Weapon X (Earth-295, Age of Apocalypse)

WEAPON X
Earth-295

Real Name: James 'Logan' Howlett

Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-295), human mutant, naturalized citizen of the United States, former citizen of Canada

Occupation: Adventurer, former world conqueror

Group Membership: None
formerly Clan Akkaba (Azazel, Dark Beast/Hank McCoy, Emplate/Marius St. Croix, Keeper Murdock/Matt Murdock, Minister of Famine/Scott Summers, Shadow King, Sugar Man, prelate Alex Summers), "Weapon X-Men" (Jane Howlett of Earth-1281, Logan Howlett of Earth-9997, Old Man Logan of Earth-807128, Zombie Wolverine of Earth-2149), Seething Snikters (Albert of Earth-616, Colonel Logan of Earth-811, Mean of Earth-5311, Wild Thing of Earth-982, Wolverine of Earth-2301, Wolvie of Mojoverse and other unidentified Wolverines), X-Men (Beak/Barnell Bohusk, Banshee/Sean Cassidy, Blink/Clarice Ferguson, Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Dazzler/Alison Blaire, Exodus/Bennett du Paris, Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Morph/Kevin Sidney, Nightcrawler/Kurt Darkholme, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff-Lensherr, Rogue/Anna Marie Lensherr, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff Lensherr, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde, Silver Samurai/Kenuicho Harada, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida, Wild Child/Kyle Gibney, Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair, X-23/Kirika Yashida, Xorn/Paige Guthrie)

Affiliations: Amazing Arachnids (Spider-Man/Hobie Brown of Earth-138, Spider-UK/Billy Braddock of Earth-833, Spider-Man/Peter Parker of Earth-2301, Spider-Man/Miguel O'Hara of Earth-9411, Spider-Man/Max Borne of Earth-9500, Spider-Man/Pavitr Prabhakar of Earth-50101, The Spider-Man/Peter Parker of Earth-90214), Ani-Men (Bongo, unidentified others), Bova Ayrshire, Carol Danvers, Gateway, Human High Council (Brian Braddock, Emma Frost, Bolivar Trask, Moira Trask, Mariko Yashida), Phoenix (Jean Grey) of Earth-80777, Charles Lensherr, Mr. Sinister (Nathaniel Essex), Sleepwalker of Earth-616
formerly Black Legion (Beta Red, Demon-Ock, Grimm Chamber, Iron Ghost, Orange Hulk, Zombie Sentry/Robert Reynolds), Samurai Sentinels, Sebastian Shaw, Sentinels

Enemies: Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier), Brotherhood of Chaos (Box/Madison Jeffries, Copycat/Vanessa Carlyle), Dracula of Earth-31974, Selene Gallio of Earth-31974, The Guthries (Amazon/Elizabeth Guthrie, Cannonball/Sam Guthrie, Husk/Paige Guthrie, Icarus/Josh Guthrie), Infinites, Magma (Amara Aquilla), Mephisto of Earth-616, Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier), Onslaught of Earth-696, Prelate Alex Summers, Prelate Scott Summers, Pretty Boys (Clegg, Deadeye, Mangle, Donald Pierce, Slocum, Vultura), Hutch & Illyana Rasputin of Earth-2937, Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich), Sinister Six (Cloak/Ty Johnson, Dagger/Tandy Bowen, Phoenix/Jean Grey, Sauron/Karl Lykos, Sonique/Theresa Cassidy), Ulluxy'l Kwan Tae Syn Earth-31974, Ernest Thatchel of Earth-616
formerly Human Resistance (Doctor Moreau, Harper Simmons, Bolivar Trask, unidentified others), Lady Penance (Monet St. Croix), Thing (Bruce Banner), X-Men, X-Force of Earth-616 (Deadpool/Wade Wilson, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Wolverine/James Howlett), X-Terminated (Deadeye/Zora Risman, Fiend/Francesca Stark, Goodnight/Donald Pierce, Horror Show/Graydon Creed, Prophet/William Stryker)

Known Relatives: Kirika Yashida (daughter, deceased), Howlett family (deceased)

Aliases: "Pop" (nickname used by Kirika), "The overlord" (as Weapon Omega), "that sick bastard" (nickname used by Penance), "old cripple" (nickname used by Cannonball), "Mr. Logan" (nickname used by Jean Grey), "runt", "shrimp" (nicknames used by Sabretooth), Weapon Omega (alias while powered by Celestial Death Seed)

Base of Operations: Mobile throughout Earth-295;
formerly The Spires, Apocalypse Island, New York (as Weapon Omega);
formerly Xavier Institute, Washington D.C.;
formerly a cabin in the Canadian wilderness;
formerly mobile throughout United States and Europe;
formerly the mountains of New Mexico;
formerly Mount Wundagore, Transia;
formerly Alberta, Canada

First Appearance: X-Men: Alpha I#1 (February, 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Weapon X is a mutant with an accelerated healing factor that allows him to recover from injuries rapidly and resist diseases. His skeleton is bonded with the indestructible metal adamantium, making his bones unbreakable and granting him enhanced physical strength. He has retractable claws coated with adamantium, which can cut through almost any material known to man. Wolverine has heightened senses, including enhanced vision, hearing, and smell, making him an exceptional tracker. His healing factor slows his aging, granting him extended longevity. Weapon X is also highly resistant to telepathic attacks due to a combination of his healing factor and strong willpower. He has extensive combat training and experience, making him a formidable hand-to-hand combatant. Weapon X has facial tattoos, his left hand has been replaced with a metal prosthetic, though he retains control over the claw in that arm (see comments). Weapon X shared a psionic link with the telepath Jean Grey, which made him to be constantly aware of her thoughts, feelings and surroundings. While powered by the Celestial Seed, he could manipulate energy, including firing destructive blasts from the stump that had become a hand canon. He could also alter matter at a molecular level.

