WoWlverine!

I just found out that Johnny Wraith, the token black dude in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was in fact a real character who looks precisely like his onscreen counterpart. Having read hundreds of X-Men comics over the years and virtually every comic concerning the “Wolverine” movie, I was still at a loss as to who he was. I found a single panel featuring him in a comic series I was also unaware of, “Maverick,” a completely unnecessary spin-off devoted to a Wolverine character that was cancelled in 12 issues. Knowing quite a bit about the Weapon-X Program featured in the movie, I thought they might include Maverick, or Kane, or any number of B or C-List characters to fill up the roster for his team, but instead they picked the most obscure characters ever, like Wraith, and two others who I couldn’t even find names for in the credits, namely: the electricity using mutant and the Japanese guy who was good with guns. Was the Japanese guy supposed to be the Silver Samurai, Wolverine’s arch-nemesis whenever he visits Japan? Who the hell was the electricity guy? Electro? I seriously have no clue. I guess it doesn’t matter, though, since they’re both dead now.
It amazes me that Wraith is so dead-on to his comic counterpart when Deadpool and the Blob get raped on screen. I like what they did with the Blob and his depression-based weight gain, especially since the Blob in the comic has his origin as circus freak. The Blob in the comic-book, cartoons, etc. is just a big, dumb, fat bully stereotype. In the movie, he’s a big, fat bully, but he’s trying to lose weight.