Summary

  • Wolverine's many children have inherited his deadly skills, with some of them even proving to be just as deadly, if not deadlier.
  • The combination of powers from their father with iconic heroes or villains make them formidable threats, or heroes in their own right.
  • Born in different realities, children like Wild Thing, Raze, and Rien show how Wolverine's powers can be upgraded beyond belief.

The world famous Wolverine may be famous as a loner, a drifter, and a man better off without romance, but the many children of Logan prove his deadly skills are too good to limit to just one generation. Especially when Wolverine's children turn out to be just as deadly, if not even deadlier than the X-Man.

Across the Marvel multiverse of alternate timelines and realities, Wolverine has fathered dozens of children with both heroes and villains. Some of those Logan children have risen to become heroes, X-Men, Avengers, and world famous themselves. But only a select few of Wolverine's sons and daughters have done the impossible, and combined the abilities of their father and mother to prove Logan's healing, claws, and metal skeleton still have room for improvement.

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20 Torrent (AKA Kendall Logan)

Earth-9811

Torrent from Marvel comics.

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Storm

Healing factor, flight, weather manipulation

What If...? #114 (1998)

Jay Faerber, Gregg Schigiel

Jean Grey may be known as Wolverine's most famous case of 'unrequited love,' but true Marvel fans knows that the romance between Wolverine and Storm is too powerful to actually come true (at least not in the main Marvel reality). Proving what kind of mutant child could be produced from two X-Men heavyweights, Kendall Logan, also known as Torrent, unleashed the powers of her mother and father in the alternate reality Earth-9811.

Blessed with both her mother Storm's weather manipulation powers, combined with the heightened senses and healing factor of her father, Torrent has also unlocked an entirely new mutation: a psychic bond with Earth itself. The double serving of powers Torrent possesses from both superpowered parents makes her a formidable threat.

19 Wolverine, Jr. (AKA Raze Darkhölme)

Earth-13729

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Mystique

The powers of Wolverine, shape-shifting

All-New X-Men #17 (2013)

Brian Michael Bendis, Arthur Adams

Proving that powers like Wolverine's are enough to corrupt anybody, the Earth-13729 reality is home to Raze, Wolverine's son with Mystique. Possessing the powers of his heightened-human father and his shape-shifting mother, Raze is a true wild card. And apparently, rumored to have even more impressive and limitless shape-shifting skills than his mother, Raven.

Raze uses his powers for bad, though, as he becomes d with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants along with Charles Xavier II, his half-brother. Raze becomes a mastermind of a massive plan to get rid of all humans in order to create a mutant paradise filled with all the persecuted mutants from the multiverse. Mystique and Destiny may be a fan-favorite X-Men couple, but the pairing of Wolverine with Mystique created an extremely terrifying villain.

18 Erista (AKA Erista)

Earth-616

Erista The Son Of Wolverine As A Baby

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Gahck

None currently known

Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure #1 (1989)

Walter Simonson and Mike Mignola

Wolverine has traveled the world, and he's been alive for a long time. Naturally, he's fallen in love with plenty of different women and sired tons of kids. One of which is Erista. While trying to uncover the person who tried to assassinate him, Wolverine ends up traveling to the Savage Lands, where he meets the Tribe of Fire. When Wolverine first arrived, he was challenged to a duel by Gahck, the leader of the Tribe of Fire. The two fought, with Wolverine being the victor. This apparently spiked Gahck's interest, because she would later sleep with Wolverine and became pregnant with his son, Erista.

17 Wild Thing (AKA Rina Logan)

Earth-982

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Elektra

The powers of Wolverine, psychic claws

J2 #5 (1998)

Tom DeFalco, Ron Lim

Rina Logan isn't the most iconic demonstration of a female Wolverine, but she did arrive long before X-23 ever existed. Bearing the codename 'Wild Thing' when debuting as a hero in Earth-982, Rina is as close as it gets to her father's abilities. And exhibiting gymnastic, acrobatic, and combat proficiency in fights against alternate versions of multiple Marvel icons, she does her father proud. Not to mention her mother, the deadly assassin Elektra.

The only real difference between Rina and her father is the upper limits of her super strength, and the absence of Logan's iconic bone claws. Not to be outdone, Rina instead relies upon a set of psychic claws, focused to not only solid slicers, but strong enough to cut through most material. How she learned to unlock the power is due to her godmother, Psylocke. But how did she create them in the first place? Mainly because it was the '90s, and the "MC2" Universe didn't ask for much more.

