Muri filime y'umwimerere "abantu X", abari bateranye bamenyereye Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) nyuma yo kumanuka mu buryo butunguranye bafite uruziga rwa mutant (Anna Pekuine). Nubufatanye bwambere muri francise yose, nabwo bwahindutse umwiherero wingenzi kuva kuri Canon.
Muri firime yakurikiyeho, Logan yumvise inshingano ze mu ruziga kandi yari yiteguye kumurwanirira ku buzima bwe, ariko muri comic abantu bose batandukanye rwose. Ngaho, Wolverine ntabwo yegereye gusa ubushobozi bwa bunyago mu muco, ahubwo yashakaga kubyica, kandi kubwimpamvu nziza.
Muri comics hing yari mu itsinda ryabagukikije amayobera, ibyo bidasubirwaho, kubyo ingaruka zica zishobora gutera ubushobozi bwo kwibuka no guhura kwa hafi, kubwimpanuka yasunitse umusore ukiri intwari zikomeye y'icyo gihe - Danol Danver. Ariko uruziga rwakozwe ku mutima rutangazwa cyane (yego, noneho inyuguti yitwaga muri ubu buryo), bityo ikayireka rero ngo ihagarike imboga nyakuba.
Nyuma yigihe gito, Charles Xavier yashoboye gusubiza Carol kwibuka, ariko yatakaje ubushobozi ubuziraherezo. Muburyo, ikikije kandi ubwe yarwaye ubu bugizi bwa nabi - yibasiwe na kamere ya Carol, mubyukuri bica imitekerereze kuruhande.
Logan, wari hafi ya Danver, yafashwe nukuri ko kuzenguruka byabikoze. Ibi byabaye byatumye amwibuka no gukomeretsa umubiri we nimpamvu ishyirahamwe "Intwaro ya X". Mu mperuka rero, muri kimwe mu gitabo gisekeje, Wolverine yavuze ku majwi:
Niba byangejwe, namucika umutima.
Icyakora, yagombaga kubuza ibyifuzo bye byo kwihorera, amaherezo yaje gusaba ubufasha bwa Xavier maze yinjira muri "abantu."