Note: This post contains spoilers. You have been warned.
Before I start to tell you about something's I noticed in Logan I want to say at first I didn't want to do things but since a lot of people liked my The Lego Batman Movie Easter Egg & References I decided to do the same with Logan. Just like my Lego Batman post I won't list all of them just somethings I noticed so let's get started.
Before the film even starts we have a teaser to Deadpool 2. If features a man being mugged and Deadpool is going to try to stop that from happening so he enters a phone booth. Yes Deadpool is making of fun of the Christopher Reeve's version of Superman theme song and all.
The story for Logan was loosely based of the Marvel comic Old Man Logan. For one Hugh Jackman looks like Old Man Logan what with the shorter hair and beard. Also just like the comic the movie does have a road trip plot in it as well the only difference is instead of Logan & Hawkeye delivering a case to get paid so Logan can pay his rent to the "Hulk Gang" it's Logan & Charles Xavier taking X-23 to a location called Eden which is to be a safe heaven for mutants.
Another thing the movie takes from Old Man Logan is the death of the X-Men. However instead of Wolverine being tricked by Mysterio into cutting and stabbing them all it's Charles Xavier who did it because he had a seizure-induced physic attack.
When Charles Xavier is rambling he brings up the Statue of Liberty. This could be a reference to the final fight in the very first X-Men film back in 2000.
In part of the movie we given a close-up of a samurai sword. It's not for certain if this is the same sword that Wolverine got from a young Yashida back in the 2013 film The Wolverine. But I doubt it because this is the new timeline not the old timeline.
One of the villains in this movie are The Reavers. The Reavers are cyborg criminals who are determined to kill the X-Men. However in this movie we don't see Lady Deathstrike and also the film they seem to go as far as replacing limbs with machine parts rather than their bodies leaving only their heads as the only organic thing left.
Another villain in this movie is X-24. He is a clone of Wolverine only his more feral, doesn't have his own healing factor, and his adamantium skeleton is much weaker than Wolverine's. Now he's not based on any comic book character the closes person I can think of his Romulus but him and X-24 are not the same character.
Speaking of X-24's healing factor! In the movie both him and Wolverine regenerate by using a special unnamed serum. This could be a nod to the Regen Serum used in the comic "The Death of Wolverine" because in that story Logan isn't healing as quick as it usual does so he as to use that serum to heal but scars will still remain. In the comic it was used to make sure test subjects survived the adamantium bonding process. In the movie it just heals and I guess give you an adrenaline rush.
Now in Logan we are given a reason to why mutants are on the brink of extinction. The reason is a virus killed them. This is a variation to the Legacy Virus in the comics the virus is something that can kill mutants but leave humans & Inhumans unaffected. However the virus in Logan was created by a man named Zander Rice in the comics it was created by a man named Stryfe.
The final scene in the movie ends with Logan dying from wounds inflected by X-24. Now I'm not sure if this was taking from the comic book event "Death of Wolverine" or maybe it's just a coincidence either way it was sad to Logan/Wolverine die in the comics and in the movie after such a long legacy.
That's all the easter eggs & references I got come back later because I'm going to have reviews for Godzilla(2014), Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, both the Disney's animated Beauty and The Beast film and the upcoming live-action film, and maybe I'll review the new Power Rangers movie I don't know for sure but I'll think about and also somewhere during this month I'll be taking about a certain film that we almost got but never did.
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