The Hex-Men, Hugh, Jack, and Mann – Wolverine as portrayed by Hugh Jackman
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https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Mann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(character)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman
Marquis Mark has sent your wizard in search of Dream Water. After striking out in the Outback and Wobbegong, Taika sends you to the Pink Lake guarded by the Hex-Men. Once there you come across Magistreto, Judge for the Eucalyptus Forest, he tells you that his old friend and enemy, Professor Hex has taken hostages.
Professor Hex and his Hex-Men are the self-appointed guardians of the Pink Lake. The professor wields the power of illusion, he is the Master of Mentalism. He has captured Todd and Miss Tique. While Professor Hex is interrogating his prisoners he senses your Wizard’s vagrant thoughts.
Professor Hex: Such a strange mind. Impenetrable. Noisy, but indecipherable. I don’t care for it. To me, my Hex-Men! Destroy them!
Hugh, Jack, and Mann are Professor Hex’s Hex-Men.
Two of the cheats used in this fight are:
“Time to bear the claws!” – If a Wizard casts a Rank 7 Spell or higher, Jack will cast Shift Chaney on the casting Wizard.
“Quickly, use your accelerated healing.” – When Jack reaches below 80% Health, he will cast a Life Spell that restores protected 10,000 Health over 10 Rounds on himself.
Cover Artist: Steve Mcniven
Wolverine (birth name: James Howlett; alias: Logan and Weapon X) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, often in association with the X-Men. He is a mutant with animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, a powerful regenerative ability known as a healing factor, a skeleton reinforced with the unbreakable fictional metal adamantium, significantly delayed aging and a prolonged lifespan and three retractable claws in each hand. In addition to the X-Men, Wolverine has been depicted as a member of X-Force, Alpha Flight, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. The common depiction of Wolverine is multifaceted; he is portrayed at once as a gruff loner, susceptible to animalistic “berserker rages” despite his best efforts, while simultaneously being an incredibly knowledgeable and intelligent polyglot, strategist, and martial artist, partially due to his extended lifespan and expansive lived experiences. He has been featured in comic books, films, animation, and video games.
The character first appeared in the last panel of The Incredible Hulk #180 before having a larger role in #181 (cover-dated November 1974), in the Bronze Age of Comic Books. He was created by writer Len Wein and Marvel art director John Romita Sr. Romita designed the character’s costume, but the character was first drawn for publication by Herb Trimpe. Since 2017, Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas has also claimed co-creator credit.
Wolverine then joined a revamped version of the superhero team the X-Men; writer Chris Claremont, artist Dave Cockrum and artist-writer John Byrne would play significant roles in the character’s development. In 1979, Wolverine featured in his first solo story, published in Marvel Comic #335 (UK). His position as a standalone character further advanced when artist Frank Miller collaborated with Claremont to revise Wolverine with a four-part eponymous limited series in 1982, which debuted Wolverine’s catchphrase, “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice.” The subsequent 1991 Weapon X storyline by Barry Windsor-Smith established that Wolverine had received the adamantium grafted to his skeleton in a torturous process conducted by a secret government project intended to create a super soldier, and that this experience led to post-traumatic amnesia.
Wolverine is typical of the many tough antiheroes that emerged in American popular culture after the Vietnam War; his willingness to use deadly force and his brooding loner nature became standard characteristics for comic book antiheroes by the end of the 1980s. As a result, the character became a fan favorite of the increasingly popular X-Men franchise, and has been featured in his own solo Wolverine comic book series since 1988.
Wolverine has appeared in most X-Men media adaptations, including animated television series, video games and film. In live action, Hugh Jackman portrayed the character across ten installments of the X-Men film series produced by 20th Century Fox between 2000 and 2017, and reprised the role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Henry Cavill portrayed an alternate version of Wolverine dubbed “Cavillrine” in Deadpool & Wolverine. Troye Sivan portrayed a young version of Logan in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Beginning in theater and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine in the X-Men film franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
Jackman has headlined films in various genres, including Kate & Leopold (2001), Van Helsing (2004), The Prestige (2006), Australia (2008), Real Steel (2011), Les Misérables (2012), Prisoners (2013), The Greatest Showman (2017), The Front Runner (2018), and Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and Missing Link (2019).
Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he made his American stage debut in a concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009.
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