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In the reality depicted in X-Men Forever, Wolverine and Jean Grey accepted a special assignment from Nick Fury shortly after the Muir Island Saga that required them to act like vacationing honeymooners. Having to play these roles weakened the last remaining barrier between them, and they submitted to their mutual lust for each other, sparking a passionate love affair. They kept their romance secret from the rest of the X-Men—especially Jean's boyfriend, Cyclops—and tried to return to business as usual when they returned home. Unfortunately, their affair didn't last long.

Following a mission to detain the renegade Acolyte Fabian Cortez, Wolverine left the X-Men and started following a suspicious trail of clues that implicated someone he knew quite well. When he confronted the culprit— seemingly his teammate, Storm — he found himself on the receiving end of her deadly lightning bolts and finally met his end. Also in this reality, Wolverine was implied to be Sabretooth's son.

In the Age of X reality warp, the X-Men never formed and mutantkind was largely scattered. Individual mutants had to fight for their own right to survive. Wolverine invaded the Fordyce Clinic where doctors Richard Palance and Kavita Rao developed an x-gene suppressor compound that would permanently “cure” mutants of their abilities. Rao leaked intelligence over the wire for Logan once she learned Palance planned to release the cure into the water supply without the knowledge or approval of the population. Unable to properly dispose of the cure in the time they had before security arrived, Wolverine agreed to be subjected to a massive overdose of the cure. Rao believed his healing factor would metabolize the cure to the point that it could not be retrieved, but she couldn’t guarantee he’d survive the process. Logan agreed, and Rao injected the cure into his body over and over again.

In the present, Logan acted as a non-combatant bartender at the Fortress, ministering to Magneto’s mutant defenders after each day of siege. In private, Logan occasionally cut on himself to test the long term effects of the cure on his healing factor. His powers were effectively gone, and with the adamantium poisoning his body from within, any stress or exertion could potentially shut his system down permanently. After Legacy started calling into question X’s reality, Logan and Basilisk forged an alliance to seek the truth about the situation. When X unleashed her final wave of Exonims and humans soldiers, Logan decided to go down fighting. He popped his claws and waded into the attackers alongside Basilisk until reality was restored by Legion.

James Howlett was former governor-general of the dominion of Canada and viceroy to her majesty’s expedition to Shangri-La in his home reality. A roughneck adventurer at his core, Governor Howlett led a different, but equally colorful life compared to his 616 counterpart. Howlett had his skeleton and claws molecularly bonded with Adamantine, the metal of the Olympian Gods, allowing him to magically cut through even pure energy and shielding his mind from psychic assault. On his adventures, Howlett found romance with the Olympian demi-god known as Hercules, but their relationship was condemned by man and god alike on his homeworld. In a moment of celebration after vanquishing the latest monster threatening his lands, Howlett and Hercules revealed their love in a passionate embrace. The queen revoked Howlett’s governor-ship of Canada, and the Olympian gods punished Hercules for daring to love a mortal by casting them both into Tartarus for years.

Under unknown circumstances, Governor Howlett was kidnapped extra-dimensionally by the Savior and his people and used as part of a living battery of mutants culled from across the multiverse to preserve the integrity of that Earth. He escaped with several others thanks to the arrival of Earth-616’s Cyclops. They instead used the Savior’s multiversal technology and collection of still-living psychic Xavier heads to locate a virgin Earth and transport the dying world’s entire population and architecture to that universe.

Unfortunately, a surviving Xavier head informed Howlett and his allies that Ten Evil Xaviers now threatened the multiverse, and the fabric of reality was at stake. Teamed with Earth-616’s Dazzler, young Kurt Waggoner and eventually his own reality’s Hercules among others, Howlett and this team of X-Men travelled from reality to reality eliminating the threat posed by these Xaviers. Despite their efforts, the fabric of reality was torn asunder, and the dimension-hopping X-Men joined forces with the X-Men of Dazzler’s homeworld and heroes from the Age of Apocalypse to face Celestial exterminators. These beings were caged between dimensions by the Celestials eons ago, but broke free when the walls between realities became too thin to contain them. In the massacre that followed, an entire reality was sacrificed to cage the exterminators again, and Hercules was among the heroes who fell in battle. Howlett was last seen preparing to mount an expedition into the underworld to reclaim his lover’s soul.

