Personally, I think Wolverine 3: Battle to the Death (aka Logan) is the most brilliant in the entire X-Men series, completely different from any superhero movie we've seen before, and with a kind of Western wildness and violence to draw a satisfactory end to the character of Wolverine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > first talk about the timeline of this film</h1>
Since the timeline of the X-Men Cinematic Universe was changed in X-Men: Reverse Future (I'll find another issue of this series to comb through, I won't expand here), and the story told in this film is in this new timeline, which is why in the story of Wolverine 2, Logan's Edman alloy claws are cut off by Ichiro Yashida's Silver Samurai mech, and in this movie, his alloy claws reappear.
"Silver Samurai" mech
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > where the other mutants in the movie went</h1>
"Wolverine 3: Deadly War" takes place in 2029, and the opening shows us a post-mutant era, except for Logan and a few of them, no other mutants appear, and it feels like mutants have not been able to escape the tragic fate in this new timeline.
One of the main reasons is that the Yakle Gene Company, led by Sandel Rice, used the food and beverage companies it controlled to distribute the M43 virus they developed to the public on a large scale. The virus would not affect humans, but would curb the abilities of existing mutants, and would also eliminate genetic mutations in human offspring, which meant that no new mutants would have been born in that era.
Sandel Rice's father, Dale Rice, one of the scientists who performed the Edelman alloy transplant for Logan, was killed in the lab by wolverine.
Sandor Rice
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > the Westchester event</h1>
The Westchester incident is the reason why Logan fled with Professor X and The Caliban, and is mentioned many times in the film, intentionally or unintentionally. Although the film does not show the situation at that time, we can piece together the general situation at that time from some details.
Westchester is located in New York State, home to the Mutant School founded by Charles Sever (Professor X). In 2028, Professor X in his nineties suffered a seizure, and the "most dangerous brain in the world" was out of control, and a brainwave that lasted more than five minutes caused serious brain damage to more than 600 people in the school and the surrounding area, and seven mutants died, including some X-Men members (most likely including "Beast", "Steel Force", "Phantom Cat", "Iceman" and others who were working at the school at the time).
Westchester Incident
Logan survived the disaster for his strong resilience, and Professor X's brain was wanted by the U.S. government as a "weapon of mass destruction," so Logan fled with him.
Charles Sevier and Logan
Since then, Professor X has been devastated and his epilepsy has become more and more severe, and the experience of being too painful has allowed his brain to automatically block the memory of the Events in Westchester, and even when he was awake, he could not remember what had happened. Although he finally remembered what had happened, he did not expect that at his bedside he would listen to his confession was a replica of Logan X-24.
Originally, the director intended to use the Westchester incident as the opening scene of the film, but finally changed his mind, he thought that the film should focus more on the struggles of Therogan character, rather than distracting the viewers from the other mutants.
X-24
< h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > why lone wolves are late</h1>
Logan changed the tough guy image in the past few episodes of "X-Men" and "Wolverine", and became a dying old man in this film. Although Logan was born in 1845, he has maintained his prime-age image due to his special self-healing genes. The reason why there is such a big gap, in addition to the decline of his self-healing genes, is actually mainly because of the Edelman alloy in his body.
Logan
Edelman alloys are known as the hardest metals (in the cinematic universe), and of course have the same characteristics as other metals (such as being able to be controlled by Magneto), and metals are somewhat toxic, and the most stable Edelman alloys are no exception. Although the toxicity released by it is not large, if the entire skeleton of Wolverine is replaced with alloy, the toxicity released by wolverine is considerable. In other words, for so many years, Logan has been able to carry the Edelman alloy to the present day, precisely because of his ability to heal himself. However, even if it is Logan, there will still be a limit to the self-healing ability, so by 2029, Logan's body is actually overwhelmed.
For example, once his brain tissue is seriously damaged, it cannot heal itself. This is also why Logan always took an Edelman alloy bullet with him, partly as a memorial and on the other hand as a means of final suicide, although the bullet was eventually used to produce X24.
In addition, the self-healing genes of Logan (real name James Howlett) and "Sabertooth Tiger" (his brother in the movie, but not in the comics) in the comics have a feral effect, which means that over time this gene will completely change them physically and psychologically, making them like beasts. This is also why the saber-toothed tiger is very cunning in "Wolverine", but the image in "X-Men" is savage and grumpy and has a low IQ.
