"Logan" - Requiem for a Superhero Quiz

Answer: Chauffeur

"Logan" takes place in 2029, several years after any other "X-Men" movie. We find that Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman, as always) has changed drastically and if there is any word that can describe him accurately, that word is 'vulnerable'. His self-healing power is failing.

As a result, Logan has aged noticeably and cannot recover from any injuries as fast or as well. Moreover, the adamantium in his body is slowly poisoning him and the losses in his life have worn him out mentally, so he has resorted to alcohol to cope with the pain.

Indeed, in the opening scene Logan wakes up from a stupor, only to find some men trying to steal parts of the car that he uses to drive people around. Yes, Wolverine is not one of the X-Men anymore, he is a chauffeur. Still, when the thieves ignore his warnings and shoot him instead, Logan fights back and destroys them, showing a glimpse of his former self.

Answer: He is senile.

In the previous "X-Men" movies, Charles Xavier has been known as Professor X, the telepathic mutant who acts as a mentor and guide to younger mutants, and is the founder and leader of the X-Men. In "Logan", however, Charles Xavier flickers between senility and lucidity.

His degenerating mind also causes him to have recurring seizures, during which he loses control of his immense psychic powers and causes hurt to those around him. During one such incident prior to the events of the film, Professor X caused the deaths of many civilians and several of the X-Men.

As a result of that event and Xavier's growing senility, Logan shelters him in a hideout in Mexico and regularly brings him medication that suppresses the seizures. Patrick Stewart, who portrayed the somber and wise Charles Xavier in some of the previous "X-Men" films, delivers a riveting performance as an old man who has lost everything but parts of his mind, yet in his lucid moments he still finds it in himself to act as a guide to Logan, while being more compassionate and human than ever.

Answer: Logan / Wolverine

Alright, if you've watched the movie, this should have been a piece of cake. Despite excellent performances both by Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, the most memorable character is Laura, who is played amazingly by the eleven year old Dafne Keen in her first movie role. Laura, also known by the moniker X-23, is a young girl with mutant powers who was raised in a lab as part of an experiment to create children with powers of existing mutants and train them as weapons.

She has the same powers as Logan and she is of course his biological daughter (his genetic material was, ahem, collected during the Weapon X experiment, when his skeleton was fused with adamantium).

However, since she was raised in a lab, she is rather unsocialised. In the first half of the film, Laura does not speak a single word, yet her presence does all the talking.

Whenever she is around someone new, she is quick to evaluate their intentions, often maintaining a grim face. If she sees someone as an immediate threat, she quickly uses her adamantium claws to scare or attack them. Laura's unruly behaviour leaves Logan, who is rather the same, with the difficult task of reining her in and teaching her moderation. Yet little by little, Laura and Logan warm up to each other, and eventually she starts speaking to him.

Answer: Eden

When the experiment that Laura is a part of went south, a nurse in the facility helps her escape and brings her to Logan, who suddenly finds himself in charge of a frail Xavier and a wild Laura. Donald Pierce, a part-cyborg soldier played by Boyd Holbrook of the Netflix series "Narcos", is the leader of the Reavers, the team that has been sent to capture Laura. After fending off an initial attack, Logan, Xavier and Laura set off to North Dakota to find the safe haven called Eden, from where Laura can cross the Canadian border. Logan has doubts as to whether Eden is an actual place and struggles with his newfound responsibilities, but Xavier urges him to go on.

As for the wrong choices, X-Mansion was the place that Charles Xavier used as a school for young mutants. Exodus and Excelsior are unfortunate puns on my part.

Answer: Logan injects Xavier with the suppressant medication.

While Xavier and Laura stay back at the hotel to rest, Logan finds a place to trade the car he used for his work. When he returns to their hotel with a new vehicle, he notices that the Reavers have already tracked then down and rushes back to their room.