Height: 5'3"
Weight: 300 lbs. (with adamantium skeleton)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black

History:

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Canadian mutant James 'Logan' Howlett was an unwilling participant in his government's top secret Weapon X program. The decision was made to reinforce his skeleton with unbreakable adamantium.

(Weapon X I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Howlett was subjected to intense treatments at Weapon X designed to pull a killer instinct out of his deepest subconsciousness. This made him prone to berserker rages.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Weapon X was ultimately a loner, breaking free and roaming the world even as Apocalypse was rising to power in North America.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Apocalypse considered recruiting Weapon X as one of his first followers, but ultimately decided to pick the similarly feral Sabretooth.

(X-Men Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Shingen Yashida once saved Logan's life in Trieste, placing the Canadian in his debt.

(X-Men Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X had an altercation with the Silver Samurai in Manchuria.

(X-Men Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (fb) - While in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, Logan ran afoul of the Yakuza when he intervened in the abduction of Shingen's daughter Mariko Yashida. Mariko was modestly grateful, but Logan's presence irked her half-brother the Silver Samurai who felt it was his duty to protect her. Logan was still not impressed by the Samurai's threats.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Logan and Mariko had a passionate affair during his stay in Japan that left her pregnant with a daughter she decided not to tell him about.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 (fb) - BTS) - While Apocalypse and his forces were fostering anti-mutant hysteria in the United States with a string of terror attacks, Weapon X encountered Magneto who was putting together a group of mutants to combat this growing threat. Though hesitant, he agreed to accompany Magnus to Mount Wundagore in Transia where he was training his team of X-Men.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto introduced Weapon X to his new teammates during a training session in what they called 'The Killing Zone'. He left a lasting impression when he popped his claws and told the team: "Hey, kiddies! You want to party?" During the session, he gave into a berserker rage while fighting the training robots. Now out of control and a threat to everyone around him, Magneto forced the novice telepath Jean Grey to mentally calm him down. She impressed him with her prowess and he spent most of his time flirting with the teenage girl.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 - BTS) - When Apocalypse attacked Cape Citadel to claim the US stockpile of nuclear weapons, Magneto decided it was time to take the X-Men on their first mission.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - At Cape Citadel, the X-Men ran into Candra and her heralds while Apocalypse remained aboard his giant Celestial ship hovering over the base. Weapon X wasted no time charging at Candra, who was so startled by his ferocity that she agreed to let Sabretooth call the shots. Creed and Logan faced off and appeared evenly matched until Sabretooth pissed Weapon X off by referring to himself as "the best there is at what he does". Logan used his claws to sever his opponent's spine, giving Creed's healing factor quite the workout.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 - BTS) - After the X-Men stopped Apocalypse from launching the nukes, he recalled his Horsemen except for Sabretooth who he felt had betrayed him. As a parting blow, he fired his vessel's weapons at the base, but Magneto managed to take out Ship's weapons battery with a wide magnetic pulse. After Apocalypse left, Magneto congratulated the X-Men on their first successful mission. But by the time they returned home to Wundagore, they had to mourn the loss of his Wanda Maximoff who had died during Nemesis' attack on Wundagore.

(Weapon X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X, the X-Men and their aide Bova attended Wanda's funeral service on Wundagore Mountain.

Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - Weapon X was none too pleased when Magneto allowed his old rival Sabretooth to join the team when he showed up at Wundagore with his companion Wild Child. After a brief period of tension, they learned to work together.

(Astonishing X-Men I#3 (fb) ) - Weapon X helped Sabretooth free young Clarice Ferguson from the Pens during a mission.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1) - When Katherine Pryde survived the Chicago cullings and became the X-Men's youngest member, Magneto tasked Weapon X with overseeing her training. With Magneto's blessing, Logan prepared her for her future role as the team's ghost assassin. Magnus also provided her with metallic claws similar to her mentor's.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Over time, a mutual attraction developed between Logan and Jean.

(Factor-X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - During an attack on one of Apocalype's processing plants, Magneto was forced to leave Jean Grey behind. As a result, she spent months in the Pens where Mr. Sinister studied her DNA and found she possessed the desired genetic potential to create mutant offspring powerful enough to take on Apocalypse himself.

(Factor-X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X blatantly disregarded Magneto's standing orders and fought his way into Apocalypse's stronghold to free the woman he loved. This led to a deadly confrontation between Logan and prelate Scott Summers. X gouged his left eye out, but not before Summers used his optic blast to rob Logan of the use of his left hand. He had the missing limb replaced with a metallic stump (see comments).

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - Weapon X and Jean Grey returned to the X-Men's New Mexico base to inform Magneto that they were leaving the team. When Magneto resisted, Logan was ready to fight his way out but Jean convinced her lover it would be better if they just left. Magneto watched them go with quiet resignation.

(X-Men Unlimited I#37 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X was among countless alternate reality counterparts summoned to Earth-616 as part of a plot by Mephisto and the mutaphobic Mr. Thatchel. They sought to use the interdimensional being Hutch to bring about the destruction of Earth by flooding it with mutants from all realities.

(X-Men Unlimited I#37) - Ultimately, Hutch rejected Mephisto's plan and returned to the interdimensional space from which he had come; Earth-295's Weapon X and all the other alternate reality mutants were returned to their proper time and place.

