and he missed these old fights, so he was eager to fight Wolverine again. He took an interesting way to win though, and eats Logan.
Tummy Troubles

Later, Banner remains with his lone grandson Billy Bob, and his favorite, Baby Bruce, when his tummy troubles reveal themselves to be Logan healing inside his stomach....
Surprise!

Logan pops out, killing the Hulk, but when he sees Baby Bruce, he gets an idea.
One month later...

A month later, Logan finally buries his family and makes up his mind to bring law and order back to the world.
Riding off...

And he'll do that by starting a new team, with Baby Bruce as its first member...
Battleworld

When the Secret Wars began and the multiverse was destroyed, reality was recreated as Battleworld, different countries from different realities and one of them was The Wasteland where Old Man Logan resides. He was transported here with full memories in tact of what had happened and took a tour of the various realities before landing in the corrected timeline...
A second chance

After the defeat of God Emperor Doom and reformation of the Marvel Universe, Logan finds himself in the present day. Far from his future and its horrors, Logan has a chance to live in the world again, a fresh start.
The list

There's a problem though. Logan obsesses over what happened in his timeline and decides to prevent it from happening again, so he makes a list of all the people he needs to kill to keep the future from going to hell. That list consists of The Black Butcher, Bruce Banner, Mysterio, and Red Skull. After killing Black Butcher, Logan realized that the present day he found himself in wasn't his past, and the proof he saw? His own dead body. Wolverine was dead, so his future couldn't happen anyway.
Staying in the past

Logan continues to live in the present day, having both solo adventures, team-ups with the “All-New Wolverine” X-23, and even joining an X-Men team.
The Hooded Man in the far future

Before all of this Secret Wars business started, we know what Logan got up to many years after he had a change of heart. Logan leads a team of the best heroes in the future called the New Defenders, including himself (as “The Hooded Man”), Hulk Jr., Psionics, Alex Ultron, Natalie X, and Lightwave. It remains to be seen if this future is still canon as the Old Man Logan storyline continues to play out in the present and as a warning from the time-traveling Kang the conqueror has revealed Bruce Banner Jr. has become a new warlord in the future...