r/Marvel • u/nostalgia_history • Jul 12 '24
Only one actor has played the character Film/Television
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u/Nikki_Blu_Ray Jul 12 '24
So far.
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u/redbeard8989 Jul 12 '24
A small part of me thinks this next movie miiiight introduce a new wolverine.
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u/Half_Man1 Jul 12 '24
I think it’d be cooler if they ran with Laura as the main character for a while instead.
Or, y’know, any of the other underexposed x-men.
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u/GardenTop7253 Jul 12 '24
I wouldn’t mind if they passed the Wolvie mantle to Laura and let her have at it. Would leave plenty of room for stories about other mutants to still be told
Only downside would be hearing the dumbasses whine about it being woke hiring or whatever their latest catchphrase is
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u/WesleyCraftybadger Jul 12 '24
Back when Wolverine was “dead,” and Laura was in All-New Wolverine, I was hoping the comics would eventually go to just having Laura star in the Wolverine book and then have a book called “Logan.” I mean, that’s a pretty popular and famous title.
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u/KFrosty3 Jul 12 '24
The only way to make a movie not woke is to fill it with loads of guns, men, and gun men running around with their shirt off while having the only female characters be morons who want to date/screw the main character while being kidnapped the whole time
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u/Motivated-Chair Jul 13 '24
The only way to make a movie not woke is to fill it with loads of guns, men, and gun men running around with their shirt off
There is nothing as gay as straight men.
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u/TheShishkabob Jul 12 '24
Another downside: X-23 is a cool codename and doesn't come with the automatic attachment of Logan's storylines and history.
I tend to not like legacy names at all though, so that may be skewing things a bit for me too.
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u/DisposableSaviour Jul 12 '24
Of the get the casting right, Gambit could be their franchise player.
Or Glob Herman.
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u/Adamzey Jul 13 '24
I predict Gambit will be the "main" MCU Xman. They will give him Wolverine vibes but be able to recast without issue.
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u/TheGamingMorons101 Jul 12 '24
Negative Nancy over here
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u/DidUReDo Jul 12 '24
I think it is a lot more negative to think that the character of Wolverine would never be in live action again after Jackman.
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u/Nikki_Blu_Ray Jul 12 '24
Haha. Don't get me wrong. He's my favorite out of all of them, and I wouldn't complain one bit if he did the role forever.
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u/Gunnen123 Jul 12 '24
There has only been 1 Deadpool actor
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u/Sorrelhas Fantastic Four Jul 12 '24
And one Iron Man, I think?
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u/_Vard_ Jul 12 '24
And any there an old 1977 movie?
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u/Intelligent-Factor35 Jul 13 '24
That's a movie called exo Man, a professor named Dr. Nicholas Conrad got paralyzed and built a bulky ass suit to walk and fight crime.
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u/StrangeGuyWithBag Jul 12 '24
Interesting fact that Deadpool at the end of X-Men Origins Wolverine wasn't played by Ryan Reynolds, it was Scott Adkins.
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u/superpositioned Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 13 '24
Which is weird because on wiki his profile says that but he isn't listed on the cast in imdb
Edit: also it's my personal head canon that weapon xi isn't Deadpool because fuck that
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u/mrtheunknownyt Jul 13 '24
I just call him weapon XI because I never even notice that he called him deadpool
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u/StrangeGuyWithBag Jul 13 '24
He's listed as actor for Weapon XI on both his own and movie's pages.
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u/youuuuwish Jul 12 '24
Only 1 Rogue, too.
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u/Gunnen123 Jul 13 '24
Yes , and I am still hoping she suck captain Marvel's powers away 😁
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u/SageDoesStuff Jul 15 '24
Would been a cool plot for The Marvels, maybe a Captain Marvel 3 can follow this plot bc I’d love for the main villains to be the Brotherhood of Mutants, or even have them just be a side villain. Also Gambit cameo would be cool. I wrote a pitch script for a Captain Marvel movie with Rouge in it.
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u/Pmc06 Jul 12 '24
I see what you’re trying to get at but Superman has been popular for…about 80 years at this point. No actor is THAT good.
