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See production notesIn 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James' biological father before dying. James flees with Thomas' other son, Victor Creed, James' elder half-brother, who has sharp claw nails and a healing factor mutation like James. They spend the next century fighting in the American Civil War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him. James returns to Victor and rushes to defend him. The pair is sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive. Major William Stryker offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including marksman Agent Zero, katana-wielding mercenary Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes, and technopath Chris Bradley. They join the team for a few missions, with James using the alias Logan, but Victor and half of the group's lack of self-control and empathy causes Logan to leave. In 1979, Logan works as a logger in Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox. Stryker and Zero approach Logan, reporting that Wade and Bradley have been killed, revealing someone is targeting the team. Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker, but after finding Kayla's bloodied body in the woods, he realizes that Victor is responsible. He finds Victor at a bar but loses the subsequent fight. Stryker explains that Victor has gone rogue and offers Logan a way to become strong enough to get his revenge. Logan undergoes a painful operation to reinforce his skeleton with adamantium, a virtually indestructible metal. Stryker orders that Logan's memory be erased so he can be used as their personal weapon, but Logan overhears and escapes to a nearby farm, where an elderly couple takes him in. Zero kills the couple the following morning and tries to kill Logan, but Logan takes down Zero's helicopter, killing him as he swears to kill both Stryker and Victor. Logan locates Wraith and Dukes at a boxing gym in Las Vegas. Dukes, who has ballooned in size due to a guilt-induced eating disorder, explains that Victor still works for Stryker, hunting down mutants for Stryker to experiment on at his new laboratory, located at "The Island". Dukes also mentions Remy "Gambit" LeBeau, the only one who escaped from the island and therefore knew its location. Wraith and Logan find Gambit in New Orleans, and then both fight Victor, who kills Wraith and extracts his DNA. Agreeing to help release mutants that Stryker has captured, Gambit takes Logan to Stryker's facility on Three Mile Island. Logan learns that Kayla is alive, having been forced by Stryker into surveilling him in exchange for her sister's safety. However, Stryker refuses to release her sister and denies Victor the adamantium bonding promised for his service, claiming that test results revealed Victor would not survive the operation. Stryker activates Wade, now known as Weapon XI, a "mutant killer" with the powers of multiple mutants. As Logan and Victor fight off Weapon XI, Kayla is mortally wounded while leading the captive mutants to Professor Charles Xavier and safety. After Logan kills Weapon XI, Stryker arrives and shoots Logan in the head with two adamantium bullets, rendering him unconscious. Before Stryker can shoot Kayla, she grabs him and uses her mutant power to persuade him to turn around and walk away until his feet bleed, then succumbs to her injuries. Logan regains consciousness but has lost his memory. He notices his dog tags read "Logan" on one side and "Wolverine" on the other; he pauses upon noticing Kayla's body but does not recognize her. In a mid-credits scene, Stryker is detained for questioning by MPs in connection with the death of General Munson, whom Stryker murdered to protect his experiment. In the theatrical post-credits scene, Logan is at a bar in Japan with a waitress asking if he's drinking to forget. He then answers: "No, I'm drinking to remember". In the home media post-credits scene, Weapon XI's hand crawls out of the rocks and touches his still living head.
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See all quotesGuard: Freaks! You're animals! Freaks! William Stryker: My name is Major William Stryker. You've been charged with killing a senior officer. Is that correct? Victor Creed: Apparently, we have some issues with authority... Wolverine: Just keep a lid on it. Creed: ...sir. Stryker: The warden tells me that your sentence was carried out by a firing squad at 1000 hours. How'd that go? Wolverine: It tickled. Stryker: [takes off his sunglasses] You boys tired of running? Tired of denying your true nature? Creed: What do you care? Stryker: Oh, I care. I care because I know how special you are. How valuable. Look, you can stay here locked up like freaks of nature, or you can join me. I'm putting together a special team with special privileges. Now, tell me, how would you like to really serve your country?
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Wade Wilson: Great, stuck in an elevator with five guys on a high-protein diet. William Stryker: [exasperatedly] Oh, Wade! Wade Wilson: Dreams really do come true. William Stryker: Now just shut it! You're up next. Wade Wilson: Thank you sir, you look really nice today. It's the green. It brings out the seriousness in your eyes. Wolverine: Oh my God, do you ever shut up, pal? Wade Wilson: No, not while I'm awake.
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Chris Bradley: [in his trailer after closing time, when someone knocks on the door] Show’s over. [knocking persists] I said, show's over. [goes to open the door to find Sabretooth standing there] Victor Creed: The show's never over for us, Bradley. Bradley: Victor. Creed: You gonna invite me in? Bradley: [nervously] Yeah. Come on in. You know, I've never said anything, to anyone, about what happened. I'm livin' a totally different life now, Victor. I always thought it would be Wade to come knocking on my door. Creed: Well... Well, Wade's gone. Bradley: I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of dying. Creed: How do you know? You've never tried it before. [attacks Bradley]
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Bartender: [sees Sabretooth carving a smiley face in the table with his nail] You're not from around here, are you? Victor Creed: What gave me away? Wolverine: [from outside] VICTOR! Creed: [to bartender] You got insurance on this place? Bartender: Insurance? No. Creed: Too bad. [after Wolverine crashes through the front door] Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. Bartender: Guys, whatever this is, take it outside. Wolverine: [draws his claws in] Why? Creed: Why? You don't call, you don't write; how else am I supposed to get your attention?
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Wolverine: [holding Stryker to the wall by the neck] For six years I've been here. No one knew me and then you show up. The next day she's dead! William Stryker: I tried to warn you. Wolverine: Why didn't you tell me it was Victor?! William Stryker: I–I didn't know. Wolverine: [slams Stryker into another wall] You lie! William Stryker: I– I swear.... on my son's life I didn't- [Wolverine lets him go; he drops to the ground] Victor's appetites were becoming too public. I had to lock him up. He felt I betrayed him. He went AWOL, he said he was coming for all of us. Wolverine: You didn't come to warn me. You came to save your own ass. [walking away] Stryker: So what's your plan, captain? You can't beat him, Logan. You know you can't. Wolverine: I'll find him and kill him. William Stryker: I can give you the tools to defeat him. [Wolverine turns] We can still save the others. Wolverine: You mean save yourself, right? William Stryker: I can promise you two things: You will suffe
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Dr. Frost: When it starts, whatever the reason is that you're doing this, focus on that. Maybe it will help. Wolverine: Trust me. I've been through worse. Dr. Frost: No. You haven't. William Stryker: [to Wolverine] We're gonna make you indestructible. But first, we're gonna have to destroy you. You remember what we were looking for in Africa? Wolverine: I remember. William Stryker: Well, I found it, it helped us to create a metal compound so strong, that you'll be able to withstand virtually anything. It's called adamantium. I can't put Victor down myself, Logan, to kill him, you'll have to embrace the other side, become the animal. Wolverine: Let's do this. William Stryker: Oh, I almost forgot. [brings out Wolverine's old dog tags.] Wolverine: I want new ones. William Stryker: What do you want them to say? Wolverine: Wolverine.
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