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Originally Posted by Iceman

I can give you that. Some artists do draw him that way though I don't prefer it. Wolverine and the X-Men has him a little wider than normal.

I think we can all agree that many MU figures have legs that are too thin.

Originally Wolverine was 4 1/2 feet tall. A bit short. He was originally meant to be a wolverine human hybrid or a mutated wolverine cub. As he gained popularity, they quickly tweaked his image to include an extra foot of man and to attribute his powers to the mutant gene. At that point his history and adimantium skeleton were still under raps. His mask changed from the original short eared tiger striped version to the one we all know and love due to an artists mistake.

Now we all know that different artists imagine our heroes in different ways. I know it's subjective as to who likes or dislikes any given version or artistic style of a character, but I tend to like the ones that just look cool and suit the character. Jim Lee's Wolverine is the one thats stuck. And the one I like best. It has him at around 5 foot 4" - 5 foot 6". Wolverine is also very stout. The reason for this is because of the extra muscle mass that has developed to support the extra weight of his adimantium skeleton, that ads an extra 100 pounds to his over all weight. So a wide Wolverine just makes since. I'm not a big fan of the Hue Jackman Wolverine. He's just not the right body type at all. But he has done a good job for the most part. But I wouldn't buy any figures based off of him.

One point I would like to make is that if we based all the toys on their first incarnation than we would see a Hulk that is smaller, a Juggernaut without pants and a Goblin glider that was just a wingless rocket. So I'm all for on going character development.

Not all the choices made are going to be ones fans like or agree with, but I would say Marvel does a pretty good job overall considering our love and devotion to the MU.