Hugh Jackman Gets Payback For The X-Men’s 24 Year Old Wolverine Insult

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine with the cast of X-Men 2000

Hugh Jackman finally gets a chance to get justice for the Wolverine insult in the original X-Men movie ahead of his Marvel return. With Ryan Reynolds coming back as Wade Wilson this summer as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Deadpool & Wolverine cast will also be co-headlined by Jackman, as he returns to the famous superhero role after his initial retirement from the role following 2017’s Logan. While Deadpool & Wolverine explores the multiverse, the Phase 5 installment will also serve as a major conclusion to the original X-Men movie franchise.

Jackman’s Wolverine return is a key part of one of the most hyped-up film events of 2024, especially now it’s been revealed that the Australian actor is getting a chance to finally don the iconic comic Wolverine costume in live-action after his initial X-Men films. Capitalizing on this hype, one Cyclops cosplayer known as Nott Summers Cosplay recently met Jackman and reenacted the tribute to the original X-Men movie scene about Wolverine’s costume that takes place in X-Men ’97 season 1.

The fan met Jackman at a recent Deadpool & Wolverine premiere, as the cast is in the midst of their promotional tour. The scene that they are specifically reenacting is from X-Men ’97 season 1 episode 8, which poked fun at the part of the original X-Men movie where James Marsden’s Cyclops made the remark, “What would you prefer, yellow spandex?” when talking to Wolverine about costumes.

Why The Original X-Men Movies Stayed Away From More Comic-Accurate Costumes

Wolverine Uses his Claws Alongisde the Mutants in X-Men 2000 Mutant Team Poster

While X-Men was one of the early superhero movies at the start of the 2000s that helped the genre move forward, it’s key to remember that the comic book film concept was nowhere near as big as it is today. Towards the late 1990s, superhero movies weren’t thought of as seriously, following major box office bombs like Batman & Robin, which many cite as being massively responsible for almost killing the genre. This can be seen to explain why the X-Men movies started off with a few restrictions when it came to adapting the comics.

The idea of seeing the X-Men in their traditional costumes from the comics would have likely caused executives at the time to want to pull the plug on the project, based on how larger-than-life so many of these suits are. But selling the concept of black leather suits was more acceptable at the time, with action heroes often having costumes that weren’t massively dissimilar. However, the further the X-Men movies got in the 2000s, the more this became a somewhat outdated concept, especially with the MCU beginning to bring more comic-accurate costumes into the forefront of cinema.

Luckily, as the X-Men will be rebooted for the MCU, passionate fans should rest assured that Marvel Studios will embrace the group’s iconic looks from comic book lore. Jackman’s return as Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine, where he finally has his traditional superhero costume, seems a solid sign of the commitment the MCU will likely have for the other X-Men characters. Hopefully, audience members who waited more than two decades to see the X-Men with their comic-accurate suits will not have to hold out for too much longer to see it happen on the big screen.

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