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Originally Posted by kylactus

yeah, but Nova never quite achieved "lunch box" status, Wolverine was for years, and up until his death, one of Marvels top 5 characters. you could get away with having someone else BE Iron Man, because he's in a suit, any corpse can BE Deathlok, Hell you can make anyone "worthy" of Thor's Hammer, Which I guess now makes you Thor, even though like 12 people lifted it before chick and they remained themselves, but with the power of Thor. anyone can BE the Ghost rider. those are "titles" or Mantles, even Cap is a symbol, all be it that I don't consider Steve rogers a "secret" identity as much as a real name, but Wolverine IS Logan, he didn't stand for anything but his own moral code, how can someone else just decide to "be" him? it's just dis-arvel PC BS. look at every show on the Disney channel, they'll have a smart white girl, a pretty Hispanic girl, a few young black kids, throw in a genius Indian or Asian, and a dumb white boy. and a couple parents who are completely oblivious to what there minor children are doing.
not every story, household, group or community has to be a spot on representation of the overall American demographic! it makes it feel engineered and forced to me. but I guess that's Disney's kee demographic... morons.

Actually it's kinda funny that you bring up how Nova isn't very popular outside of the comic fans community because I was at Wal-Mart getting groceries and I saw a Marvel backpack and one of the characters on it was Nova. It used his Deodato art like from the MU figure, I was just pretty damn surprised to see Nova on a backpack and have it not then be the dumb kid-Nova. Of course I'm sure whichever kids get that backpack will have no clue who it is they're looking at.
I feel like nobody else can actually call themselves Wolverine because they aren't. Logan's a short, stocky, hairy, angry, and fierce little Canadian with claws all of which are qualities found in actual wolverines except for the shared healthcare system. Nobody else could be Wolverine unless Puck got claws and a much darker outlook on life, and even then he'd still be Puck at the end of the day. I'm pretty sure that eventually we'll see our main Wolverine again and Xavier too, even though immortality is actually a rare power among these characters it's one of those things they secretly all share.