- "But you can’t nurture rage. You must simply design it from scratch."
- ―Zander Rice to Caliban about X-24[src]
X-24 was a clone of Wolverine created by Alkali-Transigen.
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Biography[]
Logan[]
X-24 was created by Alkali-Transigen after they deemed Project X-23 a failure. A perfect clone of Logan, X-24 resembled Logan in his physical prime. Dr. Zander Rice designed him to be a weapon – X-24 exhibited all the rage and ferocity of his genetic template, but none of the compassion or self-control. Once X-24 had been perfected, Transigen ordered the extermination of their other test subjects.
X-24 was deployed by Transigen to capture the escaped X-23 who was on the run with Logan and Professor Charles Xavier. X-24 found them at the Munson house, where he stabbed Xavier in the chest and killed Kathryn Munson and her son, Nate. Will Munson arrived home with Logan after they had restored water to the house that had been cut off due to a local dispute, and X-24 fatally wounded him as well.
X-24 is recovered by Zander Rice.
Restraining X-23, X-24 was in the process of delivering her to Dr. Rice and the Reavers when he was set upon a group of locals involved in the water dispute who mistook him for Logan. X-24 savagely killed the entire group, before fighting Logan. X-24 is narrowly defeated when Will Munson, dying of his wounds, rams him with a SUV, impaling him on a farming machine, and then shoots him three times with a shotgun. Logan and X-23 escape. Dr. Rice and the Reavers recover X-24 and speed his regeneration powers to heal him back to fighting strength.
X-24 is shot in the head.
Several days later in North Dakota, X-24 is deployed once more against Logan by Donald Pierce after Logan kills Dr. Rice. The two fight and X-24 fatally wounds Logan by stabbing him in the shoulder and impaling him on a tree. X-24 is killed by X-23 when she shoots him in the head with an Adamantium bullet that Logan had been saving for himself.
Personality[]
- "Something they say is without a soul."
- ―Gabriela Lopez[src]
X-24's animalistic nature
Genetically engineered as a killing machine, X-24 had a barbaric and feral mindset. Like an attack dog, he would only listen to, and or kill whoever his creator, Zander Rice, would command to. Little more than a savage animal, he embodied what Logan would have been if he had less control, had he not become an X-Man. Gabriela Lopez described X-24 as something "without a soul".
However, despite X-24's seemingly mindless and primitive nature, he displayed some level of thought outside of Rice. For example, he savagely murdered several employees of Canewood International Beverage when they attacked him despite Rice's commands for him to stop, even though he didn't care and enjoys killing for a living. When Logan killed Rice, X-24 appeared enraged at the sight of Rice's corpse, stemming either from his absolute loyalty to Rice or possibly having looked at Rice like a father-figure, and began behaving more savagely and rage-driven, thrashing Logan around more brutally before delivering the killing blow. This implies him to be a more sadistic serial killer than a simple mindless lapdog.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Superhuman Strength: Being artificially grown into the physical prime of Logan, X-24 has his tremendous raw strength, able to lift and hurl a full grown man several meters with a single hand and turn over an armored truck that pinned him down.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: X-24 also inherited Logan's powerful healing capabilities. With it, he is able to recover from most injuries within seconds with no lingering damage. Gunshots and stab wounds were all healed immediately, not impeding his fighting at all. He also was unharmed when he was crushed under a car and was able to overturn it in seconds.
- Superhuman Vitality: X-24 is extremely resilient due to his regenerative powers and adamantium skeleton, allowing him to withstand being shot and stabbed repeatedly and continue fighting.
X-24 protruding its claws
- Retractable Claws: X-24 has a pair of three, 12-inch retractable claws in each forearm which extend between each of his fingers' knuckles. After being infused with adamantium, his claws gained a side-effect of being reshaped as sleek blades. These metal claws allow him to cut through virtually any substance with little resistance.
Abilities[]
- Skilled Combatant: While overall feral in nature, X-24 is shown to be highly dangerous in close-range combat, able to swiftly cut down dozens of enemies.
Equipment[]
- Adamantium Skeleton: Like Wolverine, X-24 had his skeleton surgically bonded and molecularly infused with the near-indestructible adamantium. As a result, he gains powerfully destructive claws, and heightened resilience to anything. However, unlike Wolverine, his skeleton is somehow much more vulnerable to damage when struck with more adamantium, as part of his head was broken apart by an adamantium bullet while his counterpart’s skull remained intact when he himself was shot twice with adamantium bullets.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Donald Pierce † - Former Ally
- Zander Rice † - Creator and Former Controller
- The Reavers † - Allies
Enemies[]
- Wolverine † - Genetic Template, Archenemy and Victim
- Kathryn Munson † - Enemy and Victim
- Nate Munson † - Enemy and Victim
- Professor X † - Enemy and Victim
- Will Munson † - Enemy, Victim and Attempted Killer
- Canewood Beverage † - Enemies and Victims
- Caliban † - Enemy
- X-23 Children - Enemies
Trivia[]
- X-24 is a version of Logan that personified Logan's worst fears about himself; being a feral beast capable of nothing but hurting and killing people, something that Logan had been fighting against for a vast majority of his life[1] (Sabretooth served a similar purpose. X-24 also bears a physical resemblance to Sabretooth, as portrayed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Logan's fights with X-24 were therefore literal and figurative battles against his worst inner demon.[2]
- Hugh Jackman described X-24 as "Logan as if he was permanently in Berserker Rage." This may be an answer to fan outcry from the lack of Berserker Rage's use in the main X-Men series, as Logan is only shown in Berserker rage three times, once in X2, once in X-Men: Apocalypse and finally in Logan.
- When his body is first shown in Gabriela Lopez's cell phone confession, it's shown in pieces, revealing that his body parts where created separately. This is a reference to Albert, a cyborg clone of Wolverine from the comics.
- In the comics, Albert is a cyborg clone of Wolverine created by Donald Pierce, while in the movies, X-24 was a genetic clone of Wolverine created by Zander Rice.
- X-24 has never been seen talking and instead only making grunting sounds and cries due to his feral personality and constantly mindless state. Although it appears that he is able to understand commands in the English language. It's possible he was taught to do so, but wasn't taught to speak.
- While Eddie Davenport was used as a stunt double for X-24's battles with Logan, Jackman played the rest of his scenes and his face was used as a digital reference using Motion-Capture.
- Despite being a clone of Wolverine, X-24's eyes are almost golden in color, while Wolverine's eyes are hazel.
