You may or may not be aware that there's a new Apocalypse, he surprises us with a cameo. To date he is the only actor to appear in all nine movies.
Believe it or not, there's more to Wolverine than Hugh Jackman. Logan has been around since 1974 and has been adapted many times. Although most of the entries on this list can't even hold a candle to Jackman's portrayal, they range from incredible to downright cringeworthy at times.
Let's set some ground rules: Jackman gets one entry per trilogy (First Class trilogy, Wolverine trilogy, and the original X-Men trilogy). On the opposite side, actors who have played the character in multiple video games will be condensed down into a singular entry. Motion comics do not count for this one; there are just too many. Let's find out who played it best! Here's Every Adaptation of Wolverine, Ranked Worst To Best.
18. Epic Movie & Superhero Movie
Oh yes, when we said every Wolverine, we meant every Wolverine. Should this technically be two separate entries since these are two different actors? Sure, but there's no way we can possible stomach to think about these abominations any longer than strictly necessary.
in the late 2000s, when the the Scary Movie franchise got big and companies started to scramble to make their own genre parodies? These things were about as low as you can get; each one had some sort of thrown-together story that was really just an excuse to make jokes about the latest pop culture crazes, make fart and genitalia jokes, and to show scantily-clad women. It was awful.
Wolverine somehow got himself wrapped up in not one, but two of these films! The first was Epic Movie, where he appears in the Mutant Academy as the stereotypical "Jock" character. One of the film's protagonists tries to ask Mystique (played by Carmen Electra) to the prom and Wolverine comes over and threatens him to stay away from his girl. He is accompanied by his friends, other member of the X-Men who all wear letterman jackets. In Superhero Movie Logan gets an even worse cameo. The movie's main character tries to enroll in Xavier's school and sees Wolverine in the courtyard using his claws to shave his legs. Worst. Wolverine. Ever.
17. X2: Wolverine's Revenge (Mark Hamill)
That's right! Sabretooth, Omega Red, Lady Deathstrike, and many more classic Marvel villains, trying to unlock the secrets of his past. Although it was meant to act as marketing for the film, the character models were based on their comics counterparts.
The game itself was pretty average-- with the exception of the Gameboy Advance version, which got good reviews. Unfortunately Mark Hamill's Wolverine voice just kinda... fell flat. Don't get us wrong, Hamill is a legendary voice actor, but this just wasn't the right part for him. In the game, Wolverine sounds like a mix of Hamill's Hobgoblin voice from the Spider-Man animated series and his angry Joker voice from Batman. When you have a character that's supposed to be the epitome of a badass, this voice isn't exactly the one you expect to hear...
16. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
Every wondered what Wolverine would sound like if Hugh Jackman spoke with his native accent? Look no further. Everyone re the Spider-Man show from the 1960s. Or at least, you the theme song.
About ten years after that iconic show, fans were introduced to another series starring the famous wall-crawler, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. This series followed the exploits of Spidey, Iceman, and an original character called Firestar, who meet at Empire State University and decide to team up and fight crime. Because Iceman and Firestar were both of the X-Men, we got to see the mutant team a few times.
The Wolverine featured in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends was straight-up Australian. No, not the voice actor-- the character who is famous for being Canadian was given a Australian accent. He's first introduced to Firestar as the "newest member" of the team. He then uses a single claw (which appears to be the length of his own arm) to skewer some vegetables.
Due to the violent nature of his powers, Wolverine doesn't get to do much in these episodes; he only gets a few swings in on Juggernaut before he gets thrown into a wall, claws-first, and is stuck there the rest of the fight.
15. Marvel Anime
Marvel's connections to Japan that it would be criminal not to give him his own chapter in the series.
Despite the show having intense action and an incredible art style, something just didn't mesh with the character himself. Logan was drawn as the clean-cut "pretty boy" that he often taunted Cyclops for being. Instead of being a runt, Wolverine was portrayed with the body of a standard anime protagonist. He was also voiced by Milo Ventimiglia (of Heroes and This is Us fame), which sounded completely terrible. This Wolverine always sounded like that guy who though he could sound tougher by making his voice deeper. The Wolverine anime wasn't bad by any means; it just felt like a very different character.
14. Marvel vs. Capcom Universe
If you're a fan of fighting games, chances are you've picked up eighth coming out this year, almost every character imaginable on both sides has appeared. Wolverine has been one of the few who has remained constant and appears in every single entry. Fans love to use Logan's fighting style in the game, which consists of high-speed combos and lightning-fast agility at medium range.
The Wolverine featured in the Marvel vs. Capcom games may be a great fighter, but there's really not a ton to say about the character otherwise. Voice actor Cal Dodd does a good job with all the in-game voice clips but anyone who's every played an arcade fighting game knows there's not much more to that than grunting, quick quips, and special move catchphrases. The Wolverine personality is definitely there; he acts as the surprising shoulder for Professor X in MvC: Clash of the Superheroes and he's seen at a strip club at the end of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where he tells one of the performers that he needs to finish his drink before the two leave together.
13. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
The LEGO series of games and movies has gotten way bigger than anyone ever expected. What started with LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game quickly ballooned, creating a licensed LEGO game for just about every major franchise. Then came the movies, starting with a few direct-to-DVD films such as Bionicle and LEGO DC Superheroes. Everything changed in 2014 when the smash hit The LEGO Movie released. Nowadays the building block company has become a franchise in and of itself!
