![]() ![]() Now that Madripoor debuted in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, we know a bit about how the island nation fits into the MCU. Madripoor from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Image credit: Marvel Studios) For a time, Wolverine's son Daken was even in charge of the island.Ĭurrently, Tiger Tyger is back in power. Wolverine has since come and gone from Madripoor multiple times, with his latest jaunt occurring in the recent Wolverine # 8/350. Years later, Wolverine's first Madripoor adventure was cataloged in Uncanny X-Men #268 by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee (before his DC publisher days), in which he teamed up with none other than Captain America and Black Widow to defeat a team-up between the ninjas of the Hand ( longtime enemies of Daredevil) and Baron Strucker (who may play something of a role in current DisneyPlus MCU streaming series WandaVision). Wolverine lived on the island for years under the name Patch, where he worked as a vigilante in Madripoor's brutally poor district of Lowtown (its opposite, Hightown, being one of the richest places on Earth). Wolverine's first ongoing title by writer Chris Claremont and artists John Buscema and Al Williamson launched with Wolverine living on Madripoor under another alias. Since first visiting Madripoor in the '40s, Wolverine of the X-Men has taken a special interest in the island. Once ruled by Hydra under Madame Hydra, the sinister group was all but run out of Madripoor by Wolverine and Iron Man, who installed Madripoor criminal Tyger Tiger into power – though this was short-lived and resulted in a power vacuum that still causes the island nation's rulership to be in regular flux, with even the anti-mutant version of the Hellfire Club ruling for a time. As the island was once home to many international pirates, it's become one of the Marvel Universe's biggest hubs of black market activity, even attracting supervillains. Rather than be ruled by a traditional government, Madripoor is usually run by a rotating variety of criminal gangs and terror organizations. Since its debut in New Mutants #32, Madripoor has had a special place in Marvel's X-Men history, though the X-Men aren't the only characters to visit or spend time there. In the MCU, Madripoor is identified as a sovereign island nation in the Indonesian archipelago. The fictional nation of Madripoor is a southeast Asian island, somewhat modeled after Singapore – although Madripoor's political and social environments don't resemble anything in the real world. Wolverine as "Patch" in Madripoor (Image credit: Marvel Comics) ![]()
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