Marvel's New Wolverine Replacement Officially Debuts

Published Oct 17, 2026, 11:45 PM EDT

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Marvel officially introduces Wolverine's replacements, potentially powerful enough to eliminate Logan himself. Wolverine's iconic "the best there is at what I do" line boasts his status as the ultimate apex predator among feral mutants and Weapons Plus test subjects. He's definitely the strongest and most durable of both groups, plus one of the most unstoppable members of the X-Men. Indeed, nobody endures more punishment and lives to tell the tale, let alone jumps back onto the battlefield as quickly as Wolverine.

Wolverine's famous motto also applies to his heroism. Of all the feral mutants and victims of the Weapons Plus program, Wolverine is certainly the most heroic. Fellow weapons like Deadpool and Fantomex default to mercenary cynicism, while feral mutants like Wild Child and Sabretooth often succumb to their animalistic drives. Logan rejects this path of mindless slaughter and instead channels his trauma into a quest to protect the innocent, mastering his inner beast to become a devoted mentor, a champion of the mutant race, and an essential member of both the X-Men and the Avengers.

However, one of the biggest challenges Wolverine often has to face is the threat of mutants like him, from the constant torment represented by Sabretooth to the complex schemes devised by Romulus.

Wolverine's Four Clones Make Their Official Debut

The Uncanny X-Men #37; Written By Gail Simone; Art By Juan Frigeri & Matt Wilson

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After Marvel teased Wolverine's clones for The Uncanny X-Men #38, The Uncanny X-Men #37 marks the official debut of the four clawed Weapon X recreations, kept safe in the depths of Greymalkin Prison by Sarah Gaunt. The preview pages for issue #37 show a group of agents entering Greymalkin, but failing to reach the heart of the former prison before Sarah Gaunt attacks them. Then, the ghoul reunites with Wolverine's clones, who she describes as her "children." Up to this point, the four test subjects are kept in stasis, bolted to a wall inside a lab.

The resurrected sorceress Sarah Gaunt, known across the mutant underground as the Hag, seems to have a deeply twisted psychological connection to these cloned creatures. Gaunt's bizarre maternal dynamic may stem from her own grief, as she once lost her real nine-year-old son, Brian, during a catastrophic hurricane before she transformed into a monstrous gray-skinned witch. Sarah Gaunt funnels her unresolved trauma into her current stewardship of the Greymalkin facility's secret projects and looks forward to unleashing them to slaughter Wolverine and the surviving X-Men in a brutal, claw-versus-claw war.

At Least One Wolverine Clone Should Make It Out Alive

An Evil Wolverine Clone Could Be An Exciting Recurring Antagonist

Considering how frail these four Wolverine clones seem to be, it's highly likely that Wolverine himself will take care of all of them. However, the concept shouldn't be completely discarded if this happens. The Marvel Universe currently faces a Wolverine clone inflation, having introduced Laura Kinney a.k.a. X-23 and her many genetic siblings, most of whom have survived to overcome their dark programming and evolve into apprentice heroes. So far, there's no definitive evil Wolverine clone who provides Logan with a unique psychological challenge, forcing him to engage in a perpetual physical war against a younger mirror image of his own lethal potential.

Although the idea of a recurring evil Wolverine clone may sound redundant given the existence of Sabretooth, James Mangold's Logan movie proves just how terrifying the evil clone trope can be in the comics. Logan introduced X-24 as a mindless Wolverine clone who ultimately kills Hugh Jackman's original portrayal of the hero for good. Likewise, a comic book equivalent of X-24 could thrive as a persistent threat, personifying the weaponization of Logan's own flesh and blood.

Would you like to see Wolverine's evil clones become recurring antagonists?

The Uncanny X-Men #37 is available October 21 from Marvel Comics