>>143651503The reasoning is that Wolverine was basically the main character in the original 90's series and his been either the main character or the most heavily exposed character in almost every piece of X-Men media released in the last 30+ years.
Wolverine is Xavier's new best friend.
Wolverine is Jean's one true love.
Wolverine gets his own X-teams.
Wolverine gets multiple Hollywood movies all to himself and is the main character in almost all general X-men films, even being the main character in one of the past timeline films he wasn't supposed to even be in.
Wolverine is the only mutant to get his own video games while everyone else is stuck sharing with other X-Men, including Wolverine.
Wolverine gets multiple versions of himself running around in the comics.
Wolverine's son gets to be Wolverine for a while.
Wolverine's daughter gets to be Wolverine and then gets cloned like 4 times and one of them gets to be a tiny Wolverine with a cute animal name.
Wolverine gets to be on all the non-mutant teams and all but kicked Beast out of that role. Any time a Marvel product needs mutant representation, it's Wolverine first, always. Even durong the Perlmutter era of "Fuck Fox and fuck Mutants", Wolverine was an exception because he's too popular.
The entire X-Men franchise has basically devolved into Wolverine. All the other popular male mutants are Wolverine's best friends, and almost all of the hot females have some special connection to him in some way. His lovers, or his daughter, or one of the half dozen female sidekicks he's had, or they're related to one of his male friends in some way.
So Wolverine gets a supporting role here, that other X-Men are allowed to breath.