(X-Men Alpha I#1 (fb) - Weapon X had dealings with Moira Trask, one of the leaders of the Eurasian Human High Council who was not too fond of the feral mutant.

(Weapon X I#2 (fb) - BTS) - As their romantic relationship developed, Jean and Weapon X formed a permanent psionic link. They were always aware of each other's thoughts, feelings and surroundings, even if they were miles apart.

(Weapon X I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Logan met and worked with security operative Carol Danvers and the Aborigine mutant Gateway.

(X-Men: Apocalypse I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X made the acquaintance of the psionic ninja Betsy Braddock, better known as Psylocke. She helped him get out of an unspecified jam.

(X-Men: Apocalypse I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X encountered and faced the mutant Guthrie family. He was not impressed with the Appalachian siblings, considering them "dimwitted hillbillies".

(Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1) - Apocalypse listed Weapon X and Jean Grey among his Chosen: a list of mutants he deemed worthy of survival in the new world order he was striving to bring about. According to En Sabah Nur, Weapon X had allowed his savage nature to be lorded over by the passion he felt for Jean, even willing to sacrifice part of himself from a situation where she perhaps did not want to be rescued from.

(Weapon X I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Though they were still very much in love, Weapon X could slowly sense that he and Jean were drifting apart because their approach to life in Apocalypse's harsh world was vastly different. Logan considered Jean's compassion a liability at times.

(Factor-X I#3 (fb) ) - Mr. Sinister reached out to Weapon X and Jean Grey. Meeting in secret, he handed them encrypted data files containing Apocalypse's top secret European invasion plans. Sinister wanted the duo to deliver them to the Human High Council in London so they could prepare and maybe prevent a world war that would be detrimental to his ongoing quest for genetic perfection.

(X-Men Alpha I#1) - Weapon X and Jean Grey made their way to London where their presence was soon picked up by forces of the Human High Council who led them to meet with the organization's leaders: Bolivar and Moira Trask, Emma Frost and Brian Braddock. Fellow member Mariko Yashida kept to herself while Logan and Jean handed over the data to the council members.

(Weapon X I#1 (fb) - BTS) - While they had Sinister's data decrypted and analyzed by their experts, the Council asked Jean and Logan to aid in the evacuation effort they were mounting for humans living on the East Coast of the United States. The mutants were to ride a Sentinel and disable part of the massive flotilla that formed Apocalypse's Atlantic Sea Wall so that the evacuation fleet could pass through.

(Weapon X I#1) - Weapon X and Jean rode a Sentinel on to the platform, risking their life to try and disable the contraption. Once they were on board, Weapon X faced a Balrog-class meta-cyborg cooked up in Sinister's labs. The Infinites later had prelate Alex Summers teleported in. He was all too eager to have his revenge on Jean and Logan for breaking out of the Pens. The fight was ended by their Sentinel who sacrificed its hands to grab Havok and shove him back inside the malfunctioning teleporter. Having disabled the platform, Jean and Logan returned to their Sentinel ready to return them to London. They passed the evacuation fleet on the way.

(Weapon X I#1 - BTS) - The already severely damaged Sentinel crashed into Big Ben, the Human High Council's London headquarters.

(Weapon X I#1) - Logan and Jean listened to the Council discuss their plan of action after learning that Sinister's data was legitimate and that Apocalypse was about to launch a full-scale war against Europe. Moira Trask and Brian Braddock suggested ending the threat of Apocalypse once and for all by any means necessary. Logan applauded the use of the nuclear option, but was shocked when Mariko Yashida appeared to reason against it. The discussion was cut short by the arrival of Apocalypse's agent Magma who had been tasked to assassinate the Human High Council. Weapon X made short work of her by stabbing the girl with his claw, which caused him severe burns. This unprovoked attack was all the convincing the council needed that Braddock was right: Project Scorched Earth was a go. Weapon X was all for it, Jean was vehemently against killing millions.

(Weapon X I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Logan was disturbed that Jean was suddenly gone one morning. He used the slowly fading psi-link they shared to track her down to the town of Bristol on the West Coast of England where the Sentinel fleet was returning with the evacuated American citizens.

(Weapon X I#2) - Weapon X went looking for Jean among the refugees, finding her taking care of some young orphans. They had a tearful reunion with Logan admitting that he feared she might be trying to return to the United States to warn people of the upcoming nuclear strike. Jean tried to convince Logan there had to be another way when the weapons scanners at the refugee admissions went off after detecting Brotherhood of Chaos members Box and Copycat. They immediately opened fire on the crowd in the name of Apocalypse, purity and truth. After Jean and Logan took care of them, they were forced to admit they needed to go their separate ways.

(Weapon X I#2 - BTS) - Logan let Jean go and returned to London to brief the Human High Council on all the prime targets for bombing.

(Weapon X I#2) - Before meeting with the council, he ran into Mariko aboard one of the airships over London. She tried to convince him there had to be another way than Braddock's nuclear option. Mariko felt that Brian acted like he had a vested interest in escalating the war and Logan calmly pointed out that Braddock Industries manufactures Sentinels so keeping the conflict going was every bit in his interest. Moments later, they noticed that the fleet was under attack. Logan risked his life dropping from the airship down to the guidance dirigible which housed the analog guidance system for the doomsday attack. He encountered Apocalypse's cyborg servant Donald Pierce and his Pretty Boys. Over the course of the fight, the guidance dirigible went up in flames.

(Weapon X I#2 - BTS) - Only the thought of Jean kept Logan going as he walked out of the blazing fire. As his body began to heal from the burns, he sensed she was about to leave the United Kingdom.

