| Wolverine on trial; Proof my mind is a very strange place. | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 20 2010, 11:43 AM (670 Views) | |
| Cat | Jul 20 2010, 11:43 AM Post #1 |
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I was browsing the Marvel website, and found This article about how Brubaker intends to put Bucky on trial. That got me thinking. Wolverine's life has never being entirely squeaky clean, and there probably is a lot he could be put on trial for himself. So who would be his lawyer, who would be his character witness and what would it mostly likely to be about? I know, I know, I'm weird, but it just got me thinking. For Lawyer I was thinking Matt Murdock. Guy has a lot of experience with ex assisians (even if Wolverine did try and kill him). Character witness: I was thinking Storm, probably Jim Hudson, and possibly Steve Rogers (though the two can have a difficult relationship). Not sure what would be the most likely thing to come back to haunt him, but it would almost certainly be a murder of some kind. |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 20 2010, 12:05 PM Post #2 |
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Well as for what it's about, four words: "Enemy of the State". Yes he was brainwashed but so was Bucky. I always kind of wondered why more of an issue wasn't raised about that one. Matt represents most of the heroes on trial but for this I would personally go with Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk. She knows all about rage and control issues and had defended murders like Moribius. Plus Logan gets along better with women and she has argued cases all the way to the Supreme Court. As for character witnesses, he knows everyone and is on good terms with most of them. As it stands right now, I'd go with Steve Rogers, Cyclops, and Thor. They are all in really good standing with people as of now in the Marvel U. Maybe add Reed Richards or Sue Storm to the list. |
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| Templedog | Jul 20 2010, 12:08 PM Post #3 |
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Nightcrawler and Wolverine had discussion of sorts about this at the end of Uncanny X-Men #140. Logan. Kurt and Alpha Flight had just captured and cured Georges Baptiste from the curse of being the Wendigo. Then Alpha Flight took Georges Baptiste back with them to face trial for the murders he commited while under the curse. After they leave Nightcrawler and Wolverine are alone and Kurt comments that he thinks charging Georges Baptiste with murder is a little unfair since he was under a curse at the time. Logan replies that Georges Baptiste took the curse on willingly and therefore should be held responsible. Kurt then asks if Logan should not also be held responsible for all the murders that he has committed in the past. Logan replies that he has always been a soldier or a spy in which he was either paid to kill or at least given liscense to to do so. Kurt then asks if that makes it okay then? Wolverine does not really have an answer for him. It was a really good scene, because you could tell that the question weighed heavily on Logan. |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 20 2010, 12:33 PM Post #4 |
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Right from a legal stand point, probably. Morally? No. But Wolverine has killed plenty of people since he left the government that he could be put on trial for. |
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| flightmarco | Jul 20 2010, 05:46 PM Post #5 |
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how about the first story arc of wolverine origins? wherein he busted inside the white house. i think that part wasn't really solved. |
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| Cat | Jul 21 2010, 02:51 AM Post #6 |
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There's also the raid he and Ms Marvel did on the Pentagon, way back in Uncanny X Men 158. Definately there's some treason stuff around. (Though not sure if it counts as Wolverine's Canadian, but British hung Lord Haw Haw so...) |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 21 2010, 10:34 AM Post #7 |
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I think the president forgave or did not press charges on those incidents. They generally like to keep it quiet if someone manages to breach the security of the White House. |
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| Templedog | Jul 21 2010, 11:35 AM Post #8 |
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I am not surprised. I mean Way not creating a coherent plot...what a shock. |
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| Cat | Jul 21 2010, 11:52 AM Post #9 |
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This is one of the things I wondered if Brubaker had considered. If Bucky is tried for the crimes of the Winter Soldier, then you'd have to put most of the Marvel heroes on trial, as most of them at some time or another have been brainwashed into committing acts that are illegal (maybe not along enemy of the state line, but not far off). I mean, leaving the Black widow aside (as Brubaker pointed out her position is viable), you've got Hawkeye at the begining of his career as a crimminal, Iron Man in the Armour wars and multiple times since, Cap's actions in the Civil war, Xavier for Onslaught... |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 21 2010, 11:54 AM Post #10 |
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To be fair, he writes a pretty good Deadpool, that one does not have to be cohesive or linear to work. It's just his Wolverine that I despise. |
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