One day, Ultron came. Stronger and more powerful than ever before. He conquered the world, and a few super-heroes managed to survive more on luck than skill. This marked the dawn of the Age of Ultron. Wolverine was among these heroes when they learned Ultron was not only controlling the legion of drones that policed New York, he was doing so from the future. With Nick Fury's help, they located Doctor Doom's time machine and planned to take the fight to the future. Logan stayed behind, however, with a different plan. In order to prevent Ultron from ever rising, and western civilization from falling, Wolverine and the Invisible Woman travelled backwards in time to kill Hank Pym before he ever invented the killer robot. Logan was there to witness the moment when Pym first figured out how to create Artificial Intelligence. To save billions, Wolverine killed the hero Goliath in the past.

Back in the present, Logan and Sue found Manhattan free from Ultron's influence, but a new conflict had risen in his place. The new reality was home to war between science and technology, as Defenders led by Iron Man struggled for control against the mystical forces of Morgana le Fey. The Age of Morgana ended in front of their eyes as the Starkguard Helicarriers were destroyed over Manhattan and the united Defenders (including Logan's own counterpart) apparently died with them.

Wolverine voyaged into the timestream again to go back in time and stop himself from killing Hank Pym. Instead, the two Logans, Sue, and Pym worked out a plan to create a time-delayed virus that would lie in wait inside Ultron's programming, allowing history to unfold exactly as it did up until Ultron's last big attack. In a vain effort to avoid upsetting the timeline even further, the slightly older Wolverine volunteered to be killed by his slightly younger counterpart, his body left hidden in a cave in the Savage Land as Wolverine and the Invisible Woman returned to the present. Although the timeline was essentially restored, these antics ultimately broke the timestream, causing an untold number of ripple effects throughout the Marvel Universe.

Decades in the future, Headmaster Logan was retired from super-heroics and acting as a full-time teacher at the expanded Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. His teaching led to the careers of some of the most respected heroes of the day like Shark Woman, Eye Man, and Quentin Quire. When Logan considered he may have become obsolete and planned to close the school doors, Quire forced him to keep it open with a few million "transfer students" from the Negative Zone. In at least one version of this future, however, Logan's students Quentin and Evan eventually became the next Phoenix and Apocalypse, and Logan was killed in the crossfire of their war.

Millennia into the future of the King Thor timeline, Logan was resurrected by the Phoenix Force to serve as its last host before the end of the universe. He and All-Father Thor fought against Doom, who survived to claim the other primordial powers as the Spirit of Vengeance, the Iron Fist, the Starbrand and the Sorcerer Supreme. Old Man Phoenix sacrificed himself to empower Mjolnir with Phoenix flame and eliminate the Latverian’s threat. Logan was later resurrected and fought alongside the Goddesses of Thunder in an end-time Avengers, but he was ambushed by Mystique. Using a Phoenix Gun, Raven killed Logan and claimed his power to become Dark Phoenix of the Multiversal Masters of Evil. She scattered his body parts to the four corners of space-time, but the Goddesses reassembled Old Man Phoenix and brought him to the God Quarry alongside the Omni-Avengers of many realities to face down the Masters and Mephisto’s Council of Red.

At one point in his timeline, Old Man Phoenix also traveled back in time at behest of Loki, to stop him from assembling the Infinity Stones and becoming Requiem. Posing as his younger self during a time when Wolverine was dead, Logan acquired the Space Stone before Loki while concealing his true nature. Logan passed the Space Stone on to Black Widow and created a new timeline. He later revealed himself as Old Man Phoenix and defended Loki from the Celestial Host, sending him on the path to confronting the new incarnate hosts of the Infinity Stones.

On Battleworld, Logan was active in several other domains. In the Domain of Apocalypse, a version of Weapon X appeared who was practically identical to the traditional Age of Apocalypse’s Logan. He was killed by Doctor Nemesis, who cast him and Creed into orbit. In the X-Topia Province, Hank McCoy’s time-traveling X-Men idea focused on the lost members of the Krakoa team, bringing Wolverine, Banshee and Thunderbird back to life in the present by pulling them from the past. In the Monarchy of M, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent James Howlett served the ruling family of the House of M. In Mutopia, Magneto assumed control of the Xavier Institute after Charles’ death, secretly using Jean Grey inside a Phoenix Egg to weaken the older X-Men’s powers and resolve. When Jean awoke from the Egg possessed by Cassandra Nova, Logan merged with the spirit of Charles Xavier to end the threat posed by the Phoenix and Nova together.

