Daken's got some weird genetics

[redconfession]

I was looking through my Wolverine: Origins 5 trade today, and I was feeling nerdy so I was looking at the dates in the Daken flashbacks.  I came across two conclusions.  The first is that Way can't keep his dates straight over the span of two issues, and the other is that Daken is the scariest 14-year-old ever.

First, the dates:



Canonically, Daken is born in 1946.  It says so right there.

And there's more montage, mainly about Akihira talking about how happy he has a child and the other villagers being all "OMG abomination!"

Next in the montage is this:



That makes it 1955.  Yes?  I'm usually not good at math, but I have a calculator to help back me up on this.

The kids then proceed to try to beat up Akihiro until Akihira steps in.

Akihiro later (presumably) murders the leader of the kids.



It's assumed that this is that night, but any passage of time honestly could have occurred.

Anyway, after Akihiro and Akihira attend the kids funeral, they have a heart to heart about dragons and sons and sentimental stuff that Daken won't ever take to heart anyway.  What he does take to heart is the conversation that his parents have after that, mainly that his mommy doesn't love him and his parents are having a child together.  From that conversation there is...



Akihiro reveals he can read Greek, and tells mommy that her child is dead.

His powers manifest as mommy dearest tries to kill him with a bayonet and down goes mommy dearest.  While Akihiro is still freaking out about the pointy things in his hands, Akihira kills himself.

Then this happens:



End flashback 1.  But back to the math.  If it was 1955 when the kids attacked Akhiro, at the least it can be when he kills his parents is 1956, as their deaths occur a year after the death of the leader of the kids.  Like I said previously, there could be a longer span between the time the kid dies and the parents die, but I highly doubt it.  Therefore the parents have died in at least 1956, and not a year sooner.

Everyone agree with me so far?  Good.

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Okay, next issue.  We're like 4 pages in... and hey, another Daken flashback!

The flashback starts



But wait...  1955?  That's impossible.  I could understand if there were several issues between the first flashback and the second, but there's about 10 pages between them.  Granted one flashback is in issue 26 and the other in issue 27, but there's still not that much.  I'm not complaining per se, but sort of disappointed I guess, as Way is a good writer.

All right, math aside, here comes point number two.

After Romulus convinces Daken how creepy he is that he'll take care of him that he should follow him, they cut to a new scene.



So in 3 (4 technically as Way thought it was 1955) years, Daken goes from this:



to this:



Granted, that's not too bad, as it could have been a growth spurt or something, or the suit.  I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Later in the flashback:



Just so you know that only 9 months have passed...



Daken looks like this.  At 13/14, THIS IS WHAT DAKEN LOOKS LIKE.  Holy shit, he looks 40.  I thought the Howlett genes you know, SLOW the aging process, not excel them.

Just a reminder, this is what Daken looks like at 64:



Why does he look older at 13/14 than he does at 64?

I blame it on Cyber.

Comments

[red_confession.livejournal.com]

I only liked Segovia's art in the Dark Wolverine/Wolverine Origins Crossover. I think it's because he toned down on the buffness and made him look like a real person in most of the comic. And yeah, Deodato's is best. The other's seem to forget that either a. he's an adult, b. fairly skinny, c. flashy. And then there was that one issue of Dark Wolverine where the colorist assumed daken shaved his head or something so there were little root hairs sticking out of his head on either side of his mohawk.

You mean Hulk!Daken? http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4998/xml217frankblackdcp016rz7.jpg

[eva-roisin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly the Daken I was thinking about. I sometimes get the feeling that these artists don't really know what Japanese people look like. Not that there's one way to "look Japanese"--but there Daken looks half Italian and half Cherokee or something. And he looks so old. He has wrinkles.

[red_confession.livejournal.com]

You'd think advanced knowledge of Japanese culture is a requirement at Marvel considering how many Japanese-themed storylines they enjoy pulling lately, but apparently it's more like "remotely passable knowledge (ex. know the words karate and daimyo--you don't necessarily have to know what it means!)." And you're right, he definitely looks Native American and not remotely Asian. I guess Deadpool calls him Eurotrash once and everyone forgets he's not remotely from Europe.