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However, that hasn’t stopped anyone from creating rip-off versions of the character. Numerous other publishers have ripped off various aspects of the clawed mutant, and even Marvel themselves have gotten in on ripping their own creation off. Some Wolverine rip-offs have gone further than others, though, and these five have all gotten popular in their own right.
5) Omega Red
Wolverine has faced many dangerous foes, but few of them are as deadly as Omega Red. Most people would have picked someone like Sabretooth, but Red is even more of a Wolverine rip-off then Victor Creed. Both of them were mutants who were experimented on by their government, each of their mutant powers affecting their childhoods and setting them on their paths, each of them had a nigh indestructible metal put into their body, both were manipulated by the people who created them, and both of them are tough as nails fighters, old cold warriors still trying to change the world in their disparate ways. They’ve even put Arkady on a Wolverine-esque path of redemption. Omega Red has always been an inverse of Wolverine, it’s just gotten easier to see as time went on.
4) Laura Kinney/Wolverine II
Marvel has created numerous versions of Wolverine over the decades, all in hopes to recreate the fan-favorite’s character popularity. In the early ’00s, the publisher decided to create a new version of the hero for the 21st century. Laura Kinney was a complete re-do on the concept of the character. She started out as a mysterious, violent young woman, created to be a weapon. She had to come to terms with her past, find her family, and learn to control the beast that she was created to be. If you look at the history of Laura, you will see a lot of things that echo Wolverine’s own development years before. She’s since earned the right to use the name “Wolverine”, putting the finishing touches on her journey as a character and becoming a hero on the level of her father.
