History

When fighting as part of the Canadian Army in occupied France during World War II, Logan witnessed a French sorceress Marie D'Arqueness summon a demon after Nazis threatened her daughter Sylvie. The energies of the summoning dispersed through the area killing all Canadian and German soldiers except for Logan. Marie was successful with the ritual as she brought the demon known as the Truth to the physical realm. The demon was attacked by Logan who stabbed the creature in the chest with his bone claws. Marie told Logan that she needed him to buy her enough time to complete a banishment spell to send the Truth back where it came from. After a brief fight, Marie was able to send the demon back but the spell had drained Marie of her life energies. She then told Logan that the Truth would come back to the land of the living every ten years and that the only person who could stop it was her daughter. She asked Logan to keep watch over Sylvie and protect her during each battle with the Truth. He accepted the responsibility while Marie died in his arms.[1]

In 1954, the Truth reappeared during the 1954 Yangtze River floods in China. Sylvie, who was still a novice, teleported Logan halfway around the world to help her against the demon. After the Truth stepped into the world, seeing it in person scared Sylvie so much that she teleported away leaving Logan alone to fight the demon. After a brief battle, Sylvie reappeared and fired an energy blast at the Truth knocking it off balance. This gave Sylvie and Logan enough time to re-acclimate themselves to the battle and banish the demon again.[2]
The Truth returned years later in Nevada during Project Sedan. Sylvie and Logan fought it in the middle of an atomic explosion as she shielded both of them from the radiation while she pushed the Truth back through the portal he came through with her powers. Afterwards Logan was about to say his goodbyes when Sylvie transported them both to Paris so that she could get to know him more than just during their one encounter every ten years. She transformed their clothes into something more appropriate and both of them went out for a night on the town. After dinner they headed to a hotel where they were intimate with each other. The next morning, Sylvie left Logan in bed as she transported away, only leaving a note behind that said "Merci pour le petit bonheur."[3]

In 1970, Sylvie found Logan in a New York City bar drinking himself away. He asked whether she wanted to talk about Paris to which Sylvie said no. They traveled to Pakistan during the 1970 Bhola cyclone. Trees started to fly everywhere but Logan cut through them with his adamantium claws. Sylvie noticed the metal laced to them and quickly questioned Logan but he told her that he didn't want to talk about it, much like their night in Paris. The Truth appeared among the trees, but before they could fight it the demon pointed to the shoreline where a tsunami was about to crash towards the village with its residents' path to safety blocked. Sylvie decided that they should split up with Logan heading to the coast while she took on the Truth. Her magic countered every move the demon made and as she pushed him through the portal, Sylvie became too confident and looked away for a brief moment when the Truth stuck his hand out and used his claws to puncture her through her abdomen, pulling her into the portal with him.[4]

Believing himself to now be alone against the Truth, Logan spent the 1980s joining the X-Men, traveling to Japan, and having a relationship with Yukio. As the decade drew to a close, he visited the Sanctum Sanctorum to ask Doctor Strange for any possible help with the Truth. After learning that Marie and Sylvie were French, Stephen directed Logan to Clan D'Arqueness, the clan of sorcerers in the French Alps. Logan traveled to La Ville D'Arqueness, where he was met by Agathe D'Arqueness. She became quickly angered at the sight of Logan and said that he was the reason Sylvie was killed and that he doomed the world. She teleported him away to the Australian outback before he could find out the real truth that Agathe was hiding, a daughter whom Logan fathered with Sylvie during their night in Paris.[5]
Logan had asked Talisman to set up a magical alert system for when the Truth would attempt to break out the next time. She sensed it imminently approaching in 1995 and informed Logan and the X-Men that she was ready to teleport them to the demon's location the moment it emerged into the world. That turned out to be during the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in the Caribbean. The team was ill-prepared to face the demon and Cyclops was killed, while Talisman was unable to banish it without the proper spell, which Logan did not know. The Truth then killed Talisman and Storm before finally being banished by Reine du Rien, whom Logan recognized as his daughter with Sylvie.[6]

After the disaster at Soufrière Hills, the X-Men and Logan parted ways and he was left alone. Rien had disappeared before Logan could speak with her and he spent the next decade and a half searching for her in the worst places on the planet, waiting for the Truth to appear in one of them. He finally found her in Mumbai during the 26/11 attacks. After Rien had banished the Truth again, she explained to Logan that Clan D'Arqueness had specifically asked Sylvie to bear his daughter, believing that that the combination of their family's magic and Logan's mutant abilities would create a being who could be the perfect opposite of the Truth. Her only name translated to "nothing", and Rien did not consider herself to be Logan's daughter. Logan then explained that all these past years he was hunting the Truth and not her. His plan involved both of them travelling to Hell itself in order to kill the Demon once and for all and finally be free.[7]
Rien then opened a portal to Hell, and Logan was immediately pulled inside and imprisoned. Rien followed after him and freed Logan. The duo fought their way through several demons until they discovered that the spirit of Sylvie was also in Hell where she had been tortured for years by the Truth.[8]

After being freed, Sylvie told her daughter and Logan that they were foolish and explained the true nature of The Truth: The demon could not be killed, especially in Hell, as the true nature of this demon was that everything died except the Truth itself, that principle made the demon seek the death of everything but itself. The Truth then appeared ready to kill the trio, but Rien and her mother united their forces and were able to blast the demon with a magical spell. With the Truth momently stopped, Sylvie took Rien and Logan to the Hell of many doors, a place where each door opened onto a moment from Sylvie's memory and where she was tortured by The Truth in the past. Rien told her mother to open one of the doors in order to escape to the past, but Logan then told Sylvie to open a door that would take them back to the night they met for the first time during World War II. As Rien and her mother tried to open the door, Logan decided to fight the Truth to buy them some time but was overpowered by the demon and lost his left arm.[9]
Rien and Sylvie were then able to open the door and they all traveled back in time to World War II, with the Truth following them. In the past, The Truth was confronted by a past version of itself and was faced with the lie at the core of its nature: Everything died but it could not. Angered by this revelation, the Truth of the past attacked its future self. Logan was briefly confronted by his past self, but convinced him to stay aside. With the two demons busy fighting each other, Rien, Logan, and Sylvie with the help of the past version of Marie D'Arqueness were able to trap the two demons in a magical cage. To make sure that the two demons couldn't escape, Logan and Sylvie decided to stay behind in order to serve as a "lock" for this cage. Once the spell was completed, the two demons, Logan and Sylvie were turned to stone for eternity.[9]Notes
- This version of Wolverine apparently had never lost his memory, as he had no problems recalling his past after receiving his adamantium skeleton.
See Also
- 9 appearance(s) of James Howlett (Earth-19333)
- 36 image(s) of James Howlett (Earth-19333)
- 4 quotation(s) by or about James Howlett (Earth-19333)
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References
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #1
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #2
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #3
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #4
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #5
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #6
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #7
- ↑ Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #8
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Marvel Comics Presents (Vol. 3) #9