As one of the most iconic superheroes the X-Men and occasional Avenger, Wolverine has changed up his look many times across his nearly 50-year history as he continues to battle for mutantkind with teams or through his own solo comic book adventures. However, one of the most questionable redesigns that Logan has gone through involves the bizarre decision to take away the mutant superhero's nose in the '90s. Here's how Wolverine lost a key facial feature and how it eventually was returned without any real explanation.

One of the biggest fan-favorite X-Men crossover events of the 90s was "Fatal Attractions," which centered on a renewed conflict between Professor X and Magneto. As the confrontation reached its climax on Asteroid M, Magneto's orbital base of operations, Wolverine attempted to kill his longtime frenemy. This particularly enraged the Master of Magnetism, who had worked with the team during a temporary redemptive sojourn, and the villain brutally ripped all the adamantium out of Wolverine's body, with the hero's mutant healing factor burning itself out just to keep Logan from succumbing to the grievous injuries.

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Magneto Rips Out Wolverine Adamantium

For an extended period, following the battle, Wolverine continued to perilously serve as a superhero without his healing factor. Eventually discovering that he possessed bone claws instead of just having his signature claws made from adamantium, Wolverine used his claws sparingly as baring them caused severe tissue damage and bleeding from his hands since his body couldn't heal from them emerging between his knuckles. However, the loss of Wolverine's healing factor ultimately proved temporary and came back even more powerful than ever.

Wolverine's healing factor had been constantly preoccupied with keeping his adamantium blood poisoning at bay for the past several decades. With the adamantium now completely out of the equation to keep Logan's healing factor in check, its return made the longtime X-Men a much more bestial, feral figure, with his hair now longer and his facial features now visibly more animalistic while his personality became more savage and less erudite. This devolution would only continue the X-Men confronted Cable's villainous son Genesis in 1996's Wolverine #100, by Larry Hama and Adam Kubert.

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Born in a distant, alternate future with Cable and Aliya Summers as his parents, Tyler Dayspring was kidnapped and corrupted by Cable's evil clone Stryfe. After battling against his father in their own timeline, Tyler pursued Cable to the Marvel Universe's relative present, where he continued his vendetta against both Cable and X-Force. Viewing himself as Apocalypse's true heir, Tyler renamed himself Genesis and sought to transform Wolverine into one of his Four Horsemen by wiping Wolverine's mind and rebonding adamantium to his skeleton. This ultimately failed and backfired spectacularly. Wolverine becoming an even more feral beast and killed Genesis. However, Logan's nose also disappeared as he devolved more into an animal, with a new design by the art team of Val Semeiks and Chris Hunt along with series writer Larry Hama.

Feral Wolverine X-Men

While Elektra soon helped restore Wolverine's mental faculties over the next several issues, Logan retained his more bestial physical appearance. Opting to wear a bandana on the field instead of his normal cowl -- which no longer fit, Wolverine's face was usually obscured throughout this era. While different artists emphasized and de-emphasized the presence of Wolverine's nose in his feral state over the next several issues of his solo series,  fill-in artist Anthony Winn illustrated the classic, normal Wolverine appearance starting with Wolverine #107.

This discrepancy was explained away in later issues as the superhero using an image inducer to create the illusion he had physically returned to normal. Once Leinil Francis Yu took over art duties, Wolverine's physical appearance was permanently shifted to normal with no explanation. Although his healing factor could've conceivably played a role in restoring his usual appearance, Warren Ellis and Yu's subsequent run never addressed his extended feral period ever again.

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