Deadpool & Wolverine makes James Mangold’s Logan slightly more tragic due to the health issues Hugh Jackman’s MCU variant showcases in the trailer.

A small detail from the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer adds a new tragic layer to Hugh Jackman’s Marvel hero in Logan. The second Deadpool & Wolverine trailer presents Hugh Jackman’s new MCU Wolverine variant, who seems to come from a timeline where he failed to save the X-Men, as suggested by TVA agent Paradox. If true, Wolverine’s doomed universe would resemble the original X-Men: Days of Future Past timeline, where Sentinels successfully wiped out mutantkind until Wolverine traveled back in time to change the future, as well as Logan‘s timeline, where mutants went extinct by means of bioengineering and Charles Xavier’s seizures.

Apart from Wolverine’s classic yellow-and-blue suit, the second Deadpool & Wolverine trailer reveals that this new Wolverine variant is slightly younger and much stronger than Logan‘s, given that the adamantium poisoning that ended up killing Wolverine in the Logan trailer apparently hasn’t started affecting his healing factor. However, Hugh Jackman’s MCU Wolverine is still the second-oldest variant introduced in live-action, as no other Wolverine appearance in the X-Men movie timeline besides Logan had shown the hero’s side effects of aging reflected on his powers.

Deadpool & Wolverine Suggests Logan’s Claw Struggles Went On For A Long Time In Logan

Wolverine Must Have Struggled To Use His Claws Properly For Years Before The Events Of Logan

At the beginning of James Mangold’s Logan, Wolverine unsheathes his claws to fight a group of assailants, but the claws only come out halfway, and one of them gets stuck. Shortly after, Wolverine pulls out this claw with his bare hand and wraps a bandage on the wound. Logan takes place in a different timeline’s 2029, not long after the years X-Men: Days of Future Past and Deadpool & Wolverine are set in. Despite being a different timeline, Wolverine’s struggle to unleash his claws in the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer suggests he’s on track to suffer the same physical ailments as his Logan counterpart.

Deadpool & Wolverine may take place around 2025. If Wolverine’s health issues started at the same age prior to the events of Logan, then he must have been unable to use his claws properly for at least four years in that timeline. The similar health issues seen in Logan and Wolverine & Deadpool‘s Wolverine variants also suggest that the hero’s healing factor usually starts to diminish around the same age in most universes, and that Wolverine’s life expectancy may not reach 400 years despite him looking middle-aged at around 250 years old.

Wolverine’s equivalent of a 90-year life expectancy would be around 550 years, according to his apparent age in the movies.

How Deadpool & Wolverine Could Give Logan A Happy Ending

Wolverine Has The Chance To Redeem Himself Thanks To Deadpool & Wolverine’s Multiversal Plot

Deadpool & Wolverine likely won’t alter the events of Logan in any way, meaning that Wolverine’s heroic sacrifice in that timeline will remain unchanged. However, Hugh Jackman’s similarly tragic MCU variant can end his story on a higher note. He may be unable to recover his original universe, but he can still redeem himself for not being able to save it. This Wolverine might be encouraged by Deadpool to become a multiversal hero who keeps other universes from meeting the same fate as his own, not only by defeating Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Cassandra Nova, but maybe also by working together with other similar heroes in Avengers: Secret Wars.