In 2013, the game LEGO Marvel Superheroes was released and featured every major character from the Marvel universe. In true LEGO fashion, all of the characters and situations presented in the game were played up for laughs, including Weapon X. This version of Wolverine embraces his comic persona heavily as a scrappy runt. Every time he is taken by surprise he immediately growls and starts swinging (quite hilariously) at nothing. The other characters around him also continuously make jokes about his smell and appearance. Sure, Wolverine is about as ham-fisted as you can get in this game, but he also has that undeniable charm that LEGO is so well known for.
12. Wolverine and the X-Men
The extremely short-lived cartoon Wolverine and the X-Men thrust Logan into a role that he wasn't used to. After the apparent deaths of Professor X and Beast reunite and try to reform the team. Professor X then communicates with the team telepathically from the future, telling the team that Wolverine must lead them into the future if they are to prevent a dystopian regime by Master Mold and the Sentinels.
Seeing Wolverine as the leader of the X-Men felt wrong on so many levels. Logan is a gruff loner, not a leader. But somehow, the story really worked; Wolverine and the X-Men gained critical praise for its season-long storyline that adapted elements of Days of Future Past and set up Age of Apocalypse for the second season. However, this never came to fruition. Around the time that season one was ending, Disney bought Marvel and convoluted rights issues (Fox owned the distribution rights to X-Men) led to the show's cancellation.
This was a great adaption of Wolverine that could have been one of the greatest. However, the brevity of the series makes us stick this version at #12 on our list.
11. The Super Hero Squad Show
The trophy for the most adorable version of Wolverine has to go to The Super Hero Squad Show. Based on the line of Hasbro toys of the same name, this series was aimed at younger audiences. Unlike most Marvel adaptations, where the characters are trying to save the world from life or death situations, the heroes of The Super Hero Squad Show faced more tame threats. They live in Super Hero City while all of their villains dwell in Villainville. The main plot revolved around Doctor Doom and his henchmen (a variety of Marvel supervillains) trying to rebuild the Infinity Sword and use it to rule the universe. Season two involved Thanos and the Infinity Stones.
One of the of the Super Hero Squad was none other than Wolverine. This series brilliantly plays up the defining characteristics of Logan; he has a short temper and is quick to fight anyone who disagrees with him, including a hilarious fight with the Falcon, who's hogging the remote control. During an episode where Wolverine gets cloned multiple times, the clones refer to each other as "Snikts" (a play on the sound his claws make when they pop out). Logan is also assigned as the mentor of minor hero Reptil. This relationship is used to show how ridiculous Wolverine's loner persona can be.
Voiced by Wolverine legend Steve Blum, this version of the character is a fun departure from the brooding bad boy we're used to seeing in the character.
10. Pryde of the X-Men
After the hit cartoon shows= Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and The Incredible Hulk in the 1980s, Marvel animation decided that it was time for an X-Men television show. As we stated earlier, the characters had made minor appearances on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends earlier in the decade to mixed reception, but now the publisher felt that it was time for their own show. Pryde of the X-Men debuted in 1989 for a singular pilot episode; fans felt that the show was too campy for a series as dark and issue-oriented as X-Men. They also hated how it portrayed the titular character, Kitty Pryde, as more of a damsel in distress.
What fans absolutely could not forgive, however, was the voice acting for Wolverine. Just like in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Logan was portrayed as having a Australian accent. Voice actor Patrick Pinney claims that he was forced to do the accent because it was going to come out in the comics that Logan was an expatriated Australian. The X-Men writers backed off, however, and we were left with this bizarre-voiced character.
Despite his accent, this portrayal of the character is pretty spot-on. Throughout the entire pilot Wolverine refuses to accept Kitty Pryde into the group because "The X-Men is no place for children" and gleefully laughs as he cuts his way through the robots in the danger room. And then there's the costume, which is the only spot-on adaptation of the famous yellow and brown in any version.
9. Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate Spider-Man (the show, not the comic books) is a very polarizing topic for many fans of the Wall-Crawler. Spidey has always been a sarcastic and funny hero, but this show took it to new levels of craziness. Now, Spider-Man was consistently breaking the fourth wall and talking to a miniature version of himself that lived inside his head. His antics were something to be expected by Deadpool, not Peter Parker! Even though the show got Spidey wrong on a few different levels, it made up for it with how awesome it portrayed the rest of the Marvel Universe.
In the episode entitled "Freaky," Wolverine tracked the villain Mesmero to New York City and brought him in to Nick Fury. There, he meets Spider-Man and nearly fights him when the Parker won't stop cracking jokes. Later on Mesmero escapes and uses his powers to switch minds of the two heroes; this leads to a bunch of great scenes, such as Wolverine (in Peter's body) beating up Flash Thompson and Spider-Man (in Logan's body) telling Sabretooth that he's got the wrong guy and should check back later to find the real Wolverine. Wolverine in Ultimate Spider-Man is about as close of a representation to the comics as you can get from a 20-minute cartoon. He's got a cool costume, an even cooler voice, and he's got that signature beserker rage and snarky personality that so many of the entries below were missing.