JAMES HOWLETT(of Earth-12025)
JAMES HOWLETT
(of Earth-12025)
Real Name: James Howlett
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-12025)
human mutant
Occupation: Adventurer;
former viceroy, governor
general
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Armor (Earth-12245), Dark Beast (Hank McCoy of Earth-295), Dreaming Celestial (Earth-616), Emmeline Summers-Frost, Hercules (Earth-12025), Hercules (Earth-20329), Johnny Ito (Earth-616), Johnny Ito (Earth-20329), Magnus (Earth-20329), Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner of Earth-295), Shadow, Kurt Waggonner, X-Force (Cyclops of Earth-70213, Dazzler of Earth-13027, Hercules), X-Men (of Earth-616) (Cyclops/Scott Summers, Danger, Dazzler/Alison Blaire, Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Madison Jeffries, Karma/Xi'an Coy Manh, Northstar/Jean-Paul Beaubier, Wolverine/James Howlett), X-Terminated (of Earth-295) (Deadeye, Fiend, Goodnight, Jean Grey, Horror Show, Red Prophet, Sabretooth/Victor Creed)
Enemies: Acanti/Xavier
(Earth-13371), Brood (Earth-13371), Cyclops (Earth-51212),
Colossus (Earth-51212), Danger (Earth-51212), Draka (Earth-92323),
Exterminators, Namor (Earth-92323), Sanctifiers (Earth-12245),
Sabretooth (Earth-51212), Savior (Earth-12245), Sawtooth (Earth-92323),
Storm (Earth-92323), Thor (Earth-92323), Waran (Earth-92323),
Xavier (Earth-20329), Xavier (Earth-51212), Xavier (Earth-92323), Zeus
Known Relatives: Unidentified father and mother
Aliases: Wolverine
Base of Operations: Earth-12025
First Appearance: Astonishing X-Men III#44
(January, 2012)
Powers/Abilities: James Howlett of
Earth-12025 has all of the powers of the Earth-616 Wolverine, including
an advanced healing factor that heals all wounds
and prolongs his life, sharp bone claws and enhanced senses. Instead of
Adamantium, his skeleton is covered in Adamantine, an Olympian metal
that
allows him to resist telepathic attack and be resistant to magic.
He had access to multi-dimensional transportation for a period of time.
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 300 lbs. (by approximation, factoring in Adamantine
skeleton)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
History: (X-Treme
X-Men II#10 (fb)) – On Earth-12025, James Howlett,
the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada and Viceroy of her
Majesty's
Expedition to Shangri-La, and Hercules were known as the world's
greatest
heroes. After the two teamed up to face a giant demon that
had threatened Canada, they revealed their love for each other. Zeus
didn't
approve of the relationship and cast them both to Tartarus, where they
fought
against damned souls for three years before escaping.
(Astonishing X-Men III#45 (fb) – BTS) – Howlett
was captured
by Earth-12245's Savior and imprisoned on Earth-12245, blades kept in
his back to torture him. Fellow prisoners included Emmeline
Summers-Frost,
Shadow (Kitty Pryde) and a child, Kurt Waggonner.
(Astonishing X-Men III#44) – Howlett was held in
stasis
aboard the ship while Cyclops of Earth-616 was added to the collection.
(Astonishing X-Men III#45)
– Cyclops-616 realized that each
alternate reality mutant was being kept in a cell that countered their
powers,
treating them like mutant batteries. Cyclops broke the team free but
the armed
Sanctifiers rushed in. Howlett pulled the blades from his skin and
killed
the guards. When Cyclops fired on him to stop him, Howlett extended his
Adamantine
claws and disrupted the optic blast. After Howlett got his favorite hat
back,
the team was confronted by the Savior, revealed as Earth-12245's Xavier
surrounded by severed/preserved heads of other Xaviers.
(Astonishing X-Men III#46) – The Savior told his
story of
draining mutants of their lives from multiple realities in order to
keep his
own planet alive. Howlett, resistant to mind control due to the
Adamantine
around his skull, joined his allies, all of whom wore Magneto helmets
to block the
telepathy. Cyclops and Howlett went hunting for guards together and
Howlett
confessed that in his reality, Cyclops was an argumentative teenager.
Finding
respect for each other, Cyclops and Howlett stormed the stronghold of
the
Savior, who was being protected by an alternate reality Storm.
(Astonishing X-Men III#47) – Savior unleashed
Armor against
Cyclops and his allies. After Shadow was lost, Howlett saw Storm switch
sides
and learned that the planet was breaking apart without the mutant
energy to
sustain it. Cyclops acted as if he would save the planet but he
destroyed the
equipment instead, telling the Savior to do what it took to save the
planet. Things
escalated until the Savior was destroyed. When Cyclops tried
sacrificing
himself to save the planet, Howlett punched him into a portal that
would send
him back to his home reality.