In the Vigil timeline, Nazis forced the witch Marie D’Arqueness to summon a demon called The Truth in 1944. Logan was present to help Marie banish the Truth back to Hell and was cursed to serve as champion against the Truth when it resurfaced every decade hence. Marie died but passed her obligations on to her daughter, the five-year-old Sylvie D’Arqueness. Once every ten or so years, Logan would be summoned by the D’Arqueness witch when the Truth returned at the “worst place in the world” at that moment, where the most pain and misery congregated. In the 70s, Sylvie’s clan convinced her to get pregnant by Logan, combining the champion and witch into one bloodline. In the 21st century, Logan and his daughter Reine du Rien journeyed into the Truth’s Hell to end the cycle for good. They rescued Rien’s mother Sylvie (trapped there since she fell in the 80s) and returned to 1944. Logan and the D’Arqueness clan turned the past and future incarnations of the Truth against each other, leading to a final banishment which prevented Rien’s timeline from coming to pass.

In Weapon X-Men, Another multiversal team of Wolverines was gathered by Jean Grey with the power of the Phoenix Force to face Onslaught, this time the merger of an alternate Jean and Magneto. Weapon X (Earth-295), Old Man Logan (Earth-807128), Zombie Wolverine (Earth-2149)and Earth X’s Wolverine (Earth-9997) were joined by Jane Howlett of Earth-1281, a 25-year-old gender-flipped version of Logan from 1909. They chased Onslaught from one reality to the next, even Phoenix’s homeworld. Eventually, Old Man Logan recognized that Onslaught was made of Jean and Magneto’s pain and loss. Logan betrayed his team and allowed Onslaught to “win” by claiming Jean’s Phoenix Force, so the entity healed emotionally and became a benevolent force in the end. (These alternate Wolverines were mostly untethered to specific points in their relative timelines. Weapon X was from some point after X-Men Omega, Old Man Logan didn’t mention Battleworld or traveling back to the present, etc.)

In the Age of X-Man, Wolverine was one of several X-Men who reportedly died in the final battle with Stryfe. His sacrifice was commemorated alongside Cyclops, Xavier, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and others who fell before Hope Summers died using the Lifeseed to bring about the Resolution.

On Earth-96099, Logan lost an arm but rose to become leader of the new generation of X-Men by 2099. His young team of Meanstreak, Krystalin, Bloodhawk and Junkpile operated out of the Maryland Wastelands and a dilapidated former Mutant Containment Facility. He encountered his own past self during the Timestorm event, and passed along what little he could while defending human settlements from the rampaging Hulks breeding in Washington D.C.

In the united Earth-2099 timeline, something akin to Logan’s Timestorm history was folded into the past of Earth-928 (likely starring a different team of X-Men between Del Ruiz and Zhao’s rosters). As a wanderer since his team fell apart, Logan found his way to Xandar. The Nova Corps had devised a new means of wielding the Nova Force, turning human cells into living Nova Force generators. Logan was considered an optimum test subject for the Supercorps prototype, his healing factor enabling him to survive the process, while the process could supercharge his healing and restore his lost arm. However, the Supercorps process became a beacon to hungry exo-parasites from the Neutral Zone, who attacked Xandar and consumed the entire population. Only Logan survived to carry on the principles of law and justice as last of the Corps, Nova 2099. After a good deal of wandering, he returned home and made the acquaintance of 2099’s Spider-Man and X-Men at Oasis X, getting involved in the Vampire-Araneon War between Dracula and Spidercide.

In Heroes Reborn 2021, the Squadron Supreme of America were the dominant heroes of the United States. Logan remained loyal to Canada and Alpha Flight in this timeline, protecting his homeland from domestic threats and American empiricism. He had a mentor-like relationship with Professor Thorton here, who monitored Weapon X’s Adamantium bonding and provided advice and encouragement to his creation. After the American annexation of Alberta and British Columbia, Logan was left in command of what remained of Alpha Flight as a local resistance against the occupation. When Shaman magically enhanced Logan’s claws, Weapon X actually managed to kill Hyperion… temporarily. Once he returned to life, the Man of American Might refused to leave Canada until he got his revenge on Logan. Sasquatch eventually betrayed Alpha Flight, giving Hyperion the opportunity to take his vengeance on Weapon X in exchange for the Squadron leaving Canada alone. Doctor Spectrum cast Logan into the Black Galaxy to suffer endlessly on a planet with no atmosphere.