Review: Marvel Legends Wolverine (Battle Damaged) from Deadpool & Wolverine
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"I Get To Kill A Hundred Yous? F*** Yeah, I'm Ready!"
When Deadpool & Wolverine hit our screens in 2024, it was clear that there was a large raft of characters who took part in the movie who we as collectors might want to join our Marvel Legends display. The first wave for the movie was relatively modest with figures of Deadpool, Wolverine, and a pack featuring Headpool and a civilian Logan from the early bar scenes. We’ve had to wait until Spring of 2026 for the next batch of Deadpool & Wolverine MCU movie figures, with a full six-figure wave released and headed up by a 7th Deluxe release of Dogpool and Deadpool. From the single boxed wave, our review here looks at the new Wolverine figure from the movie with battle damage.
This new Wolverine figure is packed in the standard Legends box, black in tone, with the Marvel Legends logo at the top left and the movie logo across the bottom, underneath the window. The character details are shown on a side callout, printed to look like a rip in the box, and just states Wolverine with no subtitles for the battle damage. This means the labelling on this 2026 set is identical to the 2024 sleeved release and will also be the same as the upcoming 2026 shirtless Wolverine. Although when looking at the packaging side by side, the character text on the new version has moved to blue from the 2024 red text.
To the right-hand side of the box is a full image of Wolverine, with sleeves removed, battle damage on the costume and a snarling facial expression. We get this image again, smaller on the opposite spine and on the back of the box. The box reverse has a short piece of text introducing Wolverine as “broken and shame-fueled”, and this is again the same text as used on the 2024 release, but with the text colour changed. Underneath this, and in another ‘torn out’ panel, is a checklist for the accompanying single-figure wave with headshots of each of the figures included.
Wolverine is packed into the usual inner plastic tray, and that is then set into a folded cardback sleeve. This sleeve is again the same as used in 2024, and across the entirety of the 2026 wave, a white/grey finish covered in Deadpool doodles.
Out of the box and the bulk of this 2026 Wolverine is a direct re-use of the original 2024 version, with the yellow X-Men uniform body cast in that base colour, with texture, and the blue sections overpainted around the sides of the torso, shoulders, hips, and boots. This time around, the arms are sleeveless, replicating the start of the finale of the movie as Deadpool & Wolverine face off with the Deadpool Corps.
These arms are a skin-toned plastic and include battle damage in the way of bleeding slashes on both sides. They still feature the gauntlet-style gloves, in blue with black and yellow trim. The battle-damage decor for the uniform is added as black smears, varying in size and intensity and focused solely on the front of the figure, with quite a clean patch across the thigh area. The final detail on the costume is the red-painted X-Men logo on Wolverine’s belt.
There are two head sculpts included, both masked, the first the same as the 2024 release with a neutral expression. The new alternative features a snarling Wolverine. Both include a textured yellow cowl with the iconic large black mask and ‘ears’ with the eyes painted in white. Face print tech is used for the facial hair, and on the snarling expression, the teeth are also painted out in white.
vs the 2024 single release (right)
When comparing to the 2024 figure, there is some minor variation in the base yellow, with the newer figure also featuring the sleeveless arms and the weathering and grime on the costume. All of the head sculpts across both figures are compatible, allowing Wolverine to be given an older unmasked head if you wish, or giving the older figure the snarling masked head.
Heads are interchangeable // vs the Maniple Custom Arms (right)
Prior to this release, aftermarket mods were available through Maniple to create the sleeveless masked look, and compared side by side, the 2026 version and this ‘custom’ job are pretty similar. You could even argue the Maniple versions have a slightly more natural skin tone.
Wolverine comes with two sets of hands, as is standard for the character, one set with claws retracted and one with claws extended. These slot in and out of the wrist joint easily and are textured like the suit around the gloved section and overpainted with yellow panels, although here the yellow is duller, having been painted over a darker blue base plastic. Both hands feature the claw ‘sockets’ in silver, with the extended claws cast in a similar but duller silver finish. The shape of these extended claws is Ok out of the box with accurate spacing, but the softer plastic can see these warp and bend.
We have 21 points of pinless articulation on the figure, allowing a wide range of movement and posing. The upper arms start with butterfly shoulders, followed by a bicep swivel, dual-joint elbow, and wrist peg. This allows Wolverine into most of his classic ‘claw out’ poses, with sufficient movement in the waist and T-joint ab joint for him to hunch forward, ready to spring into battle.
The legs start with a standard hip, the thigh cut swivel, double joint knees, and an ankle rocker. They can position Wolverine in a number of combat poses as well as neutral stances, or into a kneeling or crouching stance.
The original 2024 release of Wolverine from Deadpool & Wolverine arrived before the movie and likely suffered from being based on early artwork and costume shots and not the actual scenes. To that end, it was criticised for having the mask, but not the sleeveless look, as well as being too clean. This 2026 release feels like a reset and almost a correction of that original figure, which can now represent the earliest scenes of the movie with this grimy battle scared Wolveine more accurate visually to how we find him at the end.
The new arms work well, as does the snarling head, with the decor sufficient to replicate that battle-damaged but with areas still too clean, and the weathering and damage completely missing on the reverse of the figure. This does now mean we have a headcount of 5 different Wolverine figures from the movie compared to Deadpool’s two (excluding Headpool, Dogpool and Cowboypool), and three of these Wolverines are the same version of the character with his costume in various states of deterioration - the fifth being the upcoming shirtless finale Wolverine.
While we appreciate Hugh Jackman’s popularity alongside that of Wolverine as a character, there is possibly going to be some collector fatigue for these movie Wolveines and any future Deadpool & Wolverine figures should be focusing on the other variants like the Cavillrine, or all of those glorious cameos and supporting roles of older movie characters we see in The Void.
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