At that point, however, Xavier has a seizure which causes a psychic wave that paralyses everyone except Logan, who claws his way to the room with great difficulty. Once he reaches there, he and Laura take out all the Reavers in the room before Logan uses the medication on Xavier, averting any civilian casualties. Since there are no flashbacks to the incident that claimed the lives of the X-Men, this one at the hotel is the best indication that the viewers get at how dangerous Professor X's instability is.

Answer: The Munson father traps X-24 by slamming him with his car.

Logan and the Munson father are away settling a dispute of the Munsons when the Reavers find the house. Xavier finally remembers the incident he caused with the X-Men and he is able to truly understand why Logan, who has hurt so many people, distances himself from others.

Unfortunately, Xavier isn't addressing this to Logan as he thinks, but to X-24, the clone who looks like a younger Logan. X-24 proceeds to fatally wound Xavier and the two Munson family members left behind, causing Laura to fly into a rage. Logan arrives and takes on the clone, but X-24 soon gains the upper hand.

The Munson father slams his car into X-24 and traps him, which allows Logan and Laura to escape with Xavier's body. Logan's anguish after burying Xavier is almost palpable, as it means he is the last one of the X-Men left alive.

Answer: True

In one of the few humorous scenes in "Logan", the mutant kids - who escaped along with Laura from the Transigen facility where the experiments took place - trim Logan's beard with little scissors until it looks like the classic Wolverine beard from the books.

The grown-up mutant is not pleased though when he wakes up and sees what happened, an attitude that carries on from an earlier occurrence, when he found Laura's "X-Men" comic books, and clearly unimpressed, he declared that "maybe a quarter of it happened, and not like this". Logan's negative attitude toward the "X-Men" comics stems from the fact that they remind him of the people he has lost, as he simply added that "in the real world, people die". With his failing abilities and jaded view of the world, this Logan is heavily based on the Old Man Logan variation of Wolverine, which was introduced in the comic books in 2008.

Answer: Dr. Zander Rice

After the loss of the X-Men, the mutant species has been nearly entirely wiped out because no new mutants have been born in over two decades. Dr. Zander Rice, played by Richard E. Grant, reveals upon meeting Wolverine that he was the one who designed the virus that prevented the birth of new mutants (presumably through genetic means). He claims that creating children with mutant abilities and experimenting was the next step in the process, and that he did this after Wolverine killed his father during the Weapon X experiment many years back (shown briefly in "X-Men: Apocalypse"). Dr. Rice did not live to see his plans blossom, as he was killed during the final showdown.

Dr. Gregory House is of course the title character of the famous tv show "House M.D.". Dr. Doom is a supervillain that frequently antagonises the Fantastic Four, while James Howlett is Logan's birth name (Logan is the surname of the man implied to be his biological father in the comics).

Answer: He uses a special serum.

When the mutant kids leave Eden to cross the Canadian border, Logan does not plan on going with them. However, he notices that the Reavers, including X-24 and Dr. Rice, are after them. Logan chases after them, but he is still too weak from his previous fight with X-24.

He uses the serum that was given to him by one of the kids, and his injuries are healed almost immediately, but the effects wear off very fast because he took it all at once. The Reavers soldiers are not much of an obstacle for the enraged Wolverine and the mutant kids, but X-24 proves to be an altogether different foe once again.

Answer: True

Unlike most superhero films, in this one Logan does not have an ace up his sleeve. Despite the surge of energy from his rage, he loses to X-24 after a short fight, who then proceeds to rip into him. Before delivering the final hit though, X-24 is shot by Laura with an adamantium bullet that Logan had kept for himself, about the only thing that would be able to kill Logan at his prime or X-24. "Logan" is only the second "X-Men" movie (the first being "Deadpool") to get an R-rating, and it makes full use of it in its fight scenes by keeping them short and brutal, relying on the intensity with which Hugh Jackman and Dafne Keen portray their characters, rather than choreographed complex moves.

In the end though, it all fades away when Logan (in Jackman's final performance of the role), with his healing ability depleted and his body mangled, spends his final moments with Laura as father and daughter. And as the end credits roll under the sound of Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around", the curtain falls on the last of the original X-Men, passing the baton to the next generation.