Lol, I just saw Hugh, Michael and James at the Graham Norton Show, **** me there's so really bizarre creepy fan fiction about Michael and James man, the bloody hell!?
To quote Michael Cera "Super gay."
Anyway, uhm, that picture screams Hugh's Wolverine, but not comic book wolverine. First of all because imo Wolverine should hunch over more as he's a leaper, he will jump you (or get thrown), tall people just can't get away with that fluent behaviour as good. Secondly, Hugh never wears the mask, he just doesn't, that's a massive permanent notch down for me because Wolverine, to me, is as tied to his mask as Captain America is. Yes he removes it, but it IS his signature uniform.
The whole thing about him being small is that it's a psychological effect that makes him extra aggressive, because he always want s to take on guys bigger than him. That's how he started in the Hulk, that's how his rivalry with Sabretooth plays out. Wolverine is THE underdog that just won't ****ing stop. He looks for the biggest guy and just starts scratchin him all the way down to his level.
THIS screams wolverine:
And as much as I like Hugh, both his size and the lack of a costume has never rendered him able to truly be like that. He almost always outsizes his opponent, he never wears a mask, so he never has the white ghostly eyes coming at you.
Hugh was a great revolution in taking CB characters seriously, he's a great guy, and he nails the pain and rage, the psychology of wolverine very well, but from a visual point of view, he's never been wolverine to me. It's too much of a core aspect of the character to me that Wolverine always looks up, always bites off more than he can chew, but because of his sick healing factor, he remains standing anyway.
For those who know Dragonball Z Wolverine is like Vegeta to me, he gets mocked, he gets used, he gets manipulated, he rarely engages an opponent weaker than him, and yet always wants to fight before talking. And with Vegeta it's that same thing that he's smaller than almost everyone else that makes the character visually work. Everyone would be pissed if they were that small. Oh and for the record, I'm 6'6.
That Wolverine I've never seen in cinemas, not really. Glimpses in the first two x-men at best.
I guess Wolverin 2013 had some good aspects in that regard, I will say that. But that's a solo film. I'm tired of him having to be the leader.
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I did, my bad.