Wolverine (Brown Costume)

One Wolverine is never enough. While universe-hopping, Deadpool's delighted to find a Wolverine variant who is wearing the classic brown and tan suit, until he realizes he's stepped right in the middle of a brutal face-off with the Hulk. You have to admit, Deadpool & Wolverine did a great job of hiding its surprises. They didn't reveal the returning heroes, they didn't reveal the Deadpool Corps, they didn't reveal the parade of alternate reality Wolverines... yes, the trailer gave away who the big villain was going to be, but frankly the biggest spoiler was the inclusion of Madonna's "Like a Prayer," which is a good thing: it means all that other stuff was still absolutely shocking when we sat down the theater to watch the movie, and thus was able to have all the impact it was intended to. Obviously Logan is the best Wolverine movie, but 2013's The Wolverine is right behind. To its credit, that movie at least tried to set up Wolverine getting a real costume more than a decade before Deadpool 3 would do it for real: in a deleted scene, Yukio gives Logan a suitcase and inside is a movie version of his classic brown costume, designed and fabicated by Adam Ross. That thread was never followed up on, and it seems like at least a bit of a missed opportunity that the Wolverine Wade finds isn't wearing that specific suit. This figure (other than the hands) was sculpted by Dennis Chan. The suit is covered in a great texture, and has lots of small differences when compared to the yellow suit: bigger flares on the boots, no inset panels creating tiger stripes on the shoulders or ribs, a simpler belt, and large pockets on the thighs instead of small ones on the butt, etc. Despite what Wade said upon seeing this Wolvie, it's not quite the "classic John Byrne brown-and-tan": if it were, it wouldn't have that black piping on the yellow sections, and there'd be trunks instead of pants. This is more House of X/Powers of X. Still, close enough. One thing that's not close enough, though? Wolverine is wearing his mask. There's concept art of this costume with a mask, but he didn't wear one in the movie - you'll notice that none of the variants Deadpool tracks down are. That was an intentional choice, because they wanted to keep the "moment" of Wolverine putting on his mask for the street fight as something major and special, and if we'd seen Hugh Jackman wearing one before then, it wouldn't have hit as hard. For times when you want the mask to be off, the figure includes a dropped-down version that can hang around his neck and lay against his broad shoulders. Ofeten when companies do a thing like that, they just have the costume's neck going all the way up to the new jawline, which fans will generally willingly overlook, but isn't accurate. This version does better than that, giving as an actual alternate neck, with a stretch of bare skin at the top. Impressive! And it would be even more impressive IF THEY'D INCLUDED AN UNMASKED HEAD WITH THIS FIGURE! Jesus Christ, Hasbro, are you trying to claim Mattel's fuck-up crown? How do you possibly okay a figure with "alternate neck to go with unmasked head" and then not do a head for it?! Come the hell on, team! This is stupid and embarrassing, and you should be ashamed to have put it out in this condition. For crying out loud, just leave out the neck and dropped mask, and no one would ever have noticed! In the theatrical release of the movie, there are a few frames at the end of the bus fight where Deadpool's sword clips through Wolverine's arm. You know, just a layering/compositing error, something that went by fast enough that it wasn't distracting. Disney still fixed it for the digital release, though. But imagine if when that had happened, the movie froze, drew a big red circle around the mistake, and blared a siren so everyone would look at the mistake and realize something had gone wrong. That's what including the neck and mask with this figure is like! What the crapping hell, dude? Do you lack outside sense, like Tommy the pinball wizard? Can you not see even basic problems? Note that we didn't say "foresee" basic problems, because you didn't need any advance sight to tell something would be wrong here, you just needed to be able to comprehend the present. Both necks get the same articulation: a barbell at the top and a balljoint at the bottom. That'd be real neat, if there were any point to having two necks. He gets the balljoint pectoral joints, too, which does present a small issue no other Marvel Legends examples of this style have had yet: all the others we've looked at have had a single solid color for the ring that conceals the joint; this Wolverine has multiple colors there, brown and yellow and black, so if the ring turns at all it will be pretty obvious that the paint no longer lines up. Gotta be careful with it. Seeing Hugh Jackman in Wolverine costume is something fans have wanted for a quarter century at this point, and the fact we got so many of them at once in this movie was a great surprise. And this toy is mostly a terrific representation of the costume we saw so briefly, but failing to give him the unmasked head he's supposed to have means this one is only worth waiting for clearance prices. -- 07/15/26 Where's his goddamn head, Hasbro? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.