Recaps

James Howlett embraced his new Wolverine body, strengthened the Howlett family, and prepared for dangers he knew were coming. After killing Governor Smith and repelling a vampire attack, he mastered Huajin and turned his attention to the growing conflict around him.

• James accepted that Bai Feng was gone, recovered from his illness, and began training in martial arts while learning about the Howlett family.
• James discovered that Elizabeth and Thomas Logan had been together, then helped Mr. Howlett send Thomas away, but Thomas returned and shot John before being killed.
• After John's funeral, James trained for years until bone claws emerged from his hands, revealing that he was Wolverine and that his body could heal rapidly.
• James warned Victor Logan to control his bloodlust, then killed Governor Kevin Smith when he learned Smith planned to marry Sinier to James.
• James planned an underground training complex, recruited Herbert Vernon and Tom Weddell, and sent Daniel Ferrant to search for Wakanda as Mr. Howlett's health declined.
• Mr. Howlett urged James to build a loyal pack and preserve the family before dying, and James later fought Victor and met President Lincoln.
• James and Victor killed Marcus's vampire riders during their attack on the estate, while O'Hara shot Marcus and James crushed him before locking him in the dungeon.
• After three days of meditation, James emerged having mastered Huajin, discussed the war with O'Hara, and questioned Marcus about what he knew.

James helped the Union defeat Adam’s vampire army, then endured the loss of Victor and reshaped his powers through years of training. With Azazel at his side, he eventually reached Wakanda and fought its king, Azzuri, before turning his attention to the glowing herb.

• James and Victor defended the Union’s silver ammunition shipment, but Adam transformed and attacked them before escaping after biting Victor.
• Victor later drained Adam’s Source Blood, then fought James until their bodies fused and Victor died.
• James struggled to control his transformed body, trained underwater for years, and later found and adopted Azazel in Sudan.
• James developed a method for cultivating Mutant abilities and completed a painful transformation while Azazel watched.
• James led Azazel and the Wolf Pack to Wakanda, where they fought Azzuri and the Dora Milaje.
• James badly injured Azzuri, then questioned a captured Wakandan woman about the glowing herb in a mine.

James Howlett expanded his work on Vibranium, mutant abilities, and the Super-Soldier Program while Hydra rose under Johann Schmidt and Sebastian Shaw. The arc ended with Steve Rogers’s team locating Hydra’s command center in the Alps as Red Skull escaped with Tesseract Energy Cubes.

• James took Vibranium ore and Heart-Shaped Herbs from Wakanda as Azzuri died and T’Chaka prepared to leave his homeland.
• James developed his Evolution Technique, expanded Howlett research, and began training Steve Rogers and Erik Lehnsherr.
• Johann Schmidt took control of Hydra, transformed himself with Erskine’s unfinished serum, and seized the Cosmic Cube from Tønsberg.
• Steve received Erskine’s Super-Soldier Serum, and Azazel saved Erskine after Fred Clemson shot him and stole the final vial.
• James and Azazel attacked Auschwitz, killed its Nazi guards and experimental Mutants, and found records linking the experiments to Klaus Schmidt.
• Shaw absorbed the power of Schmidt’s Tesseract weapon and joined Red Skull, who planned to use Tesseract-powered bombs against Allied cities.
• James took Erik to New York, trained him in his mutant abilities, and helped fund the Manhattan Project while Steve fought Hydra in Europe.
• Steve and the Howling Commandos destroyed a Hydra outpost, while Red Skull escaped with Tesseract Energy Cubes and the SSR captured Dr. Zola.

James transformed himself and the Wolf Pack with the Styx serum while guiding Bucky, Erik, and Emma through their own paths. Steve escaped the SSR after it framed him as a Soviet agent, leaving him a fugitive and drawing him closer to James’s growing conflict with the old powers.

• James recovered the Tesseract and used its energy with the Styx serum to complete his transformation, while Heimdall and Odin recognized his birth as a true god in Midgard.
• James tested his survival by detonating an atomic weapon in Tokyo, then concealed the truth about the blast as Truman and his advisers questioned where the bomb had come from.
• James trained Emma in controlling her telepathy and Erik in manipulating magnetism, while T'Chaka defeated King Olba, unified Wakanda, and began modernizing it.
• Bucky led fellow candidates up a blizzard-struck cliff, defeated Colin in the trial for Alpha, and received a new Adamantium arm, but Colin became the Wolf Pack’s leader.
• Bucky chose the Styx serum and survived the transformation, while thirteen young warriors received the Evolution Serum and the veteran Winter Wolves entered cryo-pods.
• Steve rejected a mission in Korea but later joined an operation against a Soviet research facility, where Major Harper’s troops turned on him and captured him.
• Steve escaped the SSR’s sanatorium with Azazel, reclaimed his shield from the New Jersey base, and rescued Peggy before the government branded him a fugitive called Traitor.
• Steve told James he had accepted his strength and differences, and James warned him that the old ruling powers would resist superhuman beings and had already taken notice of the Howlett Family.