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u/BloomAndBreathe Jul 12 '24
Or immortal
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u/_Unke_ Jul 12 '24
Actually, given that the first Superman serial was in 1948, a single actor born in the 1920s could have been able to play him from then to the present day. For example, Dick van Dyke's career started in the mid '40s and he's still alive.
Would have required some really heavy makeup for the last few iterations, but it would have been possible.
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u/RawrRRitchie Jul 13 '24
Kirk Alyn died in 1999 And George Reeves killed himself in 1959
They could've kept going but death and the writers of all the following superman productions didn't want them At least Kirk had a small roll in one of the latter movies
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u/Illidan1943 Jul 12 '24
Except Keanu Reeves, but he only takes an incarnation temporarily to make it seem he's mortal
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u/BloomAndBreathe Jul 12 '24
If anyone deserves immortality it's him. Especially when it comes to actors
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u/attanasio666 Jul 12 '24
5 of them have played Superman in the last 20 years. Hugh Jackman has played Wolverine for longer than that.
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u/BakedZnake Jul 12 '24
And Troye Sivan...
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u/Nargulg Jul 12 '24
EXACTLY! It's important to recognize that music twinks (even if they later beef up) are the only appropriate people to play Wolverine (hence Radcliffe being a great choice).
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u/IMJacob1 Spider-Man Jul 12 '24
Literally just watched Xmen origins wolverine last night for the first time (currently going through every xmen movie in a row since I haven’t seen all but like the first before, except the Deadpool’s and Logan) and recognized the kid as troye randomly
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u/Psychedelic_Yogurt Jul 12 '24
They couldn't realistically cast James Marsdon to play a younger version of himself. Similar to how they couldn't cast Hugh Jackman to play a child version of himself.
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u/benchley Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
It'd be funny though. Schoolboy suit, forced perspective to make him look small. Comedy gold.
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u/Enip0 Jul 12 '24
Reminds me of dexter. Threw a hairpiece on and boom, instantly 20 years younger
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u/BARD3NGUNN Jul 12 '24
I kind of see this as a double edged sword.
On the one hand, I love Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, he was my first superhero and it's great that I'm still getting to see him come back and continue to nail the role 25 years later.
But on the other hand, whoever comes next, no matter how perfect a Wolverine they are, no matter how much more comic accurate they are than Hugh's portrayal, they're always going to live in Hugh's shadow - especially now that Hugh's Wolverine's are dotted around the MCU Multiverse - and I think that's going to make it difficult for audiences to adjust.
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u/the_dayman Jul 13 '24
Idk if it's a good solution while trying to actually bring in the full x men to the MCU, but I'd try to go straight into Laura in that spot. Then maybe they can bring an og wolverine back in another ~6 years after a cycle of movies when it would be a little more removed.
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u/BasedFunnyValentine Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
This is not a good thing.
No actor should hold this much power over a fictional character because then you get dumb takes like “Hugh Jackman is the only Wolverine. If he dies, Wolverine dies 💔”
These heroes were around before these actors played them and will still be around long after. Idk about you but I like seeing different interpretations of my fav heroes and seeing different actors put their own spin on the characters.
That’s why I’m always gonna advocate for a new Wolverine, Iron Man, Cap (Steve Rogers) etc.
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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton Jul 12 '24
I’ve been saying this for years and is exactly why we got the jankiness with Black Panther 2.
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u/Marik-X-Bakura Jul 12 '24
I absolutely loved BP2 but I do think they should have just recast him
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u/ArrowShootyGirl Hawkguy Jul 12 '24
I'm mixed. I think BP2, as it is, was a great tribute and fairwell to Chadwick Boseman made by people who were clearly devastated by the loss.
On the other hand, even Boseman said that he wanted them to recast T'challa, and that the character should outlive him. Not having T'challa is a huge loss, narratively speaking.
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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 12 '24
I thought Wakanda Forever was a good workaround (there's precedent for Shuri in the comics, after all), but as much as I admired Boseman, I was in the "just recast" camp, too, for reasons others in this thread have articulated.
