The Best Wolverine Versions Of All Time

Over 800 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Wolverine Versions Of All Time
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Vote up your favorite renditions of the Wolverine, bub.

Wolverine is arguably the most recognizable and prolific of all the X-Men. He's the best there is at what he does. As such, there are many different variations on the character and dozens of formats the character has been utilized in. Be it video games, films, animated series, or alternate versions of the man himself in comic books, Wolverine is in virtually every form of pop culture, in one way or another.

We've decided to compile some of our favorites here. Do you like playing as Wolverine in Marvel vs Capcom more or in Wolverine: Adamantium Rage? Is "Wolverine and the X-Men" your favorite animated series or is the '90s Fox show? Do you like him better in solo films like The Wolverine or in team ensembles like X2?

Here's the chance to see where it all lines up. What are the greatest interpretations of Wolverine ever? The game versions of Wolverine all have him as a playable character. Vote up your favorite alternate versions of Wolverine!
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  • Wolverine
    1
    Fictional Character
    316 votes
    Regular 616 Continuity and all that is canon therein.
    Logan is a fictional character from the X-Men series. He is a mutant who possesses animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, powerful regenerative ability known as a healing factor, and ...more
  • X-Men: The Animated Series
    2
    254 votes
    Superhuman abilities help the X-Men protect the world against evil.
  • Old Man Logan
    3
    Comic Book Series
    296 votes
    "Wolverine: Old Man Logan" is an eight-issue storyline from the Wolverine ongoing series by writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven, published by Marvel Comics. It began in June 2008, ran through ...more
  • The Wolverine
    4
    Film (2013)
    251 votes
    Lured to a Japan he hasn't seen since World War II, century-old mutant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) finds himself in a shadowy realm of yakuza and samurai. Wolverine is pushed to his physical and ...more
  • Age of Apocalypse
    5
    Comic Book Series
    210 votes
    X-Men: Age of Apocalypse is a Marvel Comics six-issue limited series which takes place a year after the last story in the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse one-shot, with Magneto's X-Men helping North America ...more
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
    6
    175 votes
    Convinced that mutants pose a threat to humanity, Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) develops the Sentinels, enormous robotic weapons that can detect a mutant gene and zero in on that person. In the ...more