wolverine is objectively the x-men with the most connections. he’s been an x-men, an avenger, apart of half a dozen other teams. universally, he’s adored. you can see that in every adaptation. even with his gruff exterior, he has a collection of people who respect him and care for him and would do anything for him.
and yet he consistently runs away from all of them. that is the bulk of his storylines in the original series. people consistently reach out, care for him, have them join their team or their family. and when it all gets to be too much, too consuming, he leaves.
surely the x-men (who are around) or the avengers would have stepped in to help if he would have been transparent in saying he needs their help with his adamantium. but to admit that would be vulnerable, to admit he can’t do something alone, to admit that what magneto did to him was painful and, in many ways, degrading.
so the team he builds to put himself back together isn’t one that’s built on care and respect. with the exception of morph, they don’t care about wolverine; they’re just consumed with the same level of anger, betrayal, grief. rage is their only shared tongue.
“some people are just one thing”
the only person he can even contemplate being vulnerable with, the only person he’d ever admit to caring about is jean.
jean, who’s already chosen, who has a husband and a son who’d she do anything for. she’ll never pick him, not really. so that fulfills the twisted beliefs he already has about himself.
jean didn’t pick him so he won’t ever be picked at all. he’s all has in this world. but then again, he already knew that, didn’t he? isn’t that why, at the end of the day, he seeks solitude in the canadian arctic or the japanese countryside? a pack of one, just an animal with claws?
“doesn’t that make you sad, logan? it makes me sad”