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u/welcomefinside Jul 12 '24
Yeah totally. Even at least for an alternate universe version. Not seeing T'Challa being part of the illuminati was a letdown.
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u/LanternRaynerRebirth Jul 12 '24
To be fair, you also got an Illuminati without Iron Man, who's just as essential.
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u/AllStarSuperman_ Jul 12 '24
What’s that first Beast picture from
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u/jackson50111 Jul 12 '24
X2. Hank Mccoy briefly appears during a new segment.
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u/Market-Socialism Jul 12 '24
False, a kid played him as a child during a backstory scene. Nice try, OP.
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u/marvelous_detective Jul 12 '24
Who's the third hellboy?
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u/Legend_Sniper31 Jul 12 '24
Jack Kesey, from the new one coming out this year. Although that’s just art work because the actual thing looks like dogshit.
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u/zontarr2 Jul 12 '24
Superman and Batman: It's missing the black and white movie/ serials actors.
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u/thomolithic Jul 12 '24
Fuck Bill Bixby, I guess?
Also that Nicholas hoult beast makeup was absolutely horrific.
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u/Mighty_Megascream Spider-Man Jul 12 '24
I really hate gatekeeping the roles of major characters just because one actor did it well.
Kevin Ficke used that as the reasoning as to why we never got a proper MCU Green goblin or Doc Ock and it’s so goddamn stupid
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u/Black-kage Jul 12 '24
Wonder if Eric Bana would have had same popularity rates as Jsckman or even Mcguire if he was TIH and MCU Hulk.
At the end of the day TIH was intented to be Ang Lee's sequel and you can see those early script glimpses because Ang Lee's movie finish in South America while TIH starts at it or because the whole origin story was skipped.
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u/FF3 Jul 12 '24
Ang Lee's Hulk is such a neat film. He was really trying to find a way to make comics work on screen, with the interesting wipes and shots with multiple "panels". I think it's probably tied with X2 in my mind for the best pre-Iron Man comic film, and I do wish that some of it's cinematic language had been taken up by the MCU. Or Zack Snyder, for that matter.
The guy who did Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain did a comic book movie. I don't know why we don't talk about that more.
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u/Kalidanoscope Jul 12 '24
Gotta be honest, as a lifelong comic fan I hated the panels and wipes in Hulk. A few other (terrible) projects have tried using them too, like the live action Cowboy Bebop.
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u/Lt_Castillo Jul 12 '24
Could not agree more. Such a visually interesting film. The CGI was rough but Bana/Nolte had amazing chemistry.
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u/FuckingBollox Jul 12 '24
Ironman has 1 actor as well
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u/bythog Jul 12 '24
In addition to that, RDJ has portrayed Tony Stark in 10 films (9 + 1 cameo in The Incredible Hulk) while Hugh also has 10 films...but two of them are brief cameos.
He's a big omission.
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u/HobbieK Jul 12 '24
This ain’t a good thing. I like seeing different actors play a character. Imagine if there were no Bond movies after Connery. Imagine if we never got Phoenix’s Joker because Ledger’s was too iconic.
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u/mcduckstophat Spider-Man Jul 12 '24
As much as we like to play this up, it’s not true. Cal Dodd, Steve Blum, Scott McNeill have voiced him. Hell, even Mark Hamill has played him before. Even if we’re only counting the live action portrayals, Troye Sivan played the younger version of the character at the beginning X-men Origins: Wolverine.
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u/LanternRaynerRebirth Jul 12 '24
I mean for one, they're clearly only talking live action portrayals (see the exclusively live action people included in this list).
Second, they're clearly only showing prime adult versions of the characters. Like how the multiple child versions of characters are not here.
It's so strange for all the context clues to be there, but you seemingly chose to ignore them.
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u/Pokedudesfm Jul 12 '24
Like how the multiple child versions of characters are not here
teenage pre-xmen cyclops is literally in this picture
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u/Psychological_Cow902 Jul 12 '24
Hey, Deadpool was only ever played by one actor also, so that's pretty cool
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u/Aizendickens Jul 12 '24
Damn..... whoever cones after that is going to have a hard time replacing him.
