Wolverine Cosplay Retrospective Gallery
Our friends in the Great White North are celebrating Commonwealth Day today, so I thought it was the right time to post a retrospective gallery of cosplay of everyone’s favorite pint-sized Canadian, Wolverine.
In the current canon of Marvel Comics, James Howlett (later called Logan and later still, Wolverine) was born in northern Alberta, Canada, in the late 19th century. Much of the origin for Wolverine that is portrayed in the otherwise not so good movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine is pretty accurate to his comic book story. He doesn’t take on the superhero name Wolverine until he becomes an operative for Canada’s secretive (and fictional) Department H. His first appearance was in The Incredible Hulk #180 on the last page, but his first full story was issue #181, when the Canadian government sent Wolverine to stop a fight between the Hulk and Wendigo.
Wolverine’s yellow and blue costume was designed by John Romita Sr., and stayed mostly the same until the blue was replaced with black. His movie appearances changed the costume to black leather with gold highlights, but it was the 2017 movie Logan that really brought out the cosplayers — mainly because his costume as a chauffeur is just a white button down shirt and a black suit, drastically lowering the barrier to entry for people wanting to cosplay Wolverine.
One thing to note in the gallery linked below: The women crossplaying Wolverine are doing just that, not cosplaying as Laura Kinney, or X-23. The claws are the giveaway — Laura, either as X-23 or when she took on the name Wolverine while Logan was dead (it’s comics, folks) has just two claws per hand, not three.
Cosplayers in this gallery include cubseidl, Clillith cosplay, BNH Photography, Zombie Leader, sweetangelgurl33cosplay, Everyone’s Hero Cosplay, Jimi Halfdead of the band The Negans, kcphotobomber, evildirtydave, and many more.
We now use Smugmug to present cosplay photo galleries and will post all photos there, with a link to each gallery in its own gallery article. This will allow us to give you higher resolution images to download — still for free.
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