Two generations of "saber-toothed tigers"
Originally, the Sabertooth Tiger was first considered as a test subject to receive the Edelman alloy, but his self-healing genes were not as strong as Logan's before he had to give up (William Stryker said he could not survive the operation). Because of the continuous effects of the toxicity of the Edelman alloy in the body, Logan did not appear to be rewilding, but ironically, it was the toxicity of this alloy that slowly killed him, and the tragic color of Wolverine's role can also be seen from this.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > weird X-Men comics</h1>
Another intriguing setting of the film is the appearance of the X-Men comic, and Logan holding a comic with his own image in his hand really gives people a sense of being in a trance. Gabriel, a nurse of Mexican descent, determines the location of the so-called "Mutant's Garden of Eden" based on a coordinate address that appears in the comic, but strangely, when Logan learns the truth and scoffs at the destination, Laura (X23-23) actually takes him to the location where the coordinates are located and finds his companion waiting there.
The usual explanation for this is that several Mexican nurses separated from each other after escaping with the mutant children, but before that they agreed on a location, using the coordinates randomly marked in the comic as the destination for the reunion.
But that doesn't seem to explain why the children are using radio to contact a person before crossing the border, apparently someone across the border is waiting for them to arrive, and that coordinate is nothing more than an outpost war, and the real "Garden of Eden" needs to cross the border, inside Canada.
Eden coordinates
The question is, if the Garden of Eden is true, why do the coordinates appear in the comics?
My personal understanding of this is that the author of the comic (at least the content provider) is most likely a former X-Men, or Cyclops.
Logan took the comic book and told Laura that this kind of book was for the fat house dicks, and most of the content in it was nonsense, only a quarter of it really happened, and it was changed beyond recognition.
From this detail, it can be seen that the author of the comic is at least a person who knows the inside story of the X-Men, although the world at that time, mutants are not a new thing, but the operation and operation of the entire X-Men are still confidential, so people who know this level of X-Men will at least be a member of their internals.
Laser eye
And listening to Logan's tone, it seems to know the identity of this author, calling it "pretentious second force". We know that in the X-Men, Logan's most inconspicuous and least dealt with person is this laser eye.
It is likely that Laser Eye realized that the survival of mutants was becoming more and more difficult at that time, and planned to use the form of comics to tell the story of the X-Men to the general public and establish a good image of mutants. However, the comic was certainly published a long time ago, and we can't confirm whether Laser Eye survived the Westchester incident.
In this timeline, though, the Dark Phoenix is still alive (well, it's not blackened yet) and has been with Laser Eye (the final plot of X-Men: Reverse Future). Echin's ability is to completely protect the laser eye from surviving a brainwave storm. Perhaps after the Westchester incident, the mutant's living environment deteriorated further, and the piano and laser eye had to hide their identities in Canada, and the coordinates marked in the comic set up a post to serve as a transit station for the mutants in their search for "Eden", and could also be used to identify non-mutants.
violin
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line">X23</h1>
X23 is the project number of the Mutant Weapons Project at Acre Genetics, which used early collection of mutant genes to breed a new generation of mutants from surrogate mothers in Mexico.
X23-23
Sandel Rice hopes to monopolize the abilities of mutants through this technology and profit in the weapons market. Unfortunately, the X23 project was not successful, and many children showed aversion to violence, which is why the company decided to destroy them.
Laura's number is X23-23, and we can see in the film that she drank Gene's beverage products in the gas station supermarket, but was not affected, mainly because as the company's experimental product, Laura's genetic variant was edited and not restricted by the M43 virus.
Gabriel's experimental data contains the experimental parameters of Laura and the other children, and it is interesting that Laura's estimated IQ is 82-110, but it will drop to 74-78 when the mood is intense, suggesting that she, like Logan, will quickly resonate when provoked.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > the death of the Twilight Wolf</h1>
Logan finally expressed his reluctance to Laura before he died, it was the first time in so many days together that he spoke to her like a father, but he did not expect to say goodbye forever.
Logan said his last words to Laura, "So, this is what it feels like."
This sentence has two meanings, one is to show that the death that Logan has been waiting for has finally arrived, and although he has been on the verge of death many times, he has not really confronted this situation.
The second was that he remembered what Professor X had said when he was spending the night on the farm, "This should be what life should be." Real life is a luxury for people like Rogan, and Laura's appearance makes him feel this way again, and he can finally die without regret.
In Wolverine 2, Snow talks about Logan's ultimate fate, "You're going to die in a pool of blood with your own heart in your hand." When Logan dies holding Laura's hand, she can also be seen as Logan's heart, although the two films belong to different universes, but also confirm Xuexu's prophecy.
In the end, the children of X23 found a place for Logan to rest by the quiet lake, and he left the world surrounded by a group of children, is there a more suitable destination for him?
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