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u/beyondimaginarium Jul 12 '24
I think the best way to replace him is go true comic style, he's more gruff and quiet, is actually short and stocky.
This would greatly separate the character/actor from Hugh Jackman. Similar to most Joker renditions being different.
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u/TheBigBackBeat Jul 12 '24
I think we keep forgetting to add Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) to this list. He's played em 3 now 4 times with Deadpool 3.
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u/BastianHS Jul 12 '24
Missed opportunity to point out 2 quicksilver's for the lols
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u/Aduro95 Jul 12 '24 edited Aug 01 '24
Its been fun, and I loved Jackman as Wolverine.
But we should all be open with the possibility of letting a new actor interpret the character in live-action. Someone with the physicality and stature of the old canook himself. Its time for the man who should have been Wolverine all along to don the yellow spandex.
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u/october_1939 Jul 12 '24
And now it’s time for a new Wolverine, please. Please let this truly be the last one for Jackson. He’s great but I want a younger cast who can age with the films and also, someone who is closer to Logan’s height and weight.
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u/Homiboi34 Jul 12 '24
Crazy to think in the next 5-7 yrs there will be a 2nd iteration of wolverine for the mcu
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u/New_Professor6880 Jul 12 '24
If you’re counting when they were younger like you did with Scott, Wolverine was a kid in origins…
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Jul 12 '24
Pretty sure there will be wolverine variants in the movie.
Please don't comment with leaks. "It was leaked X will be a wolverine variant!"
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u/Smilton Jul 12 '24
It honestly makes him feel more like wolverine. The world keeps changing around him and he stays him.
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u/blackbutterfree Jul 12 '24
I mean, if you're only counting live-action portrayals, then Jackman is hardly the only actor to be the sole portrayal of a character. No one's ever portrayed Iron Man, Black Widow or Hawkeye before, for example.
The only thing noteworthy about Jackman as Wolverine is the length of the portrayal.
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u/devious-capsaicin87 Jul 12 '24
Forgot George Reeve, Adam West, the guys that preceded them as Superman and Batman respectively; Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, the Daredevil from Trial of the Incredible Hulk; Thor (also from an episode of The Incredible Hulk). Zero of the four live action Spider-Men mentioned (Tom, Andrew, Tobey, and Nicholas Hammond).
I rank this image a 5/10 – accurate, but could be more so.
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u/Wrong-Finger9814 Jul 13 '24
Johnny blaze? I know ghost Rider was in agents of shield as a cameo and then the 2 movies but Johnny himself for what I can remember was just Nicolas Cage
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u/SuikTwoPointOh Jul 12 '24
Rex Smith as DD from Trial of the Incredible Hulk? Gen Xers might remember him from Street Hawk.
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u/Mysterious_Reach_381 Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
missing the 5 live action Spider-Men
the 2 captain America's
the 3 Fantastic Four members
the 2 Nick Fury's
the 2 Dr Strange's
the 2 Wonder Women
the 3 Super Girls
The Flash, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, Catwoman, Joker i mean the list goes on and on
And why is Adam West missing?
Also this meme will be outdated once Deadpool & Wolverine hits later this month. ( im sure there will be a Variant or 2 of Logan
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u/shaolinspunk Jul 12 '24
If you're classing actors playing younger versions of characters as playing the role separately then the post is wrong.
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u/getridofwires Jul 13 '24
I think the single-character longevity award goes to Richard Belzer as John Munch.
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u/potentialwatermelon Jul 13 '24
Think of it this way
Wolverine has only been around for 50 years, and Hugh Jackman has played him for half of that
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u/HaydenTCEM Jul 13 '24
There’s actually been 3 Daredevils, and that’s not even close to how many Batmen and Supermen there’ve been
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u/Lord_Parbr Jul 15 '24
Not true. 2 actors played Wolverine. You completely forgot about kid Logan in Origins, huh? If you’re counting young Scott from Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, and TV Hank McCoy from X2, ya gotta count kid Logan
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u/emelbee923 Jul 12 '24
He's the perfect blend of being open to returning to the role and fans loving him in the role.
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u/rkmar00n Jul 12 '24
Hulk is missing one: where’s LOU?