Wolverine was the coolest. What went wrong?

>aoa when magneto took the adamantium out

People realize that they didn't want to be a a hairy muscle midget.

Had a kid

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You know what also was cool? Pogs.
Times just change. What do you expect from a character that has been wrung the fuck out to the point even the movies had to basically kill him before his popularity went down the shitter from oversaturation. Just accept that he had a good run and stop demanding for new comics, you're only getting warmed up roadkill and not fresh meat. It's dead jim. Zombie franchise.

>coupled with the general decline of coolness in comics in favor of QUIRKY/RELATABLE characters getting coffee and talking about their critics.

that mcu was competing with x-men movies

this is what confuses me when people got mad that Laura "became the Wolverine"

Shit moves on. Have to pass the torch...or just end it.
I thought it was cool having "wolverine" that was also hot, and didnt have 70 years of mind erasing back story, with ancient drama with every single person he meets.

crazy, i know....

This, that's the main reason Wolverine lost his popularity.

Grizzled white guys who drink whiskey, have a valuable career, like muscle cars and try to get things done without bullshit aren't popular anymore (or at least not with the kikes running comics nowadays.) Most of the shit you liked in the 90s couldnt be made today.

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Wolverine was at his best when he was a burnt out old soldier trying to make amends over his past by helping folks with the X-men, as well as find meaningful purpose after his long and torturous life.

The problem is that they started making him into a role model and as said, a moralfag which was in conflict with the kind of character he was. Wolvie is the definition of damage goods, and he was in no position to be a representative of the X-men, as writers lost sight of what made him cool on his own.

And worse, became a "leading man" of the X-Men.

He works best in opposition to a leader like Cyclops or Storm. Not as a leader himself.

Three strikes:

>Strike 1: Post-Cleremont Bad Writing and Overexposure

After 1991, Fabian N and Scott Lobdell basically wrote Logan like a very simplistic version of the character Cleremont had developed over 15 years. Wolverine is a hunter, but he's the kind of hunter who will sneak up on a deep just to tap it and have it scurry off. He's not a psycho killer. Magneto pulling out of his Admimantium, bone claw, and no nose era also suck hard. Guest stared in every other first issue Marvel comic in the speculators boom.

>Strike 2: Origin

Oh, so that's where Wolverine really came from. The tough farm kid is was Sabertooth and Wolverine was the sickly rich kid James. Meh. That's kind of lame.

>Strike 3: Post 2005

After House of M, Wolverine now remembers all of his past. Everything. Also his healing factor is ridiculous OP now.

And this all happened before X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon, both in 2009 just cemented how overexposed he was.

He's always drawn/portrayed a lot taller than his "canon" height. Huge Jackedman is 6'2" for fuck's sake.

Forced to quit smoking + bone claws + regained memory + overexposure

Is this incest or masturbation?

Mostly after the movies. I remember Wolverine typically being of relative height to the teen girl members.

demystified origin

punny name

shrank his claws

shrank his animal ears headpiece

shrank his ludicrously wide back and giant muscles

relocated claws to between fingers, which is not as evocative as having curved claws come out of the top of his hands, which evoke the sense of giant metal fingers curled back in rage, paradoxically juxtaposed with his actual hands...

no longer 'dangerous;' doesn't smoke, doesn't chase women far above his station, i don't remember if he still goes on murderous rampages or if he's just a full time teacher now.

ridiculously op healing removes all tension from battles; used to be a soldier who can survive lethal harm but still requires skill and will to win, and now can regenerate from a single drop of blood

got rid of his power fantasy adamantium claws and armored skeleton

retconned his fighting ability

it feels like they turned this very unique, wild character into a more traditional, boring, children's hero.

also, it seems like they made him an avatar of suffering rather than an avatar of perseverance.

he literally died curled up in a pathetic posture instead of standing up defiantly one last time before the adamantium hardened. just pathetic.

the dude just isn't the same character i grew up with, so i don't care anymore. i'm not even upset, i just don't care.

i have my fantasy stories i'd like to tell about spidey and wolverine but honestly, considering how poorly marvel pays its writers and considering how poorly the characters seem to be treated, i genuinely don't care if i ever get the chance to write them anymore.

if i see an awesome wolverine toy or statue or poster i'll still buy it, but i absolutely don't give a fuck about his stories anymore.

Can this happen to Batman already? I feel like he's too edgy or emo these days. I want a more family friendly Batman.

Xmen became feminist woke

>Wolverine was the coolest. What went wrong?
Disney

and snowflakes writes

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At least his fall from grace wasn't as bad as Hawkeye's.