***There's a moment in the Marvel's Wolverine story trailer released toward the end of July where we see the camera pull back behind Jean Grey as she enters a dance hall. To my eye, it seemed like an obvious tease of a playable sequence featuring Jean, but looks can be deceiving – Insomniac tells me in no uncertain terms that Wolverine himself is the game's only playable character.***

***When I alluded to that moment with Jean Grey in the trailer in an interview with senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed and head of technology Mike Fitzgerald, they both registered a bit of genuine confusion, before they both told me, "Wolverine is our only playable character."***

***That'll likely be a relief to many players of Insomniac's previous superhero games. I never hated the Mary Jane stealth sections in the Spider-Man series as much as other people seemed to, but they're unequivocally the least exciting bits of those games. Insomniac going all in on the game's central hero sounds like a good thing to me.***

Something interesting about this is back when a bunch of Wolverine development stuff was unveiled during the Insomniac leks back in 2023, it was stated that Jean \*was\* meant to be playable back then with a ranged moveset very distinct from Wolverine's. So seems like quite a lot has changed with the game in those 2-3 years.

"Wolverine is our only playable character": Insomniac won't repeat Spider-Man's worst sections in Marvel's Wolverine