(X-Treme X-Men II#1 (fb) – BTS) – Kurt Waggonner
interfaced
with the power of the Xaviers to teleport the entire population of the
dying
Earth to another planet. Howlett, Emmeline and the others surveyed the
situation.
(X-Treme X-Men II#1) – On Earth-616, Cyclops had
his team
open a portal back to Earth-12245, wanting to send Dazzler in to keep
the
planet alive, but Howlett burst through with a mass of tentacles behind
him,
telling the heroes to close the portal or their Earth would be overrun.
Emmeline,
Waggonner and a severed Xavier head followed him and they saw
Dazzler-616
protect her team (Cyclops, Danger, Madison Jeffries) by blasting the
tentacles
back. Another portal soon opened, and Dazzler passed through with
Howlett, Emmeline,
Waggonner and the head, and there Howlett killed the tentacle monster,
who
turned out to be an alternate reality Xavier, on Earth-92323. The
Xavier head
theorized that by saving their own world, they had awakened something
deadly in
the universe. With the power to open small extra-dimensional portals,
the head
explained that he needed the team to seek out and kill ten separate
Xaviers
across various timelines. He sent them to another world, Earth-20329,
where
Howlett helped disarm Roman warriors, then they were attacked by mutant
gods
including Waran the Herald (alternate Angel), Thor, Sawtooth, Lord of
the Wild (alternate Sabretooth), Storm the Skybreaker and All-Mother,
Namor, God of the
Sea, and Draka, King of Ice (alternate Iceman).
(X-Treme X-Men II#2) – When the gods
on Earth-20329 demanded that the mutants kneel before them and Howlett
encouraged them to do
so, Dazzler chose to fight back. Howlett intercepted a blast of
lightning from
Storm to save Dazzler but Emmeline telepathically sedated her to end
the
fight. Howlett and his allies were then taken to the god city, where
Emmeline
negotiated with Storm for their release. They realized that humans were
enslaved and kept in poverty and a fight soon broke out. Howlett and
his allies
escaped with the Xavier and Magnus of that world.
(X-Treme X-Men II#3) – Sending the gods on a goose
chase
with his mental powers, Xavier guided the wayward mutants to Utopia, a
refugee
for rebels that was hidden from the gods. There, they met that world's
Reed Richards
and Howlett was briefly disoriented when he saw Hercules there. Dazzler
suspected the truth of his relationship with his world's Hercules.
Dazzler
fixated on the slave Johnny Ito and the team argued about tactics.
Dazzler
inspired the group with a song that touched Howlett. In battle with the
gods,
Howlett was ready to kill the Xavier head, believing it evil, but he
soon
realized that Xavier-20329 was mentally manipulating him as well as the
gods.
Dazzler defeated Xavier without killing him and Emmeline joined the
pantheon
of gods as Howlett, the Xavier head, Dazzler and Waggonner moved to
another
reality.
(X-Treme X-Men II#4) – On Earth-51212, in an old
west town,
they saw young Jamie Howlett and his mother being accosted by
Sabretooth and
Toad, and Howlett rushed in to aid him, signaling to the others that he
would
let himself get captured to flush out the evil Xavier. After being
knocked out
by Colossus, Howlett was imprisoned next to Jamie's father, an
alternate
version of Howlett's own dad, a man who was badly wounded from torture
and long
imprisonment. Xavier entered the cell with Colossus and Danger,
determined to
remove Howlett's Adamantine.
(X-Treme X-Men II#5) – Xavier mind-controlled
Howlett,
removing the parts of his psyche that stopped him from killing, then
sent him
to kill his teammates alongside that reality's Colossus, Cyclops,
Danger and
Sabretooth. Soon, Xavier tried forcing Howlett to kill the father of
Jamie
Howlett but Dazzler hit Howlett with a blast, restoring his control.
Howlett
took a stab from Jamie meant for Xavier then he beheaded Xavier
himself. They
bid farewell to Jamie and his family but as they were leaving the
dimension,
Waggonner got separated from them.
(X-Treme X-Men II#6) – On another alternate Earth, Howlett, Dazzler and the Xavier head found themselves stranded in the Savage Land and Howlett killed a dinosaur while they put together a plan to find the missing Waggonner. Xavier sent Dazzler and Howlett to Kurt's world while staying behind himself. On Earth-24135, they evaded Sentinels and Dazzler guessed that Howlett was romantically connected to the Hercules of his world, prompting Howlett to confess that loving another man was against the law in his reality. Howlett used his senses to track Waggonner to a zoo and he and Dazzler attacked robots to break in.
