Marvel’s Wolverine crashed D23 with a new sizzle trailer, and Insomniac Games packed more villains into 42 seconds than most games manage in a full showcase.
The Sentinels, Omega Red, Sabretooth, Mystique, and The Hand all flash by, with Jean Grey and Team X backing up Logan in the classic yellow suit.
The comments section picked its target fast, and it’s not the Sentinels. It’s The Hand, who just spent the summer getting webbed up by Spider-Man on the big screen and now have a September 15 date with adamantium.
Update: An Insomniac dev has responded to Wolverine backlash.
UPDATE 8/28: Insomniac’s new Features Trailer breaks down Rage tiers, suits, and day one New Game Plus.
“The Hand Is Having A BAD Year”
The top comment on the trailer sums it up: “The hand is having a BAD year.”
The joke writes itself. The Hand are the big bads of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is still steamrolling the box office after becoming the fastest movie ever to $700 million domestic. Now the ninja clan gets round two against a guy with six adamantium claws.
One reply nails the escalation: “Webbed up, chopped up, what’s next?!”
Another fan spells out the downgrade in opponents. With Spider-Man, you wake up with a concussion. “With Wolverine, IF you even wake up at all, you’re for sure missing at least one limb.”
The shared-universe angle is doing numbers too. Fans point out the movie beatdown technically happened in another universe, while Insomniac has confirmed Wolverine shares Earth-1048 with its Marvel’s Spider-Man games. Either way, the ninjas cannot catch a break.
One commenter asks the obvious follow-up: “But wheres daredevil dude like come on.” Fair question, since the ninja clan is usually his problem.
And the best summary of next month might be this one: “My wallet is having a bad year. September is bankrupting me.”
Sentinels Join The Villain Pile-Up
The sizzle itself plays like a roll call. The Sentinels loom over the chaos, a natural escalation after July’s story trailer, the one hijacked by the physical disc protest, put Bolivar Trask at the top of the villain slate.
Omega Red is back, Sabretooth is still running with Team X, and Mystique steps out of the pre-order avatar art and into actual footage.
The official description raises the stakes to full apocalypse. Mutants face “imminent extinction,” with Wolverine, Jean Grey, and Team X traveling the globe against Trask, Omega Red, and Deathstrike to preserve the future of their kind before it’s too late.
September 15 Is Coming Up Fast
Marvel’s Wolverine launches September 15, 2026, exclusively on PlayStation 5, with pre-orders live now on the PlayStation Store.
It caps a steady marketing drumbeat since Sony first slotted Logan to open June’s State of Play.
Logan is everywhere at D23. While Insomniac’s Wolverine carves up ninjas, Hugh Jackman begged for an Avengers: Doomsday role in a surprise video, and Marvel revealed the cast of its X-Men reboot. The mutants are running this show.
