A man with metal bones and no memory of who put them there, who is extremely hard to kill and has spent a century finding that out.
Hugh Jackman played this character for twenty-four years, which is longer than anyone has played anyone else in this catalogue, and the run is unusual in that it improved. The early films use him as the audience’s way in. The last one uses him as an old man dying of the thing that kept him alive.
What holds it together is that he never wants to be there. Every film in the series begins by finding him somewhere else, alone, and giving him a reason he cannot refuse.
Show detailsNine films, or ten
The reference articles disagree with themselves. One says he has appeared in nine films, meaning the Fox run, and mentions Deadpool & Wolverine separately. Another says ten and lists all ten.
This catalogue records ten, because that article enumerates them and the other does not.