(X-Treme X-Men II#7) – Dazzler and Howlett worked together to free
Waggonner from the robot keepers but he teleported away, thinking he
needed to save his parents. A former ally of Dazzler's, Sage from
Earth-616, joined them and
they boarded her ship. Sage explained that the robots on this world
were sentient and innocent with S.W.O.R.D. governing over them.
Reunited with Waggonner, they took him to his parents' graves, and he
realized he'd been seeing their holograms. After they
settled affairs, Sage departed with the team and Waggonner tried
dropping a bomb on the city for revenge but it did no good. Howlett
held Waggonner as he cried.
(X-Treme X-Men II#7.1) – Aboard Sage's ship,
Howlett and the
others tasked Sage with finding the Xavier heads across the multiverse
and she
lead them to the nearest one she could find. As they were attacked by
Brood on
Earth-13371, they realized Xavier was possessing the Acanti whale ship
the
Brood had piloted there. They followed the Brood to Earth-616, where
they saved
Cyclops from attack then worked to save civilians including Johnny Ito.
Howlett began hacking at the Acanti Xavier until they freed the captive
Xavier
inside, who then died.
(X-Treme X-Men II#8) – On Earth-616, Howlett saw
Sage reach
out to the other Xavier heads across the multiverse and the Xavier head cut off communication.
The team voted to go after him so Sage implemented interdimensional
travel and they went to Earth-81304, where unicorns fled from them, and
found
that one of them was named Charles Xavier. A group of interdimensional
warriors called
X-Force attacked, containing an alternate Dazzler (13027) and Cyclops,
and
Hercules from Earth-12025. Howlett was initially punched by Hercules
before
they recognized each other then they embraced. The unicorn Xavier
shifted to a
massive demon and X-Force swiftly killed it, which destabilized the
world, and
the mutants saw the two Dazzlers fight for leadership with the rogue
Dazzler
nearly killing Dazzler-616.
(X-Treme X-Men II#9) – On
Earth-13059, as Dazzler healed,
surrounded by Crawlers, many Beasts attacked and Howlett killed as many
as he
could alongside Hercules and X-Force to protect his friends. The team
went
hunting for Witch-King Xavier as Howlett and Hercules flirted, posing
as
soldiers to infiltrate the Witch-King's territory. The others attacked
and the
other Dazzler sacrificed herself to kill the Witch-King.
(X-Treme X-Men II#10) – The team took a break to
go swimming
and shared more about their individual origins. On Earth-13410, they
found a
World War II-era Namor (half-Japanese) battling Nazis, led by that
reality's
Charles Xavier. Xavier hit Howlett with a blast and tried convincing
the
heroes that Namor was the real villain. A tidal wave approached,
threatening to
wipe everyone out.
(X-Treme X-Men II#11) – As the tidal wave hit, the
mutants
fought Namor and saved several slaves then Dazzler killed Xavier, who
was
influencing events. Xavier informed the team that they had killed all
ten of
the Xaviers and he gave the team the night off but as they relaxed,
they
realized they had only killed nine.
(X-Treme X-Men II#12) – In an Egyptian reality,
Howlett and
his team posed as slaves working on an Xavier sphinx before they found
Witch-King Xavier, Nazi Xavier and the floating head Xavier under their
control. They defeated the Xaviers, released the head and realized
there was
something powerful on the other side of an interdimensional portal, the
Exterminators. As the beings attacked, Xavier teleported the team to
another
reality to try and mend the breach in the portal.
(X-Termination I#1) – Arriving on Earth-295, they
discovered
a team of X-Men from Earth-616 facing off against a team of
X-Terminated from
Earth-295 over an altercation with Nightcrawler-295 and Dark Beast-295.
Sage
warned everyone that they had mere seconds to close the portal but it
was too late,
as the Exterminators came through, immediately killing the Xavier head
to boost
their own power.
(Astonishing X-Men III#60) – Howlett and Wolverine
both
leapt to attack the Exterminators and both were badly burned even as
Hercules
was wounded. The teams realized the dimensional barriers were weak and
energy
attacks only made the villains stronger and when one Exterminator
escaped through
a portal, Hercules, Howlett, Wolverine-616 and Northstar-616 jumped
after it.
(Age of Apocalypse I#14) – On Earth-616, Howlett, Hercules,
Northstar, and Earth-616's Wolverine saw the Dreaming Celestial awaken, ready
to battle the
Exterminator. They narrowly stopped the Exterminator from draining life
from
the Celestial but Hercules
sacrificed his life to do so. Waggonner teleported
the others to safety, where their numbers had depleted even further.
