Game Dev Says Wolverine Has “Yearning” for Sabretooth But Not in a Gay Way

Released just yesterday, the new PlayStation 5 game Marvel’s Wolverine is apparently not as gay as a developer’s comment may have made it sound.In The Washington Post review of the game, Insomniac Games narrative director Walt Williams was quoted discussing the back-and-forth, love/hate relationship between Wolverine and his longstanding archnemesis Sabretooth.“Logan feels that yearning and he gets scared and pulls away,” Williams said. “Sabretooth feels that yearning and it makes him hurt and want to lash out to exert that hurt outward. Hate and love are so hand in hand… you hurt me so I’m going to hurt you, and we’re still going to be linked because now the pain is shared.”The game itself — and that admittedly kind of gay-sounding quote — have left some fans with a lot to chew on, though there is not actually any gay gameplay, queer implications aside.A recent episode of the Friends Per Second podcast, titled “The Wolverine review debrief,” featuring industry veterans Jake Baldino, Lucy James, and Ralph Panebianco and guest Gene Park, who reviewed the game for the Post the group discusses a moment from the game where the pair is “trashing a bunch of bad guys.” In the episode, they say that there is “a strange little intimacy between Logan (Wolverine) and Vick (Sabretooth),” explaining that Sabretooth grabs the back of Wolverine’s head “almost caressingly” saying, “You’re having fun, aren’t cha,” raising some genuine questions about the two. Seems a little gay to me. The episode was shared in r/PlayWolverine, where users had similar theories. One Redditor, u/FyLaw95 replied to the video saying, “I don't even care about that, but something else caught my eye in this clip, the line “‘That's my Wolverine.’ OH BROTHER....”Unfortunately for Wolverine fans, despite promising commentary from Williams, James Stevenson, Insomniac Games director of community and marketing, took to X to clear up the confusion regarding