In Weapon X we are introduced to Wolverine back when he was just known as Logan. At this point, Logan is just a drunk trying to forget about his time spent as a covert operative.

A special black-ops unit of the Canadian Government run by a hidden character named The Director, has chosen Logan as a guinea pig for a new experiment designed to create super soldiers by fusing adamantium alloy onto their bones, then brain-washing them to be obedient killing machines.

The leader of the project, The Professor, is described as an evil Einstein and has pioneered the use of the adamantium metal which is very unstable. To help him, he has enlisted the aid of Dr. Cornelius, a nanotechnology expert, and Ms. Hines, a former NASA operative who has training in mind control technology.

A team of men kidnap Logan as he drunkenly leaves a bar, then spirit him into an underground complex where his transformation takes place.

Apparently, however, The Director picked Logan as the first human test without letting anybody know he was a mutant. They prep Logan by shaving his head, but when the hair grows back almost immediately they don’t pay much attention.

After some complications from his mutant body which quickly processes their drugs and mends itself against intrusion, they are able to complete the adamantium coating rather quickly. His claws come as a second surprise, however!

They then use mind control and run a series of tests on him, letting him carve up local wildlife – starving wolves, mountain lions, and bears.

In the end Wolverine gets away from where he is being held and kills everyone who’s tortured him – going through a metal smelter, where he comes back looking like a twisted cyborg to finish off The Professor. The twist is, that in the end, it proves to have been a dream resulting from Ms. Hines’s mind control machine. Then, once we realize it was a dream, Hines explains that sometimes dreams from the device turn out to be prophecies in disguise. She tells a little story about the device’s trial run at NASA with a distinct urban legend feel to it.

As if he was eavesdropping, Wolverine immediately escapes and kills everyone, although less elaborate than he did in the dream.

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