Beyond just the connection that it has to his biological father, it’s additionally worth noting that Wolverine didn’t take on the name “Logan” himself. Instead, it was given to him by a childhood friend named Rose O’Hara. After the deaths of both of his fathers, Wolverine fled the Howlett estate with Rose and the two ended up wandering through the Canadian wilderness together. It was during this period, when Wolverine was suffering from partial amnesia, that Rose began calling him “Logan” in order to help him leave his true identity behind. Logan, unsurprisingly, latched onto the new name, and he hasn’t let go of it since.
Unfortunately, like a lot of people in Wolverine’s life, Rose didn’t get to live as long as she should have. She was ultimately killed in a frenzied rage by none other than Wolverine himself, who did so out of pure instinct when she tried to stop him from killing Thomas Logan’s other son, Dog, in a fight. Despite her death, Wolverine has continued to go by Logan, the name she gave to him. Rose, in other words, ended up being just the first of many comic book characters to refer to him by that moniker.
Outside of 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” none of the live-action films featuring the hero have truly explored his childhood or the comic book origin story of his “Logan” nickname. Right now, it seems unlikely that “Deadpool 3” will touch on any of that, either, especially given the older age of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in that film. However, fans will just have to wait until its release to see how extensively, if at all, the blockbuster actually explores its co-lead’s past.
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