(Weapon X I#2) - Logan rushed to Jean's location: an airstrip in Cornwall where he made one final attempt to stop her. Jean even asked him to kill her if he felt the need. But he couldn't go through with it. After a passionate kiss, he watched the love of his life fly off.

(Weapon X I#3) - In order to replace their destroyed guidance system, Logan was asked by the Human High Council to secure the services of the mysterious mutant Gateway last seen living in the X-Men's abandoned headquarters on Wundagore Mountain. He made the perilous trip to Transia by foot and was attacked by more of Donald Pierce's Pretty Boys who had been ordered to lay in ambush near Wundagore. After hacking them to pieces, he reached the X-Men's old base, passing Wanda Maximoff's tombstone on the way to Gateway's tower.

(Weapon X I#3) - Before he could reach it, he was met by Human Defense League operative Carol Danvers who guided him towards Gateway. The old Aborigine was too absorbed by all the footage he was watching on dozens of monitors, forcing Logan to use his claws to short-circuit his systems. Gateway refused to get involved, until the Pretty Boys returned to resume their attack with Donald Pierce and their flying member Vultura joining the fight. When Carol Danvers seemingly sacrificed her life for his, Gateway decided to accompany Logan to hear the High Council's case.

(Weapon X I#4) - Arriving in Paris where the bombing armada had gathered, Logan tried to convince Gateway of Apocalypse's cruelty by showing him holographic representations of the atrocities committed by his Infinite troops. In the end, Gateway once again agreed to help navigate the armada because of what had happened to Carol Danvers. On the way to America, Logan admitted to council member Emma Frost how terrible he felt for throwing all these devastating nukes on Jean's head.

(Weapon X I#4) - Not too long after that admission, the Pretty Boys returned for a final bout: this time they had added Carol Danvers to their collective and Brian Braddock was forced to reveal himself as an unwilling accomplice. In the end, Weapon X won the day when he surprised Pierce by popping the claws retracted in his left arm. The adamantium slammed through the metal prosthesis, seemingly finishing off the cyborg. Weapon X then watched Gateway use his teleportation powers to get the entire armada behind enemy lines.

(X-Men Omega I#1 - BTS) - Thanks to Weapon X's efforts, some of the bombing armada arrived in the Mid-West where it detonated its payload, effectively decimating that part of the country.

(X-Men Omega I#1 - BTS) - Before the bombs were scheduled to hit Apocalypse Island, Weapon X desperately tried to find Jean and get her to safety.

(X-Men Omega I#1) - Fifteen minutes before the bombs hit, Weapon X used his psi-link with Jean to locate her. She was using her telekinetic abilities to keep the bombs from raining down on the city while prelate Scott Summers was attempting to keep her safe. He failed to spot that his jealous brother Alex Summers had come up from behind to shoot Jean in the back. While Alex gloated over her death, he was savagely stabbed in the back by Logan who wasted no further time on the murderer. He held Jean in his arms and watched her die.

(X-Men Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1) - After the bombs didn't go off, everyone believed it was Magneto who had saved them (it actually was Jean's disembodied presence guided by the Phoenix Force). Weapon X was so heartbroken over the loss of his life partner, he carried her lifeless body to Magneto, asking him to give her the proper burial she deserved.

(Original X-Men I#1) - Some time later, Weapon X was recruited by the Phoenix of Earth-80777 to help her oppose and defeat the reality-hopping Onslaught of Earth-696. He kept himself hidden while Phoenix summoned the original X-Men of Earth-616. She convinced them to travel to Earth-696 and talk to their older counterparts to prevent Onslaught (who was a combination of Jean Grey and Magneto) from becoming a problem. When the young X-Men failed, Weapon X decided to take an active hand in matters.

(Weapon X-Men I#1-4) - Weapon X became the leader of a team of alternate reality counterparts: Jane Howlett of Earth-1281, Logan of Earth-9997, Old Man Logan of Earth-807128 and Zombie Wolverine of Earth-2149. Guided by Earth-80777's Phoenix, with whom he enjoyed a brief romantic fling, they went on a whirlwind adventure across the multiverse encountering enemies like Earth-31974's Dracula, Selene and Ulysses Bloodstone before the threat of Onslaught was ended. With the multiverse safe, Logan was returned to his proper time and place on Earth-295, having gained a slightly more hopeful outlook on life (see comments).

