Wolverine is Officially SHORTER Than The Smallest Runaway
The Runaways are rarely taken seriously. As children of shadowy villains who were consumed by their own ambition, the teen heroes are used to being looked down on. More than anyone, that includes Molly, the youngest of the group, and a child who was sometimes seen as helpless and non-threatening even by her own teammates. The youngest Runaways member has never been lacking on power, but she has a new point of pride visible in the cover of the upcoming Runaways #34. Thanks to the wonders of adolescence, she's officially taller than Wolverine.
Fans of Wolverine in the comics know that the X-Men hero has a trait in the comics that his film incarnation, played by Hugh Jackman, doesn't share: the Logan of the source material is notoriously stout, standing only at 5 feet and 3 inches tall. This places Logan staring at the chests of most Marvel heroes, whose heroic proportions place them head and shoulders above the average person, let alone a bottom-heavy Canadian built like a mustelid. While he's not the shortest Marvel hero (fellow Canadian crimefighter Puck has dwarfism), his burly but low-rising frame tends to be prominent in group shots.
Marvel's announcement of several issues planned for a June 2020 release includes the cover for Runaways #34, illustrated by Kris Anka. On the cover, Wolverine prods Molly into walking through a portal to Krakoa. (Unlike in the TV show, the Molly of the comics is the daughter of mutants with powers that come from an X-gene.) The stubborn youth seems to have no intention to follow the berserker's lead. As a result, each is staring the other down with the mouths curled into unwavering scowls. If Wolverine is trying to be intimidating, it doesn't seem to be working, and it's likely a contributing factor that Molly is the one staring him down from a few inches over his eye-line.
In case any fans were left uncertain of the exact height relationship between the two, series artist Anka confirms it via Twitter. Molly has gotten a few years older during the course of the Runaways comics and has grown to five feet and six inches tall. Wolverine, on the other hand, remains five-foot-three.
This points Molly toward a destiny we've seen in comics before. During the Battle of the Atom storyline, an X-Men team from the future appeared to intervene in problems caused by the X-Men traveling through time. The next generation of mutant heroes included Molly, who used the codename Bruiser and was second in stature only to the tremendous ice monster that claimed to be the Iceman of the future.
Of course, height is no measure of a person's merits, regardless of how superpowered they are. Even when Molly was under five feet, she was still physically the strongest of the Runaways. And Wolverine's famous tagline is "he's the best there is at what he does" for a reason. Still, Wolverine's continued mentorship of teenage girls makes more sense when you consider they're one of the few demographics he can see eye-to-eye with.
You can preorder Runaways #34 before it goes on sale in June 2020.
Source: Marvel