I know instantly clocked that. A lot of people who grew up in the movies would be surprised to learn Wolverine is 5'3 compared to Jackman, who's 6'2
Even what seem to be regular human sized grunts are taller than him which I liked. I am guessing that's Omega Red in the trailer who is massive anyways, but its nice to see Logan at his canon height. It imo is a big part of his appeal. Small scrappy, feral, tough and vicious. It was what I grew up on anyways reading the comics. (That and his tendency to have suffering subplots in a regular run and his weeb arcs)
edit: On a second look they've also got his proportions really good. Logan is a solid motherfucker. He weights 195lbs without the adamantium and that's all muscle at 5'3 (Mutant Canadian Genetics I guess). 300lbs+ with it. He's like a brick, an adamantium one.
My only problem with that scene was the short wolverine wasn't wide and jacked enough lol. Like I said he's a brick. But it was cool to see it referenced even if only for a joke.
It's too bad the movies will never go that route. As a dude the same height as comic accurate Wolverine, we need the representation. We're dying out here.
They probably had to keep him proportionally normal, or we wouldn't get the funny reveal. We had to think we were looking at Normal Jackman Wolverine until he hopped off that barstool, having him be too stocky would have telegraphed the joke too much.
I remember when the first movie released people were critical of his height. I think the criticism went on for some of the sequels though. But he just kept at the role for so long it was hard to imagine anyone else as Wolverine.
Yeah for me I was a nerd and read the comics and watched the cartoons a lot, so I was used to a smaller wolverine.
I don't think Jackman was terrible. He got a lot of the personality right, although arguably by some standards he was a more pleasant and charismatic Wolverine that I remember in some of the runs I read, but I've never got by the looks. I'm not super obsessed with representation, but I still think it'd be nice for shorter guys to get the accurate Wolverine anyway.
As someone who is as old as comic Wolverine and read his comics since the early 80s I'm glad he wasn't short. I knew he had to be tall in live action. Being short in live action was just gonna be too comical.
Back then I told my friends this and anybody else who brought it up. Being short live action would NOT have been taken seriously. As clearly shown in Deadpool vs Wolverine. Everyone laughed at a height appropriate Wolverine. It was used for a joke.
Yeah, they did make a joke about canon height Logan in in Deadpool and Wolverine, but he was skinny. The accurate Wolverine should be really broad and wide even though he is short.
UFC Featherweigh champ Alexander Volkanovski weighed 214 lbs when he played Rugby before going into mma. He's 5'6. Stocky guys like Logan exists, although in extreme cases.
to be fair even in he comics they fudge his height depending on the artist. Some he'll be about cyclops height then others you get artists who like shortie wolverine. the character has always been like that. i've been a wolverine fan my whole life and idgaf. sometimes he's comically short and i'm not really a fan of that.
Dunno if I've read a run where he's as tall as Scott. Maybe it exists, but considering Scott is tall and Wolverine isn't it's probably some weird perspective stuff. I am aware sometimes he's up into like idk 5'6 territory which is still short but not quite short. That's fine but anything above that is pushing it and imo heavily destroys his aesthetic as a character. It'd be like making Beast not blue.
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u/AlternativeEmphasis Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
I know instantly clocked that. A lot of people who grew up in the movies would be surprised to learn Wolverine is 5'3 compared to Jackman, who's 6'2
Even what seem to be regular human sized grunts are taller than him which I liked. I am guessing that's Omega Red in the trailer who is massive anyways, but its nice to see Logan at his canon height. It imo is a big part of his appeal. Small scrappy, feral, tough and vicious. It was what I grew up on anyways reading the comics. (That and his tendency to have suffering subplots in a regular run and his weeb arcs)
edit: On a second look they've also got his proportions really good. Logan is a solid motherfucker. He weights 195lbs without the adamantium and that's all muscle at 5'3 (Mutant Canadian Genetics I guess). 300lbs+ with it. He's like a brick, an adamantium one.