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Following his interdimensional adventures, Weapon X retreated to a cabin in the Canadian wilderness to reflect. Magneto sent several messengers over time to try and convince him to return to the fold, but he always managed to convince them to leave before things got nasty.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#1) - Weapon X was approached by the X-Men's latest recruit Kirika who could not be deterred from the mission Magneto had tasked her with. When they inevitably came to blows, Logan was surprised when the young Asian girl popped claws: she revealed herself to be his daughter.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Even after explaining her origins to her father, Kirika was still unable to get Weapon X to rejoin the X-Men. She tried to get him angry by saying he still wasn't over the death of Jean Grey, but that did not persuade him. However, he was willing to go with her to get revenge on Apocalypse's Elite Mutant Force. Kirika had picked up the scent of Northstar and Aurora on the way to his cabin. Weapon X jumped at the chance to take the Beaubiers on. While Kirika focused on Aurora, he faced Northstar. Father and daughter inevitably managed to murder brother and sister. All fired up and ready for more action, Weapon X agreed to go back with Kirika.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3) - Weapon X returned to the X-Men just as Magneto was away on a mission. He showed up right in the middle of a game of football and nearly got into a fight with the Silver Samurai who was ready to settle past scores. Kirika intervened moments before Cerebro alerted them that the brain patterns of wanted criminals Sam, Josh en Elizabeth Guthrie were picked up near the White House. Eager for a rematch, Weapon X joined the team. He focused on Cannonball, getting the arrogant Samuel Guthrie to take a plunge in the Potomac river before the Guthries beat a strategic retreat that didn't sit well with Logan.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3 - BTS) - His hunch was right on the money: the Guthries' attack on the White House was merely a distraction. At the Xavier Institute, the X-Men's newest recruit Xorn revealed herself to be their sister Paige who was eager to pay Magneto and the others pay for abandoning her at the Seattle Core when she was their student. Paige took down Rogue and chained up young Charles Lensherr.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3) - When the X-Men returned home, they were greeted by Paige and her siblings, ready for round two.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#4) - Weapon X assured Paige she was not leaving with Charles. He and the Samurai then spotted their old ally Psylocke lurking in the shadows. Betsy Braddock broke Charles' bonds, allowing Logan to grab the boy and hand him to Nightcrawler who teleported him to safety. Weapon X then led the charge against the Guthries, but before he could claw his way through them Magneto returned to turn the tide. He killed all of Paige's siblings, leaving Kirika to slay Husk. In her dying moments, Paige forced Magneto to confess the lie he had been perpetuating for over a year: it wasn't him who had stopped the nuclear attack: it was Jean Grey. She was still alive and in the hands of Mr. Sinister.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5) - The news caused Weapon X to pop the claws in his stump as he lunged for Magneto. He held himself back, realizing that Magnus was the only one who could take him to the woman he loved. He then listened with the others as Magneto recounted the painful events of the past year and the deal he made with Sinister. After his story, recent recruit Wolfsbane was ready to kill Magneto for allying himself with her tormentor. Weapon X stopped her from hurting Magnus, they now had to focus on taking the fight to Sinister. Weapon X proved invaluable when he picked up a scent off of Paige's corpse that led them to Sinister's base on Liberty Island. There, they faced Mr. Sinister and his Sinister Six including its newest member: Jean Grey.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6) - While the X-Men fought the Sinister Six and Magneto tangled with Sinister, it was Weapon X who tried to get through to the brainwashed Jean Grey. He risked being burned by her Phoenix fire, but his pleas ultimately managed to get through to her. Breaking free of Sinister's conditioning, she combined her power with Magneto's to restrain the evil, immortal geneticist long enough for Weapon X and Kirika to claw him to death. While Jean and Weapon X were happy to see each other again, their victory had cost the life of their friend and teammate Quicksilver.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6) - Weapon X attended Pietro Maximoff's funeral and visited his grave site with the X-Men and Magneto who had agreed to stand trial for his actions. A little later, he saw off Kirika who was going back to Japan to visit her mother. Logan opted to stay with Jean and rekindle their relationship. Along with the other surviving X-Men, they decided to remain together and to build a better tomorrow.

(Uncanny X-Force I#12 (fb) - BTS) - When a Celestial ship landed in the heart of New York City, Logan gathered a squad of X-Men to kill whoever was inside. Jean Grey refused to go because she believed they didn't have the manpower to face a threat of that level. All the X-Men who went on the mission were killed.

(Age of Apocalypse I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X would have perished in the conflict as well, if not for the arrival of Jean Grey who kept her lover safe. Summoning the Phoenix Force, she was able to defeat the Celestial host.

(Age of Apocalypse I#5 (fb) - BTS) - The Celestial ship also drew the attention of the newly resurrected Apocalypse whose power was now residing inside a small boy drawn to the space gods.

(Age of Apocalypse I#5 (fb) ) - When Weapon X sniffed out the infant Apocalypse, he decided it was for the good of all if the boy died. Phoenix threatened to kill him to save the boy's life, but X clawed him to death anyway. In an instant, he was overtaken by Apocalypse's Celestial energies that transformed him into Weapon Omega, ready to continue Apocalypse's work.

(Age of Apocalypse I#7 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon Omega, now calling himself the Overlord, believed himself empowered by the Celestials and charged with the task of heralding mutant evolution. He knew the only way the space gods would allow Earth to survive was to make sure there were no humans left alive.

(Age of Apocalypse I#1 (fb) - BTS) - For years, Weapon X and his followers in Clan Akkaba worked to systematically eradicate mankind. His minister of death Azazel used his teleportation powers to allow them to cover a lot of ground.

(Uncanny X-Force I#13 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon Omega used the power of the Celestial Death Seed to transform his former X-Men teammate Storm into his major domo Orordius.

(Uncanny X-Force I#19.1 (fb) - BTS) - Omega sent the Black Legion, a band of brutal metahuman followers, against his archenemy Magneto and his X-Men. Black Legion member Demon Ock managed to kill Magneto's young son Charles. Magneto's spine was shattered in an attempt to rescue the boy, leaving him wheelchair bound.

(Uncanny X-Force I#12 (fb) - BTS) - The X-Men did their best to try and oppose Weapon Omega and his growing forces. They were unable to stop him and were eventually forced to retreat to the underwater city of New Atlantis.

(Uncanny X-Force I#12 (fb) - BTS) - The war against Weapon Omega lasted close to ten years.

(Uncanny X-Force I#12) - Weapon Omega and the Black Legion were waiting for the X-Men when they invaded his fortress in an attempt to rescue their teleporting member Gateway. The team needed him to help send Earth-616's X-Force back to their native reality. Omega was waiting for them near Gateway and instantly murdered his own child Kirika with a blast from his hand cannon.

