Wolverine, which traces his beginnings in Canada, in the 1800s, through his time with Major William Stryker's Team X - and then, naturally, the bonding of Wolverine's skeleton with the indestructible metal adamantium during the Weapon X program.
The first-ever live-action X-Men movie, which features Wolverine, and Anna Paquin's Rogue, being brought into Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters - and becoming members of the X-Men.
The excellent sequel to X-Men, X2: X-Men United, brings back ghosts from Wolverine's past as Wiillian Stryker, played by Brian Cox, returns to hijack Xavier's mutant-tracking computer Cerebro, in order to destroy every mutant.
X-Men: The Last Stand features Jean losing control of her telepathic powers while Magneto desperately tries to shut down a new "mutant cure" that threatens everyone born with superpowers.
Wolverine found himself grieving in 2013's The Wolverine, from director James Mangold. Jackman's Wolverine travels to Japan where he agrees to transfer his healing powers to a tech CEO named Ichiro, giving up his curse of immortality.
In X-Men: First Class, Jackman has a funny cameo as Wolverine in a scene where James McAvoy's Xavier and Michael Fassbender Magneto (Erik) are trying to recruit mutants for Xavier's school.
Days of Future Past features Wolverine's mind, in a dystopia ravaged by mutant-hunting robots called Sentinels, being transferred back into his early 1970s body in oder to team up with a past Professor X and friends to stop Mystique.
Jackman appears briefly as Wolverine in the film as a deranged monster stalking some of the new cast.
Logan tells the story of a "retired" Wolverine defending a young mutant named Laura aka X-23 from the cybernetically-enhanced villains known as the Reavers.