I did notice the claw change. good catch.

Exactly, to people who followed the comics for so many years it does matter. The same way so many people who loved and waited for a Transformers movie for so long take issue with the movie versions looking nothing like the G1 Transformers.

@ High Kalibur,

Yeah, I have been out of the loop for a couple years, and people are saying that the Marvel site is hinting toward them being half-brothers now. Probably because they knew this film’s plot was coming. I don’t like it.

I dunno, I don’t like the idea of fake memories — that is overdone as well. I think I’m just going to stop worrying and hit the theatre in May… but that’s so long! : )

And now that I think about it, false memories wouldn’t work here. With this movie, they’re choosing to clean the record of such things and representing the ‘true history’ or the origin of Wolverine. So yeah, it would seem that in the Marvel film world, Wolvie and ‘Tooth are half-brothers. It does feel kinda silly, brotherly rivalries have been done to death.

It matters to people that know and enjoy the original stories and see no reason to change them. To top it all off, when they usually change a main story point from the source material it doesn’t make the material transfer to the screen better and in many cases, it transfers less successfully. This is funny, because the claim of most studio/producers is that the original material must be changed for the big screen.

So I guess saying: “If it aint broke don’t fix it” would suffice.

Of course, I was a fan, so I cared about the story. If you never were a fan of the comic or even cartoon series, I don’t suppose you would care if they just start making up family trees.

In ‘X-Men’ they came out from between his fingers, now, more like the comic book (no doubt to facilitate the bone claws), they come out from more near his knuckles. I think the change makes a lot more since logistically. But then again, when we have a mutant man, with super human healing factor, strength and senses and a near indestructible skeleton — who cares about logistics? : )

@ Mantis

It does irritate me that the film makes them brothers — they definitely were not in the original stories. If Marvel has changed that recently it makes me mad. HOWEVER — it does make more sense and would explain why their mutant powers are nearly identical.

@ Screenrant

I agree these trailers are showing waaaaay too much. On the other hand, I’m glad because I read so many posts trying to degrade this film and nitpick and everything, like a perfect film comes along on a usual basis, if ever. Not to mention that fact, that for a comic book adaption, this film looks amazing.

The good part about them showing all these scenes is that the naysayers are seeing quality.

Plus, lets face it, Fox doesn’t care about ‘saving some for the theatre’, They want to get paid.

@Mantis
According to the Marvel website, they may be half-brothers (mother). They were close friends when they were young but Sabretooth became psychotic because of his father. I don’t remember reading where they served in WWI or WWII together, but these movies stray away from the source material a bit.