(Uncanny X-Force I#13) - Weapon Omega and the Black Legion got ready to kill the X-Men and X-Force. Phoenix tried to intervene, taking control of all the combatants in an attempt to talk sense into the man who was once her husband. Omega was not buying her rhetoric. He felt he was serving a natural, cosmic force for evolution beyond right or wrong. He asked her to join forces with him and use the power of the Phoenix to help rebuild once humanity was gone.

(Uncanny X-Force I#13) - When she refused, he knocked her out and escaped with her deeper in the complex. He ordered Orordius to prepare the Death Seed because he would be using it to switch Jean to their side. Before he could start the process, Gateway teleported the X-Men and X-Force to their location. Fantomex bought the heroes some time by posing as Orordius, allowing the others to free Jean. Weapon Omega was powerless to stop Jean from sending X-Force back to Earth-616.

(Uncanny X-Force I#19.1) - Weapon Omega and the Black Legion moved in on St. Petersburg, also known as the Vestige: the final enclave of humans. Here, the Human Resistance was working on a way to depower mutants by using a clone of Wanda Maximoff to warp reality and turn off the mutant X-gene on a global scale. X-Men leaders Jean Grey, Rogue and Magneto were there to help out, but Weapon Omega easily killed both Magnus and his wife. They bought Jean time to use her telepathy to work Wanda's mindless clone as a puppet. Weapon Omega laughed when he realized Jean had only managed to depower everyone in the same room as her: she and Sabretooth were now without their mutant gifts. Omega let the human resistance take them to safety while he summoned the full measure of his might to murder every human in sight.

(Age of Apocalypse I#1) - After destroying the last known enclave of mankind in St. Petersburg, Weapon Omega reflected with Azazel about the situation. Though he was relieved that the planet would now be spared by the Celestials, he admitted he would be missing the constant conflict. Fortunately, he had the coming wars among mutants to look forward to. He expected the struggle for evolutionary supremacy would keep all of them in blood for decades. Azazel had little interest in this, he was eager to return his master to New Apocalypse where Sebastian Shaw had arranged a banquet in their honor at the Hellfire Club. Omega brushed him off: he wanted to find Jean Grey first.

(Age of Apocalypse I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon Omega had given Dark Beast and Sugar Man permission to use the power of the Celestial Seed to resurrect a number of alpha level mutants, making sure they were obedient and loyal to their cause. One of the first to return was prelate Scott Summers, who got promoted and became Omega's minister of Death. Summers helped oversee the cloning procedure which Omega ordered to be moved to his facility on New Apocalypse.

(Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Azazel updated Omega on Clan Akkaba's attempts to communicate with the dictator Omega Red who had conquered large parts of Eastern Europe and was now using telepaths to shield his growing empire from inquiring eyes. Omega told Azazel to let Red keep his secrets: not knowing what to expect would make for a far more thrilling war. Omega was then informed by prelate Sumers that McCoy's lab had been attacked by the X-Terminated. Omega ordered Summers to find this group of human terrorists: "Do not make me regret having you brought back to life."

(Age of Apocalypse I#4) - WhenThing (Bruce Banner) attacked New Apocalypse because he had been lied to about the fate of his lover Betty Ross, Weapon Omega decided to personally take care of the threat. Omega took the fight to the hulking brute, admonishing him for still being a whiny, unsatisfied human in spite of all the power he'd been granted. Omega used his hand cannon to shoot a hole through his opponent's heart.

(Age of Apocalypse I#5) - Omega had no patience with the Shadow King's concerns over the growing threat of Quentin Quire who was slowly gaining control over other telepaths who he forced into his psionic collective known as the Overmind. Logan felt it was Farouk's task to deal with the telepathic upstart and if he was incapable of doing that, perhaps Quire was a worthy successor.

(Age of Apocalypse I#6) - Omega received an update on Monet St. Croix who had been using her powers to make quite a name for herself as Lady Penance among the residents of New Apocalypse. Omega ordered Azazel, the recently resurrected Colossus and Scott Summers to pay her a visit to extend an invitation to join his forces. He was convinced she could be made loyal to his cause, instead Monet used her powers to sway Colossus to her side. Unperturbed, Omega had Azazel teleport him to Penance. His presence alone was enough to make her bow before him. He requested she joined him for dinner some time soon before teleporting away again.

(Age of Apocalypse I#9 (fb) - BTS) - When Lady Penance came to dinner, Weapon Omega brutalized her. He left her with a scar on the left side of her face.

(Age of Apocalypse I#9) - Getting maimed made her so furious that Monet ordered her recent ally Sugar Man to come up with a way to kill Omega. They were offered a solution by X-Terminated leader Prophet who gave them the brain of Victor von Doom that contained knowledge on how to separate the Apocalypse power from Omega's cells.

(Age of Apocalypse I#9) - When keeper Murdock got a drop on Jean Grey in New Apocalypse, Weapon Omega told Scott Summers he would hunt her down himself: "And if I find she can't be cured of her humanity, I'll kill her."

(Age of Apocalypse I#10 - BTS) - While on the run from Omega and his hounds, Jean Grey was intercepted by the X-Terminated who took her to Monet's facilities. There, the Sugar Man presented her with the death jellybean, a tiny pellet suffused with Celestial Death-Seed energy that, once ingested, would instantly force the Apocalypse power from its host. Jean Grey took the pill with her.

(Age of Apocalypse I#10) - Eventually, Omega's hounds found Jean again and they led their master to her. Jean got a chance to escape when Sabretooth involved himself in the fight, but the depowered mutant was no real match for Weapon Omega. Creed knew this and sacrificed himself so that Jean could get away, however Omega ultimately caught up with her.

