Since then, Jackman has played Wolverine nine different times, and while all of the movies experienced different degrees of success, the man became permanently associated with the hero.
Of course, the success of X-Men (which made nearly $300 million globally) wound up totally changing Hugh Jackman’s career as well, turning him into an icon of the genre.
Now that he’s retired from the franchise it will be interesting to see how he moves forward with his career, but the reality is that we will always associate him with playing the world’s feistiest six-clawed mutant.