Wolverine is difficult company in these first months. The danger isn't confined to whatever enemy happens to be outside the mansion.

Wolverine is difficult company in these first months. The danger isn't confined to whatever enemy happens to be outside the mansion. In the Danger Room in X-Men #96, Kurt's teasing draws a genuinely violent response. Sean stops the session and makes clear what could have happened if Nightcrawler hadn't teleported away. Wolverine's attitude afterward gives the others very little reason to relax. That scene matters because joining the X-Men hasn't automatically made him safe. The team has accepted somebody whose reflexes, anger and willingness to use his claws don't fit comfortably with a school full of people expected to trust one another. The same qualities become useful against Lang. In #100, while the others hesitate over fighting what appear to be their former teammates, Wolverine notices that the supposed Jean is wrong. His senses give him evidence the others don't have, and his attack exposes the machine beneath the disguise. He has correctly identified this particular deception. It doesn't make his other decisions look any better. The violent training-room encounter remains a problem, and Scott's refusal to endanger Alex remains a decision Wolverine resents. #98 also removes one small uncertainty about his body: the claws emerge from him rather than being a device attached to his gloves. That is a sharper piece of information than the complete history of how he became this way, which these stories do not yet supply. The early version works because useful and alarming are allowed to sit close together. His senses can save the group. His temper can make them wary of standing next to him. Becoming somebody they can rely on will require more than winning a fight, and these issues haven't pretended that work is finished.