(Age of Apocalypse I#11) - Omega took Jean to Dark Beast's lab where he had thoroughly examined to determine if she had any active mutant genes left. When it turned out she was now fully human, Omega prepared to personally end her life, feeling she was owed that honor. They were distracted when the X-Terminated and the Human Resistance launched an attack on New Apocalypse. Jean quickly slipped the death jellybean in her mouth and managed to pass on the pellet during a final kiss with Omega. The effect was instantaneous: Omega began to lose power.

(Age of Apocalypse I#12) - The escaping death seed energy threatened to destroy New Apocalypse while it was looking for a new host. It tried to jump into Jean, but she was able to resist its lure. Instead, she funneled the power through her, diverting it from the city and then rejecting it. Weapon X and Jean survived the collapse of Omega's headquarters and in the rubble Logan had a showdown with the X-Terminated's leader Prophet who ultimately allowed him to walk away.

(Age of Apocalypse I#13 (fb) - BTS) - For the next year, Weapon X made it his personal mission to hunt down and eliminate every mutant that worked for him as Weapon Omega. Along the way, he gathered a tribe of mutated animal men loyal to his bidding. He received word that some of them had caught up with Emplate in Brazil.

(Age of Apocalypse I#13) - After months of stalking, Weapon X located Scott Summers and his forces hiding out in Buffalo, New York. Thanks to the aid of the Ani-Men, Weapon X got to focus on his former minister of death. Easily evading his optical blast, X knocked Summers over with his stump, leaving the prelate's neck open to be clawed at. Taking a moment to realize "the boys of Summers" were no more, he got his forces ready to fly to Canada, even though his gorilla ally Bongo hated the plane. Before they could leave, Logan was met by Jean Grey who had come to ask him to return home. Weapon X refused, explaining to her that the Logan she knew was dead and that she was released from any and all obligations to him.

(Deadpool: Too Soon? Infinite Comic I#6 (fb) - BTS) - Weapon X joined the multiversal team of the Seething Snikters a baseball team consisting of several alternate reality versions of Logan.

(Deadpool: Too Soon? Infinite Comic I#6) - Weapon X and the Seething Snikters were send to Earth-616 where they played a friendly game of baseball against the multiversal Amazing Arachnids with the Sleepwalker acting as umpire. However, their game was interrupted by Deadpool who sought to warn Spider-Ham of the shadow-demon Paen-Umbra. The aggressive Snikters and the Spider-Men weren't too pleased and attacked the man but managed to escape.

(Rise of the Powers of X I#5) - Weapon X was among the many mutants from countless realities whose souls were summoned to the White Hot Room by Earth-616's Jean Grey to help her and the Phoenix finally defeat the multiverse spanning threat of Nathaniel Essex.

Comments: Created by Len Wein and Herb Trimpe;
adapted by Scott Lobdell & Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, Tim Townsend & Dan Panosian.

Considering Earth-295's divergence point from Earth-616 is the death of Charles Xavier, this technically means that Earth-295's Weapon X had the same past as his Earth-616 counterpart. However, since this has not (yet) been confirmed on panel, it's not included in the profile.

Though never shown on panel, the fact that Logan is called "Weapon X" (and has adamantium bonded to his skeleton) means he was part of the Canadian Weapon X program and possibly discovered by James MacDonald and Heather Hudson. Though why they didn't call on him to serve in the defense of Canada when Apocalypse attacked?

As undeniably cool as Weapon X is, it's hard to accept that his healing factor would allow any kind of permanent tattoos like the ones he has on his face. It would handle that type of body art like any other form of scar tissue and take care of it within minutes.

Also, what kind of metal was his stump prosthetic made of? Let's assume the optic blasts didn't sever the hand but obliterated the skin and muscles beyond the healing factor's ability to restore it. You're left with a clean, bare adamantium hand. Presumably, Magneto reformed that into the metal prosthesis that got fitted over the stump. But if that's the case, how was he ever able to pop his claws again? It makes more sense that it was made of a more conventional metal.

All locations mentioned are Earth-295, unless otherwise specified (and for Weapon X-Men our boy sure went places!)

Speaking of Weapon X-Men... Writer Christos Gage was kind enough to explain from what point in Earth-295's timeline Weapon X originated: "After the 1995 Age of Apocalypse mini but before any sequels. However, I intentionally left it ambiguous as to whether the events of Weapon X-Men changed him to the point where his return created a brand new timeline or not. I did want him to become less jaded and hard-edged than the initial AoA version and recover some hope." That neatly works for Logan's lost year between the events of X-Men: Omega and the 2005 mini.

Hugh Jackman made a cameo appearance as an alternate version of Weapon X in 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine. However, since there is no official confirmation that he was actually portraying the Earth-295 James Howlett, the movie is not included in this profile.

Thanks to MarvellousLuke for the Deadpool: Too Soon? entries.