Howlett
healed while the battles with the Exterminators continued.
(X-Treme X-Men II#13) – Howlett grieved Hercules'
loss as the
Dreaming Celestial fell to the Exterimator, making it infinitely more
powerful.
Realizing that Earth-295 was in danger of destruction and that there
were
millions more Exterminators out there, the teams gathered and made
plans to try
and save both worlds, even as Howlett planned to visit Hercules in
Hades and
rescue him. Waggonner sacrificed his life to aid the team in getting the
Apocalypse Seed.
(Astonishing X-Men III#61) – As Howlett grieved
Waggonner,
Jean Grey-295 fell to the influence of the Apocalypse Seed and turned
the
power against the hundreds of Exterminators who swarmed in the skies.
Sage
revealed that they needed to contain and imprison the Exterminators in
one
reality or the entire multiverse would be threatened.
(X-Termination I#2) – The surviving mutants and allies left behind Earth-295, with Nightcrawler-295 sacrificing himself to cover the escape. Howlett made plans to visit Hades and fight his way to Hercules.
Comments: Created by Greg Pak and Mike McKone.
Alternate reality stories frequently feel overdone to me but these stories embraced the multiverse insanity. I love that there is a gay Wolverine and Hercules relationship out there somewhere in the multiverse.
Profile by Chadman.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-12025's Howlett has no known connections to:
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X-Treme X-Men II#4, p8, pan5 (main)
Astonishing X-Men III#45, p9, pan4 (face)
Astonishing X-Men III#45, p15, pan5 (with Adamantine claws)
X-Treme X-Men II#9, cover (with Hercules)
Appearances:
Astonishing X-Men III#44-47 (January-April, 2012) – Greg Pak
(writer), Mike McKone (artist), Nick Lowe (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#1 (September, 2012) - Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segovia (penciler), Dennis Crisostomo (inker), Jeanine Schaefer
(editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#2 (October, 2012) – Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segovia (penciler), Dennis Crisostomo, Walden Wong, Jason Paz
(inkers),
Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#3 (November, 2012) – Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segovia, Paco Diaz (pencilers), Dennis Crisostomo (inker),
Jeanine
Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#4-5 (November-December, 2012) – Greg Pak
(writer), Paco Diaz (artist), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#6 (January, 2013) – Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segovia, Raul Valdes (pencilers), Dennis Crisostomo, Lorenzo
Ruggiero
(inkers), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#7 (January, 2013) – Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segovia, Raul Valdes (pencilers), Dennis Crisostomo, Lorenzo
Ruggiero,
Sotocolor (inkers), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#7.1 (February, 2013) – Greg Pak (writer),
Andre Lima Araujo, Raul Vades (pencilers), Lorenzo Ruggiero, Walden
Wong
(inkers), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#8-9 (February-March, 2013) – Greg Pak
(writer), Paco Diaz (artist), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#10 (April, 2013) – Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segovia (penciler), Dennis Crisostomo (inker), Jeanine Schaefer
(editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#11 (April, 2013) – Greg Pak (writer),
Stephen Segoia, Raul Valdes (pencilers), Dennis Crisostomo, Lorenzo
Ruggiero
(inkers), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#12 (May, 2013) – Greg Pak (writer), Andre
Lima Araujo (artist), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Termination I#1 (May, 2013) – Greg Pak, Marjorie Liu
(writers), David Lopez (penciler), Alvaro Lopez, Allen Martinez
(inkers),
Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
Astonishing X-Men III#60 (May, 2013) – Marjorie Liu
(writer), Matteo Buffagni, Renato Arlem (artists), Jeanine Schaefer
(editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#14 (June, 2013) – David Lapham (writer),
Andre Lima Araujo, Renato Arlem (artists), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Treme X-Men II#13 (June, 2013) – Greg Pak, David Lapham,
Marjorie Liu (writers), Guillermo Mogorron, Raul Valdes (pencilers), Ed
Tadeo,
Carlos Cuevas, Don Ho, Walden Wong (inkers), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
Astonishing X-Men III#61 (June, 2013) – Marjorie Liu
(writer), Renato Arlem, Kiebs deMoura, Matteo Buffagni, Raul Valdes
(pencilers),
Carlos Cuevas (inker), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
X-Termination
I#2 (June, 2013) – David Lapham (writer), David Lopez, Guillermo
Mogorron, Raul
Valdes, Matteo Lolli (pencilers), Don Ho, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Carlos
Cuevas,
Allen Martinez (inkers), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
First Posted: 10/20/2019
Last updated: 10/20/2019
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