Is It True? - Wolverine Put the X-Men Out of Their Misery

 

Hey everyone, and welcome back to a brand new edition of Is It True? A segment where I take fan theories from movies, tv shows, video games, and comics, and wonder is it true?

This time I'm diving into a theory about one of my many favorite comic book movies, Logan. Enough of this opening, let's get to it.

What is Logan?

Logan is a 2017 comic book movie inspired by the Wolverine storyline Old Man Logan written by Mark Millar. The story goes it's the near future and Logan is currently taking care of an ill Professor Xavier. Logan thinks he's almost close to his goal to live on an island away from the world, but that all changes when a young mutant girl named Laura shows up. Once Logan and Xavier find out that Laura is being hunted down by sinister forces, they both do whatever they can do to protect her.

The Theory

The theory goes that somewhere before the events of the film, that because of Charles Xavier's dementia he had one of his telepathic seizures, this didn't result in the X-Men dying but they were very damaged. So damaged that what happened couldn't be reversed. And since Logan wasn't effected by that he couldn't let his teammates, so Wolverine decided that the best option was to end it all. And this would possibly be the big reason why Charles to have feelings of disgust with Logan. Cause Wolverine wanted to end it, while Charles being the pacifist that he is, was against things thinking that maybe, just maybe there was a possibly of saving them.

Is The Theory Believable?

Now before I get into if the theory is believable, I'll explain why people came up with this.

It really came down to the fact that in Logan, Charles Xavier said these two lines. Which were...

"What a disappointment you are."

"Logan...what did you do?"

So now for the big question, and that's is this possible? In all honesty it's actually hard to tell. Logan was more focused on the final days of Wolverine, then it was about the entire X-Men or the franchise itself. Because of this more self-contained story, we didn't get a lot of information about what happened to the team.

So what this really comes down to his your interpretation. Maybe Charles just killed the X-Men by himself due to poor health, or maybe Charles put them in horrible pain, and Logan had to commit an act of mercy? Until I hear James Mangold [the director of the movie], we may never know.

That's going to do it for me. Yeah know this was kind of a cop out because I didn't give you an answer, but it's still how I felt about the whole thing. But that's going to do it for me. Come back on Saturday, Feb 19th, for my review of the newest Netflix horror movie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.