16 Ultimate Wolverine (AKA James Hudson, Jr.)

Earth-1610

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Magda Lensherr

The powers of Wolverine, organic steel-laced skeleton

Ultimate Comics: X #1 (2010)

Jeph Loeb, Arthur Adams

In the Ultimate Marvel reality that shaped the MCU, James Hudson is Wolverine's son with the Witch aka Magda Lensherr, the ex-wife of Magneto and mother to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. In the Earth-1610 timeline, JImmy initially thought that he was adopted by Wolverine, only to find out that he was actually his biological son. Similar in many ways to Wolverine, Jimmy has a wild and reckless personality as well as regenerative healing and retractable bone claws that are even more powerful than his dad's.

Unlike his father, Jimmy was born with the natural ability to coat his claws as well as his whole skeleton and teeth in a strong metallic covering that can cut through steel. Jimmy also acquired control over poison physiology after the Earth Poison invasion. As a result, he is able to protect himself against poison while also enhancing and receiving new abilities like the ability to shape-shift his claws and wall-crawling.

15 Hulk, Jr.

Earth-807128

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

She-Hulk

Gamma Radiation Physiology

Old Man Logan Giant-Size #1 (2009)

Mark Miller, Steve McNiven

Old Man Logan was one of the darkest futures that Marvel has explored. In this future, the supervillains of the world were able to rise and take over by manipulating both Deadpool and Wolverine to kill off all of their allies. It also didn't help matters that the Hulk seemed to be driven insane and ed the side of the villains.

Decades after the world fell, the Hulk Gang roamed the ruins of the country, being a massive danger to people. When the Hulk Gang killed Logan's family, he sought revenge and slaughtered all of them, including Bruce Banner, save for one. Hulk Jr was then adopted by Logan and became his surrogate son.

14 Rancor (AKA Wolverine)

Earth-691

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Unknown

Same powers as Wolverine

Guardians of the Galaxy #8 (1990)

Jim Valentino

Rancor is the great-great-great granddaughter of Wolverine from Earth-691. She led her own mutant colony on a planet called Haven and was a brutal leader. One of her first acts was carving out the heart of her own father. Her second act was enslaving the entire human population.

She was a consistent villain for the Guardians of the Galaxy, and even managed to capture Yondu at one point. Overall, she was a wild character who seemed to have no problems causing massive amounts of destruction in her lust for power. She even teamed up with Doctor Doom at one point, before quickly betraying him.

13 Sabreclaw (AKA Hudson Logan)

Earth-982

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Unknown

Healing factor, heightened senses, super strength

J2 #8 (1999)

Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz

Wolverine's kid Sabreclaw is the half-brother of Rina in Earth-982. The mother of Sabreclaw is unknown, but what readers do know is that this child of Wolverine is a villain who seems to take more after Sabretooth than his own father, which is even reflected in his name (although the most obvious explanation for his Creed-esque qualities is seemingly ruled out).

Sabreclaw/Hudson Logan does have some things in common with his father; namely his inherited powers and his preferred fighting style of street-type brawling bolstered by a skilled background in martial arts. Sabreclaw used these powers against the Avengers when he was part of the villainous group the Revengers. However, he would end up switching to the good side at a later point, using his deadly powers for benevolence instead.

12 X-23 (AKA Kirika Yashida)

Earth-295

Kirika Yashida X-23 and Wolverine in Marvel Comics-2

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Mariko Yashida

The powers of Wolverine, adamantium-laced skeleton

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #12 (2005)

C.B. Cebulski, Chris Bachalo

Don't let the codename from another reality fool you: Kirika Yashida is absolutely not a 'version' of Laura Kinney, the X-23 of the main Marvel reality. This version hailing from Earth-295 is Wolverine's daughter with Mariko Yashida, born without Logan having any knowledge of her existence. But in the world of mutant heroes, her name and deployment of bone claws made the source of her powers fairly obvious. After gaining help from Magneto, Kirika's bone claws and skeleton became bonded with adamantium, just like her father.

11 Cameron Howlett (AKA Cameron Pryde)

Battleworld

Mother

Powers/Mutations

First Appearance

Created by

Kitty Pryde

Merging. Enters something and can exit from the same genetic material

Years of Future Past #1 (2015)

Marguerite Bennett, Mike Nortonl

The son of Colossus and Kitty Pryde, Cameron was given to Logan to keep safe outside the walls of the Mutant Internment camps the US Government had set up. While not Wolverine's biological son, Logan did raise Cameron as best he could. He taught Cameron how to survive in this brutal world, and most importantly, how to fight.

It seems that Cameron inherited Logan's killer instinct, as he quickly killed the Blob when he began threatening civilians. This was easily done as Cameron's power allowed him to enter and exit things at will, combined with his penchant for carrying a blade, and Cameron was a brutal fighter.

Cameron eventually discovered the truth about his parents.