Serious answers only.
Why and when did comic readers decide that he would work as a character? I mean
>manlet
>ugly
>canadian
>rude and downright disgusting
>homewrecker
What is it about him that makes him so cool? Is it just the mashup of ninja+cowboy+secret agent?
He has more than a few stories which I would say that are among the best of what the super hero genre can offer (not counting gay deconstructions). And yet I feel it's so undeserved
because as much as you deny it. Representation Matters. Everything you listed except Home wrecker is basically the average comic fan. The home wrecker part is what the average comic fan WANTS to be.
Also he is Canadian because his creator is Canadian and wanted more of his people shown.
Because him being morally complex makes him more interesting than clear-cut boyscout type characters. Anti-heroes in general are more nuanced than certain blander types of heroes.
because perfection is boring.
Frank Miller and Claremont made him work
>watch any show
>here’s your cast of characters:
>4+ perfect people
>1 character with real flaws
The more a creator tries to make a character perfect, the more likely the general audiences won’t like them.
I'm going to hazard a guess and say these guys are talking about Cyclops.
>Anti-heroes in general are more nuanced than certain blander types of heroes.
Citation needed.
oh it's just another cyclopsgay who's upset that no one thinks his autistic self-insert is super cool. move along, folks
I think both characters are shit for different reasons, but I found it interesting that those posts mentioned characters being "boy scouts" or "perfect" as being boring, so I put two and two together and figured it was Cyclops. It very could have well just been edgegays with a chip on their shoulder against characters like Superman, so I was probably overthinking it.
>Is rude yet popular
>Has a unique power everyone wants
>Doesn't have to give a shit about smoking because of said power
>Edgy
Ultimately people just want escapism with comics, duh, in one form or another. Wolverine and Batman both provide an edgy fantasy where we could all ascend to a level of dontgiveafrick badass we all secretly want to be, and both characters give us this in different ways. Comparitively Superman is weak to a gay rock and gets pegged by some annoying reporter b***h.
He's the best at what he does, bub, and what he does is come up with incredibly catchy catchphrases, like "snikt" and "bub" and "this one is for you Morph".
>homewrecker
Now that he ain't.
It's the no fricks given and the rush in heads first attitude.
Everyone wants to act like that sometimes.
It was a bunch of little things.
When he first surfaced, he wasn't particularly popular at all. Even when he transitioned to the X-Men, I believe Claremont and wienerrum were at one point considering killing him off. As an aside, becoming an X-Men was the first step towards his modern popularity, as the artists inadvertently drew his mask as too long on the cover of Giant Size X-Men #1. They liked the longer mask better, so they kept it.
When Canadian artist John Byrne started drawing for the title, however, he convinced Claremont to keep Wolverine around out of a sense of Canadian solidarity.
His popularity had been mounting steadily due to his characterisation throughout Claremont's run, but it wasn't until Uncanny X-Men 132-3 that the character really picked up steam. That was really the moment that cemented him as "cool" in the mind of readers as he single-handedly tore his way through the Hellfire Club to rescue the other X-Men.
This eventually led to his first mini-series, which helped establish more of his characterisation and tied him to Japan, samurai, ninjas and other cool shit people loved at the time.
From there, Wolverine was more or less the most popular X-Men by far, partly because of how he embodied that kind of rugged Clint Eastwood masculinity that was idolised in the 80s and 90s.
It was essentially his initial vagueness that allowed other writers and artists to continually build on the blank slate of his character that allowed him to ascend to his current levels of popularity.
manlet rage
>give clint eastwood claws, make him invulnerable, and have him fight ninjas
speaks for itself, bub
I often wonder how Tobe Hooper's 80s Spider-Man horror movie would've turned out like
Pretty good
because he's cool
He isn't a mutant
His first and second solos where absolutely amazing
I'd like Wolverine a lot more if he wasn't a mutant and had nothing to do with the X-Men. Same goes for Juggernaut
Because among a cast of ranged fighting jobbers who shoot mostly non lethal moves, he's an angry brawler with knives coming out of his fists. So you can look forward to cool moves and violent encounters.
Violence sells bub
He's so cool.
metal claws. that's it. without the claws, wolverine is
pointless.