User blog comment:Pijuyo2/Sabretooth vs. Daken, who's the best Wolverine Nemesis/@comment-3443897-20110223094553/@comment-3127363-20110223143116

You're right in the fact that Sabretooth's only goal in life was to torment Logan and not kill him, because indeed, killing him would be too easy. However, the same thing can be said of logan, it has always been too easy for him to kill Sabretooth, and he never did until the Muramasa Blade came along. That made no sense, why did Wolverine never put an end to sabretooth's life after all those years? It was never explained until recently, and I think it was simply because Marvel didn't want to leave its second most important character without a nemesis, and they didn't have the guts to change him, so they opted instead for upgrading him unnaturally as the years went by.

During Marvel's history, the character that has always been important is Wolverine, and it seems to me like marvel always upgraded Sabretooth accordingly in order to keep him a worthwhile nemesis for Logan, when in reality the character wasn't designed for such role. Remember, he was originally created as a street level thug character to fight against Luke Cage.

They did the same thing with Norman Osborn, as Spider-man grew as a character they slowly withdrew the character form his simple Green Goblin role to his much more complex Norman Osborn the master conspirator role, which they managed to do successfully, because the character's nature allowed it. I don't think that was the case with Sabretooth, he began as a street thug and they stretched the character too far to try to give him a vital rome in the mutant community, which like I said before, didn't seem to flow naturally.

It is also important to remember that now that Wolverine knows everything about his past, the psychological tormenting that Sabretooth used against him became a non issue.

So finally, marvel had the guts to get rid of the arch-enemy that was falling short and decided to go for a new one. Though i'm not a big fan of Daken either, I can objectively say that he is gaining popularity, which means people have come to accept him as the new Wolverine counterpart, which in turn means that they do not miss Sabretooth.

Daken's looks are silly indeed, and probably aimed at younger readers.