Marvel's Wolverine Game Reveals Full Roster of Team X, Including Shock Member

The official prequel to Marvel's Wolverine confirms Insomniac is making a few major tweaks to Logan's backstory. Insomniac's Wolverine video game follows an early version of Logan, but it isn't yet another retelling of the Weapon X procedure that gave him his adamantium skeleton. Instead, his fractured memories and history become the core mystery. Three years after leaving Team X, Logan is drawn back into the mutant task force when Bolivar Trask begins kidnapping mutants, leading to a globe-spanning mission across Madripoor, Canada, and Tokyo, revisiting Logan's personal vendettas with the Reavers, plus threats like the Hand, the Sentinels, and other anti-mutant forces.

Promotional material for Marvel's Wolverine tease a growing list of Marvel heroes and villains as supporting characters. Leech appears among the kidnapped mutants Logan tries to rescue, Lady Deathstrike is confirmed as one of the game's many bosses, and the ancient ninja can be spotted in gameplay footage. Omega Red is one of the earliest villains confirmed for Marvel's Wolverine, and Mister Sinister, Sabretooth, and Bolivar Trask's Sentinels are all but confirmed to be the game's main antagonists.

While Insomniac's Marvel video game continuity accurately adapts most of each major character's backstory, some significant changes are expected to introduce fresh lore changes, which may take center stage later down the line.

Wolverine's Team X Is Very Different In Insomniac's Marvel Universe

Wolverine Prequel Infinity Comic; Written By Walt Williams; Art By Luke Ross & Fer Sifuentes-Sujo

Marvel's four-part prequel comic for Insomniac's Wolverine video game offers a glimpse at Logan's past. Years before the events of the video game, Wolverine joins Team X, assembled by Nathaniel Essex himself to confront Bolivar Trask and thwart his secret experiments. In this continuity, Wolverine's Team X squad is composed of himself, Victor Creed a.k.a. Sabretooth, Raven Darkholme a.k.a. Mystique, and Shiro Yoshida a.k.a. Sunfire. Both Sabretooth and Mystique are confirmed to play a key role in Marvel's Wolverine, but Sunfire's comic introduction teases either a lethal twist or an eventual reunion during gameplay.

In Marvel Comics's main timeline, Team X was a covert CIA/Weapon X unit active in the 1960s, with Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick, Silver Fox, and Mastodon among its members, though John Wraith also became closely associated with the group's history. Weapon X manipulated the operatives with false memories, turning their own pasts into a maze of manufactured memories. Other versions have changed the membership considerably to fit their respective stories. Most notably, Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine turned Team X into Stryker's mutant strike team, with Logan alongside Victor Creed, Wade Wilson, John Wraith, Agent Zero, Fred Dukes, and Chris Bradley.

There May Be More To Sunfire Than Marvel's Wolverine Suggests

The X-Men May Be Closer Than Expected

Although there are many possible reasons why Sunfire doesn't appear in any of the game's trailers or promotional material besides the Wolverine Prequel Infinity Comic, Sunfire's debut as a member of Team X could be one of the clearest hints yet that Marvel's Wolverine is laying the groundwork for the X-Men. In the comics, Sunfire is one of the international mutants recruited for the new X-Men in Giant-Size X-Men #1, the landmark story that first brought Wolverine into Xavier's team. Having Sunfire already established in this continuity gives Insomniac one of the first pieces of that team before the Xavier's school exists.

An X-Men sequel to Insomniac's Wolverine game could bring back Jean Grey and Wolverine as protagonists, with Sunfire and other heroes like Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Banshee, and Thunderbird as playable characters. Of course, an eventual X-Men game would likely merge comic line-ups in order to have a combination of A-list and lesser-known mutants, with the inevitable addition of icons such as Cyclops, Beast, Rogue, and Gambit. Still, the powerset and historical importance of mutants like Sunfire and Banshee would make them highly likely to appear as well.

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Wolverine Prequel Infinity Comic is now available from Marvel Comics