Weapon X of Earth-295 received a full profile in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 I#1

Profile by Norvo

CLARIFICATIONS:
Weapon X of Earth-295 should not be confused with

Weapon X of Earth-616, either the man or the program--Incredible Hulk I#180
Wolverine of Earth-295, Holocaust's best assassin--X-Men Chronicles I#2
Weapon X of Earth-95120, his parody version--Marvel Riot I#1
or any other "Weapon" or "X" characters

Images: (without ads)
Weapon X I#1, p1, pan1 (main)
X-Men Chronicles I#1, p34, pan1 (original costume)
Factor-X I#3, p15, pans3&4 (rescuing Jean)
Factor-X I#3, p9, pan3 (courier for Sinister)
Weapon X I#2, p14, pan1 (crashing and burning)
Weapon X I#4, p18, pan2 (stump snikt)
X-Men Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1, p33, pans4&5 (bury her for me)
X-Men Age of Apocalypse I#2, p22, pan5 (with Kirika)
X-Men Age of Apocalypse I#6, p18, pan2 (reunion with Jean)
Age of Apocalypse I#5, pans2&3 (killing Kid Apocalypse)
Uncanny X-Force I#13, p17, pan5 (using death seed)
Age of Apocalypse I#7, p3, pan1 (with Clan Akkaba)
Age of Apocalypse I#4, p21, pan3 (versus Banner)
Age of Apocalypse I#11, p21, pan1 (swallows death jelly bean)
Age of Apocalypse I#13, p17, pan6 (no peace in this life)

Appearances:
X-Men Alpha I#1 (February, 1995) - Scott Lobdell & Mark Waid (writers), Roger Cruz & Steve Epting (pencils), Tim Townsend & Dan Panosian (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Chronicles I#1 (March, 1995) - Howard Mackie (writer), Terry Dodson (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Kelly Corvese (editor)
Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1 (April, 1995) - Ian Churchill (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jaye Gardner & Kelly Corvese (editors)
Weapon X I#1 (March, 1995) - Larry Hama (writer), Adam Kubert (pencils), Dan Green, Karl Kesel & Chris Warner (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Weapon X I#2 (April, 1995) - Larry Hama (writer), Adam Kubert (pencils), Dan Green (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Weapon X I#3 (May, 1995) - Larry Hama (writer), Adam Kubert (pencils), Dan Green & Mike Sellers (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Factor-X I#3 (May, 1995) - John Francis Moore (writer), Steve Epting, Terry Dodson (pencils), Al Milgrom (inks), Kelly Corvese (editor)
Astonishing X-Men I#3 (May, 1995) - Scott Lobdell & Jeph Loeb (writers), Joe Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Weapon X I#4 (June, 1995) - Larry Hama (writer), Adam Kubert (pencils), Dan Green (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Chronicles I#2 (June, 1995) - Howard Mackie (writer), Ian Churchill (pencils), Scott Hanna, Al Vey, Bob Wiacek, Steve Moncuse (inks), Kelly Corvese (editor)
X-Men Omega I#1 (June, 1995) - Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid (writers), Roger Cruz (pencils), Bud LaRosa, Tim Townsend, Karl Kesel, Harry Candelario, Scott Hanna, Al Milgrom (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Unlimited I#37 (September, 2002) - Kaare Andrews (writer, pencils), Mike Kunkel, Dave McCaig, Joshua Middleton, Troy Nixey, Skottie Young (pencilers), Pat Duke, Mike Kunkel, Dave McCaig, Joshua Middleton, David Stewart (inkers), C.B. Cebulski, Mark D. Beazley, David Bogart (editors)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 (March, 2005) - Mike Raicht (writer), Jennifer Grunwald (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Jaime Mendoza (inks), John Barber (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#1 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#2 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#4 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6 (June, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#11 (August, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils & inks), Jody Leheup (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#12 (September, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils & inks), Jody Leheup (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#13 (October, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils & inks), Jody Leheup (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#19.1 (March, 2012) - Rick Remender (writer), Billy Tan (pencils & inks), Jody Leheup (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#1 (May, 2012) - David Lapham (writer), Roberto de la Torre (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#2 (June, 2012) - David Lapham (writer), Roberto de la Torre (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#4 (August, 2012) - David Lapham (writer), Roberto de la Torre (pencils), Renato Arlem (inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#5 (September, 2012) - David Lapham (writer), Davide Gianfelice (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#6 (October, 2012) - David Lapham (writer), Renato Arlem (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#7 (November, 2012) - David Lapham (writer), Renato Arlem (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#9 (January, 2013) - David Lapham (writer), Roberto de la Torre (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#10 (February, 2013) - David Lapham (writer), Roberto de la Torre (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#11 (March, 2013) - David Lapham (writer), Roberto de la Torre (pencils), Renato Arlem (inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#12 (April, 2013) - David Lapham (writer), Renato Arlem (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Age of Apocalypse I#13 (May, 2013) - David Lapham (writer), Renato Arlem & Valentine De Landro (pencils & inks), Nick Lowe (editor)
Deadpool: Too Soon? Infinite Comic#6 (November, 2016) - Joshua Corin (writer), Todd Nauck (pencils), Reilly Brown (pencils, inks), Jordan White, Heather Antos (editors)
Original X-Men I#1 (February, 2024) - Christos Gage (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Lindsey Cohick & Sarah Brunstad (editors)
Weapon X-Men I#1 (May, 2024) - Christos Gage (writer), Yıldıray Çınar (pencils & inks), Lindsey Cohick & Sarah Brunstad (editors)
Weapon X-Men I#2 (June, 2024) - Christos Gage (writer), Yıldıray Çınar (pencils & inks), Lindsey Cohick & Sarah Brunstad (editors)
Weapon X-Men I#3 (July, 2024) - Christos Gage (writer), Yıldıray Çınar (pencils & inks), Lindsey Cohick & Sarah Brunstad (editors)
Weapon X-Men I#4 (July, 2024) - Christos Gage (writer), Yıldıray Çınar (pencils & inks), Lindsey Cohick & Sarah Brunstad (editors)
Rise of the Powers of X I#5 (July, 2024) - Kieron Gillen (writer), Luciano Vecchio (pencils & inks), Jordan D. White, Lauren Amaro (editors)

First Posted: 01/04/2025
Last Updated: 01/06/2025

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