Characters

This page covers the characters Insomniac has confirmed for Marvel's Wolverine. Because the story is original rather than an adaptation, a character existing in the comics does not mean they appear here, and the details below are limited to what official game material and hands-on coverage have actually shown.

Logan

Logan opens the game with his adamantium skeleton and without his memories. Mike Daly has described this version of the character as cynical and candid, someone who keeps people at a distance, and the team has been clear that he is not Old Man Logan. Eric Monacelli of Marvel Games has called him an amalgamation, a little older than a lot of the canonical versions.

The physical build is a deliberate middle ground. Marcus Smith has put the in-game height at roughly five foot seven, between the comics' five foot three and the taller screen version, and has described him as five hundred pounds of adamantium skeleton. That weight is not just characterisation: it is the stated reason the traversal system works the way it does.

He is voiced and performed by Liam McIntyre; see Cast and Crew.

Jean Grey

Jean Grey is a powerful telekinetic and the emergent leader of the mutants Trask has captured. She is a new ally rather than a returning teammate, and she and Logan can perform takedowns together.

Because the X-Men do not exist in this setting, she is working alone. She is protecting a group of mutant teens with no organisation behind her, which is a large part of why she and Logan end up in the same fight. Krizia Bajos, who performs the role, has described the relationship between the two characters as a cosmic connection.

Mystique

Mystique is one of the Team X members Logan returns to. In combat she shifts through identities as the situation needs, and in the Sentinel Prototype encounter she is a commandable ally who can be directed to fire a sniper shot.

She also carries one of the game's quieter scenes. At the Princess Bar she pushes Logan into a friendly but vulnerable game of Never Have I Ever, with the player deciding his answers by choosing whether he drinks.

Sabretooth

Sabretooth is the third confirmed member of Team X and the source of most of its internal friction. He antagonises Logan through the opening, calls him runt, and at one point body-slams him at the Princess Bar. Insomniac has noted that Logan stands about as tall as Sabretooth's navel and that Sabretooth feels spurned by Logan's original exit from the team. Hands-on previews describe him being called Victor in dialogue.

In combat he is an ally you can call on, though Marcus Smith has framed his contribution with some affection as being like stealing your kills.

Nathaniel Essex

Nathaniel Essex formed Team X to help protect mutants, and he is the one who found Logan years earlier in a feral state. When the game opens he is Trask's captive, and freeing him is the objective of the first mission.

The game refers to him only by his civilian name, and no powers, motives, or affiliations beyond forming the team have been confirmed for him. Anything further about the character comes from the comics rather than from this game.

Bolivar Trask

Bolivar Trask is an anti-mutant billionaire industrialist driven by a fanatical belief in human superiority. He funds the Reavers who abduct mutants for him, builds the Ability Inhibitors that shut mutant powers down, and constructs the Sentinel Prototype. He also built a fake town for one of his experiments, which the campaign visits. His forces and hardware are covered on Enemies and Factions.

Tyger Tiger

Tyger Tiger runs the Princess Bar, Logan's preferred watering hole in the Lowtown district of Madripoor, and serves as the anchor to that part of the world. Official material sometimes shortens the name to Tyger. She is played by Kelly Hu.

Walter Langowski

Walter Langowski appears during the campaign as someone Logan knows. In one scene he tries to cheer Logan up by having him search his office for a vinyl of their favourite song, and later he is kidnapped by The Hand, which sets off the rooftop chase through Madripoor.

Two things are worth flagging. His name has appeared in both the Langowski and Langkowski spellings across coverage, and no official material settles which the game uses. He has also been described elsewhere as a fourth member of Team X. No official material confirms that, so this page does not list him as one.

Antagonists

Omega Red is confirmed, described in official copy as boorish, and Logan has a run-in with him during the opening Telambang mission. Deathstrike has been described by Insomniac as one of the game's big antagonists and appears in a cinematic, though no role, fight, or abilities have been detailed; the name also appears as Lady Deathstrike in some licensor material.