After the mutant population was decimated in “House of M” and then the X-Mansion was destroyed in “Messiah Complex,” Cyclops shut the Xavier Institute down and moved to San Francisco. Ultimately, he formed a new society for mutants in the Bay Area, eventually settling on an island known as Utopia. However, at first, the various young members of the X-Men just went back to their homes with the school closed.

Cyclops then recruited a new team of Young X-Men in the pages of “Young X-Men.” In a shocking twist, it turned out that the Cyclops who formed the group was not actually the real Cyclops, but Donald Pierce (of the Hellfire Club) using a disguise. The new team joined up with the real X-Men anyways. One of the mutants, Dust, was dying as a result of her sand powers. She was saved by one of her teammates, but in the final two issues, we see that Dust eventually went crazy in the future. She murdered the remaining X-Men in the future in “Young X-Men” #11 and #12 (by Marc Guggenheim and Daniel Acuna). She used her sand powers to basically blast Wolverine’s skin off of his body.

Interestingly enough, Mark Millar’s idea for the Hand killing Wolverine and then resurrecting him as a killer was something that Chris Claremont had actually planned to do in the pages of “X-Men” and “Uncanny X-Men” had Claremont been allowed to remain on the series. Of course, Claremont was instead removed from the series following the initial storyline on the newly launched “X-Men” series. Years later, though, Marvel came up with the idea of doing a series called “X-Men Forever” (with art by Tom Grummett and Cory Hamscher) where Claremont would tell new stories as if he had never left “X-Men” after “X-Men” #3.

In “X-Men Forever Alpha,” the first three issues (by Claremont, Jim Lee and Scott Williams) were reprinted and then a bridge story leading into the new series. Shockingly enough, in that first issue, before the series even really began properly, Wolverine was killed off! However, since Claremont did not have to worry about corporate interests, he just left Wolverine dead in the series.

The problem is that things ended up even worse once Pym was killed, as it turned out that he did a whole lot of rather important things that now were never done without his presence (a real “It’s a Wonderful Life” moment showing how Hank Pym mattered a whole lot to the good of the universe). As a result, Wolverine goes back in time once more and stops himself from killing Hank. Now, though, there were two Wolverines, so the slightly older Wolverine asked his slightly younger self to kill him. Luckily, in the end, Hank ended up installing software within Ultron to stop him and save the day.

Deadpool even killed the Watcher, who was describing the story! Deadpool nuked the Avengers, but Wolverine somehow managed to regenerate. Wolverine was lured by Deadpool based on a captured Daken and X-23, who Deapdool was torturing. He then fought Wolverine with special Carbonadium swords (a metal that dulls Wolverine’s healing ability) before beheading him (while making a joke about how Wolverine’s real healing power was “popularity”).

That series then led into the miniseries “Death of Wolverine” by Charles Soule, Steve McNiven and Jay Leisten. In it, Dr Cornelius, from the Weapon X project, captured Wolverine because he needed Wolverine’s healing power to make a new batch of Weapon X mutants work. Obviously, the trick was on Cornelius, as Wolverine no longer had that power. Cornelius then tried to kill Wolverine by pouring molten adamantium on Wolverine. Wolverine was able to first stab Cornelius to death before he, too, died, suffocated by molten adamantium.

So far, that has been the real death of Wolverine, as that happened over two years ago and there’s no sign of his return (instead, there is an “Old Man Logan” series starring an older Wolverine from an alternate reality).

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