It's Canada, 1845, and a young Wolverine, aka Logan, suddenly finds out who he is with pure rage.
This comes about when he's ill in bed and hears his Dad bursting into their house and kicking up a stink between his ex,
and Logan's mother, Elizabeth (Alice Parkinson), now living a happier life with her new husband, John (Peter
O'Brien, aka Shane Ramsay from Neighbours). However, that all changes when a shot rings out and John is killed.
The Wolverine talons start to come through his knuckles and his conscience tells him to do what he knows is right...
after which, he hot-foots it out of the house, with his brother, Victor Creed, following shortly.
As the credits begin, we see an older Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) fighting in the American Civil War alongside
Victor (Liev Schreiber, right with Jackman), before proving that they'll always be there for each other by also decking Johnny
Foreigner in the World War I trenches before being one of the few men to survive the D-Day landings of World War II,
then going through Vietnam, but tensions get the better of Victor and he gets a little bit too bloodthirsty to the
point where he starts attacking the good guys, leading to death by firing squad for both of them... which, obviously,
doesn't kill them.
Enter army bloke William Stryker (Danny Huston) who says he's putting a special team together with special
privilidges, and he's signing both of them up because they no longer have a choice. First mission is to Lagos, Nigeria
where they won't be sorting out an email scam but it proves too much for our hero who storms out and leaves them to it,
shacking up in the Canadian Rockies with new squeeze Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins, below-right, centre in pic). However, time passes
and soon she ends up dead at the hands of Victor, the moment of death being something that we don't get to see.
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